Jim Mroczkowski
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Jim Mroczkowski was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is a former resident of North Bay where he attended Nipissing University to teach in 1980. He has now returned to Windsor to work as a full-time artist after 26 years as a professor of fine arts and art education. His career in studio fine arts began with studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design and later at the University of Windsor and York University where he earned his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees respectively. Further degree studies in art education advocacy and practice occurred at the University of Windsor (B.Ed. and M.Ed.) with additional graduate studies and research in art education theory and policy at the University of British Columbia.
His work has appeared in numerous juried exhibitions including the On View exhibition in Toronto in May of 1976. Prize winners, which included his work from this provincial show, toured thirteen Ontario public galleries for the remainder of 1976 and the duration of 1977. His work also was a prizewinner in the NORART juried exhibition of 1982. In the millennium year 2000, two of his works were selected from over 3200 submissions from artists, crafts persons, designers, and architects across Canada for the Arts2000 exhibition, sponsored by the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and the Canada Council.
Jim Mroczkowski has had numerous solo exhibitions of his work, with the most recent exhibitions occurring in Toronto in 2006 at the Spoke Club Gallery, and, in North Bay in 2004 at the Joan Ferneyhough Gallery. A major retrospective of his work occurred at the W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery in July 2001, followed by a one person exhibition at the Joan Ferneyhough Gallery in October 2001. He has shown his work both at the 1999 and 2000 Toronto International Art Fairs. He has also been the recipient of numerous merit awards and competition prizes for his work from both his alma maters and the Ontario Arts Council with exhibition grants starting in 1977 and continuing though 2004. In 1999, he was awarded one of 43 Mid-Career Artists Grants by the OAC acknowledging artists who have reached this level of public record and exhibition. In 2002, he received a Senior Artists Grant, the highest award offered to professional visual artists for their achievements and exhibition accomplishments. There were only 18 grants awarded in 2002 at the senior level.
His work can be found in many private, corporate and public collections across North America. Jim Mroczkowski has served on the Board of Directors of the White Water Gallery and the North Bay Arts Centre, now called the Capitol Centre. He was also a member of the planning commission for the White Mountain Academy of the Arts. He has provided over seventy-five public presentations in the form of workshops, seminars, lectures, demonstrations, and academic papers on a variety of art and art education topics. He has served on the Public Art Advisory Committee for the municipality of Windsor. He is also a member of ARTCITE, Windsor’s artist-run centre. Currently, he is teaching art education methodology courses as a Sessional instructor at the University of Windsor and supervising student teachers of art in the secondary schools in southwestern Ontario while painting full-time.
