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RESUME

Education

Master of Arts: Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, 1987. Concentration: Painting and Drawing.

Bachelor of Fine Arts: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1965. Concentration: Art Education.

Exhibitions

•Juried Art Educators’ Exhibit, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN, June 2010

•A Foot in the Door, Group Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN February-June 2010.

•A Touch of Red, Lake Country Pastel Exhibit, Burnsville Center for the Arts, February 2010

1. •Chicago Pastel Painters’ Second Biennial National Juried Exhibition, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Illinois, Juror: Doug Dawson, Feb 2009.
   

•Invitational One Person Exhibition, Bloomingdales, Mall of America, Bloomington, MN,

Dec 2008.

•Lake Country Pastel Society’s Membership Exhibition, 2nd Place and People’s Choice Award, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN, 2008.

•Lake Country Pastel Society’s Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Robbins Gallery, Robbinsdale, MN, 2008.

•Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century, an international juried exhibition, Clatsop College Visual Arts Center, Astoria, OR, Juror: Margaret Bullock, 2008.

•Pastel National 2008, a national juried exhibition, The Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, Juror: G. Daniel Massad, 2008.

•Art-A-Whirl, Works by S. Dowd, Studio 376, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

•Art Attack, Current Works by S. Dowd, Studio 376, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.

•Art-A-Whirl, Works by S. Dowd, Studio 376, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.

•Women--The Variety And Meaning Of Their Sexual Experience, an invitational exhibition, Studio C4, Minneapolis, MN, November 2005.

•One Square Foot of Art, a membership exhibition of the Texas Association of Art Schools, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, 1995.

•One Square Foot of Art, a membership exhibition of the Texas Association of Art Schools, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 1994.

•Area Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, 1994.

•Faculty Exhibition, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX, 1993

•The Art Center 1990 Competition, a regional juried exhibition, The Art Center, Waco, TX, 1990.

•Men by Women, Sheraton Gallery, an invitational exhibition, Dallas, TX, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, 1988.

•The Art Center 1987 Competition, a regional juried exhibition, The Art Center, Waco, TX 1987.

•42nd Annual Competition, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX, Juror: Patricia Meadows, 1986.

•The Art Center 1985 Competition, Waco TX, Honorable Mention. Juror: Annette Memeo Carlozzi, Curator Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, 1985.

•Works by Sandra Dowd, Corsicana State National Bank, Corsicana, Texas, 1985.

Performance Art

•Jamming at the Grove, a painting of Ray Charles to the live music of Linda Muehlbauer and Shannon Pierce, a Charity Event for Spare Key, Golden Valley Country Club, Golden Valley, MN, March 2009.

•Jamming with Paint, a painting of Ray Charles to the live music of Linda Muehlbauer and Shannon Pierce, Art Attack Art Crawl, Gallery 322, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, November 2008.

•Dancing with Paint a painting of John Lennon, applying paint strokes in sync to music in 20 minutes, Art-a-Whirl, Minneapolis, Studio 376, Northrup King Building, MN, May 2008.

•A Few Minutes with Einstein a painting of Einstein, Art-a-Whirl, , Studio 376,  Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.

•A Fifth of Beethoven, a disco painting of Beethoven to recorded Saturday Night Fever music, Studio 204, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN, November 2006.

•Beethoven, a large portrait of Beethoven with the Austin Chamber Music Society for their small concert series, A private home, Austin, TX, Fall 2003.

•Louis, a portrait of the great Louis Armstrong with Dallas’s Lower Beaton Street Band playing Big Band Songs and Jazz, Corsicana’s Palace Theater, Corsicana, TX, Fall 2004.

•Marilyn’s Best, a painting of Marilyn Monroe to her songs, accompanied by Nancy Roberts on the piano, Kinslow House, Corsicana TX, Fall 1999.

Articles Published About My Art

•“Art in Action,” Where Magazine, November, 2008.

•“Minnesota Art Throb,” Home & Away Magazine, page 9, July/August 2008

•Tom Horgen’s Column: “Party A Whirl,” Star Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 2008.

•“Art-A-Whirl Special Edition,” l’etoile  Online Magazine, May 14, 2008.