As one of the original founders of the Soil artist-run gallery in Seattle, I am so inspired by the decades of members who helped it thrive for 30 years. Happy Birthday, SOIL! https://soilart.org
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS/RESIDENCIES
Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, Venice, Italy, summer 2025
Ram Chhatpar 5th International Art Exposition & FREIRAUM 25, Varanasi, India, March 2025
Nurture: Empathy for the Earth, University Hall Galler, UMass. Boston, curated by Sam Toabe, September 3-December 14, 2024
New Faith II, Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia, curated by David Andriadze and Konstantin Mindadze, July 19-September 15, 2024.
RECENT AWARDS, REVIEWS & OTHER RECOGNITIONS:
+ Visual Arts Review: “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth” — Imagining Healing the Planet, The Arts Fuse, Boston’s Premiere Online Arts Magazine, October 24, 2024
+ Reconnect With Nature Through “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth”, The Mass Media, Boston, By Michelle Dang and Rena Weafer, September 23, 2024
+ Eleven Art Exhibitions to See in Massachusetts This Fall, Boston Art Review, September 10, 2024
+ Interview with curator Konstantin Mirandize, New Faith II, AT_ge magazine, Tblisi, Georgia, September 19, 2024
+ Exhibition “New Faith” opens in Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Georgia Today, by Maiam Mtivlishvili, August 6, 2024
+ One Earth Vol. 5 Issue 2, p 186–187, February 18, 2022 (images of Runoff Verdure, published in issue)
+ A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature, Washington Post, by Mark Jenkins, July 6, 2021
+ Smithsonian Voices National Museum of Natural History, Artists Show Human Impact on the Planet in New Exhibit, July 1st, 2021, by Margaret Osborne
+ SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | June 14, 2021: The Sad Truths Behind These Unsettling Works of Art; A new exhibition reflects on the haunting aesthetics of human impact on the planet, by Roger Catlin
+ Made Aware, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2019 issue: Marigolds & Unicorns, December 2019 http://www.surfacedesign.org/journal/about-the-journal/
+ Interview: VoyageMia, Magazine, Miami FL, 2019
+ F.A.T.E. Leadership Award, Foundations in Art Theory and Education, presented at FATE 17th Biennial Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2019
+ Publication: The World to Come; Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Edited by Kerry Oliver Smith, University of Florida Press, 2018
+ Radio Interview, State of The Arts, KTEP 88.5 FM, with fellow artist Brenda Perry about water, activism and our two-person exhibition at New Mexico State University
+ Gallery, Saturday, January 9th, 2016
+ Footing the Bill: Art and Our Ecological Footprint, Artworks for Change, Oakland, CA, partnered w/ Global Footprint Network and Earth Day Network, (online exhibition) launched for Earth Overshoot day August 13th, 2015
+ Represented by Los Angeles Center for Digital Art <http://lacda.com/LACDA_artists_gallery.html>
RECENT/UPCOMING LECTURES/TALKS:
+ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural.History: Unsettled Nature: Artist Event Series, Bethany Taylor: Unraveling Ecologies, January 26, 2022 *event recording
+ Streaming Curators and Artist Panel Discussion with Live Catalog Launch, Lost in the Weeds, ATHICA, Athens, GA, Thursday, May 6, 7:00 PM
+ Invited Visiting Artist, Senior Capstone, UMASS Boston, April 1, 2021
+ Gallery Conversation: The Potential of Fragments and Loose Threads, Harn Museum of Art, September 29, 2019
+ To Write in Silent Marks, artist talk, Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, September 18, 2019 (invited)
+ Session Chair, Interdisciplinary Thinking for a Better Tomorrow, 2019 Foundations in Art Theory and Education (FATE) conference, Columbus Ohio, April 4-6, 2019.
+ Deeper than Indigo, Southeast Textile Symposium, February 21-23, 2019 <https://www.flagler.edu/textilesymposium/>
Panel discussion, By Hand: Contemporary Practices in Fiber Arts, Gamache-Koger Theater, Ringhaver Student Center, Flagler College Campus, Saint Augustine, Florida, Saturday February 23rd, 2019, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
Drifting Cabinets: a Curious Portable Collection of Gulf Biodiversity, exhibiting artist in a touring interdisciplinary, collaborative art + science project created and curated by Sean Miller <http://www.seanmillerstudio.net>.
2017-18 UF Catalyst Grant for UF Biolink, a project to connect diverse teaching, training, and creative efforts across campus, encouraging collaboration and trans-disciplinary research around the theme of biodiversity. Visit: UFBIOLINK.ORG
As one of the original founders of the Soil artist-run gallery in Seattle, I am so inspired by the decades of members who helped it thrive for 30 years. Happy Birthday, SOIL! https://soilart.org
