Mary Dawson: Enduring Beauty
October 17 – December 20, 2025
Free Public Opening Reception
Friday, October 17, 6 – 8 p.m.
The artist’s signature fluidity in new paintings and legacy ceramics
Join us at the Free Public Opening Reception:
Friday, October 17, 6 – 8 p.m. The event will feature a free, light tapas buffet and cash bar by Venue.
Grand in scale and vibrancy, Mary Dawson‘s floral paintings in oil captivate viewers and enliven the spaces they occupy. Perfectly complementing her works on canvas will be selections of Dawson’s wall-mounted ceramics, the form of which mirrors the calming, flowing lines of her brushwork.
This exhibit will continue through December 20, 2025
Mary Dawson
(Bowling Green, Ohio)
Mary Dawson received an Associate degree in Fine Art, magna cum laude, from Monticello College (Godfrey, Illinois), her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University (Ohio), as well as post-graduate studies in ceramics, painting and graphic design at the same. In addition to teaching graphic design at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), she has also served as a gallery manager for the Patrick Gallery in San Juan (Puerto Rico).
In 1988, she founded Dawson Design, serving as both the principal and creative director until her retirement in the early 2020s. Her work there provided a full range of concept, design and production services for clients in the corporate and public sectors, including the international Dana Corporation and the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo / Toledo Area Rapid Transit Authority’s joint public art program, Art in TARTA, for which she designed and implemented their award-winning bus wrap graphics based on studio art submissions from area students.
As a studio artist, Mary Dawson’s clay sculpture has been displayed in the annual, juried Toledo Area Artists Exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio (2002; 2004 Second Place Award for Five Figures); the Bowling Green University School of Art Faculty Exhibit (2002; 2003), the Art Commission of Greater Toledo Exhibit (2003; 2005), as well as solo and feature shows in commercial galleries throughout the region. Dawson is a former trustee for the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo and the Medici Circle, BGSU, School of Art; she is a current member of the Toledo Potters’ Guild (Ohio).