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JEFF WHIPPLE
Jeff Whipple is an artist, writer and
filmmaker based in Tampa, Florida. He has won awards for painting,
sculpture, video and playwriting in professional competitions. Jeff won
fellowships for visual art from the Illinois Arts Council in 1985 and 1990
and from the Florida Arts Council in 1982. In 1996, he won a Florida artist
fellowship for playwriting. In 2001, he was the first recipient of the
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His paintings and sculpture have been
featured in more than 60 solo exhibitions in galleries, universities and
museums throughout the USA. He has participated in dozens of group
exhibitions across the country and won numerous top awards in art
competitions. His artwork is in notable private collections as well as
colleges, corporations and museums.
Jeff's work as a
playwright and filmmaker has paralleled his visual art career. He has
won several playwriting awards and his plays have been featured in sixteen
productions and dozens of staged readings in Chicago and Florida. His play
THE MEAT BUSH
was produced in 2001 at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida as the
winner of the Florida Playwright’s Process. His play,
THE
TERRORISM OF LOVE was produced in 2002 in Orlando marking the third time
Jeff has won the Valencia Character Company’s Florida Playwriting
Competition. He just finished a one-act play called BLOOD SUCKERS that was
commissioned for the 2004 Floridians Project at Ruth Eckerd Hall in
Clearwater, Florida. His videos have been featured in film festivals and
"Boxing Us"
won the Best Experimental Award at the Independents Film Festival on the
Education Channel in 2003. His most recent video is a comedy called
"Chicken Feet",
which he wrote, directed and also is also one of the two featured actors.
Whipple received a MFA from the University
of South Florida in 1980. He has taught at several colleges including
Arizona State University and Northern Illinois University.
Jeff Whipple has been commissioned to
create several large
public art works. In 2002 he painted a 150 foot-long mural for the
Johnson Library in St. Petersburg, Florida. He also does
portrait
commissions and last fall he painted a famous general for MacDill Air
Force Base.
In 2002, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in
Largo, Florida presented a
25-year retrospective of Jeff Whipple’s art, which traveled to Orlando
and Naples in 2003.
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