Exhibits and Awards
all juried (unless invited*); awards bold

2024

World Forestry Center "State of the Forest" Portland OR Feb-Apr

Museum of Northwest Art "Silva Cascadia" La Conner WA Feb-May*

d'Art "Water v. Oil" Norfolk VA Feb-Mar

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center "Strong Together" Port Angeles WA Feb-Mar

Tubac Center for the Arts "Arizona Aqueous" Jan-Feb Tubac AZ

Art Collide "Beautiful/Grotesque" Jan-Feb online

Blue Koi "Winter" Jan online Second Prize

Center for Urban Horticulture Miller Library "Nature and the Book" Seattle WA Jan

2023

Rhode Island Watercolor Society "Negative Spaces" online Nov-Dec

Naturalist Gallery "Landscapes" Nov-Dec online

KBM Art Gallery "Any Art, Any Time" Dec online

Central Washington University “Interstate 2023” Ellensburg WA Oct-Dec

Peninsula Art League "21st Annual" Gig Harbor WA Oct-Dec Second Juror Award

The Confluence Lab & Prichard Gallery "Fuel Loading" Online Oct

Wildling Museum "Stories of Water" Solvang CA Sep-Feb

KBM Art Gallery "Spectacular Landscapes" Sep Third Place

Contemporary Art Gallery Online, "All Botanical" Best in Show

City of Auburn "Historic Roots" Aug-Oct*

Artworks Center for Contemporary Art "Engulfed" Loveland CO Jul-Sep

View Arts, "42nd Adirondacks National Watercolor Exhibit" Old Forge NY Aug - Oct

O'Hanlon Center "Working Together" Online Jul-Sep

CoCA Membership Exhibit Jul

Slip Gallery "The Truth Is out There" Seattle WA Jul*

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art "Spotlight" Winslow WA Jun-Sep

Puget Sound Book Artists Membership Exhibit Jun-Jul - Most Innovative Book Award

Schack Arts Center Annual Juried Exhibit Everett WA Jun-Aug - Grand Prize

Northwest Watercolor Society Annual Membership Exhibit - Dr. Ph. Martin’s Award

Rhode Island Watercolor Society "Nature's Patterns" Pawtucket RI Jun-Jul - Second Prize

Marin Society of Artists "Expressions 2023" San Rafael CA Jun-Jul

O'Hanlon Center, "Art & Ecology" Mill Valley CA Mar-Apr

Space 30 "Plein Air" Seattle WA Apr-May

Gallerium "Extinction" online Apr

Sitka Center for Art & Ecology residency, Otis OR Mar-Apr

AnneMarie Sculpture Garden "Breaking Ground" Feb-Apr Anacostia MD Feb-Apr

 

2022

57 Biscayne "Turn It up to Eleven" Seattle WA Oct

Lynn Hanson Gallery "ICON" Seattle WA Sep

Decatur Arts Alliance "The Book as Art, v. 10" Decatur, GA Aug-Nov 

Mary Kiesau Community Fellowship, Twisp WA Sept

The Vestibule, “Carbon” Seattle WA Sept

Shunpike Storefronts, South Lake Union, “The Magnitude of the Problem” Seattle WA Oct -Jan 2023

Mineral School Residency Mineral WA Aug

Plasteel Frames & Gallery “Six-fold Increase” Seattle WA Aug*

CoCA Membership Exhibit Seattle WA Jun-Jul

Puget Sound Book Artists Membership Exhibit Tacoma WA Jun-Jul

Center for Urban Horticulture, Elizabeth Miller Library, University of Washington, Bark beetle book exhibit, Seattle Jun*

Louisiana Art & Science Museum, "Iridescence" Baton Rouge LA Aug '21 - Jul '22

Roger Tory Peterson Institute, “Art that Matters to the Planet” Jamestown NY Jun-Nov

