SELECTED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2007
Glenoaks Bridge Improvement Project 1%, Pacoima, Ca., L.A. Cultural Affairs Department, Collaborative (porcelain 1” tile) project with architect and engineer for bridge rehab design, over the Tujunga Wash. ($10,000) (current, in process)
2005
Culver Events Center Art Fence & Gate Culver City, CA. Collaborative design project with artist Lonnie Feather & owner Jeanette Vosburg. Commission for concept only/ wood, steel, canvas.
2003
Lynwood High Energy Traffic median streetscape, City of Lynwood, CA, 4200 Imperial Highway at Lynwood High School. (1200 linear ft.x up to 9’ high.) Twelve designs for decorative steel & mesh fence art with figurative & symbolic imagery, w/city engineers & fabricator, Public Works Department ($200,000 project for art)
Finalist, L.A. Police Department 1% project, Artist team with Lonnie Feather ($195,800)
Finalist, L.A. Fire Station #43 1% project, ($50,000)
2000
Rivers of the World Mural Project on flood control channel, Proposition A Graffiti Abatement Grant, Culver City. (256’ x 8’) Mosaic, tile, acrylic paint along bike path. With 20 youth-at-risk, volunteers, collaboration w/ artists Lori Escalera, David Fairrington, ($60,000 grant)
Homage to Ballona Creek, Sundial relocation & alteration, Culver City Park, Culver City, CA.(29’ x 11’) oval base w/mosaic for sundial at new site. (24’ x 6” steel gnomon; 6’ dia. X 6” brass dial, community involvement. ($25,000)
“On Your Mark…” Ceramic tile mural for Inglewood Cultural Arts at Ability First at the Harry A. Mier Center in Darby Park, 3400 Arbor Vitae, Inglewood, CA 6’X8’, w/18 young people w/physical & mental disabilities ($10,000)
1998
ArtYard Community Youth Sports & Arts Academy, L.A., CA, concrete, mosaic and painted tile design in backyard of school, 32’X32’, as artist-in-residence with 20 youth at risk, LA Theatre Works, California Arts Council, sponsors
Our History Garvanza Elementary School, Highland Park, CA, mural, one exterior wall, 75’X6’, with 5th grade class, “100 Murals Project”, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Postcards from Ballona City of Culver City, CA, community mural project on flood control channel wall, Collaboration w/artists Francois Bardol, Lori Escalera, 5’X72’, mosaic, painted tile & acrylic on cement wall, ($10,000)
Path of Life Concrete pathway with “life markers & icons”, Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige, San Dimas, CA. California Arts Council, LA Theatre Works, L.A. County Board of Education (with youth at risk, in 40’X25’ entrance area)
1996
Community & Education ceramic tile mural, Mid-Valley Community Education Center, Reseda, CA. California Arts Council, LA Theatre Works, L.A. County Board of Education, (with youth at risk, 7’X6’, tile mural on exterior wall)
1995
The Penny O’Carroll Sundial Camp Karl Holton, Pacoima, CA, L.A. County Office of Education, LA Theatre Works, California Arts Council (with incarcerated youth, 6’X6’ wood, steel dial, w/11’X11’ concrete & ceramic tile base)
Sundial at Camp Glen Rockey Camp Glenn Rockey, San Dimas, CA, L.A. County Board of Education/L.A. Theatre Works, California Arts Council, 6’X6’ wood, steel dial, w/11’X11’concrete and ceramic tile base
1990
Fire, Water and Paramedics City of Pasadena, Fire Station #36, N. Fair Oaks, Pasadena, (1%, Venetian glass mosaic, 5’X4’ in 10’X12’ tile floor)($10,000)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (paintings & drawings)
2002
Paintings C.P. Brown University Center Concourse Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2000
Exposition 2000 Atelier des Arts, 6 Rue du College, La Chaux-de-Fonds, SwitzerlandEntrances, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, 1057 S. San Pedro St., L.A., CA
1996
Lucy Blake-Elahi at Art on Washington Art on Washington Gallery, L.A., CA
1993
Stages of Women The Art Store, Beverly Blvd., L.A., CA (sculptures)
Exhibition Madison Museum/Caldera Arts Center, Yellowstone National Park, WY
1991
Yellowstone Claremont Graduate School, West Gallery, Claremont, CA
Exhibition, Madison Museum/Caldera Arts Center, Yellowstone National Park, WY
1990
Nature & Nation, Yellowstone: Summer of Fire Security Pacific Gallery at the Plaza, L.A., CA,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (paintings & drawings)
2007
Simultaneous Multiplicity ASTO Museum of Art in Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2006
Human Figure Exhibition Long Beach Arts, 245 W. Broadway, Long Beach, CA, Juror: Joan Hugo
Women’s Festival 2nd City Council Art + Performance Space, 435 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, CA, Juror: Barbara Drucker
2005
20/20 Visions I-5 Gallery at The Brewery, 2100 N. Main St., # A9, L.A., CA
Artifacts of Activism: Images of Peace A Shenere Velt Gallery of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., L.A.,CA , Curator, Judy Schonebaum
book: the third new symbol of peace between iraq and America Selah Artistic Giving Center, 1001 East First Street, L.A. 90012. Director: Billy Mark
2004
Regime Change A Shenere Velt Gallery of the Workmen’s’ Circle/Arbeter Ring, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., L.A.,CA , Curator, Eric A. Gordon, Best of Show
Voyages & Explorations Gallery at The Brewery, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Members Exhibition
2003
Juried All-Media Exhibition Palos Verdes Art Center, RPV, CA Juror: Joe Smoke
2002
Matrix: The WCA Traveling Exhibition Women’s Caucus for Art Invitational
Generations III, A Survey of Women Artists, Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, 40 Wooster Street, N.Y., NY.
