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DANIEL E. CHUDZINSKI [email protected]| www.danchudzinski.com

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2010 M.F.A., Three Dimensional Studies Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH

Thesis Exhibition: “Thy Will Be Done”

Advisors: Professor Shawn Morin, Professor Charles Kanwischer, Professor John Balistreri

2007 B.F.A.; Sculpture Miami University Oxford, OH

Magna Cum Laude

2007 B.A.; History Miami University Oxford, OH

Honors Thesis: “The Agony and the Legacy: An Illustrated Analysis of Events and Individuals

Associated with the Sistine Chapel Commission of 1508-1512”

Advisor: Dr. Wietse de Boer

Magna Cum Laude, Honors with Distinction

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013-Present Instructor, Fine Arts and Humanities Terra State Community College Fremont, OH

2011-2013 Lecturer, Fine Arts and Humanities Terra State Community College Fremont, OH

2011 Adjunct Faculty, Humanities Terra State Community College Fremont, OH

2009-2010 Graduate Assistant Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2003-Present Professional Artist Dan Chudzinski Studio

Sculpture, murals, and illustrations: public and private commissions

2010-Present Sculptor, Foundry Assistant Gillmor Ordnance Foundry Old Fort, OH

Create functional artillery pieces for film, television, public and private commissions

2008-2009 Gallery Assistant, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH

Exhibition design, installation and removal, gallery maintenance, cataloged new items, supervised

undergraduate gallery workers

2007-2008 Sculptor/Concept Artist Lifeformations Art and Technology Studios Bowling Green, OH

Worked on commissions for Tampa Bay Buccaneers (sculpted 9 life-size players installed in

stadium), Ripley’s Believe It or Not (Exhibit and Interactive Station designs, character designs,

prop designs for three franchise museums in major U.S. cities), Disney, Cabella’s, The Chicago

Field Museum, Hollywood Wax Museum and private collectors

2006-2007 Sculpture Studio Monitor/Technician Miami University Oxford, OH

2004-2006 Resident Assistant Miami University Oxford, OH

AWARDS

2015 Creative Quarterly 38, Winner, Fine Art Professional, The Mudpuppy and Runner-Up, The

Haunted Throne of the Voodoo Queen

2014 Creative Quarterly 37, Winner (x2) Fine Art Professional, The Mudpuppy: Mark 1 and Grindylow

Art Prize, Top 25 3-D Category, The Mudpuppy, Grand Rapids, MI

Creative Quarterly 36, Winner (x2), Fine Art Professional, Turbulence and Pestilenza

Infected by Art, Gold Award, Mixed Media Category, The Reliquary of St. George

2013 Spectrum 20: Dimensional Gold Medal Nomination, Dimensional Category, Turbulence.

Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art Competition Awards, Kansas City, MO

Chesley Award Nomination: Dimensional Category, for Gus Gets a Jetpack, American Science

Fiction Association, LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, Henry B.

Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX.

Circle of Excellence Award Nomination, Terra State Community College

2010 Block-Heskett Graduate Art Scholarship

2009 Fine Art Finals National Collegiate Competition, Best of Show Scholarship

2007 Jim Killy Sculpture Scholarship

TEACHING

Terra State Community College

2015 Spring ART 1020 Drawing I

ART 2010 Drawing II: Life Drawing

ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern

ART 2200 Sculpture

ART 1050 Art Appreciation

2014 Fall ART 1020 Drawing 1

ART 1120 3-D Foundations


ART 1010 World Art History1: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)

2014 Spring ART 1120 3-D Foundations


ART 2200 Sculpture

ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern (2 sections)


2013 Fall ART 1020 Drawing I

ART 1010 World Art History I: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)



ART 1020 Drawing I



2012 Fall ART 1120 3-D Foundations

ART 1020 Drawing I

ART 2200 Sculpture (developed new course)


2012 Spring ART 2010 Drawing II: Life Drawing (2 sections)



ART 1020 Drawing I (2 sections)


2011 Spring ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern

Bowling Green State University



Courses Developed- Terra State Community College

2013 Spring ART 2050 Painting (designed course, obtained Ohio Transfer Module Approval)

2012 Fall ART 2200 Sculpture (designed course, obtained Ohio Transfer Module Approval)

Development and Improvement of Studio Facilities

2011-Present Obtained funding through Terra library to create Fine Arts reference collection

2013 Designed floor plan and ordered equipment for sculpture studio

2013 Designed and supervised student creation and permanent installation of ten life-sized anatomical

charts for Life Drawing Studio

2012 Refurbished 12 drafting tables for continued use in drawing studio, designed work documentation

area for student portfolio preparation, installation of new kiln in sculpture studio

2011 Advised on blueprints and floor plan for two new art studios and new gallery space, selected and

ordered machinery and equipment

RESEARCH/CREATIVE WORK

Professional development

2013 MAZZA Children’s Book Illustration Conference, University of Findlay, 2013

Spectrum Fantastic Arts Live 2 Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2013

