Mark Patnode

Mark Patnode is an accomplished artist working in a wide range of media. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Purchase College and is a Fellow of the Urban Artists Initiative (UAI) Hartford, CT, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism (CCT), in partnership with the Institute for Community Research (ICR). Juried into the CCT Teaching Artist Directory, a reflection of excellence in both teaching and artistry, Mark conducts residencies through Arts in Education HOT Schools and instructs courses at Mitchell College and Thames Academy. Mark has had the pleasure of numerous residencies at Magnet Schools and was a nominee for the Guilford Art Center’s Achievement Award – 2006 - Year of the Child Education category, and a 2006 Co-Presenter for HOT Schools Summer Institute, Best Practices in Teaching Artist residencies, and an invited panelist. An internationally-accredited professor, Mark was selected as 2007 USA Professional Artist Faculty for the Center for Creative Youth CulturArte, Cape Verde Visual Arts Program through the Capital Region Educational Council, Connecticut. Mark was the Visual Arts Drawing Instructor for the 2007 Center for Creative Youth program at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

In 1991, Lyman Allyn Art Museum selected Mark to be a participant in The Artist Sees New London, featuring 300 works by a variety of artists spanning two centuries. Two of Mark’s large-scale paintings were chosen; one serving as a banner piece and another as lead-in for televised coverage of the exhibit. In 1995, Mark was one of 61 artists selected by Juror David Pease, Dean, Yale University School of Art for The Connecticut Open at Real Art Ways Gallery in Hartford, and one of 58 artists selected by Juror Cora Rosavear, Associate Curator, Museum of Modern Art, to show at the Faber Birren National Color Award Show at the Stamford Art Association.