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Ecological Artist - activist works concerning water quality, availabilty and rights.
Krisanne Baker Exhibitions/Bio/Publications/Lectures
Multimedia work concerning environmental issues
of water quality, water availability, and water rights
plus 25 years of painting exhibition.
BFA-painting, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA-Visual Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Adjunct Professor of Digital Media at the Department for Performing & Visual Arts, University of Maine, Farmington, Maine
2011
‘Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams)’ digital video concerning water quality and corrupt water systems screening at:
Official Selections – Environmental Film/Video Shorts or Experimental Film/Video Shorts: (cont. from 2010 below)
• Greening the Beige Environmental Films at Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China, November
• CamboFEST, International Premiere of ‘Upstream to Downstream’, Phnom Phen, Cambodia, March
• Uist Eco Film Festival, Taigh Chearsabaugh Arts Center, Scotland, April 29 – May 1
• Geography of Hope Film Festival & Ecology Conference, Point Reyes Research Station, Point Reyes, CA, February
‘The Delicate Balance of BlueGreen (Algae) multimedia painting and digital video projection installation at
‘Remake, ReUse, ReNew’, Marygrove College Art Gallery, Oct. – Nov., Detroit, MI
Planet Moving, Algae Water Column Installation, ‘Seeking Balance’ 7’ high stacked, up-cycled glass jars and algae water samples, accompanying water quality/energy live public presentation @ EcoMaine Festival in conjunction with 350.org, Sept. 24, Portland, ME
Hydromemories.com, an on-line and traveling exhibition of international installation works concerning water;
Hydromemories.com is based in Berlin, Germany
Emery Arts Community Gala, inaugural exhibition of new community arts space,
Oil & phosphorous chemical text on canvas, September, Farmington, ME
‘The Delicate Balance of BlueGreen (Algae) multimedia painting and digital video projection installation at‘Nature Nourishes’, Environmental & Ecological Art, ArtSpace, Aug. 2011, Hartford, CT Catalogue pub.: ISBN-10: 1463715757
‘World Water Crises’ digital video at ‘SCINEMA Festival of Film Science, August 2011, Canberra, Australia
Medomak River Project, Group Exhibition, Oil on unprimed canvas, Downtown Gallery, July, Washington, ME
‘Cultural Fabric’ Artist-in-Residence Community Art Project for Colby College Pugh Center, June – Sept., 2011, Waterville, ME
‘SERVE & PROJECT’ (traveling collaborative exhibition) utilizing the arts to promote civic engagement, cultural understanding and positive social change – 3 ink & water drawings of glasses of water vs. bottled water on napkins, April – May, 2011, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
‘Works on Paper’, 3 rusted staple drawings from the ‘Regenerentropic’ series, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine,
January 14 – February 18, 2011
‘The Last Book’ Digital environmental artist collaborative book with Luis Camnitzer, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public
Library, February 2 - May 29, 2 (traveling exhibition from Buenes Aires, Argentina [2008] and Zurich, Switzerland [2010]).
