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Art Related Experiences

Areas Qualified to Teach/Skills

• Fibers: all areas especially large-scale structural. (ie. Knitting, Crochet, Weaving)
• Kites: history, construction, flying, judging.
• Intermedia: Correspondence art, rubber stamp art, performance art, small publications, photocopy art, computer art.
• Metals: jewelry fabrication, brass/silver/copper topo-graphic-designs, and small scale casting.
• Instructional Media Design .
• Photography : 135mm systems. Black and White lab work.
• Two and Three dimensional design .
• Business forms analysis and design .
• Graphic Art : DeskTop Publishing, traditional paste up and layout; photo-typesetting.

Selected Exhibitions

2004
Works included in Brother Machine Co. retrospective exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY. May 2004

1996
Various online / Internet pages & network events.

1992-93
Hand Carved Rubber Stamps: a retrospective. Stamp Francisco Gallery, San Franciso, CA.

1989
Outdoors Indoors: Contemporary Craft for an Outdoor Environment, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC.

1985
Instant Images, Durham Photographic Arts Society, Durham, NC.

1984
XEROX: Photostatic Images by Southeastern Artists, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

1983
Search for Line, Greenhills Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

1982
Fiber and Fabric, Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC.

Ensemble, Greenhills Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Space Sails: American Banners, Midlands Arts Council, Midland, MI.

Scrittura/Figura/Partitura, Liceo Artisto Statale, Anton Giulio Bragaglia , Alatri, Italy.

ARTEDER -- Muestra International de Arte Grafico, Diputacion foral del Senorio de Vizcaya y patriocinada por el Departmento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.

1981
Llibres D'Artista, METRONOM , Barcelona, Spain.

Book/Works: Visual Artist's Handmade Books, City Stage Celebration, Greensboro, NC.

Dzialalnosc Rysunkowa, XXI Wystawa Znakow Rysunkowych, Galeria Wielka 19/ Galeria Rysunku, Poznan, Poland.

Bodies of Artists, Nordjyllandskunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark.

Simple Gifts , One Man Show, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC.

National Competition: Work on Paper, W.B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC.

International Artists' Book Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL.

MAMABLANCA, Casilla de Correo 266, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

13 from North Carolina, Foundry Gallery, Washington D.C.

1980
North Carolina Sculpture, Green Hills Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Installation, One Man Show, Moon Gallery, Mount Berry, GA.

George Brett, One Man Show, Book Space, Chicago, IL.

George Brett, One Man Show and lecture, Mendenhall Art Gallery, Greenville, NC.

Exposico De Tramesa Postal, METRONOM -- Espai del Centro de Documentacio d'Art Actual Barcelona, Spain.

Dzialalnosc Rysunkowa, Gallerya Rysunku, Poznan, Poland.

arte marginale e socialita , Cummune di Monza galleria civica, Monza Italy.

INTERNAT...FOOL! Mail Art Show, Knudolstrasse 34, Kassel West Germany.

U.S. & Beyond -- DADA, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Rubber Stamped Artists' Books, Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, Holland.

Water Sculpture, ArtsPlosure 1980, Raleigh, NC.

BacTryon & Others, One Man Show, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC.

Installation, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

Book as Art and Works of Paper, Greenhills Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Word Exhibito of Poetry and Reality, Centro Documetazioni Arti Visive, San Giorgio, Italy.

1979
First Inmost-show of Creative Marginal-philately, Kindergarten No. 38, La Plata, Argentina.

North Carolina Sculpture 79, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Exploring the Book as an Art Form, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.

See Saw and Others. One Man Show. University Gallery, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.

Gestempelde post can Henryk Bzdok en George Brett, Stempelplaats Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.

Installation. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

Visual Ideas, W.B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC.

George Brett -- Mail Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.

Rubberstamp Workshop, Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

1978
Art on Paper 1978, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.

Friends of the Faculty, W.B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC.

first Intercontinental NewDADA Exposition, Galleri S:t Petri, Lund, Sweden.

National Exhibition of Work on or of Paper or Clay, Memphis State University Gallery, Memphis, TN.

Lightworks Envelope Show, Ann Arbor Library, Ann Arbor, MI.

Georgia Sculptors, Gallery 303, Statesboro, GA.

Five Days at Image, One Man Show, Image Gallery, Athens, GA.

Five Fiber Artists, Gallery of the Sandhills Arts Council, Aberdeen, NC.

Georgia Handweavers, Image Gallery, Athens, Ga. (Cash Award)

Experimental Color Xerox Exhibition, San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego, CA.

Artwords/Bookworks, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1978 Biennial of Peidmont Crafts, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.

National Sculpture 1978, University Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Work selected for circulating exhibition.

Fortieth Annual North Carolina Artists' Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. Work selected for circulating exhibition.

1977
Hip Pocket Weaving, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Normal, IL.

What I've been doing in Clay lately , Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA.

F irst A nnual R etrospective T hing, One Man show, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA.

Great California Drought of 1977, R. Mutt Gallery, Northridge, CA.

Itinerant & Ephemeral, SCHEDE, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Art as Communication, Librije beel ende, Zwolle, Hollland.

Georgia Sculpture Exhibition, Lyndon House Galleries, Athens, GA.

Video Antiquities, Triangle Studio, Seattle, WA.

Broadway International Postcard and Mail Art Extravanganza, Broadway Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. Award Winner.

1976
Two Man Show, Upstairs Gallery, Edenton, NC.

1976-75
Monthly theme shows, Fiber Workshop, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA.

1974
Sixty-eighth Annual Cloud Show, fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. First Place Award and Honorable Mention.

