ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am called, as an artist, to bear witness to the world that I see around me and also to the ways that I understand that world. This yields not only images of beauty and tenderness but also images of suffering. I am reminded of Albert Schweitzer's injunction to "think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."

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EDUCATION
1984	M.F.A. The American University, Washington, DC
1970	B.A. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016	Honor Award, Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (for Mary as Prophet)
2016	Fellow, Summer Seminars at Calvin College
2013-14	Artist in Residence, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
1996	Coolidge Fellow, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life
1986-87	Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1984	Glassman Award, The American University, as Outstanding Woman Artist at The American University
1983	Wolpoff Prize, The American University, for Outstanding Achievement in Drawing and Works on Paper
1970	Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Wellesley College

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017	Prophetic Creation, Sculptures by Margaret Adams Parker, Photographs by B. Cayce Ramey, The Gallery at Convergence Congregation, Alexandria VA, Lisa Smith, curator.
2015	Embodying the Visitation, Sculptures by Margaret Adams Parker, Photo Essay by B.Cayce Ramey, Addison Academic Center, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA
2014	Dwelling Among Us, Woodcuts by Margaret Adams Parker, Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, Baltimore, MD.
2013	Signs and Seasons, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring, MD.
2012	So teach us to number our days: Woodcuts, Etchings, and Sculpture, Goodwin House, Bailey's Crossroads, Falls Church, VA. Curator: Linda Smith-Bugge.
2011	Artist and Mentors - Woodcuts, Etchings, and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, Curator: Christopher With.
2011	Laments - Woodcut, Etchings, and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD, Curator: Barbara Stephanic.
2010	Two Artists, Many Journeys: Woodcuts by Carole Nelson, Etchings by Margaret Adams Parker, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring, MD.
2008	Lament: Stations and Other Images of the Cross by Margaret Adams Parker, Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.
2007	Landscapes and Laments - Woodcuts, Etchings, and Sculpture, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC.
2004	WOMEN - Woodcuts and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC.
2003	Drawn from Scripture - Woodcuts and Sculpture by Margaret Adams Parker, Erdman Gallery, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ.
2003	The Ruth Portfolio, Duke Divinity School Library, Durham, NC.
2002	Jerusalem - Woodcuts and Sculpture, Stimpson Center, Washington, DC, Curator, Pamela Hoyle.
2002	The Ruth Portfolio - A Visual Commentary on the Book of Ruth, Merrimack College, Andover, MA.
2002	Woodcuts Prints - Landscapes and Figures by Margaret Adams Parker, Beverly Street Studio Gallery, Staunton, VA.
2002	Jerusalem - Celebration and Lament, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD.
2002	Images for a Lenten Journey - Stations of the Cross and Other Woodcuts, CFAA, Littleton, CO.
2001	If I forget you, O Jerusalem - Woodcuts and Sculpture, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC.
2001	"Then they led him out to crucify him..." Stations of the Cross and Other Woodcuts, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, Curator: Deborah Sokolove.
2000	Wounded for Us: Stations of the Cross and Other Woodcuts, Mary Cosby Gallery, Washington, DC.
1997	Recent Work - Sculpture, Prints, Drawings, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA.
1992	Recent Work - Painting and Sculpture, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC.
1990	Washington - Landscapes and Interiors, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC.
1988	Washington Seasons, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC.
1986-87	Alexandria - Impressions of an Urban Landscape, The Lyceum, Alexandria, VA.
1986	Paintings and Prints, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.

