David Spear

About

Résumé

DAVID SPEAR
2607 Burrwood Street
Columbia, Missouri 65203
(573)489-0469


EDUCATION


2012
Projected Graduate with MFA University of Missouri-Columbia

1999
BFA University of Missouri- St. Louis (cum laude)

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS


2011
Boone County Hospital

2010
Columbia Contemporary Ballet Poster

2008
Jefferson Junior High School Columbia Missouri
TRUE/FALSE Film Festival

2007
University of Missouri-Columbia, Memorial Union
Wabash Bus Station renovation Columbia, Missouri
Blues, Roots, and BBQ Festival Poster

2006
Boone Hospital Columbia, Missouri
H & R Block building Kansas City, Missouri

2004
Nick and Jake’s Restaurant Parkville, Kansas

2003
Sophia's Restaurant Columbia, Missouri

2000
Addison's Restaurant Columbia, Missouri

1998
Cicero's Venue University City, Missouri

1994
Quinton’s Bar Columbia, Missouri

AWARDS AND HONORS



2010
*Third Place Professional Painting Boone County Art Show Columbia, MO
Honorable Mention Boone County Art Show Columbia, MO

2009
Third Place "Altered Realities" Columbia Art League

2008
Voted "Best of Columbia" Inside Columbia Magazine

2007
Honorable Mention Missouri 50
The Award of Excellence "City as Art" Art Saint Louis

2006
First Place "Membership Show" Columbia Art League
Honorable Mention Professional Drawing Boone County Art Show

2005
First Place "Our Home Town" Columbia Art League

2004
First Place Professional Drawing Boone County Art Show
Third Place Best in Show Art in the Park

2003
Best Local Artist Vox Magazine Best of Columbia March 20, 2003

1999
Third Place "5th Annual Regional Exhibition" St. Charles College, Missouri

1998
First Place "Student Show" University of Missouri- St. Louis

1984
Design Award "Pinewood Derby" Pack 787

PUBLICATIONS



2011
Danielson, Aarik “Artful Avenues Line New Boone Hospital Tower” Columbia Daily Tribune June 26th 2011

2010
Danielsen, Aarik “A Moving Artist in Place” Columbia Daily Tribune August 8, 2010

Israel, Lynn “Artrageous Fun by any Other Name” Columbia Tribune Art Axis online July 22, 2010

2009
Gerling, Jennifer "Like Benton" Missouri Life February 2009

Chadwick, Katlin "Collaborative Art Helps Children Work Together" Columbia Missourian Jan. 3, 2009

Howard, Lindsey "Revealing in Risk" Columbia Daily Tribune Jan. 18, 2009

Waters, Amelia "Look ahead: Columbia looks for new traffic box artist" Connect Mid-Missouri website Jan. 15, 2009

Israel, Lynn "Art goes to the Birds to Help Animals, CAL" Columbia Daily Tribune January 27, 2008

Maletsky, Kiernan "Students Find Meaning in Politics Through Art" Columbia Missourian Nov. 7, 2008

"Around the Columns" Mizzou Magazine, summer 2008

Semelka, Sara "Art to Combat Graffiti" Columbia Daily Tribune January 15, 2009

Heavin, Janese "Spear of Influence" Columbia Daily Tribune January 18, 2008

Hennebohl, Rudolf "Latein Kreativ" (Creative Latin) 2007 German Textbook on Greek Mythology.
Pgs. 31, 86,126, 160, 194

Sposito, Sean "Refurbished Wabash Unveiled" Columbia Daily Tribune October 12, 2007

Mulumby, Pamela "All Aboard with Art" Columbia Daily Tribune August 19, 2007

Braden, Jonathon “Musically Inspired Art” Columbia Daily Tribune August 29, 2007

Mulumby, Pamela "Public Art Grows in the City" Columbia Daily Tribune August 19, 2007

Wollridge, Lauren "Art Chugs into Station" Columbia Missourian September, 19 2006

