Mara Baker

Baker, Mara

Art Studio

Professor

Phone: (630) 942-3420

Office Location: MAC 152A

Email: bakerm@cod.edu

Office Hours

• Monday, NETVIRTUAL 08:00-08:50 a.m.
• Tuesday, Thursday, MAC152A 08:00-08:50 a.m.
• Tuesday, Thursday, MAC152A 12:00-01:25 p.m.
• Wednesday, MAC152A 10:00-01:00 p.m.

Areas of Research Interest

• contemporary drawing practice
• assemblage and collage
• fiber and material studies
• site specific installation
• entropy

Courses Taught

• Two dimensional design
• Drawing 1 and 2
• Life Drawing 1 and 2
• Introduction to Visual Art

Projects

• Development of work for group show Two Histories of the World, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL opening Sept. 2012.
• Collaboration with writer Monica Westin for Solo Show of new work at Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL opening October 2012.

Selected Exhibitions

•  Double Tangent, Cara and Cabezas, Kansas City, MO; in collaboration with Rafael Vera, 2011
• Blue Glue and Other Explorations, Happy Collaborationists, Chicago IL, 2011
• Rise over Run, What it is, Oak Park, IL; in collaboration with Rafael Vera, 2010
• Cross-grain, Back Room Projects, Chicago IL; in collaboration with Rafael Vera, 2010

Group Exhibitions

• Take me with you: drawings from near and far, Anchor Arts Space, Anacortes, WA, 2012
• Two Histories of the World (Part 1), William H. Cooper Mfg., Chicago IL, 2011
• 9 x 12, Ferencvarosi Pincegallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2011
• Forecast, The Luminary Arts Center, St. Louis MO, 2010
• What Remains, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, 2010
• The Breathing House, Fallout Arts Center, Minneapolis MN, 2009
• Site-Unspecific, Dominican University, River Forest, IL, 2009
• Scavenger Constructs, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL, 2008
• Centrifugal Force, Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit MI,2008

Education

• MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2007
• BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 2005
• BA, Messiah College, Grantham PA, 2003

Awards and Recognitions

• Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2011