ACADEMIC, PROFESSIONAL, & DIOCESAN PUBLICATION OF IMAGES
2016	Mary as Prophet, cover illustration, Arts (The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies), Vol. 28, no. 3, 2016
2016	Ruth Woodcuts, Mission and Theology, Anglican Communion, Graham King, Editor.
2016-17	Pray with me, illustration in the Christian Planning Calendar, 2016-2017, Morehouse, Church Publishing, Inc.
2015-16	Ruth Woodcuts, Anglican Consultative Council, Bible in the Life of the Church Project, Stephen Lyon, Editor.
2013	African Exodus, featured illustration in "On Art", reviewed by Lil Copan, Christian Century, July 26, 2013.
2013	Christ Takes up the Cross, from Stations of the Cross, reproduced by Trinity Institute's 43^rd National Theological Conference, The Good News NOW, November, 2013
2011-13	Sundays and Seasons, Years A-C, ed. Suzanne Burke, lectionary illustrations. Augsburg Fortress Press, 2011, 2012, 2013.
2011	Conversation, Crosstown Bus, cover illustration, The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Winter, 2011.
2011	BEATITUDE, illustration for "Tikkun of the Fertile Soil", Ellen Davis, TIKKUN, p36. Winter, 2011.
2011	In Communion, III, reproduced in Behold, Pentecost 2, 2011.
2010	Reconciliation, reproduced in Mapping Luke, Susanna Gunner, Diocese of Norwich, The Church of England.
2010	Lamentations 4, reproduced in Gethsemane: A Sequence of Music and Poetry for King's College Chapel, Jeremie Begbie, Victoire Press.
2010	Station XI, reproduced in The Liturgy of Good Friday, The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury.
2008	Touching the Altar, cover image and images for chapter headings, Touching the Altar, The Old Testament for Christian Worship, Ed. Carol M Bechtel, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2008.
2007	Reconciliation, cover illustration and illustrated articles, "A Parable in Bronze", Margaret Adams Parker, and "When we were still far off...", Clare Amos, The Reader, Summer 2007, Volume 104, No. 2. Published by the Central Reader Council of the Ministry Division of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England.
2007	to have seen what I have see, cover illustration, ARTS (The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies), Eighteen, Two, 2007.
2005	Faith + Vision, Twenty-five years of Christians in the Visual Arts, ed. Cameron J. Anderson and Sandra Bowden, Square Halo Books, Baltimore, MD.
2005	MARY, cover image for the bulletin, Day of Reflection on Ending Global Poverty, Washington National Cathedral, September 11, 2005.
2004	African Exodus (two-color woodcut, 1997). Frontispiece for Refugee Children, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Number 2, 2004, Oxford University Press on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

REVIEWS, ARTICLES ABOUT PARKER
2016	"Prophetic Creation: Photography, Theology, and Sculpture", B. Cayce Ramey, More In the Studio in Arts, vol. 27, no. 3, 2016, pp.22-31.
2015	"The work of architect and artist is celebrated at Virginia Seminary," Jerry Hames, Faith and the Arts, Episcopal Journal, December 2015, p. 12.
2012	"Meditation on Reconciliation", Gregory Jones, Divinity, Duke University, Spring 2012, Volume 11, Number 2, p.45.
2011	Conversation, Crosstown Bus, Cover illustration and article, Jenny Freestone, The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Winter, 2011.
2008	"Practice Resurrection", by L. Gregory Jones, With God in Mind - Sermons and the Art and Architecture of Duke Divinity School, Ed. Elizabeth Stagg, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC.
2004	"Margaret Adams Parker: Women", by Judy Pomeranz, Journal of the Print World, Winter, 2004.
2003	"Artist's woodcuts carve out new biblical images," by Janet Purcell, Fine Arts, Trenton, NJ, Times, June 20, 2003.
2003	"Profound Studies," by Susan Van Dongen, Art, Lawrenceville, NJ, Ledger, May 15, 2003.
2003	"The Ruth Portfolio" by Pamela Hoyle, Journal of the Print World, Spring, 2003.
2001	" 'Jerusalem, O Jerusalem!' Intensity Carved in Wood", by Jerrold Hames, Episcopal Life, December 2001.
2001	"Margaret Adams Parker: If I Forget You, O Jerusalem" by Rhoda Trooboff, Journal of the Print World, Fall, 2001.
2001	"Margaret Adams Parker - Focused on Life", by Judy Pomeranz, élan, April, 2001.
2001	"Virginia Artist's Portrayal of Mary Installed by Archbishop of Canterbury", by Susan E. Pritchett Post, Virginia Episcopalian May/June 2001.
2000	"Stations of the Cross, Stations of Life," by Susan E. Pritchet Post, Virginia Episcopalian, May/June 2000.
COMMISSIONS
2015	Mary as Prophet: He has filled the hungry with good things, 48" high bronze sculpture for Chapel Garden/Immanuel Chapel, Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA.
2012	Harriet Tubman; Absalom Jones, woodcut designs for glass doors, St. Paul's Church, Rock Creek, Washington, DC.
2011	Logo for Amnesty International's Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference.
2010	Jacob and Esau, sculpture for Repair the Future, A Conference on Reconciliation, Weimar and Buchenwald, Germany.
2010	The Communion of Saints, designs for a screen of etched glass panels (9' high x 30 ft wide) for St. Agnes Catholic Church, Shepherdstown, VW.
2008	Reconciliation - 8" high bronze version of large Reconciliation 2007, Commissioned by Duke Divinity School, open edition, to be used for awards in the field of reconciliation.
2005	Reconciliation - 48" high bronze sculpture based on the Parable or the Prodigal Son, Commissioned by Duke Divinity School for their 2005 Addition.
2000	Mary - 48" high bronze sculpture, in place at: St Mary's Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA; The Cathedral College, Washington National Cathedral; St. John's Church, West Hartford, CT; The Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco, CA; Iglesia Santa Maria, Falls Church, VA.