2010 ‘World Water Crises: Potential Effects/Cumulative Effects’, ‘Water Matters: Women & Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration’,
traveling exhibition, Cascade Meadow Wetlands and Science Center, Rochester, MN,
digital projections: water art activism --dvd, November 19 - December 11
‘Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams) digital video concerning water quality and corrupt water systems screening at:
• Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, ME, July 14 & 17th
• Maine International Film Festival –By-the-Sea, Bar Harbor, ME - September 19 & 20 screenings plus Director’s Talk
• Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, screening with C. Chavannes’ feature documentary‘Living Upstream’, Aug. 2
• New England Film Festival, September – October 15 – Audience Award for Best Experimental Film Short Award
‘Green Too: With the Earth In Mind’ site specific sculptural installation of ‘Pawtuxent River/Chesapeake Bay Water Column’ at
AnnMarie Garden & Sculpture Park (in association with the Smithsonian), Dowell, MD, July – October, 2010
‘Eroded Earth’ Krisanne Baker & Joel LeVasseur ecological drawing & printmaking investigations at The Garage, San Diego, CA
“What Matters Most” Ecoartspace benefit, Exit Art, New York, NY
'Water S(our)ce' Gwinnett Environmental Center, Atlanta, GA,
Site-specific installation of ‘Chattahoochee River Water Colomn’, April 3 – April 28
'Women & Water Rights' curated by Lucy Lippard, University of Michigan, March 4 – March 25,
'World Water Crises: Potential Effects/Cumulative Effects', 1:52 DVD on water quality, availability, and rights
'The Last Book’ Collaborative with Luis Camnitzer, March 10 – July 31, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
Site-specific installation of 'Saco River Water Column', 'Practicing What We Preach: Maine Art Educators’,
Saco Museum, Saco, ME
'Postcards from the Edge', Visual AIDS benefit, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY
2009 'World Water Crises: Potential Effects/Cumulative Effects', 1:52 DVD on water quality, availability, and rights
Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, The Electric Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
'World Water Crises: Potential Effects/Cumulative Effects', 1:37 dvd activist loop
on water quality, availability, and rights
Premiere screening, Atlantic Highlands FilmOne Festival, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
'Empty the Fridge', multimedia drawing exhibit, Portland, ME
'Sea of Seas', digital media art collaborative with media artist Orly Aviv,
The Slade Research Center, at the University College in London, UK
'Ecological Art', featured artist, Waldoboro Public Library community exhibit, Waldoboro, ME
'Earth and Water', featured artist, Sea Studio, Tenants Harbor, ME
‘Filthy’, Ecological Art Group Installations, an environmental group invitational of multimedia work produced by
Plastic Fantastic, Studio 34, Philadelphia, PA,
http://bobbileehitchon.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/plastic-fantastics-filthy-at-studio-34/
feed://filthyartshow.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
'Ecofuturist International', on-line exhibit of 11 international eco-artists/ subversive ecological work
“What's in YOUR Water?” http://ecofuturist.org/ecoartaction/index.html
including publication of the essay ‘Ecological Art as Gift’ (abstract - fulltext available - e-mail request)
Visual AIDS Benefit, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
Gateway Gallery, Scholarship Auction Benefit, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Farnsworth Museum Invittional Auction Benefit, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
2008 Drawing Room Benefit, Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME
Franklin Street Artist Space, Group Exhibition, Biddeford, ME
‘What’s in YOUR Water?’: ‘Regenerentropic’ Waterworks, MFA Exhibition, TW Wood Gallery,
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
‘The Last Book’, digital environmental artist collaborative book, National Library, Buenes Aires, Argentina
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Residency Exhibition, Montpelier, VT
‘Tread Lightly’, Environmental Art at Waterfall Center for the Arts, Belfast, ME
2007 Space Gallery, Group Exhibition, Portland, ME
The Drawing Room, ‘Split’, Portland, ME
‘RISD in Maine’, RISD Alumni invitational at Waterfall Center for the Arts, Belfast, ME
Artists’ Space Benefit, ‘One Thousand Nights’, New York, NY
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Residency Exhibitions, Montpelier, VT
Backroads Gallery, Summer Invitational, Damariscotta, ME
2006 Artists Space, New York, NY
The Drawing Room, ‘Openings’, Portland, ME
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Residency Exhibition, Montpelier, VT
ARTSPACE Gallery, Rockland, ME
Backroads Gallery, Invitational, Damariscotta, ME
Maine Art Gallery, featured artist, Wiscasset, ME
ARTSPACE Gallery, Three Featured Artists, Rockland, ME
2005/06 Lincoln Street Center for the Arts, Rockland, ME
2004/05 gWatson Gallery, Stonington, ME
2004/05 Backroads Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2004/05 Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
2003 Lincoln Street Center for the Arts, Rockland, ME
Atrium Gallery, Waldo Theater, Waldoboro, ME
2002/03 Backroads Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
2001 Gateway Gallery, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1988 Monmouth College Gallery, 'Sybaritic Paintings', solo exhibition, Monmouth, NJ
1985 Graham Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Alfred C. Glassell Gallery, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1982 Galeria Cenci, RISD European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
1982 Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Graduate Exhibition, Providence, RI
Publications:
Eco Futurist International, on-line gallery and publication of
“Ecological Art As Gift” abstract, 2009,
http://www.ecofuturist.org/ecoartaction/statement.html
Lectures:
“Ecological Art As Gift”, Cumbria University, Carlisle, UK,
International Visual Sociology Association, 2009.