2012 MAZZA Children’s Book Illustration Conference, University of Findlay, 2012

Rotary International Group Study Exchange, Italy, Summer 2012

2011 Six week apprenticeship under John Taylor at Pietrasantra Marble Carving School, Pietrasanta,

Italy, additional quarry visits, studio tours, and research in Carrara, Italy

2011 Completed DMT 2550 3-D Character Development to learn digital sculpting techniques

2009 Traveled to Venice, and Pisa, visited SACI program in Florence to network with sculpture

professors, established connections in Pietrasanta and Carrara

2006 Traveled to Rome, Italy and Sicily to study Renaissance art and art history, researched

Sistine Chapel thesis on two separate trips, 2006

Massive Black & Conceptart.org: Insomania Workshop, San Francisco, CA

Developed character design, illustration, sculpting techniques, and networking

WORK FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS

2015 Chudzinski, Dan, Muse, Mudpuppy: Mark I and Pestilenza, In Infected By Art, Vol. 3, edited by

Todd Spoor and William Cox, New Castle, PA, Hermes Press

Chudzinski, Dan, The Mudpuppy and The Haunted Throne of the Voodoo Queen, In Creative

Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design, Issue 38, edited by Charles Hively, New York,

NY, 3x3 Publishing

2014 Chudzinski, Dan, Featured Artist, Heavy Metal magazine, edited by Kevin Eastman, East

Hampton, MA, December (forthcoming)

Chudzinski, Dan, The Mudpuppy: Mark 1 and Grindylow, In Creative Quarterly: The Journal of

Art and Design, Issue 37, edited by Charles Hively, New York, NY, 3x3 Publishing, Fall

Chudzinski, Dan. Pestilenza, In Spectrum 21:The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by

John Fleskes, San Jose, CA, Fleskes Publications LLC,

Chudzinski, Dan. Grindylow, The Reliquary of St. George and Death Breath. In Infected by Art 2,

edited by Todd Spoor and William Cox, New Castle, PA, Hermes Press

Chudzinski, Dan. Turbulence and Pestilenza, In Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and

Design, Issue 36, edited by Charles Hively, New York, NY, 3x3 Publishing, Fall

Chudzinski, Dan. (8 pg interview, 10 sculptures featured), Mir Fantastiki magazine, August,

edited by Sergey Serebryanskiy, Moscow, Russia, Igromedia Ltd

Chudzinski, Dan. Famine, In Dark Beauty Magazine, Edited by Topher Adam and Carl Chen,

March

2013 Chudzinski, Dan. Turbulence and The Reliquary of St. George. In Spectrum 20: The Best in

Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. Fairfax, CA:

Underwood Books

“Soaring Gourds: Pumpkin Launching benefits Terra Art Club.” Fremont News Messenger, Oct

28, by Vincent Guerrieri

“Pumpkins fly at Terra.” Sandusky Register, Oct 27, Jessica Cuffman

“Interview with Dan Chudzinski.” In Fantasy + World’s Most Imaginative Artworks, edited

by Vincent Zhao. London: CYPI Press

2012 Chudzinski, Dan. Hellfire and Grindylow. In Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic

Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. Fairfax, CA: Underwood Books

2010 Chudzinski, Dan. Virgil: The Ragtime Relic. Fine Art Finals Scholarship Competition, call for e

ntries poster

2008 Chudzinski, Dan. Cover and Interior Illustrations. In Ghosts: Ohio’s Haunted Landscapes, Lost

Arts, and Forgotten Places, Randy McNutt. Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Co.

2006 Chudzinski, Dan. Cover and Interior Illustrations. In. Lost Ohio: More Travels into Haunted

Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives; Randy McNutt. Kent, OH: Kent State

University Press

2004-2007 Chudzinski, Dan. Editorial illustrations, political cartoons, perspective illustrations, The Miami

Student, Miami University, Oxford, OH, published biweekly

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2015 Illuxcon 8, Main Show, Oct. 21-25, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

2014 Society of Illustrator’s Spectrum Exhibition, Sept. 2-Oct 18, American Museum of Illustration, New

York, NY

Illuxcon 7, Main Show and Weekend Salon, Sept. 17-21, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown

Pennsylvania

ArtPrize International Public Art Competition, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Sept. 24-Oct 12,

Grand Rapids, MI

2013 ArtPrize, International Public Art Competition, Riverview Center, Grand Rapids, MI

2008 International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA)

Orlando, FL, tradeshow character design for Lifeformations

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 At the Mercy of the Muse, Feb. 2-Mar. 1, Grace Albrecht Gallery, University of Bluffton, Bluffton,

OH

Behind the BOOM: The Making of the Dragon Cannon, Diane Kidd Gallery Tiffin University,

Tiffin, OH, (forthcoming)

2014 A Storyteller’s Art: The Narrative Sculptures and Curious Creations of Dan Chudzinski, Mazza

Museum of International Art from Picture Books, July 11-18, Findlay, OH,

2007 Mancub, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH (6 sculptures, 12 illustrations)

2006 The Artwork of the Jungle Book, Way Gallery, Perrysburg Arts Council, Perrysburg, OH, (14

illustrations, 1 sculpture)

2006 Wildlife Art of Daniel Chudzinski, Way Gallery, Perrysburg, OH, 2006 (10 illustrations, paintings)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 Spectrum Live 4, May 22-May 24, Bartle Hall Convention Center, Kansas City, MO

