PETER FRANTZ
PETER FRANTZ
322 WEST 18TH STREET, TYRONE PA 16686
STUDIO: GOLF COURSE ROAD, SINKING VALLEY, PA
: : 814.931.1430
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts-Sculpture/Installation Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Awarded 05.2007 Philadelphia, PA
Graduate Exhibition Installation - Sculpture + video/sound
Thesis "A Visit to the Springhouse", A Sense of Place
B.A. Fine Arts/Design Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Engineering Studies University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Sculpture (Abstract) University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture (Figurative/Drawing) Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
East Hartford, CT
Modeling, Moulds, Casting Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture Princeton, NJ
RESEARCH
2012-14 Panzi Hospital Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
The Narrative-Identity The sustainability and healing effects of the narrative in conflict areas.
The retention of personal identity for survivors of extreme sexual violence.
2010-15 Secondary schools/Panzi Exhibits Secondary and university level schools
The significance of cultural identify when communicating across groups.
RESIDENCIES
2009 Can Serrat (Fellowship awarded) El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Atelier Four Winds (Fellowship awarded) Aurelle, France
The Narrative-Identity Art and Social Justice: Investigation of the role of the portrait in identity retention in a crisis environment.
GRANTS
2016-2017 PRAA Project Grant Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2010-2013 PRAA Exhibition Grant Harrisburg, PA
AWARDS
2016 First Place, Sculpture, Art of the State 2016 Harrisburg, PA
2008 Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition Boone, NC
2007 5 into 1, The Best of the Graduate Moore College of Art and Design,
Students in Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA.
2007 Mabel Wilson Woodrow Award The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila.PA
2007 The Ellen Lee Walker Amelia Award Woodmere Art Museum 67th Annual Exhibition, Chestnut Hill, PA
2005-07 Merit Scholarship Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Merit Award for Sculpture Images 2006, Hub-Robeson Gallery, Penn State Univ., State College, PA
2006 Award of Merit Sculpture, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
SOLO AND TRAVELING EXHIBITS
2016 Art of the State 2016 Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Biennial 2016 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art,
Loretto, PA
2015 New Work-2015 Locality Gallery, Bedford PA
New Flatwork, the Art of Peter Frantz Blair Medical Gallery, Altoona PA
Peace Should Not Be This Fragile Blair County Arts Foundation
2013 Imaginary Histories-IDOLS Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 'Peace Should Not be This Fragile' Fla. Holocaust Museum, St Petersburg FL
"The Narrative is a Funny Thing" Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 'Peace Should Not Be This Fragile' State Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA
2010 A Portrait of Panzi 505 Gallery, Hollidaysburg, PA
Sculpture: Peter Frantz Straube Center, Pennington, NJ
2009 Peace Should Not Be This Fragile: (curator: Emmanuelle Saint Denise)
Selections from the Series Eat-Gallery, The Prado, Marseilles, France
Postcards From El Nino: (curator: Emmanuelle Saint Denise) Vignettes from Wandering To and Fro Gallery Place aux Huiles, Marseilles, France
2008 The Gallery at Can Serrat El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain
2007 The Art of Peter Frantz Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
2006 Proximity Gallery Seven, Philadelphia, PA
Prints, Sculpture, Glass Paul Robeson Cultural Center Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA
2005 The Presence of Ambiguity Gallery Seven, Philadelphia, PA
New Work by Peter Frantz. Tysons Corner III – McLean, VA
(curator: Richard Suib)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Industrial Dreams Locality Gallery, Bedford, PA
2013 I Dream of Congo Conway Hall, London, UK
Biennial 2013- Southern Alleghenies Museum Loretta, PA
of Art
Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, Metal Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture New Hope New Hope, PA
PA Rostered Artists in Education, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Altoona, PA
2012 Artfully AWARE, New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA
Central Pennsylvania Arts Festival State College, PA
2011 Art in the Garden, 11th Annual Outdoor Exhibit University of Delaware, Dover, DE
Sculpture at the Station JLP Gallery/Green Spring Station, Baltimore, MD
2010 33rd Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show Doylestown, PA 18902
Elemental Spring Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA
2009 Animal Nation Caladan Gallery, Beverley, MA
Mouv#ART Place aux Huiles, Marseilles, France
Abstraction ArtAlliance, Lemont, PA
111th Annual Exhibition of the Fellowship Artists’ House Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
Art ala Mode 950 Mode St, Philadelphia, PA
Art in the Time of Crisis Art Alliance, Lemont, PA
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts State College, PA