Pat Benincasa Resume
Awards, Recognition & Commissions
2023
Inspired By A Lifetime, Cora McCorvey Health & Wellness Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2021
Migration- 2021, an international online exhibition showcased: “Gaetana Mauro Benincasa-Southern Italian Diaspora,” 2021, Painting of my grandmother made with her crocheted doily, crochet needles, black bead rosary, and a vintage framed portrait of her children on a background made of naturalization + Bruno’s birth record (arcing around her face), polyurethane, paint, 19” x21.75” x 1.75.”
2020
Official Selection, Highway 61 Film Festival for
"Women At The Wheel: Stories of remarkable women shattering cultural roadblocks and gendered assumptions"
2019
Award Recognition, Impact DOCS International Film Awards Competition
Finalist, MY HERO International Film Festival
FilmGirlFilm Festival
"Women At The Wheel: Stories of remarkable women shattering cultural roadblocks and gendered assumptions"
2018
"Women At The Wheel: Stories of remarkable women shattering cultural roadblocks and gendered assumptions" receives First Place Feminism on Film at the Women's Independent Film Festival - Fall 2018 Season. Screenings at the Complex Theater, Hollywood CA.
2017
American Art Awards, Category 24, Innovation: 1st Place, 2nd Place and 3rd Place, "Juried by America's 25 Best Galleries & Museums," with artists from 56 countries competing
Awarded Puffin Foundation Grant for Women At The Wheel (www.womenstories.net)
2015
Best 3D Artwork, Rectangles, Triangles, Circles- The Shape of Life, Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME (online)
2014
Special Merit Award, “CitiScapes Exhibition,” Light, Space & Time Online Gallery
Award of Excellence, 2014 Four Points Contemporary 3rd Biannual Competition
2012
Award of Excellence, 2012 Spring/Summer, American Juried Art Salon
2011
Toronto School of Art- Artist in Residency Program, Ontario, Canada, One of three selected international artists
2004-02
Redemption Window for Hill-Murray Chapel, Maplewood, MN, 14’x 8’ x 6,’ 3D window-sculpture which has two parts: 34 exterior windows that angle outward from the building and interior sculpture with 10’ glass cross on limestone boulders.
2002-00
Awarded General Services Administration (GSA) Art In Architecture, Ward Parkway Federal Building Commission, Kansas City, MO.
Moon Boat and Night Sky Glass, 12’ x 12’-6” x 6,’ glass, steel and rock sculpture of a night sky with sliver moon casting pale yellow reflections in/on diagonal waves of glass, leaning gently towards the 6’ glass row boat perched on limestone rocks.
1995
Awarded Percent For Art Commission from national competition, Falling Water Skylight, 14’ x 30’ x 6,’ seven-ton, glass and steel skylight sculpture for the Grand Stair Hall of the Minnesota Judicial Center on State Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, MN
Falling Water Skylight drawings, notes, blueprint documentation in Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
UE Award for Gathering Place, The Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environment Award for “significant achievement in design and aesthetic excellence
Selected Exhibitions
2021
True Beauty Exhibition 2021, One of the “100 artworks selected for an international smart online group exhibition,” with online catalogue.
Migration 2021, Exhibition and Publication, is an international juried visual arts dual opportunity, showcasing various matters related to the life of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. organized by Gallerium Art Exhibitions.
