VITAE
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
2021 Visiting Artist, Rivers of Steel Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2015 Visiting Artist for Iron Pour, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
2013 Visiting Artist, Yellow Springs National Bronze Sculpture Symposium
Yellow Springs, OH
2008-15 Visiting Artist, Arctic Fire Bronze Symposium, Palmer, Wasilla, and Kenai, Alaska
1999-2015 Director, Mesalands Community College Annual Iron Pour Workshop, Tucumcari, NM
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Susan Byrnes, Letter From The Mother Road, AEQAI, April 2016 Edition
http://aeqai.com/main/2016/04/letter-from-the-mother-road/
2008 L.F. Thornton, Introducing: Sculptress D’jean Jawrunner, New Mexico Magazine, October 2008 Edition
2002 Kay Whitney, Sculpture Magazine, April 2002 Vol. 21 No. 3
COMMISSIONS
2022 City of Augusta, Georgia
2021 Infuse: City of ABQ-Purchase of 3D Sculpture Works of Art, Albuquerque, NM
2020 Town of Yountville Art Walk, Yountville, CA
2017 “High Plains Drifters”, Whitfield Wildlife Conservation Area, Art In Public Places 2016-
2017 Purchase Initiative, Santa Fe, NM
2015 “High Plains Drifters”, Museum of International Folk, Art In Public Places 2015-2016
Purchase Initiative, Santa Fe, NM
2013 “Chollas”, National Sculpture Trail, Yellow Springs, Ohio
2004 Untitled, Tucumcari Police department, Tucumcari, NM.
2003 Untitled, Natural History and Science Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2002 Untitled, Natural History and Science Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Untitled. New Mexico Public Arts, Quay County Exhibition Center, Tucumcari, NM
“Here and Now”, New Mexico Public Arts, Clovis Community College, Clovis NM
“Walk Away Blues”, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
1992 “Porpoise Trinity”, Gate House, Ashby Magna, England
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2003-04 Japan Shippo Juried Exhibition, Syosenky Rope-way Shippo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Fourth International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art Fire to FORM-
CAST IRON 2002, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2001 Dalsouple Design Competition, Keenthorne Garge, Sumerset, England
1997 French Fantasy, La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France
2 Men and 2 Women, Guildia Masterova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 International Iron Sculpture, