Yeager Elementary 1965-68, Sanford B. Ladd Elementary School, Central Jr. & Senior High Schools
1969-1978
Internship: Hallmark Cards 1974-1976
Summer Enrichment Programs, Kansas City Art Institute 1976-77 from internship at Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri
Penn Valley Community College, Commercial
Art & Advertising 1982-1984, Kansas City
Fellowship Art
Research Center 1976-1996,
Kansas City, Missouri
Urban Design Projects (Wall Graphic Collaborations):
On-the-fly
1976
Urban Design Award; Burt Fredericks Building,
Kansas City, Missouri
Wheeler Laboratory Building, 1983, Kansas City,
Missouri
(Downtown)
U.
S. Electrical Construction Inc, 1983,
Kansas City, Missouri
Big Dude's Music City, 1984, Kansas City, Missouri
Geometric Shapes at 14th & Walnut, 1985, Kansas City,
Missouri
Pulley Brothers, 1985, Kansas City,
Missouri
Kansas
City Power and Light Electrical Substation, 1986, Kansas City,
Missouri
Art Exhibit 1986, Euphrates Art Gallery,
Kansas City, Missouri
Bruce
R. Watkins Drive right-of-way Freeway Design Charrette,
July 1987, Kansas City, Missouri
George Washington Carver Memorial Mural
(The
Life of Dr. Carver) 1988-1990
Collected works (Military Heritage Museum)
1993, Saint Joseph, Missouri
Exhibition of
Public Art, An Art Research Center 25 Year Retrospective,
AIA, 1993, Kansas City
Historically Black College Literary Magazine (Under One Sun)
Lincoln University 2003/2004,
Jefferson City, Missouri:
7 Works
Adult Art Exhibit 2003, Jefferson City Art Club,
Elizabeth Rozier Gallery
Award Art Exhibit 2003, Lincoln
University, (People Choice Award), Jefferson City, Missouri
Mentor (Second Grade) East
Elementary School, Jefferson City, Missouri 2003-
Jefferson City Home
Magazine, Fall Issue 2004, Artist Profile;
(Living His Way)
Senior Art Exhibit 2004,
(Dreams Not Deferred)
Lincoln University
Memorial Hall
Award Art Exhibit 2005, Lincoln University,
(Dean's Award), A New Way of Thinking
Graduated
Cum Lada, (Bachelor of Science Education K-12) Art Education, Lincoln
University, 2005
National Dean's List 2004/05
Teaching Certification (Art K-12),
Missouri 2005
Adult
Art Exhibit 2005, Jefferson City Art Club,
Elizabeth
Rozier Gallery
Graduated
Cum Lada, (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Lincoln University, 2006
Scholastic,
News Source;
Some You Should Know, Scholastics, Inc, Vol 8,
Issue 1, Jan/Feb06
Public Art Exhibition, Art Inside the Park
(Under the
Rainbow) Balloon Structure, 2006
Art Exchange Realism Exhibition 2006
Essex Garner,
(Unfinished
Business),
Elizabeth Rozier Gallery, Union Hotel Jefferson Landing Historical Site,
Jefferson City,
4 Jan - 25 Feb 2006
Illustrator,
A Children's Book of
Barack Obama Our 44th President, Author (Larna S. (Neal) Garner,
2009, Published
August 2009
Art
Assistant, Lincoln University, 2007 - 2009
An Essay on,
Public Art in Public Spaces, The Past, Present and
Future, 2010
Adjunct Professor,
Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri Department of Fine Art, 2010 - present
In My Father's House 2011,
A
Tribute to the 62nd & 65th Colored Infantry,
Sep 29-30 - Oct 1, 2011,
Jefferson City Historical Landmark, MO
Twenty-first
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society
Best of America
(NOAPS
2011) Annual
Fine Art
Exhibition
Graduated
University of
Missouri Graduate Program
2007-2012, Leadership Training and
Curriculum Development,
Emphasis in Art Education
Faculty Art Exhibit, Lincoln University, Jefferson City,
Missouri October 22, through November 12, 2010
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters 1-29 Feb, 2012 (Black History Month) A tribute to the Colored
Infantry Soldier
Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center University of
Missouri, Graduate Art Exhibit, April 2, 2012 through 31 May,
2012
(Chalk Art Demonstration) and
Visiting Artist Series,
The Magic House,
Saint Louis, MO, July 14-15, 2012
&
Colored Infantry Soldier
Gallery Talk, Engaging with History
through Art,
Missouri State Historical Society, University of
Missouri, Jul 21, 2012
