| Title: | Chair & Professor |
| Dept: | Art |
| Office: | AB 209 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2064 |
| Fax: | 2275 |
| Email: | G.MAUERSBERGER@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://academic.csuohio.edu/mauersberger_g/ |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. AB 209, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
| MFA, Art - Drawing, Ohio University, 1983 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| George Mauersberger has taught at Cleveland State University since 1987. After completing the Foundation program at Pratt Institute in New York City, he received a B.F.A. in Drawing from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and an M.F.A. in Painting from Ohio University. Currently an Associate Professor, he has won awards in a variety of exhibitions including The May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Realism Today at the Evansville Museum (IN), The Three Rivers Arts Festival (PA), the New Orleans National Art George Mauersberger is an artist who creates works on paper in pastel, charcoal, and watercolor. After completing the Foundations program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, he received a B.F.A. in Drawing from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1978, and an M.F.A. in Painting from Ohio University, Athens in 1983. He has been on the faculty at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio since 1987, currently serving a second term as Art Department Chair.
He has won awards in a variety of exhibitions including The May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Realism Today at the Evansville Museum (IN), The Three Rivers Arts Festival (PA), and New Orleans National Art Exhibition (LA). He received the Best in Show Award in the 2006 Rockford National at the Rockford Art Museum (IL) and the Best Drawing Award at the 2006 National Prize Exhibition in Cambridge, MA. In 1999, Mauersberger was named to receive an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Ohio Arts Council. His work is included in the collections of CWRU University Hospitals, Progressive Corporation, Key Corp., Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Kaiser-Permanente, Deloitte, and others. Recent juried exhibitions include the American Drawing Biennial at The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI; and the Butler National, Youngstown, OH. In 2006, he co-curated and participated in ¿On the Wall¿, a wall-drawing exhibition at Cleveland State University featuring seven artists including Sol Lewitt and William Kentridge. His most recent solo exhibition was in 2007 at The Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY. | ||