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Artist-in-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 and group exhibitions, most notably this past summer at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art. 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. Solo exhibitions include: 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.

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 and the Lemberg Gallery of Ferndale, MI represent his work.

 

Recent Exhibitions

• “Mark Newport: Self-Made Man,” Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri. Exhibition with performance at the opening. 2010
• “MAKE: CRAFT,” Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California. Exhibition with performance at the opening. 2010.
• “Mark Newport: New Work,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington. 2010.
• “Mark Newport: Superheroes in Action,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 2009.
  
• “Staged Stories: The Renwick Craft Biennial 2009,” Renwick Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. 2009.
• "Super Heroes and Secret Identities" , Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, 2008.
• "Art the Vote", Billboards, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield, MO , 2008.
• "Close to You: Textiles, Popular Culture and Intimacy", Textile of Canada, Toronto, 2008.
  
  

Mark Newport
Batman 3, 2006
Hand knit acrylic and buttons, 80" x 24" x 6"

 

 

Mark Newport
W-Man, 2009
Hand knit acrylic and buttons, 80" x 23" x 6"

Mark Newport
At the game, 2009