Mary Jablonski
Asst. Director, Schick Art Gallery
Mary Kathryn Jablonski is a visual artist/poet who has served as a gallerist at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY since 2002, and is program consultant to the Adirondack Center for Writing, based at Paul Smith’s College. Her poems have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Healing Muse, and Chronogram Magazine, among others. She is the author of the chapbook To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met (APD Press, 2008) and is completing final edits on her first book-length collection of poems.
Jablonski has received degrees from Cazenovia College and Skidmore College and has studied at the Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy), the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art, and the University at Albany. From 2000-05, she was Director of the Saratoga Poetry Zone, inviting such renowned poets as Andrew Hudgins, Martín Espada, Denise Duhamel, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly to the Saratoga region. She initiated and curated a program of monthly literary readings to complement exhibits at the Arts Center Gallery in Saratoga Springs as gallery director from 1999-2002.
Jablonski has a special interest in artist/writers and visual poetry and was a 2007 recipient of a NYSCA Individual Artist’s Grant in art & poetry to create new work and interview artist/writers on the Internet. She has read her poems and exhibited her artworks widely throughout NY State. Her poetry was also recently published in Germany by painter/publisher Christoph Ruckhäberle, as it related to a collection of his portraits, in a book coordinating with a January 2009 Berlin exhibition of his work.
