Resume
RONALD J. MAGGIO
EDUCATION
June 1976 *M.F.A. Painting. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
August 1974 B.A. Painting. State University of New York at Fredonia.
September 1967 A.A.S. Design. State University of New York at Farmingdale.
*Master of Fine Arts includes 72 semester hours advanced study: a Master Thesis Exhibition and comprehensive written thesis.
ACADEMIC HONORS
1974-76 Miami University, Graduate School, Oxford, Ohio. Awarded Graduate
Teaching Assistantship
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 – Present Emeritus, Springfield College
2012 – 2015 Associate Professor of Art, Curator, Springfield College Art Collection
and Director/ William Blizard Gallery
1998-2012 Chair, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Springfield College,
Springfield, Massachusetts
1987-1998 Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Springfield
College, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Responsibilities: Assistant to Chairman of Visual and Performing Arts
Department
Teaching Responsibilities: Painting; Design: Beginning, Advanced, and
Three-Dimensional; Photography; Figure Drawing; Beginning Drawing;
Graduate Level Painting and Drawing.
1996/Spring Acting Chairperson, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Springfield
College, Springfield, Massachusetts
1988/Spring Acting Chairperson, Visual and Performing Arts Department, Springfield
College, Springfield, Massachusetts
1986 Artist-In-Residence, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Artists in
the Schools Program.
Teaching Responsibilities: Painting, Drawing
1980-1985 Adjunct Professor, Visual and Performing Arts, Springfield College,
Springfield, Massachusetts
Teaching Responsibilities: Drawing: Figure, Beginning/Advanced;
Design: Beginning, Advanced, Three-Dimensional; Art History: Survey,
Interdisciplinary Studies in Greco/Roman through 20th Century Empire
1980-1984 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts.
Instructor, adults/children classes.
Teaching Responsibilities: Drawing.
1979-1980 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. Instructor, Youth
classes.
Teaching Responsibilities: Drawing and Painting.
1979 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. Instructor, Adult
classes.
Teaching Responsibilities: Figurative Sculpture,
1978-1979 Worcester Public Schools, Worcester, Massachusetts. Instructor, (Part-
Time), Art Department.
Teaching Responsibilities: Art, Grades 7-12
1978-1979 Worcester, Massachusetts. Summer’s World, A Neighborhood Cultural
Celebration in conjunction with Piedmont Citizens for Action. Artist- in-
Residence/Instructor.
Teaching Responsibilities: Responsible for developing and coordinating a
multi-media arts program, traveling city-wide via an arts mobile with a
staff of five youth corps workers.
1978 Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana. Instructor, (Part -Time), Art
Department.
Teaching Responsibilities: Three-Dimensional Design.
1974-1976 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Art
Department.
Teaching Responsibilities: Fine Arts 21 (Art History Survey), Visual
Fundamentals (Basic Design/Foundations Course)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Photo-Journalist, U.S. Navy, 1968-71, Public Relations Editor, Station Newspaper, Athens, Greece. Traveled Extensively.
Assistant in exhibition installations, State University of New York at Fredonia, 1972-74
Assistant in exhibition installations, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1974-76
Graphic Design and layout work, such as exhibition catalogues, posters and brochures.
EXHIBITIONS
Annual Summer Art Festival
Juried Exhibition, Best of Show, Silver Creek, New York, 1973.
Members Exhibition
Lakeshore Association for the Arts, Michael C. Rockefeller Gallery, Fredonia State University,
Fredonia, New York, 1973, 1974, 1975.
Group Exhibition
James Prendergast Gallery, Jamestown, New York, 1974.
Group Exhibition
Hamilton Branch Campus, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio, 1975.
All-Ohio Painting and Sculpture Biennial
The Dayton Arts Institute, Juried Exhibition (Tom Freudenheim, Juror), Purchase Award,
Permanent Collection, Dayton, Ohio, 1976.
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
One-Man Exhibition, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, May, 1976.
Group Exhibition
Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana, 1976.
Cincinnati Art Club
Juried Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1975, 1976.
Invitational Schaefer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1977.
All-Ohio 1977
The Canton Art Institute, Juried Exhibition, Canton, Ohio, 1977.
Whitewater Valley Annual Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Exhibition
Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana. Juried Exhibition, John Canady, Juror, 1978.
Berkshire Art Association Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
Berkshire Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1978.
48th Annual Regional Exhibition
Fitchburg Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1979.
Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Ely Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1980.
Solo Exhibition- “Mt. Tom Series”
Piedmont Center for the Arts Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1980.
On-Site Sculpture
5th Annual New England Arts Festival and Showcase.
Sculpture commissioned by the University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Service, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1980.
Art Faculty Exhibition
Hastings Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1981, 1982, 1984.
Two-Man Exhibition, “Landscape/Landworks”
Thronja Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1982.
Springfield Art League, 64th National Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1983.
Invitational, Four Artists
Zone Arts Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1985.
Solo Exhibition, “Dakota-Songs for a Dreamer”
Thronja Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1985.
14th Annual Juried Exhibition
Ely Gallery, Westfield State College, Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1985.
4th New Hampshire Arts Biennial
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Juried Exhibition, (Barbara Krakow, Juror), Manchester, New Hampshire, 1985.
Springfield Art League, 66th National Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts, Juried Exhibition (Helaine Posner and Daniel Dobois, Jurors), Springfield, Massachusetts, 1985.
Invitational
HoHo Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1987.
Art Faculty Exhibition
Hastings Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1987, 1988, 1989.
Group Exhibition
Zone Arts Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1991.
Prints/Drawings
Contemporary works for the Westfield State College permanent collection, Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1991.
Art Faculty Exhibition
Visual Arts Center Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1992, 1993, 1995.
Invitational
City of Springfield Arts Festival, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1996.
Art Faculty Exhibition
Cooperative Colleges of Greater Springfield.
Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1997.
Artworks Gallery 21st Juried Exhibition
Artworks Gallery, Award Winner, Hartford, Connecticut, 1997.
Invitational
See Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1997.
Alumni Exhibition, Juried Exhibition
State University College at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York, 1998.
Solor Exhibition – “Arias”
See Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1999.
Solo Exhibition- “Paradiso- Constructing Paradise”
William Blizard Gallery, Springfield College, 2003.
Invitational
Zone Arts Center, 35th Reunion Exhibition, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2010.
Group Exhibition
The Artists at Indian Orchard Mills/Dane Gallery, Indian Orchard, MA, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Solo Exhibition – “Domus”
William Blizard Gallery Springfield, MA, 2011
West Hartford Art League – “CT+6”, Juried Exhibition
Jurors- Nancy Stuart, Dean, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and Artist Jane Lund,
West Hartford, CT, 2013
Friends of the Agawam Public Library, “Fifth Open Juried Exhibition”
Agawam Public Library, Agawam, MA, 2013
A3 Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Amherst, MA, 2016
West Hartford Art League, “Art of Flowers”, Juried Exhibition, West Hartford, CT, 2016
Monson Arts Council, 24th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, awarded Honorable Mention,
Monson, MA, 2017