Jack Baumgartner, B.1976
playbanjo@gmail.com
Rose Hill, Kansas
RESUME:
Education
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MO
Class of 2000
BFA Major: Painting and Printmaking
Valedictorian
Butler County Community College
El dorado, KS
Class of 1997
Associates Degree: Fine Arts
Coutts Scholarship Recipient
Exhibitions
November 2011: Wooden Bowls, Grisham Fiber Studio, Wichita, KS
April 2009: Walking Man and the Moon, Co-exhibition with Mike Schultz, Grisham Fiber Studio, Wichita, KS
October 2005: Poetry and Art, Group Show, Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, KS
July 2005: Stick to Your Guns Annual Art Show, Roanoke, VA
December 2003: Solo Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
July 2003: Stick to Your Guns Annual Art Show, Roanoke, VA
July 2002: Stick to Your Guns Annual Art Show, Roanoke, VA
October 2001: Living on the Prairie, Living on the Plains, National Juried Art Exhibit, Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, Eldorado, KS
July 2001: Stick to Your Guns Annual Art Show, Roanoke, VA
May 2000: BFA show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Puppetry
April 2009: Performances of The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, by the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Grisham Fiber Studio, Wichita, KS
September 2005: Puppetry workshop and demonstration, by Jack Baumgartner of the School of Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Highlands Ranch, CO
August 2002: Performances of The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, by the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO, and Longmont, CO
July 2002: Performance of The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, by the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Stick To Your Guns Group Art Show, Roanoke, VA
February 2002: Performance of The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, by the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Hashinger Hall, Lawrence, KS
January 2002: Puppetry workshop and performance: created, and performed The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot, by the School of the Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2001: Founded the School Of Transfer of Energy Puppet Theatre
May 1999: The Princeton Hall Paper Theatre Presents: The Strange Visitor, see above, Butler County Community College Folk Arts Festival, Eldorado, KS
December 1998: The Princeton Hall Theatre Presents: The Strange Visitor, a puppet show adapted, created and performed in cooperation with Annie Stone, Polar Bear Gallery, Longmont CO
1998: Co-founded the Princeton Hall Paper Theatre with Annie Stone
Lecturers and Workshops
July 2010: Paper Puppetry Workshop, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
July 2009: Shadow Puppetry Workshop, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
February 2004: Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, Eldorado, KS
February 2002: Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
January 2002: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
September 2001: Virginia Western College, Roanoke, VA
We love you, Jack!!!
m & c
Rebecca was looking at your art online and again, she said, “wow, it makes my BONES SHAKE!”
HEHEHE…
Hey Jack. It has been way too long. Just found your website, and wanted to say hi. I will have to try and stop by next time I am down in Wichita. I hope things are going well. Tell Amy hi for me.
I love the new pictures of wood milling. – Give Obie a squeeze for me.
I am really in awe – to think we are getting this incredible HANDMADE alderwood piece. The pictures are beautiful and I am so excited to have it in my home. Your detail work is truly exquisite Jack.
Jack,
I’m so glad to find you back in the world. I’m curious about your life now. Feel free to write me.
Yours Truly,
BiL
P.S. I’m working with a kids groupd called Whoop Dee Doo we are always looking for new acts and your puppets would be perfect.
Great site – Amy pointed me to it so glad you have a web presence.
DadC
Jack, your work is lovely. I’m so glad to “see” you again here. Blessings to you and your family.
In Him,
Heidi (Brandt) Schaap
I’m glad to see your homage to Asher Lev. I think it was a great book and I think everyone who is even vaguely interested in art should give it a read.
If for no other reason than to examine ones own willlingness to pay the cost.
Allen,
Thank you for your kind recognition. The book is very good. I appreciate the voices out there who acknowledge that a price is paid, though I expect few are willing to pay the full cost.
Jack
Your pictures are fabulous. I plan on showing my Middle School classes your website as we have just finished a printmaking project. Thanks!
S.B. Thank you, I am honored to be a part of your class. It would be nice to hear what your students think.
Your work takes my breath away.
Does the phrase, “Real Life, No Tambourines” mean anything to you? Did you help make a cd several years back for a youth group? I still have that cd 🙂
Hi Andi, some things I have forgotten, but I remember playing two or three songs on that cd.
Jack, your work continues to inspire me . . . keep up the amazing creativity and thank you!
Thank you, Robbie, for your encouragement, it always helps.
Jack just stumbled across your page. Your work looks incredible and is very inspirational.
Jacob,
My name is Steve Greenberg. I am rabbi and a writer and I love your work and would like to use your depiction of Jacob and the angel on the cover of my book, which was printed in the US awhile ago and is coming out in October in Hebrew. You can go online and see it. Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition. The book, won the Koret Jewish book award for philosophy and thought and is now being published by the Kibbutz Movement in Israel. Might we speak about this?
Rabbi Steve Greenberg
Jack…
Please be in touch! I am rabbi who loves your work and I would love to purchase one of our drawings for a book cover for my book. The book has changed lives…published by the Univ of Wisc Press and won the Koret Jewish book award….Please email me soon.
Rabbi Steve Greenberg at rabbistevegreenberg@gmail.com
I work for Cody Rolph as a fishing guide at the bighorn river lodge in Montana. After a recent meeting with Cody he was telling me about you and showed my your website. Incredible I enjoy the barnwood rockers you built almost everyday when I get off the river. Not only beautiful but also very comfortable. Well done
I am pretty amazed by the things you build out of wood. That inspires me. I hope to find more of these pictures. Greetings from Germany
Thank you for your kind words, Sven. I hope you continue to visit.
Do you sell a color version of Jacob wrestling? Why is the b/w flipped (right to left)? Amazing talent thank you for creating such intriguing and mystical images.
Phil,
Thank you for your comment. I don’t have any color reproductions of the painting of Jacob for sale. I am getting ready to do some hand colored prints from the black and white print if you are interested. You can email me at playbanjo@gmail.com. The reason the b&w image is flipped, is that through the process of creating the printed image I carved a block of the original composition, which when printed produces a mirror or flipped image from the original. I hope this helps.
Jack
Just found your site. Really awesome and spiritual. Can I purchase images for use in newsletters?
Hello, Byron. Thank you for your comment. Please feel free to email me at playbanjo@gmail.com with the particulars of your use scenario.
Jack
Found your web by chance, one of those pleasant results of web surfing. I was thrilled to see your work for two (gorups of) reasons 1) for its beauty, elegnace and closeness to the environment you line in, 2) for its diversity. It seems like you live in a beautiful place and you have a very nice workshop. Batur Baslar
Thank you, very much, Batur.
Jack, your work is absolutely gorgeous. Your devotion to it shows beautifully. Art in motion.
Thank you, so much, for you kind words. I am grateful.
I’m drawn in. Thank you!