Wildling Museum “Fire and Ice” Solvang CA Apr-Sep*

Anacortes Arts Festival Anacortes WA Aug

Central Washington University “Interstate 2022” Ellensburg WA Mar-Apr

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art “Boundless” Winslow WA Mar

 

2021

"Below the Bark" Missoula Art Museum, Missoula MT Oct-Feb

Visiting Artist, University of Montana Missoula, Oct

"Something in the Wind" Confluence Gallery, Twisp WA Oct-Nov

"Iridescence" Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge Aug '21 - Jul '22

Mighty Tieton, 10x10x10 Tieton WA Aug-Oct

"Art on Main," City of Auburn WA Storefront installation, Oct

San Francisco Center for the Book "Reclamation" (also San Francisco Public Library) CA Jun-Sep

"State of the Forest" The Bateman Centre, Victoria, British Columbia Aug-Sep

"Pattern" Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH Jul-Aug

Art Gallery of SnoValley Jun-Sep

Schack Arts Center, juried exhibit Everett WA Jun-Jul

"Plein Air Festival" Space at Magnuson Jun-Jul

Shore-Lake Gallery (formerly Lake Forest Park Gallery), Northwest Landscapes, Jan-Feb

Workshop instructor, Great Old Broads for Wilderness San Juan River trip UT May, blog report June 2021

Anacortes Arts Festival juried show Aug 8-9 as well as invited fundraiser exhibit*

Art Fluent "Stand" online, Apr

Columbia City Gallery, "Climacteric Confluence" Seattle, WA Mar-May*

Cabrillo College, "2020 Vision: Seeing Ourselves" Aptos, CA Mar-Apr, Third Place award

Elisabeth Jones Art Center, "Bugs Aplenty" Portland OR Apr-May

Northwest Watercolor Society members exhibit online Apr-Jun

National Watercolor Society members exhibit online May-Jun

University of Puget Sound, "Science Stories" online to Sep, in person Sep - Dec

“Environmental Impact Sequel” Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays KS Oct-Jan; Detroit Zoo MI Jul-Sep; Museum of the Rockies MT Oct-Dec*

Shunpike Storefront"The Magnitude of the Problem" Mercer Windows

 

2020

ERA Living "Earth Wind and Fire" Seattle WA Nov-Feb 2021, first place

North American Hand Papermakers "Materiality" (virtual)

Patterson Cellars Tasting Room, Burned, Seattle WA Oct-Mar 21*

Schacktober Fest, Schack Arts Center, Everett WA Oct-Nov

Invited Speaker, Seattle Co-Arts Oct

Lynn Hanson Gallery "ICON" Annual, "Strongest Voice in Art Award" Seattle WA Aug-Sep

Northwest Watercolor Society International Open 2020 (virtual)

Phinney Neighborhood Association Members and Volunteers Seattle WA Sep-Oct

Invited Speaker, Puget Sound Book Artists, Sep

"Food Matters" Concordia College Moorehead, MN Aug-Sep

Mighty Tieton, 10x10x10 Tieton WA Aug-Oct

Envision Arts Dallas TX "Emerald II" July

MadArt Artist Relief Grant Jun

Centrum residency, Port Townsend WA (delayed until 2021)

Invited Speaker, Northwest Watercolor Society virtual Mar 26

Waterworks 2020 Northwest Watercolor Society Dr. Ph. Martin Award

CoCA "2020 Vision" Members Exhibit Seattle WA Apr

"May You Live in Interesting Times" University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff AZ Feb-Apr Third Place

University of Puget Sound Kittridge Gallery “Gathered from the Field; art provoked by climate research” Tacoma WA Mar-Apr

“Environmental Impact Sequel” The North Caroline Arboretum, Asheville NC, Jan-May; Dennos Museum Center, Traverse MI Jun-Sep; Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays KS Oct-Jan*

"Between the Fold" Gallery One Ellensburg WA Apr

"Threshold" Kirkland Arts Center Kirkland WA Jan*  Peoples' Choice Award

Artist in Residence, The Mineral School, Mineral WA (delayed until 2022)

