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Do You Know YOUR Parke Goodman?
For your convenience, we've broken it down into three parts:
Professional Resume
Athletic and Special Skills
Parke Goodman Trivia
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Parke at a Glance:
Born in Ottumwa Iowa in 1956.
Two sisters, one brother, one Mom, one Dad.
In 1968 the family moved to Boulder Colorado.
In 1974 Parke discovered Montana.
His life would never be the same again.
Professional Resume
| 1965 | Parke received a paint set for Christmas. |
| 1972 | Worked as a Boulder Junior Ranger. Parke maintained trails in Boulder Colorado for 50 cents an hour. |
| 1973 | Parke was promoted to Assistant Senior Ranger, in charge of a crew of Junior Rangers. |
| 1974 | Graduated from Boulder Senior High School. |
| 1974 to 1976 | Studied architecture at MSU in Bozeman, Montana. |
| 1977 to 1980 | During the summer of Star Wars, Parke returned to Boulder to build 3 spec homes which he designed himself. |
| 1981 to 1983 | Parke returned to MSU in Bozeman, this time to study land resource management. |
| 1984 to 1994 | Always a self-taught painter, Parke decided to become an artist and supported himself by working with landscape crews for various nurseries, working in construction, working with seismograph crews on oil fields in North Dakota, and painting ducks for Big Sky Carvers - where he designed their Ruddys, Pintails, and Teals. |
| 1994 | Met Bonnie, who was selling her jewelry at Arts and Crafts shows all over Montana. She added Parke's paintings to her display - where his work was quickly discovered by a variety of Montana galleries. |
| 1995 | Parke officially became a full time artist! |
| 1996 | Parke was juried into the CM Russell Show of Original Western Art in Great Falls, Montana. He exhibited there for 4 years before giving up his position due to the overwhelming crowds. |
| 1997 | Parke and Bonnie opened their studio/gallery, Mordam Art, in Livingston. |
1998
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May 21 - Parke had a one man show in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at the Legacy Gallery.
May 27 - Parke and Bonnie got married in Las Vegas. Summer - Parke participated in the "Frontier Montana Gathering of Artists" at the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. |
| 1999 | Parke was Artist-in-Residence at Glacier National Park, and part of a 4 Man Show at The Meyer Gallery in Park City Utah. |
| 2000 to present | Parke paints, Bonnie makes beads, and they are STILL working on their house. Parke now has a huge second studio at home, complete with 4 gigantic easels he built himself. He plans to work in clay as well as paint this year. |
Athletic and Special Skills
- From 7th grade through High School, Parke played football.
He got no rest because he played both offensive tackle and defensive end.
He turned down a college scholarship because he knew he wasn't good enough to go pro,
and he didn't want to hurt himself.
- Parke can do the elliptical machine for 45 minutes without stopping!!
- Parke tore our house apart and is still re-building it.
Goodman Cottage is the most beautiful dwelling in Puppetland.
- Parke built kitchen cupboards from a walnut tree he cut down from his Grandma's farm in Iowa 20 years ago.
- Parke bakes!
- Parke is an avid gardener.
All year long we eat food from his garden.
Parke Goodman Trivia
Top Ten Coolest Trivias about Parke:
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Parke has an amazing sense of style. |
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Parke was born on Valentine's Day!!
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Want to see Parke smile? |
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Parke drives heavy machinery with confidence. |
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This is his only self - portrait. |
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Parke builds his own frames. |
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Parke has a good lap. |
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Parke calls a couch a "davenport". |
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Parke is currently involved in a same-sex, interspecies relationship with a parrot named Desmond. |
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Parke was struck by lightening! REALLY! It hit his back and he saw it come out his chest. Seriously, don't ask. |
Let it be known, this painter Parke has never once looked at this web site, and indeed,
he has no idea that this particular page exists at all.
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