Resume
EDUCATION
2000 - 2005:
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Post-Bac Studio Arts
University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
BFA Sculpture. Graduated with Honors (2004)
1980 - 1982:
Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, CO
AA Outdoor Education
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2005 – July 2008:
Gallery Manager/Assistant to Director/Studio Artist,
The International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA),
Anchorage, AK
- Coordinate exhibition schedule with artist(s) including hands on assistance with exhibit installation, press releases, and accounting of monthly sales
- Assist Director with Art/Architectural tours and other special events
- Responsible for annual membership renewal
November 1999 – Present:
Art Model, Life Drawing
University of Alaska, Anchorage, the Anchorage Museum and other private studios
March 1995 – September 2008:
Owner & Manager
Alaska Pathways Custom Travel Planning & Office Management, Anchorage, AK
- Provide custom travel itineraries for independent and group travelers to Alaska
- Office manager for small ship cruise
- Courier and guide for wilderness tour companies
- Created independent marketing programs
SPECIAL INTEREST WORKSHOPS
- Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference. Alaska
- Copper River Stories Artist & Writer’s Workshop. Alaska
- Experimental Watermedia/Louise Cadillac. Mexico
- Experimental Watermedia/Mary Todd Beam. Mexico
- Taos Writer's Workshop with Joy Harjo
- US Poets in Mexico with Mark Doty & Martin Espada, Merida
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 El Zaguan Original Innocence. Mixed Media.
2009 EL Zaguan at Historic Santa Fe Foundation. Transitions, Small Paintings.
2008 Bunnell Street Gallery. Homer, AK. Objects of Curiosity, Installation.
2007 Virtu Gallery. Anchorage, AK. Postcards from Zancudo, Paintings.
IGCA Guest Room. Anchorage, AK. Only the Missiles are Singing, Installation
2006 Alaska Pacific University (APU) Grant Hall. Rock, Rice & Beans, Sculpture
IGCA. Anchorage, AK. Family Secrets, Sculpture/installation
2004 Kimura Gallery (UAA). A Safe Place to Mourn, BFA Thesis Exhibition
2003 UAA Campus Gallery. Anchorage, AK. Public Intimates, A collaborative installation
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2007
IGCA Statewide Exhibition. Sculpture. Juror Mark Zirpel
2006
UAA Campus Gallery. No Big Heads. Sculpture. Juror Brad Holland
APU Carr Gottstein Gallery. Splash Drip Deluge. Painting. Juror Garry Kaulitz
IGCA Statewide Exhibition. Painting. Juror Enrique Badaro Nadal
Anchorage Museum, All Alaska Juried Exhibition XXXI. Sculpture. Juror Matthew Drutt
2003
UAA Campus Gallery. No Big Heads. Sculpture. Juror Mary Bates-Neuheuser
IGCA, Rarefied Light. Statewide Photographic Exhibit. Juror Christine Shank
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Clouds Studio. Madrid, NM
IGCA Annual Member Exhibition. Anchorage.
Attachments. IGCA. Anchorage
2007 Salve. IGCA at Out North. Anchorage
Alaska Botanical Garden Fair.
2006 Outside the (Jewelry) Box. Bunnell Street Gallery. Homer.
Skin. IGCA. Anchorage
Best Seat in the House. IGCA & Cyrano’s Theatre Company. Anchorage.
2005 The Salon des Mobile Trailer Supply. Anchorage
IGCA Annual Member Exhibition. Anchorage.
2004 New Center for Contemporary Art. Anchorage.
2003 Something about Barbie. Killer Beads. Anchorage.
2002 The Body Adorned. Bunnell Street Gallery. Homer.
RESIDENCIES
2008 - 2010 El Zaguan Canyon Road. Santa Fe, NM.
2005 Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, VT. Sculpture
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Winning Writers "Cry Me A Bucket" (online war poetry)
2009 Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Cover)
2005 Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Vol. 22, No. 3. Sculpture
2004 Understory UAA Undergraduate Literary Journal. Poetry
2003/02 Ice-Floe International Poetry of the Far North. Poetry.
2002/01 Inklings UAA Undergraduate Literary Journal. Poetry
2000/99 Alaska Women Speak. Several poems and one essay
Images copyright 2000-2011 Brenda J. Roper.
