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• Revere McFadden, David. Pricked: Extreme Embroidery. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, 2007.
• Bradley, Laurel . Gender Stitchery. Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
• Motley, John. “Reviews: Mark Newport: Heroic Endeavors,” Portland Mercury, Portland, Oregon. November 23, 2006.
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Artist iIn Residence Mark Newport

 

Mark Newport was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Fiber Department in 2007. He earned his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1986 and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. Prior to his appointment at Cranbrook, Newport taught for six years at Arizona State University, earning the rank of Associate Professor. He also taught at Western Washington University, the Kansas City Art Institute, Cleveland Institute of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Newport’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including solo exhibitions at: Here gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom; The Arizona State University Art Museum; The Chicago Cultural Center; The Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas; and The Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University. Group exhibitions include: “Close to You,” at the Textile Museum of Canada; “The Echoes of Resonance: Daegu Textile Documenta 2007,” South Korea; “Pricked: Extreme Embroidery,” Museum of Arts and Design; “Pins and Needles,” John Michael Kohler Art Center; and “Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation,” Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University.

His work has been recognized with grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council. He has worked in residence at Yaddo. Newport’s work is included in numerous private collections and the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Racine Art Museum; Fundacion Coleccion Jumex, Mexico; Microsoft Corporation; Nowhere Ltd., of Japan; and the Progressive Insurance Company.

The Greg Kucera Gallery of Seattle, LyonsWier Ortt Gallery of New York, and the Bentley Gallery of Phoenix all represent his work.

 

 

Installation of work in Super-Heroics, at the Arizona State University Art Museum
2005, All hand knit acrylic
Dimensions variable

 

The Scout
2005, Color Photograph
24 x 36 inches

 

Batmen
2005, Archival ink jet print
13 x 19 inches