Janis Mars Wunderlich
Associate Professor of Art
Phone- Cell: 614-352-8936
Phone- Office: 309-457-2204
jwunderlich@monmouthcollege.edu
Education
1994 Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics (additional emphasis: Printmaking), Brigham Young University (Cum Laude)
University Teaching Experience
2017 - Present
Associate Professor of Art, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL: Ceramics, Art History, Contemporary
Studio Art, The Creative Process, Freshman Seminar, Printmaking, Design
2015 - 2017
Ceramics and Design Instructor, Art Instructor for Online Incarcerated Education, Ashland University, Ashland, OH
2014 - 2016
Ceramics Instructor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions
2024
WOMAN IN THE WOODS, Decatur Arts Council Lloyd Gallery, Decatur, IL
30 YEARS OF MAKING: JMWUNDERLICH, Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, IL
WOMAN IN THE WOODS, Monmouth College Everett Gallery, Monmouth, IL
2023
WUNDERLICH: STORYTELLING FIGURES, Sloane Boutique, in conjunction with NCECA, Cincinnati, OH
2022
EMERGENCE, Everett Gallery, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
2021
2020
TURBULENCE, Lux Fine Arts Center, Lincoln, NE
STILL I RISE, Everett Gallery, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL
BECOMING BUOYANT, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
2019
ROCKING THE BOAT, Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon, IL
IN DEEP WATER, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
2018
ROCKING THE BOAT: NURTURING NARRATIVES, Greer Museum Gallery, Rio Grande University, Rio Grande, OH
CURIOUS COMPLEXITIES, NEW WORK BY JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA
2016
EXPERIMENTAL WORKS BY JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, GehAcht Art Center, Dresden, Germany
2013
SOFA CHICAGO, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2025
DEEP IN THE FOREST: JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, MELINDA ROSENBERG AND AARON TROYER, The James Gallery
at The James Cancer Research Institute and Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2024
TIME AND PRESENCE, JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH AND JENNY MENDES, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH
ART SISTERS, McLean County Arts Center, Champaign, IL
2023
WUNDERLICH, WHITE, BAILEY AT QUAD CITY ARTS, Rock Island , IL
ART SISTERS, Galesburg Community Arts Center, Galesburg, IL
2020
TJ ERDAHL, TAYLOR ROBENALT, JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
2015
FIGURATIVE CERAMICS: THE WORK OF JACK EARL, TOM BARTEL, AND JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, Sherrie
Gallerie, Cbus, OH
2014
THE ART OF JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH AND LORNA MEADEN, Union University, Jackson, TN
2011
THE ART OF SERGEI ISOPOV, CRISTINA CORDOVA, AND JANIS MARS WUNDERLICH, Francis Marion University,
Florence, SC
Select Group Exhibitions
2025
SPRING ROTATION, Cultural Art Alliance of Walton County, Santa Rosa Public Library, Santa Rosa Beach, FL
2024
OHIO ANNUAL, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH
64 ARTS, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
SPRING ROTATION, Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County, Miramar Beach, FL
2023
GALEX, Galesburg Community Arts Center, Galesburg, IL
2022
2021
2020
CURRENT FORMS: OHIO FIGURATIVE CERAMICS, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
64 ARTS, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
ROCK ISLAND BIANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
CROWNS: CROSSING INTO MOTHERHOOD, The Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
OHIO ANNUAL, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH
FIGURING OUR HUMANITY, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
SHELTER, PLACE, SOCIAL, DISTANCE: CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUES, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
NEW ACQUISITIONS FROM JULIANNE AND DAVID ARMSTRONG, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2019
DOMESTIC MATTERS: THE UNCOMMON APRON, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
64 ARTS NATIONAL EXHIBITION, The Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
2018
CROWNS, a National Traveling Exhibition Honoring Motherhood, Pittsburgh, PA, Anne Arundel College, MD 64
ARTS: A NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, Galesburg Civic Arts Center, Galesburg, IL
LIVING WITH CLAY: CALIFORNIA CERAMICS COLLECTIONS, Begovich Gallery, California State University-
Fullerton, CA
Bibliography
Featured in WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? Documentary film by Pamela Tanner Boll (2008)
2020
Featured in EXPOSURE section of CERAMICS MONTHLY magazine (Dec.2020)
Featured in ARTEMIS JOURNAL, published by Roanoke Arts Commission and The Taubman Museum of Art, VA Featured in LIVING WITH CLAY: CALIFORNIA CERAMICS COLLECTIONS, Rody Lopez
2018
Interviewed for BOTH ARTIST AND MOTHER, interviewed by Kate Fisher
Featured in 2018 CERAMIC ARTS YEARBOOK, a publication of the American Ceramics Society Contributed to the article BALANCING ACT in STUDIO POTTER, Women in Ceramics Volume 45
2016
Featured on PBS: BROAD AND HIGH Series. EQUALITY at the Ohio Craft Museum, and ART Hatching Across
Ohio episodes
Fellowships and Awards
Hatch Award for Scholarship Excellence, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
Ceramics Award, 64 ARTS National Exhibition, Monmouth, IL
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Illinois
Zanesville, OH, All Ohio Contemporary Ceramics Competition and Show, 2nd place Juror’s Award
Greater Columbus Arts Council International Artist Residency, 2015 - 2016
President’s Award, Ohio Art League Annual Exhibition, Fort Hayes Campus, Columbus, OH, 2010
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, 2009
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, 2008
In The Permanent Collection
New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
The City of Dresden, Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Church Art Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
State of Utah Permanent Collection
The Wustum Museum/ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA