Mary Milelzcik

With a BA in Expressive arts from Sonoma State University , Mary Milelzcik is a visual artist, whose prints have been exhibited internationally. Her work is included in collections at Purdue University, Kala Institute, SSU, Highways archives, and many private collections. Accomplished in etching, lithography, and serigraphy, Mary has worked as a teacher and printmaker at Freeman Editions where she taught a class and printed editions of etchings and serigraphs by Jim Shaw, Joseph Ingel, Daniel Freeman and other Los Angeles artists

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In 1995, Mary joined the Highways. With founding Director Tim Miller as her mentor, Mary soon became Administrative Director/Gallery Curator of the internationally renowned Performance Space. Among her accomplishments are the development of a gallery mentorship program for emerging artists and curators; designing Gallery2 and overseeing it's completion; Co-curating six annual homo-erotic Gallery Benefits with Philip Hitchcock, which included the Don Bachardy, Rick Castro, Jay Jorgenson Tom Bianchi, Greg Day and the Tom of Finland Foundation. During her tenure Highways moved into the new millennium with email and web presence, created a strategic plan, and increased commitment to cultural competence,

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In February of 2005, Mary left her position as Administrative Director/ Gallery Curator at Highways Performance Space and Gallery to devote more time to Arts Asylum and work on her MPA thesis. She will graduate in Spring 2007.

The founder of Arts Asylum in 1998, Mary taught Promote Yourself! Workshops and has worked as a consultant to artists, and art-related businesses for the past several years. She has also served as a grants panelist for the Los Angeles Arts Commission, a member of the Board of the 18 th Street Arts Center and on the Advisory Board of Highways Performance Space and Gallery and is a member of the Venice Arts Council. Arts Asylum is a member of the National Association of Arts Organizations (NAAO), and Americans for the Arts.

As an artist, mixed media, photography, painting combined with digital printmaking, often using performance artists, including Tim Miller, Danielle Brazell, John Fleck, Denise Uyehara, Dan Kwong, Leo Garcia as her subjects, has been her primary focus. Her photos have been included in periodicals, as well as books by Tim Miller and Denise Uyehara, Meiling Ching, and guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal.

Currently Mary has returned to her roots in printmaking, working on large woodcuts and a series of miniature paintings and prints on wasali paper.