BettyAnn Mocek
EDUCATOR
Concordia University Chicago, 2002 to 2022 (20 years)
Received Professor Emerita status upon retirement in 2022Tenured Professor of Art & Chair/Co-Chair, Department of Art – range of courses taught: two-dimensional basic studio design, drawing, printmaking I & II, painting I & II, professional strategies in art, women in art, introduction to art, and independent studies for advanced and honor’s students. Spent six weeks in NYC on sabbatical leave, spring 2014, to pursue new dimensions in her own artwork and pedagogy. She was also granted a spring 2016 University approved reduction in teaching load grant to continue this creative work. Mocek chaired the Department of Art, overseeing majors in Art, Game Art, Graphic Arts, Art Education and Pre-Art Therapy.
Director, Ferguson Art Gallery, 2002 to 2022. Curated over 200 professional/visiting artists’ exhibitions. Coordinated additional talks and/or workshops as well as student shows, graduating art majors’ and faculty and alumni art exhibitions.
Curator, University’s Permanent Art Collection, 2002 – 2006. Oversaw appraisal, upkeep and housing of over 300 works of art in the University’s permanent art collection.
Committee Service to the University: Peer Review Council; College of Arts and Sciences Policy (A.S.P.C.), secretary; Faculty Senate; Faculty Growth and Development; University Policies; Faculty Welfare; Fine and Performing Arts Building and Campaign; Student and Community Leadership Awards Committee; Academic Faculty Searches and Academic Advisor to Art Majors and Minors. Women and Gender Studies Program, Striving to Overcome Prejudice (S.T.O.P.) - coordinated Martin Luther King Jr. School Celebration Day, Women’s History Month & Latino History Month and various diversity trainings.
Concordia University Chicago Foundation Board of Directors: 2008 – 2014.
ARTIST
Works on paper – Prints, drawings and mixed media: 1981 to present. See exhibition record and website: bettyannmocek.com
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis M.F.A., 1981, Printmaking (minor in Art History)
Printmaking professors included: Malcolm Myers, Karl Bethke and Jerald Krepps - Named "Most Outstanding T.A.” in Studio Arts
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI B.A. (cum Laude, and Honors in Art), 1978, Majors in Art and in Religion
- Leadership Award, 1978 (awarded to the most outstanding student leader of the 1978 class)
- Recipient of the Carthage College Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kenosha, WI
ARTS EDUCATOR, including professor and instructor appointments
Mocek Art Studio, 1989 - present - Relief (linoleum/wood), monotype/prints, intaglio and mixed media on paper.
Private instruction and workshops in Greektown area art studio, Chicago – 2005. - General speaking engagements about my own art as well as on artistic expression, the business of art and arts advocacy.
Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, 1985 to 2002 - Numerous speaking and workshop engagements on various aspects of the business of art, including at Columbia College through the Arts and Urban Policy program, the Chicago Bar Association, the American Academy of Art (Chicago), the Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools/Continuing Education, and the Rock Island (Illinois) Public Schools on behalf of the Illinois Arts Council - Workshop engagements for the Chicago Public School System’s high school art teachers on the business of art, finding business resources and survival techniques
Gallery 37/After School Program of the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Art teacher in affiliation with Anchor Graphics at Senn High school, Chicago, 1996
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, summer 1996 - Substitute Instructor -- figure drawing
(State of) Illinois Artisans Programs, Chicago, 1992 - Demonstrator -- prints and mixed media print collage
Paper Press, Chicago, 1989 to 1992 (this organization is now Columbia College’s Department of Book and Paper Arts) - Instructor of Art -- monoprint, relief, intaglio and silkscreen courses
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, 1985 to 1994 - Instructor of Art -- beginning and advanced silkscreen, relief and intaglio courses - Coordinated student shows, sales and open houses in the Print Department
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, 1985 to 1988 - Adjunct Professor of Art -- drawing, two-dimensional design, relief (linoleum/wood) and studio arts introduction courses - Organized ongoing displays of students’ works
College of Saint Teresa, Winona, MN, 1981 to 1984 - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) -- all printmaking courses, drawing, painting, two-dimensional design, introduction to studio art color theory, textiles and art history survey courses. - Taught basic two dimensional studio and introduction to art to nursing majors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN - Extra-curricular service included: Faculty Welfare Committee; Junior Class advisor (elected by students); independent study/internship supervisor; Scholarship Program Committee; Art Club faculty liaison; Senior Art Show coordinator
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1978 to 1981 - Teaching Assistant, Printmaking Department -- all intaglio and relief courses (taught a total of 60 credit hours) - Voted Outstanding T.A. of Studio Arts Program - Co-developed new relief printmaking program - Co-built new relief studio
ARTS EMPLOYMENT and ADVOCACY
Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago - Preeminent not-for-profit service, education and advocacy organization for artists in the visual arts. - Director, Chicago Art Open, 1998 to 2002: created the concept and supervise all logistics of the country’s largest annual non-juried art exhibition under one roof, showing the work of 300 student, emerging, mid-career and prominent Chicago artists in an 18,000 square-foot gallery - Member, Advisory Board, 2002 to 2004 - Membership Director, 1998 to 2002: coordinate all members’ needs and services; liaison to the Board and several committees; maintain 2,300-member database; represent the organization publicly - Chairperson of the Board of Directors, 1992 to 1996 - Officer, 1985 to 1998 (including Secretary, Treasurer, and Director of Development) - Member, Board of Directors, 1985 to 1998