Art in the Park, Glacier National Park British Columbia and Alpine Club of Canada (delayed until 2022)

 

2019

“Environmental Impact Sequel” The James Museum St. Petersburg FL Aug-Dec 2019*

The Food Art Collection “The quiet existentialism of discrete fruits and vegetables” Seattle WA Jul-Sep*

Denver Public Library “Word | Image | Object” Denver CO Jul – Jan 2020

Columbia City Gallery “The Book as Art” Seattle WA Sep-Nov

University of Puget Sound Collins Library “All Stitched Up” Tacoma WA Sep – Dec 2019

Seattle City Hall Anne Focke Gallery, "Slash & Burn"  Seattle WA Sep-Nov

Mighty Tieton, 10x10x10 Tieton WA Aug-Oct,

Finalist, University of Oregon Forestry Science Building 1 % for permanent art installation, 2019

Invited Speaker, Green River College, “How I got from landscapes to burned trees and bark beetle books” Jan 2019*

North Seattle College, “Like Mother, Like Daughter” Seattle, Jan 2019*

 

2018

Purchase Award, City of Seattle "Fresh Perspectives" for Gasworks 2017 and Morning Fog on Lake Union

"Like Mother, Like Daughter" Aljoya Thornton Place Aug

Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational Springdale UT Nov

Artist in Residence, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT Oct

Museum of Northwest Art "Surge" La Conner WA Oct - Jan 2019

"Conversations through the Smoke" New Meadows, Seeley Lake, Moscow and Salmon ID Sep-Oct

Mighty Tieton, 10x10x10 Tieton WA Aug-Oct, jurors Sean Elwood (Creative Capital) and Monica Miller (Gallery One)

Anarcortes Arts Festival Juried Show Michael Monroe, juror Jul-Aug Anacortes WA

Artist in Residence, “Information, Inspiration and Integration: Art/Science Solutions to Ecological Problems” Playa Summer Lake OR Jul

Shunpike Storefront, "State of the Forest" amazon HQ1, Seattle WA Jul-Sep

Schack Art Center "The Intersection of Art & Math" Everett WA May

CoCA "Creativity Persists" Members Exhibit Seattle WA Apr

http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/ submission Friday posts: "Kale" selected 3/16;  "Romanesco" selected 8/24

Phinney Gallery "Pacific Northwest Fine Arts Competition" Mar

The Vestibule "So Sew" Seattle WA Feb

Kirkland Arts Center "Re-acclimating" Jan-Feb Kirkland WA Jan-Feb

 

2017 

Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational Nov Springdale UT

Artist in Residence, Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve CO Oct

Durango Arts Center "Reverie" Sep Durango CO*

Artist in Residence, Jentel Foundation, Sheridan WY Aug-Sep

Anarcortes Arts Festival Pablo Shugurensky, juror Jul-Aug Anacortes WA

University of Puget Sound Collins Library "Northwest Musings" Award of Excellence Jun-Jul 2017 Tacoma WA

Utah Watercolor Society Plein Air Juror Jun Capitol Reef National Park UT*

University Unitarian Church May-Jun Seattle WA*

San Juan Islands Museum of Art "Charred Totems" Friday Harbor WA Mar-May*

Evergreen State College Daniel J. Evans Library "DIRT? Book Artists and Scientists" Olympia WA Apr-May*

Northwest Watercolor Society 77th International Open Gig Harbor WA Apr-Jun

CoCA "Make America Create Again" Members Exhibit Seattle WA Apr

National Weather Center Biennale Norman OK Apr-Jun

 

2016

Perry and Carlson Gallery, "The Reconsidered Landscape"
Dec Mt Vernon WA 

Dendroica Gallery "Small Works" Nov Seattle WA

Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational Nov Springdale UT

Northwest Watercolor Society "Waterworks" Nov Bothell WA

Artist in Residence, Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve CO Oct

