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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ; ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-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; ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Area Arts Alliance awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts and Culture. A Distinguished Professor of Art at the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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