ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Mary Opasik is a Catonsville artist who has devoted the last three decades to making assemblage with found and repurposed objects. She received her BFA degree in 1989 from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been featured in The Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), Chateau de Rochefort (FR), Sandy Spring Museum (MD), Lincoln Center Crafts Festival (NY). Ms. Opasik's art is in private and public collections and has been shown galleries both nationally and internationally. It has been published in "Found Object Art" by Dorothy Spencer, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2002 and "Found Object Art II" by Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2009
Opasik is a recipient for MSAC Grants for Artists FY 2023.She has participated twice in Maryland Art Place's Critics' and Residency Programs and has taught in several artist-in-education programs. The artist was a grantee to artists' residency programs including The Alfred & Trafford Klots Residency (Brittany, FR), Fundacion Valparasio (Spain), Sehn Family Residency at Loyola University (MD) and InsideZone in Borsec,(Transylvania, RO).
