DonnaMintz
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2022 What Once Was, JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
2019 Ex Astris,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
2013 Look Away,LamarDoddArtCenter,LaGrangeCollege,LaGrange,GA
2011 Untitled: Gray Paintings,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
2009 lighting the sun,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
2008 lighting the sun,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
2006 Epigram,for Courting Disaster,TheAtlantaContemporaryArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA Lost,for Courting Disaster,TheAtlantaContemporaryArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA Recent Works,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
Borrowed Poems, LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
2005 Reliquary,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
2004 Recent Works,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
2002 Empty Hours,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Journal,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
2001 Still,DolbyChadwickGallery,SanFrancisco,CA
2000 what I have kept,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
1999 After August,CallanwoldeFineArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA
SelectedGroupExhibitions
2024 Patterns of Place,AtlantaArtFair,Atlanta,GA
2023-4 Winter Exhibitions,AtlantaContemporaryArtCenter,Atlanta,GA
2020 Before, During and After,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
2018 Sign of the Times,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,RabunGap,GA
Little Things Mean a Lot,SwanCoachHouseGallery,Atlanta,GA
2017 Summer Thunder,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA
2016 American Art: 1945 to the Present, MobileMuseumofArt,Mobile,AL Lightweight,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences, RabunGap,GA
Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA
2015 Sprawl: Drawing Outside the Lines,HighMuseumofArt,Atlanta,GA Summer Salon,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
The President’s Art Series,athree-personexhibition,SellarsGallery,BrenauUniversity Galleries,BrenauUniversity,Gainesville,GA
Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA Hambidge Art Auction + Performance Gala,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,TheGoatFarm,Atlanta,GA
2014 Roving Room,AnInauguralExhibitionatHabershamMills,Demorest,GA Mailbox,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences,Rabun Gap,GA
2013 Fables of the Eco-Future,TheWeaveShedGallery,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsand Sciences,RabunGap,GA
2012 Groundstory: tales from the shade of the South,DaltonGallery,AgnesScottCollege,Atlanta, GA
Today’s Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look,MobileMuseumofArt, Mobile,AL
Gala,MuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,Atlanta,GA
2010 Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts, LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
Transitive Geographies: Contemporary Visions of an Evolving South,GeorgiaCollegeand StateUniversityMuseum,Milledgeville,GA;RebeccaRandallBryanGallery, CoastalCarolinaUniversity,Conway,SC;AlabamaSchoolofFineArts, Birmingham,AL
2009 Found Objects,SellarsGallery,SimmonsVisualArtsCenter,BrenauUniversityGalleries, Gainesville,GA
2008 Where You’re From,LeeGallery,ClemsonUniversity,Clemson,SC Summer Group Show,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
Moving Pictures,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
2006 On the Spot,CityGalleryEast,BureauofCulturalAffairs,CityofAtlanta,Atlanta,GA Group Show,MelvinGallery,FloridaSouthernCollege,Lakeland,FL
2005 Giving,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
Open Spaces,JulieNesterGallery,ParkCity,UT
2004 Drawings and/or Works on Paper,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Gallery Artists,LesYeuxduMonde,Charlottesville,VA
