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Gallery Representation
The Cynthia Winings Gallery, 24 Parker Point Rd, Blue Hill, ME 04614
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2019 Spencer Presentation Gallery, curator Kathleen Moore, Beverly MA
2018 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Form and Chaos, M.P. Landis and Carol Pelletier, Truro MA
2014 - Cynthia Winings Gallery, All You Need, Blue Hill, Maine
2013 - Spencer Gallery, Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Local Ground, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
- River Gallery, Inner Thoughts, Chattanooga, TN
2008 - Berea College, A Room with a View, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea, KY
2007 - West Liberty State University, New Directions, Nutting Gallery, curator R. Villamagna, Wheeling, WV
2006 - Sleeth Gallery, Pursuing Proximity, West Virginia Wesleyan, Buckhannon, WV
2005 - Marietta College, Planes of Luminescence, Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta, OH
- Annex Gallery, Searching for Water, Charleston, WV
2003 - GARO, New Work by Carol Pelletier, Fine Art, Director, Ami Hirata, Morgantown, WV
2002 - Soren Christensen, Shorelines by Carol Pelletier, New Orleans, LA
2001 - Red and Gold Gallery, New Work by Carol Pelletier, Richard Painter, director, Seattle, WA
2000 - Daywood Gallery, Alderson–Broaddus College, J. Boggess, curator, Phillipi, WV
- Annex Gallery, Variations on a Landscape, A. Salville, curator, Charleston, WV
- Sycamore House Gallery, C. Greene, curator, Harrisonburg, VA
1998 - Della Brown Taylor Gallery, curator, P. Clendenin, West Virginia State Institute, WV
1997 - Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
- University of Maine Ellsworth Center, Ellsworth, ME
- Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 - Cynthia Winings Gallery, Expectations of Place, Blue Hill ME (reviewed by Carl Little in Art New England)
2017 - Cape Cod Museum of Art - Depth Perception, curators Cherie Mittenthal and Joanne Mattera, Dennis, MA (catalog)
2017 - Boecker Contemporary, Black Box, curated by Arvid Boecker, Heidelberg, Germany
2017 - Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
2017 - Heftler Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly MA
2016 - Julie Heller Gallery, Thinking Sideways: The Horizontal Line, curated by Nancy Natale, Provincetown, MA (catalog)
- Cynthia Winings Gallery, The Art of Acadia and Plenty Blue Hill, Maine
2015 - Cynthia Winings Gallery, Belonging to Time, Blue Hill, Maine
- Heftler Gallery, Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface, Endicott College, Beverly MA(catalog)
2014 - Acadie Mythique: A traveling group exhibition of 18 Acadian Artists from the Acadian Diaspora to be exhibited during the Acadian World Congress. Curated by Harlan Johnson, Montreal Quebec
Locations of Exhibition:
University of Maine at Fort Kent Fort Kent, Maine
The Cultural Museum of Mont-Carmel Lille. Maine
The Acadian Museum of Moncton Moncton, New Bruswick
University of Sainte Anne Clare, New Brunswick
Saint-Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Acadian Museum of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island.
