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Joan Stuart Ross
BallardWorks, 2856 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107 • (206) 784-9987 • jross@sccd.ctc.edu
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EDUCATION
University of Washington, Teaching Certificate; also Certificates in Creative Writing
University of Iowa, M. A.; M. F. A.
Yale Divinity School; Yale School of Art
Connecticut College, B. A.
Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston Latin School
Centrum Foundation; Crown Point Press; Pratt Fine Arts Center
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SELECTED SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2005 |
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound |
| 2004 |
“Embedded: New Encaustics,” Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 2003 |
“Texts & Tales,” Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma, WA |
| 2002 |
“Texts: Straits and Channels,” Edmonds Arts Festival Museum, Edmonds, WA
“Texts and Messages,” Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, WA |
| 2001 |
“New Works on Paper,” Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway
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| 2000 |
"Text Paintings," Installation, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, WA
“Recent Encaustics,” Lisa  Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Familie-Portrett,” Nordic Heritage Museum
“Familie-Portrett,” Luther Seminary Gallery, St. Paul, MN/Vesterheim Mus., Decorah, IA,
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| 1999 |
“Familie-Portrett,” traveling exhibit, Førde og Sogn Kunstnarsenter, Norway
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| 1999/97 |
“Articles of Time,” Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| 1995 |
Grover/Thurston Gallery, Seattle, (also 1994, 1993, 1991)
The Painted Table, Seattle, WA; Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA
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| 1993 |
“Pantheon/Icon,” Palazzo Pio, Rome, Italy
1004 Gallery, Port Townsend, WA |
| 1992 |
Maveety Gallery, Salishan, OR; Edmonds Community College
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| 1990 |
Green River Community College
Edward Cain Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
Skagit Valley College
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA (also 1989, 87, 86, 85, 83, 81) |
| 1988 |
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
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| 1988/87 |
Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1984/82 |
Donnally/Hayes, Seattle, WA |
| 1983 |
Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR
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| 1982 |
Betty Bowen Memorial Award Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B. C., Canada
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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| 1981 |
“New Ideas IV,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
| 1980 |
Seattle Pacific University |
| 1979 |
Galleri 7, Oslo, Norway |
| 1979/77 |
Penryn Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1978 |
Chrysalis Gallery, Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA |
| 1978/76 |
Artists Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1971 |
Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1965 |
1965 The Exit Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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SELECTED INVITATIONAL & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2004 |
“Mark My Word,” Museum of Northwest Art
North Seattle Community College, Faculty Exhibition |
| 2003 |
“Book Artists,” North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 |
“Conceptually Bound 2,” Coyote Gallery. Butte Glenn Community College, Oroville, CA
“Three Nordic Artists,” The Institutt, Sogndal, Norway
“32 Prints from Seattle Print Arts," Portland Art Museum, OR
“Print It-The Art of Printmaking,” Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA |
| 2001 |
“Northwest Book Artists,” Northwest Bookfest (also 2000, 1999)
“TEXTural,” Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery
“Natural Causes,” Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
“Portes Ouvertes,” Paris, France
“IMAGE/TEXT,” Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
“Nordic Heritage,” North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
“Painting, Color,” Bainbridge Island Arts & Crafts, WA
“Northwest Printmakers,” Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery
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| 2000 |
“International Prints,” Galerie André Béguin, Paris, France
“Bumberbiennalle: Painting 2000,” Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
“Artists Making Prints,” Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of WA
“Northwest Printmakers,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“The Graphic Image,” Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
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| 1998 |
“Ten Eyes: Five Artists,” Pratt Gallery, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
“Betty Bowen Award, 20th Anniversary Exhibit, ” WA State Convention Ctr., Seattle
“Ten Eyes: Five Artists,” Poriginal Galleria, Pori, Finland
“Shoes as Muse,” Pratt Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Northwest Watercolors,” Bellevue Art Museum, WA
