MARIANNE STOLZ
Born 1963, Freiburg, Germany
Lives and works in Fairbanks AK
EDUCATION
1989 Licensed Journeymen Woodcarver, Berufsfachschule für Holzbildhauerrei, Berchtesgaden, Germany
1983 Germany, High School Diploma, Majoring in Art and Physics, Goethe Gymnasium Freiburg, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions
2022 Living Pond in Wood, Well Street Gallery, Fairbanks AK
2021 Bugs, 2 Street Gallery, Fairbanks AK,
2020 From the Forest, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK
2019 Wood Carvings, 2 Street Gallery, Fairbanks AK
Selected Group shows
2023 Arctic Drapery, The next Generation, Art in the Arctic, invitational, Venue, Fairbanks, AK
2022 Forged by a Million Feet, Art in the Arctic, invitational, Venue, Fairbanks, AK
2020 Pond Scum, Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
2020 Passing Through, 50 years of Alaska State Parks, Well Street Art Co. Fbks. AK
2019 Goner, Juried Show, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
2017 Leaf Cycle, One Tree 2, invitational, Trax, Fairbanks, Ak
2012 One Tree, One Tree, invitational, Well StreetArt Co., Fairbanks, AK
1% FOR ART AWARDS
2004, Ravens out the window, Tri Valey High School, Healy AK
2002 Climbing the mountain of knowledge, Hunter Elementary School, Fbks, AK
2001 Wind at sunrise, Tri Valey Elementary School, Healy AK
1999 Family, Nordale Elementary School, Fairbanks AK
COMMISSIONS, selected
2017 Caribou, on the entrance sign at Denali National Park, AK
2014 Main Lodge Entry Doors, Tonglen Lake Lodge, Denali, AK
2001 The Holy Family, Catholic Schools of Fairbanks, AK
2000 Stations of the cross, Catholic Schools of Fairbanks, AK
1999 Storytelling benches, Noel Wien Public Library, Fairbanks AK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
David James, “Marianne Stolz: Unmasking herself, Alaska life and bugs”, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner April 18, 2021
Courtesy Well Street Art Company, “Rhythm of the North”, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Aug 8, 2020
Robin Wood, “Carver’s caribou relief finds home on National Park Service sign”, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, July 17, 2017
ARTIST LECTURE
2021 Osher Lifelong Learning, Fairbanks, AK
2020 Fairbanks Art Association, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Artis in Residence, Wrangell Mountain Center, McCarthy, AK
2021 Portfolio Review panelist for exhibition in Fairbanks Arts Association’s Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
2020 ongoing, Participant in ITOC, an art and science project from the LTER Network
1995 ongoing, Woodcarving, craft, and natural science classes for all ages, for the Folk School Fairbanks, Spinners and weavers guild Fairbanks summer program, and BEST Regional Homeschool Program, Fairbanks, AK
OUTREACH
2010 -2017 The Folk School Fairbanks, an educational institution for multi-generational continuing learning, Co-Founder and Board of Directors Member, Fairbanks, AK
since 2006, Week in the Woods, an annual one-week immersion class in woodcraft and environmental stewardship, co-founder and co-director, Fairbanks, AK
TEACHING
2023 Artist in School Residency, Two-Rivers Elementary School, Two Rivers, AK
2008 -16 k-12 Homeschool teacher, multi-subject, Fairbanks, AK
since 1995 Whittling, woodcarving, craft, and natural science classes for all ages, for the Folk School Fairbanks, Spinners and weavers guild Fairbanks and BEST Regional Homeschool Programs, Fairbanks, AK
2019 Artist in School certificate through Fairbanks Arts Association
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
since 2009 Bog-studies, an outdoor Folk School curriculum for K-12 students, studying aspects of the Boreal Forest through hands-on observation, games, art, and scientific fieldwork, Fairbanks, AK
since 2019 BEST Regional Homeschool Programs, Developing Field Trips and Crafting Classes in partnership with The Folk School Fairbanks, AK
since 2006 Week in the Woods, an annual one-week immersion program of the Folk School with the goal to build environmental stewardship through exploration of natural history, craft, and arts while living outdoors, program and curriculum development, Fairbanks, AK