photo courtesy of Joyce Morrill

Jean Kigel _______________________________________________

                                                                              1396 Back Cove Road

                                                                                                                                   Waldoboro, Maine  04572

                                                                                                                                    207.832.5152

                                                                                                                                   www.jeankigel.com

                                                                                                                                    jean@jeankigel.com

                                                                                               

 

Birth:           

1945, Rockland, Maine

Media:

            Asian brush painting, watercolor, hand-pulled prints 

Selected Solo Shows:

            Gourmet Garage SoHo Street Level Windows in collaboration with Woodward Gallery, NYC 2009

            Round Top Farm Gallery, 11th Annual Eastern Views, Damariscotta, ME 2009

Sea Studio Gallery, Tenants Harbor, ME 2008 1998 - 2008

Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME 2008, 2005, 2002, 1998

Tidemark Gallery, Waldoboro 2007

Round Top Center for the Arts 2005, 2003, 2001

Arbor Street Gallery, Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland ME 2005

Gallery Framing, Brunswick, ME   2006, 2004, 1998 

Bowdoin College Moulton Union Gallery 2001

Waldo Theater Gallery, Waldoboro, ME 2005, 2004, 1998

Port Clyde Arts and Crafts Society, Port Clyde, ME 1988

Selected Group Shows in Galleries and Museums:

Atrium Art Gallery, Spineless Wonders, USM, Lewiston-Auburn, ME 2009

Camden National Bank, American Artist Appreciation Month Exhibit, Thomaston, ME 2009

Aarhus Gallery, 44 Degrees Parallel   Belfast, ME 2009

Exhibition at Grafton, Grafton, VT, 2009, 2008, 2007

New England Equine Art Experience, Heart of the Horse, Vassalboro, ME 2009

Archipelago Gallery, Rockland, ME 2009 continuous since 2006

Hunter Gallery of Fine Art, Grafton, VT 2009 continuous since 2006

LA Arts Gallery 5 at Lyceum Hall, Lewiston Maine 2008

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Maine 2008

Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME 2009 continuous since 2005  

College of the Atlantic, Not Your Usual White Bread, Bar Harbor, ME 2007

University of Maine MTD Exhibition, Bangor ME 2007

Irving Gallery, Kennebunk, Maine 2007, 2006

Chocolate Church Arts Center Juried shows, Bath ME 2007 continuous since 2002

Deer Island Art Association Gallery, Deer Island, ME 2007

Maine Art Gallery Contemporary Print Making 2006

University of New England Payson Art Gallery, Westbrook, ME 2005

Lincoln Street Center for the Arts, Rockland, ME 2006, 2005

            Blaine House, Augusta, ME 2004

Goodman Gallery, Crested Butte, CO, 1999 continuous since 1994

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.  1999

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1998

Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, DC 1994, 1993

Patuxent Art League Juried Show at Montpelier Arts Center 1994

Rock Creek Park Art Barn, National Capital Area Chapter of Sumi-e, Washington, D.C. 1993

Slayton House Gallery, Columbia, MD 1991

Olde Towne Gallery, Portsmouth, VA 1990

Chevy Chase Center Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD   1989

Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD 1984

Goodman Gallery, Crested Butte, CO, 1994 continuous since 1999

Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD 1993

Spectrum Group at Art Center:  New Arts Alliance, Columbia, MD 1993

Olde Towne Gallery, Portsmouth, VA 1991, 1990

Woodend, Audubon Society, Wheaton, MD 1990 continuous since1988

Montpelier Cultural Arts Center Juried Shows, Laurel MD 1988 continuous since 1990

Publications:

Lincoln County Magazine Art Journey, Kim Fletcher, August 2009

Bangor Daily News Lifestyle Maine Denizens Visit the City: The Sea-life Artistry of

     Waldoboro’s Jean Kigel Makes a Splash in New York, by Jessica Block, 2/10/2009

Review Lincoln County News, Renee Lauzon, August 2009

Pacific Fishing Magazine, image,  June 2008

Review Maine Sunday Telegram by Philip Isaacson, In the Arts 9/3108, 9/1/105

Cover Station Maine Calendar International Seamanship, Rockland, ME 2008

Logo for Malapropos, Inc.  2008

Images and articles, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Midcoast Chapter, 7/08, 8/06, 5/05

Review, Lincoln County News, Kay Liss, 7/009, and 1/24/07,

Introductory Essay for solo Eastern Views, Gan Xu, PhD, Maine College of Art July. 2006

Cover Off the Coast: South and North American Poets,  June 2006

Boston Globe review by Stephen Jermanok 2007

Lincoln County News review by Kay Liis 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Metro New York Chapter Awards, Sumi-e Society of America 2004

Cover Inner Tapestries, Dec/Jan 2004/2005

Cover of American Journal of Forestry, April/May 2002

            Maine Arts Commission’s Journal 2003

Memberships and Positions:

Sumi-e Society of America continuous since1988

Union of Maine Visual Artists continuous since2000

Saltwater Artists continuous since1994

Boothbay Regional Arts Foundation continuous since 2005

Guest Speaker, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Midcoast Chapter, 07/08, and 02/06

President of Maine Art Gallery’s Board of Directors, Wiscasset, ME 2001 - 2003

            President of Port Clyde Arts and Crafts Society 1998 - 1994

Selected Asian Brush Workshops Conducted by Artist:

            University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 2009 – 2005

            Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2007, 2001

Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME 2006 continuous since 1995

University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME 2006

Bangor Arts Society 2006

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME 2004

Education:  

More than twenty years of personal, intensive study of brush painting through  

     travel to Japan and China and study with international masters in the U.S.A.

MEd Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1969

            BA Boston University, Boston, MA 1967