Marie Weaver
Encyclopedia
Marie Weaver is an American artist who specializes in printmaking, book arts, painting, and graphic design. Weaver earned a B. A. from the University of Vermont
and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University
.
Weaver lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia
. Weaver's career began as an apprentice to Vermont
printmaker Sabra Field and evolved into graphic design
. In 2003, Weaver returned full time to the practice of fine art. She is married to Stephen Harvey
, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology
.
In 2006, Weaver was selected by curator and juror, Mark Hosford of Vanderbilt University
to be part of the "Southern Printmaking Biennale", North Georgia College & State University, Dahlonega, Georgia
.
UpSouth, a group show partially funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, traveled to several venues across Birmingham, Alabama
in 1999, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
, the University of Alabama at Birmingham
, Visual Arts Gallery, and Agnes
Gallery. It
In "Four Voices: Echoes," (Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL) her work was shown with Janice Kluge
(sculptor), Lucy Jaffe (painter), and Sonja Rieger (photographer) and Marie Weaver (printmaker).
"This Day in History," Center for Book Arts, NYC, 1995. Annual organized by Brian Hannon also exhibited the work of Miriam Cassell, Ted Clausen, Adriane Herman, Mary Ellen Long and Claire Jeanine Satin among many others.
Her work has been published in various periodicals including Art Papers
, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Birmingham News
, Innovative Low-budget Design' (New York City), Event Flyer Graphics (Tokyo, Japan) and White Graphics (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Weaver has exhibited primarily in the Southeast and New York including Agnes
Gallery, Bare Hands Gallery, Center For Book Arts
(NYC), Southern Printmaking Biennale, Gainesville State College
, Georgia Perimeter Gallery, Space One Eleven, Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
.
The Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic Design was set up in 2003 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham
in honor of associate professor of graphic design
Marie Weaver and her husband, professor of biochemistry
and molecular genetics
Stephen C. Harvey, Ph.D. for their strong support of the arts at UAB.
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
.
Weaver lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. Weaver's career began as an apprentice to Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
printmaker Sabra Field and evolved into graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
. In 2003, Weaver returned full time to the practice of fine art. She is married to Stephen Harvey
Stephen Harvey
Stephen C. Harvey is a structural biologist with research interest in nucleic acids, the ribosome, virus structure and high density lipoprotein. He is currently professor and Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar in the at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia...
, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
.
Work
In 2007, Weaver's work was included in the exhibition "Atlanta Printmakers Studio", Swan Coach House Gallery curated by Marianne Lambert, Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
In 2006, Weaver was selected by curator and juror, Mark Hosford of Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
to be part of the "Southern Printmaking Biennale", North Georgia College & State University, Dahlonega, Georgia
Dahlonega, Georgia
Dahlonega is a city in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 5,242....
.
UpSouth, a group show partially funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, traveled to several venues across Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
in 1999, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s...
, the University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
, Visual Arts Gallery, and Agnes
Agnes (gallery)
Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1993 to 2001. Shawn Boley, Jon Coffelt and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism,...
Gallery. It
In "Four Voices: Echoes," (Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL) her work was shown with Janice Kluge
Janice Kluge
Janice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She hold a BFA with honors from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an MFA for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kluge is Professor Emeritus of sculpture and drawing at the University of Alabama...
(sculptor), Lucy Jaffe (painter), and Sonja Rieger (photographer) and Marie Weaver (printmaker).
"This Day in History," Center for Book Arts, NYC, 1995. Annual organized by Brian Hannon also exhibited the work of Miriam Cassell, Ted Clausen, Adriane Herman, Mary Ellen Long and Claire Jeanine Satin among many others.
Her work has been published in various periodicals including Art Papers
Art papers
FileART PAPERS is a non-profit bimonthly magazine about contemporary art. Established in 1977 as the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Ltd. Newsletter, it is the only critical arts magazine published in the Southeastern United States...
, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News is the principal daily newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. The paper is owned by Advance Publications...
, Innovative Low-budget Design' (New York City), Event Flyer Graphics (Tokyo, Japan) and White Graphics (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Weaver has exhibited primarily in the Southeast and New York including Agnes
Agnes (gallery)
Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1993 to 2001. Shawn Boley, Jon Coffelt and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism,...
Gallery, Bare Hands Gallery, Center For Book Arts
Center for Book Arts
The Center for Book Arts in New York City is the first organization of its kind in the United States dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object while preserving traditional practices of the art of the book....
(NYC), Southern Printmaking Biennale, Gainesville State College
Gainesville State College
Gainesville State College is a state college of the University System of Georgia serving northeast Georgia since 1964. The Gainesville State College Gainesville Campus, located 45 miles northeast of Atlanta and six miles southwest of downtown Gainesville in Oakwood, is on Georgia State Route 53...
, Georgia Perimeter Gallery, Space One Eleven, Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
.
The Marie Weaver and Steve Harvey Endowed Scholarship Fund for Graphic Design was set up in 2003 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
in honor of associate professor of graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
Marie Weaver and her husband, professor of biochemistry
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
and molecular genetics
Molecular genetics
Molecular genetics is the field of biology and genetics that studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. The field studies how the genes are transferred from generation to generation. Molecular genetics employs the methods of genetics and molecular biology...
Stephen C. Harvey, Ph.D. for their strong support of the arts at UAB.
Quotes
- "Moments of change inform my work. The change could be something as subtle as the exchange of a glance, a fleeting shadow or a sudden realization....In creating compositions that reflect moments of change, I frequently use birds as metaphor—for transitions, as models of adaptability, as harbingers of danger, as symbols of the spirit. -Marie Weaver
Books and Catalogs
- "Aging," by Marie Weaver, Number 1, Edition of 1, Center For Book Arts, Brian Hannon coordinator, 1995, artist's book
- "White Graphics: The Power of White in Graphic Design" (Paperback) by Gail Deiber Finke, work included by Marie Weaver
- “Graphically Speaking Women,” Space One Eleven, Ruth Stevens Appelhof (Executive Director, Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY) 2001
- "UpSouth" by bell hooksBell hooksGloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan, University Press, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1999, pp 70–73 - “The World’s Women On-Line! Women and Information Technology: An Electronic Art Networking Event” (In conjunction with the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
’ Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace; Beijing, China, 30 August-15 September 1995. Pilot Internet Event at Arizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityArizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
’s Computing Commons Gallery, March; subsequent CD-ROM), online catalog
External links
- Marie Weaver Official website
- Center For Book Arts Weaver, Unique "Aging" 1995