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| 1997 |
“Three Printers,” The Edison Eye, Edison, WA
“Northwest Printmakers,” North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
“Northwest Printmakers,” Northwest Print Council, Seattle Pacific University
“NW Prints,” Alycia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR & “Printworks,” Kirkland Art Center
“Phinney & Friends,” Phinney Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| 1996 |
"Painters Who Write; Writers Who Paint," (also Curator), S. Bradley Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| 1995 |
"Pure Drawing," (also Curator), 1004 Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
"The Land," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; “Ex Libris,” Cornish College, Seattle, WA
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| 1994 |
“Five Artists,” Saint Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
“Bookworks,” Book Arts Guild, Seattle, WA |
| 1993 |
“Artworks for AIDS,” Seattle, WA (also 95, 97, 99) |
| 1992 |
“Betty Bowen Award Exhibition,” Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
“The Altered Monotype,” Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery
“The Passionate Print,” (also Curator), Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA |
| 1991 |
“Color & Form IV,” Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA
“National Governors’ Association Exhibition,” Convention Center, Seattle, WA
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” (Award), Northwest Print Council, Portland, OR
“Printmakers & Book Artists,” Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
“Northwest Print Artists,” Italia, Seattle, WA
“Three Seattle Artists,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
“Northwest Watercolors,” Seattle Art Museum, Rental/Sales Gallery |
| 1990 |
“Regional Prints,” Gallery II, W.S.U., Pullman, WA
“Organic Abstraction: Art By Northwest Women Artists,” Bumbershoot
“Art Bound,” Artists’ Book Exhibition, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
“Views & Visions in the Pacific Northwest,” Seattle Art Museum
“50th Annual Northwest Watercolor Exhibition,” Seattle, WA
“Environmental Impact Statements,” Missoula Art Museum, MT, Traveled |
| 1989 |
“Hand Pulled,” Carson Gallery, Denver, CO; “Decade of Abstraction,” Bumbershoot
“First Impressions: Northwest Monotypes,” SAM & Marylhurst Art Gym, OR
“Three Artists: Works on Paper,” Maveety Gallery, Portland, OR
Northwest Print Council, Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago, IL
“Some Assembly Required,” Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
“Washington Women,” Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
WA Centennial Exhibition, Chase Gallery, Spokane |
| 1988 |
“Celebration,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
“In Black & White,” Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Northwest Artists,” Gensler & Associates, Los Angeles, CA
“Betty Bowen Award--Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Seattle Art Museum
“Contemporary Survey: A Visible Presence in the Northwest,” Cheney Cowles Mus.
“Brush It On,” Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
“Northwest Printmakers Invitational,” Arts Center Gallery, Everett, WA |
| 1987 |
“Focus: Seattle,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“The Layered Look: West Coast Collage,” U. of OR Museum/traveled
“Seattle Drawing,” Seattle Pacific University (also 1980)
“Before & After,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
| 1986 |
“Northwest International,” Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
“10/40 Anniversary Exhibition,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
“Bumbershoot: Open House,” Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
“Seattle Style,” Musée de Carcassone, France. Traveled in France,
“Centrum Prints,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“Drawing Power,” Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Heart of America: Prints,” University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
“Northwest Now,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Northwest Print Council in China,” Beijing, China
“Connecticut College Alumni,” Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT |
| 1985 |
“The Food Show,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada
“Western States Print Invitational,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“East/West/East,” Public Art Space, Seattle, WA
“Images of Seattle, 1925-1985,” Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle |
| 1984 |
“New Impressions,” Northwest Print Council, Seattle, WA
“Medicine Bundle,” Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
“The City as Collector,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“New Artists,” Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 1983 |
“Drawing Invitational,” Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Breaking & Entering,” Josef Gallery, New York, NY
“Five Northwest Artists,” Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1982 |
“Visiting Artists Revisited,” University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
“New Directions-New Work,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada
“Selected Gallery Artists,” Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Northwest Contemporary Art,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
