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Stan Sperlak Chronology

 Education

1992-5 Studied at ACC with Madelyn Woolwich, Judy Antonelli , others in studio arts program

1995-1997 Studied at PAFA (Gury, Gilboy, Merz, Rupinksi, Grimley)

1996 Studied with Louis Sydney Mohollen privately monotypes

1997-2002 Studied with Patricia Witt, Barn Studio of Art

1997-2000 Studied with Patrick Arnold privately in Hockessin De

 Gallery Shows

One Man Museum mid career retrospective 
May thru August 2019 , SAMA Museum of the Southern Alleghenies, Ligonier PA. 

2003-16 (35 One Man Shows) SOMA, Ris Gallery Stone Harbor, NJ, Avery & Powers Avalon, Mad Batter Cape May, Renaissance Center, CMBO, Bishops Stock Snow Hill MD, L Craig, Scranton PA, Phoenix Jacksonville, MD, Noyes Museum Oceanville, NJ

 Teaching and Publications

2005- Teach at Crow Creek Farm

2005- Article in Inferno, Millville NJ

2003 Pastel 100 Abstract Award

2002 Pastel Journal group article Skies

2003 Featured artist Discover NJ Arts

2007- Teach with University of Maryland, Atlantic Community College

2007 Pastel Journal

2011 Pastel Journal story on sunsets

2008-16 4 Articles in Exit Zero

2012 SALT Magazine Photo story

2012 Pastel Journal 100 Landscape Award

2013 Artist Magazine Feature on “The Night”

2014 Pastel Journal Story on Painting with Water

 Community

2002-4 VP Cape May County Art League

2005-6 President Cape May County Art League

2005-2012 Board Member Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters (MAPAPA)

 Gallery Affiliations

1999 Gallery representation Ocean Galleries Stone Harbor

2004 Gallery Representation Main Street Gallery Annapolis

2004 Gallery Representation Bishop’s Stock Snow Hill MD

2004 Gallery Representation Hardcastle Gallery Wilmington, DE

2005 Gallery representation Peter McPhee Galleries Stone Harbor

Sells 500th painting

2006 Gallery Representation Avery Powers/Gilt Avalon NJ

2008 Gallery Representation SOMA Gallery Cape May

2009 Commission for University of Scranton

2010 Gallery Representation Laura Craig Galleries Scranton PA

Sells 1000th painting

Demo’s Pastel Societies across the US NJPS/New Jersey PSNJ/New Jersey North , MPS/Maryland, PPCCS/Cape Cod MA, Pike Peak PS Colorado, APS/North Carolina, CPS/Colorado

 Authored

2009 Publish Book “The View From My Easel”

2016 Publishes second volume of “The View From My Easel II”

 Milestones

2005 Begins teaching workshops at Crow Creek Farm

2010 PSA signature level

2010 MPS Signature Level

2010 Miami Art Expo

2011 NY Red Dot Show

2013 MAPAPA Signature level

2013 Salmagundi invite/accept

2013 IAPS Presenter Paint Around MC

2011 NY TIMES Story

2011 Overseas Teaching in Scotland and Australia

2012 Overseas Teaching in France, Italy

2012 NJN TV Feature

2012 Review in Philadelphia Inquirer

2012 Museum Show Noyes

2012 Included in PSA Signature Members Show Oceanville NJ

2012 Exhibit at US Embassy Uzbekistan

2013 Exhibit (invitational) at Governor’s Mansion New Jersey

2013 Presenter at the International Association of Pastel Societies Albuquerque, NM

2013 Included in IAPS Exhibition Vose Galleries Boston

2014 Overseas teaching in Iceland, Hawaii

2014 Included in the Book, “100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid Atlantic” by Gary Pendleton

2014 IAPS Awards Juror, Pastel Soc New Mexico

2014 Workshops in New York City for the PSA

2014 Exhibit at US Embassy Kazakstan

2015 Renames to Goshen School of Art, brings in Nationally recognized instructors

2015 Overseas workshop in Normandy France, Travels to Japan

2015 USA workshops in Arkansas, Washington/Oregon, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire

2015 IAPS, instructor, Presenter and paint around

2016 Overseas Teaching in Australia and New Zealand (90 days) and Iceland

2016 USA workshops in Washington State, Connecticut and Florida

2016 Major Presentation in Suzhou, China

2017  Work accepted into the International Pastel Show Albuquerque NM

2017  Work Accepted into the international show for the Pastel Society of America in NYC, NJ

2017  Juror for North Carolina State Pastel Show

2017 Taught Workshops in North Carolina, Virginia, New York State and New Mexico