EDUCATION
1981 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
1978 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Scholarship) summer term
1978 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Herron School of Art, BFA
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Solo exhibition, Carnegie Hall, Lewisburg, WV (upcoming) Treasure Coast Creates, (Juried exhibition) Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Small Changes (Juried exhibition), Decatur Public Library, Decatur, GA Yours, Mine and Ours, (Invitational group exhibition), Indian River Clay at Raw Space, Vero Beach, Florida 100% Pure Florida (Juried exhibition), Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL Art by the Sea (Group invitational exhibition), Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art
2022 Viva FOCA! (Group invitational exhibition) Center for Spiritual Care, Vero Beach, Florida 100% Pure Florida (Juried exhibition), Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Sebastian, Florida (Prize: Second Place ) All About Women (Group exhibition), San Telmo's, Sebastian, Florida Art by the Sea (Group exhibition), Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach, FL
2021 Faces of Eve Collaborative (Group exhibition), Raw Space, Vero Beach, FL Viva FOCA! (Group exhibition), Center for Spiritual Care, Vero Beach, FL Rust (Group exhibition), Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL Top 60 Anniversary Invitational (Group exhibition), A.E. Backus Museum of Art, Fort Pierce, FL
2020 Solo exhibition (on view March through September, 2020) Community Church of Vero Beach , FL Art Anonymous (Group exhibition) Project Space 1785, Vero Beach, FL Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach, FL
2019 Art by The Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art 2018 Art By the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art Solo exhibition, Le Petit Chateau, Vero Beach, FL
2017 Solo exhibition, Le Petit Chateau, Vero Beach, FL Best of the Best Juried Exhibition, Backus Museum, Fort Pierce, FL (Prize: Best of Show) Art By the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art 2016 Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL (Prize, First Place Painting ) Group exhibition, Palm House Gallery (for Quail Valley Charities) Vero Beach, FL
2015 Best of the Best, juried exhibition, Backus Museum, Fort Pierce, FL Solo exhibition, Center for Spiritual Care, Vero Beach, FL Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Group exhibition, Palm House Gallery (for Quail Valley Charities) Vero Beach, FL
2014 Solo exhibition, Laura Riding Jackson House (Laura Riding Jackson Foundation) Wabasso, FL Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach. FL
2013 Group show with two others, Tiger Lily Art Gallery, Vero Beach, FL Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2012 Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Plein Air Artists’ Rendezvous (at Environmental learning Center), organized by Cultural County of Indian River Co. Participation Show, Palm House Gallery (for Quail Valley Charities), Vero Beach, FL Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2011 Featured artist for September, Lighthouse Art and Frame, Vero Beach, Florida Herron School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Marsh Gallery, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis 60th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Art by the Sea (award winner), Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL
2010 The Apparatus, Icehouse Gallery, Micanopy, Florida Small is Big, Gallery 14, Vero Beach, Florida Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Featured artist for March, Brush Strokes Art & Frame, Fort Pierce, Florida
2009
58th All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Featured artist for January, Brush Strokes Art & Frame, Fort Pierce, Florida Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art
2008 Considerable Passions (Ellen Fischer, Jacquie Fort, Jan Miller), Art League of Daytona Beach
Souvenirs of Downtown, Main Street Fort Pierce, Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, FL Florida's Eden, Artists' Alliance of North Florida, McIntosh, Florida
2007 The Littleton Collection, Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida's Eden, Artists' Alliance of North Florida, Evinston, Florida
2006 100% Pure Florida, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, Florida
Object Lessons: Ellen Fischer, René Guerin, Janvier Miller and Sean Sexton,
Ormond Beach Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, Florida
Annual Juried Exhibition of Regional Art, Martin County Arts Council, Stuart, Florida
05-06 Group show, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Orlando, Florida
2005 Four-County Juried Show, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida
A Crystalline Place: Southeastern Artists at Littleton Studios, Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Northern National Juried Exhibition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Annual Florida Artists’ Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Art League of Bonita Springs, FL
Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, Illinois
For the Birds, Pelican Island Audubon Society, Bethel Creek House, Vero Beach, Florida
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Indiana Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Dwayne Chapman and Raynelle Benjamin Chapman, Fort Pierce, Florida Debra Frasier, Minneapolis, Minnesota Jamie Edwards, Middlesex County, VA Mr. and Mrs. Charles Froelicher, Denver, Colorado Michelle Genz, Vero Beach, Florida Xaque Gruber, Vero Beach, Florida Mr. and Mrs. George Hamner, Vero Beach, Florida Jeanne Jessup, Vero Beach, FL John Littleton/Kate Vogel, North Carolina John Leavitt and Evelyn Hilzendeger, Hereford, Arizona Lisa and Angel Lugo, Vero Beach, Florida Main Street Fort Pierce, FL Dawn Miller, Vero Beach, FL Robert Glenn McCall, Minneapolis, Minnesota Sue and Steve Morgan, Greenbrier County, WV Scott and Diane Robertson, Bath County, VA Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rueve, Chicago Sean and Sharon Sexton, Vero Beach, FL Brenda Shith, Fort Pierce, Florida Maria Sparsis, Vero Beach, Florida Mr. and Mrs. John Speers, Vero Beach, FL Mickey Stein, Vero Beach, FL Marie Stiefel, Vero Beach, FL Bill and Sharon Smith Theobald, West Lafayette, Indiana Emily Tremml, Vero Beach, FL Rose Walker, Fort Pierce, FL Stouthouse Corporation, Sebastian, Florida Quentin Walter, Sebastian, Florida Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2008-present OWNER Fischer Art Services Fine art and craft appraisal and consultation for private clients and public institutions. Appraisals conform to the ASA’s Code of Ethics and to the Uniform Standards of the Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) promulgated by the Appraisal Foundation.
