In 1978 I visited Italy and was never the same. The variety of artwork from antiquity – sculptures, paintings, architecture – that was freely available to the public was astonishing. Public fountains, public squares, public everything, everywhere there was art, and people casually close to it, accepting it as a natural part of existence.
Their quality of life was, in my youthful estimation, sublime, and they were living life the way it should be lived.
EDUCATION
1989 MFA, painting, University of Texas at Austin
1987-‘89 Teaching assistant, assistant instructor, painting, drawing, U Texas at Austin
1986 BFA, painting, summa cum laude, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED AWARDS
2024 ......Margaret Hogg Art About Agriculture Purchase Award, Oregon State University
2014 .Purchase award, "Rushing Water", Imagine Housing's Velocity , Kirkland, WA
2013 “Storefronts: Seattle”, project chosen for artists roster, Shunpike.org, Seattle, WA
2012 “Carousel Horses: Celestial Mythologies”, Individual Artist Projects, IAP grant,
2011 Purchase Award, “Tiepolo Horses w/Clouds”, Snohomish County Arts Commission,
...............permanent installation, Snohomish County Courthouse, Everett, WA
2011 Purchase Award, “Ancestors II”, City Art Portable Collection, City of Kent, WA
2011 “Carousel Horses: A Girl’s Favorite Dream”, Individual Artist Projects, IAP grant,
...............4Culture, Seattle, WA
2009 “Secret Lives of Carousel Horses”, Allied Arts Foundation, AAF grant, Seattle, WA
2006 Telly Award, for 3D CGI animation, “The Wave Scene”, Ideas to Images Productions
2003 3DLabs’ grand prize winner, graphics accelerator contest, for use of artistic technology
2003 Telly Award for 3D Animation, “Recyclettes”, series of :30 TV commercials
1999 P.S.G.N.W. Painters’ award, “Puget Sound Country”, co-sponsored by
West Coast Paper Co. and Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Seattle, WA
1998 Best of Show Purchase award, “Puget Sound Country”, co-sponsored by
West Coast Paper Co. and Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Seattle, WA
1992 City of Seattle, winner, juried competition for “Art in Public Places”, Seattle, WA
1986 Highest Academic Achievement Award
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1986 Reba Stewart Memorial Scholarship (meritorious award given to painting major)
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1985 Gertrude Pentland Scholarship (meritorious award in any major)
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1985 First Annual Drawing Award (created by Abby Sangiamo, chair, drawing dept.)
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED SHOWS
2024 ..Shelton Civic Center Rotating Art Gallery, juried group show, Shelton, WA
2024 "Art About Agriculture: RESOURCEful" juried touring show, Giustina Gallery, Oregon
.......State University, Corvallis,OR; Rotunda Gallery, Central Oregon Comm.College, Bend, OR;
.............High Street Gallery, Oregon Coast School of Art, Gardiner, OR
2024 "Chromacosm: Our Universe in Color" juried show, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2023 "Art About Agriculture" juried touring show, Giustina Gallery, Oregon State U, Corvallis,OR;
.y9-Jun Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, OR ; Portland'5 Centers for the Arts, Portland OR
2020 "Quiet/Raging Nature...an Observation", solo show, Forsberg Gallery,
............ Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA - cancelled due to Covid-19 crisis
2019 "Kent Summer Art Exhibit", juried group show, Kent City Hall, Kent, WA
2019 "Pets On Parade", juried group show, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2019 "Animalia", juried group show, Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA
2019 “French Tropics", group show, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2018 “Oaxaca", group show, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2018 “Prelude: Crashing Wave”, Mioposto-Mt.Baker, solo show, Seattle, WA
2018 “Quebec", group show, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2017 Pintxo, "Expanding in Belltown", curators Amanda & Cory Chigbrow, Seattle, WA
2017 “Ex Nihilo", KAC Artists' Exhibition, juror Trevor Doak, Kirkland, WA
2017 “Snowmelt”, Mioposto-Mt.Baker, solo show, Seattle, WA
2017 “The Carolinas", group show, Tim Waibel curator, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2017 "Gold and White", Mioposto-Mercer, solo show, Tiah Hardy, curator, Mercer Island, WA
2016 Kirkland Art Center's ARTbeat benefit auction, juror Michael Monroe, Bellevue, WA
2016 “Cloud Toys: Horses in Folk Art”, Mioposto, solo show, Seattle, WA
2016 “Baja", group show, Tim Waibel curator, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2016 “Ascent”, solo show at Galvanize, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
2015 “Streetscapes: Static Installations”, One Main Professional Plaza, Auburn, WA
2015 “Crave”, Columbia City Gallery's 10th annual juried exhibit, Seattle, WA
2015 "ARTbeat: Brick House Funk", Kirkland\ Art Center benefit auction, Bellevue, WA
2015 “Caribbean Seas Tour”, group show, Coastal Kitchen, Seattle, WA
2015 "Lily Belle and Stargazer", Mioposto-Admiral, solo show, Tiah Hardy, curator, Seattle, WA
2015 “Cave Paintings Prelude:Lapis Lazuli”, Mioposto, solo show, Seattle, WA
2015 .Artist Trust Benefit Art Auction, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2015 "Attraction", group show, Fred Wong, juror, Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA
2014 "Lily Belle and Stargazer", Shunpike's Storefronts:Seattle, Amazon at Mercer St.,
...........Anne Blackburn, curator, Seattle, WA
2014 "Bountiful", group show, Ida Culver Broadview, June Sekiguchi, A.Macrae, jurors, Seattle, WA
2014 “More and More”, Mioposto, solo show, Seattle, WA
2014 "Redux: ARTbeat of the 60s", KAC's auction, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
2014 Belltown Pintxo’s spring /summer solo show, Amanda Akin Chigbrow, curator, Seattle, WA
2014 "Last Carousel", Mioposto-Bryant, extended solo show, Tiah Hardy, curator, Seattle, WA
2013 “Carousel Horses: Celestial Mythologies”, Individual Artist Project solo show,
Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 “Expansible: Large Walls/Large Work”, solo show, Aria, Seattle, WA
2013 “Forty-Eight Times Four”, Mioposto, solo show, Seattle, WA
2013 "Veracruz”, group show, Coastal Kitchen, Emily Beck, curator, Seattle, WA
2013 "Redux”, Kirkland Arts Center’s Annual Auction, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
2013 “Kent Summer Art Exhibit”, Centennial Center Gallery group show,
jurors Juan Alsonso, Yadesa Bojia, Kent City Hall, Kent, WA
2013 “Color Modularities”, solo show, Savour Specialty Foods, Seattle, WA
2013 “Works on Paper”, solo show, Essential Baking Café at Madison Park, Seattle, WA
2013 Belltown Pintxo’s spring group show, Cory Chigbrow, curator, Seattle, WA
2013 “Industrial/Re-Mix”, solo show, Cafe Cesura, Bellevue, WA
2013 icon Grill’s ‘Horses: Kentucky Derby Days’, Laura Hackley curator, Seattle, WA
2013 Coastal Kitchen’s spring group show, Emily Beck, curator, Seattle, WA
2012 “Carousel Horses: A Girl’s Favorite Dream”, Individual Artist Project solo show,
the Turret Room, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2012 “Running Wild”, solo show, Seattle Creative Arts Center gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Belltown Pintxo’s summer group show, Cory Chigbrow, curator, Seattle, WA
2012 Centennial Center Gallery “Kent Summer Art Exhibit”, group show,
