Resume
EDUCATION________________________________________________
Master of Fine Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
TEACHING EXPERIENCE______________________________________
1980-1998 and 2000-2001 Instructor of Fine Arts, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
ART RELATED EXPERIENCE________________________________________
2017-2020 Exhibition/Selection Committee Chair, 5 years on Board of Directors, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
1998-2000 Studio Experience, New York
1990-1998 Gallery Director, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College
ASSOCIATIONS_____________________________________________
Allied Arts Association/Gallery at the Park, Richland, WA
Pacific Northwest Book Artists member
Tri- City Book Arts – Co-founder
PROFESSIONAL EXHIBITIONS________________________________________
2022 “Layers of Meaning” Two-Person Exhibit, Gallery at the Park, Richland, WA
2021 North Central Washington Juried Art Show, 2nd Place Award; Wenatchee Valley Museum
2021 “Coasters” Exhibit, Collapse Contemporary Art Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
2021 10x10x10 Tieton, International Juried Exhibit, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
2021 Allied Arts Association Annual Juried Show, Gallery at the Park, Richland, WA
2019 10X10X10 Tieton, International Juried Exhibit, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
2019 Solo Exhibition, Pybus Event Center. Wenatchee, WA
2019 Commission for Sanctuary at Lincoln Street United Methodist Church, Portland, OR; Triptych "Search, Create, Embrace"
2018 Allied Arts Association Annual Juried Show, Richland, WA; Best of Show Award for "Evening Breeze"
2018 North Central Washington Juried Art Show, Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
2018 First United Methodist Church, Wenatchee, WA; Five Collages for Sanctuary
2018 Robert Graves Gallery Annual Member Exhibit, Wenatchee, WA
2017 Layers of Meaning, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
2017 Annual Member Exhibition, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
2016 Small Works: 39th Harper College National Juried Exhibit, Palatine, Illinois
2016 Four Northwest Visions, Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, Moses Lake, WA
2015 North Central Washington Juried Art Show, Wenatchee Valley Museum, Wenatchee, WA
2015 Annual Member Exhibition, Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
2015 Lecture: Design and the Art of Handmade Books, Design Retreat, Gold Bar, WA
2015 10 x 10 x 10, International Juried Exhibit, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
2015 Book Arts Display, North Central Washington, Wenatchee, WA
2015 Visually Speaking, Creatively Read: Tri Cities Book Artists Exhibit, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland WA
2013 Open Studio Tour, Tri Cities, WA
2013 Allied Arts Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Richland, WA
2013 Art and Wine Tour, Fidelitas Winery, Red Mountain, WA
2013 Tri-Cities Symphony, Perfect Harmony Art Auction, Richland, WA
2013 Washington State University, TriCities, Chancellor's Exhibit, Richland, WA
2012 The Poetic Pen, Juried International Exhibition, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Adorn the Form: New Directions in Fiber and Jewelry, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
2012 Allied Arts Gallery, Regional Juried Exhibition, Richland, WA
2012 Unique Expressions: The Book As Art, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
2011 Open Studio Tour, Tri Cities, WA
2011 Tri-Cities Symphony, Perfect Harmony Art Auction
2010 Chancellor’s Exhibition, Washington State University-Tri Cities, Richland, WA
2009 Open Studio Tour, Tri Cities, WA
2009 Charity Auction, Richland, WA
2008 Artist’s Books, Gallery on Gage, Richland, WA
2008 Chancellor’s Exhibition, Washington State University-Tri Cities, Richland, WA
2008 Invitational Art Exhibition – 60th Anniversary, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
2008 Christian Themes III: Small Works, Beauchamp’s Gallery, Topeka, KS
2008 Open Studio Tour, Tri Cities, WA
2007 Chancellor’s Exhibition, Washington State University-Tri Cities, Richland, WA
2007 Prosser Art Walk & Wine Gala, Prosser, WA