BOOK, ARTICLES, & PAPERS
2016	"Making the Story Come Alive: Sculpting Mary as Prophet" in Arts (The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies), Vol. 28, no. 3, 2016, pp. 14-21.
2016	"The Visual Image as a Means of Prayer" in The Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, Spring, 2016.
2013	Women at Prayer, ECVA (Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts), curator's essay to accompany online show juried by Parker in collaboration with C. Robin Janning and Phoebe Griswold.
2013	"Entering the Biblical Narrative - An Artist's Experience of Depicting the Book of Ruth," Paper for Art, Emotions, and Women's Experience in the Hebrew Bible, Panel at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
2008	"A Great Communal Hymn - Religious Images by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert E Steele Collection," Visual Exegesis, exhibition catalogue for Middle Passage Conversations - on Black Religion in the African Diaspora, an interdisciplinary conference, Yale Divinity School, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2008	Light of the World, Juried online exhibition, ECVA (Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts), juried exhibition and wrote exhibition essay.
2007	"Artists in Conversation with Theology - Questions Answered," ARTS (The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies), Eighteen, Two, 2007.
2007	"Speaking the Language of the Visual Arts," paper presented at National Consultation on the Role of the Arts in Congregational Renewal, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, MN.
2006	"Printing the Story - The Bible in Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts," Scrolls of Love - Ruth and the Song of Songs, ed. Peter Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Fordham University Press.
2006	"Where Pain and Sorrow Are No More," Heaven, edited by Roger Ferlo, Seabury imprint of Church Publishing.
2006	"O Prosper the Work of Our Hands! 'Preaching' the Text Through the Visual Arts," Virginia Seminary Journal, September, 2006.
2006	Panelist, Artists in Conversation with Theology, Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 2006 AAR/SBL meetings.
2006	"From Commission to Dedication: Sculpting the Parable of the Prodigal Son for Duke Divinity School," ECVA (Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts) website article, Danny Hardison, editor.
2005	"A Heavenly Craft" at the Library of Congress," The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Summer 2005, Vol. 41, No. 2.
2004	The McCarthy Lecture on Theology and the Arts, Washington Theological Union, Washington DC.
2004	"Rosenwald Books at the Library of Congress," The Washington Print Club Quarter, Spring 2004, Vol. 40, No. 1.
2003	Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text. Translation and notes by Ellen F. Davis, Woodcuts by Margaret Adams Parker. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 2003.
2003	The Stuart C. Henry Lecture in Religion and the Arts, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC.
2002	"Ben Shahn at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery," The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Winter 2002-2003, Vol. 38, No. 4.
2002	"Fixing the Moment: Making the Leap from Sketch to Woodcut," American Artist, June 2002.
2002	"Washington Printmakers Gallery Noon Lecture Series Discusses Paper," The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Spring 2002, Vol. 38, No. 1.
2001	"Jack Boul's Intimate Impressions at the Corcoran," Journal of the Print World, Winter, 2001 and The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Winter 2000-2001, Vol. 36, No.4.
2000	"Jerusalem, An Artist's Reflection," Virginia Seminary Journal, August, 2000.
1999	"Rembrandt's Visual Readings of Hebrew Scripture." Paper presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Jewish Art, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1992	"Rembrandt, the Artist as Theologian", ARTS (The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies), Seven, One, and Virginia Seminary Journal, September, 1992.
1994	Drawings for a Kairos winter, The Servant Leadership School, Washington DC, 1994.
1993	"Michelangelo, reform Artist", The Evangelical Outlook, Summer and Fall, 1993.
COLLECTIONS
	Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA
	Library of Congress, Washington, DC
	Georgetown University, Lauinger Library
	Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC
	College of Preachers, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC
	Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco, CA
	St. Mary's Church, Arlington, VA
	St. John's Church, West Hartford, CT
	Iglesia Santa Maria, Falls Church, VA
	The American University
	National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
	District of Columbia City Government, Washington, DC
	Jerry Evenrud Collection (images of the Prodigal Son)
	Jean and Robert E. Steele Collection of African American Art
	Bell Atlantic Headquarters, Arlington, VA

