Elysium Artists

Pat Wheeler: Resume

Education

  • Rutgers University, B.A. 1982, High Honors, Studio Art

Gallery Representation

  • Spring Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  • Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Elysium Artists, Portland, Oregon
  • Chapter Two Gallery, Corea, Maine
  • Row Boat Gallery, Pacific City, Oregon
  • Woodwalk Gallery, Door County, Wisconsin

Exhibitions, Performance, Residencies

  • 2009: Spring Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, "Netters", group exhibition
  • 2009: Sitka 16th annual Art Invitational, Portland, Oregon
  • 2009: Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine: Great Spruce Head Island Residency Exhibition
  • 2009: Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine:"Distance Forward" 2 person show, J. Fred Woell & Patricia Wheeler
  • 2009: Chapter Two, Corea, Maine: Sept. featured artist 
  • 2008: University of Southern Maine, Lewiston/Auburn, Lewiston, Maine:"Patricia Wheeler,The Art of Protest" 
  • 2008: Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, "Traces, Artist's Journals"
  • 2008: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon: "Lunations" : paintings & bundled objects from 2008 Sitka Center Residency, solo exhibition
  • 2008:  Oregon College of Art & Craft, premiere: "Kathy Kelly, Peace Warrior", video portrait
  • 2008: Residency: Painting & Videography, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon
  • 2008: Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, solo exhibition
  • 2007: Fiber National: Lancaster Museum of Art, Pa. , cash award
  • 2007: Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA: "Ghost Dance", video premiere
  • 2007: Blue Heron Gallery, Stonington, Maine: group exhibition.
  • 2007: Susan Maasch Fine Arts: Solo Exhibition
  • 2007: Haystack Mt. School of Craft Gallery, mentor exhibition
  • 2007: Deer Isle Artist Assoc., Deer Isle, Maine, group exhibition
  • 2007: Peace Action Maine: "Security Blanket", solo exhibition
  • 2006, 2007: Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, D.C. Human Rights Institute: "Security Blanket", solo exhibition
  • 2006: University of Maine, Orono, Maine: solo exhibition paintings and ritual objects
  • 2006: Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft: group exhibition, "Living It Large"
  • 2006: UMO Peace Conference Art Coordinator (exhibition & panel)
  • 2006:  Hudson Museum, Maine Center for the Arts,  University of Maine, Orono, "Embedded Quilts From the Iraq War": One woman Exhibition
  • 2005: College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME: “War Flowers: From Swords to Plowshares”, group exhibition
  • 2005: Dokuz Eylul University: “Visions in Textiles 2005”: Izmir, Turkey, international textile group exhibition
  • 2005: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME: Video: “Intersection” (with Un/Coverings)
  • 2005: Blue Hill Congregational Church: “From the Cradle: Embedded Quilts from the Iraq War”, solo
  • 2005: Reel Pizza Cinerama, Bar Harbor, ME, “From The Cradle: Embedded Quilts From the Iraq War”
  • 2004: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME: “Un/Coverings”: Maine Contemporary Fiber Survey
  • 2004: Boothbay Harbor Opera House, ME: “Maine Contemporary Quilts”, 3 person exhibition
  • 2004: TSL GALLERY, Hudson, N.Y.: “Fear/Jealousy/Greed”, group exhibit
  • 2004: Oregon College of Art & Craft: Senior Resident,Painting
  • 2004: Robert. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME: Residency
  • 2004: University of Maine Presque Isle: Reed Gallery: “ Paper into Art”, group exhibit
  • 2004: University of Maine Presque Isle:“ Embedded Quilts ”: solo exhibit
  • 2004: Pitcher/Masters Gallery: Deer Isle, ME, group exhibition
  • 2004: Fine Focus’04:  National traveling quilt exhibition
  • 2004: Colby College: “20/20 EnVision”: group exhibition
  • 2003: Elan Fine Arts: Rockland, ME, “Across The Line, Paintings From Oaxaca”: solo
  • 2003: Beginners Mind Gallery: Deer Isle, ME, “Growing Season”: solo exhibit
  • 2003: Pitcher’s /Masters Gallery: Deer Isle, ME: group exhibition
  • 2003: Women’s Caucus For Art: “Not Just A Pretty Face”, Florida: group exhibit
  • 2003: Cambridge Artists’Cooperative: Fifth Biannual Book Arts Show, Boston
  • 2003: Clark House Gallery: Bangor, ME: group exhibition
  • 2002: Library of Congress, Wash. D.C.: Permanent Collection
  • 2002: Robert.. MacNamara Foundation: Residency, Westport Island, ME 
  • 2002: Exit Art: New York City, “Reactions”: group show
  • 2002: Clark House Gallery: Bangor, ME: one person exhibition
  • 2002: Pitcher/Masters Gallery: Deer Isle, Maine: group exhibition
  • 2001: Colby College: “Women in the Arts”,  Waterville, ME: group exhibit
  • 2001: Reach Performing Arts Center:“ Intersection”, Collaboration, video projection & dance: Deer Isle, ME
  • 2001: Munson Gallery: Santa Fe, New Mexico: group exhibition
  • 2001: Hungarian Consulate: New York City:  traveling exhibition
  • 2000: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME: Biennial 2000
  • 2000: University of the Arts: Philadelphia, PA , “Deer Isle Six”
  • 1999: Clark House Gallery: Bangor, ME: group exhibition
  • 1999: Leighton Gallery: Blue Hill, ME: group exhibition
  • 1998: Leighton Gallery: Blue Hill, ME: one person exhibition
  • 1997: Rose Marie Frick: Portland, ME: group exhibition
  • 1997: Between the Muse Gallery: Rockland, ME: one person exhibition
  • 1997: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME: “Plainsong, Six Voices”
  • 1996: Clark Gallery: Lincoln, MA: “Thirteen”

