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  GLORIA BORNSTEIN
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Proposal for Brightwater Treatment Center, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
   
  Education
1979 MA Psychology, Antioch University, Seattle, WA
1976 Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
1962 Printmaking with SW Hayter, Atelier 17, Paris, France
1958 BA in Art and Education, Hunter College, New York
   
  Professional Experience, Commissions
2008
Sentinels, Fire Station 10 Center, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA.
2008
Sculptures at Mauna Kea Bluffs, Hawaii.
2008-10
Walk to the Mountain, Harborview Hospital, University of Washington, 4Culture, Seattle, WA.
2008
Proposal for Brightwater Treatment Center, 4Culture, Seattle, WA.
2007
Proposal for University of Colorado Medical Center, Colorado Council for
the Arts, CO.
2007
Proposal for Mc Laren Park, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA.
2007
Proposal for Daedalus Labyrinth, Long Beach Arts Council, Long Beach,
CA.
2006
Monument to the Last Barn, Emma Prusch Park, San Jose, CA, San Jose Office of Cultural Affair.
2003
Field of Wishes, Olympic College, Shelton, Washington, Washington State Arts Commission.
2003 Recharge Chambers, Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center, Renton, WA. Public art 4Culture, WA.
2002
Neototems Childrens Garden, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs.
2002
Speed the Plow, Puyallup Rail Station, Puyallup, WA, Sound Transit.
2001
Lineup, Celebration Park, WA. Federal Way Arts Commission, WA.
1998
From One to Z, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, Washington State Arts Commission.
1996
Hickory Dickory Clock, Tokyo, Japan (with Azabu Juban Neighborhood Arts Association).
1995
International Fountain & Plaza, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA , Seattle Arts Commission, WA.
1995
Neototems, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, Seattle Arts Commission.
1991
Shore Viewpoints, Seattle, WA, Seattle Arts Commission.
1990
Banishing the Poets, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York.
1982 Permutations on the I Ching, Alexis Hotel, Seattle, WA.
   
  Public Art Planning and Design Experience
2005 Lead artist for Fire Station 10 Center: Commissioned by the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA to develop the arts plan, “Different Voices, One Community”, that identified locations for other artists and a proposal for the artwork, Sentinels.
2001 Potlatch Trail Master Plan, Seattle WA: Commissioned by the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to develop “Artwork Concept Plan for the Trail Connecting Elliott Bay and South Lake Union” for a city-wide walking-bike trail.
2001 Sound Transit, Puyallup Rail Station, Puyallup, WA: Commissioned by Sound Transit to develop a comprehensive art plan that included a sculpture garden and revitalized the historic downtown.
1991-93 Lead Artist for the Seattle Center International Fountain and Park area: Commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission to develop the Arts Plan for a mixed-use park that includes The Childrens Theater, Experience Music Project, and Key Arena.
   
  Selected One Person Exhibitions
2002
Gloria Bornstein: Still Life, Documents Northwest, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1999
Gloria Bornstein, Retelling 1975-1998, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1994
Chatter, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1990
Playing Alive , Fuller-Elwood Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989
Works in Progress, Fuller-Elwood Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988
Gloria Bornstein, Fuller-Elwood Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Columns: A Narration of Past & Current Events with Characters Dislodged, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
1980
Soupkitchenwork, Seattle Arts Commission, WA
1977 Public Document, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
   
  Selected Invitational Group Exhibitions
2003 Contemporary Art: Recent Aquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York
2001 The Elwood Collection, Washington State University of Art, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Celebrities: Figures of Worship, Fame, Fortune, Heroism, & Infamy, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
1995 Latent August: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, National Historical Society, SF, CA Agents of Change; New Views of Northwest Women, Washington State Convention Center Visions of Seattle, Seattle, WA
1994 Public Interventions, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1987 E Pluribus Unum, Homes for Art, 911 Contemporary Arts And Resource Center, Seattle, WA
   
