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Nov 2 - 24, 2012:


Helen Klebesadel :
New Paintings:

Watercolor on
Paper and on Canvas


Artist Reception: Fri Nov 2nd - 6-8 pm

Individual images below

     

Views of the Installation
(Individual images below- click on artist name above)

 

View of front window display

Main gallery, Right side rear- opening night viewers

 

 

Main gallery, right front exhibit area

 

 

Main gallery, right side, rear

 

 

Main gallery, left side

 

 

Main gallery, left front corner side
 

 


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Works by Helen Klebesadel

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, The Last Pink.... , 2012
Watercolor, image: 9" x 12", frame: 16 " x 20"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Water Elements-Precipitation Event, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Earth Elements-Droughts, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Spirit Element, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Fire Element-Burning Forests, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Air Element-Storm, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Crow Gather Moon, 2012, Watercolor, image:22" x 30", frame: 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Thorn Birds, 2012, Watercolor, 30" x 22",
Dark Cherry Frame 40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Dawn, 2012, Watercolor on canvas, 16" x 20"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Milkweed, 2012, Watercolor on canvas, 20" x 24"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Beyond Nature, 2012, Watercolor on canvas, 20" x 24"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, One With Nature, 2012, Watercolor on canvas, 20" x 24"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Vanilla and Allspice, 2012, Watercolor on canvas, 20" x 24"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Rad Lace, 2012
Watercolor, image: 9" x 12", frame: 16" x 20"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Dahlia, 2012
Watercolor, image: 9" x 12", frame: 16" x 20"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Watchers, 2012
Watercolor, image: 22" x 30", frame: 30" x 40"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Birches Study, 2012
Watercolor, image: 9" x 12", frame: 16" x 20"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Drought Study, 2012
Watercolor, image: 22" x 30", frame: 30" x 40"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, As the the Bees Go II, 2012
Watercolor, image: 12" x 8", frame: 21 1/2" x 18"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, As the the Bees Go I, 2012
Watercolor, image: 22" x 22", frame: 32" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Where are the Bees? III, 2012
Watercolor, image: 22" x 22", frame: 32" x 40"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, End of Cold II, 2012
Watercolor, image: 20" x 16", frame: 28" x 22"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, End of Cold I, 2012
Watercolor, image: 20" x 16", frame: 28" x 22"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, The Last White Poppy, 2012
Watercolor, image: 9" x 12", frame: 16 " x 20"

 

 



Helen Klebesadel, Fringed Prairie Orchid, 2012
Watercolor, image: 7" x 5", black frame(above): 10" x 8"

 

 

Left: Helen Klebesadel, Hummingbird Pollinator III, 2012, Watercolor, image:7" x 5", black frame(above):10" x 8"
Right: Helen Klebesadel, Hummingbird Pollinator I, 2012, Watercolor, image:7" x 5", black frame(above):10" x 8"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Hummingbird Pollinator IV, 2012
Watercolor, image:5" x 7", black frame(above):8" x 10"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Hummingbird Pollinator II, 2012
Watercolor, image: 5" x 7", black frame(above):8" x 10"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Passion Flowers, 2012
Watercolor, image:30" x 22", frame:40" x 30"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Fringed Prairie Orchids, 2012
Watercolor on canvas, 20" x 16"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Bee Pollinator I, 2012, Watercolor
image: 7" x 5", black frame(above):10" x 8"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Bee Pollinator II, 2012, Watercolor
image: 7" x 5", black frame:10" x 8"

 

 

Helen Klebesadel, Bee Pollinator III, 2012, Watercolor
image:7" x 5", black frame(above):10" x 8"

 

 

 

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ARTIST STATEMENT

 

Helen Klebesadel

Artist Statement 2012

 

Second Nature: Recent Paintings by Helen Klebesadel

My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature. ~ Helen Klebesadel

Helen Klebesadel enjoys immersing herself in the careful looking that painting from life allows.
Making art is one of the few activities we have were we are allowed to slow down, to a stop, and take a second look; to examine nature for the hours it may take to know it by looking. Helen often layers metaphoric meaning into the images she creates. This has been especially true of those paintings inspired by concerns for, or appreciation of, the natural world.