Selections from the Sandler Hudson Gallery,UWGGalleries,StateUniversityofWestGeorgia, Carrollton,GA
2003 Visions,QuinlanVisualArtsCenter,Gainesville,GA
2002 Little Things Mean a Lot,SwanCoachHouseGallery,Atlanta,GA
2001 Repetition,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
IX Artists,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
2000 Brenau University National Invitational Art Exhibition, BrenauUniversity,Gainesville,GA
1999 Spectrum 1999,TheHunterMuseumofAmericanArt,Chattanooga,TN Portraits: Self and Otherwise,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA
Mayor’s Art Program,CityofAtlanta,BureauofCulturalAffairs,CityHall,Atlanta,GA Jump Start the Art, WoodruffArtsCenter,Atlanta,GA
1998 Abstractions,SandlerHudsonGallery,Atlanta,GA Movement into the Millennium: Lightness,LesYeuxduMondeGallery,Charlottesville,VA
SelectedPublicationsasAuthor
“InGrass,Lost,” SWING Literary magazine, Volume1,Issue1,Autumn2023
“JosephPeragineDeliversBeautyin Vanitas PaintingsfortheAnthropocene,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution, ArtsATL.org,December19,2023
“SteveSchapiro:Warhol&Ali,’”JacksonFineArt,ArtsATLorg,February6,2023
“‘SouthernRites’Delivers,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,ArtsATLorg,February6,2023
ZuckermanCelebratesBeautyNowWhenWeNeedItMost,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ArtsATLorg,November3,2022
“CharmaineMinniefield’s‘IndigoPrayers’ResonateswithEnergy,DeepRoots,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution,ArtsATLorg,August9,2022
“AtlantaContemporaryTurnsLandAcknowledgementintoAction,”ArtsATLorg,July6,2022
“MichaelMurrell:ALifeLivedinArt,” Sculpture Magazine,April8,2022
“MOCAGA’s‘GatheredV’RevealsDepthandDiversityofGeorgiaArtists,” The Atlanta JournalConstitution,ArtsATLorg,February24,2022
“TimothyMcDowell’sCompellingShowGivesPerspectivetoCovidTribulations,”ArtsATLorg, November22,2021
“Memory,NatureExploredinElegantGroupShow,”ArtsATLorg,October13,2021
“KatherineMitchell‘hearsthetrees’inPoeticExhibitatMOCAGA,”ArtsATLorg,August31,2021
“BreakingtheSilence”toShedLightontheLifeofGeorgiaAuthorandActivistLillianSmith, ArtsATL.org,December18,2018
“AtlantaArtistMichiMekoSeekstoCreateaSenseofPeaceatMOCAGA,”ArtsATLcom,November 29,2018
“AttheHighandinHaleCounty,PhotographerWilliamChristenberry’sTestamentstoTimeand MemoryStillStand,”ArtsATLcom,October29,2018
“Montgomery’sLynchingMemorialConfrontsthePainfulTruthofourNation’sHistory,”ArtsATLcom, July19,2018
“TheUnseenWorkofaGreatAtlantaStreetPhotographerFinallyComestoLightatGallery72,” ArtsATLcom,June27,2018
“‘TheWonderofItAll:’SusanCoferandJerrySiegelDedicateExhibitionstoMembersoftheAtlanta ArtsCommunity,Burnawaycom,May23,2018
“EmoryProfessorJosephCrespinoDigsDeeptoFindtheGenesisofanAmericanIcon:HarperLee’s AtticusFinch,”ArtsATLcom May7,2018
“JohnHenryDreamsBigWithSculptureFields,”ArtsATLcom,April19,2018
“AWalkintheWoods:MichaelMurrellatYoungHarrisCollege,”Burnawaycom,January24,2018
“‘MoreThanSelf’LooksattheVietnamWarThroughtheEyesofAtlantansWhoLivedIt,” ArtsATLcom,January19,2018
“ElizabethLide:TheMuseumofContemporaryArtofGeorgia,” Sculpture Magazine,October2017
“PaulGraham’s‘TheWhitenessoftheWhale,’”ArtsATL.com,September18,2017
“ScottEakin’s‘YesButton’isaJoltofSummerPleasure,”ArtsATL.com,July18,2017
“Humanity’sOldestStories,ToldintheFirstPerson:PhotographerStephenAlvarez’sAncientArt Archive,”ArtsATL.com,June23,2017
“Brandt’s‘1864’atJacksonFineArt:TheCity’sComplexityDeservesDeeperReflection,” ArtsATL.com,May25,2017
“AfterSurvivingWildfire:TheHambidgeCenter,”ArtsATL.com,January31,2017
“StephanieDowda’sSpectralPhotographsHumanizeGrief,”ArtsATL.com,January13,2017
“CynthiaFarnell’s‘Garlands’atPoem{88}MeditatesandMourns,”ArtsATL.com,January3,2017
“SeeingSubjectivity:BenjaminBrittonatMarciaWoodMidtown,”Burnaway.com,December20,2016
“Appreciation:WilliamChristenberry’sPhotographsWillForeverBringOutsidersIn,”ArtsATL.com, December13,2016
“TheThought-Provoking‘Transitions:StatesofBeing’TacklesCulturalAppropriation,”ArtsATL.com, October7,2016
