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sarah crooks flaire
current exhibitions
thru Jan 4, 2009- Making Marks: Jacksonville Creates, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
solo exhibitions
2007 Nature of Place Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville,FL
Full Circle Jane Grey Gallery, Jacksonville,FL
2004 Fruition Jacksonville Museum Of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Small Things Kent Campus Gallery, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, FL
Four Seasons Henry P.Leu Botanical Gardens, Orlando, FL
1997 Sleeping on Transplants Middlebury, VT
Towards Wholeness Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg ,VA
Paintings and Drawings Kelly Glass Studio, New York, NY
1996 New Work Downtown Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
1995 Senza Auito Casa Italia Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL
In Flight Marker 32, Jacksonville, FL
1994 Transformation and Conception Kirschner Haack Fine Art, Miami,FL
Flight Patterns Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Ascensions Heaven on Earth, Atlantic Beach, FL
1993 Mapping the Green World Theatre Jax, Jacksonville, FL
1991 Drawing Down Crow’s Nest, Jacksonville, FL
group exhibitions
2008 Making Marks:Jacksonville Creates invitational Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville,FL
2006 Presence Art and Soul Invitational Exhibit, Womens Center of Jacksonville, FL
Bank of America Symphony Showhouse, Jacksonville, FL-designed and implemented interiors for four rooms
Garden Week Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
2005 Art, Gardens and Healing Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville,FL
2004 Art Ventures Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
2003 Art and Soul Women’s Center Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Eclipse Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, FL
2000 Gift of Art Synder Memorial Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Faculty Exhibit South Gallery, Nathan Wilson Center for the Performing Arts, Jacksonville, FL
1999 Botanical Art at the Millennium Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
1996 Carving the Forces of Change Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL curated by Faith Ringgold
Material as Metaphor Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
1995 Independents Biennial # 2 Charas El Bohio, New York, NY
Tribute to Women Downtown Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Arts Assembly Awards WJCT Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Street of Dreams Designer Showcase, Green Cove Springs, FL
1994 42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibition Jacksonville Art Museum, FL juror Roy Slade
Florida Gulf Coast Biennial Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, FL juror Michael Auping
Figures in Line and Space Daytona Arts Center, Daytona, FL
1993 Skirting the Issue: Women Artists in Florida Terrace Gallery, Orlando, FL jurors: Lou Ann Colondy and Karen Valdes
1992 Jacksonville Arts Alliance Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
Spring Arts Festival Gainesville, FL juror Kathryn Siegel and Richard Heipp
1991 Arts Mania Independent Life Gallery, Jacksonville, FL juror William E. Parker
Suwanee Valley Regional Lake City Community College, Lake City, FL juror: Nofa Dixon andLouise Freshman Brown
Making Marks Gallery 88, PonteVedra , FL Juror Marsha Issacson
Monochrome Gallery 88, Ponte Vedra, FL juror Charles Charles
1990 Jacksonville Creates Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL curator Marsha Orr
collections
Art in Public Places, City of Jacksonville
AT&T
City of Orlando Public Art Collection of Florida Artists
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
Jacksonville Historical Society
Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center, St. Vincents Hospital,
Pace Center for Girls, Inc.
Private Collections in the United States, Canada and France
awards, residencies and special commissions
2007-2008 Artist in Residence at The Douglas Anderson School of the Arts,
led 150 visual arts students on a multidisciplinary exploration of the St. Johns River culminating in a traveling public art installation. New View: The Many Faces of the St. Johns is designed to raise awareness of our unique river environment and the importance of community collaborations. Sponsored in part by the Florida Humanities Council, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jaxport ,The St.Johns RiverKeeper, and the Museum of Science and History
2006 Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center, St. Vincents Hospital, Jacksonville FL, commission to create 8 pieces for the lobby and patient treatment rooms
30th Annual Arts Awards Luncheon Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville- featured visual artist
2005 Art in Public Places, City of Jacksonville, FL for the Mandarin Branch Library mixed media installation “Circ de Vie” This 12' diameter puzzle painting combines figurative images with natural elements from the Northeast Florida landscape celebrating the cycles of life.