Helen’s paintings consider our place in the landscape and our relationship, as humans, to nature. The paintings explore the complex realities of the changing climate while considering of the metaphors we use to describe our relationships with each other and Nature. They shift away from the very gendered metaphor of the unselfish, all-giving Mother Nature to a less human-centered Second Nature. This Second Nature responds to the pressure it is under without regard for humanity, much as we humans often ignore the effect of our actions on the world.

Increasingly Helen finds herself creating environments that contain both the decay of destruction and the beauty of new growth. Her Elements Series emphasizes power and destruction that occur when earth, fire, water, and air are out of balance, becoming drought, forests burning, drenching precipitation, and dangerous storms. The fifth element, spirit, calls us to restore the balance. Helen’s birds and bees are lovingly painted and celebrated for their beauty, but her paintings also evoke narratives reminiscent of the use of the canary in the mind shaft. Her paintings ask “Where are the bees?” because as go the bees…

She says “How is it we are drawn to representations of nature but have moved so far from seeing ourselves as a part of nature; of knowing where our food, air, and water comes from; and from being responsible stewards for the earth? We seem to have become increasingly divorced from direct contact with the natural environment unless it intruded upon our lives in the form of extreme weather and its consequences, but nature is starting to get our attention. My basic premise is that: We are nature. What we do to the world we do to ourselves and we do to ourselves we do to the world.”

This particular body of work also demonstrates Helen Klebesadel’s exploration of new media as she expands on her traditional use of watercolor on paper to explore the flexibility of painting with watercolor on canvas. Enjoy!

 

 

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ARTIST RESUME


Helen Klebesadel


20.12.12


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Gallery 49, Fairbanks, AK
2012 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2011 Capitol Lakes Gallery, Madison, WI
2010 Its Academic Gallery, UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2009 Grace Chosy Gallery Madison, WI
2009 LRC Gallery, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI
2009 Vertin Gallery, Calumet, MI
2008 Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History and the Environment, Madison, WI
2007 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2005 National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2005 Tate Gallery, University of Georgia-Athens
2005 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2004 Women’s Studies Research Center, UW-Madison
2002 LRC Gallery, Nicolet Area Technical College, Rhinelander, WI
2003 Birch Gallery, University of Wisconsin –Stout, Menomonee, WI
2001 HUB Robson Gallery Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2001 Heritage Center, Finlandia University, Hancock, MN
2000 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1999 University Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo
1999 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1998 DiRicci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
1996 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1995 Alma College Galleries, Alma College, Alma, MI
1994 Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State University, Olympia, Washington
1994 Monmouth College Galleries, Monmouth, Illinois
1994 University Gallery, UW-LaCrosse
1994 Bergstrom-Mahler Art Museum, Neenah, WI
1993 Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Letters Gallery, Madison, WI
1992 Cummings Gallery, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania
1991 Farnham Galleries, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
1991 Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
1989 Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN
1989 Main Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Selected Two, Three and Four Person Exhibitions
2012 -Aviary/Apiary, Benedicta Arts Center, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University,
St. Joseph, MN
2010 -Orchids and Other Blooms: Helen Klebesadel, Yueh Mei Cheng, & Peggy Ginsberg,
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2005 -Forest, Rocks, Wind and Water, William Bonifas, Fine Art Center, Escanaba, MI
2003 -Helen Klebesadel and Barbara Strong, James Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, California
2000 -The Dream Garden Transcended: Helen Klebesadel and Laura Vogel College,
Durango, CO
1997-98 -Three Wise Women, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1996 -Mad Womyn and Their Familiars, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas.
1995 -Women of Vision/ Objects of Power, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1994 -Klebesadel and Koskenmaki: Invoking the Mythic, Harry Nohr Gallery, UW-Platteville
1993 -Incongruous Juxtapositions, Two Artists, University of Illinois at Chicago
1993 -Resonance and Wonder; Gallager*Izs*Klebesadel, Wright Art Museum.
1990 -Klebesadel and Marks, Moyer Gallery, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
1990 -Klebesadel and Dribble, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Illinois