1973
One Man Show, Tallahassee Junior Museum, Tallahassee, FL.

Bibliography

Crane, Michael Exhibitions and Publications, Correspondence Art: Sourcebook for the Network of International Postal Art Activity , Crane, Michael and Stofflet, Mary, Editors, Contemporary Arts Press, San Francisco, 1984.

Crane, Michael, The Spread of Correspondence Art, Correspondence Art: Sourcebook for the Network of International Postal Art Activity , Crane, Michael and Stofflet, Mary, Editors, Contemporary Arts Press, San Francisco, 1984.

Thompson, Lowry. geORge brett -- OR Post . RUBBERSTAMPMADNESS , Issue 1, Vol 2, December 1981.

McMillan, Sam. George Brett: Webs of a Mad Spider FIBERARTS , November/December, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1981.

Brett, Sally, ORtist George Brett - From Polarities, Balance The Arts Journal , March 1980.

Other Professional Activity

Brett, George. Alternative Media: Categorical problems for the Art Librarian. Presentor and Panel Member of Investigation: Documentation, Multiple Media Art for the Visual Resources Curators of the Southeastern College Arts Conference. October 1983.

Brett, George; Balch, David and Kesler, Charles. Low Cost Computer Graphics . Joint multi-media presentation for Independant Television Producers Association. September 1982, Chapel Hill, NC.

Brett, George (writer/designer), ECU School of Medicine: Biochemistry . Video-tape production of the Center for Medical Communication, School of Medicine, East Carolina University. 1982, Greenville, NC.

Brett, George (writer), Beach Music . Video-tape. BoardWalk Productions. 1982, Greenville, NC.

Brett, George (writer/designer), I want to be small . Patient Education about gastric bypass surgery. Video-tape production of the Center for Medical Communication, School of Medicine, East Carolina University. 1982, Greenville, NC.

Brett, George (writer), Welcome to Pitt County . Video-tape production of the Center for Medical Communication, School of Medicine, East Carolina University. 1981, Greenville, NC.

Brett, George; Balch David, and Punte, Carroll. Computers in the Media Shop . Joint multi-media presentation at the 1981 Fall Southeast Regional Meeting of the Biomedical Photographers Association, Augusta, GA.

Brett, George. Rubber Stamps: The Bureaucratic Art . Paper delivered at the 1980 meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South. Winston-Salem, NC, October, 1980.

Brett, George. Mail Art: an Overview Contemporary Art Southeast , Fall, 1980.

Brett, George. International Postal Art Exhibit , Artscope 2 , no. 3 (Summer) 1979.

Brett, George. Mail Art/Popular Art . Paper accepted for the 1978 meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South. Nashville, TN, October 1978.

Brett, George. Stretching the Point: Co-ordinate Constructions Utilizing the Brother KH-800 Knitting Machine. Masters Thesis. University of Georgia, 1978.

Work included in:

• Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network , Crane, Mike. San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press, 1984.
• Cahiers Trimetriels D'Alternatives Artistiques & Culturelles , Sphinx, No. 12/13, ete 1981. (France)
• Styff, eerste jaargang, no. 2, January, 1981. (Belgium)
• MAMABLANCA , Catalog from exhibit. La Plata, Argentina, 1981.
• Catalog of Exposico De Tramesa Postal, Metronom -- Espai del Centro Documentacio d'Art Actual , Barcelona, Spain, 1980.
• Rubberstamped Books , Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1980.
• Tenth Assembling , NY: Assembling Press, 1980.
• The FiberArts Design Book , NY: Hastings House, 1980.
• Par Avion USA , Sphinx No. 7/8, 1979. (France)
• Political Satire , Common Press No. 23 1979. (Italy)
• George Brett -- Henryk Bzdok , Rubber, Vol. 2 o. 7, July 1979. (Holland)
• OK Magazine, Spring 1979.
• Fifth First International Stamp Exhibition Catalog, 1979.
• Neustro Libro Internacional No. 1 De Estampillas y Matasellos, 1979. (Argentina)
• BURACOARTE, 1979. (Brazil)
• geORge -- OR Post , OR No. 16, 1979.
• Can the Artist Help Survive? , Common Press, No. 13, 1979. (Germany)
• White Lies... , Common Press, No. 12, 1979. (Great Britain)
• Prison , 1978. (Denmark)
• The Rubber Stamp Album , Miller, Joni K. and Thompson, Lowry, NY: Workman Press, 1978.
• Diary , Common Press, No. 11, 1978.
• The New Music Internationale Edition , Cabaret Voltaire, No. 4, 1978.
• Ein Blick aus dem Fenster , 1978. (Germany)
• The Drawing Completion Test , Cabaret Voltaire, No. 3, 1978.
• Negro Sobre Blanco , 1978. (Spain)
• Uni Art, 1978. (Poland)
• The Fourth First International Stamp Exhibition Catalog, 1978.
• OR DADA OR , OR, No. 9, 1978.
• Poetry Itch You , OR, No. 8, 1978.
• Number 6 , OR, No. 6, 1977.

Works previously carried by:

• Artworks, Venice, California
• Washington Project for the Arts Bookstore, Washington D.C.
• the Fiber Workshop, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia

Works in the collection of:

• the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC.
• the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
• Waterworks Art Gallery, Salisbury, NC.
• Jean Brown Archive, Tyringham, MA.
• Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
• Congregation Bayt Shalom, Greenville, NC.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Los angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
• ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary.
• The Museum of Museums, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Works in the private collections of:

• Ms. MacDonald Bane, Winston-Salem, NC.
• Dr. T. Andy Dale, Jr., Lexington, KY.
• Mrs. Dora Brett Schriever, Naples, FL & Palm Springs, CA.
• Mr. Glen Kaufman, Athens, GA.

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