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ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2023     A Baby Mountain in Batavia: Collaborative and Participatory Projects by Tim Lowly, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL

2022    re. Rainbow Girl, University of Wisconsin Stout, WI  

2021     Radiator and Redeemer Projects, George Fox University, Newberg, OR

            Without Moving, Tondos, Hofheimer Gallery, Chicago           

2019     Radiator, The Fort Gallery, Langley, British Colombia, Canada

2018     Radiator, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA 

            Rainbow Girl, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 

            The Redeemer Project, Redeemer University College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

2016     La Mer | La Mère (The Mother | The Sea), a Lowly exhibition with 20 participants / collaborators at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. and St. Mary’s University, Winona, MN 

2015     re. Rainbow Girl, NorthEastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL                    

2013     Trying to Get a Sense of Scale, Visual Arts Center of the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD

            A Personal Matter, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO

2011     Without Moving Tondos, Olivet-Nazarene University, IL

            Without Moving Tondos, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA

2010     Without Moving (25), Fill-in-the-Blank Gallery, Chicago, IL                    

2009    Without Moving, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN                    

2008    From Life, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA

            Family, The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY

            rise up children, sing a glorious future, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA                 

2007    Culture of Adoration, North Park University, Chicago IL

2006    Conversation, Union University, Jackson, TN

2005     At Arm's Length, Bethel University in St. Paul, MN                  

2004    Too Close for Comfort, gesheidle, Chicago, IL.

            Proximity, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

            Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL.

2003     College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL

2002    Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

            Judson College, Elgin, IL.

 2001    Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL.

            Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN

            As the Earth, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.

2000    Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            A Perfect Weakness , Gordon College, Wenham, MA.

            Setting the Table, Greenville College, Greenville, IL.

1999     Tim Lowly: painting (this world and the next), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

            Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Snite Art Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.                   

1998    Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

            Marywood University, Scranton, PA

            Proof, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI

            Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.                   

1997     Moving Pictures, Lyons-Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL 

            Art Space Seoul, Seoul, South Korea                    

1996     The Hunger Series, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI.

            Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA.

1995     Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI.

            Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.

            Condeso Lawler Gallery, New York, NY.

            Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.                     

1994     Asbury College, Wilmore, KY.                     

1993     Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.

            Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI.

            Millikin University, Decatur, IL.

            Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1992     North Park College, Chicago, IL.

            Messiah College, Grantham, PA

            Newaygo Arts Council, Fremont, MI.

            Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

            Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.                     

1991     Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Saint Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN.                      

1990    Tim Lowly: The Silent Witness, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.                                   

1989     Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1988     Mott Community College, Flint, MI.                       

1984     Arts Center, Chonju, South Korea.                   

1981     fool chases stars all year round, West Michigan Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI.

           

GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2023     Naturally, North Park University Art Faculty Exhibition

            Deposition: Drawn  An exhibition curated by Tim including 23 artists who made drawings related to prompts Tim gave them that were metaphorically / symbolically related to Temma Lowly.

2022     The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Subsequently traveling to four museums across the country from April 2023 - June 2024.

2021     At 25  - This 2-sided painting (a collaborative project Tim put together in 2010) is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and it was on exhibit there 2018-2021.     

            E Plurbis Unum, North Park University Art Faculty Exhibition

2020    Quilt, North Park University Art Faculty Exhibition

2018     Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL                              

2017     Akuko Uwa, Art Faculty Exhibition, North Park University, Chicago, IL

            Palette Paintings, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado

            Homeless, Miami, Florida

2016     Poetry of Content: Five Contemporary Representational Artists, The Kalamazoo Institute of Art   

            Palette Paintings, The Lodge Gallery, New York (October 2016)

            Chicago Paints, At Ohio University in Athens, OH

            Identity Insight: Unfolding the Visual Narrative, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA

2015     The Poetry of Content, curated by Jerome Witkin and David Prince, The Syracuse University

            Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

            American Perceptual Painters,  The Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD

            50/50 Alumni Exhibition, Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

            Artists from Koplin Del Rio, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA

2014     [DIS]Comfort Zones, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids,  MI

            Dear Protagonist, (two-person exhibition), Hammond Art Center, Hammond, IN

            Labletter Release Exhibition, Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Black and White – a faculty exhibition, Brandel Library, North Park University, Chicago, IL

2013     Odd Referents - an art faculty exhibition, North Park University, Chicago, IL

            The Art of Description, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Humans Being II (Disability In Contemporary Art), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 

            Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Faces: portraits of course, but that's not the point, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA

            These Guys: A Tribute to Guy Chase., Greenville College, Greenville, IL     

2012     Face Forward: The Art of the Self-Portrait, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

            ArtPrize – Cathedral Square (venue), Grand Rapids, MI

            Between Truth and Fiction: Pictorial Narratives, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Nature and Spirt, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

            Motherland (faculty exhibition), North Park University, Chicago, IL                                

2011     ARTE + FE, Fundacion Pons, Madrid, Spain

            A Testimony to Being, Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, IL

2010     Inaugural Exhibition, Prographica, Seattle, WA

            Animal Farm, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

            Between Realities, Principle Gallery, Philiadelphia, PN        

2009    On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY

            Newberry Place Project, Grand Rapids, MI

            UpScaled/DownSized, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

            Drawings VIII: West Coast Drawings, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA

            CIVA Juried Exhibition, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN.              

