Jane Orleman

Jane Orleman
101 North Pearl St • Ellensburg,WA 98926

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Grew up in New York state.
Attended Universities in New York, Florida, Oregon
and Washington.
Received a BA in Art from Central Washington University in 1971.


Grants, Fellowships & Honors 12 include the following:

2008 2007 2007	The Larson Gallery Arts Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts, Yakima WA (view photos) 2007 Leonard Thayer Small Grants Program, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA - through CWU Art Department to produce a color brochure for exhibit. The Theo Van Gogh Award, Gallery One Visual Art Center, Ellensburg, WA
2001 1998	Artist trust GAP Grant, Seattle, WA University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Visiting artist grant.
1998	The Paul Allen Foundation, Seattle, WA - Full funding to the Child Welfare League of America for publication of "Telling Secrets: An Artist’s Journey Through Childhood Trauma".
1994 1994 1992	Ucross Foundation - Four Week Residency, Clearmont, WY Washington State University, Pullman WA - Visiting artist grant. Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY - Funding to continue a series of paintings on the subject of childhood trauma.

Solo Exhibits 30 include the following:

2007 2007 2001 2000	Dragon’s Egg: Gift of the Flaming Pearl, Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA – Images: 01 \| 02 Beneath the Canopy of Heaven, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Who do you think you are: A Multiple Choice Answer, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA Self Revealed: A 30 -Year Retrospective, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
1999	The Bones Remember, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
1996 1994 1994	Once Upon A Time, Long Long Ago, Boise State University, Boise, ID Learning To Fly, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR An Artist Looks At Family Violence, University Center Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
1994 1994 1994	Telling Secrets, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY Metamorphosis, Washington State University, Gallery Two, Pullman, WA An Artist's Journey Through Childhood Sexual Abuse, WSU, Compton Union Gallery, Pullman, WA
1993 1993 1992 1992 1992 1982 1980 1972	Smiling on the Outside, Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA Telling Secrets, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA New Works, The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Seattle University Women’s Center, Seattle, WA Telling Secrets, Ellensburg Community Art Gallery, Ellensburg, WA Birthnight Celebration, Ellensburg Community Art Gallery, Ellensburg, WA Eve’s Eternal Story, Crew Gallery/Studio, Seattle, WA Art for the Heart, The Source, Portland, OR

Featured Exhibits 8 include the following:

1999	Artists From Ucross: An Invitational Exhibit of Fellowship Artists, U W Art Museum, Laramie, WY (Catalog)
1995	Ex Voto: Art As Invocation, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (Catalog)
1994 1993	Self Portrayal, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA SHOCK, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Movies Featuring Paintings

2004	"Inside Out," Cindy Kline, Director and Producer, 43:28, NYC, NY

Invitational Exhibits 41 include the following:

2007 2006 2003 2003 2002	Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, CWU Alumni Exhibition, Crossroads and Connections, Ellensburg, WA Chase Gallery, Artist Trust Grant Recipients, Spokane, WA Yard Art, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR Gallery One, 35 Artists / 35 Years, Ellensburg, WA Regional Center For Women in the Arts, Women Book Artists and Illustrators, West Chester, PA
2001 2001	Children’s Museum 2nd Generation, Body of work: expressions of the self, Portland, OR (Catalog) Corvallis Art Center, 25 Years of CALYX Art, Corvallis, OR
1997 1996 1995	Cheney Cowles Museum, Sponsor, Two Artists One Bed, Spokane, WA Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Yard Art, Bellingham, WA Washington State Convention and Trade Center, 1995 Northwest International Women's Conference, "Agents of Change: New Views by Northwest Women", Seattle, WA
1993 1992	CALYX/Women's Visions, Corvallis, OR University Galleries, Artist Trust Grant Recipients Exhibit, Touring Show, Cheney, WA
1991 1989	Boise Art Museum, Yard Art, Boise, ID (Catalog) Tacoma Art Museum, 100 Years of Washington Art: New Perspectives, Tacoma, WA (Catalog)
1989 1988 1985 1984 1970	Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Crafts: Then and Now, Tacoma, WA (Catalog) Bellevue Art Museum, Celebration: Especially for Children, Bellevue, WA Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR Evergreen State College, Northwest Women's Cultural Convention, Olympia, WA Cheney Cowles Museum, General Rufus King Memorial Exhibition, Spokane, WA

Juried Exhibits 100 include the following:

