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About MeArtist Bio ResumeEDUCATION I received my BA in Art from the University of San Diego in 1976. I did most of my undergraduate study at Michigan State University, with a major in Art and a minor in English SELECTED ONE-PERSON SHOWS Gallery 4500, 2 month solo exhibit, Seattle WA. 2018 Ombu Salon + Spa, Edmonds, WA, 2016 “The BIG One” PhinneyWood Art Walk, one month installation, Works Progress, Seattle, WA 2015 Edmonds Realty, One month installation and Art Walk, Edmonds, WA 2015 Edward Jones Investments, Two month installation and Art Walk, Edmonds, WA 2014 Semantics Gallery, Featured Artist, Edmonds WA, 2012 Edmonds Art Walk, C'est la Vie, Edmonds WA 2012 SCHACK Art Center, Gallery Store Featured Artist, Everett WA, 2012 Mukilteo Art & Frame Gallery Show, Mukilteo WA, 2011 Frank and Dunya, Fun and Functional Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007, 2011 Washington Hall Gallery, Centralia College, Centralia WA 2010 Chaco Canyon, "Pause for Animals show", Seattle WA 2010 Art Up Art Walk, Rising Stars, Seattle 2009 Blue Star Café, Seattle 2009 Ballard Art Walk, Seattle, WA, 2003, 2004, 2006 Greenwood Art Walk, Seattle WA, 2003, 2004, 2005 University District Art Walk, Seattle, WA 2005 Laura Frost Gallery, Seattle, WA Natural Images show 2005 Pause for Animals show 2005 Fiber Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Teapot Vegetarian House Restaurants Redmond, WA 2005 Seattle, 2003, 2004 Sunlight Cafe, Seattle WA, 2004 Doggie Style Salon, Seattle WA, 2004 Watershed Cafe, Seattle WA, 1998, 2001, 2003 Desert Rose Productions, Seattle, WA, 2001 Broadwick Cafe, Seattle WA, 2000 Allegro Cafe, Seattle WA, 1999 Kreider Gallery, Seattle WA, 1997 SELECTED TWO OR MORE PERSON SHOWS SCHACK Art Center, 21st Juried Gallery Show, biennial collection of Northwest Artists, Everett, WA. 2018 Glass and Decor Studio Tour, Blowing Sands Glass Studio & Laura Frost Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle WA. 2017, 2018 Edmonds Art Festival Juried Gallery, Edmonds, WA 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Edmonds Art Studio tour, two person studio, Edmonds WA, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 Wedgewood Art Festival, Seattle WA 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Artworks, "Puget Sound Artists Gift Show", Edmonds WA, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 Eastshore Gallery Holiday Show, Bellevue WA, 2016 SCHACK Art Center, 20th Juried Gallery Show, biennial collection of Northwest artists, Everett, WA, 2016 Washington State Convention Center, "Christmas in Seattle Gift and Gourmet Food Show", Seattle WA, 2013, 2014 SCHACK Art Center, 19th Juried Gallery Show, biennial collection of Northwest artists -2nd place 2D winner, Everett, WA, 2014 Best of the Northwest, Seattle, WA Spring 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2010, 2011, 2014 Summer 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010 Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Laura Frost Gallery, "Garden Art Show," Seattle WA 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 (solo painter) Edmonds Library, "Artfully Avian" Edmonds, WA, 2013, 2014 North Seattle Community College Gallery, Garden Art Show, 2013 Swedish Hospital Edmonds, Rotating Exhibit, Edmonds WA, 2011 - 2013 Semantics Gallery, "Flying High in Edmonds" Edmonds WA 2012 Fraker/Scott Gallery, ICON, Seattle, WA, 20011 SCHACK Art Center, 18th Juried Gallery Show, Everett, WA, 2011 Edmonds Art Festival, Edmonds, WA 2010, 2011 Monte Cristo Gallery, Pets on Parade III, Everett WA, 2011 Lowell Art Works Artist Studios and Gallery, The Domestic Animals Show, Everett WA, 2011 University District Street Fair, Seattle WA, 2010 Corner Studio and Gallery, "Hay 4 Horses", Everett, WA 2010 Parklane Gallery, "Contemporary Art Juried Show," Kirkland WA 2010 Parklane Gallery 2nd Annual Juried show, "Fur, Feathers & Fins," Kirkland WA 2009 Phinney Center, "Phinney Home and Garden Art Show," Seattle WA 2009 Seattle Vineyard, "Renew, Rebuild, Restore" Seattle, WA 2009, Judges choice professional category Occidental Gallery, "Bettering the World through Art," Seattle, WA 2009, Frank and Dunya, Fun and Functional Art Gallery, "Purr-spectives," Seattle, WA 2008 Shoreline Lake Forest Park Arts Council Gallery, "Green: Art & the Environment," Shoreline WA 2008 Laura Frost Gallery, "Spring Group Show," Seattle, WA 2008, 2014 Edmonds Center for the Arts, "Art of Our Mothers," Edmonds, WA 2008 Arts Council of Snohomish County Gallery, Everett WA, 2008 Solovei Gallery, "Roaring and Purring", Everett, WA 2008 Solovei Gallery, "Trees are Us", Everett WA, 2008 Solovei