Art Rapids is pleased to have Mary Guntzviller serve as juror for the 2016 art fair.
Guntzviller has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University, with a major in Art, including an emphasis in figure drawing and sculpture. She has been a professional artist since 1988.
The book, Art of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, Transforming Nature into Art, includes Guntzviller’s watercolor painting, Where Herons Play, Crystal River, Glen Arbor. The Dennos Museum in Traverse City hosted a show which included all the paintings in the book. Mary’s Plein-Air painting also won first prize in the Glen Arbor Paint-out.
The Michigan Watercolor Society has accepted Mary’s paintings three times. Her First Poppies hung at the Detroit Institute of Arts for its prestigious society 50th anniversary traveling show.
The children’s book Guntzviller illustrated, McGillicutty, A Very Special Bear, is available at local book stores, Amazon.com and on www.guntzviller.com.
Periodically returning to fabric, Mary received an award for her self-portrait, Self-Fabricated, August 2015, at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City.
Through both teaching and demonstrations, Guntzviller enthusiastically shares her work first-hand with others. Since 1993, she has taught in several mediums; watercolor, acrylics, and life drawing. A few of her workshop locations have been at St. John, Virgin Islands; Cincinnati, Ohio; Mackinac Island, Glen Arbor, Tustin, Battle Creek and Traverse City, MI. She also critiques paintings by appointment at her Studio.
Mary judged the 2015 Crooked Tree Outdoor Art Fair in Traverse City and has been a judge for the Jordan River Arts Council in East Jordan, Michigan.