CV: Select Art and Writing Projects

Alana Garrigues (she/they, b. 1979) speaking at the “Divine Beacons” exhibit in Astoria, OR. Following is an inexhaustive list of creative projects and exhibitions.

Artwork: Exhibitions and Print

SOLO, CURATED SMALL GROUP, AND PRIZE WINNING EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024: “RE•CLAIM” Solo Show, New Dawn Arts Center (Ashburnham, MA)
  • 2024: ArtsWorcester Material Needs Grant Recipient, small group exhibit coming Fall 2025 (Worcester, MA)
  • 2023: “20th ArtsWorcester Biennial,” 4th Prize: Juror with “Precedented II,” ArtsWorcester Gallery (Worcester, MA)
  • 2023: “Divine Beacons,” Four-Artist Group Show by Invitation, Curated by Agnes Field, AVA Gallery (Astoria, OR)
  • 2022: Solo Show, Insomnia Coffee (Tanasbourne, OR)
  • 2022: “The Stories They Carry,” Hoffman Gallery, Three-Artist Curated Show (Manzanita, OR)

SELECT GROUP SHOWS

  • 2024: “Flora and Fauna” Juried Show at Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery (Worcester, MA)
  • 2024: “Renacimiento” (Rebirth) Curated Group Show presented by El Salón in collaboration with Casita Cultura Latina’s Día de los Muertos celebration at JMAC (Worcester, MA)
  • 2024: “Fire and Water” Juried Show at Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery (Worcester, MA)
  • 2024: Calliope Choral/Orchestral “ArtSong” Participating Artist: “Vessel of Memory” (15×30″ painting) based on the song “Les Chemins de L’Amour” (Boston, MA)
  • 2023: “Small Works,” ArtsWorcester (Worcester, MA)
  • 2023: “Page Turner: A Juried Exhibition” at ArtsWorcester (Worcester, MA)
  • 2023: “Her Signature” Group Show by the Massachusetts Women’s Caucus for Art, Main Street Studios, (Fitchburg, MA)
  • 2023: “Hot Art” Joint Group Show by the Massachusetts and Monadnock, NH Pod of Women’s Caucus for Art, DublinArts & Muse Gallery (Dublin, NH)
  • 2023: “Impact: A Member’s Exhibition” by ArtsWorcester and Fitchburg Art Museum (Worcester, MA)
  • 2023: “Celebrating the Figure” Juried Show, ArtWorks Gallery (Ware, MA)
  • 2023: “Coming Together” Group Show continued (4 pieces), Sitka Gallery South (Newport, RI)
  • 2022: “Coming Together” Group Show of Women’s Caucus for Art (10 pieces), New Dawn Arts Center (Ashburnham, MA)
  • 2022: “Water Media” Juried Group Show, Oregon Society of Artists (Portland, OR)
  • 2019: “Radical Revolution” Juried Group Show by Siren Nation, Portland City Hall (Portland, OR)

SELECT PRINT + LICENSING

  • 2024: Papernoten Licensed and Authorized Prints
  • 2024: MA DCF Project (licensed print permissions for authorized use in public spaces)
  • 2022: “Meet Me Where There Are No Lines” painting used in Marketing Materials for “Water Media” Group Show
  • 2022: “The #40DayJournalForJustice: Community Artivism” by Alana Garrigues, Strawberry Moon Magazine, Issue 3 (11 art journal pages included)
  • 2022: Still Point Arts Quarterly: Mixing Mediums
  • 2021: Commissioned Illustration for Posthumous Jan Spiller Book Cover; Release Date to Follow (est. 2025)

 

Teaching Projects + Presentations

  • 2024: Meditative Art Making workshop at the Gale Free Library (Holden, MA)
  • 2024: Panelist: “Women in the Visual Arts” (speaking about Jay DeFeo) with the Women’s Caucus for Art, Massachusetts Chapter: Main Street Studios (Fitchburg, MA)
  • 2023: “Art Journal as Portal for Justice Conversations,” workshop during the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (NHSCA) workshop: “Woven: Gathering at the Intersections,” Sanborn Mills Farm (Loudon, NH)
  • 2022: “Artistry and Poetry of Trees” full-day art and writing workshop: Hoffman Center for the Arts (Manzanita, OR)
  • 2021: Portland Sunday Parkways on behalf of the Children’s Healing Arts Project (CHAP PDX) art lesson via Facebook Live (September)
  • 2021: “Illustration: What Tells a Story?” for Children’s Healing Arts Project (CHAP PDX): Visual Storytelling workshop for Art Club kids, delivered via Zoom
  • 2020: Portland Sunday Parkways on behalf of the Children’s Healing Arts Project (CHAP PDX) art lesson via Facebook Live (June)
  • 2019-2021: “Nonfiction Observation for Fiction Writers (or: Why Spying is Good for You)” creative writing workshop: South Bay Creative Writers Group, February 2019; Children’s Book Writers of Los Angeles, June 2021
  • 2016-2018: “Story Sprouts: Create a Collective Story” workshops for kids, in collaboration with co-facilitator N.A. Windsor: Girl Scouts of Los Angeles Summer Camp, June 2017; International School of Los Angeles, Los Feliz Campus, March 2016, West Valley Campus, June 2018; Jefferson Elementary School, 2016
  • 2014-2017: “Story Sprouts” Co-Founder, Co-Facilitator: full day intensive writing workshops (Torrance, CA)
  • 2013-2019: Hands on Art Elementary School Docent (Redondo Beach, CA)
  • Assorted Editing/Revising and Creative Non-Fiction workshops

