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LADAWNA WHITESIDE
American
b. Oklahoma
Resides in Arkansas
Education
2017
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference, Kansas City, MO
Art Education Programming for Teachers
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2011
School of Visual Arts New York: Criticism and Writing
2010
MFA Art Institute of Boston
2000
BA University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Teaching, Talks and Visits
2019
M2 Gallery
HER
Bentonville Public Schools (Elementary), Bentonville, AR
Visiting Teaching Artist
Shape + Line + Relationships = Sensitivity
2017
Arkansas Arts Center Contemporaries Group, Little Rock, AR
Underground Community Gallery. Fayetteville, AR
2012-present
Visiting Teaching Artist Arkansas Tech University at Russellville
Drawing, 2 Dimensional Design, Color Design/Theory and Digital Photography
2015-2016
Arkansas Arts Academy and Community Creative Center at Rogers and Fayetteville
Middle School Teaching Artist
2013-2015
Community Creative Center Teaching Artist:
Nadine Baum Studios
Fayetteville, AR
Youth Summer Art Programming:
Spring Break Art Camp/Elementary School
Summer Art Camp/Elementary School
Senior Adult Continuing Education
Painting and Process Workshop/Landscape Abstraction
2013
Argenta Arts Foundation Presentation:
argentaartconnection.org
Forming Language/Developing Visual Literacy
North Little Rock, AR
Academia de Arte – Cienfuegos, Cuba
Residencies
2019
Israel
Land and Sea: Unveiled
2018
Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Yoga RX: Salt, Sand and Soul
India
New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Haridwar, Rishikesh
Nirvana: Infinite Exploration
2017
Voyage 4 Time
Banff, Canada
2013
Instituto Hispana San Miguel de Allende – Guanajuato, Mexico
2009
Red Gate Artist Residency, Beijing People’s Republic of China
The Slade School of Fine Art, Experimental Drawing, London, United Kingdom
Awards
2017
59th Annual Delta Exhibition, Contemporaries Award:
Body: Flesh and Bone, graphite on paper
2010
53rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Grand Award:
Animal Architecture: Drawing Installation, graphite on paper
Townsend Wolfe Gallery at the Arkansas Arts Center
Juror Meredith Ward, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York, NY
Award Supported by John William Linn Endowment Fund
Exhibition Sponsored by Lisenne Rockefeller, Betty M. Brown and
The Andres Simon Memorial Trust, Arkansas Arts Center
2nd Annual Contemporaries Delta Award:
Selected by the Contemporaries Group, Arkansas Arts Center
Selected Exhibitions
2019
M2 Gallery, Little Rock, AR
2018
M2 Gallery Opening, Little Rock, AR
Lincoln Land Community College
Springfield, IL
2017
Red Cat Art Gallery, Bentonville, AR
59th Annual Delta Exhibition
Juror: Betsy Bradley, director of the Mississippi Museum of Art
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Midtown Associates Gallery Space, Bentonville, AR
Fenix Gallery, Walker Stone House, Fayetteville, AR
Underground Community Gallery Space (artist talk/Landscape Empathy), Fayetteville, AR
2016
Survey: Space and Form
Boswell Mourot Fine Art, Little Rock, AR
Artists Lend Support
Santa Monica Studios, Arena I Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Arkansas Tech University Faculty Biannual Norman Hall Gallery at Russellville
2015
Eluvium and Formation: with Ed Pennabaker
Argenta Gallery, North Little Rock, Arkansas
Artists Lend Support Opening, curated by Brian Fender
1stdibs and the New York Design Center, New York, NY
Duane Showroom, New York, NY
Arkansas Art Teacher’s Exhibition, (Juried) Argenta Library Gallery, North Little Rock, AR
2014
The University Of Arkansas Central Office
425 West Capitol, Little Rock
2012
Arkansas Tech University Faculty Biannual, Norman Hall Gallery, Russellville
Landscape Empathy: From the Inside Out, Norman Hall Gallery
Arkansas Tech University, Russellville (solo)
2011
Trans Siberian Art Center, Red Gate Gallery, Trans Siberian Railway: From Moscow to Beijing
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Legacy Exhibition, Petit Jean Mountain, Morrilton, AR (catalog)
Entretejido Concordia, University Of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2010
53rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Townsend Wolf Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock (folio)
Word Translation Project, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Crafting Places, Curator: Garry Holstein, Sugar Gallery, Bentonville, AR
Looking at Our Landscape, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art at the Massey, Bentonville, AR
2009
Red Gate Residency Exhibition, Bei Gao, People’s Republic of China
Project Feed Local, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
Sacred Structures with Teresa Hall, Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
2008
One Planet, One Experiment, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Woman’s Place, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Intervals of Time and Space, River Market Art Space, Little Rock, AR (solo)
2007
Nature Abstracted, Fort Smith Public Library, Fort Smith, AR (solo)
Published Work and Affiliations
2017
Arkansas Times
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Made Volume II
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Member
Arkansas Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Juried) Registry
2011
Studio Visit Magazine, “LaDawna Whiteside” Animal Architecture 18 & 56, 180-181, Volume 13.
Artists: A Conversation
Double Troublets Productions, Directors: Emma and Sarah Bailin
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
2010
The Arkansas Times
2009
The BKD Experience: A Corporate Art Collection of National Consequence
Director: Chris Beckman, Interviewer: Sophie Parker, Collection Curator: Paul Dorrell
Selected Essays and Digital Documentary Recordings
2016
Body: Flesh and Bone (essay)
2014
Salutations (essay)
2013
Early American Abstraction: American Quilt (essay)
2012
Landscape Empathy: From the Inside Out (essay)
Magnetic Field (essay)
Ledges (essay)
American Landscape: Historical Revisions and the Westward Expansion (essay)
2011
Oklahoma: Land and Machines (digital recording)
Road to Highway (digital recording)
John Bird: Biography (documentary interview)
Brian Fender: Biography and the Dick Doc (documentary interview)
Homage to Robert Smithson: Monuments of Seminole County Oklahoma (essay)
Lisette Model: Contrasting Evolutions of Rural and Urban Women (essay)
Selected Reviews
2017
BURNAWAY: The Voice of Art in the South, Feature: High Five: 5 Shows in the South: The 59th Annual Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center – Publication: Atlanta Georgia, June 17, 2017 http://burnaway.org/feature/high-five-5-shows-south-2/ To “disperse and burn away”—a statement about the nature of creativity that compels us to look beyond what merely is and envision what could be.
2012
Portraiture: A Social Anatomy, comparison review between Renaissance Portraits from Donatello to Bellini at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in America Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
2011
SA MI 75 DZ NY 12, Doug Wheeler at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Collections and Public Work
Select Private Collections: Central and Northwest Arkansas
Montauk and New York, New York
Connecticut – Los Angeles, California
Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Boston – Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Greenwood Gearhardt Inc. – Fayetteville, AR
BHK, Brick House Kitchen – artist in residence 2011-2012 Dickson Street, Fayetteville, AR
Acxiom Corporation – New York, NY
BKD CPA and Advisors – Springfield, MO
William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum – Little Rock, AR
THEA Foundation Collection – North Little Rock, AR
Argenta Wealth Management – North Little Rock, AR
The NAMES Project Foundation, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington DC and Atlanta, GA
Interdisciplinary Projects and Practices
Land Institute Salina, Kansas:
American Art Farm Sylphium Seedlings
Collaborative
artstudiolounge.blogspot.com
ALS Artists Lend Support http://artistslendsupport.org/
AMERICANARTFARM.COM http://americanartfarm.com/
Cultural Preservation
Digital Archives: Recordings and Photography
Drawing and Painting
Documentary
Critical and Creative Writing