Mary Jane Parker

MARY JANE PARKER is a mixed media artist living and working in New Orleans, Lousiana. Her work was recently included in the exhibition, A Building with a View: Studies in Anarchitecture at the Contemporary Arts Center. Ms. Parker was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2007; a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in 1990 and 2001, a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Award for Excellence, an NEA Independent Study Fellowship, and a Surdna Foundation Arts Teacher’s. Ms. Parker’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and is part of the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the LSU Museum of Art and the Center for Book Arts in New York and numerous private collections. Ms. Parker received her BFA from Louisiana State University with an emphasis is studio art (painting and drawing) and an MA and MFA in studio art with a printmaking emphasis from Illinois State University. Ms. Parker is chair of the Visual Arts Department at the New Orleans Center for Creative where she is also on the faculty. She is represented in New Orleans by Arthur Roger Gallery.