2008-present ASSOCIATE APPRAISER Appraisal Associates International (AAI) Professional appraisals in conjunction with Sharon A. Theobald (AAA Appraiser) for private clients for donation and gift appraisals, as well as insurance and estate appraisals.
2001-2012 DIRECTOR The Littleton Collection, Fort Pierce, Florida Day to day duties of running an art gallery, including sales, bookkeeping and mounting and installing exhibitions featuring work by renowned glass artist Harvey K. Littleton and fine art prints published by Littleton Studios. Exhibitions curated: A Crystalline Place: Southeastern Artists at Littleton and Trees: Arboreal Images from Littleton Studios. Created and maintain the business's website and Facebook web presence. Published a newsletter featuring the contemporary print editions published by Littleton Company, Inc.
1997-2001 CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTION Vero Beach Museum of Art (formerly Center for the Arts) Vero Beach, Florida Responsible for the development and management of the exhibition program. Projects included reorganizing and refining the museum’s collection policy; the creation of a collection management instruction notebook and the creation of an exhibition policy.
1989-1997 CURATOR Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana Responsible for exhibition development and implementation (105 exhibitions curated during tenure); permanent collection management and acquisitions, including the creation of the Ted Pritsker Collection of American Art pottery and the cultivation of the Edward Stowe Akeley gift; grant writing; interpretive programming, writing articles for the museum’s newsletter and other publications.
LECTURES 2014 Panelist, “William Jenkins: Life and Work,” Crealde School of Art 2008 “Leonora Carrington and ‘The Annunciation,’” Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, IN 2003 “Contemporary Mexican Art from the Bryna Collection,” International Society of Appraisers conference, Tampa, Florida 1990-2000 Numerous talks to Altrusa, Kiwanis, Rotary and other clubs both in Lafayette, Indiana and Vero Beach, Florida. Subjects ranged from collection conservation to art history, as well as monthly curator’s talks at docent training sessions at both Greater Lafayette Museum of Art and Center for the Arts
WRITER, ARTICLES ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS 2018 28 articles published in Vero Beach 32963 Melbourne Beachsider, Vero News
2017 27 articles published in Vero Beach 32963, Melbourne Beachsider, Vero News including “Latin American Contemporary Art at Raw Space,” Arts Section, 12/19 issue “Bonnie Bolton exhibits at Center for Spiritual Care,” Arts Section, 12/07 issue “Maurice Sendak at Vero Beach Museum of Art,” Arts Section 9/28 issue
2016 33 articles published in Vero Beach 32963, including “China Marks at the Foosaner Museum” Arts Section, 12/08 issue “Project Space 1785 hosts Florida Film Fest” Arts Section, 12/01 issue “NASA Collection at Vero Beach Museum of Art” Arts Section 7/13 issue “Backus Museum Photo Exhibition” Arts Section, 5/27 issue
2015 30 articles published in Vero Beach 32963, including “Howard Finster at Foosaner Art Museum,” Arts Section, 3/12/15 “Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art at Ruth Funk Center for Textile Art,” Arts Section, 4/16 issue
2014 23 articles published in Vero Beach 32963, including “Haitian Art at the Vero Beach Museum of Art,” Arts Section, 10/28 issue
2013 Eight articles published in Vero Beach 32963 “Martin Hoffman, Hard to ‘pigeonhole’ artist, dead at 77,” Arts Section 3/21 “Stringer Gallery specializes in European artists,” Arts Section 3/21 “Europe’s Golden Age of painting comes to Vero,” Arts Section, 2/14 “Libby Ross gives Art Museum a Henry Moore,” Arts Section, 1/31
2012 Ten articles published in Vero Beach 32963, including “Joan Earnhart,” Arts Section, 11/22 issue “Kristofer Dan-Bergman: Unbound, Arts Section, 11/15 issue “Norman Rockwell exhibition at Museum of Art,” Arts Section, 10/18 issue
36 feature length articles for Vero Beach Magazine, including 2011 “Art for Heart’s Sake,” (Palm House Gallery), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIV/6 “Charles Caito in Black and White,” (photographer), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIV/4 “Nancy Blair’s Glass Menagerie,” (hot glass artist), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIV/1
2010 “Ron Van Sweringen: Astroism,” (abstract painter), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. VIII/9 “Big Dreams & Little Teapots,” (Sean Clinton), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/7 “Paintings from a Life,” painter Francis Mesaros, Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/6 "Time for the Next One," (Tim Sanchez), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/4
