Phyllis McGibbon
Phyllis McGibbon works in a range of graphic media. Her prints, drawings and artists’ books are included in over 45 public collections, including the Getty, the Library of Congress, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has held artist residencies at various studio programs, such as Kala Art Institute, the Bemis Center, Penland, the Millay Colony, Rijkscentrum Frans Masereel, Peacock Visual Arts, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, Anchorgraphics, the Kohler, and the Banff Centre, among others. Awards for her work include grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Western States Arts Federation NEA, Art Matters, Inc., and the Howard Foundation at Brown University.
After completing her BFA and MFA degrees at UW-Madison, Phyllis assumed teaching positions at Wesleyan University in CT, Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University in CA before settling in Massachusetts, where she is now the Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor of Art at Wellesley College. She has occasionally served as visiting faculty elsewhere, including the graduate print program at the RISD, the low residency MFA programs of Vermont College and Maine College of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the University of Georgia study abroad program in Cortona, Italy. She shares a home studio and lithography press with the artist Mark Wilson, also a native of Wisconsin.
John Salminen
After earning his B.S. degree and M.S. degrees at the University of Minnesota and teaching art in high schools for many years, John currently teaches workshops, makes presentations and participates in painting events around the world.
John holds signature membership in numerous prestigious art societies in the United States including AWS-df, NWS, SDWS, Allied Artists of America and TWSA-DM. He has served on the board of TWSA and is a current board member of the American Watercolor Society.
John is an honorary member of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in China and the first American ever to be awarded membership in the Australian Watercolour Institute. He has been honored with the Shanghai Biennial Award, The Pakistan Lifetime Achievement Award and the Thailand Ministry of Culture and the Arts award.
He has participated in fifty-seven invitational international exhibitions in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Russia, Japan, Greece, Mexico, Pakistan, Canada, Italy, England, Belgium, Ecuador and Australia.
John has won more than 270 awards in national and international exhibitions, including: the AWS Gold Medal two times, the AWS Silver Medal twice and many High Winds Medals; the Silver Star First Place Award in the National Watercolor Society Exhibition two times; the Gold and Silver Medal in Allied Artists of America and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America first place award three times. He has had 35 one-person exhibitions in the United States, as well as several small group shows.
John is a frequent juror and judge of national and international exhibitions. His work is included in permanent museum collections and numerous private and corporate collections around the world and his paintings are featured in forty-two books on four continents and in many major national and international magazines.
Dan Gunn
Dan Gunn is an artist, writer, and educator in Chicago. He received an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 where he is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor. He was awarded residencies at the University of Arkansas (2019), the Anderson Ranch Art Center (2018), Vermont Studio Center (2015), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2012). Recent exhibitions include “Bunts” at the University Club of Chicago, “Ungrateful Son” at Good Weather in North Little Rock and “With a Capital P” at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Other venues have included the University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Toledo, (OH), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Elmhurst Art Museum (IL), Marine Contemporary (Santa Monica), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Lloyd Dobler Gallery (Chicago), Columbia College (Chicago), the Poor Farm (WI), and the
Loyola University Museum of Art (Chicago). His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Art in America, Artforum.com, art ltd., Artslant.com, Newcity Magazine, New American Paintings, TimeOut Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune. He is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery