Biography:
Over the past twenty years my artwork has moved from oil on canvas to collage to assemblage and finally to wall relief sculpture. I am Professor of Art at Park University in Parkville, MO where I teach all levels of drawing, painting and three-dimensional design, my favorite course. I have led Park's Fine Art program since 1986 and founded and direct Park's Campanella Gallery.
I am a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA), the University of Missouri-Kansas City (MA) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (MFA). Tulsa, OK is my home town and but I have lived in the Kansas City area all my adult life. My husband, Jim MInges, and I live in Roeland Park, KS where we work on our water garden and scheme a return to Italy. He is the director of the Northeast Kansas Library System. My son, Eric Dresser, is a fine figurative painter in oil. My step-daughter, Sara Minges, is a play therapist practicing in Lawrence, KS. I am beginning to imagine retiring from academia and to being a much more productive artist, hoping to find both a market for and more critical response to my work.
Central detail of "Accolade Suite II', 2011.
Exhibition Record and selections from CV:
Donna G. Bachmann
Professor of Art
Program Coordinator for Fine Art
Director, Campanella Gallery
OFFICE: Alumni Hall, Room 31
Park University, 8700 River Park Drive
Parkville, MO 64152
(816) 584-6457
donnabach@park.edu
EDUCATION:
M.F.A.- Painting, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995.
M.A. - Studio. University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1978.
B.F.A.- Painting & Printmaking. Kansas City Art Institute, 1970.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Chair of the Department of Art and Design, Park University, 1986 to present.
Director and founder of the Campanella Gallery, 1988 to present.
EXHIBITIONS:
March 2012, Solo Exhibition "The Accolade Suite and Installations", Stocksdale Gallery, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO.
Oct.-Nov. 2011, Solo Exhibition "Elegant Contrivance", Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Kansas City, KS.
"Assemblage Wall Relief Sculpture", Solo Exhibit, Jan. 2011, Johnson County Main Library, KS.
Summer 2010, "Bachmann, Brock & Brewer: Degrees of Construction" Wentworth Academy, Lexington, MO.
Sept.- Oct. 2008: Calculating Art: Mathematics and the Visual Field, Maloney Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Juror: Gallery Director Dr. Virginia Fabbri Butera. Title: SmallTriptych:TheGoldenRectangle.
Sept.-Oct. 2007: 9th Annual Renaissance Regional Juried Art Exhibition, The Renaissance Center, Dickson, Tennessee. Juror: Jamie Tracy. Title of assemblage work chosen: Puzzle Box.
April 2007: 6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: Diane Levesque. Title of assemblage work chosen: Small Triptych: the Golden Rectangle.
April-May 2006: National Juried Exhibition, 10th Annual Cross Timbers, Murray State College, Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Juror: Amy M. von Tungein. Title of assemblage work chosen: Small Triptych: Eleanor of Toledo.
July-August 2006: Regional Juried Exhibition: Re: Members at the Kansas City Artists Coalition Gallery in downtown KCMO. Jurors: Philomene Bennett and Lou Mark. Assemblage work chosen: Small Triptych: The Golden Rectangle.
Feb. 2005: Debut of an installation of 19 art works in four spaces at Park University Downtown, 911 Main, Kansas City, MO. This exhibit includes the reinstallation of my 1978 Master’s Thesis mural: Some Ideas Concerning the Creative Process, provided by the Nichols Library of the University of Missouri-Kansas City to Park University on permanent loan. This exhibit includes selections from the following bodies of work: The Fan Series, The Felicity Suite, Gnostic-Algia and others.
Dec. 2003: Continued annual exhibition (since1986 when it was originally commissioned) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, of my Christmas Tree Star in Kirkwood Hall (40 inches high, gold and silver leafed copper, brass and chandelier crystals). The holiday display was temporarily canceled while museum renovations were underway.
Sept.-Oct. 2001: Felicity Suite #3: Copper , chosen for juried on-line exhibit,
The Puna Gallery of Contemporary Art in Hawaii.
July-Sept. 1999: Gnostic-Algia #4 chosen for the 42nd Annual Juried Delta Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock.
Dec. 98-Jan. 99: RE: Members, group exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition,
Juror: Dana Self, Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Dec.98-Jan. 99: Art & “Non-Art” Faculty Art Exhibit, Campanella Gallery.
Curated group multi-media exhibit.
March-April 1998: Retrospective Solo Exhibition, Stocksdale Gallery, William Jewell College.
Oct.-Nov. 1996: Group Invitational: Spirit & Matter: Contemporary Artists & the Iconic, Mabee Gallery, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO.
Several of my paintings were exhibited. Juror: Catherine Royer.Reviewed: by Catherine Anderson in the Kansas City Artists Coalition's
Forum Magazine, March/April 1996.
March-April, 1996: 46th Annual Spiva Competition, Joplin, MO.
Juror: David Turner, Director, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center.
Dec. 1995 - Jan.1996: Solo Exhibition, Campanella Gallery. (Post Sabbatical exhibit.)
Aug.-Sept. 1995: Solo Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO.,
August 1995: RE: Members, Group Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition,
Juror: Bruce Hartman, Director Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art.
April 1995: Solo Exhibition, Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri-Columbia, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition.
Feb.-March 1995: Seven Teaching Artists, Stocksdale Gallery, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO.
Jan.-Feb. 1995: Tenth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO.
Nov. 1993: Solo Exhibition, Patron Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS.
Between 1992-1977, approximately ten solo and juried group exhibitions.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & AWARDS:
In addition to my teaching duties which emphasize painting, drawing and foundation courses, my advising and administrative responsibilities as chair of a large department and director of the Campanella Gallery, I also continue to draw from the model and pursue pleinair landscape painting in oil. I attend professional conferences, travel and study art and architecture in Europe and the United States, give guest lectures, curate the occasional special exhibition for the Campanella, and serve as a juror for community group art exhibits. I have received a number faculty development grants that have helped to fund sabbatical travel and have received the Northland Regional Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Education Award (2001), the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2002), Outstanding Faculty Award from CETL, Park’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2006-07) and the first Distinguished Humanities Faculty Award (2008).
Member:
College Art Association
Kansas City Artists Coalition
AVOCATIONS:
Travel, reading, water-gardening.