Gallery, "Art for Arf", Everett, WA 2007 Edmonds Conference Center, "On Wing," Edmonds, WA, 2007 Laura Frost Gallery, "Colors of Compassion," Seattle, WA 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Shoreline Arts Festival, Shoreline, WA, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2009 Des Moines Florist Gallery, Des Moines, WA, 2006-2007 Town Hall, In Defense of Animals - Africa Art Auction, Seattle, WA 2006 Mukilteo Light House Festival Juried Art Show, Mukilteo WA, 2006, 2007 "Artists for Animals" shows benefiting NARN, Seattle WA Sev Shoon Arts Center / Ballard Works, 2004, 2005 Capitol Hill Arts Center, 2003, 2004 Mr. Spots Chai House, 2004 Washington State Convention Center, "Technique in Media," Seattle, WA 2005 Snohomish Arts Council Gallery, Everett, WA 2005 Dooley's Dog House, benefiting Pasado's Safe Haven, Kirkland, WA 2005 University of New Mexico, "The Sacred Feminine," Los Alamos, NM 2005 Pratt Fine Arts Center Holiday Sale, Seattle, WA, 2000, 2001, 2002 BKB & Company Gallery, "Raining Catz and Dogz", Tacoma, WA 2002 Artists' Gallery of Seattle, Seattle, WA 2001 FareStart Restaurant, Seattle WA, 2000 (Two-person exhibition) Art/Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle WA, 2000 Black Lab Gallery, Holiday sale, Seattle WA 1998 Ballard ArtsFeast 98, and Ballard ArtsFeast 99, Seattle WA, 1998, 1999 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS 2010: I am the weekly "art auntie" at an Art Drop In for Homeless Young Adults. The Drop In is a casual two hour space at the Seattle Vineyard that I initiated for the purpose of chatting, chilling, snacking, and making art with young friends from the streets. 2006: Featured artist in November and December at Brookside Elementary School in Lake Forest Park Washington, as part of a program created by the Art Docents of that school to introduce students to the style, motivation, and technique of various artists. Students of all grades painted large, colorful animals in the "Mary Anne Nagy" style. 2006: My images "Pigs Peace" and "Pink Pastures" serve as background art on the websites for Pigs Peace Sanctuary and their wonderful Seattle store Sidecar for Pigs Peace. My Pigs Peace image also serves as cover art for a new documentary DVD about the sanctuary by Mark Ring. 2005: My work is being used as logo and promotional art for the Canadian Goose Program created by PAWS in coordination with the Humane Society of the United States and Seattle Parks & Recreation 2003-2005: Art coordinator/curator for "Artists for Animals" shows benefiting the Northwest Animal Rights Network. The shows featured the work of artists from Washington as well as various other states, and Canada. 1998 - 2001: Art Specialist with homeless youth, New Horizons Ministries, Seattle, WA 2001: Art with Refugee Women, Seattle, WA 1992-1996: Community Outreach Worker, White Street Arts Center, Champaign, IL. I worked to make arts classes available to at-risk youth. 1993: Weekly art for children at the Women in Transition Center, a shelter for homeless women, Champaign, IL. 1992: Art enrichment classes at Leal Elementary School, Urbana, IL ART DONATIONS Farm Sanctuary Gala Seattle Dog Festival -Ginger's Pet Rescue & Cesar Millan Foundation They Shall Walk Art Benefit Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants Pawative Alliance Pasado's Safe Haven H'Arts Auction for the Arts Council of Snohomish County Michigan Animal Rescue League IDA Africa Art Auction Homeward Pet Adoption Center - Spring for Pets Auction Purrfect Pals Shelter for Felines - Black Cat Ball Planned Pethood Incorporated Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project - Colors of Compassion Pigs Peace Sanctuary - Silent Auctions & Week of Art at the Sanctuary PAWS - Wild Nights Auction, & Logo art for Seattle Goose Program Northwest Animal Rights Network - Poster art for Artists for Animals shows ARF-Animal Rescue League Animal Acres Sanctuary gala PETA 25th Anniversary Gala Children's Hospital - Mary Helen Hickman Guild & Preston Kuppe Guild supporting the Uncompensated Care Fund FREELANCE FUN 2001 - 2012: Marketing my images as cards and prints through my web site, Fine Art America and through various shows and festivals. Member of Northwest Art Alliance and Artist Connect. 2002: Logo art for Singing Elephant Productions 2000: Logo art for theatrical performance "The View from Here" 2000: CD Cover "Larger than Jazz" 1998: New Horizons Exterior Building Sign, 2709 3rd Avenue, Seattle, WA 1980's: Occasional freelance design work for some licensing products of the wonderful nationally syndicated cartoonist Cathy Guisewite (my sister!) |
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