Jay R. Yager
200 Park Avenue
Sanford, North Carolina 27330
phone: (919) 718-7925
e-mail:

EDUCATION:
     
  1962 M.F.A., The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  1962 M.A., The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  1960 B.S., State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
     
  2002-present Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1980-2002 Professor of Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1989-2008 Professor of Art, Eastern Michigan University European Cultural History Tour (an interdisciplinary humanities tour of selected European countries)
  1994 & 97 Professor of Art, Eastern Michigan University Asian Cultural History Tour (an interdisciplinary humanities tour of selected Asian countries)
  1980-1992 Gallery Director, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1975-1980 Associate Professor of Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1969-1975 Assistant Professor of Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1968-1969 Lecturer in Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
  1966-1968 Owner-operator, Victoria Sculpture Foundry, Victoria, MN.
  1964-1966 Instructor of Art, Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
  1962-1964 Instructor of Art, East Texas State College, Commerce, TX.
  1961-1962 Part-time Instructor of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.


GRANTS:
     
  1984 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts.
  1987 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts.
  1991 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts.


PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
     
  1985 Society of Photographic Educators Mid-West Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
  1978 10th International Sculpture Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  1978 Sculpture Talk Shop, Grand Valley State College, Grand Rapids, MI.


GUEST ARTIST/LECTURE APPEARANCES:
     
  1996 Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI
  1991 Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
  1990 Edinboro State University, Edinboro, PA.
  1988 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
  1985 Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI.
  1984 Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI.
  1980 The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY.
  1979 C.S. Mott Community College, Flint, MI.
  1979 McComb County Community College, Warren, MI.
  1977 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
  1977 Virginia Beach Public Schools, Virginia Beach, VA.
  1974 Schoolcraft Community College, Livonia, MI.
  1974 Jackson Community College, Jackson, MI.
  1968 Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN.
  1967 Carlton College, Northfield, MN.


ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS:
     
  1963 Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, TX.
  1964 The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
  1967 Art Gallery, Carlton College, Northfield, MN.
  1969 Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
  1975 Art Gallery, Southeastern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI.
  1979 Art Gallery, McComb County Community College, Warren, MI.
  1980 Art Gallery, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY.
  1985 Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
  1985 Fine Arts Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI.
  1986 DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI.
  1988 Film/Video Arts Fest, Channel L (TV), New York, NY.
  1996 Echoes, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (* denotes award received)
     
  1961 47th Annual Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI.
    Olivet College Annual Festival of Fine Arts, Print Exhibition, Olivet, MI.
 
*
27th Annual Wisconsin Salon of Art, Madison, WI.
     
  1962 48th Annual Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI.
    8th Annual Ball State College Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
    Young Americans 1962, The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY.
    Wingspread Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Racine, WI.
 
*
Alfred A. Strelsin 2nd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Wisconsin Sculpture, Milwaukee, WI.
    Southwest Painting and Sculpture Annual, Roswell, NM.
    24th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Antonio, TX.
     
  1963 9th Annual Ball State College Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
 
*
13th Southwest Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX.
 
*
1963 Artists of the Southwest, The Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA.
     
  1964 1964 Walker Biennial of Painting and Sculpture, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
     
  1965 Four Sculptors, Carlton College, Northfield, MN.
    The Art of Two Cities, Time-Life Building, New York, NY (this show toured the U.S., 1965-66).
     
  1966 1966 Walker Biennial of Painting and Sculpture, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
     
  1967 Invitation 1967, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. (three person show)
    1967 Minneapolis Art Institute Biennial, Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN.
    Group Sculpture Exhibition, Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, TX.
     
  1968 Invitational Group Exhibition, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI.
     
  1969 Eastern Michigan University Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
     
  1970 Mayer and Yager, Sill Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
    First Annual Northeast Detroit Invitational Exhibition, Detroit, MI.
    Criteria 70, Birmingham Art Center, Birmingham, MI.
    16th Annual Ball State College Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
    4th Biennial Michigan Artist-Craftsman Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI.
    58th Michigan Artists Biennial, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
     
  1971 24th American Drawing Biennial, Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, VA.
    International Graphics Exhibition, Sill Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
    17th Annual Ball State University Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
     
  1972 All Michigan Exhibition, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI.
    Group Exhibition, Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
      
  1973 Four Man Invitational Sculpture Show, Art Gallery, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
    Group Exhibition, Forsyth Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
    Group Exhibition, Pyramid Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
    Del Mar College 7th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Corpus Christi, TX.
     
