Catherine
Nash - Artist Statement
"'...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage. ...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines.’”
-Rene Menard, Le Livre des Arbres, 1956.
In my artwork, a personal language of symbols distilled from years of sketchbooks: shelters, nests, boats and bowls; light, water, earth and sky; seeds, branches, roots and new growth, eyes and hands become timeless images that can be “read” allegorically in many ways. I use these symbols to evoke emotive ideas without the need for the written or spoken word. I strive to interpret my deepest thoughts, dreamings and concerns with this visual poetry.
The life of root and bud are at the heart of our being.
Started during a three week residency in the studio of the late painter Morris Graves near Eureka, California, and finished in 2007, these collages incorporate elements from Grave’s studio with handmade papers made by Catherine Nash. The hand split redwood shingles came from Morris Graves’ original house.
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Education
2004
Art Historical/Cultural Research in India: Mumbai, Dehli, Punjab
1996-99
Art Historical Research, Contemporary and Traditional Papermaking
in Europe
1995
Japanese Papermaking under Minoru Fujimori, (National Living
Treasure), Awagami Factory, Tokushima, Japan
1988
MFA, Mixed Media (Printmaking and Papermaking), University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1987
Contemporary and Traditional Hand Papermaking and Block Printing:
Kyoto, Echizen, Tokyo, & Kasama, Japan
Under Professor Akira Kurosaki, Kyoto Seika University of Fine Arts;
Under Asao Shimura, Cannabis Press, Kasama
1981-82
Lithography, Etching, Woodblock Printing, Drawing: Germany,
France, Switzerland, Austria
1980
BFA, Printmaking and Drawing, University of New Hampshire,
Durham
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2000
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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1996
Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona
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1995
University of AZ Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
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1992
Downtown Performance Center, Artist-in-Residence: City of Tucson,
AZ Commissioned Installation
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1991
East End Arts Council, Riverhead, New York
International
Exhibitions:
- 2006 "Book
as Object: An International Survey of Sculptural Book Art", Coburn
Gallery, Colorado College. Invitational.
-
2004
Dergårdsgalleriet, Lerum, Sweden
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2003
"Labyrinth Meditation: Human Conflict", Ferme Sarasin, Geneva,
Switzerland
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2003
"Unpacked-Unrolled-Unfolded", Chopin Association, Dusniki
Zdroj, Poland
-
2002
"4e Triennale Internationale du Papier", Musée Charmey,
Switzerland (Catalogue)
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2002
"Transformation III, 2002", Karlsborg Fors, Karlsborg, Sweden
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2001
Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY
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2001
"Paper Road", Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy
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2000
Santa Maria della Scala Art Museum, "Paper Art", Siena,
Italy
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1999
Utställningshallen Öckerö Bibliothek, Öckerö,
Sweden
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1999
Skulpturenpark Katzow, "7 Jahre Faszination Papier", Germany
Nordens Bilder Gallery, Kungälv, Sweden
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1999
Musée Charmey, "Troisième Triennale Internationale
du Papier", Switzerland
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1998
Museum Rijswik, "Holland Papier Biennale 1998", Holland
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1997
Harris Gallery, "Moku Hanga: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts,
in America", College Park, WA
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1996
Honolulu Academy of Arts, "Turning the Page: International Book
Exhibition", Hawaii
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1996
Gentofte Art Library, "Int'l Artist Book Exhibit", Copenhagen,
Denmark/ Traveled to Sweden
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1995
Japan Paper Academy, "Touch Please", Japan Paper Symposium,
Kyoto, Japan
-
1994
Aklan Museum, "International Mini Paper Exhibition 1994",
Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines
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1994
Galeria Mesta Bratislavy, "Arizona on Paper", Bratislava,
Slovakia
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1991
University of Basel, "International Paper Exhibit", Switzerland
Traveled to Holland & Germany
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1991
Galerie Niklaus Knoll, "Art in Paper", Basel, Switzerland
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1989
Rutgers University, "International Symposium on Art and the Invisible
Reality", New Brunswick, NJ; Franklin Furnace Gallery, NYC
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1989
Gallery K, "International Mini Paper Exhibition 1989", Kaminosoto,
Japan
- 2006 "Unrestricted",
Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL. Invitational.
- 2006 "1st
Annual Encaustic Invitational", Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
-
2005
"Paper Cuts: The Art of Contemporary Paper", Curated by
Exhibits USA
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2005
"Translucence", National Paper Exhibition, Lynn Tendler
Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT
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2005
Blue Heron Gallery, Deere Isle, ME
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2004
"22nd Annual North American Sculpture Exhibition", Foothills
Art Center, Golden CO Juror: James Surls Award
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2004
HR Kramer Company and Atlas Metal Sales Award, (Catalogue)
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2003
"Sculptural Variations in Handmade Paper", Raymond Ave Gallery,
St Paul, MN
-
2003
"Washi in American Artist's Books", The Center for Book
Arts, NYC, New York
-
1999
"National Invitational Book Exhibition", Bunnell Street
Gallery, Homer, AK
-
1994
"Body and Soul: Contemporary Art & Healing" DeCordova
Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
-
1994
National Survey Exhibition: Environmental Installation, Harn Museum
of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Catalogue)
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1990
"National Invitational Paper Arts Festival" Bergstrom-Mahler
Museum, Neenah, WI Curator: Tom Grade
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1988
"Art Reach '88" National Congress of Art & Design, Salt
Lake City, UT Juror: Henry T Hopkins
Regional
Exhibitions:
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2007
2nd Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2006
1st Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2004
Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ
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2004
"Nash and Nelson: Recent Work", Muse Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2004
"Nash & Raine: Sacred Spaces, Sacred Masks", Muse Gallery,
Tucson, AZ
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2003
Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ, group exhibit
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2002
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2002
"10th Annual Small Works Invitational",
Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ, group exhibit
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2002
"Nature and Art", Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ
-
2002
"Nash & Renfrow" Tucson/Pima Arts Council Community
Gallery, 3 person exhibit
-
2002
"Skin and Paper"
-
2001
Studio Lodo, Phoenix, AZ "Book", group exhibit
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2001
Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ, group exhibit
-
2000
Pima Community College Art Galleries, Tucson, AZ
-
1999
HazMat Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
-
1999
University of Arizona Union Galleries, Tucson, AZ 2 person show
-
1997
Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
-
1997
"Death - A Round Trip Ticket", Coconino Center for the Arts,
Flagstaff, AZ
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1997
"Sacred Spaces by Arizona Artists"
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1993
Joseph Gross Gallery, University of AZ, Tucson, AZ
-
1993
"Centennial Alumni Invitational Exhibition", Sky Harbor
International Airport, Phoenix, AZ
-
1993
"Paper Dreams" Arizona State Capitol Building, Phoenix,
AZ
-
1993
"Earthbound" Traveled to ASU, Tempe, AZ
-
1992
Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
-
1992
"Down to Earth" Group Show Outdoor Site Specific Sculpture,
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
-
1992
"Yuma Symposium" Invitational Outdoor Site Specific Sculpture
-
1991
Dinnerware Artists' Co-operative Gallery, Tucson, AZ Installation
& Drawings
-
1991
11 East Ashland Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
-
1991
"Earth Shrines", Installations & Drawings
-
1990
Tohono-Chul Park, Tucson, AZ "A Prayer", Outdoor Site Specific
Installation
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1989
Dodajk Internation Studio, Tucson, AZ
-
1989
"Shrine", Environmental Installation
-
1988
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, MFA Exhibition
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2003
KUAT-TV "Arizona Illustrated", PBS Interview & Studio
Visit
-
2001
"Somerset Studio" Magazine, Artist Portfolio: Catherine
Nash, by Sharilyn Miller, Laguna Hills, CA, May/June
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2000
Contemporary Handmade Paper: Art Lesson Series for Beginners, by Akira
Kurosaki, Japan
-
2000
Paper Road, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
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1999
