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 1050 Art Appreciation
ART 1010 World Art History1: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)
2014 Spring ART 1120 3-D Foundations
ART 2010 Drawing II: Life Drawing
ART 2200 Sculpture
ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern (2 sections)
ART 1050 Art Appreciation
2013 Fall ART 1020 Drawing I
ART 1010 World Art History I: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)
ART 1050 Art Appreciation
2012 Spring ART 1120 3-D Foundations
ART 1020 Drawing I
ART 2010 Drawing II: Life Drawing
ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern (2 sections)
2012 Fall ART 1120 3-D Foundations
ART 1020 Drawing I
ART 2200 Sculpture (developed new course)
ART 1010 World Art History I: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)
2012 Spring ART 2010 Drawing II: Life Drawing (2 sections)
ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern (2 sections)
2011 Fall ART 1120 3-D Foundations
ART 1020 Drawing I (2 sections)
ART 1010 World Art History I: Prehistoric to Gothic (2 sections)
2011 Spring ART 1030 World Art History II: Renaissance to Modern
Bowling Green State University
2010 Fall ART 1020 3-D Foundations
2009 Spring ART 1020 3-D Foundations
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