biography of Michael Carl GAST (1930)

Birth place: Chicago

Addresses: Washington, DC

Profession: Painter

Studied: School AIC, B.F.A., 1952; Univ. of the Americas, Mexico, M.F.A. (cum laude), 1960.

Exhibited: Wash. Watercolor Assn. 66th Ann. Nat. Exhib., Smithsonian Inst., 1963 & Metrop. Area Exhib., Howard Univ., Washington, DC, 1970; Soc. Wash. Artists 70th & 71st Ann. Exhib., Smithsonian Inst., 1963 & 1964; Mickelson Gallery, Wash., DC, 1966.

Member: Artists Equity Assn.; College Art Assn. Am.; Wash. Watercolor Assn.; Nat. Art Workers Community.

Comments: Preferred media: polymers, oils. Positions: mus. technician, division ceramics & glass, Nat. Mus. Hist. & Technology, 1961-64 & mus. specialist, Nat. Collection Fine Arts, 1969-71, Smithsonian Inst. Teaching: asst. professor painting, George Washington Univ., 1971.

Sources: WW73; Andrea O. Cohen, Mike Gast," DC Gazette, April 19, 1972."