Baker Artist Portfolios

Mary Deacon Opasik is a Baltimore-based artist who has devoted the past three and a half decades to making  sculptural assemblage art with found and repurposed objects.  She received her BFA degree in 1989 from Maryland Institute College of  Art (MICA), in Baltimore, MD.
Her work has been featured in The Huntsville Museum of Art ( AL), Chateau de Rochefort (FR), Sandy Spring Museum (MD) and Lincoln Center Crafts Festival (NY).  Ms. Opasik's art is in private and public collections and has been shown in galleries both nationally and internationally. It has been published in " Found Object Art" by Dorothy Spencer,  Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2002 and "Found Object Art II" by Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2009.  Mary Deacon Opasik is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Grants For Artists 2023. She has participated twice in Maryland Art Place's Critics' and Residency Programs in 1991 & 1994 and has received  numerous  MSAC artist-in-education grants.  Opasik was a grantee to artists' residency programs including The Alfred & Trafford Klots Residency (Brittany, FR), Fundacion Valparasio (SP), Sehn Family Residency at Loyola University (MD) and Inside Zone in Transylvania (RO). She has done community projects with children and is an ongoing  participant of Nature Art In the Park (MD).