About the Artist

FINE ART AWARDS AND EXHIBITS:

2006

2005

2003 

  • Selected as Featured Artist - Belfast (Maine) Art in the Park July 2006

  • 3rd place $250 award, Mixed-Media - Allentown Art Festival, Buffalo, NY

  • Selected for exhibition in Maine state capitol complex in Maine Arts Commission's "Ports of Call: Rockport to Phippsburg"

 

2002

  • "The Girl STILL Ain't Right" Group exhibition, Tenants Harbor, ME - included funky mosaic reliquary
  • November Down East Magazine cover and photo essay - Old Orchard Beach

 

2001 

 

 

  • “Buoy Lobstah” and “Belted Lobstah” for Rockland’s Lobster Maine-ia public art sculpture project
  • “Buoy Bear” for Belfast, Maine’s Bearfest public art sculpture project
  • $500 award – Art  in the Park, South Portland, Maine

  • “2001: a Spaced Oddity - The Girl Ain't Right”, Sea Studio, Tenants Harbor, ME

  • Formed non-profit corporation “The ArtCollective of Maine” with 2 other artists to expand sales opportunities

2000

  • “Girl Ain’t Right” group exhibition – experimental objet trouve’ collages and “Pearls Before Swine” autobiography

1999

  • $100 Award, Bethel Art Show; juried shows in Maine and Pennsylvania

  • acceptance Maine Art Gallery Photography Competition, Chocolate Church, Bath

1998

 

  • $150 Award, Old Port Equinox Art Festival, Portland ME “Electric Seaweed”
  • 3rd place $250 award - Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh PA

  • 1st place $100 award - Bar Harbor Art Show “Bachelor’s Kitchen”

1997

  • 1ST PLACE $1000 AWARD - Old Port Equinox Art Festival, Portland, ME “Ascendant”

  • 1st Place $100 award - Bar Harbor Art Fest “Ascendant”

  • group shows Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor; Maine Crafts Association

  • juried shows:  Maine Festival, Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival, others

1996

  • opened Scalawags...an eclectic Gallery in Tenants Harbor, Maine; until 1998

1995 

  • Best Color Award - Univ. of Maine  Museum of Art “Jack Walas Juried Photography Exhibition”

  • Accepted Maine Arts Commission Juried Artists Roster

  • Down East Magazine cover - hand-coloring of vintage Lobster Festival photograph

1994-5

  • Artfellows Co-Operative Gallery, Belfast, Maine group shows

1992

  • Portraits of Native Americans...traveling exhibit to Vladivostok, Russia in a Sister City cultural exchange from

  • Tacoma, Washington with mayoral delegation

  • “Wonderland Trail” collection from solo backpacking trip around Mount Rainier

1991

  • Several awards, Professional Photographers of Washington competition

1990

  • Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, WA...”Ryanscapes” collection of son Ryan from birth to five

1986

  • Nan Goss Gallery, Tacoma, WA...”Ryanscapes”

1985

  • Downtown Gallery, Tacoma, WA... “Nightscapes” - Cibachromes of the urban nightscape
1982
  • Percent for Art purchase, Tacoma Municipal Building
BOOKS:
 
2004
  • A Century Apart - Maine Then and Now
1995
  • The Great Eastern Mussel Cookbook

1994/ 1987
  • Seattle, Tacoma and the Puget Sound Region
1989
  • Tacoma coffee table book
DONOR TO:
 
  • Midcoast Children's Services Auction
  • Maine Public Broadcasting Auction
  • Knox Co. Humane Society Auction
  • WERU Community Radio on-air auction
  • Maine Parkinson Society Auction