KIRSTEN LEE
826 Bower Rd., Kearneysville, WV 25430 | 304-283-4873 | wvhorsetrainer@gmail.com
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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Best in Show, Shades of Autumn APL Members’ Exhibit, Schwab Gallery, Cumberland, MD Training and Travel Grant, WV Dept of Arts, Culture and History Creative Aging for Lifelong Learning Grant, NEA, Aroha Philanthropies, NESAA, WVDACH Artist Marketing Grant, WCDAC, NEA 1st place Emerging Artist, Appalachian Pastel League Online Exhibition Professional Development Grant, WV Dept of Arts, Culture and History Successfully funded Kickstarter Campaign, “Picture Wild Ponies” Puffin Foundation Artist Grant Gasparilla Arts Festival Emerging Artist Award Honorable Mention “Eastern West Virginia Juried Arts Exhibit” |
PUBLICATIONS
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Est 2023 2022 2019 2016 |
“The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Horses for Kids,” Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY “Everyday Art in Line and Wash,” Workbook and Facilitator’s Handbook, self-published “Picture Wild Ponies,” Photographic Art Book, self-published “Midsummer Night’s Dreamcoat,” Altered Couture Artwear Magazine, Summer 2018 Issue, article and art coat |
PUBLIC OUTREACH
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Teacher, “Contour Draw Your Wobbly Wonky World,” Berkeley Arts Expo, Martinsburg, WV “Everyday Art in Line and Wash,” 4-week course for Seniors, Charles Town, WV Designer, Mosaic Murals for Community Art Project, Evitts Run Park, Charles Town, WV “Picture Wild Ponies,” Artist Talk and Activity, Old Charles Town Library, Charles Town, WV “Being an Artist” Career Day, Page-Jackson Elementary School, Charles Town, WV Created Design for Fundraising for Citizen’s Activist Group |
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
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2022 2022 2019-present 2018-present 2018-present 2016-present |
Berkeley Arts Council Board Member Allegheny Arts Council Member Jefferson Arts Council Board Member Appalachian Pastel League Member Jefferson Arts Council Berkeley Arts Council |
EXHIBITIONS
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Shades of Autumn APL Members’ Exhibition, Schwabb Gallery, Cumberland, MD The Message and the Medium, Solo Exhibition, South Jefferson Library, Summit Point, WV The Beauty of it All: Appalachian Pastel League Exhibition, Firehall Gallery, Charles Town, WV Berkeley County, WV: Future, Present, Past, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV The Horse in Art, Juried Exhibit, Artists in Middleburg, Middleburg, VA Through Three Gardens, Collaborative Exhibit, Firehall Gallery, Charles Town, WV Shepherdstown Friday Painters Spring Show, Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, WV Members Show, Artists in Middleburg, Middleburg, VA Berkeley Arts Council Members’ Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Crit Works! Group Exhibit, Evolve Gallery, Shepherdstown, WV Appalachian Pastel League Online Exhibition, Cumberland, MD Crit Works! Group Exhibit, Spotlight Gallery, Charles Town, WV Photo 21 Juried Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Jefferson Arts Council Members Exhibit, Firehall Gallery, Charles Town, WV Art and Earth Juried Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Friday Painters Spring Fling, Long Branch Historic House and Farm, Boyce, VA Staying In/Breaking out, MAC Ice House Gallery, Bath, WV Frozen Flow, Collaborative Exhibit, Spotlight Gallery, Charles Town, WV Berkeley Arts Council Members’ Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Haiku! Firehall Gallery, Charles Town, WV The Expressive Equine, Solo Exhibit, Spotlight Gallery, Charles Town, WV Eastern West Virginia Juried Arts Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Emergence, Allegheny Arts Council, Cumberland, MD Berkeley Arts Council Summer Members’ Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Appalachian Pastel League Exhibition, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD Art at the Mill Spring Juried Exhibit, Millwood, VA Berkeley Arts Council Members’ Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Fire and Ice, Photography and Glass Collaborative Exhibit, Firehall Gallery, Charles Town,WV Picture Wild Ponies, Solo Exhibit, Old Charles Town Library, Charles Town, WV Reflections, Refractions, Relativities, Solo Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Appalachian Pastel League Exhibit, Blue Moon Café, Shepherdstown, WV Appalachian Pastel League Exhibit, Historic Gilchrist Museum, Cumberland, MD Evitt’s Run Park Mosaic Project, Designer, C*Town Public Arts Committee, Charles Town, WV Eastern West Virginia Juried Arts Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Art at the Mill Fall Juried Exhibit, Millwood, VA Eastern West Virginia Juried Arts Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Jefferson Arts Council Members Exhibit, Firehall Gallery, Charles Town, WV Paint it! Ellicot City Plein Air, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD Art at the Mill Spring Juried Exhibit, Millwood, VA Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Tampa, FL Eastern West Virginia Juried Arts Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Art for the Animals, Howard’s Art and Frames, Hagerstown, MD Photo 18 Juried Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Art and Earth Juried Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Berkeley Arts Council Members’ Exhibit, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV Critters Juried Arts Show, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV |