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Education / Grants and Awards / Solo Exhibitions / Selected Group Exhibitions / Lectures and Presentations / Collections / Commissions - Public Artwork / Collections / Publications - Bibliography / Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute (1999)
Majored in studio art with an emphasis on painting and sculpture
Master of Library and Information Science dual degree programBachelor of Fine Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks (1996)
Majored in painting
Selected for Golden Key Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society memberships
>> Grants and Awards
| 2007 | Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship Award The Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation created the Connie Boochever Fellowship to recognize emerging artists. The award is intended to support further development and growth in the grantee's artistic discipline. |
| 2007 | Austin Cooley Talent Grant Awarded to outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional talent in their fields of study at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. |
| 2006 | Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship Award The Rasmuson Foundation created the Individual Artist Fellowship Award program to honor exceptional creative work as well as the merit and significance of a life dedicated to serious artistic exploration and growth. Fellowship award winners receive a grant to continue pursuing their creative work. Official fellowship award press release from the Rasmuson Foundation can be found at: http://www.rasmuson.org/PressRelease/index.php?switch=view_pressrelease&i ReleaseID=113 |
>> Solo Exhibitions
| 2007 | Cohesum, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2007 | Linum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2004 | New Work, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2001 | Veil, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA |
| 1999 | Phylum, Pratt Galleries, Brooklyn, NY (Thesis Exhibition) |
| 1997 | Cast, Site 250 Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2008 | Attachments, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2008 |
Alaska Concept and Abstraction, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2007 | Alaska Women Artists, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2007 |
Synthesis: Collaborations, Investigations and Discoveries*, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2007 | Bones Invitational, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2007 | Second Place Award, Alaska Statewide Contemporary Art Juried Exhibition, Juried Exhibit, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK Juried by Mark Zirpel, Founder and CEO of ACME ART, Seattle, WA |
| 2007 | 9 North: Multimedia Alaskan Perspectives, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2007 | Salve, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2007 | Second Place Award, Patterns of Influence, Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK Juried by Jeremy Kane, ceramics professor at the University of Alaska Southeast |
| 2007 |
BiPolar, The Annex Art Gallery, Ester, AK |
| 2006 | Alaska Women Artists, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2006 | Small Works, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2006 | 1st Annual Governor’s Award Centerpiece Exhibit, Alaska State Council of the Arts, Anchorage, AK |
| 2006 | 64th Parallel, Juried Exhibit, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK Juried by Dianne Elliot, art consultant (based in Seattle, WA) |
| 2006 | Bio/Med SciART, Juried International Exhibit, New York Hall of Science, New York Juried by Ramunas Kondratas, curator of medical collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and Cynthia Pannucci, Director/Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., New York, NY |
| 2006 |
POLARities: Aesthetics / Experiments / Observations*, UA Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2006 | Skin, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2006 | x10, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2006 | The Doll Show, The Annex Gallery, Ester, AK |
| 2006 | Pratt Auction, Invitational Fundraiser Exhibit, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 2006 |
The Human Body, National Invitational Exhibit, Bunnell St. Gallery, Homer, AK |
| 2006 | Juror Award, All Alaska Juried XXXI, Juried Exhibit, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK Juried by Matthew Drutt, chief curator of The Menil Collection in Houston, TX Show review with mention of piece was published in the Anchorage Daily News ("Exhibit: Juried exhibition just about guarantees viewers a payoff," Dawnell Smith, Jan. 26, 2006) |
| 2005 | New Works, The Annex Gallery, Ester, AK |
| 2005 | Will’s Creek Survey 2005, Juried International Exhibit, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD Juried by Kristen Hileman, Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
| 2005 | Members Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK |
| 2004 | Well Street Invitational, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2004 | Gun Art Invitational, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2003 | Double XX, Invitational Group Exhibit of Alaska Women Artists, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2003 | Well Street Invitational, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK |
| 2000 | Domestically Engendered, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
| 1999 | Artwork selected to represent Pratt Institute’s M.F.A. thesis program with visiting guest critic Byron Kim (artist with the Whitney Biennial) |
| 1998 | Pratt Artists’ League Members Exhibit, Juried Exhibit, Pratt Galleries, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1997 | Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska Summer Fine Arts Camp, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1997 | Pratt Artists’ League Members Exhibit, Juried Exhibit, Pratt Galleries, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1996 | All Alaska Juried, Juried Exhibit, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK Juried by Richard West, director of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
| 1995 | Best of Show Award, U.A.F. Juried Show, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | Fresh Paint, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | Honorable Mention Award, 64th Parallel Annual Juried Show, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | Reticence, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp Faculty Show, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | Site 250 Gallery Second Anniversary Invitational, Site 250 Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1995 | Best of Painting Award, U.A.F. Juried Exhibit, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK Juried by Ron Manook |
| 1995 | Best of Drawing Award, U.A.F. Juried Exhibit, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK Juried by Ron Manook |
| 1995 | Narration, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1994 | Jared Baker Award, 64th Parallel Annual Juried Show, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1994 | Third Place Award, 64th Parallel Annual Juried Show, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1994 | Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
| 1994 | U.A.F. Juried Exhibit, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks, AK |
>> Lectures and Presentations
| 2007 | Invited to present at the “North and Nordicity” Conference in Toronto, Canada Paper entitled "The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art" |
| 2006 | Invited to present at the “Images of the North” Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland Paper entitled "How the Natural Resource Industry Has Visually Impacted the North: A Survey of Alaskan Art" |
>> Commissions - Public Artwork
Bassett Army Hospital, Fairbanks, AK
College of Natural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK
Various private individual collections in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest region
>> Publications - Bibliography
Images of the North: Conference Proceedings, Selected Conference Papers, 2006
Sverrir Jakobsson, Editor
Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik, IcelandSkin, Exhibition Catalog, 2006
International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AKPratt Auction, Exhibition Catalog, 2006
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WAAll Alaska Juried XXXI, Exhibition Catalog, 2006
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
>> Magazine and Newspaper Articles
American Craft Council. “Gallery.” American Craft Magazine. June/July 2006: 69.
Smetzer, Mary Beth. “Artists look to science for inspiration.” Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. 3 Oct. 2006: B1. (http://www.newsminer.com/2006/10/03/2466/)
Smith, Dawnell. “Art and science merge in northern horizons show.” Anchorage Daily News. 9 Sept. 2007: E2. (http://www.adn.com/life/arts/story/9289899p-9204364c.html)
Smith, Dawnell. “Exhibit: Juried exhibition just about guarantees viewers a payoff.” Anchorage Daily News. 26 Jan. 2006: E2. (http://www.adn.com/life/story/7391851p-7304097c.html)
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