jurors Minh Carrico, Molly Magai, Kent City Hall, Kent, WA
2012 “Divergent Art II”, juried group show, Lower Columbia College Gallery, Longview, WA
2012 “Art with Heart” benefit art auction, icon Grill, Seattle, WA
2012 “icon Grill redux”, featured artist, Laura Hackley, curator, icon Grill, Seattle, WA
2012 Belltown Pintxo’s spring group show, Cory Chigbrow, curator, Seattle, WA
2012 “Animals in Art”, Laura Hackley, curator, GalleryWineArt, Kirkland, WA
2011 “Venice”, Coastal Kitchen group show, Seattle, WA
2011 Centennial Center Gallery “Kent Summer Art Exhibit”, group show,
jurors Suze Woolf, David Scherrer, Kent City Hall, Kent, WA
2011 “Brush with Nature”, Shoreline City Hall gallery, juried group show, Shoreline, WA
2011 Solo show of paintings, Kirsten Robertson, curator, Coldwell Banker Bain, Bellevue, WA
2011 “Buenos Aires”, Coastal Kitchen group show, Seattle, WA
2011 The Center for Pediatric Dentistry, group show, U.WA and City of Seattle, Seattle, WA
2011 Belltown Pintxo’s summer group show, Diana Comstock, curator, Seattle, WA
2011 Inaugural group show, Laura Hackley, curator, GalleryWineArt, Kirkland, WA
2010 “Spain”, 7’x12’ times two, Coastal Kitchen group show, Seattle, WA
2010 “Carousel Horses, Tropical Beaches”, solo show, Belltown Lofts Condominium, Seattle, WA
2010 Belltown Pintxo’s group show, Diana Comstock, curator, Seattle, WA
2010 “Pastoral: a Selection of Paintings and Drawings”, solo show, Dreamclinic, Seattle, WA
2010 South Seattle Community College annual community juried show, Seattle, WA
2010 Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood Arts Commission juried group show,
Frederick Wong and Marianne Johnson, curators, Lynnwood, WA
2010 3D animation created for Atheist Alliance International conference, Burbank CA, 10-DVD set
2010 “Greece”, Coastal Kitchen group show, Seattle, WA
2010 “Fran Holt: Large Works”, solo show, Casa Del Caffe, Seattle, WA
2009 “The Secret Lives of Carousel Horses”, solo show, office of Lt. Governor Brad Owen,
Olympia, WA
2009 “Eco Art”, juried show, Donna Lindeman Porter, curator, Sammamish Arts Commission,
................Sammamish City Hall, WA
2009.....“Carousel Horses”, solo show, U.S. Bank, Pioneer Square, WA
2009 “Large Works”, featured artist, Snohomish County Arts Council Store, Everett, WA
2009 Juried group show, Revyve Wine Bar, Belltown, Seattle, WA
2009 “Small Works, Big Presents: The Gift of Art”, 2nd annual juried show, jurors Paul Metivier,
Margaret Bullock, Auburn Arts Commission, White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
2008 3D promo video, ‘Taste Washington!’, WA Wine Comm., Qwest Event Ctr, Seattle, WA
2008 “Carousel Horses: Early Works”, solo show, Starbucks Belltown, Seattle, WA
2008 Auburn City Hall Gallery, two person show, Auburn, WA
2008 “H’Arts” Benefit Auction, painting, Snohomish County Arts Council, Everett, WA
2008 “Only in Washington”, juried photography show, WA State Convention Center,
Seattle, WA (Oct 2008 - Mar 2009)
2008 Siggraph, 35th International Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
3D animation featured in Newtek’s Lightwave 3D video presentation
2008 “Art of the Garden”, juried show, Snohomish County Arts Council, Everett, WA
2008 “Small Works, Big Presents”, first annual juried show, Auburn Arts Commission,
White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
2008 “Landscapes: Works on Paper”, solo show, Edmonds Frame Design, Edmonds, WA
2008 WA State University, Chancellor’s Exhibition Series, Richland, WA (Jan-June)
2008 WA State Dept of Ecology, Art in Ecology galleries, solo show, Lacey, WA (May-Nov)
2008 “Inaugural”, juried show, Jabez LeBret, curator, Imigri Production Studios, Seattle, WA
2008 “Pets on Parade”, juried show, Snohomish County Arts Council, Everett, WA
