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