Group Exhibitions
2013 -This Land, University of Puerto Rico-Maraquez Galleries
2012 -2012 Collector's Choice Juried Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, California
2012 -Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2012 -Ossuaries, participant in art piece by Laurie Beth Clark,
http://ossuaries.wordpress.com/about/
2003-10 -Madison Open Art Studios Exhibition, Overture Center, Madison, WI
2010 -4 x 6, Art Trend Now-That Gallery, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
2010 -The Eclectic Art of Cooking, traveling exhibition, TBA
2009 -Millefiori: The Power of Flowers, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI, and
Rahr West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
2009 -Grace Chosy Gallery 30 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Madison, WI
2008-09 -Watercolor Wisconsin, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2007-09 -Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the Northwoods, A traveling exhibition of an
artist/scientist collaborative project on climate change in the Lake Superior Region
2007 -Crossroads, Rhonda Schaller Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2007 -Beaux and Ero, Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA
2006 -One and Only, ARTspace, Kohler, WI
2006 -Salon D'été 2006, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 -From Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom: Race and Gender Matters, UW-Milwaukee and AAW
Center
2001-2004 -Art In the Embassies Program, U.S.A. Embassy, Kigali, Rwanda; Cape Town, South
Africa; and Pretoria, South Africa
1998 -Diverse Origins: an Exhibition of Cultural and Geographic Variety, Core New Space Gallery,
Denver, CO
1997 - WCA Auction, Bernice Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York.
1997 - Deep Water, Sarasota Art Center, Florida
1997 - Inventing Personality and Place, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
1997 - Women Revisioning the Sacred, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1997 - Women's Caucus for Art National 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery,
Chicago,
1996-97 - Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond to the World Conference on Women,
national
Women's Caucus for Art traveling exhibition for the Fourth UN Conference on
Women
1996 -West to East: American Artists, University Gallery, Shimonoseki, Japan.
1995 -The World Through the Eyes of Women, U. N. Women's Conference, Huairou, China.
1994 -Bali/Wisconsin Women’s Artist’s Books, Seniwati Sanggar Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
1995 -Five From the HeARTland, Walker’s Point Art Center, Wisconsin
1995 -The Spirituality Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Wisconsin
1994 -Selections ‘94, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
1992-93 -Sticks, traveling group exhibition, Leigh Yawley Woodson Museum, University of Wisconsin
Memorial Union Galleries, Madison Fine Arts Gallery
1992 -Ree-Vision, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1991 -Expressions and Commentary, Neville Public Museum, Cedarburg Cultural Center, WI
1991 -Whose Choice, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1991 -Choice, AIR Gallery, New York, New York.
1991 -Lysistrata Award Exhibition, Water Street Gallery, Wisconsin
1991 -Bright Visions: The Making of Myth, Rahr-West Art Museum, Wisconsin and Charles Allis
Art Museum, Wisconsin
1990 -In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York

Electronic Exhibitions and Registries
2008-current Feminist Art Base, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
<https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/Helen_Klebesadel.ph
p?i=2051>
2007-current -Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the North Woods.
http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/K12/paradiselost.html
2002-current -Portal Wisconsin Featured Artist
http://www.portalwisconsin.org/online_gallery_artists.cfm?sort=portal
1996-current -Varo: An International Registry of Contemporary Women Artists, University of California- Sonoma http://www.varoregistry.com/
1995-current -The World's Women on Line! Internet Installation. World Wide Web,
http://www.asu.edu./wwol
Index of 800 images by international women artists
2007-2009 -Rhonda Schaller Gallery Art Link Network
http://www.rhondaschallerchelsea.com/helen-klebesdadel-portfolio.html#portfolio>

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
Ellen & Peter Johnson HospiceCare Residence, Madison, WI
University Hospital Art Collection, Madison, WI
Madison Area Technical College Art Collection, Madison, Wisconsin
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
American Council on Education (ACE), Washington D.C.
Central Wisconsin Center, Madison, Wisconsin

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI, http://www.gracechosygallery.com/
Artful Home, Online Gallery (formerly GUILD.com), https://www.artfulhome.com

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Wisconsin Arts Board
College Art Association
Women's Caucus for Art
National Women’s Studies Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and CITATIONS

