VISUAL ARTS RÉSUMÉ
Represented by West Lives On Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Maya Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and American Art Company in Tacoma, Washington.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 The Russell 2024, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana.
2024 American Art Company, Tacoma, Washington.
2024 Maya Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2023 Washington State Fair Fine Art Show, Puyallup, Washington.
2023 West Lives On Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
2023 Maya Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2022 West Lives On Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
2022 Maya Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2021 Western Art Association Miniatures Show, Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, Washington.
2021 Washington State Fair Fine Art Show, Puyallup, Washington.
2021 El Zaguan, Historic Santa Fe Foundation, "Visions of the Santa Fe Trail, Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail," Santa Fe, NM.
2021 California Art Club Spring 2021Excellence in Traditional Fine Art Competition.
2021 Masterpiece Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2020 Gail Severn Gallery and Patricia Rovzar Gallery, "Gatherings Project," Ketchum, Idaho and Seattle, Washington.
2020 "Oil Painters of America 2020 Virtual Juried Salon Exhibition."
2020 Masterpiece Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2019 Sorrel Sky Gallery, "Oil Painters of America 2019 Western Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2019 Masterpiece Gallery, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2019 Joe Wade Fine Art, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2018 Joe Wade Fine Art, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2017-18 Saddleback Church, "Faces of Mercy," Lake Forest, California, traveling to Dallas, Texas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Columbus Ohio, Nashua, New Hampshire, and to Wenham, Mass.
2017-2018 Tacoma Art Museum, "Familiar Faces & New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art," Tacoma, Washington.
2017 Ventana Fine Art, "Group Show: October Paint Out," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2017 Emerald Downs, "Equine Art Show 2017," Washington Thoroughbred Breeders & Owners Association, Best of Show Award Winner, Auburn, Washington.
2017 Ventana Fine Art, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2016 Ventana Fine Art, "Group Show: October Paint Out," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2016 Seattle Realist Artists, "Seattle Realist Artists Group Exhibit," Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle, Washington.
2016 Kittredge Gallery, "Faculty Past & Present," University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
2016 Seattle Realist Artists, "Melissa Weinman, Aaron Hart & Marina Montes," Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle, Washington.
2016 Ventana Fine Art, "Gallery Artists," Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2016 Seattle Realist Artists, "Inaugural Exhibition," Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle, Washington.
2014 The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, "Foundation of Art Award Exhibit," Tacoma, Washington.
2014 Gail Severn Gallery, "Northwest Women Artists," Ketchum, Idaho.
2014 Gail Severn Gallery, "States of Nature III," Ketchum, Idaho.
2014 Rainier Club, "Gage Teaching Artists," Seattle, Washnington.
2014 Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, "Sustaining," Seattle, Washington.
2014 Brick House Gallery, "Current Work," Tacoma, Washington.
2014 Rosen Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, "Still Life & Trompe L'Oeil," Seattle, Washington.
2013 Rosen Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, "Gage Teaching Artists," Seattle, Washington.
2012 Brick House Gallery, "Self-Portraits," Tacoma, Washington.
2010 Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, Washington. (Three-person)
2005-2006 Laguna Art Museum, "A Broken Beauty," Laguna Beach, California.
2004 Anacortes Arts Festival, “Art at the Port,” Anacortes, Washington.
2003-2004 Tacoma Art Museum, “Building Tradition,” Tacoma, Washington.
2003 UMass Lowell, University Gallery, "The Alphabet as Art," Lowell, Massachusetts.
2002 University of Puget Sound, Kittredge Gallery, "Faculty/Alumni Show," Tacoma, Washington.
2001 University of Puget Sound, Kittredge Gallery, "Faculty Sampler," Tacoma, Washington.
2000 Tatistcheff Gallery, "Gallery Group Exhibition," New York City.
2000 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, "4 Established Artists," San Francisco, California.
2000 Our Lady of the Snows, "Jesus 2000," Belleville, Illinois.
2000 Catholic Theological Union, "Jesus 2000," Chicago, Illinois.
1999 Tacoma Art Museum, "Religion," Tacoma, Washington.
1999 University of Richmond, Marsh Gallery, "The Legacy of Theresa Pollak: A Centennial Celebration," Richmond, Virginia.