2003 Fostering Vitality in the Arts Grant by theJacksonville Community Foundation to create th interactive CD-Rom 3 seasons
2000 Outstanding Alumna- College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Florida
1996 Vermont Studio Center-Johnson, VT- residency scholarship
1995 Artist in Residence, Jan Hus Presbyterian ,New York, NY- coordinated Furniture Project
1991 Art Ventures Grant- NEA partnership grant for jewelry design
1989 Artist in residence , YWCA Jacksonville, FL created Nest 89 - a public sculpture to raise awareness of homeless women and children
activities
2008 lecturer " Finding our Sense of Place : Art and the Environment" University of North Florida Brooks College of Heath
2007 lecturer “ Drawing Connections” Jacksonville Public Library main campus
2006 Designer for Bank of America Symphony Showhouse , New Saxelby model
commission to create the Peacebuilder award for Jacksonville chapter of Children’s International Summer Villages
lecturer “ Building a Painting” Jacksonville Public Library, Mandarin 2005 Illustrator for Insecta, by Linda Broadfoot, with excepts from Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
speaker on the Artist to Artist panel presentation at the Downtown Art Summit, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art
slide presentation “Reunion;Similar Selves” at the Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra
“Behind the Scene” tour participant, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
2004 Gallery Talk- Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, FL
2003 feature artist for the interactive exhibit “ Visions/Versions” at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens award winning educational center Art Connections , Jacksonville, FL
2000 Florida Community College Jacksonville, Fl -adjunct professor-Drawing
1999 Klafter Residence Armonk, NY- interior wall murals and painted ceiling
Van Cleve residence Seminole Beach, FL-Interior mural- History of Laundry-Women’s Work
1998-97 assistant stained glass restoration and fabrication, Kelly Glass Studio New York , NY-
1998-96 security guard Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY-
1996 lecturer“Tapping the Creative Process: The Heroines Journey” Jungian Society of Northeast Florida
1994 technical assistant for the sculpture department, Jacksonville University
grant coordinator and art educator for the Carver Center Outreach programJacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts
1993 mural painter for Jacksonville Historical Center
1992 Design Arts Studio- Jacksonville, FL assistant decorative painter
1991 Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts- coordinated and received grants for the Handshake Puppet Project and Bridge Arts Reach- 2 mutidisciplinary art programs for at risk inner city youth
1990 Pedroni’s Cast Stone Jacksonville, FL- fabricated architectural concrete details
1989-87 Setting Son Jewelers Jacksonville, FL- assistant fine jewelry repair and fabrication
articles
" Douglas Anderson students artwork flowing through communities" Resident Aug, 2008
“ From the Showhouse to your house” The Florida Times Union, October 14,2006
“Circle of Life at the Mandarin Library” River Bend Review, the Florida Times Union , June 3,2006
“ Unlayering the Works of Sarah Crooks Flaire” The Times Union, October 7,2005
“Artists Works Show Her Constantly Evolving” The Times Union, January 2, 2004
“The Work of Sarah Crooks Flaire at JMOMA” Arbus, Vol. 9/No.3 Dec./Jan 2003/04
“Profile: Sarah Crooks Flaire” Financial News and Daily Record, Vol.90 No. 7, January 9,2002
“Large & Small of It” Folio Weekly, November 13,2001
“A Portrait of the Artist at Pace Center for Girls” Arbus September/October 2000
“Grad Shares Artistic Talent With Homeless in New York” University of North Florida Alumni Journal Spring 1996
“Kalliope: a journal of Women’s art” featured visual artist July 1995
“Don’t Knock Blocks Poetry: Sit on It” New York Daily News June 5,1995
Creativity Times 10” Florida Times Union February 5,1995
“Moth Woman” Folio Weekly July 23,1994
“Art Camp Keeps Us Out of Trouble” Shorelines , August 6,1994
“Program Draws Out Kid’s Self Confidence” Times Union Community News, January 29,1992
“ Self Esteem is expressed in artistic creativity” The Florida Times Union June 10,1992
“Puppets Make a Point” Florida Times Union May ,1992
Exhibition Review, New Art Examiner fall 1991
“Revealing Layers” Folio weekly May 12,1991
“Young Artist Believes in Waste Not Want Not” Florida Times Union June 16,1991
“Springfield art is rough and r.a.w.” Florida Times Union, October 31,1990
“Arts Mania metaphors are mixed messages” Florida Times Union October 9,1989
“Art and Politics: The Message is in the Mixture” Florida Times Union October 1,1989
Catalogs
“Art Ventures” , Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004
“Art Ventures Adventures” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996
“42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit” Jacksonville Art Museum 1994
“Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida” Orlando City Hall 1993
“1991 Arts Mania “ Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991
catalogs
"Art in Public Places City of Jacksonville" 2006 and 2007
“Art Ventures” , Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004
“Art Ventures Adventures” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996
“42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit” Jacksonville Art Museum 1994
“Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida” Orlando City Hall 1993
“1991 Arts Mania “ Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991
education
1999-1997 New York Botanic Garden, Bronx, NY- Botanical Illustration
