SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS

Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA
Seeking Light Looking at Shadows, 2007

Falkirk Cultural center, San Rafael, CA
Evocations: Five Photographers, 2002

Institute of Health and Healing, San Francisco, CA
Memory Nests, 1996

Traveling exhibition: Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
100 Years/100 Pictures: Chronicles of One Man’s Life, 1991, 1992, 1993

Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
The Storytellers, 1993

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Oakland Museum of California; Professional Services Division, 500 12th Street, Oakland, CA
A Measure of Time, 2008

Falkirk Cultural Center:
Photographic Exhibition, 2007
Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Awards Exhibition, 2003
Eco2, 2003

Bedford Gallery:
Embroidered Stories, Knitted Tales, 2006
Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle, 2003
Traveled throughout the US through 2006
Family Matters, 1996

Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Mirror/Mirror...Gender Roles and the Historical Significance of Beauty, 1994

Utah Musuem of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Utah ‘94, 1994

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Adobe Systems
Institute of Health and Healing, San Francisco, CA
Bread and Roses, Corte Madera, CA
Victoria and Albert Museum (artists book collection, 1993)
University of Hawaii
Stefan Kirkeby, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA
Private collections

 

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Marin Arts Council
Individual Artists Grant, Photography, 2002
Community Arts Grant, 2001, 1997, 1993

Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2001

Morris Stulsaft Foundation Grant
for Art Pals, a community interactive art program for children and seniors with Falkirk Cultural Center

Falkirk Cultural Center
Best In Show Award; All Saints All Souls, 1995

The Quilters Guild of Dallas Endowment Grant, 1992
The Storytellers

University Of Utah:
Graduate Research Fellowship Award, 1991
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1991

 

REPRESENTATION

Smith Andersen North, San Rafael, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

East Bay Express, review of A Measure of Time, 2008
Art Week: ECO2, 2003, Evocations, 2002
New Art Examiner, Needlearts Exhibition, 1999
Fiber Arts, The Storytellers, 1/1994
The Salt Lake Tribune, 5/16/1993

 

SELECTED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND TEACHING

Santa Clara University, 2005-2008
part time lecturer, dept. of Art and Art History

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
Access Advisor, 1998-present
Exhibition workshop instructor; (develop original hands on activities for special exhibitions), 1998-present
Artist in Residence, Art Span, 1998
Committee for the exhibition of Georgia O’Keefe

Bread and Roses, Corte Madera, CA
volunteer photographer of performances in hospitals, nursing homes, schools and similar facilities throughout the Bay Area, 1995-2007

Memberships: SFMOMA, SF Fine Arts Museums, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Ballet, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, various environmental organizations and land trusts

 

EDUCATION

University of Utah, SLC, UT, Master of Fine Arts, 1991

Dominican College, San Rafael, CA, Master of Science, Special Education, 1980

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1972

 

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Santa Rosa Community College, Adobe Photoshop Certification Training Certificate, 2002

Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Sculpture with Manuel Neri

Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME
Photography with Olivia Parker and Christopher James