  Teaching and Related Experience
2005 Affiliated Faculty, Public Art Program, University of Washington, WA
2004 Artist in Residence , Pilchuk Glass School, WA
2002-04 Instructor, Sculpture Department, University of Washington, WA
1991-2005 Invited Lecturer, University of Washington Public Art Program, WA
1998 Invited Lecturer, Western Washington University, WA
1980-81 Instructor, Visual Performance Art, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. Coordinator of The Interdisciplinary Performance Art Program, Cornish College, Seattle
1980-81
Video Producer, Co-Owner of Intermedia Inc. Seattle, WA
1980-81 COCA, Board of Directors, Seattle, WA
1976-78 and/or Gallery, Board of Directors, Seattle, WA
   
  Selected Collections
  The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
  King County Arts Commission Collection , Seattle, WA
  Washington State University, Elwood Print Collection, Pullman, WA
  Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA, 1998, 1996
   
  Honors, Awards, Grants
2004-05 Design Excellence Award, Fire Station 10 Replacement, Seattle Design Commission
2005
4Culture Art Planning and Site-specific website, Seattle, WA
2005
Lead artist for Fire Station 10 Center, Seattle, WA
2005
Los Angeles Police Department Public Art Program’s Police Headquarters Facility Roster, CA
2004
Office of Cultural Affairs Artists Roster, WA
2002,04
RACC Artists Roster, Portland, OR.
2001
King County Artists Special Projects, Seattle, WA
2001
Artists Trust GAP Award, WA
1998
Sound Transit Artist Roster, Seattle, WA, Seattle Arts Commission Artist Roster, Seattle, WA
1993,95
Seattle Artists Award, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1991
Lead Artist for the International Fountain and Park area, Seattle, WA
1990
Artist Trust Visual Arts Award, Seattle, WA
1990 Art Matters Award, New York, NY
   
  Books and Video Documentation
  Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest, page 142, International Book Productions, 2003
  Still Life, Gloria Bornstein, Tara Young, Seattle Art Museum Brochure, 2002
  Gloria Bornstein, Retelling, 1975-1998, Bellevue Art Museum Catalogue, 1999
  Lure of the Local, Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, Lucy Lippard, New Press, 1998
  Smiles, Azabu Juban Neignborhood Arts Catalogue, 1996
  Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, edited by Suzanne Lacy, Bay Press, 1995
  Washington Voices in Contemporary Sculpture Catalogue, Bellevue Art Museum, 1995
  New Towns of the World, Jukan Kawawadoka, Information Design Laboratory, Hakuhoda Inc
  Commissions, 1996
  KCTS, Gloria Bornstein, Neototems, 1995
  Public Interventions, Video Documentation, ICA, Boston, 1994
  KCTS, Gloria Bornstein, Gauging, 1994
  Interpretive Interventions, Kenneth Helphand, “Magic Markers”, Yearbook in Landscape Architecture:
  Historic Preservation, Richard Austin, et. al. eds, NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993, pp 95-102
  Yokohama Public Arts Fair, catalog, 1993
  Historic Preservation, Richard Austin, et. al. eds, NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993, pp 95-102
  Art & its Audience: A Public Experiment, In Public: Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission catalog, Eleanor Heartney, 1992
  Interface/Innerface, Interpreting the Real, Exhibition Catalogue, Elizabeth Bryant, 1991
  no mans land, Socrates Sculpture Park, catalogue, 1993
  First Impressions: Northwest Monotypes, Seattle Art Museum, Catalogue, 1989
  Don’t Run From a Man Named Climax, Gloria Bornstein, 1986, Artist’s Book
  Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change, Lucy Lippard, Dutton, 1984
  Northwest Projects, A Documentary Catalog of a Competition And Series Of Exhibitions, and/or Notes, 1977
   
  Selected Bibliography
  From Four Milleniums of Jewish Cultural Life, Grace Glueck, The New York Times, June 27, 2003
  Gloria Bornstein: “Still Life” At the Seattle Art Museum, Susan Platt, Artdish, July 10, 2002
  Seattle Center’s whale numbers grow, Jeri Field, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 2, 2000
  Bornstein a provocative, intelligent artist, Robin Updike, The Seattle Times, April 29, 1999
  Gloria Bornstein: In and Out of Public Space, Ron Glowen, Art Access, May 1999
  Gloria Bornstein’s “Retelling” demonstrates her forceful range, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5-7-99



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