Artist Resume

Publications:

• Dumsil, Cheryl. Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco, New York, Thunder Mountain Press, Kindness is a Great Wedding Gift, Mara McWilliams, pg. 43.
• McWilliams, Mara, Outta My Head and In Your Face, Wasteland Press, 2002.
  * 5 star rating on Amazon.com
• McWilliams, Mara. “Kindness is A Great Wedding Gifts, San Jose Mercury News, 3 March 2004, Page 4E.
• McWilliams, Mara. “I am Bipolar.” Life Challenges. http://www.lifechallenges.org/people/bipolar.html (25 Feb 2006).
• McWilliams, Mara. “A Client Seeks Therapy.” Psychjourney. http://www.psychjourney.com/A%20Client%20Decides%20To%20Seek%20Therapy.htm (10 Dec 2005).
• McWilliams, Mara. “The Doctor's Office Says it All.” Psychjourney. http://www.psychjourney.com/The%20Doctor's%20Office%20Says%20It%20All.htm (10 Dec 2005).
• McWilliams, Mara. “The Doctor's Office Says it All.” Enabled Online. http://www.enabledonline.com/health/doctor.php (11 Nov. 2005).
• McWilliams, Mara. “Bipolar Parenting.” Bipolar Family. http://www.bipolarfamily.com/bfrlrmpa001.htm (25 Feb. 2006).
• McWilliams, Mara (aka Rhiannon). “Stormy Nights.” Teen Magazine. January 1986, Pg. 48.
• Oliwenstein, Lori. Psychology Today Here to Help -- Taming Bipolar Disorder. New York, Penguin Group, 2004. Bipolar Parenting, Mara McWilliams, pg. 293.
• Wharton, Greg and Philips Ian. I Do/I Don't ~ Queers on Marriage, San Francisco, Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004, Mara McWilliams, pg. 295.
  * 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Best Non-Fiction Anthology

Selected Exhibitions:

• 2005, Expressions 1, Billy DeFrank Center, San Jose, CA
• 2005, Spouse for Life -- A Wedding Album, Billy DeFrank Center, San Jose, CA
• 2005, Spouses for Life -- A Wedding Album, San Francisco City Hall
• 2005, Intensity, Offices of Cynthia Luce, Atherton, CA
• 2004, Spouses for Life -- A Wedding Album, San Francisco City Hall
• 2004, Phantom Galleries, San Jose, CA
• 2004, Intensity, Offices of Dr. Luce, Atherton, CA
• 2001, Thank You Troops, Starbucks Coffee, San Jose, CA
• 2001, Thank You Troops, Sandwich Mill, San Jose, CA

Commissions:

• “Recovery”, commissioned by Logansport State Hospital, Logansport, IN for a hospital memorial.

Collections:

• Purple Abstract, private collection, Kirkland, WA
• Tranquil Lake, private collection, San Jose, CA
• Abstract Landscape, private collection, Easton, MD
• Fairy, private collection, Easton, MD
• Lovers 6, private collection, Easton, MD
• Nude in Prayer, private collection, Easton, MD
• Abstract Flag Yellow Ribbons, private collection, San Jose, CA
• Drooping Flower, private collection, San Jose, CA
• Inside a Woman, private collection, Sunnyvale, CA
• All Women, private collection, San Jose, CA
• US Abstract Flag, private collection, Clarksville, TN
• US Abstract Flag, private collection, Fallon, NV
• Continuity, private collection, Albuquerque, NM
• Fall Landscape, private collection, Sumner, WA
• Beauty of Motherhood, private collection, Tuscaloosa, AL
• Mauve Motion, private collection, San Jose, CA
• Pink, private collection, San Jose, CA
• Lovers II, private collection, Edison, NJ
• Lovers III, (Donation to BACW)
• Medicinal, (Donation to NORML)

Bibliography:

• Atkins, Lacy. “Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage” photo. San Francisco Chronicle, 23 February 2004, page 1A.
• Berger, Noah. “Second Class Citizen”. Associated Press, August 12, 2994
• Michalec, Kristin. “Student's Book Details Struggles with Bipolar Disorder”. West Valley Norseman, 12 May 2003, Issue #47, page 8.
• McWilliams, Serena. “News from Rainbow Married”. The Rainbow Reader, September 2004, Volume VIII, Issue No. 4,page 1.
• Appeared in the documentary “Journals”, Monica Daniels, 2004
• Appeared in the documentary “I Will, I Do, We Did”, Roland Torres, 2004
• Personal interview by Karina Rusk of ABC News 7, helping Katrina Victims through Art and Technology, September 2005
• Personal interview by Dr. John Rizolo of The Labyrinth,
• Catholic Charities, interviewed
• Personal interview by Sue Veldkamp, The Bright Sede Organization, “Talking Bipolar”

Art Inclusion in:

• Oliwenstein, Lori. Psychology Today Here to Help -- Taming Bipolar Disorder. New York, Penguin Group, 2004. Bipolar Parenting, Mara McWilliams, pg. 293.

Professional Affiliations:

• Pacific Art Collective, California