2007 “Fran Holt: Tropical Beaches”, solo show, Starbucks Belltown, Seattle, WA
2007 “H’Arts” Benefit Auction, painting, Snohomish County Arts Council, Everett, WA
2006 “15 x 15 Alumni Exhibition", The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005 3D CGI animation, “Get the Dirt on Wine”, PBS Seattle, Ideas to Images Productions
2004 3D animation featured at MSA annual fundraiser, host Alexie Sherman, Seattle, WA
2003 3D CGI animation, recycling commercials for Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, WA
2003 “Best of 3D Graphics”, Rockport Publishing, 3D images selected for book publication
2000 “Road Trip”, Bellevue Art Museum, Annual Film & Video Festival, Bellevue, WA
1999 “Puget Sound Country”, juried show, Puget Sound Group of NW Painters, Seattle, WA
1998 Arts Council of Snohomish County, eleventh annual juried show, Everett, WA
1998 “NW Expression”, juried show, Coos Art Museum and SW Oregon Community
College Foundation, co-sponsors; Coos Bay, Oregon
1998 “Parkside Eleventh National Small Print Exhibition”, Joseph Ruzicka, curator
(drawing/prints, Milwaukee Art Museum); U of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
1998 “Puget Sound Country”, juried show, West Coast Paper Company, Seattle, WA
1997 "15x15 Alumni Exhibition", The Maryland Institute, College of Art , Baltimore, MD
1997 Arts Council of Snohomish County, tenth annual juried show, Everett, WA
1995 “Bold Scale and Color”, solo show, U.S. Bank, Pioneer Square, WA
1995 Seven solo shows at In*Sights! Gallery (1993-1995), Seattle, WA
1994 Solo show, “Earth, Wind and Fire”, Giustina Gallery, Douglas Russell, curator,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1994 “Miniatures”, juried show, artwork selected for show poster, 2nd Story Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 “Gallery Inaugural”, solo show, Executive Galleries, Kirkland, WA
1993 Arts Council of Snohomish County, sixth annual juried show, Everett, WA
1993 National Printmaking Invitational, President’s Gallery, U. of South Dakota, SD
1993 Frye Art Museum, 35th Annual Puget Sound Exhibition, juried show, Seattle, WA
1992 Eastside Association of Fine Arts, seventeenth annual juried show, Kirkland, WA
1991 Arts Council of Snohomish County, fourth annual juried show, Everett, WA
1989 MFA exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1987 “Drawings from the Hill Country” solo show, Temple Arts Commission, Temple, TX
1986 “Landscapes”, juried show, curator Peter Collier, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1986 “Maryland Biennial”, juried painting show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1985 The Maryland Institute, College of Art group show at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1985 The Maryland Institute, College of Art traveling drawing show, U.S.- Japan, Baltimore, MD
COLLECTIONS
College of Agricultural Sciences' Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection, Oregon State University
Snohomish County Public Art Collection, Everett, WA
City of Seattle, WA
City of Kent, WA
West Coast Paper Co., Seattle, WA
Performing Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin
Overlake Mortgage Co., Tempe, AZ
.PUBLICATIONS
2011 “Between the Lines”, Edmonds Community College annual arts/literary journal
2005 “Get the Dirt on Wine”, 3D animation provided for DVD, Ideas to Images Productions
2003 “Best of 3D Graphics”, Rockport Publishing, hardcover book and DVD
2003 “Recyclettes’ Animated TV Spots Win Telly Award”, Digital Producer Magazine
2003 “Profile: THOUGHTcam”, winning entry, 3DLabs’ online publication
TRAVEL
By motorcycle - France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, England
By bicycle - Colombia
Planes and cars - Peru, Canada, Hawaii