1999 Claremont Graduate School, "Feminine Presence: an International Vision," Claremont, California.
1999 Concordia University-Wisconsin, "CIVA's 20/20 Vision," Mequon, Wisconsin.
1999 Kittredge Gallery, "Mt. Rainier Paintings," Tacoma, Washington.
1999 Linda Hodges Gallery, "Still Life," Seattle, Washington.
1998 Miami-Dade Community College Kendall Campus Art Gallery, "Three Figurative Artists," Miami, Florida.
1998 Temple University Gallery, "Presenzefemminili: una visione internatzionale," Rome, Italy.
1998 Tatistcheff Gallery, "September Selections," New York City.
1998 Tatistcheff Gallery, "Summer Time," New York City.
1998 Tatistcheff Gallery, "Smart Art," New York City.
1998 Arkansas Art Center, "National Drawing Invitational," Little Rock, Arkansas.
1998 Maryhill Museum of Art, "Interior Pauses: Northwest Contemporary Realism," Goldendale,Washington.
1998 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, "Local Press," Tacoma, Washington.
1997 Arkansas Art Center, "Collector's Exhibition," Little Rock, Arkansas.
1997 Tacoma Museum of Art, "True Art," Northwest Biennial Competition, Donald Roller Wilson, juror.
1997 Linda Hodges Gallery, "Introductions: New Work," Seattle Washington.
1996 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, "Still Life: Seductive Objects," curated by Scott Canty, Los Angeles, California.
1996 Hunsaker/Schlesinger, "Still Life . . . Still Here," curated by Josine Ianco Starrels, Santa Monica, California.
1996 Commencement Art Gallery, "South Sounds," Tacoma, Washington, Second Place Award.
1995 Tortue Gallery, "Ladies of Tortue," Santa Monica, California.
1994 SOMA Gallery, San Diego, "Still Life."
1994 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, "Faculty/Alumni Exhibition."
1993 University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, "35th North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual."
1993 University of Hawaii at Hilo, "Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition."
1993 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, "Biennial Studio Art Faculty Exhibition."
1993 Gallery Kulturhaus, "New Year's Show," Tacoma, Washington.
1992 Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, "Northwest International Art Competition."
1992 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, "Mirroring the World."
1991 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, "Faculty + Faculty."
1990 Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, Washington, "Juried Art Show," Merit Award.
1989 Rockland Arts Center, Ellicot City, Maryland, "Maryland's Best '89."
1988 Sherry French Gallery, New York City, "The Feminine."
1987 One Penn Plaza Corporate Gallery, New York City, "Movietone Muse."
1986 Sara November Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, "The Portrait Show."
1985 Gellman Gallery, Women's Caucus for Art, Richmond, Virginia, "Angels/Messengers."
1984 Jewish Community Center, Richmond, Virginia, "About Women."
1984 Gilles Mansillon Gallery, Los Angeles, "Gallery Artists."
1984 "International Art Competition," Galleries, Museums, and Art Institutions in the Los Angeles area.
1984 University of Wisconsin-Superior, "ON/OF Paper."
1984 100% REALART GALLERY, Spokane, Washington, "National Small Image Exhibition."
1984 Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Aptos, California, "The Singular Image."
1984 Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, "Emotional Renditions."
1983 Ceclia Hall Gallery, Marymount Palos Verdes College, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, "By Women: About Women."
1983 The Atelier, Santa Monica, California, "The A Team."
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 "Scenes from Kittitas County," Western Art Association, Ellensburg, Washington.
2015 Clearstory Gallery, Spokane, Washington.
2015 Ginkgo Forest Winery, Tacoma, Washington.
2013 St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, Washington.
2012 Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, Washington.
2011 Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, Washington.
2010 Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, Washington
2003 Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, Washington.
2002 Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, Washington.
2002 CSPS Contemporary Arts Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2001 Northwestern College, Orange, Iowa.
2001 Wesleyan Theological Seminary, Center for Arts and Religion, Dadian Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2000 Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington.
2000 Seattle University, Kinsey Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2000 Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, Washington.
1999 Tatistcheff Gallery, New York City.
1998 Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon.
1997 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. (Two-person)
1997 Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany. (Two-person)
1997 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
1997 Arnot Museum of Art, Elmira, New York.
1997 Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
1995 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California, "Saint Stories."
1995 Commencement Gallery, Tacoma, Washington, "More Saint Stories."
1994 Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington, "Saint Stories."
