AWARDS and RESIDENCIES (selected)

•Centrum Artist-in-Residence – Port Townsend, Washington (2024)

•Rensing Center Artist Residency – Pickens, South Carolina (2021)

•Art for Change International Artist Residency – New Delhi, India (2020)

•Alternate, Atlantic Center for the Arts residency with Sook Jin Jo – New Smyrna, Florida (2019)

•Laureate Award, from SVCreates for exceptional achievement in the arts and contribution to cultural life of Silicon Valley (2017)

•Archive of Creative Culture, nomination based project by Lacey Haslam, documenting artists' histories as a cultural resource (2017)

•Mining the Collection artist residency, Badè Archaeology Museum and Doug Adams Gallery – Berkeley, California  (2014)

•Doing Good Well, artist retreat for emerging female leaders in the arts – Laity Lodge, Leakey, Texas (2011)

•Resident artist, Cubberley Artist Studios Program, sponsored by City of Palo Alto, California (2010-2018)

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

•Poetics of Place: Wild Caddo (3-person show).  Michelson Museum of Art – Marshall, Texas (2024)

•The Wild Places: Greetings from Caddo Lake (3-person show).  Mountain View, California (2023)

•The Shape of Memory.  Llano Art Gallery – Llano, Texas (2022)

•Matriarchy.  Stage West Theatre – Fort Worth, Texas (2022)

•Please Don't Get the Wrong Impression.  Arts Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas (2020)

•Shirley Cunningham and Marianne Lettieri: Never Ending Thread.  Museum of Quilts and Textiles – San Jose, California (2019-2020)

•Marianne Lettieri: Reflections.  Museum of Craft & Design – San Francisco, California (2017)

•Pop Up Shop. Facebook Headquarters – Menlo Park, California (2017)

•Strings Attached.  Monterey Peninsula College – Monterey, California (2016)

•House | Work.  Peninsula Museum of Art – Burlingame, California  (2015)

•Relics and Ruins (2-person show).  Telegraph Hill Gallery – San Francisco, California (2015)

•Metaphor and Memories (2-person show).  Mohr Gallery at Finn Center, CSMA – Mountain View, California (2015)

•Mining the Collection: Evidence of Life.  Doug Adams Gallery and the Badè Archeology Museum – Berkeley, California (2014)

•Death and Life of an Object.  San Jose State University – San Jose, California (2013)

•Dressing Up.  Oshman Family JCC – Palo Alto, California (2012)

•Changing Context. Azusa Pacific University, Darling Hall Gallery – Azusa, California  (2011)

•Memory Palace.  Pacific Grove Art Center – Pacific Grove, California (2011)

•The Sum of Parts.  Center for Performing Arts – Mountain View, California (2009)

•Outside Inside.  The Main Gallery – Redwood City, California (2008)

•This Place Called Home.  The Main Gallery – Redwood City, California (2007)

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2023

•Texas Sculpture Group. Irving Arts Center – Irving, Texas

 

2022

•Texas Sculpture SLTX. Art Museum TX – Sugar Land, Texas

•A Move Against Hate. Arts Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas

•Constructed Mysteries. Wheaton College – Wheaton, Illinois

•Constructed Mysteries. College of the Ozarks – Point Lookout, Missouri

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2021

•Vessel Invitational: Revisioning the Receptacle. The Delaware Contemporary – Wilmington, Delaware

•Constructed Mysteries.  Bethel University Olson Gallery – St. Paul, Minnesota

•State of Sculpture: Texas Sculpture Group 10th Anniversary.  Museum of Fine Arts – San Angelo, Texas

•What to do with difference?  India International Centre – New Delhi, India

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2019

• First Come First Serve.  Fort Works Art – Fort Worth, Texas

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2018

•Protecting Innocence.  LUZ Art Space – Los Angeles, California

•Heaven On Earth.  LUZ Art Space – Los Angeles, California

•Making Good[s].  College of the Ozarks, Boger Gallery – Point Lookout, Missouri

•Elevate. Singularity University - Mountain View, California

 

2017

•Global Impact Challenge Event.  Singularity University – Mountain View, California

•Retrofit 1.0.  Telegraph Hill Gallery – San Francisco, California

 

2016    

•Making Good[s].  Asbury University, Art Gallery – Wilmore, Kentucky

•Anne & Mark’s Art Party.  Santa Clara County Fairgrounds – San Jose, California

•Home is Where the Heart Is.  Art Ark Gallery – San Jose, California

 

