About

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 

1993 – present University of Louisville, full professor of Fine Arts – painting & drawing.

1990 – 1993 Seminole Community College 3 years Professor Sanford, FL. 

1979 – 1987 CSX & L&N Railroad – machine operator & track repairman

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY 

1989 Yale University M.F.A., New Haven, CT.

1987 University of Louisville, B.F.A. Louisville, KY. 

1984 Apprenticeship with Sam Gilliam, Washington, D.C., 

TEACHING 

County Kildare Arts Council Exchange Artist / Instructor Painting & Drawing Newbridge, Ireland.

Manual High School Guest artist/Instructor Junior & Senior Painting Louisville, KY.

Yale University Teaching Assistant Intermediate Drawing, New Haven, CT.

J. B. Speed Art Museum Guest Artist/ Instructor Painting, Louisville, KY

Louisville Visual Art Assoc. Instructor Painting Louisville, KY

Seminole Community College Professor Painting I, II, Drawing I, Drawing II, 3D Design, Sanford, FL 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 

Committee for Undergraduate Studies, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL, 1991-93

Faculty Advisor, Art Club, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL, 1991-93

Juror, Seminole County Elementary School Competition, Sanford Chamber of Commerce, Sanford, FL, Fall 1991 and Fall 1992

Juror, Seminole County High School Art Competition, Committee of Public Works and Transportation, Casselberry, FL, spring 1993

Juror, Seminole High School Art Competition, Seminole High School, Casselberry, FL, fall 1992

Curator, Thomas Germano: Contemporary Realist – New York Painter,

Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL, January-February 1993

Juror, Jefferson County High School Scholastic Show. 1994

Juror, Michigan State University, Undergraduate Exhibition, Lansing, MI. 1995

Drawing and Painting workshops and slide lectures with four different art groups in Kildare, Ireland. 1996

Juror, Manual High School, Louisville, KY 1996

Drawing workshop with teachers around the county at Manual High School 2003

Juror, Jeff. County Region of the National Scholastic Art Awards. Louisville, KY 2005

Juror, Mazin Juried Exhibition, Jewish Community, Louisville, KY, 2009

Juror, Nude 2011, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY, 2011

Invited and organized lecture, painting critique and spearheaded the exhibition of drawings by artist Steven Assael. (2011)

Invited and organized a lecture, class demonstration and painting critic of artist Hanneline Røgeberg (2012)

Invited and Organized lecture, painting critic, and spearheaded the exhibition of artist William Bailey (2013)

Organized a studio visit with artist Steven Assael (2015)

Organized lecture series for 2015 exhibition on Frederick Douglass, Stewart’s Canal, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad. Invited history department instructor Professor Dr. Mackey, Pan- African Studies Professor Emeritus Dr. Douglass, and  Maryland Historian J.O.K Walsh to(2015)

NYC and New Haven CT trip with art Majors (2015)

Organized a studio visit and student drawing session with artist Steven Assael (2015)

Organized a studio visit and Tour of Yale University  (2015)

Organized a studio visit and Tour of New York Academy of the Arts (2015)

Organized critique of artwork in NYC with artist Thomas Germano (2015)

Organized tour of the MET with art historian Professor Thomas Germano discussing Thomas Hart Benton exhibit and artworks that related to the students he critiqued (2015)

Organized tour of working artist studio Hayley Parker who spoke about her work.  Los Angeles, California (2017)

Organized tour of Graduate Art and Architecture Department at UCLA speaking with a grad students. 2017

Organized tour of Graduate San Francisco Art Institute speaking with a grad students. 2017

Organized museum visits in Los Angeles and San Francisco California for Art majors (2017)

Juror, St. James Scholarship Recipients, Louisville, KY, (2019)

PRESENTATION AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS

1996 The Eighteenth Annual Great Labor Arts Exchange, George 

Meany Labor Center, Silver Springs, Maryland.

1997 Teach – In on the Future of labor, University of Washington. 

Seattle, Washington.

2010 Ethical Leadership Panel Discussion, College of St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio 

AWARDS

1994 Young Investigator Award, U of L

1994 KY Arts Council, Professional Assistance Award, Frankfort, KY

1996 Al Smith Fellowship, The Kentucky Arts Council.

1996 KAC, Traveling Fellowship Award to County Kildare, Ireland.

2009 Al Smith Fellowship, The Kentucky Arts Council

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY GRANT FUNDS

1991 Commission, James Weldon Johnson Conference, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL. $500 proceeds donated to the College.

