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PETER AHART
Education
2023 Equal Opportunity Advisor, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, Patrick Airforce Base, FL
2020 MFA, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2018 MA, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2016 BFA cum laude, Painting, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
2006 U.S. Army Total Army Instructor Course / Small Group Instructor Course, Ft. McCoy, WI
Professional Experience
2024- Adjunct Art Professor, Illinois Central College, Peoria, IL
2023- Peoria Art Guild 6 week workshop exploring Mixed Media / College Art processes
Center for Community and Creativity, Lincoln, IL (teaching art lessons to 5th – 8th grade students).
Lead Diversity Officer, Equal Opportunity Advisor, 129th Regimental Training Institute, Springfield, IL
Lincoln Diversity Committee, Lincoln, IL
2020- Lead instructor in Army Combat Medic Sustainment, Combat Life Saver, and Common Faculty Development Course.
2019- Galleries, Exhibitions and Collections Assistant, Bradley University
2018- Picture Person, Peoria Christian Elementary School (Art appreciation for elementary students)
2011- Worked with St. Louis artist Cheryl Wassenaar in fabrication stage of large-scale permanent artwork, awarded by international competition for Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2005- Army Instructor (developing and instructing basic emergency medical skills, military classes and routine military classes)
Awards
2012 Provost Scholarship, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
2003 Artist of the Year, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan
Exhibitions
2023 Flowers for Ukraine, Group Show, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL
React to Contact, Solo. Exhibition Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
CAC Member Artist Biennial Exhibition, Peoria, IL
Phase Lines, Solo, exhibition Illinois Community College Art Center, East Peoria, IL
2022 CAC Member Artist Biennial Exhibition, Peoria, IL
2021 22VA Veterans Art Exhibit Group Show, Peoria, IL
Charlie Mike, Solo. Exhibition, Bradley University
2020 Year In (Re)View, Curatorial exhibition of Undergraduate work, Bradly University, Peoria, IL
Nonobjective, (3 person show with Nichole Gronvold-Roller and Lisa Nelson Raabe)
One Day and a Wakeup, M.F.A. Exhibition, Bradley University
2019 Revolving Doors, Appleby Gallery, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL
2018 M.A. Exhibition (3 person show with Jack Crouch and Natalie Zelman), Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Chicago K9 for Cops, Chicago, IL (6 week public art displayed on Magnificent Mile)
To Carry, To Hold, Collaborative exhibition with Heather Brammeier, in Studio #222, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
Encompass, Madron Gallery, Chicago, IL
Peter Ahart Solo Show, Jefferson Street Studio, Morton, IL
6 x 6, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
XXXIII, Art St. Louis, MO
2017 Veteran Art Show, Illinois Central College, East Peoria, IL
2016 October 33, MySLArt, St. Louis, MO
2011 Art Saint Louis “Drift,” St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Guild “Drift,” St. Louis, MO
Southern Graphics Counsel “Regional Impressions: Prints from St. Louis Metropolitan Universities and Colleges”, St. Louis, MO
Jacoby Arts Center “Mark Makers”, Alton, IL
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville “Undergraduate Exhibition” Edwardsville, IL
Community / Public Art Projects
2023 Collaborative community painting at Lincoln Juneteenth Festival, Lincoln, IL
Collaborative community painting at Logan County Pride Festival, Lincoln, IL
2018 Chicago K9 for Cops, Chicago, IL (6 week public art displayed on Magnificent Mile)
2003 Jazz and Jackson in Action, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, Sheboygan, WI
Barn, Oostburg, WI (Site Specific Mural)
Major League, Kohler, WI (Site Specific Mural)
Travel
Traveled to Holland, Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kuwait, Thailand, Loas, Myanmar, and Iraq for military deployments and training missions.