Expression Northwest, Art Port Townsend, Merit Award Jul-Aug

United States Botanic Garden "Celebrating the Flora of National Parks" Washington DC Feb-Oct

Brand Library "Brand 44" Aug - Nov Glendale, CA Laddie John Dill, juror

Columbia City Gallery "H2O - What is It Worth?" Seattle WA Aug-Sep, Best in Show

Springfield Art Museum "Watercolor USA 2016" Springfield MO Jun-Aug

Public Library "Books without Words" Lynnwood WA Jun-Jul

Artist-in-Residence, Glacier National Park, Jun

CoCA "35 Live" Seattle WA Mar-Apr

City Hall  "Modvale: Presence and Absence in Local History"  Shoreline WA Jan-Feb

St. George Art Museum "Pictured Close to Home" St. George UT Jan-May

 

2015

Kirkland Art Center "Slash & Burn" Kirkland WA Dec 2015 - Jan 2016

City Hall "Township & Range" Shoreline WA Oct-Dec

Zion National Park Wet Paint Sale, Zion Plein Air Invitational Nov 6-8 Springdale UT

Whatcom Museum "Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge" Bellingham WA Sep - Dec

abecedarian gallery, "Content: Artifact" Denver CO Sep - Oct

Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, "DIRT? Scientists, Book Artists, and Poets Reflect on Soil and Our Environment" Tacoma WA Aug - Nov

Art Port Townsend "Expression NW"  Port Townsend WA Jul-Aug

Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA Stefano Califani, juror Jul

Puget Sound Book Artists Members Exhibit, Tacoma WA Jun - Jul

"Watercolor USA," Springfield Museum of Art, MO May-Aug

University of Washington Hospital "Southwest Sojourns" Seattle WA Apr -

Washington State Convention Center "The Meaning of Wood" Seattle, WA (artist/curator), Jan - Mar

Centennial Gallery, City of Kent, "The Modified Landscape" with Molly Magai, Jan - Mar

 

2014

"Environmental Impact"* Nov 2013 - Feb, 2014 The R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA;  Feb - May,  Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Kalamazoo, MI; May - July Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY; Aug - Sep Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA;  Oct - Jan, 2015 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; Jan - April, 2015; Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC; Sep - Oct, 2015 The Art Museum, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY;  See also my essay for the exhibit at St Mary's College in Moraga CA as "Fire in a Warming World."

Zion National Park, "In the footsteps of Thomas Moran" 2014 invitational UT, Nov

Phinney Center Gallery, "Fire and Ice" (with Anna McKee) Seattle WA Aug

Kenmore City Hall, "The Art of Watercolor" Kenmore WA Jul-Sep

Gallery One, "Celebrating 125 Years: The Ellensburg Fire and Washington Statehood" Ellensburg, WA Jul

Kent Summer Art Exhibit, Purchase Award Kent WA Jun - Aug

Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield MO May-Aug

Golden West Visitor Center, "Stehekin Burns and Lands" North Cascades National Park Stehekin WA May-Jun

Washington State Convention Center, Salish Sea Conference, Seattle WA Apr 30 - May 2

Abmeyer + Wood Gallery, "Sustaining" Seattle, WA April*

South Puget Sound Community College Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts "The Meaning of Wood" Apr 7 - May 2, Olympia, WA (artist/curator)

Plasteel Frames & Gallery, Seattle WA Jan-Feb*

University of Washington Hospital "Zion Landscapes" Seattle WA Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

 

2013

Zion National Park, "In the footsteps of Thomas Moran" 2013 invitational Nov

North Cascades National Park, Artist in Residence, Stehekin WA Sep-Oct

Phinney Center, Pacific Northwest Fine Art Competition, Best of Show, Seattle WA Oct-Nov

Leighton Art Centre, "Open Water" Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Daniel Smith Award, Calgary AB Sep-Oct

Lower Columbia College Rose Center for the Arts, "The Meaning of Wood" Longview WA Jul-Aug (artist/curator)

Lake Country Public Gallery, "From the Soot and Ashes" Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada Jul-Aug (duo)

CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art), "Collision" Seattle, WA Jul-Aug

Arnica Artist-run Centre, "Fire Season" Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Jun-Jul (duo)

Whatcom Museum "Nature in the Balance" Bellingham WA Jun-Sep

Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Seattle WA Jun-Aug (solo)

Kirkland Arts Center "KAC Artists Exhibition" Kirkland WA Jun-Aug

Kent Summer Art Exhibit, Kent WA Jun - Aug, Purchase Award

Corridor Gallery, "Edging Out" Seattle WA Jun

Evergreen Fine Arts Association Members Exhibit, Seattle WA May Past Presidents Award

National Weather Center Biennale, Norman OK Apr-May

"America's Parks Through the Beauty of Art;" Bolivar MO Mar-Apr, Jamestown NY May-Jul, Kenosha WI Aug-Oct

Evergreen Hospital "Zion Landscapes" Kirkland WA Apr - Jun

Kirkland Arts Center "Human + Nature" Kirkland WA Mar*

California Watercolor Society 43rd National Exhibit, Pleasanton CA Jan-Feb

 

2012

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor Open Water Competition, Toronto Ontario, Canada Oct-Dec, Dorothy J. Corson Award

Pacific Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Seattle WA Oct 12 - Nov 28

Artist in Residence, Sep-Oct, Zion National Park, UT Sept 10 - Oct 8

Center on Contemporary Art "Rootbound: Heaven and Earth 4" Carkeek Park Seattle WA June 23 - Oct 31

Merit Award, Expressions Northwest, Port Townsend WA Aug 3 -26

Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA July 22 - Aug 5

Washington Global Health Alliance Innovation Gallery, Seattle July 14 - 30

Kent Summer Arts Festival, Kent WA June 15- Aug 31

Seqium Juried Art Show, Sequim WA May, Merit Award

Two Tartes Cafe, "Industryscapes" Seattle May-June

Bemis Art Show "The Numbers" Seattle Apr 28-29

"Lonely Planet" Linus Gallery Pasadena CA Apr 20-29

Tne Nature Consortium, West Seattle Artwalk April 12, 2012 (solo)

"Off the Page" Yakima Allied Arts Yakima WA Mar 22 - Apr 24

Seattle Center for the Book Arts Edible Book Festival  Silver Best of Show for "The Girl with the Dragon Fondue" Seattle April 7

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition "Wide Open" Brooklyn NY Mar 18 - Apr 3

"Arizona Acqueous" Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ Jan 12-Mar 11

Providence Mt St Vincent, Seattle WA Feb (solo)

University House Wallingford "Shadows and Reflections" Seattle WA Feb-Jun 

 

2011

Artist in Residence, Late Fall, Banff AB Canada

"New Numbers" Zeitgeist Coffee, Seattle WA Nov (solo)

Commission "Forces of Nature" The Nature Conservancy (Washington Office)

National Watercolor Society 91st Annual Exhibition, Signature Membership

Columbia Center for the ArtsPaint-out Hood River OR Sept

Art/Not Terminal "Environs" Seattle WA Aug (Joey Veltcamp "Best of" noted Aug 5, Seattle PI)

Fremont Abbey and Across the River Arts "25 Emerging Artists" Seattle WA Aug 25

Whatcom Museum "Fate of the Forest" Bellingham WA Jun-Sept

Friendship Col published Canadian Alpine Journal, 2011

Eastside Association of Fine Arts, First Place Membership Show, May-June; Collage Award, Open Show Nov-Dec

Juror, City of Kent Summer Arts Festival, July*

Green River Community College Helen Smith Gallery, Auburn, WA June-July (solo)

Department of Ecology, State of Washington "Unveilling Climate Change" April - July

Seattle Center for the Book Arts Edible Book Festival  Gold Best of Show for "Lord of the Fries" Seattle April 2