PRESS:
‘A Water-Themed Art Exhibit: Rivers of Regeneration’ ‘women from around the world’ in Star Tribune, March 4, 2010, Mary Abbe
‘Women & Water: Rivers of Regeneration’ March 2010 in Women’s Press, Norma Smith Olsen
‘Women & Water: Rivers of Regeneration’, “Making Waves” March 2010 in University of MI Alumni News, Sally Fling
‘Saco River Water Column’, 2010 ‘Art Teachers Create’, Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram March 1, 2010, Daniel Kany
‘Saco River Water Column’, 2010 http://knox.villagesoup.com/ae/story/midcoast-teachers-at-saco-museum/300878, Dagney Ernest
‘Schulykill River Water Column’, 2009 http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2009/08/11/paper-or-plastic-a-qa-with-two-filthy-artists/
‘Filthy Art: An Interview with Krisanne Baker & Maggie Nowinski’ in the Philadelphia Weekly, August 16, 2009, Bobbi Lee Hitchon
‘Green Screen Environmental Film Festival Aims to Educate City at Electric Lodge’ in The Daily Bruin, November 19, 2009, Celina Carroll
‘Baker’s Eco-art heads to California’ (Green Screen Environmental Film Festival) The Herald Gazette, November 12, 2009, Dagney Ernest
Long Horizons: An Exploration of Art + Climate Change – a collection of personal reflections about art, artists, and climate change –
Commissioned by the British Council and curated by Julie’s Bicycle featuring contributions from Antony Gormley, Jay Griffiths, Tim Jackson, Diana Liverman, and KT Tunstall. http://www.britishcouncil.org/climatechange-longhorizons.htm
‘Potential Effects/Cumulative Effects: World Water Crises’, Planet Forward digital media share, George Washington University,
http://www.planetforward.org/video/potential-effects-cumulative?xg_source=activity
Eco Futurist International, on-line gallery and publication of “Ecological Art As Gift” abstract, 2009 + Subversive Eco-Art Sculptural Installation.'What's In YOUR Water?' http://www.ecofuturist.org/ecoartaction/statement.html
Lecture: ‘Ecological Art As Gift: A Means To Facilitate Postive Changes in the World Water Crises’, Cumbria University, Carlisle, UK,
International Visual Sociology Association, 2009.
‘Educate and Create’ review in The Sun Journal, January 24, 2008
‘New Show at the Maine Art Gallery’, review of ‘Color and Motion’ in The Coastal Journal, September 21, 2006
Scholarships/Merits:
• Summer 2009, Scholarship Recipient,
Beginning Glassblowing with Pablo Soto
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine;
• Fall 2003, Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship to
Tokyo and Shimabara, Japan.
Immersion experience in culture, language, education and art,
with curriculum development and implementation through Spring 04.
• Summer 2002, Maine Arts Commission grant recipient,
Artist-in-Residency session at
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Edgecombe, Maine;
• Summer 2001, Surdna Foundation Scholarship Recipient to
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
Continued studies in painting, mixed media encaustic collage.
Education and Experience
2006-2008 • Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts;
2003 • Post graduate studies through Seattle Pacific University/Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship;
2002 • Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Newcastle, Maine;
Ongoing • Workshop participation at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine;
Since 1996 • Full-time Fine Arts Instructor at Medomak Valley High School, Waldoboro, Maine
(curriculum: drawing, painting, ceramics, foundations of art, design, collage, non-toxic printmaking, & video);
2006/07 • Life Drawing Instructor at Lincoln Street Center for the Arts, Rockland, Maine;
2006 • Printmaking Co-operative Member, Lincoln Street Center for the Arts, Rockland, Maine;
1983 • Artist-in-Residence, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX;
1982 • Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting;
1981-82 • European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Extended Study in Rome, Italy;
• 15 Years experience of private and public art instruction
• Exhibiting regularly in a variety of group and solo shows in the New York and New England area over 25 years;
• Works of art in private collections in Italy, Japan, and throughout the United States.
