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BIOGRAPHY
Place of Birth: Thomasville, Georgia
EDUCATION
BFA in Studio Painting from University of Texas, Austin 1990
AA in Fine Art from San Jacinto Jr. College 1966
SPECIAL ART CLASSES
Drawing with Burton Callicott @ Memphis Academy of Arts 1960
Stone Carving @ Rice University with David Parsons 1967
Experimental Painting with Robert Shiffehauer @ University of Houston 1968 Experimental Painting with Robert Singleton @ Loch Haven Art Center, Winter Park Fla. 1970 Ceramics with Helen Bennett @ Loch Haven Art Center, Winter Park, Fla. 1970-72
**Became her assistant. Ceramics with Don Herron @ UT Austin, Austin, Texas 1982 Sculpture with Pern Smalley @ McNay Museum, Austin, Texas 1983 Stone Carving with Sean Harnett @ Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas 1985 Ceramics with Billy Ray Mangha @ Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas 1987
Color Theory with Bob Levers (Special Class), UT Austin, Texas 1989
PERSONAL HISTORY
Jan was born in Thomasville, Georgia. She traveled extensively around the U.S. as the daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps pilot. As a child, her natural talent in art was cultivated and encouraged by her mother, Mary Frances Rushin Middleton. Jan earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Painting at the University of Texas in Austin. She was a cofounder of the Artists Coalition of Austin in 1992. Jan is currently a full time painter based in Austin, Texas
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 "12 buy 12", Group show, Austin Art Space Gallery, Austin
“East Austin Studio Tour”, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin
"Austin Visual Arts Association's 32th Anniversary Exhibit", Juried Show,
Doughtery Arts Center, Austin
"BASH", Austin, Texas
"Pretend to Be Rich", Pump Project Art Complex, Austin, Texas
2008 “East Austin Studio Tour”, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin “Three”, Invitational Group Show, RT Gallery, Austin, Texas Jordan Gallery, Invitational, Smithville, Texas “Paraphernalia”, Group Show, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin “People’s Gallery Exhibition”, Juried Exhibit, Austin City Hall
2007 “East Austin Studio Tour”, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin
"Paint", Three Person show, ArtSpoken Gallery, Austin
"Austin Visual Arts Association's 30th Anniversary Exhibit", Juried Show,
Doughtery Arts Center, Austin
"Little Gifts", Group show, Pump Project Art Complex, Austin
"Lost & Found", Group show, ArtSpoken Gallery, Austin
2006 "1st Anniversary Show", Two person RT Gallery, Austin
"12 buy 12", Group show, ArtSpoken Gallery, Austin
2005 "New Works", Group show, RT Gallery, Austin
2004 Group Show at Austin Small Business Center, City of Austin
2003 "2003 Alumni Exhibition", Juried, Performing Arts Center,
University of Texas
"Mujeres Sin Fronteras", Invitational, La Pena Gallery, Austin
2002 "1st Annual Works by Tenants", Guadalupe Arts Center, Austin
"Austin Artists", Group Show, DiverseArts, Austin
2000: "New Work", Three Person Show, Gallery Lombardi, Austin
1999: "Out of the Blue", Invitational, And Something Different Gallery, Austin
1998: "Critic's Choice", Statewide Juried Exhibition, Dallas Visual Art Center
"De Colores", Invitational, Ellos Gallery, Austin
"Annual Membership Exhibition", Dallas Visual Arts Center
1997: "Pure Abstracts", Barnes and Noble, Arboretum, Austin
"Annual Membership Exhibition", Dallas Visual Arts Center
1996: "Annual Membership Exhibition", Dallas Visual Arts Center
"Invitational Exhibition", Gallery 807, Austin
1993-2001: Ten years worth of Shows (Two Person and Group) with the Artists' Coalition
of Austin in two locations ArtSpace Gallery and the ACA Gallery
"Exhibit F", Invitational, Austin Visual Artists Association
"Woman of Colors", Alternative Space Gallery, Austin
"Abstract Odysseys", Solo Exhibition, Whole Foods, Austin
1991: "Chain Reaction", Invitational, Austin Visual Arts Associaton
1989 : "Under the Influence", Solo Show, Flood Gallery, University of Texas
1970: "Winter Park Art Show", Juried, Winter Park, Florida.
1966: "Market Square Show", Allan's Landing, Houston, Texas
COLLECTIONS
Salion, Austin
Total Relief Footware, Austin
Private collections nationally and internationally
ARTICLES
City of Austin: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) News...Painters pump up the contrast
in art at Austin-Bergstrom
The Daily Texan. "From notes to paintbrush strokes".. Local violin ensembe, painter to perform
together in front of live audience by Rachel Meador...
austin woman October, 2007 (Vol. VI, No. 2) Art News "Austin's Artists Continue Tradition of Giving Back"
by Elena Watts....three of Austin's artists have PAINT in common - in more than the usual
way. Benefiting LIVESTRONG, Lance Armstrong's foundation, PAINT is both a fundraiser and
an art show featureing the work of local artists: Jan Middleton Roset, Shawn Camp and
RADIO INTERVIEWS
KOOP (91.7 FM) Live Interview on Erin Ripley's "Visual Aid Show" October 2007
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