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THEO WUJCIK

Wujcik studied fine art at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and did post-graduate work in lithography at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He is a Tamarind master printer, co-founder of the Detroit Lithography Workshop and was shop director of Graphicstudio at USF from 1970 through 1972. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Brooke Alexander, Inc. in New York, the Donald Morris Gallery in Biumingham, MI and Indigo Galleries in Boca Raton, FL.

Wujcik was awarded a research and creative scholarship grant from the University of South Florida, a printmaking fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Ford Foundation grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award for graphics." Most recently, he has received grants from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund and the National Endowment of the Arts, through First Night International.

His works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Wujcik’s 30 year retrospective exhibition at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL (1999) was supported by grants from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the USF Publications Council, the St. Petersburg Times, Bonita Cobb and James Rosenquist. The exhibition was traveled to the Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, and the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland.