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EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1981 
  Bachelor of Arts, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1978 
  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 1977 
 
AWARDS

Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, Finalist in Painting, 1990

  Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, Finalist in Painting, 1989
 

National Endowment for the Arts, Painting, Individual Artist Grant, 1987

 

Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Painting, 1983

 

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Summer, 1984 

 

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, First and Second Year Fellowship: 1981–1982, 1982–1983

 

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Fall, 1982 

 

The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, August, 1982

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Lessons in Botany, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME

2007

Sanctuary of Light, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2004
Hook, Line and Sinker, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
Fresh Produce, GASP, Brookline, MA
1995

Seasonal Meditations, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY (catalog)

1993
Elizabeth Awalt, Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany
1990
Yellowstone After Fire, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY
1988
Elizabeth Awalt, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY  
1985
Elizabeth Awalt, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1984
Elizabeth Awalt, East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA 
1983
Elizabeth Awalt, West End Gallery, Provincetown, MA
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Order Insecta, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
 
Free Reign, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
  From a Fixed Point, Regis College, Weston, MA
 

Two Person Show, WOCA Gallery, Southwest Harbor, ME

2007

Various Views of Nature, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME

 

Elizabeth Awalt/Stoney Conley, In Nature, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA

 

From a Fixed Point, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 

2005

Great Buys: Museum Purchases, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 

  Dreaming the Light/Unfolding the Dark, Concord Art Association
2004

Finned and Feathered, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA

 

Gallery Painters, Turtle Gallery, Deere Isle, ME

2003

Inside–Out, Soprafina Gallery, Somerville, MA

 

Maine Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME 

2002

Nature Interpreted, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

1999 Artists at Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College,Chestnut Hill, MA

1998

Boston Public Library Collects, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

1995

Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

  Directors Choice, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
 

Inspired by Nature, Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA

1994 Group Exhibit, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY
  The Art of Watercolor, Luise Ross Gallery, NY

1993

Contemporary Watercolors, Boston College Museum of Art, MA
  American Drawings, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY
  Beyond Description: Images of Nature, G.W. Einstein Co., NY
1992 The University of Notre Dame Friends and Alumni Collect, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (catalog)
1991

Art for Your Collection XXVII, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

Public Territory: Landscape as a Metaphor for Personal Concerns, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990

The Eighties: A Post-Pop Generation, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, (catalog)

1989

Ten Artists–Ten Visions, The Decordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA (catalog)

1988

The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1987

Contemporary Romantic Landscape Painting, Orlando Museum of Art, Loch Haven, FL

1986

A Contemporary View of Nature, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

 

Nature Observed, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

1984

Brave New Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1983

Art of the State, The Decordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA

  

 

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
 

AT&T, Chicago, IL

  

Bank Boston, Boston, MA Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

  

Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

   Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
  

Fidelity Corporation, Boston, MA

 

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,MA

 

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

 

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

 

The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Catalogs:

Sanctuary of Light, Danforth Museum of Art, essay by Katherine French, 2007

 

Seasonal Meditations, foreward by Anne Mac Dougall, 1995

 

The University of Notre Dame Friends and Alumni Collect, catalog from exhibition introduction by Dean A. Porter, PHD, color reproduction, p. 91, 1992 

 

Against the Grain: Images in American Art, catalog to accompany exhibition, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, June 9–September 9, 1991, reproduction p. 5

 

Art of the Eighties: A Post Pop Generation, catalog from exhibit, June–September, p. 3, 1990

 

Neo-Romantics, catalog from exhibit, introduction by Gerrit Henry, 1989

 

Ten-Artists–Ten Visions, catalog from exhibit, introduction by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, 1989, reproduction in postcard form

 

The Face of the Land, catalog from exhibit, June–Sept., 1988

 

Contemporary Romantic Landscape Painting, catalog introduction by Gerrit Henry, Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven, p. 14, 1986

 

Gerrit Henry, Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven, p. 14, 1986

 

A Contemporary View of Nature, introduction by John Yau, 1986

 

Magazines:

Art New England, "New Work by Elizabeth Awalt: Hook, Line and Sinker," Meredith Fife Day, p.29, February/March, 2005 

  

Art in America," Elizabeth Awalt at G.W. Einstein", Paul C. Smith, p. 137–138, reproduction, p. 138, March 1991

  

Provincetown Arts, "Sublime: A philosophical inquiry into the Beautiful, Sublime, & Picturesque", Charles Giuliano

  

Art New England, review of Thomas Segal Exhibit, Charles Guiliano, December, 1985

  

Arts Magazine, Ten Fellowship Artists From the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, John Yau, April, 1983

  

Art New England, "New Work by Elizabeth Awalt: Hook, Line and Sinker," Meredith Fife Day, p.29, February/March, 2005

 

Newspapers:

Boston Sunday Globe, "Bugging Out", Cate McQuaid, July 20, 2008

 

Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Philip Isaacson, August, 2008

 

Boston Sunday Globe, "DeCordova Summer Show Has Questing Spirits", Robert Taylor, B4, July 16, 1989

 

Boston Herald, "Ten separate but Equal Views", Nancy Stapen, July 21, 1989

 

Boston Globe, "Perspectives", Christine Temin, Sept. 17, 1987

 

Boston Globe, "Awalt's Magical Landscapes", Christine Temin, October 24, 1985; "The Open Competition, Controversy Takes the Prize", Temin, September 6, 1985;  "Romantic Landscapes from Six Bay Staters", Temin, February 21, 1985

 

Boston Sunday Globe, "The Year's Ten Best", Christine Temin, December 29, 1985, "New Works Exhibit Signals Change at MFA", Robert Taylor, November 20, 1983

 

 

TEACHING

 

2008

Painting Workshop, Concord Art Association, November 

2006–2007

Lesley University / Art Institute of Boston, Mentor, MFA in Visual Arts Program

2006

Boston College, Painting IV, Visiting Faculty

2005

Concord Art Association, Landscape Painting

2002–2003

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Visiting Faculty-Day School, Observational Painting

1987–2000

Boston College, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, Tenured

1984–1987

Boston College, Instructor, Fine Arts Department

1986 

The Decordova Museum School of Art, Beginning Painting 

1985–1986

The Danforth Museum School, Drawing