Skyline Art Studios, Inc., Chicago, 1998 to 2005 - President of company that owned, leased out and managed 14 fine art studios
Editorial Cartoonist, for a Chicago community newspaper, 2000 to 2010
Paper Press, Chicago - non-profit school, gallery and studio for papermaking and related media (this organization is now Columbia College’s Department of Book and Paper Arts) - Member, Board of Directors, 1989 to 1992
Chicago Center for the Print/Hunt-Wulkowicz Graphics, Chicago, 1987 to 1989 - Gallery Director, representing over 140 printmakers, jurying and organizing regular shows and managing retail operations, advertising and public relations. - Sales Representative, managing wholesale distribution of Susan Hunt-Wulkowicz prints to over 100 galleries nationwide
ARTS JURYING, CONSULTING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
BettyAnn Mocek has curated and juried many exhibitions in her various roles throughout her art career. Below are some highlights:
- Gateway to Imagination: A National Juried Art Competition, 2016
- Solo Juror and Guest Speaker, 2017 the Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico
- Juror, Self- Employment for the Arts (SEA) College Art Competition, Lisle, IL, 2015
- Panel Moderator for “Water: A Universal Human Right or Commodity Panel Discussion” - College Art Association National Conference / Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago, 2014
- Panel participants: Indira Johnson, Artist &Curator, Liz Dodson, Video Artist & Curator and Debra Shore, City of Chicago Water Reclamation Commissioner
- Oak Park Art League Member’s Show, Oak Park, IL, 2013 & 2012
- West Suburban Artist’s Guild Exhibition, Triton College, River Grove, Il, 2013
- Old Town Art Fair, Old Town Triangle Association Chicago, 2012 & 2003
- 57th Street Art Fair Hyde Park, Chicago, 2007
- All-City Chicago Public High School Arts Competition, Chicago, 2006 - 2002
- Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, 2005
- Lewis University External Program Review of the Department of Art and Design, Joliet, Illinois, 2004
- Wells Street Art Fair, Chicago, 2000, 2002
- Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP Grants), Chicago, 2001-1999, 1996, 1995
- Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
- Polish Arts Club Annual Exhibition, Chicago, 1999, 1997, 1992
- New Eastside Art Works Fair, Chicago, 1997
- National Small Works Wells Street Art Fair, Chicago, 1997, 1995
- Exhibition, An Art Place Gallery, Chicago, 1996
- “Chicago United” Art Contest, Cluster Initiative Schools, Chicago, 1994
- Fine Art Fair, Homewood-Flossmoor, IL, 1994
- Marwen Foundation Arts Awards, 1992
- Youth Communication Publications, Chicago, 1992, 1991
- Public high school art exhibition at Chicago Cultural Center
- Evanston YMCA Young Artists Exhibition, Evanston, IL, 1989
SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA MENTIONS
Featured in the Chicago Society Artists’ The Legacy Continues Book
Named on the artist Tony Tasset's sculpture: Artists Monument, New York Biennial 2016, which is currently on display at the University of Illinois Chicago Campus at 1000 W. Harrison Street
Featured in www.hypertextmag.com
Recipient of the Carthage College Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kenosha, WI
A portrait of BettyAnn Mocek was created by well-known Chicago portrait artist, Grace Cole, for inclusion in a special 2005 Chicago Artist’s Month Exhibition, Face to Face: Chicagoans in the Arts, Fine Arts Building Gallery Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Keynote speaker at Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s 2005 Benefit/Retirement Party in honor of Executive Director, Arlene Rakoncay
Photograph and mention in the Chicago Tribune Magazine: In the Loop/Society Page, 2005
Recipient of the Chicago Artists' Coalition's 2003 Special Service to the Visual Arts in Chicago Award
Honored as the 2001 Woman of the Year by the Chicago Society of Artists, the oldest continuously existing arts organization in the country, for significant service to the visual arts community
Favorable mention in Chicago Tribune review of the Suite Home Chicago street furniture exhibition by Chief Art Critic Alan Artner, 2001
Suite Home Chicago, by Ilka Michel, Neptune Art Books, 2001, publishing photographs of all of the major works displayed in the 6-month street furniture exhibition
Iz It Art segment, Chicago local access Channel 26, 2001, an interview in the studio
Represented the Suite Home Chicago artists at a Chicago City Council recognition ceremony with Mayor Richard M. Daley, 2001
Lerner Newspapers’ review of the self-portraits show at the Harold Washington (Chicago) Public Library, 2001
The Chicago Art Scene, by Ivy Sundell, Crow Woods Publishing, showing the work of over 60 of the city’s leading contemporary visual artists
Where Chicago Magazine, 1997
GALLERIES
- (State of) Illinois Artisans Shop, Chicago, 1991- 2020
- Jill Friedberg and Ron Rubin & Associates, Evanston, Il 2005-2007
- Vedanta Gallery/Creative Thought Group, Chicago, 1995-1996
- Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago, 1987-1993
- Patti Gilford Fine Arts, Chicago, 1992-1993
- Melvin Wolf & Associates, Chicago, 1992
- Aesthetics Gallery, Chicago, 1992
- Marty Lazer Fine Arts Representation 1989-2001
- Kapp's Kaleidoscope, Chicago, 1990-1992
- Cross Currents Gallery, Chicago, 1990-1991
- Anderson-Marsh Galleries, St. Petersburg, 1990
- Art Banque Gallery, Minneapolis, 1984
- LePoudre Gallery, Minneapolis, 1983
- Main Street Gallery, Winona, MN, 1983
COLLECTIONS
- Sears Tower Sky Deck (TriZec Hahn Property Management), Chicago
- Concordia University Chicago
- Fairmont Hotel, Chicago
- Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (Peking), China
- Chicago United, Inc., Chicago
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
- Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis
- University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis
- Winona State University, Winona, MN
- Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago
- Laborers’ Local 1092, Water Pipe Ext., Chicago
- Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
- Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
- College of Saint Teresa, Winona, MN
- University Lutheran Center, Minneapolis
And Numerous Private Collections