1989- University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL BFA painting: Summa Cum Laude;Outstanding Visual Arts Graduate1989; National Dean’s List1989;Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, Outstanding Student Award 1988; Dean’s List 1986-89
1986- Simon’s Rock of Bard College
1984- Pratt Institute
1968- born 7.14.68
current exhibitions
thru Jan 4, 2009- Making Marks: Jacksonville Creates, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
solo exhibitions
2007 Nature of Place Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville,FL
Full Circle Jane Grey Gallery, Jacksonville,FL
2006 Recent Work R. Roberts Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2005 Reunion: Similar Selves Main Gallery, Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra,Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Paintings Acquisitions Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
New Works 57 Treasury, St. Augustine, FL
2005 Reunion: Similar Selves Main Gallery, Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra,Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Paintings Acquisitions Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
New Works 57 Treasury, St. Augustine, FL
2001 Small Things Kent Campus Gallery, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, FL
Four Seasons Henry P.Leu Botanical Gardens, Orlando, FL
1997 Sleeping on Transplants Middlebury, VT
Towards Wholeness Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg ,VA
Paintings and Drawings Kelly Glass Studio, New York, NY
1996 New Work Downtown Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
1995 Senza Auito Casa Italia Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL
In Flight Marker 32, Jacksonville, FL
1994 Transformation and Conception Kirschner Haack Fine Art, Miami,FL
Flight Patterns Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Ascensions Heaven on Earth, Atlantic Beach, FL
1993 Mapping the Green World Theatre Jax, Jacksonville, FL
1991 Drawing Down Crow’s Nest, Jacksonville, FL
group exhibitions
2008 Making Marks:Jacksonville Creates invitational Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville,FL
2006 Presence Art and Soul Invitational Exhibit, Womens Center of Jacksonville, FL
Bank of America Symphony Showhouse, Jacksonville, FL-designed and implemented interiors for four rooms
Garden Week Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
2005 Art, Gardens and Healing Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville,FL
2004 Art Ventures Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
2003 Art and Soul Women’s Center Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Eclipse Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, FL
2000 Gift of Art Synder Memorial Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Faculty Exhibit South Gallery, Nathan Wilson Center for the Performing Arts, Jacksonville, FL
1999 Botanical Art at the Millennium Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
1996 Carving the Forces of Change Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL curated by Faith Ringgold
Material as Metaphor Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
1995 Independents Biennial # 2 Charas El Bohio, New York, NY
Tribute to Women Downtown Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Arts Assembly Awards WJCT Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Street of Dreams Designer Showcase, Green Cove Springs, FL
1994 42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibition Jacksonville Art Museum, FL juror Roy Slade
Florida Gulf Coast Biennial Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, FL juror Michael Auping
Figures in Line and Space Daytona Arts Center, Daytona, FL
1993 Skirting the Issue: Women Artists in Florida Terrace Gallery, Orlando, FL jurors: Lou Ann Colondy and Karen Valdes
1992 Jacksonville Arts Alliance Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
Spring Arts Festival Gainesville, FL juror Kathryn Siegel and Richard Heipp
1991 Arts Mania Independent Life Gallery, Jacksonville, FL juror William E. Parker
Suwanee Valley Regional Lake City Community College, Lake City, FL juror: Nofa Dixon andLouise Freshman Brown
Making Marks Gallery 88, PonteVedra , FL Juror Marsha Issacson
Monochrome Gallery 88, Ponte Vedra, FL juror Charles Charles
1990 Jacksonville Creates Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL curator Marsha Orr
collections
Art in Public Places, City of Jacksonville
AT&T
City of Orlando Public Art Collection of Florida Artists
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
Jacksonville Historical Society
Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center, St. Vincents Hospital,
Pace Center for Girls, Inc.
Private Collections in the United States, Canada and France
awards, residencies and special commissions
2007-2008 Artist in Residence at The Douglas Anderson School of the Arts,
led 150 visual arts students on a multidisciplinary exploration of the St. Johns River culminating in a traveling public art installation. New View: The Many Faces of the St. Johns is designed to raise awareness of our unique river environment and the importance of community collaborations. Sponsored in part by the Florida Humanities Council, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jaxport ,The St.Johns RiverKeeper, and the Museum of Science and History
2006 Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center, St. Vincents Hospital, Jacksonville FL, commission to create 8 pieces for the lobby and patient treatment rooms
30th Annual Arts Awards Luncheon Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville- featured visual artist
2005 Art in Public Places, City of Jacksonville, FL for the Mandarin Branch Library mixed media installation “Circ de Vie” This 12' diameter puzzle painting combines figurative images with natural elements from the Northeast Florida landscape celebrating the cycles of life.
