biography of Alexandra V ALAUPOVIC (1921)

Birth place: Slatina, Yugoslavia

Addresses: Oklahoma City, OK

Profession: Sculptor, educator

Studied: Acad. Visual Arts, Univ. Zagreb, Academic sculptor and teaching cert., 1948; Acad. Visual Arts, Prague, 1949; Univ IL, Urbana-Champaign, 1959-1960; Univ Okla, MFA, 1966.

Exhibited: Exposition Assn Peintres, Graveurs et Sculpteurs de Croatie, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1956; ULUH (association of visual artists in Croatia), Yugoslavia, Beograd, 1956; 35th Ann. Springfield Art Mus., MO, 1965; On Music, Univ Okla Mus. Art, 1968; Ann. Eight State Exhib. of Painting & Sculpture, Oklahoma City, 1971; Sales & Rental Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, 1970s. Awards: Jacobson Award, Univ Okla, 1964; hon mention in sculpture, Philbrook Art Ctr, Tulsa, 1967 & first sculpture award, 1970.

Member: The MacDowell Club of Allied Arts.

Work: Univ Okla Mus Art, Norman; Gradski Muzej, Varazdin, Yugoslavia; Muzej Otoka Hvara, Yugoslavia; Oklahoma City Pub. Lib., Okla.; Okla. Art Ctr., Oklahoma City. Commissions: portrait-busts, Oklahoma City Lib., 1962; Okla. Med. Res. Found. Off. Bldg, 1964; First Unitarian Church, Oklahoma City, 1964.

Comments: Preferred media: bronze, wood, marble, welded steel. Teaching: instr drawing, basic form & sculpture, Univ. Okla., 1964-1966; instr. sculpture, Okla Sci. & Arts Found., Oklahoma City, 1969-.