“Ten Monotype Artists,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| 1981 |
“Across the State: Different Points of View,” EWU, Cheney, WA
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| 1980 |
“Drawing Relationships to Prints,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“Four Monotype Artists,” Williams/Johnson Gallery, Portland, OR
“Spokane Annual,” Gaiser Award, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane,
Drawing Invitational, Seattle Pacific University Gallery |
| 1979 |
Rutgers National Drawing, ’79, Rutgers, NJ
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| 1978 |
“Monoprint,” Curator, Artists Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Original Editions,” Award, Oregon State Arts Foundation, Salem, OR
“Printmaking, Seattle,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“Rainier Bank Collection,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Northwest Watercolor Society, Rainier Bank Award, Bellevue Art Mus. |
| 1977 |
“Printmaking Seattle,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
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| 1975 |
Sixth Annual Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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SELECTED GRANTS & HONORS
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| 2005 |
Fulbright-Hays Group Study Grant to Vietnam |
| 2004 |
North Seattle Community College Foundation Grant, “New Imagery” |
| 2003 |
North Seattle Community College Foundation Grant, Encaustic Research |
| 2001 |
Artist in Residence, Cooperhuset, Balestrand, Norway
Sabbatical Leave, The Louvre, Paris, France
Southern Graphics Council, University of TX, Austin, “Medium Crossings,” Presenter |
| 1999 |
International Residencies for Artists, Inc. Travel Grant, New York, New York
International Faculty Development & Ford Foundation Travel Grant, Norway |
| 1998 |
Crown Point Press, Faculty Development Grant |
| 1995 |
Kathe Kollwitz Award, Seattle Women’s Caucus for Art |
| 1994 |
King County Regional Justice Center, Design Team, Jury Assembly Rooms
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| 1993 |
Humanities Award for Art, WCTCHA and Crosscurrents
Rome Fellowship, Northwest Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy
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| 1992 |
Artist in Residence, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA
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| 1987 |
Visiting Artist, Artists Unlimited, Seattle, WA
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| 1986 |
Artist in Residence, Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA
Artist in Residence, Centrum Press, Port Townsend, WA
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| 1981 |
Betty Bowen Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum
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| 1980/77 |
"New Proposals," King County Arts Commission
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| 1979-81 |
Artist in the City, Seattle Arts Commission
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| 1979/77 |
Master Workshops with Nathan Oliveira and Jack Tworkov, Centrum Foundation
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| 1978 |
Artist in Residence, Voss Folkehogskule, Voss, Norway
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| 1976 |
Visual Arts Event, NEA and Seattle Arts Commission, Bumbershoot Arts Festival |
| 1969/81 |
Artist in Residence, Seattle Pacific University |
| 1968 |
Artist in Residence, Jane Burr Fund Grant, Woodstock, New York |
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington
Bellingham Technical College
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Pierce County District Court, Tacoma, WA
Harborview Portable Works, Seattle, WA
King County Arts Commission, WA
Junior League of Seattle
City Light, Seattle, WA
Oregon State Printing Plant, Salem, OR
State of Washington
Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Seattle, WA
IBM, San Francisco, CA
NBC, Chicago, IL
Bank of America, Seattle, WA
SAFECO, Seattle, WA
U.S. West, Denver, CO
Bank of California, Los Angeles, CA
Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego
Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver B.C., Canada
Bank of America, Vancouver B.C., Canada
Harris/Abramowitz, Kingsland, NY
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
Portland State Office Building, Portland, OR
Foster, Pepper, Shefelman, Seattle, WA
Eisenhower, Carlson, Newlands, Seattle, WA
Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA
Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA
North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO
Nordstrom Corporation, Seattle
Paul Allen Collection, Seattle
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| COMMUNITY SERVICE |
| 1999— |
Seattle Print Arts, Founding Member, Board of Directors |
| 1998-99 |
Seattle Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Chair, Program Committee, Board Member |
| 1996-99 |
Betty Bowen Memorial Award Committee, Seattle Art Museum |
| 1995-99 |
One Reel, Arts Advisory Board for Bumbershoot Arts Festival |
| 1994-96 |
Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy, Board Member |
| 1985-91 |
Bumbershoot Festival Commission, Vice-Chair, Program Committee |
| 1981-85 |
Seattle Arts Commission, (1983-85) Chair, Art in Public Places Committee |
