Green Thought Forest Institute • 1380 Tilton Road • Sebastopol, CA 95472
707 827-3179 * mpcain@mum.edu

Educational Experience
B.S., Painting and Education, Rhode Island School of Design, 1963

Professional Experience:
Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, 1979
Painted with master miniaturists, Bannu Sharma, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Vijay
Sharma, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India, 1996-1997 and Raja Ram Sharma,Udaipur 2007

Grants and Awards:
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India and Nepal, 2005-2006
$10,000 Artist‘s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980-1981
First Prize, McNeider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, 1980

One-Person Shows of Paintings:
Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, 2007
Des Moines Art Center, 2007
Experimental Arts Gallery, Habitat Centre, Delhi, 2006
Octagon Center, Ames Iowa, 2005
Icon Gallery, 2005
Sherry Leedy, Kansas City, 2006
Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, Iowa, 2005-05
Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, 2004
Icon Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa 2004, 2005, 2006
Mythos, Iowa City, 2004
Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, 2004
Gallery 51, Fairfield, Iowa, 2003
Retrospective, Unity Gallery, Iowa, 2003
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, 1992
Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982
Roger Litz Gallery, New York, 1982

Group Shows of Paintings:
Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of N.J., summit, N.J. 2008
Icon Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa 2007
Visible/Invisible, Sinclair Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2006
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2006
Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, 2005
Marsala, The William Benton Museum, Storrs, Connecticut, 2004
World Artworks Exhibition, Highpoint, NC, 2004
Icon 2 Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa 2004
Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines 2003
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa annually 1981-2004
Gallery 51, Fairfield, Iowa, 2002
Iowa Artists 2000, Des Moines Art Center, 2000
Iowa Artists 1998, Des Moines Art Center, 1998
Community, Heartland Gallery, Des Moines Iowa, 1993
Field Effects: Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Nancy Lurie, Chicago, annually 1980-1982, 1988-1991
Stella Polaris, Los Angeles, annually 1983-1986
Oranges & Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles, 1981
Providence Art Club, Providence, Rhode Island, 1965
Aspen Art Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 1964
University of Rhode Island Gallery, 1963
D'Attoro-Tarnoff Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, 1962

One-Person Shows of Knitted Hangings:
Institute for Creative Arts, Fairfield, Iowa, 1987
Olsen/Larson Gallery, Des Moines, annually 1981-1983
Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982
Unity Gallery, MIU, Fairfield, Iowa, 1981
McNeider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, 1980
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, 1979
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, 1979
Second Story Gallery, Los Angeles, 1979
Hadler Rodriquez, New York, 1979
Celebrations Gallery, San Diego, 1979
Jan’s Gallery, Des Moines 1979
Burlington Art Guild, Burlington, Iowa, 1978
Group Shows of Knitted Hangings:
Art Folio, Boston, 1988
Patrick King, Indianapolis, annually 1984-1986
Stella Polaris, annually, 1982-1984
Hadler Rodriquez, Houston, annually 1983-1984
Nancy Lurie, Chicago, annually 1979-1983
Textiles, Boulder Center for Visual Arts, Boulder, 1980
McNeider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, 1980
Sun Valley Art Center, Ketchum, Idaho, 1980
Fiber Structures/Fabric Surfaces, Herron, Gallery, Indianapolis, 1979
Des Moines Art Center, 1979
Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York City, 1978

Major Commissions:
Iowa State University, Music Building, Ames, Iowa
Gould Corporation, Chicago

Work in Public Collections:
Rockefeller Collection, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Prudential Insurance Corporation of America, Washington, D.C.

Selected Private Collections:
Agnes Martin, Taos, New Mexico
Steve and Karen Rubin, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Paul and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, New York City
Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer, Kansas City, Missouri
David Kaplan, Boone, North Carolina
Kyle and Chandra Cleveland, Boone, North Carolina
Michael and Mara Laughrin, Cleveland, Ohio
Fred Smith, Iowa City
Susan Lefkowitz, Oakland , California
Jonathan Racherbaumer, Santa Rosa, California
Peter Erskine, Venice, California
Sharon Desmond, Santa Rosa, California
Ali and Sibyl Rubottom, San Diego, California
Helena Meyers, Boulder, Colorado
Chuck and Esther Modliszewski, San Antonio, Texas
Rachele and Jeff Williams, Houston, Texas
Michael and Rachel Festa, Hanover, Massachusetts
Wally Keenan , Cranston, Rhode Island
Jim and Cathy Shrosbree, Fairfield, Iowa
Bill and Jenny Witherspoon, Fairfield, Iowa
Chris Kufner, Fairfield, Iowa
Gillian Brown and Ralph Bunker, Fairfield, Iowa
Mark and Claudia Petrick, Fairfield, Iowa
Pam and Jonathan Lipman, Fairfield, Iowa
Mara Winningham, Fairfield, Iowa
Jim Meyers and Nans Saarima, Fairfield, Iowa
Betsy Dockworth, Iowa City, Iowa

Articles and Reviews:
Charlotte Cain, Jeff Fleming, Des Moines Art Center, 2007
Visible/Invisible by William Teeple, Sinclair Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2006
"The Inspiration of India in Current American Art: Contemporary Responses and
Hybrid Forms" by Kathryn Myers, Span, September-October, 2005
"Charlotte Cain, Miniature Paintings" by Jayne Bullock, The Tribune, Ames, Iowa,
August 11, 2004
"Glimpse the Soul of India" and "Indian Art and Artists Come to America" by
Amanda Pierre, Des Moines Register, Aug 1, 2004
Iowa Source, September, 2003
Des Moines Register, September 23, 1982
Los Angeles Times by Robert L. Pincus, May 21, 1982
The Fiberarts Design Book, Hastings House Publishing/American Crafts Magazine,
"N.E.A. Winners", September-October, 1980
"Patterns of Infinity" by Gretchen Erskine Woelfle, Fiberarts, July-August, 1979
"Charlotte Cain" by John Clarke, Arts, June, 1979