2001
Embodied: Feminist Self Portraits, Galleria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
Artists of the Western States Respond, Artcore Brewery Annex, 2210 Main St., L.A., CACurator: Terri Cohn/WCA National Conference Regional Exhibition
Juried All Media Exhibition Palos Verdes Art Center, L.A., CA, Curator: Ruth Weisberg
1998
Elucidation & Resolution: Artist as Emissary for Metaphor in Public Art Hyde Gallery,Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA, Curator: Roger Churley
1997
SHELTER: Artists create for the Sukkah, Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Brandeis, CA
Eye Site, Site Gallery, The Brewery, L.A., CA
1992
Basically Black & White Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, Curator: Jim Reed
AWARDS/ HONORS/ GRANTS
2004
Best of Show, Regime Change A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Artists-in-the-Schools Project 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Graffiti Prevention Competitive Grant: Co-writer & artist La Ballona Creek Graffiti Prevention Mural Project, L.A. County Regional Park and Open Space District, Culver City, CA
1993-2001
Artist-in-Residence California Arts Council & L.A. Theatre Works in L.A. County Court Schools, L.A., CA
1991-1993
Artist-in-Residence Yellowstone National Park, WY
1989
Grant New Paltz Foundation, Arethusa Endowment Fund, New Paltz, NY1988 - Finalist: Kay Nielsen Award, Graphic Arts Council, L.A. County Museum of Art, L.A., CA
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2007
Panel Facilitator “Confronting the F Words: Female, Feminine, Feminist”, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Santa Monica Library, Santa Monica, CA
2004,2005
Equatorial Sundial Workshops, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2000-Present
Instructor, Drawing, Art History, Art Appreciation West Los Angeles College, Culver City, CA
2000
Artist-in-Residence 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
1999-2001
Instructor, Printmaking Atelier des Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
1993-2000
Artist-in-Residence, L.A. Theatre Works/California Arts Council in L.A. County Court Schools (Workshops in mask-making, painting, permanent installations)
1993-2000
Arts & Children Project Director, L.A. Theatre Works, Venice, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2003
Amador, Lucero, Ventana de la Comunidad, Una Valla con Arte, Ciudad, pg. 1,La Opinion, (August 22, 2003) illus.
1999
*Maleshefski, Tiffany, A River runs through it, Students, Artists collaborate on Creek Culver City Chronicle, Culver City, CA pg. 1, Vol.5 #49 (Dec. 22, 1999), illus.
*Lindsey, Nedra, Agency’s rear yard transformed into a work of art, Los Angeles Times, Our Times, L.A., CA pg 1, (March 5, 1999), illus.
1998
*Wilsterman, Jim, Elucidation & Resolution, Artists as Emissaries for Metamorphosis, Catalog Grossmont College Hyde Gallery, San Diego, CA pgs. 7 – 13 (Oct. 19-Nov. 6, 1998) illus.
1997
*Sarnoff, Ruth, Artists, Students & Community Dedicate Ballona Creek Mural, Culver City News, Culver City, CA No. 570, pg. 1, (August 14, 1997), illus
*Cardona, Felica, Walking through life, City News, Inland Daily Bulletin, San Dimas, CA pg. 1 (May 29, 1997) illus.
1994
City of Culver City, Art in Public Places, Program Brochure, Culver City, CA
*Grossberg, Josh, Time won’t stand still in Culver, The Outlook, Santa Monica, CA pg. 1, No. 232 (September 24, 1994), illus.
1993
*Brunsman, Laura: Askey, Ruth, ed. Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, Midmarch Arts Press, NY, 1993, pg 146
1991
*Wharton, David, National Park Artists-in-Residence Program Rises from the Ashes of Yellowstone Fire, Los Angeles Times CALENDAR pg. 97 (July 21, 1991), illus.
*McKenna, Kristine, Tribute to Yellowstone, Up from the Ashes, Los Angeles Times, (June 29, 1990)
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Art Education, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1966
Bachelor of Science, Art Education, State University at New Paltz, NY, 1962, cum laude
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2007
Ballona Network.org, Board Member2006 - Institute for Releasing Initiative, Board MemberSouthern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Art Share Chair
2001-03
President, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art
2000
Board member, Ballona Creek Renaissance, Culver City
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