Authored by Helen Klebesadel
2008 “Feminist Visions: Feminist Artists and Art (Still) Works: Four Films,” a review in Feminist
Collections, A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Volume 29, Number 2,
Spring 2008
2008 Co-authored with Lisa Kornetsky, “Critique as Signature Pedagogy in the Arts" in the book
"Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of
Mind" edited by Regan Guring, Nancy Chick, and Aeron Haynes.
2006 “Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique”, in New Museum Theory: An Introduction.
Ed. Jane Marstine, Blackwell Publishers
2004 "Art Videos for Feminist Practice", Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's
Studies Resources, a review of books, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (Winter,
2004)
1997 "Feminist Art as Critical Voice: New Books on Art and Aesthetics", Feminist Collections:
A Quarterly
of Women's Studies Resources, UW-Madison, Volume 18, Issue 3 (Spring 1997)
Catalogues
2007-09 Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the Northwoods, A traveling exhibition of an
artist/scientist
collaborative project on climate change in the Lake Superior Region
2008 Watercolor Wisconsin, Racine Art Museum (illustration)
2007 Crossroads at the Rhonda Schaller Gallery, NY
2006 From Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom: Race and Gender Matters, UW-Milwaukee
2003-05 Arts in the Embassies Program, Washington D. C.
2000-03 Arts in the Embassies Program, Washington D. C.
1991 Expressions and Commentary, Neville Art Museum and Wisconsin Women in the Arts
1990 Bright Visions: The Making of Myth, traveling exhibition of (WWIA)
1989 In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation
1989 32nd Beloit and Vicinity Exhibition Catalogue, Wright Museum of Art

Books and Journals
2012 Rooney, Ashley. 100 Artists of the Midwest, Schiffer Publishing (forthcoming)
2008 Femspec, Volume 9, Number 1, 2008 (cover)
2007 Bates, John. “Paradise Lost”, in Wisconsin People and Ideas, Volume 53, Number 1,
Winter, 2007
2005 Bebhinn, Sarah. Reflections of Cosmology, MatriFocus Cross-Quarterly, Lammas 2005,
Vol 4-4, (illustrations).
2004 CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Volume 22, Number 1, summer,
(illustrations).
1998 "Helen Klebesadel: Artist", Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Washington State
University, Pullman, Washington, (illustrations)
1997 "Wallflower Muses" Feminist Studies, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland,
Volume 23, Number 1, spring
1994 Pratt, Annis. Dancing With Goddesses: Archetypes, Poetry, and Empowerment, Indiana
University Press, (illustration)
1993 Alba, De-Anna. The Cauldron of Change: Myths, Mysteries and Magic of the Goddess,
Delphi Press, Chicago, (cover illustration)
1993 “Karon Hagemeister Winzenz," review in New Art Examiner, February
1992 CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Volume 14, Number 1, summer,
(cover and illustrations)
1990 Lauter, Estella. “Women as Mythmakers Revisited," citation, Quadrant XXIII: 1
1990 Orenstein, Gloria. The Reflowering of the Goddess, citation, Pergamon
1990 “Medusa Faced," Women Of Power, Boston, winter, (illustration)
1989 “Painting: An Outreach," Women Artists News, Volume 14, Numbers 1 and 2. New York,
(Illustration)