2007 Christianity Today Magazine, Images of Calvary, National Invitational Online Exhibit
2007 Two-Artist Exhibit, Gallery on Gage, Richland, WA
2006 Savor the Art, Yakima Valley Wine Assoc., Fine Artists Invitational Exhibition, Kestrel Vintners, Prosser, WA
2006 Intersection of Art and Faith: Matthew & Susan Kimmel, Kennewick First Presbyterian Church, Kennewick, WA
2006 One-woman exhibit, Kestrel Vintners, Prosser, WA
2006 Art & Wine Charity Auction, Meadow Springs Country Club, Kennewick, WA
2005 One-Woman Exhibit, Kestrel Vintners, Prosser, WA
2005 What is a Book?, D.S. Watkins Gallery, Kennewick, WA
2005 8th Biennial ART TO WEAR Juried Exhibit, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
2004 Form, Image, Page: The Book as Art, D.S. Watkins Gallery, Kennewick, WA
2004 Wish You Were Here …Postcards International, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, Las Cruces, NM
2004 18th Annual Ecclesiastical Art Exhibit, Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, Detroit, MI
2004 Juried Regional Exhibition, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
2004 Earth & Spirit Concert, “Paintings at an Exhibition,” Mid-Columbia Symphony, Kennewick, WA
2003 Unbroken Circle – Family Lines, D.S. Watkins Gallery, Kennewick, WA
2003 First Annual Miniatures Exhibition, Old Roxy Theatre, Kennewick, WA
2002 Drawing III – National Invitational Juried Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
2002 One-Woman Exhibit, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
2002 Second Annual Loft Art Walk, Kennewick, WA
2001 Fifteenth Annual Nat’l Juried Ecclesiastical Art Exhibit, Historic Trinity, Detroit, MI
2000 Darkness Into Light, Lenten and Easter Exhibit, First Presbyterian Church, Port Jefferson, New York
2000 Featured Artist, Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, Oregon
2000 Winter Faculty Art Exhibit, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1999 Winter Weekends Group Exhibit, Prism Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
1998 Featured Artist Exhibit, Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, OR
1998 Group Exhibition, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Northwest Drama Conference, Pasco, WA
1998 Winter Faculty Art Exhibit, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1997 Artes Sagrados, National Juried Exhibit, Concordia University, Austin, Texas.
1997 Diverse Expressions, Traveling Exhibit, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, Kansas, Northlight Gallery, Everett, WA and City Gallery, Federal Way,
WA
1996 ART: An exhibition of Washington State Community College Art Faculty, Gallery II, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1996 Faculty Exhibition, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1996 Two-Person Exhibition, Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, OR
1996 One-Woman Exhibit of Handmade Books & Drawings, Washington State University Library, Richland, WA
1995 Two-Person Exhibit of Drawings, Allied Arts Association, Richland, WA
1995 Faculty Exhibition, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1994 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1994 Dancing with the Gesture, Drawings and Paintings, Esvelt Gallery, Pasco, WA
1993 Faculty Exhibition, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1992 36th Annual Central WA Juried Artists Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
1991 A Beautiful Sight, Third Annual Faculty Exhibition, Columbia Basin College
1991 Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
1990 7th Alcoa/Gallery '76 National Juried Art Exhibit, Wenatchee, WA
1990 A Beautiful Sight, Second Annual Faculty/CBC Foundation Exhibit
1989-90 Washington to Washington - Women in Art Today, traveling slide documentary, Washington State Committee, National Museum of Women
in the Arts
1990 Traveling Exhibition of Collages, Exhibit Touring Services, Eastern Washington State University
1989 A Beautiful Sight, First Annual Faculty/CBC Foundation Art Exhibit
1989 COLLAGE '89, National Juried Exhibit, Northlight Gallery, Everett Community College, Everett, WA
1989 Landscape / Escape: Nineteen Washington Women Artists, Invitational Exhibit, Mercer Island Community Arts Center, Mercer Island, WA