Ashley, Seth "Spear Rising" Columbia Daily Tribune May 14, 2006

Miller, Greg "Percent for Art Goes Local" Columbia Daily Tribune April 22, 2006

Reed Colin "Capturing Tragic History" Columbia Missourian September 11 2005

Schneider, Shelly A. "Art Show" The Community News September 7, 2005

Thum, Erica "The Peoples' Artist" Columbia Missourian April 10, 2005

Voss, Nicole "Lunch with a Side of Art" Columbia VOX Magazine March 6 2003

May, Robin "Artist Profile" Columbia Home Magazine April 1, 2001

Gigantic (University of Missouri-St-Louis Literary Magazine) 97-98 issue #14 front cover & pg. 83

DOCUMENTARIES



Choate, David "2008 Artist in Residence David Spear and the Artist of Jefferson Jr. High" 2008

Choate, David "Wabash Station Artist Profiles" 2007

Choate, David "Wabash Station" 2007

Film students from the University of Missouri-KC "Art on the Block"
Documentary about the artwork installed in the H & R Block Headquarters 2006 (shown on PBS)

Can be seen on the about page

TELEVISION



Han, Ugin KOMU TV 8 "Canvassing the City" May, 15 2006

SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS



2011
"Playground" University of Missouri Craft Studio
"Graduate Showcase" 2011 George Caleb Bingham Gallery University of Missouri

2010
"Graduate Showcase" 2010 George Caleb Bingham Gallery University of Missouri

2009
Solo Exhibition Orr Street Studios Columbia, MO
Solo Exhibition Boone County Historical Society Columbia, MO
Solo Exhibition Carpe Diem Columbia, MO

2009
"Composing Composition" Perlow-Stevens Gallery
"Altered Realities" Columbia Art League
"Politically Speaking" Columbia Art League

2008
"Group Exhibition" Museum of Contemporary Art, Jefferson City, Missouri
"Alumni Show" University of Missouri-St. Louis

2007
"Missouri 50" Sedalia, Missouri
"City as Art" Art Saint Louis
"Visual Sounds" Columbia Art League

2006
"Missouri 50" Sedalia, Missouri
"New Year Visions" Columbia Art League

2005
"Shutters" Columbia Art League
"Mosaics" St. Charles Art Festival
"Our Home Town" Columbia Art League
"Art in the Park" Columbia Art Festival

2004
"Art in the Park" Columbia Art Festival
Solo Show Tellers' Gallery Columbia

2002
"9-11" Art St. Louis
Solo Show, Tellers' Gallery Columbia

2000
"One" Art Saint Louis
Solo Show, Tellers Gallery, Columbia

1999
"5th Annual Regional Fine Art Exhibition" St. Charles College
"Senior Show" University of Missouri
"Varsity art 5" Art Saint Louis

1998
"Museum of Myth, Mystery and Mayhem" St. Louis City Museum, Missouri
"Jazz on View" Saint Louis Artists' Guild,
"Student Show" University of Missouri, St. Louis

1997
"Student Show" University of Missouri, St. Louis

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY


2008 Jefferson Junior High School, Columbia, Missouri

LECTURES



2010
Carpe Diem- Art History Lectures
Osher- Lifelong Learning Center MU Columbia, MO
Guest Lecturer Art Appreciation Class University of Missouri

2009
Guest Lecturer Art Appreciation Class University of Missouri

2008
University of Missouri-Columbia
Osher- Lifelong Learning Center MU Columbia, Missouri
Sedelia Visual Art Association Sedalia, MO
Columbia Public art Teachers Conference Columbia, Missouri
H&R Block World Headquarters- Lunch and Learn Kansas City-Missouri

2007
University of Missouri- Columbia Missouri

2006
University of Missouri- Columbia Missouri

2004
Columbia Art League

Teaching Experience



2009
2D Design University of Missouri
Drawing I University of Missouri
Painting Columbia College Art Week

2008
Painting Columbia College Art Week

2002-2007
Private lessons

2001
Beginning Drawing Columbia Art League