  1974 Invitational Exhibition, Northwood Institute, Midland, MI.
     
  1975 21st Annual Ball State University Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
    Sculpture Inside and Out, Slusser Gallery, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
     
  1976 Anderson, Orentlicher and Yager, Sill Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
    65th Annual Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX.
    22nd Annual Ball State University Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Muncie, IN.
    41st Annual Cooperstown Art Association National Art Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY.
     
  1977 Group Exhibition, The Frankenberg/Guthrie Gallery, Athens, GA.
    18th Annual Mid Michigan Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI.
    Michigan Annual 5, Mount Clemens Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI.
    Lake Superior 77: 4th Biennial International Craft Exhibit, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN.
    Copper, Brass and Bronze Competition, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
    Superior Small Sculpture 77, The Sculpture Gallery, Etc., San Diego, CA.
    Del Mar College 11th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Corpus Christi, TX.
    Third International Rubber Stamp Art Exhibition, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO.
    El Paso Designer Craftsmen 1977, 10th Biennial Craft Exhibition, The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX.
    Communication as Art, Librije Beeldende Kunst Zwolle, Zwolle, The Netherlands.
     
  1978 National Miniature Art Show, Clearwater, FL.
    19th Annual Mid Michigan Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI.
 
*
Michigan Annual 6, Mount Clemens Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI.
    Michigan Artrain: Michigan Art Touring Exhibition, Spring/Summer Tour, Numerous Michigan Cities.
    37th Annual Cedar City National Art Exhibition, Cedar City, UT.
    1 Traditional Methodology for Processing Information, Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (in collaboration with Tom Sherman and Brian Molyneaux).
    Focus Detroit, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI.
    New Video and Performance Art in Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
    Arts of Fiber and Fire, The Mount Clemens Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI.
    Detroit Artists Dead or Alive, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI.
     
  1979 20th Red River Annual, Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN.
    Detroit Overkill: A Video Exhibition, 1708 E. Main Gallery, Richmond, VA.
    Video, Sound and Performance, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI.
    Anita J. Welch Competitive Sculpture Exhibition, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ.
    Arizona National: A Competitive Exhibition of Sculpture, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ.
     
  1980 Michigan Through Its Art and Artists, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI.
    Two Evenings of Video and Performance, Canterbury Loft, Ann Arbor, MI.
    Invitational Exhibition, Sienna Heights College, Adrian, MI.
     
  1981 Michigan Artists 80/81, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
    Statements on Tape, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, MI.
     
  1982 Individuals, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
    Festival of Independent Video 2, Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, MI.
    Cross-Country, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
    Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens, OH.
    World Wide Video Festival, Kijkhuis, The Hague, The Netherlands.
     
  1983 About Time, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI.
    Particular Politics, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
     
  1984 EyeMediae: Michigan Artists Video, Performance Network, Ann Arbor, MI.
    Images of Violence, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI.
    About Time 2, Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, MI.
    The Bowling Green Armory Show, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH.
    Enclaves I, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI.
    Architecture: Other Ideas, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
    Video at El Pueblo, El Pueblo, New York, NY.
    Art and Ego, Pan Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
    Central Florida Film and Video Festival, Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL.
    Video Festival at A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.
    Video Culture 1984, Video Culture Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
    Artists Against Apartheid, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI.
     
  1985
*
A Road Show, (sponsored by Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit),
  Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI; Race Street Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland MI; McCune Art Center, Petoskey, MI. (first prize)
    Artists as Filmmakers Series, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.
    Alternating Currents, Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
    The Automobile and Culture: Detroit Style, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI.
    1985 Detroit Film Festival, Cass City Cinema, Detroit MI.
    Video CD 85, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
    Motor City Media: The 70's, Detroit Community Music School, Detroit, MI.
    Athens Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Athens, OH.
     
  1987 Uncensored, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
    Autumn Members Screening, Film/Video Arts, New York, NY.
     
  1988 10th Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
    Fields of Fire, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (three person show).
    The Brooklyn Arts Council 21st Annual Film/Video Exposition, Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY.
    Detroitus: Remnants of the Lost Generation, Detroit Arts Council Front Room Gallery, Detroit, MI.
    Winter Members Screening, Film/Video Arts, New York, NY.
 
*
Oswego International Film/Video Festival, Oswego Civic Art Center, Oswego, NY.
    The Art and Architecture of the Birdhouse, The Galleria Officentre, Southfield, MI.
     
