| Education | ||
| B.A. in Art, Berea College, Berea, KY Graduate courses in art, San Francisco State College Printmaking classes, College of the Dessert, Palm Dessert, California Workshop, Printmaking Atelier, La Jolla, California Printmaking classes, Palomar College, San Marcos, California Workshop, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California Workshops, The Canadian School of Non-Toxic Printmaking, Alberta, Canada Workshops, Magnolia Press, Oakland, California |
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| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2003 | Maiden Alley Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky | |
| 2001 | Poem Gallery Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2001 | Washington Printmakers Gallery. Washington, D.C. | |
| Selected Recent Exhibitions and Awards | ||
| 2007 | Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, NY, Honorable Mention Goddesses, Divas, and Femme Fatales. Three-woman show at Miska Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky |
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| 2006 | Margeret M. Harwell Museum, Poplar Bluff, Missouri Southeast Missouri Arts Council Gallery Yeiser Arts Center, Paducah, Kentucky Black and White Show, Mentor Gallery, Paducah, KY Heart Core Exhibit, Pinecone Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky Impressions on Paper, Brandson Gallery, Fallbrook, California |
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| 2005 | Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Kentucky Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego Library Gallery Ice House Gallery, Mayfield, Kentucky Western Kentucky Community and Technical College Art Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky Brandon Gallery, Fallbrook, California Encounters:Printmakers Of The Pacific Rim, Galeria del Multiforo Instituto do Cultura De Baja California, Tijuana Printmaking Invitational: Brandon Gallery, Fallbrook, CA |
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| 2004 | Prints and Fiber From the At Home Project with Judy Chicago, Sarrat Gallery, Vanderbilt University, TN Works on Paper, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA Prints and Drawings, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA |
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| 2003 | Brownlee O. Currey Gallery, Nashville, TN. Two person exhibit with Vera Berdich. | |
| 2002 | Prints 2002 Boehm Gallery, San Marcos, CA Prints and Beyond II Art and Culture Center, Fallbrook, CA Costume Society of America, Annual Show, Chicago, IL Four Printmakers, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN |
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| 2001 | 16th National Biennial Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA Festival de Grabados-Casa de Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico Prints Crossing Borders, Havana, Cuba Imprints at the Edge of the Century, Poway Center for the Arts, Poway, CA Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite Art Gallery, Yosemite, CA. International Print Exhibition, Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL National Printmaking, Drawing and Photography Exhibition, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX, Juror’s Choice Los Angles Printmakers Juried Membership Exhibition, Brand Library Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA la Petite VIII, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR Mid-Atlantic Small Print Exhibition, Washington Printmakers, Gallery, Washington, DC, Grand Prize At Home Project with Judy Chicago, Bowling Green, KY. Competitive selection for participation in the semester-long project of defining the concept of home in a private, unoccupied residence. Completed project was open for public viewing. Click here for more information. |
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| 1999 | Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite Art Gallery, Yosemite, CA, Honorable Mention Pressed and Pulled, Arts and Cultural Center, Fallbrook, CA Prints at 451, Gallery 451, Escondido, CA |
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| 1997 | Brochure Cover Competition, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA California Prints at Oma, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA |
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| Grants/Commissions | ||
| 2003 | Without Names. Arts Meets Activity Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, $4,910. Award to work with abused women creating art about their experiences with culminating exhibition, Without Names, as the women and their location required anonymity. | |
| 2004 | Selves Revealed. Professional Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, $5,000. Award to create series of works based on private women’s own words about their lives and roles, interpreted in period-detailed, sheer white overprinted garments for a hanging installation.
A Watered Garden. Five-panel installation created for Our Lady of the Lourdes Chapel, Paducah, Kentucky. Each 3′ x 7′ panel was composed of printed, layered, embroidered, and quilted silks. |
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| Additional Art-Related Work Experience | ||
| 2001-present | Printmaker, gallery owner, Paducah, Kentucky. Second gallery, Miska, opened in 2006 in Paducah. | |
| 1990-2001 | Printmaker, San Diego, California | |
| 1973-1990 | Freelance designer for interiors, rugs, soft sculptures, art apparel, fabric montages, and similar work | |
| 1972-1973 | Instructor of costume design and theater costumer, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California | |
| 1961-1964 | Art Instructor, Barrington Public Schools, Barrington, Illinois | |
| Reviews of Work | ||
| 2007 | Art Knowledge News | |
| 2004 | Sculptural Pursuit Western Kentucky University online newsletter review, “A Traveling Exhibition & Lecture Tour documenting ‘At Home: A Kentucky Project with Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman.” |
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| 2003 | Arts Across Kentucky Niche |
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| 2002 | Fiber Arts, “Freda Fairchild’s Layers of Life & Lineage,” by Anita Stamper. September/October 2002, pages 20-21 | |
| 2001 | Art Business News, March, 2001. Article by Laura Meyers reviewed work shown at the Laband Art Gallery show, Loyola Marymount University. Miami Herald feature on fiberarts included review and photo of work |
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| 2000 | Arts Across Kentucky Niche |
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| 1999 | Journal of The Print World | |
| Work Represented in the Following Collections | ||
| Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo NY Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA Boehm Gallery , San Marcol, CA Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. Gallery Poem, Tokyo, Japan Grunewald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, los Angeles, CA National Museum of Women in the Arts Smithsonian Library, Washington, D.C. |
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