2013 - Cynthia Winings Gallery, Time and Place, A Group Exhibition, Blue Hill, ME
- Becket Arts Center Gallery, Unearthing Elements From The Natural World: Outside and Inside Traditional Landscape Invitational, Becket, MA
- The Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Synthesis: Endicott College and Montserrat College of Art Faculty and Student Collaborative Exhibit, Gloucester, MA
2011 - Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
2010 - Kelly Jackson Gallery, Arts Center Monongahela, Water and Stone, Morgantown, WV
2009 - Elon University, Arts West Gallery, Small Works Invitational, Elon, NC
2008 - Attleboro Art Musuem, National Juried Monotype/Monoprint Exhibit, juror, Aprile Gallant, Curator Smith College Museum of Art, (catalog), Attleboro, MA
2008 - Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bolton Gallery, Cranbrook Print Media Magnetic Exchange, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2007 - Isalos Fine Art (catalogue), Ames Pond, Stonington, ME
- Southeastern College Art Conference, Faculty Exhibition, Charleston, WV
- Eastern Oregon University, Nightingale Gallery, Inkspot, La Grande, OR
- Geoffrey Warner Studio, Artists of Maine Summer Group Show, Stonington, ME
2006 - Huntington Museum of Art, …Never Done: Works by Women Artists from the Puzzuoli Miller Collection, Huntington, WV
- Isalos Fine Art, “The Black and White Show,” Stonington, Maine
- Randolph County Community Arts Center, “Three College Invitational,” Elkins, WV
2005 - Olson–Larsen Galleries, Water and Land, Des Moines, IA
- Isalos Gallery, From Dusk to Dawn, Stonington Maine
2004 - Annex Gallery, New work by Carol Pelletier and Eric Pardue, Charleston, WV (2 person show)
- Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 - Nicolet College, Northern National Competition, juror, Keith Jacobshagen, Rhinelander, WI
2002 - Clark House Gallery, juror, Carl Little, Bangor, ME
- Leslie Lohman Art Foundation, 5th Lesbian Biennial, (image on invitation), New York, NY
2001 - Soren Christensen, New Orleans, LA
- California State University, A Map to My House, Chico, CA
- New American Paintings Magazine, Vol. 33, juror, Beth Venn, Open Press Studios, Featured Artist/Catalogue Exhibition, Boston, MA
2001 - Sleeth Gallery, Vices, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
2001 - Museum in the Community, Up and Coming, Hurricane, WV
2000 - Rosenthal Gallery, Invitational, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC
- Lees-McRae College, Invitational, “A Celebration of Art,” Banner Elk, NC
- Oglebay Institute, Crosscurrents, Wheeling, WV
1999 - Alderson Broaddus College, Daywood Gallery, Phillipi, WV
- Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV
1997 - Middle Street Gallery, Jerry Scott, juror, director of the Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Residencies, Workshops and Conference Presentations
2018 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Developing Color Maturity while working in Cold Wax, Truro, MA
2017 Vermont Studio Center, October residency, Johnson VT
2016 - Snow Farm, New England’s Center for Art and Craft, Williamsburg, MA
- Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Working w/ Wax Medium w/ Carol Pelletier. Truro, MA June 2016
2015 - Ninth International Encaustic Conference, Professional Practices Panel with Miles Conrad, Fanne Fernow, Marci Rae McDade, Timothy McDowell, Jane Allen Nodine and Carol Pelletier, moderated by Joanne Mattera, Provincetown, MA
2014 - Peabody Essex Museum, Cold Wax Workshop with Carol Pelletier sponsored by the Van Otterloo Golden Light Series. Salem, MA
- Eighth International Encaustic Conference, Cold Wax Demo with Carol Pelletier, Provincetown, MA
- Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Working with Wax Medium with Carol Pelletier. Truro, MA, July 2014
2013 - Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Working with Cold Wax Medium with Carol Pelletier. July 2013.
2008 - Wood Engraving and Letterpress Printing workshop with Jim Horton, Abigail Rorer and R.P. Hale, Augusta Heritage Center, Davis and Elkins College. Created a book collection of wood engravings with excerpts from A Life Above Water by Doug Van Gundy
- Wood engraving workshop with Siri Beckman, Deer Isle, Me
2007 - Walter Gropius Artist’s Workshop, Huntington Museum, Color Woodcut and mixed media printmaking processes with Karen Kunc, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2001 - Bay of Fundy Residency, Nova Scotia, Canada funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, “Language of the Land”
1996 - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, Awarded an Artist Residency Grant studied with Grace Hartigan and Altoon Sultan
Publications
2018 - Art New England September/October issue review of Expectations of Place by Carl Little
Southwest Art Magazine February “Landscape issue” A Sense of Place, interview by Kim Agricola
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (Cover of workshop catalog)
Organic to Geometric (exhibition catalog Provincetown Art Association and Museum) curator’s statement by Carol Pelletier
Fifty/Fifty (exhibition catalog, Arden Gallery, for artist, Joanne Mattera) essay by Carol Pelletier
2017 - Depth Perception, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog
Creative Quarterly, National Journal of Art and Design, Issue 47, Fine Art Artist, Fall 2017
2016 - Thinking Sideways: The Horizontal Line, exhibition catalog that accompanied the exhibition Thinking Sideways at Julie Heller East in Provincetown, MA, curator, Nancy Natale
- Prowax Journal, Volume Issue 13, August – October 2016
- Condominium Morte, (Cover Image) Vince Trimboli Poems, Ghost City Press, Syracuse, NY
2015 - Studio Visit Magazine, Juried by Carl Belz, Volume 27, Winter Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2014 - Creative Quarterly, the National Journal of Art and Design, Issue 33, Featured Artist, Winter 2014
- Bloom Literary Journal, Fall Issue 2013, Cover Art (Rivulet) Los Angeles California
2013 - Artscope Magazine, New England’s Cultural Magazine: Carol Pelletier: Local Ground, review by James Foritano, pages 26 and 27. May/June 2013 issue.
