Rick Pas is a contemporary realist who finds artistic inspiration in nature. He has a BFA from Eastern Michigan University, among his awards are an Arts for the Parks Regional Award, two Michigan United Conservation Clubs' Wildlife Artist of the Year, and the Indiana duck stamp design. National and regional publications where his art has appeared include Audubon, Prints, and Michigan Out-of-Doors.

Rick has exhibited at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Anchorage Fine Arts Museum, Flint Institute of Art, and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His work can be found in collections across North America, including Ameritech and General Motors Corporation in Detroit, MI, and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI.

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Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Pearson Art Scholarship.

Awards
Honorable Mention
Georgetown International, Fraser Gallery 2003

Arts for the Parks Region III Award, 1992

Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ Wildlife Artist of the Year 1982,1987.

Indiana Duck Stamp Design, 1985.

Selected Exhibitions
2005
Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Animal House

The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO
American Birds: A Flight Through Time

2004
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ
Art and the Animal

Fraser Gallery, Washington, D. C.
Contemporary Realism

Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Five Year Celebration

2003
Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown International

Wildlife Prairie State Park, Peoria IL
Art on the Prairie

2001
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
57th Juried Exhibition

2000
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Birds in Art
(Also 1983-85, 1987,1992, 1994.)
Exhibition national tour locations included:
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
John L. Wehle Gallery of Wildlife and Sporting Art, Mumford, NY
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA
San Bernadino County Museum, Redlands, CA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
Anchorage Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK
Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.


2000
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
Midwest Winter


Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
National 2000

1993
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Wildlife: the Artist's View
(Also 1990.)
Exhibition national tour locations included:
New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR


1992
National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
Arts for the Parks
(Also 1990.)

1989
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
Birds in Art

1983
National Wildlife Federation Vienna, VA
Wildlife in Art

1979
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Flint Area Exhibition

Commissions and Corporate Collections
Ameritech, Detroit, MI
Charles S. Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
Potter Park Zoological Society, Lansing, MI
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI