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Thicker than Water -
Monoprint on fiber scrims
and rag paper, wood, 60”h x 48”w x 48”d
WORK IN THE ARTS
2002-09 Eco-tourism and the Arts, Primal Visions Art Studio
Gallery, Kailua Kona, HI
2005-09 Exhibition and Installation Development, Pacific Island
Printmakers, Kailua Kona, HI
2003-05 Master Gardener Education Committee, Kona Outdoor Circle,
Kailua-Kona, HI
2002 Artist, Embrace the River Design Charrette, National Park
Service, Santa Cruz, CA
1999-02 Artist Consultant, San Lorenzo Urban River Plan Task Force,
Santa Cruz, CA
1994-99 Project Director, First Night Santa Cruz Giant Puppet
Workshops, Parades and Performances for New Years Eve Public Events,
Santa Cruz County, CA
1995-97 Consultant, Resources for Youth, California Wellness
Foundation, Woodland Hills, CA
1984-99 Director, Jail Arts Project, Minimum Security Facilities,
William James Association and Santa Cruz County, CA
1991-99 Instructor and Guest Artist, Santa Cruz City Schools, Court
and Community Schools, and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County,
CA
1992-99 Lead Artist for Outreach and Development, Pilot Program and
formation of Community Youth Arts Project, William James Association,
Santa Cruz, CA
1992-95 Artist Consultant, Open Studios Steering Committee,
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
1993-94 Gallery Director, Primal Visions Art Gallery, Dance
Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1992-93 Artist Consultant, Art Box Educational Program, Art Museum
of Santa Cruz County, CA
1990-91 Artist and Teacher, State of Hawaii Department of Education
and West Hawaii Arts Guild
1987 Exhibition and Catalog Design, The River Shall Never be at
Rest, Transitions in Yoruba Art, Sesnon Art Gallery, University of
California, Santa Cruz, CA
1983-84 Graphic Artist, Product Design, Meridian and River Street
Trading Co., Santa Cruz, CA
1982-84 Program Director, Community Arts Events, Santa Cruz
LifeYard Project, Santa Cruz, CA
Gaia - Recycled mixed
fibers, denim, machine stitching, 6”h x 8” diameter
MASTER ART PLANS, PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
2006 Imagination in Motion, Cover story and profile West Hawaii Today,
Kailua Kona, HI
2005 Growing a Landscape Painting, Special article for West Hawaii Today,
Kailua Kona, HI
2003 For the Seventh Generation, Catalog interview, Mendocino Art Center,
CA
2002 Levee as Armature, San Lorenzo River Public Art Plan, Buster
Simpson, Santa Cruz, CA
2001 Ocean’s Festival, Catalog interview, Pajaro Valley Arts Center,
Watsonville, CA
1999 Master Public Art Plan, City of Santa Cruz Art Commission, Santa
Cruz, CA
Raindrop Poem - Woodcut print on
hand molded mulberry paper, polyester fiber, bamboo, wire,
144”h x 48”w x 48”d
Kipuka - Recycled upholstery
samples, denim,
hand and machine stitching, wire, wood, hemp,
24”h x 30” diameter
Artist’s Photo- Kathleen Abood,
Olympic Sculpture Garden, Seattle, WA, 2008
Kathleen Abood
Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i 96740
Home Studio and fax: 808-322-2444
Visit:
www.KathleenAbood.com
Artist contact:
Kathleen@KathleenAbood.com
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Kathleen Abood blends the creative arts with cultural activism and world
travel to form a new global narrative. Exotic places combine with personal
histories in the complex and diverse imagery of this Pacific Island Artist.
Recently, the kinetic, dimensional mixed media environments have been on
exhibition in Hawaii and California. These contemporary interactive
installations include Thicker than Water, Rain Drop Poem and The Forest for
the Trees, and each reveals the artist’s conceptual approach to
transformation, healing and renewal.
The artist’s Hawaiian, tropical garden home provides the ideal native
studio for making and printing handmade papers, creating assemblage, carving
woodcuts and painting. The garden is often the source for the materials as
well as the topics in this artwork. Inspired by nature, she combines raw and
recycled fibers into paper sheets and dimensional forms.
Kathleen shares the cultural importance of the visual arts experience
through exhibitions, community workshops and public events that explore and
celebrate our creativity. This dedication to art-making is personal and
provocative. Art is a lifestyle for Kathleen Abood.