Lennon, Krab Jab Gallery, Seattle, April 26- June 1, Seattle, WA

2014 Imaginative Realism, Yellow Springs Brewery, Oct. 1-Nov. 2, Yellow Springs, OH

The Main Event: Art and Music Festival, Pop Up Gallery, Sept. 13, Toledo, OH

Maleficium 4: Dark Art Exhibition, Nov. 1-29th

, Kosart Effects Studio, Chicago, IL

Cryptids, Aug. 8-22, LeSo Gallery, Toledo, OH

Spectrum Live 3, May 9-11, Bartle Hall Convention Center, Kansas City, MO

2013 Maleficium 3: Dark Art Exhibition, Nov. 3-30th

, Kosart Effects Studio, Chicago, IL

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2015 The Enchanted Brush: Modern Masters Revisit the Fairy Tales of Their Youth, Mazza Museum of

International Art from Picture Books, July 3-31, Findlay, OH

Celebration of the Arts Festival, Visiting Artist: Andrew Sacksteader, April 3-19, Terra State

Community College, Fremont, OH

2014 Celebration of the Arts Festival, Visiting Artists: Travis Lewis, Chris Seaman, and

Dave Leri, April 4-18, Terra State Community College, Fremont, OH

Huron Artist Club Exhibition, Sept 5- Dec 14, Terra State Community College, Fremont, OH

2013 Celebration of the Arts Festival,Visiting Artist Sayaka Ganz, April 5-21, Terra State Community

College, Fremont, OH

Port Clinton Artist Club Exhibition, Aug. 23- Oct. 27, Terra State Community College, Fremont,

OH, Designed and installed display spaces for 100+ works of art by community artists to be

rotated bi-annually

2012 Celebration of the Arts Festival, Directed official re-launch of festival, Visiting Artist Jude

Bischoff, April 6-15, Terra State Community College, Fremont, OH

COMMISSIONS

2015 Tiffin University, functional Dragon cannon/mascot

2014 Pestilenza, Life-size character bust, Private collection

Gus Gets a Jetpack, Life-size character sculpture, Private collection

Gargoyle, bronze, Private collection (x2)

Bowling Green State University, bronze falcon for Board of Trustees

2013 Bowling Green State University, President Carol Cartwright, bronze falcon for Board of Trustees

2013 Medici Circle, Bowling Green State University, Medici Cup Championship trophy

2012 Bowling Green State University, President Carol Cartwright, bronze falcon

2011 Wood County Courthouse, Commission Tim Brown, bronze eagle

2010 Toledo Zoo, Leaf cutter ant exhibit interactive interpretive display

Toledo Zoo, Outdoor African marketplace

Whatthahella, Monumental outdoor tiki fireplace, private commission, 16’ tall, steel and concrete

2008 Holiday Inn French Quarter, Perrysburg, OH, eight monumental portrait heads, fiberglass

Holiday Inn French Quarter, Perrysburg, OH, 8’ x16’ New Orleans mural

Safely Home, Life-size Bronze Falcon, Private estate, Pebble Beach, CA

2007 Hefner Zoology Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Imaginarium mural 8’ x14’

Fremont Elks Club, Historical Mural, 20’x5’

2004 Chud’s Bar and Grille, Fremont, OH, Façade Mural, 32’ x8’

PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS

2014 Mask Design Workshop, Oct 25th

, Port Clinton Artists Club, Port Clinton, OH

Tooth and Claw: The Misadventures of a Rogue Sculptor, Aug. 22nd

, LeSo Gallery, Toledo, OH

A Storyteller’s Art (featured speaker), MAZZA Museum of International Art from Picture Books,

July 14 and 18th

, Findlay, OH

Tooth and Claw: Misadventures of a Rogue Sculptor (Featured Speaker), May 10, Spectrum Live

3, May 10, Kansas City, MO

Sculpt-o-rama, public sculpture demonstration and collaboration with sculptors Tim Bruckner,

Anthony Kosar, Virginie Ropars, Jim Shoop, the Shifflet Brothers, and Forest Whitaker, and

Thunderdome, Sculpture Panel Member Spectrum Live 3, May 10-11th

, Kansas City, MO

Art Attack! The Arts in Contemporary Life, (filmed for PBS) Issue Day Keynote Speaker, March

7th

, Maumee Valley Country Day School

2013 Mosaic Workshop, Oct 5th

, Port Clinton Artists Club, Port Clinton, OH

MEMBERSHIP IN HONOR SOCIETIES

2008-2010 Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

2003-2010 Golden Key National Honor Society

2004-2007 Phi Alpha Theta; National History Honor Society

SERVICE

2012-Present Terra State Community Art Club Founder and Faculty Advisor

2010-Present Medici Circle Board Member, Bowling Green State University

2011-Present Terra State Transfer Advisory Committee

2011-Present Art History TAG Faculty Reviewer, Ohio Board of Regents

2012 Medici Cup Art Competition Founder and Committee Chair

2012 NASA STEM Arts Initiative, NASA Plumbrook Station

Documents

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