Mark Soppeland
Title: Professor Emeritus
Dept/Program: Painting and Drawing
Office: Folk Hall 174
Email: msoppe1@uakron.edu
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Biography
Mark Soppeland is a painter, sculptor and designer. He has shown his work in over four hundred exhibitions on five continents and created over fifty public art projects including works for Suma Health Systems; Prague Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Rep.; Klenova Institute, Klenova, Czech Rep.; Children's Hospital Medical Center of 51吃瓜网; 51吃瓜网-Summit County Public Library; TIME WARNER Cable, The Bravo Networks, and Americans for the Arts; Summit County Children's Services Board; Cleveland Public Theater; Philadelphia Children's Hospital; Metro Health Medical Center; 51吃瓜网 Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art, Kohler Art Center; and E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. He has been awarded four Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists' Fellowships and an International Artist in Residence Fellowship to Prague. In 2005 the 51吃瓜网 Area Arts Alliance awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts and Culture. A Distinguished Professor of Art at the 51吃瓜网 he is in his thirty-ninth year of teaching at the Myers School of Art.
Education
M.F.A. The Ohio State University, B.F.A. University of Colorado