- Salem News, "On the Horizon", Endicott College professor’s exhibit shows a connection to place. Interview by Will Broaddus, pages 9 and 16. May 2, 2013.
- Cape Ann Currents, ‘Synthesis’ enthralls, by Keith Powers, pages B1 and B3, October 4, 2013
2012 - RiverLit Magazine, Selected Featured Artist Volume 2 Issue 3
2011 - Visual Overture Magazine, Selected Featured Artist Winter 2011 Issue
2008 - National Juried Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, juried by Aprile Gallant (catalogue)
- The Sun Chronicle: The Possibilities are Endless, Attleboro Arts Museum shines spotlight on monotypes and monoprints in a national juried show, by Janette Sears, September 10
2007 - Vandalia: The Literary Magazine West Virginia Wesleyan College, p. 24 (image, Back Beach)
- Ames Pond (catalogue), essay by Debora Cummins, printed by Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
- La Grande Observer, “Inkspot review,” 2007
2006 - Vandalia: The Literary Magazine West Virginia Wesleyan College (cover image, Deer Isle Village)
- New American Paintings Magazine, Open Studios Press, Vol. 44, Boston, MA
2005 - Iowa City View, “Landscape All Stars,” June 9, 2005
- Des Moines Register, “Celebrate Beauty of Land, Water,” Amanda Pierre, June 8, 2005
- St. John Valley Times, “Artistree Gallery Showing the work of Carol Pelletier,” July 20, 2005
- Charleston Gazette, “The Gazz,” p. 10D, image, p. 19D, Thursday, October 13, 2005
2004 - Artworks, Charleston WV
2002 - The Best of New Orleans, “Paintings by Carol Pelletier,” 9.17.02
- New American Paintings Magazine, Open Press Studios/Catalogue Exhibition, Vol. 33, Boston MA
- Up and Coming Magazine, “Artscape,” December, 2000
- The Fayetteville Observer, 12/00
1998 - The Yellow Jacket, Vol. 53, Sept. 1998
Honors / Awards
2017 Granted Sabbatical Leave, Endicott College
2017 Granted an Artist’s Residency grant at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2014 Full Professorship at Endicott College
2012 RiverLit Magazine Selected Featured Artist Volume 2 Issue 3
2011 Visual Overture Magazine, Selected Featured Artist Winter 2011 Issue
2007 Faculty Innovation Grant, West Virginia Wesleyan College
2005 Sabbatical Leave, West Virginia Wesleyan College
2004 National Endowment for the Arts Project Grant, “Northern Light”
2004 Faculty Innovation Grant, West Virginia Wesleyan College
2003 Awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor of Art
2003 New American Paintings Magazine, Vol. 33 Featured Artist/Catalogue Exhibition
2001 Mellon Foundation Fellowship Grant
2001 Salzburg Fellow, Museums in the 21st Century, Salzburg Austria
2001 National Endowment for the Arts, Project Grant, “Language of the Land”
2001 West Virginia Commission for the Arts
2000 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship Grant
2000 West Virginia Commission for the Arts, Fellowship Grant
2000 Faculty Innovation Grant, West Virginia Wesleyan College
1996 Residency Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Administrative and Teaching Experience
2011-present Chair of Fine Arts, Professor of Art, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts
1997–2011 Chair of Visual Arts, Associate Professor of Art, West Virginia Wesleyan, Buckhannon, WV
2000, 2001, 2007 Visual Arts Master Teacher, Governor’s School for the Arts, Marshall University
1995–1997 Instructor of Record, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Education
1997 Master of Fine ArtsPainting and Drawing James Madison University
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, Drawing and Printmaking University of Maine at Presque Isle