CHARLOTTE KA
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
MFA Painting, July 1997
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
BFA Printmaking, Painting 1975
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, New York City
Workshops in Glass/
Fused glass with Rudi Greitch
Corning Glass Museum
Urban Glass
Fused glass and cast glass workshop
Sculpture Center NYC- casting workshop
Honors
Coca Cola National Fellows Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA Program 1993-1997
Artist in Residence-Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica Queens, NY, 1997-1998
Artist in Residence- Brooklyn Cable Access Television/ Rotunda Gallery 1999
Artists Fellowship in Painting- New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC, 1998, Gregory Millard Award.
One Person Exhibitions
SPIRITED! Westmoreland County Community College - Art Gallery Science Hall- Youngwood Campus , March 04- March 25, 2013
“10th Havana Biennial”“Describiendo Memorias” Centro Experimental de
Artes Visuales,Havana Cuba March/ April 2009 exhibited a installation of drawings “From the Slave Cabin to the White House”
"Cowries, Crosses and Black-eyed Peas", Featuring a installation against the burning of houses of worship entitled “You can burn down the churches but you cannot burn down “The Church” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica Queens, N.Y., December 1998. Exhibition traveled to
Hammond’s House Gallery, in Atlanta Georgia, January 1999 to April 1999, and traveled to Norfolk State University. , August 1999. Presented at an Urban League and NAACP symposium against crimes of hatred.
"Of the Spirit", Maryland Institute College of Art, Thesis Exhibition, July, 1997
Two/Three Person Exhibitions
Reflections of Monk/ Inspired images of Music and Moods/ Dwyer Gallery , Harlem, NY. October 3,2014-January 04,2015
Vision, Roots & Rhythms = Tribute to Randy Weston
Kenkeleba Gallery Sept-Nov- 2014 , NYC NY
“Paper Works” Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, July-August 2013
“Creative Melange” ,Dorsey’s Art Gallery, Brooklyn , N.Y.February -March/ 2013 with Danny Simmons and Francs DeSuis
Encounters “ Harlem School of the Arts”- February /March 2013
“10th Havana Biennial”
“Memorias” , De Artes Plasticas, Havana Cuba, August- October 2009
with Carolyn Maitland, Barbara Neisin and Pedro Pulido
“Noir” Yassine Art Center, Dakar, Senegal with Bara Diokhane, April, 2008
“Connexions”, Gallery West, with Bara Diokhane Suffolk County Community College, February 07 March 07, 2007
The Lights of Home”, Gallery 138, with Terry Boddie and Nancy Goldring, March-April 2004.
“Windows of the Soul” Stella Jones Gallery, with Anita Philyaw. New Orleans, La. January-February, 2002.
“Reverb and Resonance”, University Galleries, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Ct. September - October, 2001.
“Windows to the Soul”, Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., with Robin Holder and Jide Ojo. December -February 2000.
Selected Group Exhibitions
“Encounters”The Harlem School of the Arts, February /March 2013
"Mahalia", Queen of Gospel Music, African American Museum in Dallas , Texas,
January 15, 2012 to June 17, 2012, Traveled to Texas from the
Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans , La ., October 2011 to January 2012.
"101 Annual Exhibition"Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Curated by Flo Wilson.
Society of Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh , Pa. November, 2011 to January, 2012
"Common Ground"Affrilachia, Where I'm From. August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Pittsburgh , Pa. November 16, 2011- March 17. 2012
"Artists Speaking for the Spirits" African American Museum of Nassau County, Hempstead N.Y., May/ Sept. 2011
"Phizer Art /Exhibition", Phizer headquarters NYC., NY, April 2011 to August 2011 curated by Danny Simmons
"Divine Influences", Kenkeleba Gallery , NYC., NY, November to January 2011
“Deck the Walls”, Gallery 707, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, October / January 2010“
" "Associated Artists Exhibition , August Wilson Center of African American Culture. Pittsburgh, Pa.
“Artists Speaking For The Spirits” The Articurian Gallery at Arthur Bennett Hall, Brooklyn, New York, February 2010.
National Black Fine Arts Exhibition”, Kenkeleba Gallery,NYC, February 2009
“Seeing Jazz”, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan-April 2009
“Female Aesthetics: Are you listening to her voice?” Skylight Gallery Restoration Now, Center for Arts and Culture.,Brooklyn, N.Y. February - March 2008
“Post Millennial Black Madonna” an exhibition in two parts: Paradise and Inferno, Presented by Renee Cox and Wangechi Mutu. Curated by Danny Simmons. Paradise: MOCADA, Feb-May 2007. Inferno: Skylight Gallery Mar-2007.
“Soul Scapes ”NCA Invitational”, Corridor Gallery, August 2007
“Off the Main”, Puck Building, NYC. October 2007“JVC Jazz Festival Exhibition”, INC Incorporation of Artists on the Move, Jumel Mansion, Countee Cullen Library, Harlem , N.Y., and WBGO, Radio Station, July- December 2005,
“African American Printmakers”: The Legacy Continues. Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art. March-June, 2005.
"Brown v. Board of Education"1954-2004. Gallery 138, N.Y.C., N.Y. Artists “Interpretations of the Flag”, Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, N.Y., September 2005
“Each One Teach One”, curated by MLJ Johnson, February 2007.
"Festac" ,International ,Black and African Festival of Art,Lagos Nigeria
Curator“Renewing our Spiritual Connections”: National Conference of Artists Invitational, National Museum of Accra in Accra Ghana, West Africa, and July-August 2002
Director
Jade Gallery , Corner of Forbes and Craig, Oakland, Pa
Membership
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
The National Conference of Artists.
Selected Bibliography
Marshall, Dr. Cora, “Elaborating Cultural Identity”, Imaginal World Making in the works of selected Ethno-Centered Artists- Doctoral Dissertation, New York University (1997)
Marshall, Dr. Cora, Review” Hammonds House Gallery, Atlanta Ga.” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art (Spring/Summer 1999.
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art/ Special issue The Black Arts movement / 1 + 1 = 3 /photographic exhibition of exhibition of The “Where we at Black Women artists. pg. 48, # 20 Spring 2012
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art/Special issue Remembering the Black Arts Movement/”The Emergence of the Black Women Artists”, pg., 124. image of “ We Rise” installation with anti-slavery documents.
Selected Artists talks
Westmoreland County Community College , Science Hall Art Gallery March 2013
Harlem School of the Arts\ February 2013
Artists Talks/ Society of Contemporary Crafts. December 2011 and January 2012
August Wilson Center of African American Culture. January 2012
National Association of Women Artists, at their annual meeting on the lightship “ Frying Pan” at Pier 63 on the Hudson River, June 03, 2004.