About SOCA
Faculty Work
Mary Klopfer
Associate Professor of Studio Art, Sculpture and Drawing
Email: mklopfer@sf.edu
Phone: 260.399.7700 x 8007
Artist Statement
Having served as faculty at SOCA, I have found this department to be professionals whose mutual respect for each other's differing qualities creates a unison that better serves the needs of a growing and diversified student body. My experience as an artist ranges from personal works, to residential commissions, to public commission in painting, and sculpture. I believe that my experience, energy, and commitment to teaching are consistent with the unique admixture present here. It is a department in which I have found myself to be challenged, encouraged, and inspired.
I take great satisfaction in facilitating the excellent work of my students, colleagues, and their programs. I enjoy working with mature, dedicated students that seek an education because of their commitment to life-long learning and the pursuit of a personal artistic expression
Teaching, I believe, is an art within itself. When a student is taught well they are given guidelines and a foundation on which he or she can build and develop as an artist. I believe that if a strong foundation is built a strong edifice will be the result. This foundation begins with learning a good work ethic with which they can achieve a true sense of accomplishment vital to their continuing to strive for higher goals. I prefer a style of teaching that is simple and coherent. Stressing, via repetition, the basics of composition, the elements of art, and the importance of art history. Also stressing the humanities, the duty and responsibility and artist has to their audience - the community.
Education
1998 Master of Fine Arts Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH. 43403
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Saint Francis
2701 Spring St. Fort Wayne, IN. 46809
Exhibitions
2007
- "9th Annual Landscape International Online Juried Art Exhibition" Upstream People Gallery, 5607 Howard st., Omaha, NE. 68106.
- Arena Dinner Theatre Inc. Gallery show. 719 Rockhill st. Ft. Wayne, IN. (260) 424-5622.
- Allen County Public Library's "Regional Artists Exhibition" Wayne st. Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802. (260) 421-1200.
- "Stacked" artwork influenced by writing material. National Juried Exhibition. Jeffery R. Krull Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN.
- Faculty & Alumni Exhibition - Weather head Gallery, School of Creative Arts. Fort Wayne, IN.
- Artlink Galleries "Member's Show" Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802.
2006
- Weatherhead Gallery, Faculty & Alumni exhibition at School of Creative Arts, University of St. Francis.
- Highlights Gallery - Bronze Sculpture exhibition at the School of Creative Arts, University of St. Francis.
- ArtLink gallery "USF & IPFW Faculty exhibition.
- Fort Wayne Museum of Art's "Thinking in 3-D"; Exhibited a Bronze Sculpture and display board demonstrating the lost wax process of casting bronze.
- Art Link's galleries "Feminine Documentation" exhibition.
2005
National
- "Carved in Stone" juried exhibition at the John Waldron Arts Center in conjunction with the 9th Annual Indiana Limestone Sculpture Symposium. Presented by the Bloomington Area Arts Council. Miah Michaeisen, BAAC Gallery Director (812) 334-3100 ext.111
- "Spirituality and Religion in a Modern World" National juried Exhibition. Union Street Gallery, 1655 Union St.
Chicago Heights, IL.
Regional
- "Women's Works" Northwest Area Arts Council's 18th Annual Juried Regional exhibition of Fine Art. Old Court House, Woodstock, IL.. Anne Lecuyer and Patricia Tanner Chairwomen.
- "Wall to Wall" a survey of current Regional Sculpture -juried exhibition. Held at Flatlanders Gallery, 11993 E.US 223 Blissfield, MI. 49228
- "Whispers to Shouts" Indiana State Museum invitational/Juried exhibition.
- "Indiana Now" Biennial Juried exhibition of Contemporary Art. Held at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette.
- "Alumni/Faculty exhibition" 2005' at USF Weatherhead gallery.
2004
- "Inner Anatomy" - the Skull. exhibition at Tip Top Tattoo's & Gallery. Ft. Wayne, IN. 46805
- "Growing Up in Indiana" invitational exhibition. Art link gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802
- "3 person show" at the Raw Art Gallery, Detroit, MI.
- "Blissfield Cooridor" invitational Exhibition of outdoor sculpture. Blissfield, MI.
- "Faculty & Alumni" exhibition at the Weatherhead Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46808
- "Do it in Red" Mother-Lode exhibition of women's art. Avant Garde Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802
2003
- "Three rivers Invitational" exhibition at the Weatherhead Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46808
- "Faculty & Alumni" exhibition at the Weatherhead Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46808
- "Mother-Lode" exhibition of women's art. 1911 Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802
- "Inner Anatomy" exhibition at Tip Top Tattoo's & Gallery. Ft. Wayne, IN. 46805
2002
- "USF Faculty & Staff" exhibition at First Presbyterian Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802
- "Big Drawings" exhibition at Art Link Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN. 46802.
2001- USF and IPFW Faculty show
2001- University of St. Francis Faculty Show
1999-"Members Show" Artlink Gallery, Ft. Wayne, IN.
1998
- St. Francis College, Abuse of Power, One woman show. Ft. Wayne, IN
- Biennial Invitational Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery Ft. Wayne, IN.
- Colleges and Universities of Ohio Annual Exhibition, Toledo, OH.
- 8th Anniversary Exhibition, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH.
- Naming the Unseen Survivor's Art Exhibition, OMSD Gallery, University of Toledo, OH.
- MCO Spot Show at the Mulford Library, Medical College of OH.
1997
- Biennial Invitational Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery.
- Summer Show, Spectrum Downtown Gallery, Toledo, OH.
- Fall Show, Spectrum Downtown Gallery, Toledo, OH.
- Winter Show, Spectrum Downtown Gallery, Toledo, OH.