Art History | Rowena Sandford

ART HISTORY
ART TRAINING	Prize Award Class, Boston Museum School, 1965 Norman Rockwell’s Famous Artists Course in Commercial Art, 1965-1970. Adult Education class under Elizabeth Norden, Boston Museum School, 1971. Personal student (protégé), to George Carpenter, 1972-1978
MOST RECENT SHOWS	2019 August–Gorge Artists Create–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR December–Holiday Show–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR 2018 August–Gorge Artists Create–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR December–Holiday Show–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR 2017 August–Gorge Artists Create–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR December–Holiday Show–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR 2016 April, May, June–show of 34 paintings at Providence Memorial Hospital in Hood River, OR Aug–Gorge Artists Create–The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR 2015 June–Best of the Gorge Show–Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR June–show at MCMC [the Dalles Hospital], the Dalles, OR July–show at Waters Edge [subsidiary of MCMC] July–Trout Lake Festival of the Arts, Trout Lake, WA Aug–50th Anniversary of Trout Lake Fair–Show of 50 “Historical Trout Lake Scenes” that I painted through the years since coming here in ’78 [Many things in the paintings no longer exist.] Sept–“Coastal Scenes”–a solo show of 30 paintings at “The Nook Gallery”, Columbia Center for the Arts. Hood River, OR Dec–Holiday Show–at 3 places–Columbia Center for the Arts, The Dalles Art Center, and Trout Lake Bazaar 2014 July–Trout Lake Festival of the Arts Aug–Gorge Artists Create–[Honorable Mention Award] The Dalles Art Center, The Dalles, OR Dec–Holiday Small Paintings Show–at Columbia Center for the Arts, and at The Dalles Art Center 2013 Feb–The Blues Show–Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR July–Trout Lake Festival of the Arts Aug–Gorge Artists Create–[Honorable Mention Award] –The Dalles Art Center Dec–Holiday Small Painting Show–at Columbia Center for the Arts, and at The Dalles Art Center
ART EXPERIENCE	Painting daily (all day), on the spot, mostly in southern Maine, 1972-1979. Painting trip to Mystic Seaport, 1973. Painting trip to Vermont, 1974. Painting trip to North Carolina, March-June, 1975. Painting trip to North Carolina, January-June, 1976. Painting trip to New Hampshire, January-March, 1977. Painting trip to Quebec, March-June and September, 1977. Painting trip to Camden, Maine, August 1977. Painting trip to Washington State, October-December, 1977. (Married and returned to Washington, March 1978; mother after 1979.) Maryhill Museum Demonstration – 1987 Participated in studio tours of Gorge Artists sponsored by Columbia Gorge Arts Council. – 1988 Second Place Award at the Dalles Art Center Mid Columbia Miniature Show. – 1989 Second Place in Columbia Gorge Landscape Competition, Northbank Gallery, Stevenson. – 1994 The Dalles Art Center, one man show. – 1994 The Dalles Hospital, one man show. – 1994 One of the selected artists for the opening show of the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center. – 1995 Honorable Mention at the Artists of the Gorge ’95 Show – 1995 Honorable Mention at the Hail Mid Columbia ’96 Show – 1996 Honorable Mention at the Artists of the Gorge ’97 Show – 1997 Two man show at the Columbia Gallery – 1997 Trout Lake Festival of the Arts – 1997 One man show at the Dalles Art Center – 1997 One man show at the Hood River Library – 1997 Paintings of the Monadnock Region, Dublin Public Library, Dublin, NH – 2008 Gorge Artists Create at The Dalles Art Center – 2008 Small Painting Show at Columbia Gallery – 2008 Gorge Artists Create at The Dalles Art Center – 2009 Pacific Northwest Plein Air – 2009 Small Painting Show at Columbia Gallery – 2009 Art and Agriculture at Columbia Gallery – 2010 Trout Lake Festival of the Arts – 2010 Gorge Artists Create at The Dalles Art Center – 2010 Small Painting Show at Columbia Gallery – 2010 Art Squared Show at Columbia Gallery – 2011 Gorge Artists Create at The Dalles Art Center – 2011 Pacific Northwest Plein Air Show – 2012
GROUP SHOWS	Ogunquit Art Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine Ogunquit Art Center, Ogunquit, Maine Seacoast Area Art Festival, Wells, Maine Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine Brattle Street Gallery, South Berwick, Maine Gurnette Gallery, Brunswick, Maine Mission Gallery, Kennebunkport, Maine The Gallery, Kennebunkport, Maine The Jarrett House, Hillsboro, North Carolina Civic Center, Asheville, North Carolina National Miniatures Art Show, Nutting, Pennsylvania New Hope Art Center, New Hope, Pennsylvania Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, New Hampshire North Short Art Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts Manufacturers Country Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hudson Valley Art Association, White Plains, New York Colbert Gallery, Montreal Eatons Foyer–de Arts, Montreal Country Club, St. Adele, Quebec Society for the Preservation of the New England Antiquities, Art Show Blackmore Country Club, Old Orchard Beach, Maine Klickitat County Fair, Goldendale, Washington Western Washington State Fair, Puyallup, Washington Maine Women in the Arts, Kennebunkport, Maine Pacific Northwest Plein Air Show, Hood River, Oregon Hail Mid-Columbia, Hood River, Oregon Artists of the Gorge, Stevenson, Washington Gorge Artists Create, The Dalles, Oregon Trout Lake Festival of the Arts, Trout Lake, Washington