1994 College of A & S; Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY.

1994 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2014 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2015 Commission on Racial Equality and Diversity Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2016 Morgan Faculty Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2016 Research and Creative Activity Grant, University of Louisville, KY

WORK IN PROGRESS

The CSX Railroad Series begun in 1988 is still in progress.

The Women who laid the Rail begun in 1997-06

The T.W.U. Transportation Workers Union Series 2003 completed

The Harriet Tubman Series begun 2002 still in progress

Stewarts Canal Series begun 2012 still in progress

Frederick Douglass Series begun 2013 during sabbatical

Zimbabwe Series begun 2016 still in progress 

Still Family Saga, begun in 2021 during sabbatical

Exhibitions and Related Professional Activities

Permanent Collections

University of Louisville (Freedom Seeker (print), 

University of Louisville (1^{s t} & State Street)

University of Louisville (Dover 8, I & II (prints)

Michigan State University Museum (Iron Men)

Denton Museum, Maryland (Dover 8)

Sylvia Anderson, Washington, D. C. (Escape from Poplar Neck I)

The T.W.U. Transportation Workers Union, New York. (Mural)

The John Parker House (5 paintings)

The American Labor Museum (Botto House) Haledon, New Jersey.

George Meany Center, Silver Spring, Maryland.

County Kildare Arts Council, Ireland.

Hilliard Lyons Inc. Louisville, KY.

College of Mount St., Joseph, Studio San Giuseppe Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY

West Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, FL

Orlando City Hall, FL

Mrs. Patricia Landry, Sorrento, FL

University of Louisville, KY (The Hunters (painting))

First National Bank Collection, Louisville, KY

Kentucky Fried Chicken Collection, Louisville, KY

Links Collection, Louisville, KY

Art Museum of West Virginia, Roanoke, VA

(2) Exhibitions and Awards

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

1983 Hamilton House Youth Development Center, Louisville, KY

1984 Jewish Community Center, Louisville, KY

1984 Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY

1985 WHAS Gallery, Louisville, KY

1986 Triangle Gallery, Sponsored by Sam Gilliam, Washington, DC

1987 Perry Brown Hill Gallery, The Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY

1991 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

1992 Harris House Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL

1992 Albertson – Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL

1994 George Meany Labor Center, Silver Spring, Maryland

1994 University Club, University of Louisville, KY

1995 Belknap and Covi Galleries, University of Louisville, KY

1995 Kentucky Railroad Museum, New Haven, KY

1996 Michigan State University Museum, 4-month exhibition. Lansing, MI

1996 Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, College of Mount St. Joseph. Cincinnati, Ohio

1996 – 97 Walter P. Reuther Gallery, 4-month exhibition, The College of Urban and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

1997 American Labor Museum. Haledon, New Jersey

1997 University of Texas At El Paso, Fox Fine Art Gallery, El Paso, Texas

1998 George Meany Archives Labor Center, Silver Spring, Maryland.

1999 University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY

1999 Bershad Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

2001 Belknap Gallery, University of Louisville, KY

2002 Botto House Museum. Haledon, New Jersey.

2003 Solo Permanent Installation at T.W.U. Manhattan, NY

2004 Solo Exhibition, Sinclair Community College Dayton, Ohio

2005 40 Acres Gallery collaboration with California State Railroad 

Museum, Sacramento, CA

2007 Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD

2009 Dorchester Art Center, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Cambridge, MD

2009 Hite Gallery, Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad, Louisville, KY

2010 Mount St. Joseph College, Studio Giuseppe Gallery Cincinnati, OH

2010 Botto House American Labor Museum, The Charles Nalle Rescue Drawing & Prints Haledon, NJ.

2010 Russell Sage College Gallery, Fugitive Slave Rescued Painting of Charles Nalle by Mark Priest, Troy, NY.

2010 Rensselaer County Historical Society, A Fugitive Slave Rescued, Troy, NY.

2011 Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas.

