ARTIST
CHRISTOPHER
STOFAN
Education
1999 BFA Sculpture and Painting, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Exhibitions
2019 The Tower Show 2019, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2017 Boundless, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2016 Power of the Tower, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2015 Cleveland Artists’ Lonely Art Club Show, E11even2 Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Tower Press Artists Group Exhibition, Red Space Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2014 Prepare to be Surprised, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2013 Looking up, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
50/50 Show, 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH
2012 Tower Press Collective Exhibition, Greenwald Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2011 Fourth Annual Artspace Cleveland Member Exhibition, Asian Town Center, Cleveland, OH
2009 Artists of the Tower Press Exhibition, Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Third Annual Artspace Cleveland Member Exhibition, Tom Balbo Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2006 Wall to Wall, Invitation only sculpture Exhibition, Flatlanders Art Gallery, Blissfield, MI
2005 Midwest Sculpture Initiative: Blissfield Corridor, juried outdoor sculpture exhibition, Blissfield, MI
2003 2nd Annual Art Round Town Exhibition, juried outdoor sculpture exhibition, Saugatuck, MI
2002 84th Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Public Collections
Bounce Innovation Hub, Akron, OH
Southwest General Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Cuyahoga County Administrative Building, Cleveland, OH
Lincoln Financial Group, Radnor, PA
The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Corpus Christi Parish, Toledo OH
Selected Bibliography
2020 Downtown Cleveland Alliance, “Downtown Digs” featured profile
2017 Cool Cleveland, “Tower Press Building Artists Show Off their Work in ‘Boundless’”, May, 2016
2016 Cleveland Scene, Josh Usmani, “The Power of the Tower Exhibit Showcases the Work of the Tower Press Building's Artists”, June 2016
2015 CAN Journal, Harriet Gould, Dana Depew Curates Tower Press Artists Group Exhibit at Hotcards”, Spring, 2015
2014 Akron Beacon Journal/Ohio.com, “Artists show off work at Wooltex Gallery in Cleveland”, April 2014
Cool Cleveland, “Tower Press Artists”, October, 2014
Cool Cleveland, Martin Bielat, Artist Profile, September, 2014
2013 Campus District Observer, Dan Morgan, 'Prepare to be Surprised' at the Wooltex Gallery at Tower Press” July, 2013
Selected Professional Experience and Associations
2018-Present Artist Coordinator for Tower Press Development
Curator, The Tower Press Artists Group
Member of “Avenue of the Arts” Advisory committee, Campus District, Inc.
2003-Present Member of the Tower Press Artists Group, and Artspace Cleveland
Active in the Superior Arts and Campus Districts
Yearly exhibitor in The Sparx City Hop/Open Studio event
1997-2003 Assistant, Flatlanders Art Gallery/ Kenneth M. Thompson Studio, Blissfield, MI
Guest Lecturer, Monroe Community College, Monroe, MI
Board of Trustees, Spectrum Friends of Fine Art, Toledo, OH
Member, Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts, Adrian, MI
Assistant, LCVA Millennium Project, Adrian, MI
Instructor/ Visiting Artist, summer stone carving workshop, Westside Montessori School, Toledo, OH
Studio Assistant/ instructional substitute, Center for Sculptural Studies, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
American Heart Association, commissioned temporary Installation, Toledo, OH
Assistant in the restoration of “The Family” bronze sculpture group by Penelope Jencks, Toledo, OH