2008    Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference, The Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA

            Not Without Form, University of Nevada, Los Vegas 

            The Figure Revealed: Contemporary American Figurative Paintings and Drawings, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI

2007    About Face: Portraiture Now, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA   

2006    Reality Effect, Santa Ana College, CA

            Trans/figure, Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Contemporary Imaginings: Tullman Collection, Mobile Art Museum, AL

            Humans Being: Disability In Contemporary Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

            Spirit and Psyche: The Figure Transformed, The Art Center Highland Park, IL

            Jenkins Johnson Galleries, San Francisco and New York

2005    Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

            Broken Beauty, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA

            Portraits of Life Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN

            Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004    Drawings VII, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

            Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.

2003     Still, Small Voice, (group show) Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX

            Art Chicago, gescheidle gallery, Chicago, IL                                

2002    Clarke College (two-person with Tom Metcalf), Dubuque, IA.

           The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing, The Frye Museum, Seattle, WA.

           Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL.

           Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

           Harboring Beauty, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2001     National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.

2000    Self-portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

            The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks, Chicago, IL

1999     Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA.

            Images of Silence, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL                   

1998    Portraits, Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, IL (Best of Show Award)

            Annual Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.

            Parallel Visions, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.                                         

1997     Through a Glass Dimly, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX                                     

1996     Storm Warning, The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

1995     Poetic Images, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL.

            RE-Manifesting the Sacred, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkley, CA

            Arts in Healing, The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH.

            Figuratively Speaking, Condeso Lawler Gallery, NY

            Obsession, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            Self-portraits, Lyons-Wier Gallery & the Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL

1994     Faculty Exhibition, North Park College, Chicago, IL

            Drawing: the realistic representation, Columbus College, Columbus, GA

            The Child’s Play, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY.

            Jack ‘n Jill, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Function Dysfunction, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Veiled Images, S.F. Austin University, Nacodoches, TX (traveling exhibition) 

            Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, Decordova Museum,  Lincoln, MA                    

1993     View from the Bed: A Personal Look at Illness and Disability, Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL.

            Deluge, Lyons-Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL.

            The Intimate Universe, Art Center of Battle Creek, MI

            People II, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY.

1992     Self-portraits, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, NY.

            FLORA 92, Chicago Botanical Gardens, Glencoe, IL

1991     North Park College (three-person exhibition), Chicago, IL.

            CIVA Juried Exhibition, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN.                    

1990    THE CHICAGO SHOW, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.  Jurors: Neal Benezera, Kenneth Burkhart,  Marva Jolly, Paul Sierra and Lynne Warren.

           West: Art & the Law, West Publishing Co. St. Paul, MN.  (Traveling exhibition)

1989     FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.  Juror: Lowery Stokes Sims.  First place award.

            WEST-MICHIGAN REGIONAL, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI. Juror: Dennis Barrie First Place award.

            11th Michigan Biennial: Recent Trends in Painting, The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI 

            Tim Lowly & Linda Huston Freel, Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI.

1988     Figuring it Out, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.

            THE 1980'S: A NEW GENERATION, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

            FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.  Juror: Judith Russi Kirchner.  First place award.

            Artist-in-Residence Exhibition , Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.

            WEST-MICHIGAN REGIONAL, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI.                    

1987     MID-MICHIGAN EXHIBITION, Midland Center for the Arts, MI. Juror: Sarah Rogers-Laffety. Best of Show.           

            Contemporary Art Workshop (two-person), Chicago, IL.

            Vigils, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI.

            Christine O’Connor & Tim Lowly, Trinitity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.  

1986     THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER BIENNIAL, Cincinnati, OH (traveling exhibition).

            FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.  

            John Bakker & Tim Lowly, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.

            Hartman, Lowly, Snell and Riley, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

            ALUMNI COMPETITION, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. Juror: Paul Stewart. First Place Award.   

1985     FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.  Juror: John Hallmark Neff.  2nd place award.

            Tim Lowly & Steve McCabe, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

            CAPITOL CITY ARTS, City Hall, Lansing, Michigan.  Juror: Ann Concannon

            CELEBRATION, First UMC, Grand Rapids.                      

1983     CIVA Juried Exhibition, Calvin College, MI.

            FESTIVAL ARTS , Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.

            ANNUAL SHOW, Ascension Lutheran Church, Lansing, MI.

            MICHIGAN ARTIST COMPETITION, Art Center, Battle Creek, MI.

            CELEBRATION, First UMC, Grand Rapids.          

1982     FESTIVAL ARTS EXHIBITION, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.

            ALUMNI COMPETITION, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.             

1981     FESTIVAL ARTS EXHIBITION, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.

            BFA Exhibition, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.

            ANNUAL SHOW, Ascension Lutheran Church, Lansing, MI

            CELEBRATION, First UMC, Grand Rapids.

1980    FESTIVAL ARTS EXHIBITION, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.

            CENTRAL MICHIGAN DRAWING SHOW, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI     

1979     CENTRAL MICHIGAN DRAWING SHOW, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

 

      


SELECTED REFERENCES (*Indicates work is reproduced)

Click on highlighted selections for texts

Cherith Lundin, At Arms Length (brochure essay), Bethel University, MN, 2005. *

Prescott, Theodore L. (editor), A Broken Beauty, Eerdmans Publishing, 2005. (William Swetcharnik review in American Arts Quarterly*)

Lauren Viera, The Chicago Tribune, November 19, 2004.*

Fred Camper, The Reader (Chicago), November 22, 2002, January 14, 2000* & August 14, 1997.*

Alan Artner, The Chicago Tribune, November 22, 2002*, December 23, 1999*, May 27, 1999*, August 14, 1997*, & October 6, 1989

Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press, September 12, 2002.*

Karen Halvorsen-Schreck, exhibition brochure, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, 2002.*

P. Carter Newton, The Galena Gazette, April 3, 2002. *

John Brunetti, exhibition brochure, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL. 2001. *

Nathan Matteson, New City, (Chicago), Vol. 15, No. 648, November, 2000.

Victor Cassidy Artnet.com Magazine "Prairie Smoke" March 23 2000*

Greg Waskowsky, Christianity and the Arts, Summer 1999.*

Ann Wiens, New City (Chicago), May 1999.

Joyce Kubiski, exhibition brochure, The Snite Museum, South Bend, IN, 1999.*

John Brunetti, New Art Examiner, July/August, 1998.*

Conrad Bakker, The Paper (Grand Rapids), October 22, 1998.

Soo-Jin Park, exhibition catalogue, Art Space Seoul, Seoul, Korea, May 1997.*

John Wilson, exhibition catalogue, "Searching for the Spiritual", Hope College, Holland, MI, 1997.*

Roger Green, The Grand Rapids Press, October, 1995.*

Karen Halvorsen-Schreck, Image Magazine, Fall, 1994.*

Nicholas Capasso, exhibition catalogue, "Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1994.*

Bruce Pepich, exhibition brochure, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, 1993.*

Sylvia Krissoff, The Grand Rapids Press, August 20, 1992.*

Susan Bergman, exhibition catalogue, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, 1992.*

Lynda Barckert, exhibition catalogue, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, 190.*

John Bakker, The Banner, December 18, 1989.*

Lynda Barckert, New Art Examiner, November, 1989, p. 42.

David McCracken, The Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1989.*

Exhibition publication, "The 1980's: A New Generation", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.*

David Benson, Grand Rapids Magazine, August 1987, p. 13.*

Exhibition catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial, Cincinnati, 1986.*

Jeff Thompson, CIVA Newsletter, Summer 1986.*

Martha Huntley, The Korea Times, July 11, 1984.*


 

Professional Affiliations

North Park University: Gallery director (1994-2023) Artist-in-residence and Assistant Professor (1995-2023).

Gallery representation - Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle.


 

Grants

2005 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art.

1995 Illinois Arts Council, Fellowship in Visual Art.

1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant.

 


Selected Collections

The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK - Imago Dei, 1991 , Study of Temma on Earth, 1999,& Untitled (Kalin), 1997

Calvin University, Autumn of Ashes

Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.

Davidson College, Davidson, NC. - Home

Frye Museum, Seattle, WA. - Temma on Earth and River

Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

The Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL. - Fire of Thorns

The Grunewald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles - Rise (2), 1997

The Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI - Beacon (Bless the Bastard), 1991

The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI - Heaven's Gate, 1988

The McDonold's Corporate Collection, Oak Brook, IL - Annunciate (They will one day walk on wind), 1986

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN - At 25, 2010 | Terra Luna 1999 | Dad/Bed 2001 | Mom/Mountain 2001 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY - Communicant, 1987

The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL - Age of Angels, 1997 and Well, 1992

Millikin University, Decatur, IL.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA - Toward that Island of Light (Jim)

The Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI. - They Who Wait


 

Selected Curatorial Activities

1994-2023 Director of Exhibitions, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, Illinois.

