Alicia Post
Email: aliciapostart@gmail.com
Website: www.aliciapostart.com
Social Media:
www.facebook.com/aliciapostart
www.instagram.com/aliciapostart
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Education
MA 2020 2D Studio Art, Eastern Illinois University
BFA 2019 2D Studio Art, Eastern Illinois University
2017 Alyssa Monks Painting Workshop, Nashville, TN
2013-2016 2D Studio Art, Governor’s State University
2014 Amanda Sage Painting Workshop, Wappinger Falls, NY
2014 Autumn Sky Morrison Painting Intensive, Uvita, CR
AFA 2008 Studio Art, Kankakee Community College
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Awards
2020 Talented Student Award, Eastern Illinois University
2019 Writes with distinction Award, Eastern Illinois University
2019 Bicentennial Art Center First Place Blue Ribbon Award, Paris,
2019 Bicentennial Art Center First Place Blue Ribbon Award, Paris IL
2019 Honorable Mention, (Ceramics), Eastern Illinois University
2018 Talented Student Award, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2018 Honorable Mention, (Painting), Eastern Illinois University,
2018 Ruth Boyd Cook Scholarship, Eastern Illinois University
2017 Talented Student Award, Eastern Illinois University
2017 Grant in Aid Award, Eastern Illinois University
2017 First Place Award, (Painting), Eastern Illinois University
2016 Honorable Mention, (Painting), Governor’s State University
2008 Honorable Mention, (Painting), Gretchen Charleston Gallery
2006 First Place, (Drawing-Landscape), Kankakee Community College
2006 First Place Award, (Drawing-Portrait), Kankakee Community College
2006 Ink and Feathers Scholarship, Herscher, IL
2006 Kent Frye Art Scholarship, Herscher, IL
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Solo Exhibitions
2015 FEED Art and Cultural Center, Kankakee, IL.
2013 Inner Circle Gallery, Bloomington, IL
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Group Exhibitions
2020 Isolation Chronicles, virtual exhibition curated by Sergio Gomez
2020 Virtual Graduate Thesis Show, Charleston, IL.
2020 W+P Work and Progress, group exhibition, Mattoon, IL.
2019 Summer Camp Music Festival Live Artist Gallery, Chillicothe, IL.
2019 Senior BFA Art Exhibition, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2019 Advanced Painting Show, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2019 Figure It Out, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2019 Women In Relation , Gretchen Charlton Art Gallery, Kankakee, IL.
2019 Bicentennial Art Exhibition, Paris, IL.
2019 On the Shoulders Of Giants, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2019 Frequency Response, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2019 All Student Exhibition, Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL
2018 Figure It Out, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2018 Varsity Art 22, Art Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
2017 Student Art Exhibition, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
2017 Hulaween Artist Gallery, Live Oak, FL
2017 Summer Camp Music Festival Live Artist Gallery, Chillicothe, IL.
2016 Govenor's State University Student Show, University Park, IL.
2016 Art Outside, Rockdale, TX
2016 Rootwire, Athens, OH
2015 Art Outside, Rockdale TX
2015 Summer Camp Music Festival Live Artist Gallery, Chillicothe, IL.
2015 Govenor's State University Student Show, University Park, IL.
2014 Art Outside, Rockdale, TX.
2014 Intrinsic Art Gallery at Serendipity Festival, Cloverdale, IN
2014 Summer Camp Music Festival Live Artist Gallery, Chillicothe, IL.
2014 Tall Grass Association, Richton Park, IL.
2014 Tribe 13 Gallery at Envision Festival, Uvita, CR.
2013 Community Arts Council of Kankakee Group Show, Kankakee, IL.
2013 Pop Up Art Show, Kankakee Library, Kankakee, IL.
2008 Kankakee Community College Student Exhibition, Kankakee, IL.
2008 Kali Baba Temple Yoga Studio, Bourbonnais, IL.
2007 Kankakee Community College Student Exhibition, Kankakee, IL.
2006 Gretchen Charleston Gallery, Kankakee, IL.
2006 Kankakee Community College High School Art show, Kankakee, IL.
2005 Kankakee Community College High School Art show, Kankakee, IL.
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Commissions
2021 Album Artwork for Digeometric
2021 Commissions: 21 Portraits and drawings for private collectors
2020 Commissions: 155 portraits and drawings for private collectors
2020 Graphic Design Product label and logo design for Botanical Bliss
2019 Commissions: 3 Portrait drawings and paintings for private collectors
2017 Hulaween Suwannee National Forest Live Artist Mural, Live Oak, FL.
2016 Tierra Mitica Commissioned Mural, Tarapoto, Peru
2014 The City of Bradley Mural Project, Bradley, IL.
2014 Spa Remedy Mural, Bradley, IL.
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Collections
2008 Kankakee Community College, Kankakee, IL.
2006 Herscher High School, Herscher, IL.
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Bibliography
Blue Room Magazine, 2019-2020 ed.; Charleston, IL. 2020, 126-131
Artsy AF Podcast Episode 30, 2020
Blanchette, Tiffany, “Women’s Fair Set For Gretchen Charleton Art Gallery”, The
Daily Journal Kankakee, IL, November 4, 2019.
Blue Room Magazine, 2018-2019 ed.; Charleston, IL., 2019, 51,69,70,78,94.
Blue Room Magazine, 2017-2018 ed.; Charleston, IL., 2018, 21-24.
Spunion Comics, (2017)
Reconstructed Magazine Art and Literary Journal, 2016-2017 ed.; University Park,
IL., 2017, 3, 21.
Garmes, Kyle, “Lets Put Another Coat of Paint on Bradley”, The Daily Journal,
Kankakee, IL, September 30, 2014.
James Riordan, “The Well Thought Out Scream”, 2009.
James Riordan, “Madman In The Gate”, 2009.
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Employment
2021 Freelance Portrait Artist and Graphic Designer
2020 Freelance Portrait Artist
2020 Freelance Graphic Designer
2006 – Present Live Performance Painter, Dancer, and Fire Performer
2006 – Present Sole Proprietor at Alicia Post Art, Charleston, IL
2019 Graphic Design, Eastern Illinois University
2019- Present Art Director and Coordinator Summer Camp Music Festival,
2018 Life Drawing Model, Eastern Illinois University
2016 Life Drawing Model, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL.
2017 Muralist at Hulaween, Live Oak, FL.
2016 Muralist at Tierra Mitica, Tarapoto, Peru
2012-2016 Life Drawing Model, Joliet Junior College
2012-2016 Life Drawing Model, Governor’s State University
2012-2016 Intrinsic Arts Collective Co-Director, Kankakee, IL.
2014 Muralist, Bradley, IL
2012-2013 YMCA Art Instructor, Bradley, IL.
2012 Life Drawing Model, College of DuPage
2011-2012 Custom Art Framing Specialist- Frame World, Kankakee, IL.
2009-2011 Life Drawing Model, Kankakee Community College
2007-2010 Custom Art Framing Specialist – Michaels, Bradley, IL.
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Other Experience and skills
My artwork has been referenced in podcasts, newspaper articles, gallery exhibitions, and academic achievements. Various artworks have been published in books of poetry, comic books, and magazines such as Reconstructed Magazine and Blue Room Magazine. I have experience directing and facilitating art gallery spaces at music and arts festivals. I have 10 years experience live performance painting. I am an experienced muralist both nationally and internationally. I have studied with artists abroad in Tarapoto, Peru and Uvita, Costa Rica. I possess a strong sense of communication both through personal artworks as well as constructing organized commission work for clients.