2003 Fostering Vitality in the Arts Grant by theJacksonville Community Foundation to create th interactive CD-Rom 3 seasons
2000 Outstanding Alumna- College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Florida
1996 Vermont Studio Center-Johnson, VT- residency scholarship
1995 Artist in Residence, Jan Hus Presbyterian ,New York, NY- coordinated Furniture Project
1991 Art Ventures Grant- NEA partnership grant for jewelry design
1989 Artist in residence , YWCA Jacksonville, FL created Nest 89 - a public sculpture to raise awareness of homeless women and children
activities
2008 lecturer " Finding our Sense of Place : Art and the Environment" University of North Florida Brooks College of Heath
2007 lecturer “ Drawing Connections” Jacksonville Public Library main campus
2006 Designer for Bank of America Symphony Showhouse , New Saxelby model
commission to create the Peacebuilder award for Jacksonville chapter of Children’s International Summer Villages
lecturer “ Building a Painting” Jacksonville Public Library, Mandarin 2005 Illustrator for Insecta, by Linda Broadfoot, with excepts from Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
speaker on the Artist to Artist panel presentation at the Downtown Art Summit, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art
slide presentation “Reunion;Similar Selves” at the Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra
“Behind the Scene” tour participant, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
2004 Gallery Talk- Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, FL
2003 feature artist for the interactive exhibit “ Visions/Versions” at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens award winning educational center Art Connections , Jacksonville, FL
2000 Florida Community College Jacksonville, Fl -adjunct professor-Drawing
1999 Klafter Residence Armonk, NY- interior wall murals and painted ceiling
Van Cleve residence Seminole Beach, FL-Interior mural- History of Laundry-Women’s Work
1998-97 assistant stained glass restoration and fabrication, Kelly Glass Studio New York , NY-
1998-96 security guard Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY-
1996 lecturer“Tapping the Creative Process: The Heroines Journey” Jungian Society of Northeast Florida
1994 technical assistant for the sculpture department, Jacksonville University
grant coordinator and art educator for the Carver Center Outreach programJacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts
1993 mural painter for Jacksonville Historical Center
1992 Design Arts Studio- Jacksonville, FL assistant decorative painter
1991 Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts- coordinated and received grants for the Handshake Puppet Project and Bridge Arts Reach- 2 mutidisciplinary art programs for at risk inner city youth
1990 Pedroni’s Cast Stone Jacksonville, FL- fabricated architectural concrete details
1989-87 Setting Son Jewelers Jacksonville, FL- assistant fine jewelry repair and fabrication
articles
" Douglas Anderson students artwork flowing through communities" Resident Aug, 2008
“ From the Showhouse to your house” The Florida Times Union, October 14,2006
“Circle of Life at the Mandarin Library” River Bend Review, the Florida Times Union , June 3,2006
“ Unlayering the Works of Sarah Crooks Flaire” The Times Union, October 7,2005
“Artists Works Show Her Constantly Evolving” The Times Union, January 2, 2004
“The Work of Sarah Crooks Flaire at JMOMA” Arbus, Vol. 9/No.3 Dec./Jan 2003/04
“Profile: Sarah Crooks Flaire” Financial News and Daily Record, Vol.90 No. 7, January 9,2002
“Large & Small of It” Folio Weekly, November 13,2001
“A Portrait of the Artist at Pace Center for Girls” Arbus September/October 2000
“Grad Shares Artistic Talent With Homeless in New York” University of North Florida Alumni Journal Spring 1996
“Kalliope: a journal of Women’s art” featured visual artist July 1995
“Don’t Knock Blocks Poetry: Sit on It” New York Daily News June 5,1995
Creativity Times 10” Florida Times Union February 5,1995
“Moth Woman” Folio Weekly July 23,1994
“Art Camp Keeps Us Out of Trouble” Shorelines , August 6,1994
“Program Draws Out Kid’s Self Confidence” Times Union Community News, January 29,1992
“ Self Esteem is expressed in artistic creativity” The Florida Times Union June 10,1992
“Puppets Make a Point” Florida Times Union May ,1992
Exhibition Review, New Art Examiner fall 1991
“Revealing Layers” Folio weekly May 12,1991
“Young Artist Believes in Waste Not Want Not” Florida Times Union June 16,1991
“Springfield art is rough and r.a.w.” Florida Times Union, October 31,1990
“Arts Mania metaphors are mixed messages” Florida Times Union October 9,1989
“Art and Politics: The Message is in the Mixture” Florida Times Union October 1,1989
Catalogs
“Art Ventures” , Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004
“Art Ventures Adventures” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996
“42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit” Jacksonville Art Museum 1994
“Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida” Orlando City Hall 1993
“1991 Arts Mania “ Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991
catalogs
"Art in Public Places City of Jacksonville" 2006 and 2007
“Art Ventures” , Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004
“Art Ventures Adventures” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996
“42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit” Jacksonville Art Museum 1994
“Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida” Orlando City Hall 1993
“1991 Arts Mania “ Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991
education
1999-1997 New York Botanic Garden, Bronx, NY- Botanical Illustration
1989- University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL BFA painting: Summa Cum Laude;Outstanding Visual Arts Graduate1989; National Dean’s List1989;Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, Outstanding Student Award 1988; Dean’s List 1986-89
1986- Simon’s Rock of Bard College
1984- Pratt Institute
1968- born 7.14.68