Periodicals, Newspapers, and Electronic Publications
2011 ‘Helen Klebesadel Floral Fabrics,’ Garden Design Magazine, March/April
2010 Benson, Cynthia, ‘Inspiration Series-12’, Simple Elements Blog, June 9,
http://simpleelements.blogspot.com/2010/06/inspiration-series-part-11_09.html
2010 Christians, Lindsay. ‘Off the Wall: Art by Helen Klebesadel,’ Wisconsin State Journal. May 2.
http://host.madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/visual/article_5c59c344-53c7-
11df-9a00-001cc4c03286.html
2009 Christians, Lindsay. ‘Off the Wall: Art by Helen Klebesadel,’ Wisconsin State Journal, July 16
2009 Tomlinson, Abby. ‘Summer Art Education Program Hosts Nationally Recognized Artists,’
Texas Tech Today, March 26
2008 Sayre, Ben. Artist Driven By Empowerment, University of Wisconsin News, November 19,
2008. http://www.news.wisc.edu/15978
2008 Vaughn, Katie, Hit the Road, Madison Magazine Liberal Arts Blog, October 1, 2008
<http://madisonmagazine-liberalarts.blogspot.com/2008/10/hit-road.html>
2007 Critics Choice, Isthmus, September 7
2007 Stockinger, Jacob. Feminism & Art, Capital Times, April 13, Madison, WI
2006 MacLennan, Leanne. “Teaching Watercolor Workshops to Beginners: Pitfalls to Avoid,”
American Artist On-Line, October 17
2006 ‘Helen Klebesadel, Altared,” Interweave Crochet, Spring, (illustration pp.10)
2003 ‘James Kaneko Gallery’, Sacramento News, April 4
2001 Dunn, Bill, “Women’s Studies Director puts “Activism into Action,” Capital Times, October 4.
1999 “Watercolors Salute Needlework,” Wisconsin Sate Journal, June 6.
1997 Lynch, Kevin, “Red: Emotionally Laden Color is Theme of Exhibit by Six Area Artists,”
Capital Times, December, 19.
1997 "Deep Water", Watercolor 1997 American Artist Magazine, spring (illustration)
1997 Kravetz, Deborah K., "Women Revision the Sacred at Muse", Art Matters, Philadelphia,
February
1995 Blocker, Susan. "From Image To Myth,” Wisconsin State Journal, December 15
1994 "Helen Klebesadel: Artist," Hyphen, Chicago, summer issue, (illustrations)
1993 Goddard, Dan R. "Contemporary Arts Month,” San Antonio Express News, Section H. June 27
1993 “Critics Choice," Isthmus, Madison, August 12
1993 Lynch, Kevin. “Waking Dreams," The Capital Times, Madison, August 5
1993 Pasch, Ina. “Feminist Painter's Musings," Wisconsin State Journal, March 28
1992 Merkle, Karen Rene. “Bridging the Gap," Showcase, A Guide to the Arts, Erie,
Pennsylvania, November 26
1992 Lynch, Kevin. “Wisconsin Artists," Art Muscle Magazine, May, Milwaukee
1992 Rogers, Katherine. "Windows," New Art Examiner, February-March, Chicago
1991 Lynch, Kevin. “State Artists Get Showcase," The Capital Times, December
1990 Auer, James. “Vacationing Critic Can’t Resist Galleries," Milwaukee Journal, December 16
1990 Culhane, Ed. “L.U. Professor Offers Challenging Art," Post-Crescent, Oct. 14
1989 Moore, Bill. “Statistics Paint Picture of Chauvinism in The Arts,” Wisconsin State Journal,
Sept. 17

SELECTED JURIES, CONSULTATIONS and CURATORIAL
2012 Project co-creator with Alison Gates, The Exquisite Uterus: The Art Of Resistance,
collaborative feminist art installation with over 180 participating artists.
http://pinterest.com/profgates/exquisite-uterus-preview-board/
2010 Guest Juror, UW-Whitewater Student Art Exhibition 2010
2009 Co-curator, Hoard Museum Annual Art Exhibition, Ft. Atkinson, WI
2007 Co-curator, with Leslee Nelson, Intersectionalities: The Feminist In Art, Pyle Center,
Madison, WI
2004 Co-Juror (with Gail Tremblay, Flo Oy Wong, Clarissa Sligh, and Tey Marianna Nunn) and
exhibition organizer, Women In the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections, University
Art Gallery, UW-Milwaukee and Walkers Point Art Center, in conjunction with the
National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee Wisconsin
2002 Curator, The Object of Metaphor, Nicolet Area Technical College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
2001 Awards Juror, Wisconsin Regional Arts Exhibition, University of Wisconsin Outreach
2000 Exhibition Selection Committee, Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Madison, WI
1997 Scholarship Juror, Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) Mentor Program
1992 Guest Curator, Contemporary Women Artists/ St. Louis