2015
Made Here: Reflections, Mayo Clinic Square, Minneapolis, MN
The Drawing Project Exhibition, Homewood Studios, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Art Kudos International Art Competition & Exhibition
Four Points Contemporary 3rd Biannual Competition
2012
Urban Painting: Self, Surface and Memory, Gallery 801,
Minneapolis, MN
2011
3 Artists In Residence, Launch Gallery, Toronto School of Art, Ontario, Canada
Rhythmic Sensation-Visual Sensation, Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME (online)
2010
Geometric Abstraction, Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME (online)
2007-13
College of Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
Kitchen Gate, Franconia Sculpture Park, Schafer, MN
Glass & Steel Models, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
The Big Painting Show, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
College of Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
Selected Collections
Macalester College Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics + Computer Science, St. Paul, MN
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
General Services Administration (GSA), Western Division, Kansas City, MO
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Collection of Caroline Myss, Chicago, IL
Collection of Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz, MD, PHD, Yarmouth, ME
St. Katharine of Siena Church, Wayne, PA
Luther College, Decorah, IA
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, NY
Arthur Anderson & Associates, Chicago, IL
Archdiocese of St. Paul, MN
Edina Community Lutheran Church, Edina, MN
Florida-Atlantic University, S.E. Wimberly Library,
Boca Raton, FL
Ursuline Sisters, Cleveland, OH
Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse, WI
Collection of Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Austin, TX
First Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Northwest Corporation, Hopkins, MN
NYNEX Corporation, New York, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Corporation, Golden Valley, MN
Midwest Plaza, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Lecturer
Guest Speaker, Macalester College, Smail Gallery, “The Geometry of Connection, Pattern and Place,” St. Paul, MN
Guest Speaker, U of W Stout, School of Art + Design, 2019 Senior Seminar, Menomonie, WI
Lecturer at Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2017 Spring Colloquium, Moorhead MN
American Institute of Architects Minnesota Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Windows Like The Earth Were Once Thought To Be Flat
Minnetonka Center For The Arts Contemporary Artists Series, Wayzata, MN
Minneapolis College of Art & Design Graduate Seminar, at the artist’s studio, St. Paul, MN
Women In The Arts Lecture Series at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
University of Minnesota School of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mankato State University, Mankato, MN
Practicing Criticism In The Visual Arts, Cosponsored by Center For Arts Criticism and the Minnesota Arts Experience, St. Paul, MN
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Education
M.F.A. Drawing and Life Drawing
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
M.A. Figurative Drawing and Sculpture
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
B.A. Studio Arts
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
K-12 Art Licensure Program
St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Pi Lamda Theta National Honor Society & Professional Association for Education
Delta Phi Delta Arts Honor Society, St. Catherine University
2016 State of Minnesota K-12 Art License
Teaching Experience
2020
Visual Arts Program Designer + Consultant, St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists (SPCPA), St. Paul, MN
2019
Guest Speaker, Senior Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonee, WI
2017-19
Starting Visual Arts Program
Performing Institute MN (PiM) Arts High School, Eden Prairie, MN
Design studio spaces, curriculum and teach Studio Arts Foundation, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
2013-16
Visual Arts Chair and Arts Education Specialist
Perpich Center For Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN
Design and map curriculum, coordinate five instructors, budget, teach studio classes: painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, and electives: architecture and AP 2D Studio Design and advise students for college and scholarship opportunities and portfolio development.
2014-16
Scholastic Art & Writing Award As An Outstanding Educator Award for teacher dedication, commitment and guidance for student works selected for national honors.
2013
Instructor at the Perpich Center For Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN
2002-12
Artist In Residence and Department Chair at Hill-Murray School, Maplewood, MN.
Designed studio arts program for grades six through twelve and taught painting, drawing, digital imaging and portfolio development and quadrupled art class enrollment
2012 International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Examiner
1992-2002
Studio Instructor at Roseville Area High School, Roseville, MN. Taught drawing, painting, fibers and printmaking.
1996-2002
Studio Arts Department Chair
Roseville Area High School, Roseville, MN
1994-95
Artist In Residence and Designer of Gathering Place Park
Northeast Middle School, Minneapolis, MN
Directed 6th, 7th and 8th graders in the public art, public education and Service learning collaboration called, The Gathering Place: A Student & Community Partnership
Lecturer at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 6 week series: Public Art: Redefining Art, Artist and Spectator
Adjunct Faculty
2007-13
College of Visual Arts, Saint Paul, MN
3D Foundations Instructor/Facilitator of Fall and Spring Orientations, 3D Workshop
2012
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota Graduate School of Business & Technology, Minneapolis, MN
Advertising Design
Additional Professional Experience
Interviewed by Agence France-Presse, (AFP) about my St. Joan of Arc Scroll Medal
Public Art Focus Group Panelist, Culture Talks: A Community
and Cultural Planning Initiative, Office of the Mayor, Minneapolis, MN
Juror Panel, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Student Exhibition: Visual Language, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Juror at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
Invited to teach Advanced Painting one year, Minneapolis, MN