Creative Initiatives

  • 2021-2023: Sustainable Artist conversations, Brave Creative art experiences, Books Together artist reading group, and Solstice and Equinox Virtual Art Gallery Shows: all initiatives for the {within} artist collective (active dates shown)
  • 2020 (founded): Journal for Justice: art journal practice and social media challenge designed to enhance an artist’s relationship with social justice and activism
  • 2013-2017: Story Sprouts Co-Founder; annual writing workshop for the Children’s Book Writers of Los Angeles members and friends
  • 2011-2014: Writercize: “exercises to inspire word play, hone the craft of the written word and bulldoze writer’s block for authors, bloggers, poets, freelancers, teachers, students, dreamers and writers of all kind,” named an eCollegeFinder Top 75 blog; more than 225k views

Interviews + Media Coverage

  • 2024: Panelist: “Women in the Visual Arts” (speaking about Jay DeFeo) with the Women’s Caucus for Art, Massachusetts Chapter: Main Street Studios (Fitchburg, MA)
  • 2023: Bait/Switch Magazine, Summer Issue, Flora/Fauna, Interview by Lu Valena
  • 2023: “The Art Friend Show” podcast and Instagram live interview by Annamieka Hopps
  • 2022: “Holding Space” on “Creativing Unearthing” podcast with Host Emma Freeman
  • 2022: Oregon ArtsWatch (March): excerpt from “Hoffman Center for the Arts reflects Manzanita couple’s love of arts and community” by Jordan Essoe, which covered the Hoffman three-person show centered around Trees (one painter, one sculptor, one cabinet-maker) as part of the history article:

“Intricately detailing the lyrical patterns of a tree trunk’s interior anatomy, Garrigues wants to imagine and map the lifelines of trees that were never allowed to reach maturity. As a kind of palmistry for the missing years of dead landscapes, the artworks immediately summon the images of the countless serialized stumps and woodland graveyards encountered when driving from Portland to Manzanita.

For her largest pieces, Garrigues repurposed plywood that used to be part of her sister’s home. She is interested not only in the family provenance of that wood, but also its relationship to the timber industry and the fact that plywood is typically harvested from trees no older than 30 to 35 years.

‘Really what I’m interested in is the stories that these trees can carry,’ Garrigues said. ‘You can see not only the age of the trees through the rings, but also the quality of the soil and the water or if there were fires in the area – all of this information that the trees hold onto.'”

Writing: Publications

  • 2024: “Let Us Meet Upon Midday…” in “Voice of the Moon” poetry anthology, edited by Katie Norris
  • 2023: “Only the Bones” poem by Alana Garrigues, interview of Alana by Lu Valena, Bait/Switch Magazine, Summer Issue: Flora/Fauna
  • 2022: Guest Co-Editor, Author: “The #40DayJournalForJustice: Community Artivism,” Strawberry Moon Magazine, Issue 3: Art and Activism
  • 2015: “Kayla Wayman, Junior Time Traveler: Lost in the Stream” (winner of the Story Monster Royal Dragonfly Grand Prize): co-editor, co-writer, co-producer
  • 2014: “Story Sprouts: Voice”: co-editor, co-writer, co-producer
  • 2013: “Story Sprouts”: co-editor, co-writer, co-producer
  • 2010-2016: The Beach Reporter (600+ articles, with some journalism cross-posted to The Daily Breeze)

Arts Training and Education

Other Notable Art and Writing Teachers and Mentors: Linda Aman, Erna van Dyk, Lala Ragimov, N.A. Windsor, Lyssa Tall Anolik

Community Involvement

I have been honored to submit artwork and participate in the following community-based projects:

  • 2024: 6000 Circles project and Massachusetts installation, a collaboration between The Calling, the Women’s Caucus for Art, and assorted organizations and individuals: participating artist, March-November (traveling exhibit)
  • 2023: Hudson Armory Project Community Mural: participating preparatory artist
  • “Marks 4 Their Lives” global art initiative in memory of the children lost in the Holocaust, founded by Lori Arbel, ongoing (submitted artwork in 2020 and 2021)
  • 2023: “Art for a Cause” World Collage Day initiative by Jennifer Wilkin Penick, Georgetown Arts and Humanities and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Art Community Facilitation

2021-2023: facilitator of the {within} artist collective

Founded by Daphne Cohn in 2019 as the Creativity Habit Collective, I joined {within} community in 2020, and was invited to partner with her in 2021. At that time, the name changed again to {within} artist collective. In 2022, Daphne moved onto new projects focused on writing and movement, and I took the helm as sole facilitator.

For two years, we and then I held sacred space for artists and makers approximately 10-12 times each and every month, meeting via Zoom, building deep and meaningful life-long connections and collaborations between artists around the world. I closed the collective in 2023, as many artists found their schedules shifting as pre-pandemic responsibilities returned.

Stay tuned for community and collective gathering spaces and opportunities to return in new forms.

Please reach out to inquire about exhibitions, workshops, collaborations, and community events. I love to work together to bring more art and creativity into the world!

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