2015    

•Reflect+Create.  Los Altos History Museum – Los Altos, California

•Picturing the Parables.  CIVA touring exhibit to 18 U.S venues from 1/15/11 to 12/30/15

 

2014    

•Spark and Echo Live.  Space 38/39 – New York, New York

•Cubberley Diaspora.  Art Ark Gallery – San Jose, California

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2013    

•By Mainly Unexpected Means.  Meridian Gallery – San Francisco, California

•Moving Art Forward.  Los Altos History Museum – Los Altos, California

•Summer Group Exhibit.  White Stone Gallery – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

•Line and Color.  New Coast Studios – Palo Alto, California

•Collage/Assemblage Centennial.  IMCAC – Pagosa Springs, Colorado

•Eclectic Tech: Technology in Art.  111 Minna Gallery – San Francisco, California

•Transport. Pro Arts Gallery – Oakland, California

•Shared Mythology: the facets of our aggregate lore.  Art Ark Gallery – San Jose, California

 

2012    

•Poetics of Disposability.  Triton Museum of Art – Santa Clara, California

•ReModified.  Hartnell College – Salinas, California

•Favorite Works in Mixed Media (3-person show).  Caldwell Gallery – Redwood City, California           

 

2011    

•Scrap ART.   Museum of Quilts & Textiles – San Jose, California

•Matter and Spirit.  Biola University Library – La Mirada, California

 

2010    

•Dark Inheritance: Purposeful Dislocation.  Palos Verdes Art Center – Palos Verdes, California

•Modified.  Art Ark Gallery – San Jose, California

•Genealogy, Family & Memory.  The Historic Rengstorff House – Mountain View, California

•Art Outside the Box.  Pacific Art League – Palo Alto, California

•Putting It All Together. Climate/Gallery – Long Island, New York

 

2009      

•Thinking Inside the Box.  University of Texas – Arlington, Texas

•Bibliophoria.  Sebastopol Center for Arts – Sebastopol, California

•A Passion for Trees–Women Coast to Coast.  Galleria Tonantzin – San Juan Bautista, California

•Under the Influence. Fine Arts Museum – Longview, Texas

•Angels: Artists Imagine the Invisible. Sanchez Art Center – Pacifica, California

•Succor.  Crystal Cathedral Richard Meier’s Visitor Center – Anaheim, California

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2008    

•Americana.  Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, California

•Small (but wondrous!) Works.  Beauchamp’s Gallery–Topeka, Kansas

 

SOCIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS

25 Answers – Marianne Lettieri, personally or by proxy, left artistic envelopes in 25 cities on four continents, to be found at random and containing the same question: "What would you take to pursue a dream and what would you leave behind?" Recipients were invited to email their responses. (2014)

 

Emptied and Consumed – Commissioned by New York-based Spark and Echo Arts, Lettieri's art installation in the Historic Woodside Village Chapel in Woodside, California explored the idea of generosity within poverty. (2014)

 

Artist in the House! – The artist transformed an 8,000 sq. ft. courtyard at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto, California into a symbolic 8-room house that examined homelessness and home ownership. (2013)

 

Extreme Poverty – The artist designed and worked with a team to build large sculptural works in four churches in the San Francisco Peninsula to raise awareness of global extreme poverty. (2013)

           

Treasures of the Bay Area – The artist asked 100 people, “If you had to evacuate your home, what object would you take?” Written and photographed responses were presented in a gallery art exhibit at San Jose State University. (2012)

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EDUCATION

MFA Spatial Arts, San Jose State University, San Jose, California (2013)

BFA Drawing and Printmaking, University of Florida - Gainesville, Florida (1971)

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

•Museum of Quilts and Textiles - San Jose, California

•Oracle Corporate Art Collection - worldwide installations

•City of Palo Alto, California

•Art for Change Foundation, New Delhi, India

•Hope University College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

•International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction - Santa Fe, New Mexico

•The Centre for Adult Education - Melbourne, Australia

                                   

EXHIBITION CATALOGS (selected)

•Constructed Mysteries. Introduction by Kenneth Steinbach. Published by Bethel University (2021)

•By Mainly Unexpected Means. Essay by Theres Rohan (2013)

•MFA Now. Essay by Brian Karl. Published by Root Division (2013)

•Lift-Off: SJSU MFA Exhibition. Essay by Christian L. Frock (2013)