PUBLIC ART GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 Who’s Who of American Women, Marquis Who’s Who, New Province, NJ
2001 Public Art Grant: Earth Day River Dragon Puppet, Performance and
Park Sculptural Mural, San Lorenzo River Park, City of Santa Cruz Arts
Commission, Santa Cruz, CA
2000 The Gail Rich Award for Visual Arts, Santa Cruz Sentinel and
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, CA
1994-99 Recognition for Community Outreach, First Night Santa Cruz,
Visual Arts Committee Chair, and Board Member, Santa Cruz, CA
1984-99 Artists Multi- Residency Grant Awards, National Endowment for the
Arts and the California Arts Council, William James Association, Santa Cruz,
CA
1998-99 Design Team for Master Public Art Plan, City of Santa Cruz Arts
Commission, Public Art Committee, Santa Cruz, CA
1997 National Arts for Change Award, Bravo Network and TCI Cablevision,
Santa Cruz, CA
1997 Visual Arts Presenter, First Night International, Monterey, CA
1994-96 Artist Grants for Community Workshops, Santa Cruz Arts Commission
Santa Cruz, CA
1991 Exhibit Award, 19th Annual Spring Arts Festival, Wailoa Art Center,
Hilo, HI
1989 People’s Choice Award, Exemplary Contemporary, Smith Gallery, UCSC,
Santa Cruz, CA
Destinesia - Encaustic pigments,
wood, paper, bee’s wax,
machine stitching, paint, 6”h x 4”w x 180”l
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Wahi Pana: Sacred Places Luana Gallery, Fairmont Orchid, Kohala, HI
2006 Thicker than Water 2006 Monotype environment,
Primal Visions Art
Gallery, Holualoa, HI
2000 Beyond Forever: A Tropical Perspective Louden Nelson Community
Center,
Santa Cruz, CA
1997 Pacific Horizons Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1996 Water Worlds and Liquid Visions County Government Center, Santa Cruz,
CA
1995 Water Worlds Chaminade Artists Series 22, Santa Cruz, CA
1994 Love at First Sight Primal Visions Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1993 Fresh Prints Many Hands Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Primal Visions Palomar Annex, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
1988 Dancing on Limitations UCSC Women’s Center, Santa Cruz, CA
1986 American Dreamscapes Santa Cruz Main Library, Santa Cruz, CA
Nightmares and African Dreams Santa Cruz Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Rock and Ritual 320 Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Memory of Water Pacific Island Printmakers,
East Hawaii Cultural
Center, Hilo, HI
81st Annual Exhibition Honolulu Printmakers, Academy Art Center,
Honolulu, HI
Na Makana O Keauhou Luana Gallery, Fairmont Orchid, Kohala, HI
Pressing On Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
2008 East/West Pacific Island Printmakers, East Hawaii Cultural
Center, Hilo, HI
Expansions Monterey Peninsula College Gallery, Monterey, CA
The Moment Print Installation Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, HI
2007 Current Voyages Monterey Peninsula College Gallery, Monterey, CA
Origins Portfolio Exchange Balcony Gallery, Kailua, Oahu, HI
2006 Prints in Space Honolulu Printmakers, Academy Art Center,
Honolulu, HI
First Impression-A Year of Editions Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa,
HI
77th Annual Exhibition Honolulu Printmakers, Academy Art Center,
Honolulu, HI
Artists’ Books Hamilton Library, Honolulu, HI
2005 Women Artists of the Big Island Wailoa Art Center, Hilo, HI
Pele Invitational Wailoa Art Center, Hilo, HI
2003 For the Seventh Generation Mendocino Arts Center, Mendocino, CA
2001 Ocean’s Festival 2001 Pajaro Valley Arts Council and Gallery,
Watsonville, CA
2000 For the Seventh Generation Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Open Studios Ten Years on the Annual Art Tour, Cultural Council of
Santa Cruz County, CA
1998 Imagine Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
1997 Exposed Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
1996 Women in Art and Culture National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C
Remembrance Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
Seventh Generation: Mile Long Pacific Ocean Mural Project Atelier
Gallery,
Santa Cruz, CA
1995 Global Focus Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China
20/20 Insight: Contemporary Women Artists Galeria Tonantzin,
San Juan
Batista, CA
1994 Exemplary Contemporary Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC,
Santa
Cruz, CA
Reflections from the Yard Fresno Arts Council, Fresno, CA
International Print Exhibition Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Batista, CA
Our California Heritage Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, Ca;
Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA
Breaking the Myth New Women’s Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1992 500 Years of Resistance through Women’s Eyes Galeria Museo,
San
Francisco, CA
The Personal is Political & The Political is Personal Stevenson
Library, UCSC,
Santa Cruz, CA
1991 Pacific Prints Los Angeles Print Society, Traveling Exhibition,
Los Angeles, CA; Honolulu, HI
Monterey Bay Landscape Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
19th Annual Spring Arts Exhibition Wailoa Art Center, Hilo, HI
The Eclipse Experience 1991 West Hawaii Gallery, Kailua-Kona, HI
1989 The Exemplary Contemporary Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC,
Santa Cruz, CA
1988 Novas ’88 Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
An Invitational Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Juror’s Choice Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Erotica 320 Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1982 LifeYard Project San Lorenzo River & 1984 Louden Nelson Community
Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Pacific Migrations: East is West - Feather paper, detail
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Monotype on handmade paper, hand formed mixed fiber birds,
machine
stitching, bark, money, feathers, 24”w x 90”h (Detail)
EDUCATION
2002-03 Master Tropical Gardener Certification, University of
Hawaii, Cooperative Extension Services College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources, Kainaliu, HI
1982-88 Bachelor of Arts, Painting and Printmaking,
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1982-85 Graphic Arts Certificate, University of
California, Santa Cruz Extension Program, CA
1967-70 Fine Arts Scholarship, Wayne State University,
Detroit, M
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