2013-14 The Museum of Rural Life, Mark Priest: Harriet Tubman, The Underground railroad The Building of Stewart’s Canal, Denton, MD (1 year exhibit)

2015. Cressman Center, Narrative of the early years of Frederick Douglass: Drawing Series, Louisville, KY

2015   Allen R. Hite Gallery, Life of a Freedom Seeker: Paintings Drawings and prints of Harriet Tubman and other freedom seekers, Louisville KY

2017-18    American Labor Museum, Frederick Douglass: Drawings & Paintings, Haledon, NY (8-month exhibition)

2022 Still Family Saga, Denton Museum, Denton, Maryland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982 Eight State Exhibition, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

1983 Potpourri Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1984 Perry Hill Gallery, The Water Tower, Louisville, KY

1984 Kentucky Painters of the Southern Tradition, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville 

1984 The First National Bank’s Black Artists’ Exhibition, First Ntnl Bank, Louisville, KY

1985 Annual Black Artists’ Exhibition, Louisville, KY, 

1985 Realism, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN

1986 The Painted Persona, Natalini Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986 Contemporary Black Artists of Louisville, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN.

1987 Annual Black Artists’ Exhibition, Louis. KY, Merit Award

1987 Water Tower Annual, The Water Tower Association, Louis. KY

1989 A+A Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1990 10th Annual Black Artists Exhibition, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

1990 African American Contemporary Art, Civic Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo, Italy

1991 Three by Three Exhibition, Maitland Art Museum, Maitland, FL

1991 Kentucky on Paper, Kingman Foundation Gallery, Diego de Almargo y Padera, Quito, Ecuador

1994 Floyd County Museum of Art, New Albany, IN

1994 New Works, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY

1995 African American Kentuckian Exhibition, Owensboro, KY

1995 Heike Pickett Gallery, New Works Lexington, KY

1995 Afro-American Group Exhibition, Actors Theater Gallery, Louisville, KY

1996 UPS, United Parcel Service Gallery, Louisville, KY

1996 Kresge Art Museum, Michigan, MI.

1997 UPS Gallery, Louisville, KY.

1997 ” What One is Worth”, An Exhibition of a Labor Theme, Northwest Folk life Festival Seattle Center Pavilion. Seattle, Washington.

1998 University of Louisville Faculty Group Show, Northern, KY.

1998 University of Louisville Faculty Show, Univ. Cinn., Ohio.

1998 Representation Painters Exhibition Series, University of Louisville, Belknap   Gallery KY.1999 “Flesh in – Action” Group Show Exhibition, Fort Points Arts Community Gallery. Boston, Mass.

2000 Vermont Studio, Group Show, Johnson, Vermont

2001 African American Artist’s group show, University of Indiana Southeast

2001 Belknap Gallery Faculty Group Show, University of Louisville, KY.

2001 Armory Art Center, Group Exhibition, West Palm Beach, Fl.

2002 Faculty Group Exhibition, Belknap Gallery, Univ. of Louisville, KY.

2002 Water Tower Group Exhibition, ” Faces”, KY.

2005 13th Annual Jack E. Lunt Memorial Invitational Exhibition. Ervin G. Houchens Gallery, Bowling Green, KY

2005 Human Element, The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ

2006 Southern Exposure University of Louisville, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin

2007 John Parker Series, The John Parker Museum, Ripley, Ohio

2008 The Story, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida

2013 “Struggles and Triumph,” Rotunda Art Project, Metro Hall, Underground Railroad Series, Louisville, KY.

2015   State of Painting, Georgetown College Fine Arts Galleries, Georgetown KY

2015   Kentucky Visions at the Capitol 2015, Frankfort, KY

2016   State of Painting, Georgetown College Art Galleries, Georgetown, KY        

2018   Louisville Artists, Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, KY

2018   Louisville Artists: Carry On, LVA, Louisville KY

2019   Motivation by Inspiration: A Black History Month Exploration, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD

HONORS

1983 Merit Award, Potpourri Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1984 Purchase Award, Best of Show, Annual Black Artists’ Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1987 Merit Award, Most Promising Artist, The Annual Black Artists’ 

Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1987 Judith Hall Award, Louisville, KY

1987 Winthrop Allen Memorial Award, University of Louisville, KY

1987 Ford Material Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1987 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988 Arnold Bittleman Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988 Ford Material Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1989 The Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship Award, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

1994 Merit Award, Floyd County Museum of Art, New Albany, IN

1994 Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

1994 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2000 Women Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2000 Vermont Residency Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont.