2005 2004	Allied Arts Gallery, 38th Annual Juried Art Show, Yakima, WA Award 2004 Tacoma Art Museum, Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise, Tacoma, WA Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Honorable Mention (Catalog)
2003 2000 1996	Woman Made Gallery, Woman, Trauma & Visual Expression, Chicago IL Matrix Gallery, Women Consuming, Women Consumed, Sacramento, CA Award Smithtown Township Arts Council, The Burning Bra and Other Bedside Tales: A 90’s View of the Feminist Movement, St. James, NY
1995 1994	Moreau Galleries, St. Mary's College, Women and Fear, Notre Dame, IN University of Oregon, Erb Memorial Union Gallery, ACLU Uncensored Celebration, See No Evil, Eugene, OR
1993	Pacific Lutheran University, UNITY Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Annual Conference, Tacoma, WA
1993 1993 1992 1992 1992	Tacoma Art Museum, About Face, Tacoma, WA. Juror, Gaylen Hanson. Art & Action, Project Landscape and Cityscape, Los Angeles, CA Kohler Arts Center, The Invention of Childhood, Sheboygan, WI ARC Gallery, Woman As Survivor, Chicago, IL Eastern New Mexico University Art Gallery, Creating Ourselves, Portales, NM. Award. Juror, Lucy Lippard (Catalog)
1991 1991 1982 1970	Matrix Gallery, Women Artists, Sacramento, CA Gallery Concord, Men by Women, Concord, CA Tacoma Art Museum, 12th Annual Painting and Sculpture Show, Tacoma, WA Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Tactiles USA, Seattle, WA

Readings, Presentations and Workshops 42 presentations since 1988 include the following:

2006 2003 2000 1999 1998 1998 1994	Washington State Arts Commission, Dick & Jane’s Spot, Ellensburg, WA Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR Child Welfare Institute, Provo, UT University of Calgary, 3 day residency, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Central Washington University, The Washington Art Education Association Annual Conference, Ellensburg, WA
1994	XXVI AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors & Therapists) Annual Conference, Workshop. Louisville, KY
1994 1994 1993 1993	University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY Washington State University, One Week Lecture Residency, Pullman, WA Empathy Experience for Sexual Offenders, Walla Walla, WA Women’s Caucus for Art, National Conference, Panel Participant, "Difficult Images/Difficult Issues: Who is the Real Censor." Seattle, WA
1992	St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Empathy Training Seminar for Sexual Offenders, Yakima, WA
1990 1990	Davis Symposium 1990: Creativity, a three day event, Yakima, WA Tacoma Art Museum, 100 Years of Washington Art, Collector's Seminar, Tacoma, WA

Publications 42 venues since 1991 include the following:

2002	1st Friday the Arts Monthly, Vol. 3 #12, Dick Elliott Awarded Fellowship, article by Jane Orleman, Ellensburg, WA
2001	Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Summer, Vol. 20:1, Corvallis, OR
2001	Cracking The Earth, A 25th Anniversary Anthology from CALYX, Corvallis, OR
1999	Woman’s Journal, Vol. 7 #11, Painting Your Secrets: Healing Sexual Abuse, Photos, Portland, OR
1998	Telling Secrets: An Artist’s Journey Through Childhood Trauma, Jane Orleman, author & artist, 103 color plates, The Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC
1995	Writing Our Way Out of the Dark, An Anthology by Child Abuse Survivors, Elizabeth Claman, Ed., Queen of Swords Press. Cover Art and Essay: My Life As Artist. Photos. Eugene, OR
1994	Art Therapy, Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, Vol. 11:1; An Artist’s Journey Through Childhood Sexual Abuse; 4 page visual essay, Mundelein, IL
1993 1993	Northwest Review, XXXI-93, a 12 page visual essay, Eugene, OR The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, May #209, A Death-Defying Act, The Work of Jane Orleman; a four page visual essay, Chapel Hill, NC
1992	Sojourner, Vol. 17:6; Featured twenty-two paintings; Jamaica Plain, MA
1991-1998	Treating Abuse Today, Many covers and features; Seattle, WA
1991	Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Winter, Vol. 13:3; Corvallis, OR

Art Historian's Perspective

Fall 2002	Feminist Studies, Vol. 28 #3, Challenging The Gendered Categories of Art And Art Therapy: The Paintings Of Jane Orleman, Janet Marstine, Cover & 8 images in color, UM, College Park, MD
5-3-01	The College Of Arts & Humanities Faculty Speaker’s Series, Challenging the Gendered Categories Of Art & Art Therapy: The Paintings Of Jane Orleman, Paper presented by Janet Marstine, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
10-12-00	National Conference on American Studies, Feminist Practice, Dr. W and the Oeuvre of Jane Orleman: Art or Art Therapy? Paper presented by Janet Marstine, Detroit, MI
2-2000	Essay for 30-Year Retrospective Exhibit, Jane Orleman: Self Revealed, Janet Marstine, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Published by Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
10-97	High Ground, Vol. 3, Two Artist One Bed, Interview by William Folkestad, Photos, Pullman, WA
11-95	Reflex: The Northwest Forum On The Visual Arts, Vol. 9:10, The View East, Art Review, William Folkestad. Photo, Seattle, WA
4-1995	The Forbidden Gaze: Eros and Erotica in the Visual Images of Twelve Contemporary Female Artists, Patricia Place Caldwell, The Union Institute, Photo

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