Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2000 to Present

2009

  • Benefit Auction for Swaner Nature Center, Gallery Mar, Park City, UT
  • “A Conscious Balance”, Gallery Mar, Park City, UT
  • “Colored Pencil Revisited”, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA

2008

  • Giclee prints show of selected works, Red Raven Gallery, Lancaster, PA
  • “Earth Spirit”, Side Gallery, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD
  • “New Work”, Arts Hotel Gallery, Arts Hotel, Lancaster, PA
  • “New Work”, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA

2007

  • “Earth Matters”, Art and Soul Gallery, Boulder. CO
  • Artist Spotlight, The Artisan Connection, State College, PA
  • “Earth Spirit”, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

2006

  • “Earth Matters”, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon, PA
  • “Golden Squares”, Arts Hotel Gallery, Arts Hotel, Lancaster, PA
  • “Nature’s Spirit”, Doshi Gallery for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA
  • “Earth Matters”, nature conservancy benefit show, William Ris Gallery,
    Camp Hill, PA

2005

  • “New Works – Golden Circles”, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA

2004

  • “Earth Art”, Hodson Gallery, Tatum Arts Center, Hood College, Frederick, MD
  • “Earth Art”, Von Hess Gallery, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

2003

  • “Earth Art”, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA
  • “Earth Art”, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA

2001

  • “Sticks and Stones”, Hess Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
  • “Sticks and Stones”, Lancaster Galleries West, Elizabethtown, PA

2000

  • “Millstones”, Penn National Insurance Corporate Headquarters.,
    Harrisburg, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions: 1998 to Present

2009

  • “Artist Palette Association”, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA

2007

  • Harrisburg Art Association Four Person Show, Harrisburg, PA
  • Eleventh Annual Alumni Art Show, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
  • “Earth Exhibit: Artists Pay Homage to the Earth”, Arts at 510, Harrisburg, PA

2006

  • “East Meets West”, Doshi Gallery for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA
  • “Now and Zen”, benefit show for Lancaster Museum of Art, RMS, Inc., Manheim, PA
  • 53rd Annual Juried NSPCA Exhibition, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
  • 7th Annual National Art Exhibition, Shippensburg University,
    Shippensburg, PA

2005

  • “As If The Earth Mattered”, Front Gallery, Asheville, NC
  • “Celebrations”, K. D. Moore Gallery, Evergreen, CO
  • “To the Edge of the World”, Whitaker Center for Arts and Sciences,
    Harrisburg, PA

2004

  • Adjunct Exhibit during traveling exhibit “Inner Circles”, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
  • “Art of the Spirit”, Invitational National Show, The Art Works Gallery,
    Newark, OH

2003

  • “Art of the State”, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
  • Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

2002

  • The Atrium Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
  • “Select Solo II”, Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD
  • 49th Annual Juried NSPCA Exhibition, The Salmagundi Club, New York City, New York
  • “The Nature of Nature”, York Arts Gallery, York, PA
  • Hilton Head Art League, Hilton Head, SC
  • Harrisburg Art Association Juried Membership Show, Harrisburg, PA
  • Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA
  • Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
  • Susan Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA

2001

  • Lancaster Galleries West, Elizabethtown, PA

2000

  • Vera Curnow Gallery, Rising Sun, IN
  • Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, MI 1993, 2000
  • York Art Association, York, PA 1990, 1994, 2000

1999

  • Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA

1998

  • Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA

Education

  • Zenga: Zen Brush Painting Workshop, Blue Mountain Lotus Society,
    Harrisburg, PA
  • Millersville University, Millersville, PA
    Graduate Courses in Studio Art 1992-2000
  • Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Campus, Middletown, PA
    M.A. Humanities Graduate Studies 1976-1978
  • Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
    B.S. Art Education 1972

Awards and Honorariums

  • Juried the 2007 Art Alliance of Central PA abstraction show
  • Honorable Mention in Acrylics, Hilton Head National Juried Art Exhibition
  • Local Artist of the Year, Sierra Club, Blue Mtn. Chapter, Harrisburg, PA
  • Colored Pencil Society of America Signature Member Status
  • Colored Pencil Society of America Five-Year Merit Award
  • Strathmore Paper Company Award of Excellence
  • Prismacolor Award for Outstanding Recognition
  • Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Teacher As Artist Award
  • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers Award ’05, ’99, ’98, ’96

Published Articles

  • Happenings, Intelligencer Journal, “Earth Art: Zen and the Art of Art”,
    by Carol DiFonzo, October, 2003
  • This Weekend, Lancaster New Era, “New Direction For Artist: Feathers and Nails”, By Jane Holahan, March, 2003
  • The Best of Colored Pencil, Vol. 5, “Forbidden Fruit”, 1999
  • American Artist Magazine, “The Coming of Age of Colored Pencil”, by Linda S. Price, December, 1998
  • The Best Of Colored Pencil 2, “Poppies By The Gate” and “Passageway”, 1994
  • “Earth Matters by Brad Stroman at the Juniata College Museum”,
    artdaily.org, 2007
  • Harrisburg Magazine, Gallery Space, “Downtown Galleries Feature Variety”,
    by Scott Campbell, April, 2007
  • USA TODAY Newspaper.

Professional Memberships

  • National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
  • Colored Pencil Society of America, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA
  • Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
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