2001 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2003 Women Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2005 African American Faculty Mini Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2005 Sabbatical Awarded for 2006

2006 President’s Initiative Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2007 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2008 Commission on Racial Equality and Diversity Grant, Univ. of Louisville, KY

2009 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship, KAC, Frankfort, KY

2010 Initiative Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2010 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY
2012 Sabbatical Awarded for 2013

2014 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2015 Commission on Racial Equality and Diversity Grant, Univ. of Louisville, KY

2016 Morgan Faculty Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2016 Research and Creative Activity Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2018 Sabbatical Awarded 2020 change to fall to 2021 due to covid-19

ARTICLES REVIEW AND BROCHURES

Feature, “Work in Art,” The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, April 11, 1991

Feature, “‘David,’ by Mark Priest- on view 2nd Street Gallery during the month of April,” Albemarle, Charlottesville, VA, April – May 1991

Feature, “Public Art Collection is four works richer,” The Orlando

Sentinel, Orlando, FL, December 22, 1991

Feature, “Artist’s work on the railroad lays tracks for painting career,” The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, FL, January 16, 1992

Feature, “Celebration of heritage,” The Daily Journal, New Smyrna

Beach, FL, February 11, 1992

Feature, “Bold, realistic art at Harris House,” The Observer, New Smyrna Beach, FL, February 13, 1992

Feature, “Germano opens exhibit at SCC,” Sanford Herald, Sanford, FL. January 31, 1993

Feature, “From railroad tracks to Yale Art School,” Takoma Voice,

Silver Springs, MA, September 5, 1994

 Feature, “Artist Priest Images Powerfully Portray M of W Workers,” BMWE Journal, Southfield, Michigan. October 1994

Feature, “Memories on Track: Paintings of a Railway Artist,” Labors Heritage, Silver Spring, MD. Quarterly No. 2 October 1994

Feature, “A Portrait of Family and Friends,” Encore, Louisville, KY, December 1994

Feature, “Art series celebrates those who built our nation’s railroads,” The Louisville Cardinal, Louisville, KY. January 12,1995

Feature, “Paintings portray the railroad worker as an American hero,” The Louisville Cardinal, Louisville, KY. January 12, 1995

Feature, “Researchers honored as Young Investigators,” Inside U of L, Louisville, KY. January 20, 1995

Review, “University of Louisville Morris Belknap and Dario Covi Galleries,” The Courier-Journal, Sunday January 29, 1995

Feature, “Drawn to the Tracks,” Louisville, Louisville, KY, January 1995

Feature, “African American artist put work on display”, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Kentucky, August 25, 1995.

Feature, “Rail Art: Artist uses toil on railroad as inspiration” MSU State News No. 7, Lansing, Michigan, Feb 15 1996. 

Feature, “Art on Track: Artist Mark Priest Brings Epic Art of Railroad Labor to Michigan State”. Lansing State Journal, Lansing, MI. Feb 16, 1996.

Feature, “Kentucky Artist a big Draw”, The Evening Herald, of Ireland. October 1996.

Feature, “A Bold Tribute to Laborers” Working on railroad inspired paintings, The Cincinnati Enquirer ” TEMPO” November 24, 1996.

Feature, “Worker of the world, relax! “His Art Stays on Track”, (UAW) Solidarity Detroit, Michigan No. 30 May 1996.

Review, “Iron Men, Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest”, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, College of Mount St. Joseph. Dialogue: Art in the Midwest, (Jan / Feb 1997): 29

Review, “Iron Men, Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest”, The Italian Voice, (February 6, 1997): 6.

Review, Horvitz, Lee. “Iron Men. Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest” Antenna Arts Magazine. (February 1997): 10 -11.

Review, American Labor Museum, “Iron Men. Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest” NJEA (March 1997).

Exhibition Announcement, The Jersey Journal (March 14, 1997).

Exhibition Announcement, The New York Times (March 16,1997) 11.

Review, In the Arts, “Michelangelo of the rails at Meany Center”(August 5, 1998) Page B-3

Review, Montgomery Gazette “Working on the railroad” (Aug 7, 1998) C7

Review, The Washington Post, “‘Steel-Drivin’ Women’ Mark Priest Puts Muscle Into his Works on life on the Railroad”(August 13, 1998) C5, Col. 1

Review of work. News Night with Anchor Bob Althage. Maryland Public Television Sept.1998)

Announcement of and showing of work on WKYT TV News, Washington D.C.

