JOAN LAWSON
DREAM CATCHER ART7744 El Dorado Drive
Austin, Texas 78737
Phone: (512) 288-0574
FAX: (512) 288-5073
EDUCATION:
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, BA, Studio Art, l991.
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, art history, design, drawing, painting, 1990-1991.
Other Classes and Studies With Individual Artists:
Gerald Brommer, Landscape Design and Collage; Austin, Texas, 1998.
Kathy Van Tilburg Workshops: Style, Composition; Constructive Critiquing, Austin and San Antonio, Texas, 1996-1997.
Stephen Quiller, Experimental Water Media, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Hunt, Texas, l995.
Dominique Boisjoli, Acrylics, Austin, Texas, l993-1994.
Pierre Ramel, Palette Knife Oils, Paris, France, l992. Cletus Smith,Watercolors, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,1992.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Creative Arts Society, founding member, Treasurer, Austin, Texas.
Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas.
Waterloo Watercolor Group, Austin, Texas.
First Frontier Collage Society, Austin, Texas.
Lake Travis Arts League, Lakeway, Texas.
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:
Laughing At The Sun Gallery, Austin, Texas.
Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Wimberly, Texas.
Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Galveston, Texas.
Old Door Gallery at Near and Far, Guthrie, Oklahoma.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Alternate Space Gallery, Austin, Texas.
1999 Lakeway City Hall, Lakeway, Texas.
1998. "The American West" presented by M. & Mme. Francis Berger, Paris, France.
1998. Nations Bank, Austin TX.
1996. Comerica Bank, Austin, TX.
1995. Ki-Elements, Oklahoma City, OK.
1995. Grinder's Coffee House, Austin, TX.
1994. Ambrosia's Restaurant, Austin, TX.
1994. Vortex Theater, Austin, TX.
SELECTED GROUP AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2000 Illuminati juried exhibition, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Austin, Texas..
1999 Oak Hill Arts Assoc. Juried Exhibit, Austin, Texas. 2nd Place.
1999 First Frontier Collage Society Juried National Exhibit, Austin, Texas.
1999 Featured Artist, Old Door Gallery, at Art Escape, Guthrie, Oklahoma.
1999 Featured Artist, A Different Twist Gallery, Arts Festival, Edmond, Oklahoma.
1999 Featured Artist, Sable V Gallery, at Art Walk, Galveston, Texas.
1998-1999 SHE Is The New Millennium Exhibition, A Two-Woman Collaboration: Laughing At the Sun Gallery, Austin, TX.
SABOR Gallery, San Antonio, TX.
50 Penn Place Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK.
1996-1999 Artists Harvest, Austin, TX.
1998 Exhibition des Artisans en Antony, Paris, France.
1998 Friday Mt. Buffalo Show Gallery Grand Opening Exhibit, Austin, TX.
1998 Artists At Onion Creek Members Show, Austin, TX.
1996-1998 Lake Travis Bluebonnet Bash, Lakeway, TX.
1997-1998 Waterloo Watercolor Group Annual Members Show, Austin, TX.
1997. The Figurative Show, Laughing At The Sun Gallery, Austin, TX.
1997. Dallas Women's Caucus for Art Juried "Lost and Found" Exhibit, Dallas, TX, Founders Award.
1996. SABOR Gallery, San Antonio, TX.
1996. San Antonio Water Color Group 21st Annual Juried Members Exhibition
1995. Buckingham Gallery Christmas Show, Austin, TX.
1995. Teeks Gallery Holiday Show, Wimberly, TX.
1995. Coleman Gallery Grand Opening, Wimberly, TX.
1995. "Range of Motion" Juried Exhibit, Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas.
1995. Art at Large Billboard Competition, Finalist, and Entries Exhibit, Austin, TX.
1994. Pecan Street Festival, Austin, TX.
1993. Bastanjoo Gallery Emerging Women Artists, Austin, TX, First Place.
PUBLISHED:
Cover of 12th Annual Construction Law Conference Brochure, 1999.
Featured Artist in AVAANTI Journal, Austin Visual Arts Association, December 1996.
Cover of Chicago's The Monthly Aspectarian, including Web Page, April l996.
Covers of 8th and 9th Annual Computer & Information Technology Law Institute Brochures, 1994 and 1995.
Cover of AVAANTI Journal, Gallery 2-D, March 1995.
OTHER:
Produced "SHE Is The New Millennium" Travelling Exhibition, 1998.
Organized Art Exhibit "Range of Motion, Celebrating 100 Years of Chiropractic", Texas State Capitol, May 1995.
Conducts "Exploring Creativity Through Art" painting workshops.