  1989 After Ten Years, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI.
    Fields of Fire, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (three person show).
    Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Athens, OH.
    Urbanology: Social Engagements, The Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
 
*
18th Ann Arbor 8mm Film and Video Festival, Eyemediae and The Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI.
     
  1990 Art For Life, Galleria Officentre, Detroit, MI.
 
*
19th Ann Arbor 8mm Film and Video Festival, Eyemediae Cinema and Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
    New Directions, New Media, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN.
    Time Based Review, The Media Center at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
     
  1991 The 12th Michigan Biennial: Beyond Boundaries, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI.
    Deconstructed Obsessions, Joe & Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
    13th Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
    Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Athens, OH.
 
*
1991 National Fine Arts Video Competition, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO.
    Salon des Refuses, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
     
  1992
*
 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens Center for Film and Video, Athens, OH. (competition finalist)
    Avant-Garde-Arama, Performance Space 122, New York, NY.
    Seeing Red, White, or Blue: Censorship in the U.S.A., Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK.
     
  1993 East Meets West, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
    E.M.U. Faculty Exhibition, Gallery, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH.
    15th Annual Michigan Artists Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI
     
  1994 Retrospectrum: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI.
    16th Annual Michigan Artists Competition, Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI
     
  1995 In(Justice, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI.
     
  1997 Myth America, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
     
  2002 Pioneer Theater Short Film Slam (Best of Film Slam), Pioneer Theater, New York, NY.
     
  2004 Exposures: Photography ’04 Exhibit, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI.
    MMAC 21st Performance Festival ’04, Tokyo, Japan & Sano Art Museum, Mishima, Japan.
    Estrogenius 2004, Manhattan Theater Source, New York, NY.
     
  2005 EMU Circa ’69, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
    Two Hills Ancestors and Blood, Pataka Musuem, Wellington, New Zealand.
     
  2007 Magdalena Aotearoa National Gathering 2007, Wellington, New Zealand.
  * N.E.W., Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC. (First Prize)
     
  2008 EYE AM: Women Behind the Lens, Episode 14, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Manhattan, NY.
         (in collaboration with Diane Spodarek)
    Bird’s Eye View, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
     
  2009 City Scenes, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
  * 2009 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh, NC. (Grand Prize)
    Exchange Gallery Artist, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
  * Scope:  The North Carolina Landscape, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
    37th Annual Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
     
  2010 The Road Show, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    Mosaics, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, NC.
    Imagine, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    38th Annual Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
    The Light Factory’s 2010 Filmmakers’ Showcase, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
    Snapshots, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    N.E.W., Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    FilmSPARK2010, SPARKcon main stage, Raleigh, NC.
     
  2011 Square2, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
   

39th Annual Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
    Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athena Cinema, Athens, OH.
    Riverside International Film Festival, UltraStar Cinemas, Riverside, CA.
    Southern Appalachian International Film Festival, Johnson City, TN.
   

Clearwater Film and Music Festival, Clearwater, FL.
   

The White Show, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
     
  2012 Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
  * 31st Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ (Jurors Citation Selection).
    The Light Factory’s 2012 Filmmakers’ Showcase, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
  * We Speak, Here Film Festival 2012, (online festival sponsored by www.cultureunplugged.com)
     
  2013
*
 Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    Pop, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    2013 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh, NC.
 
*
 56th National Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibition, Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
    41st Annual Members Show, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC.
 
*
 Scope:  The North Carolina Landscape, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC.
    OHYOUKIDMERTZ, Intuit:  The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
     
     


COLLECTIONS:
   
  The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
  The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX.
  Syracuse University Department of Art Media Studies, Syracuse, NY.
  American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY.
  Empire Area Museum, Empire, MI
  The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI.
  The North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC.
  Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
  The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
  Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL.
  numerous private collections.


PUBLICATIONS: (works represented in the following:)
     
  1962 Craft Horizons magazine, July-August.
  1976 "The Technique of Sculpture" by John Mills, Watson Guptill Publications, New York, NY.
  1978 "The Rubber Stamp Album" by Joni K. Miller and Lowry Thompson, Workman Publishing, New York, NY.
  1983 "Cultural Engineering" by Tom Sherman, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
  1985 American Film magazine, November, "Love Stories" by Kathleen Hulser.
  1986 "Borderlands" published by Artcite Inc., Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  1988 The New Art Examiner magazine, October.
  1999 "Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance" by Warrington Colescott & Arthur Hove, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison Wisconsin
  2009 Ceramics Monthly magazine, October.
  2011 Review of Hot Mud and 4000 Gallons, The Log Book, Issue 46.