Radio Interview, N.P.R. Morning Edition with Bob Evans, (Sept 7,1998) Washington, D.C.

Exhibition Announcement, Lexington Herald – Leader, Visual Arts (Sept 13, 1998) H2

Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Working on the Railroad” (Oct 16, 1998) p B 108

Review, Kernel Entertainment Guide “Working on the Railroad”(Jan. 19, 1999) p7

Exhibition Announcement, Lexington Herald – Leader, Nation and World (Feb. 4, 1999) p. A4

Review, Kernel Entertainment Guide “A room with a view”, (Feb. 4, 1999) pg. 1

Review, Art News for Teachers. ” Mark Priest: The Railroad Labor Series” (Winter 1999) pp 1-2

Review, Lexington Herald – Leader ” Museum showing State’s talents”(Feb. 7, 1999) p k4 

Review, Kentucky Kernel. “Priest gives taste of life on rails” (Feb 8, 1999) p 3

Review, Labors Heritage. (Vol. 10 / No. 1)

Feature, “Speaking of Art: 14 Kentuckians discuss their work in new KET series, “The Courier Journal, (December 2, 2001) pp A1, I1, I6

Feature, “Drawing and Painting the Figure From Life”, Master Artists Workshops. The Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Art Center. (2002) pp25-26

Feature, American Labor Museum To Honor Railroad Women and Railroad Artist Mark Priest, New York Labor History Association (Fall 2002)

Review, “Heroism often all in a day’s work” Sept. 1, 2002, New Jersey News Paper

Review, The Shopper New, Botto House Open Exhibition, H 46, Sept. 4, 2002

Feature, “Celebrating the Jobs We Do: Original Murals Grace New International Headquarters” TWU Express, December 31, 2003, p10, 11

Review, Art Headlines “Rail Road Artist Story Teller” F. 6 Dayton Daily News, Sept. 12, 2004 Dayton, Ohio.

Feature, Heavy Metal; Mark Priest paints life on the railroad. The Sacramento Bee. (February 1, 2005) pp 10-11

Brochure, “Mark Priest, Laborers of the Railroad”. 40 Acres Art Gallery and The California Railroad Museum. 2005

Feature, “Noted Painter Exhibits New Series” by Pat Guida, Caroline Review (February 2007) p8

Exhibition Announcement, Times-Record, Caroline County (February 7, 2007) pA15

Feature, “Paintings in Denton depict Underground Railroad” The Star Democrat (February 16, 2007) p7

Feature, “Life of Underground Railroad conductor depicted in exhibit.” The Ripley Bee (May 31, 2007) Vol.164 No. 22 pA1, A3

Feature, “Parker Society unveils images of Elizabeth J. Cloyd Exhibit”, The Ripley Bee (June 14, 2007) Vol.164 No. 24 pA1, A8

Feature, The Story”, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, (2007) p23

Review, “Brush up Tubman’s Life, Painter’s exhibit heroes trailblazer”, The Courier Journal (March 14,2009)

Exhibition Announcement, “Underground Railroad, with Works by Mark Priest”’. What’s Up? Eastern Shore Magazine (March 2009) p18

Review, “Artist honors Tubman in Show at DCA”, The Courier Journal (March 13,2009)

Review,” Artist tells Tubman Stories in Vivid Color “, The Star Democrat (April 2, 2009)

Feature, “Underground Railroad Conference convenes in Troy” Columbia Paper (Feb. 16, 2010)

Feature, “A Fugitive Slave Rescued: Paintings of Charles Nalle.” New York History. N.p., 22 Feb., 2010. Web. 04 Sept. 2012. <http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/>.

Feature, “Telling story of Freedom Won”, Times Union. Albany, New York (February 26, 2010) pA1, A11

Announcement, Steigerwald, Shauna. “Studio San Giuseppe Exhibit Features Underground Railroad Works – Share Story.” Cincinnati.com. N.p., 8 Sept. 2010. Web. 04 Sept.2012. <http://local.cincinnati.com/share/news/story.aspx?sid=170893>.

