Rick Pas
P.O. Box 543
Lapeer, MI 48446
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Pearson Art Scholarship
Awards
American Artist Cover Competition Finalist, 2007
Honorable Mention Georgetown International, Fraser Gallery 2003
Arts for the Parks Region III Award, 1992
Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ Wildlife Artist of the Year 1982,
1987
Indiana Migratory Bird Stamp Design, 1985
Commissions and Corporate
Collections
Alliance for the Great Lakes, Chicago, IL
Ameritech, Detroit, MI
Charles S. Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
Potter Park Zoological Society, Lansing, MI
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI
Selected Publications
"Softening the definition of landscapes." American Art Collector, May, 2008
"Nature is in the Details." The Artist's Magazine, October, 2007
"Cover Competition Finalists." American Artist Watercolor, Spring, 2007
"Nature's Surfaces and Textures." Whisper in the Woods, Summer, 2007
Pintores de la Naturleza, SEO/Birdlife, Madrid 1997
(illustrator)
"A Dark, Dark Day Indeed." Audubon, March 1988 (illustrator)
"Music in the Men’s Room." Audubon, July 1985 (illustrator)
Selected Exhibitions
2008
Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI
The Natural Eye
2007
William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Landscape Exhibition
Summer Group Exhibition
2006
WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI
New Dimensions on the Natural World
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT
Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Nature Reperceived
2005
Bennington Center for the Arts
Art of the Animal Kingdom
Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Animal House
The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO
American Birds: A Flight Through Time
WARD Gallery
Summer Celebration
2004
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ
Art and the Animal
Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
Contemporary Realism
Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Five Year Celebration
2003
Fraser Gallery
Georgetown International
Wildlife Prairie State Park, Peoria IL
Art on the Prairie
2001
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
57th Juried Exhibition
2000
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Birds in Art
(Also 1983-85, 1987,1992, 1994)
Exhibition national tour locations included:
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
John L. Wehle Gallery of Wildlife and Sporting Art, Mumford, NY
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA
San Bernadino County Museum, Redlands, CA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
Anchorage Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK
Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau,
WI
Midwest Winter
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
National 2000
1993
Legh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wildlife: the Artist's View
(Also 1990)
Exhibition national tour locations included:
New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
1992
National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
Arts for the Parks
(Also 1990)
1989
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Birds in Art
1983
National Wildlife Federation Vienna, VA
Wildlife in Art
1979
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Flint Area Exhibition
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