1992 Pierce College Fine Arts Gallery, Pierce College, Tacoma, Washington, "Paintings/Drawings."
1990 Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, "Paintings."
1987 Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, "Recent Paintings and Drawings."
1986 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, "Visitors."
1985 St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, "Moments of Encounter."
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS:
2019 National Parks Arts Foundation Artist in Residence at Fort Union National Monument.
2017 BEST OF SHOW, "Equine Art Show 2017," for JOURNEY: CARRIED, Washington Thoroughbred Breeders & Owners Association, Emerald Downs, Auburn, Washington.
2014 Nominee, The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Art Award.
2000 Fourth Place, National Catholic Reporter's Jesus 2000 Contest, judged by Sister Wendy Beckett.
1997 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome. Interviewed by Radio Vaticana for "The Church and Art Part III: A Friendship Revisited."
1997 Artist in Residence, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany.
1996 John Lantz Sabbatical Enhancement Award, University of Puget Sound.
1994 Martin Nelson Junior Sabbatical Fellowship, University of Puget Sound.
1993 Martin Nelson Summer Research Award, University of Puget Sound.
1988 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship and Residency.
1987 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship and Residency.
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Cole, Richard. "Art on Fire: the Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, " http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2015/07.
"On a light burning brightly just beyond our vision," Ruminate Magazine, Spring 2015, Issue 34, pp. 17-24.
Dupre, Judith. Mary: At Home with the Mother of God. Random House, NY, 2010.
Wolfe, Gregory, ed. Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2009, p.203.
Prescott, Theodore L., ed., A Broken Beauty. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2005, p.87, pp.94-95, p.108, p.110, p.117, p.119.
Tacoma Art Museum. Building Tradition, 2003, p.19, p.45.
Kenan, Randall. Cover article for IMAGE: Journal of the Arts & Religion, Spring 2001, number 30, pp. 32-37.
Forst, Elizabeth. "Lives of the Saints." American Artist, May 2000, pp.44-49, pp. 79-80.
Farrell, Michael. "Artist Looks at Passion Through the Dark." National Catholic Reporter, April 2000, cover and p. 2.
Heartney, Eleanor. "Melissa Weinman at Tatistcheff." Art in America, October 1999, pp. 167-68.
Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith. Women and Art: Contested Territory, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1999, pp. 92-93.
Rodriguez, Jeanette Ph.D. with Ted Fortier, Ph.D. "Postmodern Art and Religious Imagination." New Religion: Visual Realism and Spiritual Visions, Tacoma Art Museum exhibition catalogue, August 1999, pp. 8-13.
Bell, Greg. "New Religion." New Religion: Visual Realism and Spiritual Visions, Tacoma Art Museum exhibition catalogue, August 1999, pp. 1-6.
Mullarkey, Maureen. "Figure In/Figure Out at MB Modern." Review: the Critical State of Visual Art in New York, June 15, 1999, pp. 15-17.
Timnick, William. "Making space for sacred subjects." Tacoma News Tribune, August 2, 1999, p. SL-3.
Timnick, William. "Paintings of the Peak." Tacoma News Tribune, March 25, 1999, p. SL-3.
Decker, Daniene. "Three Contemporary Figurative Painters: Philip Geiger, John Hull, and Melissa Weinman." Kendall Campus Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, Miami-Dade Community College, November 1998, p. 10.
Weisberg, Ruth. "The Figure and the Body." Presenzefemminili: Una Visione Internationale, Temple Gallery Rome exhibition catalogue, October 1998, p. 2.
Wolfe, Townsend. "National Drawing Invitational." National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center exhibition catalogue, May, 1998, pp. 7-11.
Little, Carl. "Bowdoin's Bit of Saintly Suffering." Maine Times, November 13-19, 1997, Volume 30, Number 5, p. 22.
Greenleaf, Ken. "Shows reflect sad trend in contemporary religious art." Maine Sunday Telegram, October 12, 1997, p. 3E.
Smith, Cary. "Intellectual Imagery." Tacoma News Tribune, Sunday, April 27, 1997, pp. D1-D2.
Ellison, Victoria. "Fine Subjects, poorly done." The Seattle Times, April 24, 1997, p. H22.
Hackett, Regina. "Painter Melissa Weinman's style earns no halo in 'Saints' Stories'." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 11, 1997, p. 19.