Faculty Art Exhibit, Lincoln University, Jefferson City,
Missouri, September 28 through October 12, 2012
October 26th & 27, 2012, at
the Bruce Watkins Cultural Heritage Center in
Kansas City, Missouri, Commemoration
Battle of Island Mound kickoff &
Bates County
Historical Society & Museum African-American Civil War Symposium
Permanent Exhibition (Learning to Read, a Soldier's Story), in tribute the
to men of the 62nd & 65th Colored Infantry,
Scruggs University Center, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters 1-28
February, 2013 (Black History Month) A tribute to the Buffalo Soldier
Portraits of American History, the Buffalo and Colored Infantry Soldiers,
June 10 through July 31, Extended - August 2013. Memorial Hall Gallery, Lincoln University, Missouri
Twenty-third
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society
Best
of America
(NOAPS
2013) Annual
Fine Art
Exhibition
2013-14 Portraits of American History, A Tribute to the Buffalo Soldier,
Traveling Exhibition
Copyright Image (Dead Reckoning) Forwarded to the
Charles H. Wright
Museum of African American History,
The 54th Massachusetts (Underground Railroad) 2014. Founded
in 1965 by Detroit obstetrician Dr. Charles Wright.
Buffalo Soldier’s of the American West,
Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage
Center and State Museum & Gallery Talk,
Kansas City, Missouri June 7 through August 30, 2014
Juneteenth Exhibition June2014 Buffalo Soldiers of the
American West Saint Joseph, MO June13-15, 2014, Mini-Museum,& Gallery Talk,
Sponsored by the Black Archives of Saint Joseph,
Missouri
Twenty-forth
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society
Best
of America
(NOAPS
2014) Annual
Fine Art Exhibition
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters (Fallen
Soldier's Memorial) 1-29
February, 2015 (Blue on Black)
Jefferson City Art Club Adult Artist Exhibition (Best of Show) In the Sprit
of the Place March 27th - May 3, 2015
Jefferson City Art Club Adult Artist Exhibition (First Place) Chalk and
Pastels, 27th - May 3, 2015
Blue on Black (Five Year Retrospect) The Colored Infantry Soldier
(Side B) the Buffalo Soldiers (Side A), April 1-30, 2015, Extended through
June 30, 2015. Memorial Hall Gallery, Lincoln University, Missouri
Twenty-fifth
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society
Best
of America
(NOAPS
2015) Annual
Fine Art Exhibition
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters (Fallen
Soldier's Memorial)
(African American Military History, Black History Month)1-28
February,
2016
Passages of My Time Exhibition, Essex Garner September - December 2017 (MEH)
Memorial Hall, Campus Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri
Inducted Signature Artist's Guild; elite sector of the
National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Best
of America
https://www.noaps.org/signture-artists
Passages
of My Time Exhibition (cont)
January
- April 2017, at the Bruce Watkins
Cultural Heritage Center in Kansas City, Missouri
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters 1-28
February, 2018 (African
American Military History, Black History Month) In front of the Fallen
Soldier Memorial
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters 1-28
February, 2019 (African
American Military History, Black History Month) In front of the Fallen
Soldier Memorial
(Time) Missouri Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) September - October 2019
Art Exhibition; featured artist (Essex Garner) Jefferson City Arts Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn2CSK7vXGQ
Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Fund (Life to
Bronze Watercolor) Philanthropy 2019
https://www.missouritrooperfund.org/
Missouri Army National Guard Headquarters 1-29
February, 2020 (Black
History Month) Colored Infantry and Buffalo Soldier's Exhibition (Legacy
& Time) In front of the Fallen Soldier Memorial
On-line International National Oil & Acrylic Painters" Society
(NOAPS 2019)
fall
Annual
Fine Art Exhibition
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