Special Lecturer in Art
gawaran@oakland.edu
314 Wilson Hall
(248) 370-3603
Education
MFA - Studio Art, Printmaking, Wayne State University
BFA - Art Education, Michigan State University
Areas of Interest
Printmaking, Drawing, Design and Curating
Courses Taught
Beginning Drawing
Drawing for Non-Majors
Recent Exhibitions
2015
The Essential Self: Meditations on the Politics of Identity (Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI)
Heads & Tails (Spread Art @ Detroit contemporary, Detroit, MI)
2014
Layers of Identity II (Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem)
Transient ID: DET <-> NYC (Pine Box, Brooklyn, NY)
2013
JenClare B. Gawaran: New Work (Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI)
Constructed Realities (Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI)
Clandestine (U of M Work: Detroit, Detroit, MI)
2012
Inspired Detroit (Detroit Creative Corridor Center, A. Alfred Taubman Center, Detroit, MI)
EYE TEETH: A Satire on the American Way of Life (Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI)
2011
Transcribed Identities: JenClare Gawaran & Nelson Smith (Macomb Community College Art Gallery, Clinton Township, MI)
Stone Soup (U of M Work: Detroit, Detroit, MI)
2010
Do You Want To Ford The River? (Downtown Initiative for the Arts, Eugene, OR)
Prints: Now in 3D (Minnesota Center for Book Art, Minneapolis, MN)
Category: Printmaking (Woman Made Gallery,Chicago, IL)
Curated Exhibitions
List of curated exhibitions at www.whitdelarts.com
Conferences and Oral Presentations
Los Angeles Printmaking Society Panel - Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Detroit, MI
Artist Presentation, Old Dominion University
