MARILYN B. CISEK (Chonko)
Artist
A formal education in the Arts with a BA from UCONN and post graduate studies in Fine Arts at USC and Old Dominion. After which I studied abroad with artists in Japan and North Africa. In the sixties I designed knitwear needlework kits for Knit Wit of Southern California and have taught extensively in the Southeast and
on the Gulf Coast. I've had OJT with the best and brightest at Creative Arts Workshop, Farmington
Valley Art Center, Brookfield Craft Center, and Guilford Handcrafts Center all in Connecticut. My award winning
work has been exhibited in such venues as the Cheeseborough Pond Gallery in Connecticut, the Williamsburg
Gallery in Virginia, On the Hill in Yorktown, Studio 21, twentieth Century Gallery and P. Kanes in Iwakuni, Japan.
In residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts:
Line and Mark as Subject, 2005, 2007
Spirituality in Art I, II, III, 2006
Shape and Form as Subject, 2007
Abstracting from a Visual Reference, 2007
LC Cultural Affairs Council Juried Art Show, Tavares, Fl. 2002
Marion Cultural Alliances Unbridled Art, Ocala, Fl. 2003
Central Florida Juried Art Show, MDCA, 2004
Rivergroup's Live Oak Art Auction, Ocala,Fl. 2004
Deland Museum's Equifest at Spring Garden Ranch, 2005
Wet Canvas Interactive Invitational, Art in the Square, Tavares, 2005
Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee, 2006
National Museum of Women in the Arts, tavares, 2006
9th Annual International Judeo Christian Juried Art Show, Omaha,2007