Teaching, Video, Grants

  • 2009: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR: Architecture of Memory, Painting Workshop
  • 2009: Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon: Painting Workshop
  • 2009: Peninsula Art School, Door County, WI: Painting Workshop
  • 2009: Wheeler Studio, Deer Isle, private  & semi private classes, painting
  • 2008: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR:  Architecture of Memory, painting workshop
  • 2008: Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida:  Architecture of Memory, painting workshop
  • 2007: Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine: Architectural Painting, painting workshop
  • 2007: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR: Architectural Painting Workshop
  • 2007: Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR: Painting Workshop
  • 2006, &‘07: Haystack Mt. School,Deer Isle,Maine: mentor program, painting
  • 2006: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR: Architectural Painting Workshop
  • 2006: Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR: workshop, painting
  • 2006: Hui No’Eau, Makawao, Hawaii: Painting workshop and lecture
  • 2005: Smithsonian Museum of American Art: Video: J. Fred Woell, videography & editing
  • 2005: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR: Workshop: Painting Outside the Box
  • 2005: SITKA center for Art & Ecology: Otis, OR: Workshop: Memento Painting 
  • 2004: Peninsula Art School, Fish Creek, Wi., Workshop: Memento Painting
  • 2004: Oregon College of Art & Craft: Portland, OR.: Memento Painting, painting workshop
  • 2004: Puffin Foundation Grant: Maine Artist’s Peace Project
  • 2003: Wheeler/Woell  Studios, Deer Isle, ME: workshop,  Memory Transfer
  • 2003/’02, ‘01: Haystack Mt. School, Deer Isle, Maine: Mentor program,
  • 2002: Maine Arts Commission Teachers Conference, workshop, Mixed Media
  • 2000: Oregon College of Arts and Crafts,Portland, OR: workshop, Mixed Media
  • 1999: Vermont College: MFA program, Artist/Teacher, Mixed Media
  • 1998: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME: Assemblage with J. Fred Woell
  • 1994: Haystack Mt. School: Deer Isle, ME: Collage/Assemblage