BOARDS, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2004-	Member, Society of American Graphic Artists, Juried selection
1999-	Christians in the Visual Arts, Member
1998-	Society for Art in Religious and Theological Studies, Member
2006-2012	The Washington Print Club, Board Member
2003-2010	The Washington Print Club Quarterly, Art Editor
1998-2015	Washington Printmakers Gallery, Member
1985-1995	Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC, Under gallery representation

TEACHING
1991-	Adjunct Instructor in Religion and Culture, The Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria VA
2013-2014	Visiting Instructor, Luce Center for Art and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
1985-2001	Instructor in Painting & Drawing, Art League School, The Art League, Alexandria, Virginia
1985	Adjunct Instructor, Art Department, The American University, Washington DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015	SAGA Centennial National Exhibition, The Art Students League, New York, NY.
2014	Outside the Margins, Print Portfolio, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Curators, Jenny Freestone and Gretchen Schermerhorn.
2013	Noetics: Intuitively Looking at the World, Cosmos Club, Washington DC, Curator, Helen Frederick.
2012	The Art of Democracy, New York Society of Etchers Juried Show, Sacred Gallery, New York, NY, Juror, Marshall Arisman.
2012	American Impressions, Shanghai, China
2012	Printmakers Plus, Chaney Gallery, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD, Curator, Sigrid Trumpy.
2011	1^st National Exhibition of Intaglio Prints, National Arts Club, New York, NY, Juror, Roberta Waddell.
2011	Focus on the Print, Morin Gallery, The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA. Curator, Beth Nichols.
2008	Conscience of a Nation 2008, Gallery 123, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Curator, Helen Frederick.
2008	Society of American Graphic Artists, Member Exhibition, Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL.
2008	Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, Juror, Tonia Matthews.
2008	The Printed Image II, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka KA, Juror, Roger Shimomura.
2008	War, Madness, and Delusion, Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, MA, Curator, W. James Herbert.
2007	Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, Juror, Helen Frederick.
2007	Los Angeles Printmaking Society, 19^th National Juried Exhibition, Secondary Exhibition, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, Juror, Linda Lyke.
2006	Visual Preludes, ECVA (Episcopal Church and Visual Arts) juried exhibition at 2006 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
2006	Monmouth University Department of Art and Design National Juried Print Exhibition, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, Juror, Tanja Softic.
2006	6^th National Print Competition & Exhibition, Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, Juror, Deborah Cornell.
2006	Sixty Square Inches, 15^th Biennial North American Small Print Competition, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN and also to travel nationally under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Peter Olson.
2005	The Print Show, Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD, Curator, Eric Denker.
2004	Quest for Meaning - Seeing with the Heart's and Mind's Eye, Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC, Curator, Hija Yu
2004	Go Figure, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, Curator, Wilford W. Scott.
2003	Womankind II - DFI International, Washington, DC, Curator, Pamela Hoyle.
2002	Archetypes and Heritage: the Stuff of Love and War - An exhibition of the work of Jenny Freestone and Margaret Adams Parker, The Gallery at DFI International, Washington, DC.
2002	Picturing the Holy, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA.
2001	In The Cross of Christ, ecva (The Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts) website exhibition.
2001	From Shame to Triumph, Interpretations of the Cross, Washington Theological Union, Washington D.C. Curator, Leslie Curry.
2000	The Way of the Cross, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY, Curator, Tanja Butler.
2000	Contemporary American Printmaking, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Curator: Frank Hobbs.
1999	A Painterly Print - Monotype, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, Curators: Anne Brown and Cora Rupp.
1993	Teacher/Student, Clinical Center Galleries, National Institutes of Health, Curator: Lillian Fitzgerald.
1991	My Vision, Sumner School Museum, Washington, D.C., National Juried Show, Women's Caucus for Art, Jurors: Barbara Wolanin, Judith Zilczer.
1989	Still Life Group Show, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington DC.
1988	International Prints I, International Monetary Fund Art Society Gallery, Washington, D.C. Print competition sponsored by Washington Area Printmakers, Juror: Jane Haslem.
1987	Paintings and Drawings, Two-person show, 20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA.
1987	Landscape, Cityscape, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington DC.
1986	Nine Painters, The Circle Gallery, Washington, D.C., Curator: Jack Boul.
1985	Shelter '85, Mortgage Banker's Association National Juried Exhibition, Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C. Jurors: Sarah Hollander, Harry Rand, David Tannous.
1985	Virginia Women Artists, Blacksburg, Virginia, Juried State wide Traveling Exhibition. Jurors: Maryann Harman, Mary Miss, Ellen Lanyon.