Feature, “Mark Priest and the Underground Railroad”, Dateline. Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2010) p3

Announcement, Mark Priest’s ‘The Iron Men’ Join Workers Culture Collection: Reception Monday, 2/13, 5pm. Michigan State University Museum. (2012)

Announcement, Mark Priest’s ‘The Iron Men’ Join Workers Culture Collection: Reception Monday, 2/13, 5pm. Michigan State University Museum. (2012)

Review, Shields, Heather W. “Legend to Be Honored Along MD’s Eastern Shore.” Wbal.com. N.p., 8 Mar. 2013. Web. 09 Mar. 2013.

Review, “Muse of Her People.” Baltimore Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2013.

Feature, “Mark Priest.” Louisville Visual Art Association. N.p., 8 Oct. 2013. Web. Oct. 2013

Feature, “One Question | Mark Priest, Professor of Painting.” The Courier-Journal. N.p., 3 Aug. 2013. Web. Aug. 2013.

Feature, “Struggle and Triumph Focus of New Exhibit at Metro Hall – 2013 – LouisvilleKy.gov.” Struggle and Triumph Focus of New Exhibit at Metro Hall – 2013 – LouisvilleKy.gov. N.p., 25 July 2013. Web. July 2013.

          Feature, Taylor, Kaylyn. “Arts-Louisville.com: Social, Political and Personal Themes Connect in the Work of Three Artists at Metro Hall.” Arts-Louisville.com: Social, Political and Personal Themes Connect in the Work of Three Artists at Metro Hall. N.p., 21 Aug. 2013. Web. Aug. 2013.

Feature, Triplett, Jo Anne “ART: Priest’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Covers Vast Territory – LEO Weekly.” LEO Weekly. N.p., Feb. 2015. Web 04 Feb.2015

Feature, Triplett, Jo Anne. “A Q&A with Artist Mark Priest – LEO Weekly.” LEO Weekly. N.p., 13 Feb. 2015. Web 14 Feb.2015

          Feature, Kramer, Elizabeth. “Painting Vivid History; Artist Mark Priest Studies Frederick Douglass, Others for Striking Series On Slavery.” The Courier-Journal [Louisville] 15 Feb. 2015, Arts Section I sec.: 11-12. Print. 

Announcement “U of L Conference to Focus on Issues Facing Black Families – 89.3 WFPL.” 893 WFPL. N.p., 16 Feb. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.

Announcement, “UofL Event to Promote Black Empowerment.” The Courier-Journal. N.p., 17 Feb. 2015. Web.

Exhibition Announcement, “visit A Participating Museum For Free on 9/23/17.” Smithosonian.com , Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/museum/american-labor-museumbotto-house-national-landmark-2K8/.

Workshops, Demonstrations, or Lectures

1990-92 Drawing workshop for high school teachers, Lake Mary High School, Lake Mary, FL

1992 Painting workshop, Harris House Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL (Spring)

1996 Slide lecture of work. Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. 

1996 Slide lecture of work. Clare, County Kildare, Ireland.

1996 Slide Lecture of work to VTOS (vocational training program for art students) Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland

1996 Conducted Art workshop. (2 weeks) for the Wheelchair Society.  County Kildare, Ireland

1996 Conducted an Art workshop (2 week) with VTOS students County Kildare, Ireland.

1996 Public talk and Slide presentation on my development as an artist. Michigan State University.

1996 Slide presentation of work at Eastern High School, Lansing Public Schools, Lansing, Michigan.

1996 Museum lecture for East Lansing High School, Lansing, Michigan. 

1996 “Worker’s Culture” MSU Museum. School of Labor and Industrial Relations.

1996 Slide presentation of current works, ” The Eighteenth Annual Great Labor Arts Exchange” 3-day conference on the music, drama, and working men and women.

1996 Invited to participate in “Career Day”, lecturing on the topic “Careers in Art”. Male High School.

1997 Slide presentation and gallery talk of current work, Walter P.  Reuther, The College of Urban and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne 

State University.