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| SELECTED TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS |
| 1996— |
North Seattle Community College, Faculty, Art Department |
| 1992-96 |
Edmonds Community College, WA, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking |
| 1992— |
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking |
| 1992 |
Seattle Art Museum, Printmaking |
| 1991-96 |
Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Printmaking |
| 1988-91 |
University of Washington Extension, Drawing |
| 1988— |
Private Studio Classes, Monotype (Printmaking), Encaustic |
| 1988-91 |
Seattle Pacific University (also 1970-1981), Painting, Printmaking; Art History |
| 1978 |
Green River Community College, Drawing |
| 1974-78 |
Seward Park Art Center, Painting |
| 1974-76 |
Factory of Visual Art, Printmaking |
| 1974-91 |
Workshops: Skagit Valley College, Edmonds Community College, Bellevue Art Museum, Centrum Foundation, Seattle Pacific University, University of WA, University of ID, Methow Print Arts |
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Book Arts Guild, Seattle, WA
Northwest Print Council, Charter Member
NW Women’s Caucus for Art
Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy
Seattle Print Arts, Founding Board Member; Secretary, Co-Chair, Publicity
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SELECTED MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
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| 2002 |
SCCTV, “Artists Express: Joan Stuart Ross: Persevering Heart,” Film-TV Interview |
| 2001 |
Crosscurrents, WA Technical & Community College Humanities Association (also 2000, 1999, 1998; Cover, 1998) |
| 1998 |
Introduction to Philosophy, M. Bratman, Oxford University Press, Cover, “Three Masks I” |
| 1997 |
Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, Lois Allen, Craftsman House,
G. & B. Arts International, Sydney, Australia
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| 1995 |
The Raven Chronicles, Three Paintings
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| 1993 |
Modernism And Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, Midmarch Arts Press,
Edited by Laura Brunsman and Ruth Askey
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| 1992 |
Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA, Poster ("Carnival IV")
"Northwest Originals: Washington Women & Their Art," Matrimedia, Portland, OR
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| 1990 |
Skagit Valley College, "Monotypes," Poster ("Undersea")
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| 1989 |
Seattle Art Museum, "First Impressions: N.W. Monotypes," Catalogue
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| 1984 |
Allied Arts, Seattle, WA, 30th Anniversary Poster ("Breathe Through")
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| 1983 |
50 Northwest Artists, Bruce Guenther, Chronicle Books
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| 1982 |
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey B.C., Monograph
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| 1981 |
Seattle Art Museum, "New Ideas IV," Poster ("Silver Fox Series IV")
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| SELECTED ARTICLES |
Kangas, Matthew, “Family Portraits.” Seattle Times, 3/24/00
Kangas, Matthew, “Textural Fascination.” Seattle Times, 4/15/99
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “An Artist with Wings.” Seattle Times, 10/26/95
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “Master of the Multimedia Look.” Seattle Times, 4/18/93
Glowen, Ron. “Quotable Nature.” Artweek, 4/22/93
Hackett, Regina. “Bumbershoot Art Breathes Life.” Seattle Post Intelligencer, 8/27/92
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “Betty Bowen Legacy: She’d Love This Show.” Seattle Times, 11/12/92
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “Gallery Gains.” Seattle Times, 10/17/91
Glowen, Ron. “Activist Painters Show Variations on a Similar Theme.” The Everett Herald, 5/11/89
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “Murky Monotypes Push into Burst of Color.” Seattle Times, 4/10/87
Kangas, Matthew. “Light, Paint, Paper—and Radiant Poetry.” Openings, spring 1981
Additional reviews in French, Norwegian and Finnish publications |
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| SELECTED JURIES |
| 2000 |
Arts and Lofts Artist Review Committee |
| 1998 |
Neddy Foundation |
| 1997/98 |
Betty Bowen Memorial Award Committee, Seattle Art Museum |
| 1996 |
King County Arts Commission's Artist Honors Award |
| 1991 |
Bellevue Art Museum's Artist Fellowship Award |
| 1989 |
Seattle Arts Commission, Master Artist Awards |
| 1988 |
Seattle Arts Commission, Prints and Drawings Awards |
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| SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES |
| 2004 |
“Recent Work in Encaustic Painting,” Pratt Fine Arts |
| 2001 |
“Recent Sabbatical in Paris & Norway, TLC, North Seattle Comm. College |
| 1999 |
“Travel as Muse,” WA Technical & Community College Humanities Association |
| 1995 |
“Thirty Years of Art-Making,” Pratt Fine Arts |
| 1994 |
“Sense of Direction,” NW Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy, SAM |
| 1993 |
“My Art and Seattle’s Public Art,” Førde Kunstnarsenter, Førde, Norway
“Recent Work,” Palazzo Pio, Rome
“The Evolution of Color and Imagery in My Paintings and Prints,” SAM |
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