2009 “The Excellent Adventures of Rita Bernstein,” Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/8
“Boxed In: The Art of Assemblage” (Joan Earnhart), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/1
“Last Trip for a Car Wreck Classic” (Martin Hoffman) Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI/4
2008 “Reflections on Glass” (Han Godo Fräbel), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI/6
“Reflections on Glass: Spanning 20 Centuries,” Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI/6
“Romance, Razors and Religion,” (Bob Berran), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume XI/1
2007 “On the Right Track,” (artist Francis Sprout), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X/3
“Tiger Lily: Back with a Roar,” (Artists’ group) Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X/3
“The Many Moods of Martin Hoffman,” (painter) Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X/2
2006 “Plein and Fancy: Grayson Conroy,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume IX/ 5 “A Perilous Paradise: Caring for Art in the Tropics,” Tropical Home Magazine, Vol. I/1
Miscellaneous Writing: 2003 “The Bryna Collection of Contemporary Mexican Art,” American Society of Appraisers, Personal Property Journal, Vol. 15/1
2000 “Broken Silences: The Collages of Paul Jenkins,” exhibition catalog, Center for the Arts, “The Bryna Collection of Mexican Art,” exhibition catalog, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
1996 “Art museum receives gift of Rookwood pottery,” Journal of the American Pottery Association, November/December issue
1995 “Earthly Echoes,” art review, Arts Indiana, November issue “Of Tires and Trees,” Arts Indiana, Summer issue
JUROR 2003-15 Miscellaneous local juried art fairs and exhibitions art fairs 2003 Annual Competitive Exhibition, solo juror Martin County Courthouse Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida 2001 Artigras Art Fair, with ceramic artist Harvey Sadow, Abacoa, Florida 2000 Artigras Art Fair, slide jury with four others, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Visual Arts Fellowships, 3-D Grant panelist, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Tallahassee 1999 Artigras Art Fair, juror with two others, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, slide jury with one other, Tampa, Florida 1997 Annual Competitive Exhibition, solo juror, Martin Co. Courthouse Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida
BOARD MEMBER 2002-2008 Board of Directors, Cultural Council of Indian River County Vero Beach, Florida Executive Committee: Secretary in 2004 and 2005, at-large member, 2006; Organizer, 2011 “I Love Vero Beach,” a paint-out and sale to benefit the Cultural Council of Indian River County; Organizer, 2008 “McKee en Plein Air,” a paint-out and sale at McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach, Florida; Organizer, 2006 “McKee en Plein Air,” a paint-out and sale at McKee Botanical Garden; Organizer, 2004 “McKee en Plein Air,” a paint-out and sale at McKee Botanical Garden; Organizer, 2002 “Harbor Branch through the Eyes of an Artist,” a paint-out and sale at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida
REFEREE 1996 Referee, tenure consideration of an Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Associate Professor of Art for promotion. 1995 Referee, tenure consideration of a University of Ohio, Athens Associate Professor for promotion.
COMMITTEE MEMBER 1994-1996 Member, Cover/Portfolio Section Committee, Arts Indiana Magazine, Indianapolis, IN 1993-1994 Member, Exhibition Committee, Wells Community Cultural Center, Lafayette, Indiana 1992 Exhibition co-curator, “Day without Art for National AIDS Awareness Day,” Wells Community Cultural Center, Lafayette, Indiana 1992 Member, Artist Selection Committee, Farmer’s Market Sculpture Commission, Friends of Downtown, Lafayette, Indiana
OTHER (1980s)
- Photo documentation of George Winter (1810-1876) artworks for Tippecanoe County Historical Association, Lafayette, Indiana. In 1993 the Indiana Historical Association, in cooperation with Indiana University Press published many of the photographs in the book Indians and a Changing Frontier: The Art of George Wint
- Member, Board of Directors, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Lafayette, Indiana
- Founded and operated Lahr Gallery, Inc., Lafayette, Indiana
MEMBERSHIPS 2018-Backus Art Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida
2008- Vero Beach Museum of Art , Vero Beach, Florida
2004-McKee Botanical Garden