Weisberg, Ruth. "Melissa Weinman." Melissa Weinman Saints' Stories, Frye Art Museum exhibition catalogue, April 1997, pp. 8-11.
Tapley, George. "Carolyn Cardenas at Koplin Gallery and Melissa Weinman at Tortue Gallery." Artweek, July 1995, Volume 26, Number 7, p.24.
Burkman, Greg. "Melissa E. Weinman at Commencement Art Gallery (Tacoma)." Reflex, April/May 1995, Volume 9, Number 3, pp.19-20.
Koss, Joanna. "Melissa Weinman." Art Access, February 1995, p. 34.Pincus, Robert L. "'Still Life' Is More About Vitality Than Just Fruit." San Diego Union-Tribune, December 15, 1994.
Glowen, Ron. "A Holy Occasion." Artweek, July 21, 1994, Volume 25, Number 14, p.13.Giuliano, Mike. "Maryland's Best." The Columbia Flier, November 16, 1989, pp. 94-95.
Merritt, Robert. "Show is Trip Into the Psyche." Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 16, 1987, p. C-7."One-Man Show to open at Second Street Gallery." The Charlottesville/Albemarle Observer, June 5-11, 1986.
Merritt, Robert. "Visions of Angels Range from Sacred To Personal to Scary" Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 5, 1985, p. C-18.
COLLECTIONS:
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Seattle University Law School, Seattle, Washington.
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA.
PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS:
Posthumous Portrait of Dr. Alexander Clowes, M.D., Collection University of Washington Vascular Surgery, 2015.
Portrait of Susan Pierce for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, 2002.
Posthumous Portrait of Dorothy Stimson Bullit for Belo Corp., Dallas, Texas and KING Broadcasting, Seattle, Washington, 1998.
TEACHING POSITIONS:
2014-present, Melissa Weinman Studio, Ruston, Washington.
2010-2014, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, Washington.
2002-2004 University of Puget Sound, Art Department Chair, Tacoma, Washington.
2000-2004 University of Puget Sound, Full Professor.
1993-2000 University of Puget Sound, Associate Professor. Received tenure in 1996.
1990-93 University of Puget Sound, Assistant Professor.
1989-90 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Visiting Assistant Professor.
1984-86 University of Richmond, Virginia, Assistant Professor & Director of the Marsh Gallery.
1982-84 University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Assistant Lecturer.
1981-82 Bowdoin College, Undergraduate Instructional Fellow.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:
1984 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, M.F.A., in two-dimensional media.
1982 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, A.B. in Creative Visual Arts and Chinese Studies. Honors: Summa cum laude, Highest Honors in the Department of Creative Visual Arts, Phi Beta Kappa.
1981 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Summer Seminar on the Sutras.
1980 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Special Language Student in Classical Chinese. Painting under Arthur Cohen and Howard Buchwald.
1980 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Intensive Summer Language Program, Chinese School.
LECTURES:
2012 Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, Washington, "Working Artist: Mother of Two."
2001 CIVA Conference 2001, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, "Tales from the Trenches."
2001 Weslyan Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., "Recent Reflections on my Work."
2000 Eighth Annual Image Conference, Habitations of the Word, Art and the Spiritual Ecology of Place, Seattle, Washington, "Taking Responsibility: Preserving Sacred Space."
1999 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme Connecticut, "The Art of Description."
1998 Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, "Saints Now: Medieval Hagiography and Contemporary Art."
1998 Richard Hugo House, Seattle Washington, "Appearances."
1997 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, "Contemporary Figurative Realism: My Interests and Influences."
1997 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, "Contemporary Figurative Realism: My Interests and Influences."
1997 Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, "Contemporary Figurative Realism: My Interests and Influences."
1994 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, "Making Moves in a Visual Game: Strategies for Structuring Images."
1992 Pierce College, Tacoma, Washington, "The Visual Language of Memory."
1992 Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, "Finding a Personal Visual Vocabulary."
1990 San Jose State University, "Painting a Powerful Language."
1990 California State University Long Beach, "Painting a Powerful Language."
1990 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington "Painting a Powerful Language."
1990 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, "Painting a Powerful Language."
1989 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, "Dreaming Myths."
1985 St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, "References and Sources for My Work."
1985 Women's Caucus for Art, Richmond, Virginia, "Curator and Artist."
1984 Annual Meeting of the Richmond Artist's Association, Richmond, Virginia, "Engaging the Viewer".