“TheImmediateWorld,” The Sewanee Review,Vol.124,Number3,Summer2016
“FormsofAbstractionatMOCAGA,”Burnaway.com,June2,2016
“MarcusKenney’sRollicking,Frenzied,andDisillusioned‘Babble,’”ArtsATL.com,May24,2016
“BucklowandWrightUseSimplicitytoRevealTheirOwnDistinctDeeperTruths,”ArtsATL.com,May 6,2016
“‘BetweentheSweetWaterandtheSwarmofBees’atEmory’sMichaelC CarlosMuseumGives GlimpseintoYorubanCulture,”ArtsATLcom,March28,2016
“GregorTurkTransformsTrashintoTreasureatPonceCityMarket,”ArtsATLcom,February19,2016
“‘ThisPostmanCollects:TheRaptureofKerryandC BettyDavis’atClarkAtlanta,”Burnawaycom, February16,2016
Faulkner&Silver:AnExplorationofSouthernIdentityandGenerationalMemory,ArtsATLcom, February9,2016
“ClarkAshton:ShoutingtotheHardofHearing,”ArtsATLcom,February3,2016
“WhatisNear:ReflectionsonHome”attheHighMuseumProvestoBeaQuietlyDisarmingCollection,” ArtsATLcom,February2,2016
“‘PrintorProjection’:Intelligent,Thought-ProvokingandBrandNew,”ArtsATLcom,January21,2016
“TheHambidgeCenter:ACreativeSanctuary80YearsintheMaking,”Editor&Co-writer,Winter2014
SelectedBibliography
DeannaSirlin,“HumanImpactonEcoSystemsProminentinSatisfyingSandlerHudsonExhibit,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution +ArtsATLorg,May23,2022
JerryCullum,“Sensuality,Poetry,IntellectBeamfromDonnaMintz’sGolden Ex Astris,”ArtsATLorg, April10,2019
LillyLampe,“RovingRoom,” Art Papers,September/October2014
KarenTauches,“HabershamMillsBringsHighArttotheHinterlands(well,Demorest),”Burnawaycom, July12,2014
LisaAlembik,“FablesoftheEco-Future,TheHambidgeCenter’sWeaveShedGallery,” Fables of the Eco-Future,June2013
LillyLampe,“ArtistsandwriterstappersonalandcollectivememoryinAgnesScott’s‘Groundstory,’” ArtsATLcom,October26,2012
DanielMcDonald,“TransformativeGeographies,” Milledgeville Union-Recorder,January23-25,2010
GregMarshall,“Arteology:DonnaMintzCombinesArt,Archaeology,” Park City Record,June5,2009 VisualArtNotes,“FiveThousandLittlePieces,” Salt Lake Tribune,May21,2009
PamolaPowell,“Collector’sEye,” Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles,December2008
CatherineFox,“ShrinkingLakeLanierSparksArtistry:Mintz’sWorkRevealsLake’sHiddenPast,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,July4,2008
SusanRichmond,“CourtingDisaster,” Art Papers,July/August2006
JerryCullum,“BeautyEmergesfromChaosAftertheStorm,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,May7, 2006
FeliciaFeaster,“ChaosTheory:‘CourtingDisaster’exploresinhumantragediesandhumanreactionsto them,” Creative Loafing,April27-May3,2006
RuthLatter,“Sky’stheLimitforAtlantaArtist,” The Daily Progress,February9,2006
ErikaHowsare,“BorrowedPoemsbyDonnaMintz,” C-VILLE Weekly,February7–13,2006
PhilKloer,“BackStory/TheArtistBehindtheArt:PainterHoldsSpiritofWaterSacred,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,October2,2005
JerryCullum,“DistinctiveSensibilitiesMadeManifestinMarvelousWays,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,October11,2002
CathyByrd,“‘Repetition’BreakstheMoldforSummerShows,” Creative Loafing,August22-28,2001
JerryCullum,“LotsofVariationsWithin‘Repetition,’” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August17, 2001
CatherineFox,“PaintingPoemstoNature’sDetails,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,July7,2000 New American Paintings, BookXXVIII,July2000
JerryCullum,“AHeads-UpPortraitShow,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August13,1999
CatherineFox,“DistilledLandscapesPleaseEye,EnterMind,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,March 26,1999
JerryCullum,“EmphasizingtheThingsNotSeen,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,August28,1998
EducationandResidencies
StudioArtistinResidence,AtlantaContemporary,Atlanta,GA 2021–present Fellowship,HambidgeCenterfortheCreativeArtsandSciences,RabunGap,GA 2009–present Fellowship,LillianE SmithCenterofPiedmontUniversity,Demorest,GA 2019 WriterinResidence,RivendellWriters’Colony,Sewanee,TN 2018,2017 MFA,Writing,SewaneeSchoolofLetters,UniversityoftheSouth,Sewanee,TN 2017 BS,FloridaSouthernCollege,Lakeland,FL 1978