1989 Susan Kimmel & Robert Sherman: Two-Person Exhibit, Esvelt Gallery, Pasco, WA
1988 COLLAGE '88, National Juried Exhibit, Northlight Gallery, Everett Community College, Everett, WA
1987 COLLAGE '87, National Juried Exhibit, Pacific Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Susan Steinhaus Kimmel-One Woman Exhibit, Pacific Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
1986 COLLAGE '86, National Juried Exhibit, Pacific Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS ______________________________________
2013 "500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2", Lark Publishing
2012 The Poetic Pen, Published by 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED AWARDS______________________________________
2021 Second Place Award, North Central Washington Juried Exhibit, Wenatchee Valley Museum
2018 Best of Show Award, Allied Arts Association Annual Juried Exhibit, Richland, WA
2013 Kathy Dempsey Memorial Merit Award, Allied Arts Regional Annual Juried Show, Richland, WA; Geoffrey McCormack, Juror, U. of Oregon
2013 Chancellor's Award, Washington State University, TriCities, Chancellor's Exhibit, Richland, WA
2012 Nancy Messner Memorial Merit Award, Allied Arts Regional Annual Juried Show, Richland, WA; Kelly Lillis, Juror
1998 Flour Daniel Purchase Award, Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit
1998 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
1996 Flour Daniel Purchase Award, Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit
1994 ICF Kaiser Purchase Award, Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit
1993 Battelle Northwest Purchase Award, Columbia Basin College Faculty Exhibit
1993 Westinghouse Purchase Award, CBC Faculty Exhibit
1992 Westinghouse Purchase Award, CBC Faculty Exhibit
1992 U.S. Bank Purchase Award, CBC Faculty Exhibit
1991 U.S. Bank: Two Purchase Awards, CBC Faculty Exhibit
1991 Battelle Pacific Northwest National Lab Purchase Award, CBC Faculty Exhibit
1989 "Best Use of Collage", COLLAGE '89, Northlight Gallery, Everett, WA
1988 Everett Community College Purchase Award, COLLAGE '88, Northlight Gallery, Everett, WA
1987 First Place Award, COLLAGE '87, Pacific Fine Arts Gallery, Seattle, Glen Alps, Juror
1983 Honorable Mention, ALCOA/Gallery 76 Juried Painting Exhibition, Wenatchee, WA
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARTS________________________
Book Arts Courses, Collage Workshops, Art lectures for community groups
Calligraphy Lectures for Art History AP course at Eastmont High School - East Wenatchee, WA
2015 - 2020 Robert Graves Gallery Board of Directors; Exhibition and Selection Chair
2014 Creation Story Mural, Seven Painted Panels, Meadow Springs Presbyterian Church, Richland, WA
2008 Scholarship Selection Committee, Allied Arts Gallery, Richland, WA
2007 Design and construction of Altar Cloths and banners, West Side Church, Richland, WA
2006 The Intersection of Art & Faith: Exhibit and Lecture, Kennewick First Presbyterian Church, Kennewick, WA
2006 A Life of Art & Faith: Presentation, Summer Trainees, West Side Church, Richland
2006 Art & Faith: Public Lecture Series, West Side Church, Richland, WA
2004 Richland Public Schools, Art Leadership Team / Curriculum Review
2003 Co-Founder of Tri-Cities Book Arts Group
2003 Mentor, Middle School art student
2003 Juror, U.S. Congressional Art Competition, 4th District, Washington
2001 Juror, Allied Arts Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit, Richland, WA
1988-2000 Volunteer juror for local and regional student art exhibits
1997 & 1998 Juror, Eastern Washington Regional High School Art Competition
1998 Grant Writer, Online Introduction to Art Course adopted for Washington State Community Colleges
1997-2003 Private art lessons, students ages 11-18 years
1994 - 1997 Program Creator and Director, Art-In-The-School Program, Cascade Elementary School, Kennewick, WA
1990-1998 Gallery Coordinator, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin Community College
Member of Washington State University Consolidated Information Center Museum Planning Committee
Juror of Awards, Eastern Washington Watercolor Society
Allied Arts MFA Scholarship Selection Committee
Lectures and workshops: Book Arts, Collage, Art & Faith
