Exhibitions
  • Mazza Museum of Children’s Art. Findlay, OH
  • MOCHA, Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, CA
  • California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • San Francisco Public Library
  • North Coast Artists’ Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA
  • Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino, CA
  • Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
  • Gallery 10, Sutter Creek, CA
  • Porter College, University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Saint Mary’s College, Orinda, CA
  • Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  • Kid’s Stuff/ American Institute of Graphic Arts Traveling Exhibit
  • Allen County Museum, Lima, OH
  • Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI
  • Janice Charach Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI
  • Columbus Public Library, Columbus, OH
  • Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
  • The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
  • Attic to Zany: Art in Children’s Books, Art Center of Battle Creek, MI
  • College of Dupage, Glen Ellen, IL
  • Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI

J. Michael Tucker

 

    Projects, Documentaries, Commissions, Workshops, etc.
  • Mazza Museum of Children’s Art, Summer Institute, 2006
  • Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, 2005
  • Illustration Workshop, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, 1999
  • USS Constitution: Living the Legend with Terry Moyemont, video documentary of the 200th anniversary sailing, July, 1997, DVD 2003.
  • California Cobblestone, executive editor, 1997-2000
  • Frolic, Steam Power, and Locomotive No. 15 posters for the Mendocino County Museum
  • Pouring Iron with Andy Fahrenwald, video documentary of the Knight Foundry, Sutter Creek, CA, 1995 (NEH and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
  • Artist in Residence, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, OH, 1988
  • Artist in Residence, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield, MI, 1989
  • Knight Foundry Recording and Oral Histories , 1980 (Early American Industries Association)
  • Grassroots History Project, Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA (IMS)
  • When We Came to Richmond/ children’s films for the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond, CA 1980-1(NEA)
  • Don’t You Hear the Whistle Blowing/ curriculum and teacher’s workshops on the history of work, 1980 (NEH and the Society for Industrial Archeology)
  • Near Eastern History Project/ curriculum and teachers’ workshops for the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1974-5 (NEH)
  • American Society for Eastern Arts/ education advisor, curriculum and teacher’s summer workshops, 1970-4
  • Asian Studies Curriculum Project/ University of California at Berkeley, 1968-9
  • Museum Education Programs and Staff Training
    • Marinships Museum, Sausalito, CA
    • Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
    • Historic Knight Foundry, Sutter Creek, CA
    • Historic Hawai’i Foundation, Honolulu, HI
    • Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA
    • Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, VA
    • Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, MA
    • Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA
    • Avery Brundage Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

 

    Education
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1947-52
  • Purdue University, B.S. History, 1958
  • Northwestern University, M.A. History, 1959
  • University of California Berkeley, Asian studies, 1966-8
  • Apprentice, Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, CA 1974-6

 

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