En Massa Pappersarbete, Göteborgs-Posten, Gothenborg, Sweden,
September 15,
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1999
Papier, Exhibition (Catalogue), "3e Triennale Internationale
du Papier", Musee du Pays et Val de Charmey, Switzerland
-
1999
Artisans: Paper, by Gabrielle Falkiner, The Ivy Press Ltd, London,
England
-
1998
Paper en Vuur/Fire and Paper, Gentenaar & Torley Publishers, Rijswik,
the Netherlands
-
1998
Paper Sculpture: The Art of Sculpting with Paper, by Michael LaFosse,
Rockport Publishers, Boston
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1995
KUAT-TV "Arizona Illustrated", PBS Interview & Review:
"Spiral to Within" November
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1994
"Boston Globe" Art Review, The Art of Healing, by Christine
Temin Thursday, May 5th
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1994
"Sculpture" Magazine, Getting Better: Art & Healing,
by Anne Barclay Morgan, Wash DC, Sept/Oct
-
1994
"Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing", (Catalogue),
DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
-
1993
Inksmith, Daniel Smith Co, Seattle, WA Authored research article:
"Obtaining Rich Color in Pigmented HMP" November
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1992
International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists, Leopold-Hoesch
Museum, Duren, Germany
-
1992
"Hand Papermaking 1992 Slide Kit", International Survey
of Paper Artists, slide and video format Invited
-
1992
"Hand Papermaking" Magazine, Spirituality & Ritual in
Handmade Paper Art, by Krista Speiler, Washington, DC, Winter
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1991
"New York Times" Art Review, Enabling a Viewer to Meditate
as Well, by Helen A Harrison Sunday, September 8
-
1991
"Tucson Weekly" Arts Review, Secret Spaces for Grown-ups,
by Margaret Regan, March 27
-
1989
"Esotera" Magazine, Freiburg, W Germany "International
Symposium of Art and the Invisible Reality" December '89
-
1987
"Artspace : Southwest Arts Quarterly", Spring 1987 Tucson
Letter by Pamela Portwood
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Städtische
Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany
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Bibliothèque
Nationale de Paris, France
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Centre
Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Switzerland
-
Special
Collections of the Libraries of the University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ
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Special
Collections of the Libraries of the University of Basel, Switzerland
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Collection
of the White House, Washington DC;
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Borders
Bookstore, Tucson, AZ
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Privately
in US, Europe, Japan
-
2004
"22nd Annual North American Sculpture Exhibition" Award:
HR Kramer Company and Atlas Metal Sales Award, Foothills Art Center,
Golden CO Juror: James Surls
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2002
Pollack-Krasner Foundation, New York City, NY
-
2001
"Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance
Grant", New York City, NY
-
2001
Finalist, "Buffalo Exchange Art Award 2001", Southern AZ
Foundation, Tucson, AZ
-
2001
"Individual Artist Travel Grant", Tucson/Pima Arts Council,
AZ
-
2001
"Professional Arts Development Grant", Arizona Commission
on the Arts, awarded in 1991,1993,1995,1997, & 2001
-
1999
"Video Production Grant", Access Tucson (TCCC)
-
1993
"First Place Oasis Video Award" Arts Category, Tucson Community
Cable Corporation
-
1993
"Hometown USA Video Festival 1993" Finalist - Arts Category
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1992
"Artist-in-Residence" Tucson Arts District Partnership,
Breaking Down Walls to Create Shelter; collaborative arts projects
with 3 non-profit human service organizations
-
1992
"Visual Arts Fellowship 1992" Tucson/Pima Arts Council,
Tucson, AZ
-
1992
"First Place Grant Winner" Healing Through Arts, Wayland,
MA
Professional
Affiliations
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1988
- Present Access Tucson (Tucson Community Cable Corp), Public Access
TV
-
1989
- Present International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper
Artists Elected "Member-at-Large" 1998-2000
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1995
- Present Friends of Dard Hunter (International Papermaking Organization)
-
1995
- Present "To All Our Relations" A non-profit Native American
organization
-
1991
- '93 Dinnerware Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Tucson, AZ - Member
(Auction committee chair '92 & '93)
- 2007 Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. "Plant Fiber Papermaking
from Flat to Form". July.