1997 Gallery Presentation, American Labor Museum, Haledon, NJ

1997 Slide Presentation of recent work, University of Texas at El Paso, Fox Fine Art Gallery. El Paso, Texas.

1998 Slide Presentation of recent work, George Meany Center for Labor Studies

1999 Slide Presentation of recent work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

1999 Gallery Presentation, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY 

2002 Armory Art Center Catalog Exhibition, West Palm Beach, FL 

2005 Slide Lecture of Artwork. Central Kentucky Art Guild, Elizabethtown, KY

2007 Gallery Presentation, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD

2009 Gallery Presentation, Dorchester Art Center, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Cambridge, MD

2009 Panel speaker, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Discussion Group, Cambridge Historical Society, MD 

2010 Slide Lecture of Artwork. Mount St. Joseph College, Studio Giuseppe Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH

2010 Workshop, “Art of History Student Workshop”, Troy, NY

2013 Gallery Lecture, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD

2014 Presentation of Drawings, “Freedom Seeker: Early life of Frederick Douglass”, Frederick Douglass Honor Society, Easton, MD

2014 Uncommon Wealth Lecture Series, Al Smith Fellowship Recipient slide lecture and questions & answers, Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington KY

2015    Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships, video presentation & questions & answers University Club. University of Louisville, KY 

2015    Gallery Lecture for Mount St. Joseph College (Ohio) students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, Belknap & Cressman Gallery

2015   Gallery Lecture for Manual High School Art students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, Belknap & Cressman Gallery 

2015    Slide Lecture for Collegiate School Art students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, at Collegiate School, Louisville KY 

2015    Gallery Lecture for Black Family Conference Kickoff Event, Underground Railroad featuring Frederick Douglass Exhibition, at Collegiate School, Louisville KY 

2017    Nine Gallery Lectures for the Exhibition, Frederick Douglass: Drawings & Paintings, featuring Frederick Douglass early life as an enslaved person, at Labors Heritage Museum, Haledon, NY

VIDEOS

2001 Looking at Painting #102, KET TV. Lexington, KY 

2005 Visual Arts Toolkit. KET TV. Lexington, KY

2007 Artworks: This Week, 637 Maryland Public Television (MPT.Org)

2008 Harriet Tubman and the Art of Mark Priest

2010 C-Span Freeing Charles March 21, 2010 

2015 “Underground Railroad 2015: Life oof a Freedom Seeker.” YouTube. University of Louisville, 06 Feb. Web. 2015.

2017 Video Feature, Seiler, Casey. “Scott Christianson, 69, Acclaimed Journalist _Author & Advocate. “ Times Union, 16 May 2017, 4:35,  www.timesunion.com/news/article/Scott-Christianson-69-acclaimed-journalist-11149980.php.

2022 Still Family Saga. pt.1 Features select drawings and 2 paintings from series. Still Family Interactive Center. Denton, Maryland

IMAGES IN PRINT

2008 The National Parks Service. “The Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Guide”. Guide cover image, “Harriet Tubman – Escape from Poplar Neck II”.

2009 Image,” Harriet Tubman-Escape from Poplar Neck II”, Guide Cover Image. The National Parks Service.” Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Guide”. “Harriet Tubman-Escape from Poplar Neck II”

2009 Book Cover Image. “Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War”, by Scott Christianson, University of Illinois Press.

2010 Journal article Image. “The Rescue of Charles Nalle” pp 20-23, By Scott Christianson. New York Archives. Volume 10 number 1 Summer 2010.

2010 Book Image. “Railroads in the African-American Experience: A Photographic Journey” pp372, 414,415, by Theodore Kornweibel. The John Hopkins Univ. Press.

2011 Newspaper image of, “The Altruist”, painting. The Dispatch: Rioting in Troy! Fugitive Slave Escapes Tubman Reportedly Involved. Vol. 28 Number 2 p1

Images, Harriet Tubman-Escape from Poplar Neck II, Bailey’s Escape From Jamaica Point, & Harriet Tubman with Freedom Seekers. The images will be used as teaching tools. The National Parks Service. Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Visitor Centers. Printed for use. 2012

Road Markers on the National Parks Departments. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and State Park in Maryland. 2013

Centennial Poster using painted image “Tubman’s December 1856 Rescue”. The National Parks Department. 2013

Brochure, image of, “Poplar Neck Escape I”, in the Join the Journey 2013 Harriet Tubman Centennial Commemoration. 

Book Image: True Book Series: Harriet Tubman, Scholastic Inc. Image, “Nalle series – The Altruist”. Release date September 2015.

Guide Cover Image. The National Parks Service. “The Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Guide”.  “Harriet Tubman – portrait drawing” 2016.

Six Visitor Center Exhibition Images: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center. Images: The Auction, Timber Crew, Building Stewart’s Canal, Bucktown Store Skirmish, Escape from Poplar Neck, 1854 Flight to Freedom. 2016.