Professional Experience

  • 2007: University of Maine, Farmington: video & lecture , Art & Politics
  • 2007: Maine Urban Projection (MUPP) artistic director & founder
  • 2007: You tube videos: Impeachment, Portland & Bangor, Maine Actions, No War, No Warming National Protest, Washington, D.C
  • 2007: CODE PINK, Washington, D.C. week-long residency as activist & videographer
  • 2006: Maine Film Festival at the Maine Social forum, presenter
  • 2006: WBAI, Democracy Now ( Pacifica Radio) live report from Washington D.C. protest and arrest.
  • 2006: Hudson Museum, Maine Center for the Arts, Univ. of Maine, Orono: lecture: Embedded Quilts form the Iraq War
  • 2005: WABI TV: Interview, Maine activism and the media, Allen Grover
  • 2005: WERU radio: Interview, Dec. 15, 2005 nonviolent direct action, Cathy Melio
  • 2005: Maine Public Access TV: “ The Iraq War Cloth 2”, documentary of the occupation of Senator Susan Collin’s Bangor office
  • 2005: WERU, Radio interview,  “arrests at the White House”, Cathy Melio
  • 2005: Maine Public Access TV: Portland, Bath, Bangor: “The Iraq War Cloth”  documentary of the occupation of Rep. Tom Allen’s Portland office
  • 2005: WERU, Radio interview, “ Embedded Quilts ” Meredith DeFrancesco
  • 2005: Alamo Theater & Film Archives, Bucksport, ME: Panel: Crossing The BLVD, with Judith Sloan: grass roots activism
  • 2005: College Of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME: War Flowers/ Swords to Plowshares, Artist’s Panel
  • 2005: U Maine Orono, Peace Studies: Lecture
  • 2005: : Blue Hill library, ME: Embedded Quilts: lecture on embedded journalism
  • 2005: Reel Pizza Cinerama, Bar Harbor: video & lecture: Iraq War Cloth 2 & Embedded Quilts
  • 2004: U Maine Orono, Peace Conference: Artists panel
  • 2004: WERU, Radio interview, “Art & Dissent”, Cathy Melio
  • 2004: MAPP, Maine Artist’s Peace Project, Founder and Coordinator
  • 2004: University of Maine, Orono, lecture, Women’s Studies
  • 2004: HOPE Festival, workshop, Prayer Flags for Peace
  • 2004: University of Maine, Orono, lecture,  Peace Studies
  • 2004: University of Maine, Presque Isle, Transfer Workshop
  • 2004: Many and One Coalition: Lewiston, ME: workshop, Unity Flags 
  • 2003, ‘04, ‘05: Island Peace & Justice, Coordinator, Deer Isle, ME
  • 2003: Democracy Now, WBAI, NYC (Pacifica Radio) live interview,“The arrest of activists protesting the Iraq War at Senator Susan Collin’s office”
  • 1997 thru 2004: Advisory Board: CMCA, Rockport, ME
  • 1998: Curator: Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME: “J. Fred Woell”
  • 1996/’97: Board of Directors: Seamark, Deer Isle, ME
  • 1994 through ’ 96: Owner/Director: Wheeler Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
  • 1990 through ’93: Owner/Director: Wheeler/Seidel Gallery, SoHo, N.Y.C.
  • 1986 to ‘88: Business Manager: Show of Hands, N.Y.C.
  • 1985: Intern: American Craft Museum: N.Y.C.
  • 1984/’85: Administrative Asst.: Gallery Hennoch, N.Y.C.
  • 1983/’84: Business Manager: Vorpal Gallery, N.Y.C.

Collections: Public

  • 2008: Oregon College of Art & Craft,Portland, Oregon, permanent collection
  • 2004: Robert MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, Maine, permanent collection

Collections: Private

  • Nancy & Richard Bloom, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Catherine Masters, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Anne Oldach & Bill Bickley, Delaware
  • Stephanie Lee, Stonington, Maine
  • Nancy Hill, Stonington, Maine
  • Larry Moffett, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Jenepher Burton, Portland, Maine
  • Nikki Blackwood, Portland, Oregon
  • Claire Sanford, Gloucester,  Mass.
  • Melanie Goldstein, Portland, Oregon
  • Dan Bailes & Sharon Ferguson, Washington, D.C.
  • Ingrid Menkin, Sheephead Island, Maine
  • Adams Mellman House, Bath, Maine
  • Sherry Streeter & Jon Wilson, Brooklin, Maine
  • Judith Ingram,  Philadelphia, PA
  • Maureen Farr, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Maureen Block, Bath, Maine
  • Sarah Doremus, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Judy & Peter Robbins, Sedgewick, Maine
  • Sue Newlin, Deer Isle, Maine
  • Kathleen & Sam Kreigman, N.J.
  • Dr. John Klemperer, NYC
  • Thomas Sprenkle & Lalena Dolby, Portland, Oregon
  • Meg Wolfe, Los Angeles
  • Andrew Sprenkle & Marguerite Hecksher, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Alvero Enciso, Placitas, N.M.
  • etc.

Upcoming

  • RED, Isalos Gallery, Stonington, Maine February, 2010
  • I-95 TRIENNIAL, University of Maine Museum, Bangor, Maine, April through June, 2010
  • Painting workshops, OCAC, 2010, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, June 2010
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