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2003-04
The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ Program Coordinator/Faculty for "The
Art of Summer II & III"
-
2003
- Present Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute, Tucson, AZ Faculty
-
1991
- Present Arizona Commission on the Arts , "Artist in Residence"
Roster Program
-
1991
- Present Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Rural Arts & Arts in Education
Program
-
1993
- Present The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ Faculty
-
1988
- 1991 Tucson Art Institute, Tucson, AZ Faculty
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1988-
1989 U of Arizona, Dept of Art, Tucson, AZ & Extended U of AZ,
Sierra Vista, AZ Adjunct Lecturer
-
1986
- 1988 U of Arizona, Dept of Art, Tucson, AZ Graduate Teaching Assistantship,
Selected Visiting Artist and Lecturer
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2005
Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Geelong, Australia
-
2005
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
-
2005
The Eureka Springs School of the Arts/ ESSA, Arkansas
-
2003
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
-
2002
Kvarnbyns HandPappersBruk, Mölndal, Sweden Co-taught with artist
Robert Renfrow
-
2002
Southwest School for Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
-
2000
"Italy Paper Symposium 2000" Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano,
Italy
-
2000
Instructor: Advanced Papermaking Workshops- Belgium, Sweden, Norway,
Italy, France
-
1999
Instructor: Advanced Papermaking Workshops- Nideggen, Germany; Oslo,
Norway; Hönö, Sweden;
-
1999
International Paper Symposium at Schloß Wrangelsberg, Germany
Collaborative participant
Selected Visiting Artist and Lecturer
-
1999
Instructor: Advanced Papermaking Workshops- Germany, Norway and Sweden:
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1998
Instructor: Columbia College's Center for the Book and Paper Arts,
Chicago, IL
-
1998
Instructor: Papermaking Workshops- Oslo and Bergen, Norway; Gothenberg,
Sweden; and Strynø, Denmark
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1996/97
Instructor- Fuji Studios, Florence, Italy
-
1996
Instructor- Artists' Union of Norway, Oslo
-
1995
Lecturer- "Japan Paper Symposium 1995", Japan Paper Academy,
Kyoto Japan IAPMA
-
1995
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
-
1994
Lecturer- Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
-
1992
Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
-
1992
Presenter and Lecturer - Yuma Symposium, Arizona Western College,
Yuma, AZ
-
1990
Co-Presenter- Arizona Artists Conference, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff
Selected Visiting Artist & Lecturer
- 2007 Plant fiber Papermaking form Flat to Form, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
- 2005 Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Geelong, Australia
- 2005 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
- 2005 The Eureka Springs School of the Arts/ ESSA, Arkansas
- 2003 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
- 2002 Kvarnbyns HandPappersBruk, Mölndal, Sweden Co-taught with artist Robert Renfrow
- 2002 Southwest School for Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
- 2000 Italy Paper Symposium 2000, Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano, Italy
2000 Instructor: Advanced Papermaking Workshops- Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France
1999 Advanced Papermaking Workshops Instructor, Nideggen, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Hönö, Sweden;
- Selected Visiting Artist and Lecturer (continued)
- 1999 Collaborative Participant, International Paper Symposium at Schloß Wrangelsberg, Germany
- 1999 Instructor: Advanced Papermaking Workshops- Germany, Norway and Sweden
- 1998 Instructor: Columbia College’s Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
- 1998 Instructor: Papermaking Workshops- Oslo and Bergen, Norway; Gothenberg, Sweden; and Strynø, Denmark
- 1996-97 Instructor, Fuji Studios, Florence, Italy
- 1996 Instructor, Artists’ Union of Norway, Oslo
- 1995 Japan Paper Symposium 1995, Lecturer, Japan Paper Academy, Kyoto Japan IAPMA
- 1995 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
- 1994 Lecturer, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
- 1992 Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
Presenter and Lecturer, Yuma Symposium, Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ
- 1990 Co-Presenter- Arizona Artists Conference, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ
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