SELECTED RECOGNITIONS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2008 Watercolor Wisconsin, Award of Merit, Racine Art Museum
2005 Visiting Artist, Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia-Athens
2000 Guest Artist, Graduate Program, Memphis College of Art
1999 Distinguished Recent Alum of the Year, School of Education, UW-Madison
1995 Delegation Leader, to the NGO Forum 95 of the Fourth United Nations World Conference
on Women, Beijing and Huairou, China
1991 Lysistrata Award, Wisconsin Women in the Arts
1991 Visiting Artist, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
1989-92 Artist (AIE), Artist in Education Program, Wisconsin Arts Board
1990 "Painting: An Outreach,” one of twelve artists chosen to represent women painting in the U.S.
today by Women Artists’ News, New York
1989 Curator’s Award, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, In Search of the
American Experience
1978-79 Wisconsin Arts Board CETA Grant

ADMINISTRATION
2000-present Senior Academic Planner and Director, Women’s Studies Consortium,
University of Wisconsin System
2001-2004 Associate Chair, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1996-1998 Chair, Art Department, Lawrence University, alternating terms

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2001-2004 Visiting Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Program, UW-Madison
1996-2000 Associate Professor, Art Department, Lawrence University
1990-96 Assistant Professor, Art Department, Lawrence University
1993 Visiting Faculty, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago Semester in the Arts
1989-90 Lecturer, Art Department Beloit College
1987-89 Teaching Assistant, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin- Madison
1987 Reader and Grader, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

ADDITIONAL TEACHING
2001-2012 Private art instruction
2011-2012 On-line art courses, UW-Madison College of Continuing Education
1997-2012 Watercolor Instructor, Lawrence University, Bjorklunden Summer and Fall Seminars
2010 Workshop Instructor, Watercolor and Creativity, Fairbanks Arts Festival, Alaska
2008 Finding Your Creative Voice Workshop, Continuing Education, UW-Madison
2008 Watercolor Workshop, Peninsula School of Art, Door County, WI
2007 Workshop Instructor, Watercolor and Creativity, Fairbanks Arts Festival, Alaska
2005 Finding Your Creative Voice Workshop, Continuing Education, UW-Madison
2005 Finding Your Creative Voice Workshop, summer workshop, Fairbanks, Alaska
2005 Watercolor: The Expressive Medium, Shake Rag Art Center, Mineral Point, WI
2005 Finding Your Creative Voice Workshop, Continuing Education, Shake Rag Art
2004 Advanced Critiques for Artists, Continuing Education, UW-Madison
2003 Advancing Your Watercolor Series, Continuing Education, UW-Madison
2003 Finding Your Creative Voice Workshop, Womanspace, Rockford, Illinois
2001 Continuing Education Art Classes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1999 Faculty, Lawrence University Meilke Summer Teacher's Institute
1997 Guest Instructor, Atelier du Art Summer Program, La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland
1997 Faculty, Lawrence University Meilke Summer Teacher's Institute
1990-91 Visiting Faculty, Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts Summer Program

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2006-2012 Wisconsin Arts Board, appointed by Governor Jim Doyle
2010-2012 Board of Directors, Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, Wisconsin
2002-2005 Board of Directors, National Women’s Studies Association; Chair, Educational Outreach,
Scholarship and Travel Grant Selection Committee
2002-2005 CitiArts Commissioner, Madison Wisconsin
2003-2004 National Women’s Studies Conference Committee, Arts Committee
2003 Wisconsin Arts Board Percent For the Arts Panel
1990-98 Women's Caucus for Art board of directors, National President, 1994-96, First Vice
President 1992-94
1997 Artists Advisory Committee of Wisconsin Art Board
1995 Delegation Leader, of a 100-person WCA delegation to the NGO Forum 95 of the Fourth United
1990-92 President, Central Wisconsin Women's Caucus for Art
1989 Community Mural Coordinator, W.O.R.T. Community Broadcast Mural, Madison
1978-1979 Artist in Residence, Central Wisconsin Center, funded by Wisconsin Art Board. CETA and Wisconsin Department of Health and Human Services

EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
M.F.A. 1989, Exhibition Title: "The Muse and Her Artist"
BS Studio Art with distinction, 1986
Certification in Women's Studies, 1984
Layton School of Art and Design, 1971-72

 

 

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