Group exhibitions curated at NPU include:

2023 Deposition : Drawn, a group exhibition with 24 participants, each of whom made a drawing of their own based indirectly on a prompt related to Temma Lowly.     

2022 The Land Owns You: Sheesley, Moran Handzlik, Katie Cooper, Nik Burkhart, Mark Opirhory and Kathryn Joy Nellis

2020 Homework, a virtual exhibition (presented on monitors in the gallery) of 17 artists.

2019 En Route: Natasha Kohli and Rachelle Hill, 2019 

2018 Image + Text: NPU Alumni Group Exhibition, 2018

2017 A Marketplace of Mysteries.

2016 Through the world like a thread.

2015 Regarding the Sublime

2012 En Route: What She Saw 

2011 The Artist’s Daughter: A Tribute to George Tooker

2010 The Book of Souls

2009 In Process

2008 The Dollhouse

2001 Home Installation

2000 Shake the Coat: A Midwestern Tribute to Gregory Gillespie

2000 Quilt

1999 Building Beauty

1998 Seen from the Other Side

1997 Progeny

1995 Natural Abstraction

1995 Stations

1994 Reflexion Y Representacion

Exhibitions curated or juried elsewhere:

2005 After the Fact, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL (curator)

2003 Really, gescheidle, Chicago, IL (curator)

2000 Almost Nothing, Dynamite Gallery Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)

1998 Michigan Artists Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Michigan (juror)

1997 Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago (curator

1998 What We Have Seen, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)

1995 The Art of Healing, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids (juror)

1995 Small Paintings Big Shoulders, Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids & Trinity Christian College, Chicago (juror)

1993 Within and Without, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)

1988 Flower of the Field.Voice in the Attic, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago (curator)

1989 Object . Icon, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)

 

Exhibition Juror or Curator (other than at North Park University)

2014  5th Annual Drawing Discourse Exhibition (an international competion), University of North Carolina Asheville – exhibition (juror)

2014 - The Labletter | Annual Journal of Art and Literature, guest editor for painting section

2009 Exhibit for Lake County Artists, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL (juror)

2007 Juried Group Graduate Exhibition, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL (juror)

2007 CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS: 34th annual festival of spiritual arts, First United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan (juror)

2006 West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI (juror)

2005 After the Fact, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL (curator) – Ian Weaver, Katie Schofield

2003 Really, gescheidle, Chicago, IL (curator) – Molly Springfield, Conrad Bakker, Steve Heilmer, Guy Chase, Eleanor Wallace, David Johanson, Mary Henderson, Karen Reimer, Max Lesser

2001 About Looking at Things, gescheidle, Chicago, IL (curator)

2000 Almost Nothing, Dynamite Gallery Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator) – Daniel Breems, Ru Mattix, Dean Olsen, Felicity Ruiz, Kaori Umeda and th NPU Drawing 3 class

2000 38th Annual Christian Art Show, Ascension Lutheran Church, East Lansing, Michigan (juror)

1998 What We Have Seen, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator)

1998 Michigan Artists Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Michigan (juror)

1997 Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago (curator) – Steven Carrelli, Valerie Taglieri and Ron Wennekes, Diane Doersch, Terri Zupanc, Riva Lehrer, Greg and Karen Halvorsen-Schreck, Gayle Bradley-Johnson, John Pakosta, Kathleen Eaton

1995 The Art of Healing, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids (juror)

1995 Small Paintings Big Shoulders, Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids & Trinity Christian College, Chicago (curator) – Walter Andersons, Jan Carmichael, Stevn Carrelli, Martha Ehrlich, Nancy Hild, Robert Horn, Carolyn Giles, Matthew Girson, Riva Lehrer, Blanca Lopez, Jim Wainscott, Ken Warneke, Ann Wiens

1993 Within and Without, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator) – Peter Dykhuis, Jil Evans, Susan Heida, Mark Ottens, Renée Vander Stelt

1989 Object . Icon, Urban Institute of Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator) – G. Jesse Sadia, Catherine Jacobi, John Mark Snogren, Margot Gottfried, Guy Chase

1988 flower of the field . voice in the attic (seven artists from Grand Rapids), Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois. (curator)

1987 Mortal Light (ten artists from West Michigan), UICA, Grand Rapids, Michigan (curator) – Beverly Borden, Jeffrey Burden, Gretchen Deems, Tom Duimstra, George Filonowicz, Martin Maddox, Sharon Sandberg, Dave Shaw, Rick Stevens, Todd Zylstra