•Dark Inheritance. Essay by Barry Krammes. Published with funding from Los Angeles County Cultural Affairs (2010)

•Under the Influence. Essay by Cecil Touchon (2009)

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BOOKS and JOURNALS (selected)

•Wanted–A New Career by Marlo Lyons. 3-page interview. Future Forward Publishing (2021)

•Image Journal, No.100 – cover image and 2-page essay, "What We Learned: Life After 30" (Spring 2019)

•Placemaking and the Arts by Jennifer Allen Craft, IVP Press – 7 page analysis of my art (2018)

•Ruminate Magazine, Issue 37. Featured artist – cover and nine full-page images (Winter 2015)

•The Sand Hill Review, Vol. XV, published by Martin F. Sorensen. Featured artist – cover and 10 full-page images (2014)

•Art Making, Collections and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Work of 35 Artists by Lynne Perrella, Quarry Books (2008)

 

LECTURES, PODCASTS and PANELS (selected)

•It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine – Belmont University Chapel, Nashville, Tennessee (2024)

•Saved Objects and Shifting Values – Llano County Historical Museum, Llano, Texas (2022)

•Limitations and Creativity – Naming the Animals series, Makers and Mystics Podcast (2022)

•Artist Talk (via ZOOM) – Trinity Western University's Art and Design Majors, Langley, BC, Canada (2021)

•Art of Assemblage – Lake Granbury Art Association, Granbury, Texas (2020)

•Universal Travail: Gestures of Longing – BIOLA University Arts Symposium, La Mirada, California (2018)

•Enchantment of Everyday Objects – The Glen Workshop at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2018)

•Launching an Art Gallery – Creative Church Conference, San Juan Capistrano, California (2018)

•The Mesmerizing and Metaphorical Power of Artifacts – Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California (2017)

•Launching an Art Gallery – Cascadia Worship & Arts Conference, Seattle, Washington (2016)

•Death and Life of an Object – Mountain View Library and Los Altos History Museum, California (2015)

•Contemporary Art in the Local Church – CIVA Conference: Between Two Worlds, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan  (2015)

•Defining Success and Goals – interview by Sergio Gomez for Art Next Level podcast (2015)

•Contemporary Art in Sacred Spaces – National Worship Leaders Conference, San Jose, California (2015)

•Found Object Art – Art League of Menlo Park, California (2014)

•Object as Visual Metaphor – Hartnell College, Salinas, California (2012)

•Role of the Artist in the 21st Century – panelist for San Jose State University Tuesday Night Lecture Series (2012)

•Transformed: Turning Found Objects Into Fine Art – Palo Alto Art Center, California (2010)

•The Art of Assemblage – Los Altos Art Club, California (2010)

•Talk Art – interview by Susan Kraft for Media Center community access cable television, Silicon Valley, California (2010)

•Shimmering Fragments – Little House Activity Center, Menlo Park, California (2009)

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CRITICAL WRITING

•Imagination at Play – by lined article for ArtWay.edu blog (2020)

•Relics Reborn – bylined article for ArtWay.eu blog (2019)

•Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds, edited by David Taylor and Taylor Worley, IV Press (2017)

•Seeing the Unseen: Launching a Church Art Gallery – by Sandra Bowden and Marianne Lettieri, CIVA Publications (2015)

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CURATING AND ART MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE (selected)

•Juror – DemArtcracy exhibit at the American Center with Kutumb Foundation and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India (2022)

•Board Director – CIVA, an international organization for Christians working in the visual arts (2011-2019)

•Art Instructor – The Glen Workshop, Santa Fe, NM (2018, 2019)

•South Bay Coordinator – Pacific Rim Sculptors, regional chapter of International Sculpture Center (2017-2018)

•Leadership Team, Doing Good Well - national initiative to empower young women artists to flourish as cultural leaders (2012-2018)

•Juror – Juncture 1 and II: 40th Anniversary Member's Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (2018)

•Co-curator with Mel Day – Retrofit 1.0 and 2.0, an exhibit of work by CASP Artists – Telegraph Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2017)

•Guest visual editor – SEEN Journal XV:2, “Balancing Acts,” a presentation of works by 25 emerging female artists, (Winter 2015-2016)

•Art Instructor – Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, California (2015-2018)

•Preliminary Juror – Kalos Visual Art Prize, sponsored by Ruminate Magazine (2014)

•Founder, Director – Arts of the Covenant, organization for people interested in intersection of art and faith, SF Bay Area (2005-2018)