Plasteel Frames & Gallery "Manufactured Vistas" February-March 2011 (solo)*

American Meteorological Society/EcoArts Connections "Forecast: Communicating Climate and Weather" Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Jan-April

25th International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ January 14 - March 18, 2011

Art Buzz 2011, First Place Watercolors

Studio Visit Volume 14 Winter 2011

Artist Portfolio Magazine, Honorable Mention, Landscape (Winter 2011)

"Seeing The Numbers" Angle Gallery, Seattle, January (solo)

 

2010

Seattle Tacoma International Airport "InTransit: Art of the Port of Seattle" October 2010 - April 2011 (artist/curator)

Eastside Association of Fine Arts Open, October-November

Northwest Watercolor Society "Waterworks" Membership Show: American Frame Award

Art Kudos International (online)

Phinney Center Gallery, "The Numbers", Seattle, WA September (solo)

Gage Academy, "Best of Gage 2010" Seattle, WA July

Arts West Theater, "Perennial Passages" Seattle, WA July

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center "Safe Harbor", July-October

Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA July-December

Northwest Watercolor Society "Outside the Lines" Blaubak Gallery, Kirkland, WA June

Edmonds Art Festival, Edmonds WA June

Columbia River Maritime Museum, "InPort" Astoria, OR June-August*

Seattle Center for the Book Arts Edible Book Festival Gold Best of Show for "The Origin of Reeces" Seattle April

City of Kent Centennial Center, Kent, WA April-May (artist/curator)

Blue Heron Gallery Vashon Island, WA March (solo)

Java Jahn Espresso, "Gasworks Series" Seattle WA February*

Port of Seattle "Purposeful Surfaces" November 2009 - February 2010 (artist/curator)*

North Cascades Institute catalog covers

 

2009

Port of Seattle "Purposeful Surfaces" November 2009 - February 2010 (artist/curator)*

Eastside Association of Fine Arts, Puget Sound Group of NW Painters Award, November

Kenmore Arts Festival First Place, Painting August

Commencement Bay Maritime Fest Second Place, August

City of Kent Summer Arts Festival, Exhibit Award, July

University Unitarian Church,"Burnscapes" Seattle WA July

Shoreline Arts Festival, June

Edmonds Art Festival June

Pratt Fine Arts CenterAnnual Auction, May

Greenwood-Phinney Art Walk"Night and Day along the Waterfront" May

Coos Art Museum "Expressions West" April - June

Art League of Hilton Head National Art Exhibition, May

Northwest Watercolor Society National Open Exhibition, April

North Valley Art League, Redding CA, January

Collective Visions Gallery Statewide Annual, Bremerton, WA, Feburary

Washington State Department of Ecology, "Burnscapes"Olympia, February-May (solo)*

Rep. Zack Hudgins Office, "Art from the Eleventh District", Olympia, WA January-April*

"Rust Never Sleeps", "Hold on to Summer" Two Tartes Bakery, Georgetown, Seattle (solo)*

 

2008

Ballard Art Walk, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, December (solo)*

Eastside Association of Fine Arts Award of Merit

Vermont Studio Center residency, October

Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center, Seattle, October

Art Port Townsend, "Expressions Northwest" October

West Coast Paper Art Exhibition, Seattle, September

Alaska Watercolor Society, Anchorage, September

Kenmore Art Show, Honorable Mention, August

Wallingford Art Walk, Wallingford Center, August (solo)*

Shoreline Arts Festival, First Place Two-Dimensional, June

Edmonds Art Festival, June

American Art Salon virtual gallery, June-December

 

2007

Eastside Association of Fine Arts, November

 

Previous

Society of Technical Communication Excellence Award, 1995-96

International Association of Business Communicators, Excellence and Merit 1989, Merit 1990

American Institute of Graphic Arts, Seattle Chapter Annual Show, 1989

Seattle Design Association Annual Show, 1987, 1988; Program Chair, Treasurer board positions

Edmunds Art Fair, Edmonds Community College Purchase Prize, 1979

CDMRC Cafe, University of Washington, 1977*