Jill Natasha Parker-Trotter

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Jill Natasha Parker-Trotter
Painter * Textile Designer * Wood and Metal Sculptor

jill@jillnatashaparkertrotter.com

Education

Chicago State University, 1968-1971, B.S. Degree – Art Education 1971
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Graduate student-at-large in sculpture 1971-73
Teaching Certificate – State of Illinois, Art grades Kg-12

Employment

Lecturer

Published

Fiberarts Design Book Five, Lark Books, Oct. 1995
A Guide to Chicago’s Public Sculpture, by Ira J. Bach and Mary Lackritz Gray 1983
Chicago Sculpture Book, James L. Riedy, 1981 p.134
November Vol. 1, No. 1 Chicago Mahogany Magazine, 1980, pp.36-37

Commissions

2010, Textile Installation, Norman Malone, Retired Choral Director, Lincoln Park High School, “Confetti Roulette”
1996, “Ancestral Voices Loud and Clear” Quilted wall Hanging 4’x8′, State Representative, The Honorable Monique Davis
1990, Commissioned by INOMA (Illinois Organization of Minority Architects) to create a watercolor painting for presentation to Mayor Richard M. Daley at “ A Talk with the Mayor”, DuSable Museum
1987, Chicago Hilton and Towers, Raised Blossoms”, Quilted Wallhanging,Steven’s Gallery, 3^rd floor (6’x7′)
1982,”Rhythmic Vibrations”, Steel (4’x8′) relief sculpture, Chicago State University,Permanent Installation “C” building, designed along with Prof. Ausbra Ford
1980, Commissioned by the City of Chicago and The Chicago Council of Fine Arts to create a relief sculpture in stainless steel (4’x9′) entitled, “The Rescue” located at 4001 W. West End Ave., Wall of the District Fire Station
1979, Watercolor for the University of Minnesota Hospitals, Masonic II (cancer ward)
1978, Commissioned by the Department of Human Services and The DuSable Museum of Afro-American History to create a (9’x4′) tall stainless steel sculpture, entitled “The Spirit of DuSable”, Located in Washington Park in front of the Museum

Awards

Private Collections

Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. Parker Jr., Maywood, Illinois 14 quilted wall-hangings
Dr. Mary E. Shannon, Park Ridge, Ill. Retired Principal, Lincoln Park H.S.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles West, Hyde Park Chicago, Ill
Mr. Walter Vincent, Architect, Department of Planning, Prof., Tenn. State University, Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. James E. Jones, Chicago, Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sachs, Phoenix, Arizona
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glickman, Skokie, Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Weissenberg, Chicago, Illinois
Mrs. Veatrice Jones, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Margaret G. Burroughs, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. and Mrs. Myles O. Eady, Bloomfield, Connecticut, 4 quilted wall-hangings
Dr. Leon Adcock, University of Minn. Hospitals, Minneapolis, Minn.
Law Offices of Attorney, A.J. Archibald, Memphis, Tenn.
Connecticut General Assembly, Office of Legislative Research, Attorney Sandra Norman-Eady, Director, Hartford, Conn.
Dr. and Mrs. William Houston, Niles, Michigan
Mr. Norman Malone, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Clayton Thompson, Athens, Ohio

Exhibitions

2012, “Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Exhibit”, October, Gallery Guichard, Chicago, one of 31 semi-finalists chose from 550 entries
2012, “Alumni Show”, September, Chicago State University, Gallery, Nine selected Artists
2012, “Black Creativity” Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
2010, “Alumni Show”, September, Chicago State University, Gallery, Nine selected Artists
1999, “African-American” Quilts, Chicago State University, President’s Gallery, Alumni Exhibitions
1997, “5 Women/ Different Looks”, South Side Community Art Center
1997, “Women of Vision”, National Women’s History Month, South Shore Cultural Center
1996,1995, Members Show, Juried, Textile Art Center
1996,1995, Black Creativity, Juried, Museum of Science and Industry
1995, Nicole’s Art Gallery Exhibit
1988, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, Art Museum of Bahia; Salvador,Brazil, Museum of Modern Art and Castro Alves Theatre

1988, Governors State University
1988, AT and T, “Black History Cultural Show”
1987, Governors State University
1986, Woodson Regional Library
1986, Governors State University
1986, Independence Bank
1984, Governors State University
1983, “The Sculptured Form”, South Side Community Art Center
1982, “The Sculptured Form”, South Side Community Art Center
1981, “Welcome Home Show”, South Side Community Art Center
1981, Pullman Library
1981, First Federal Savings and Loan
1980, Atlanta Life Insurance Exhibition
1980, Exhibition of Public Art Commissioned by the City of Chicago, at Chicago Chapter A.I.A.
1979, Chicago State University, Alumni Show
1978, One Woman Sculpture Show, First National Bank of Skokie
1976-1979, Black Esthetics, Museum of Science and Industry
1974, DuSable Art Contest
1974, Civic Center
1974, DuSable Museum
1973, Two Man Show, “Up from Obscurity” Chicago State University
1966, 1967, Lake Meadows Art Fair

References

Dr. Mary E. Shannon, retired Principal, Lincoln Park High School, Head of Teacher Personnel, Chicago Board of Education, retired
Dr. Margaret M. Harrigan, Head of Operations, Chicago Board of Education, retired, Professor, De Paul University, retired, Northside Campus, Chicago, Illinois
Professor Ausbra Ford, Art Department, retired, Chicago State University
Dr. Geraldine Brownlee, Professor, De Paul University, retired, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Margaret G. Burroughs, Director Emeritous, The DuSable Museum of Afro- American History, Chicago, Illinois
Professor Walter Vincent, Director of Planning and Chairman of the Architecture Dept. retired, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn. Architect for McKissick and McKissick Architecture Firm, Nashville, Tenn.

Mr. Charles Smith, Architect, Smith and Smith Associates, Board Member of INOMA, Illinois National Organization of Minority Architects

Eldon Danhausen, retired, Sculpture Instructor, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Dennis Banning, Administrative Assistant, Visual Arts, Chicago Council on Fine Arts at the Cultural Center