ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
Jean Myles Eger
43 Crest Avenue
Richmond, CA 94801
(510) 237-5540WORK EXPERIENCE
5/96 - 10/00 Substitute Teacher West Contra Costa Unified School District
3/75-5/84: Publisher of POINT COUNTERPOINT, a monthly neighborhood newspaper.
Previous to 1984, various secretarial and clerical positionsEDUCATION
May, 1998: Master of Art, Creativity and Arts Education, San Francisco State University
May 28, 1994: Bachelor of Art, San Francisco State University, art education and printmaking
May 31, 1991: Associate of Arts, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA. Art major.
9/60-6/63: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PAEXHIBITIONS
1999 Small Works from the CSP, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1999 Printmaking and Social Commentary in the '90's, juried by Rene Yanez, Berkeley Art Center
1999 Baren Woodblock prints, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York City. Also online at http://www.woodblock.com/forum/exchange_99/exchange_frame.html
1999 "Tradition and Transition in the '90's," SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco
1999 East Bay Open Studios, Berkeley, CA
1999 "A Tradition Continued: Relief Prints," Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
1998 California Society of Printmakers 85th Anniversary Exhibition, 511 Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Printmaking: People and Process" Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA, organizer
1997 "California Prints From Wood" Collector's Gallery of Oakland Museum
1996 "California Prints From Wood" Collector's Gallery of Oakland Museum
1995 "Jean Eger's Printmaking Home Page," http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger
1994 "Art For Social Change," San Francisco State Student Union Art Gallery
1994 "Handmade Books" solo show at Richmond Public Library, main branch
1994 "Diversity and Vision of the Printed Image", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1993 "100 Printmakers" Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco
1992 "Prints, Textiles, Glass", San Francisco State Student Union Gallery
1991 "Landscapes and Portraits," Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CAPUBLICATIONS
The following articles were published in THE CALIFORNIA PRINTMAKER, Journal of The California Society of Printmakers
"The New York Art Scene: An Embarassment of Riches," winter, 1995-96
"Sylvia Walters' Relief Printmaking," winter, 1995-96
"Relief Printmaking and Printing," March 1994
"Danish Show goes Public," summer, 1993
"Alice Gibbons--Stipple Etching," summer, 1993
"Panel Discusses Print Collecting," winter, 1993
"100 Artists: Annual Membership Show"
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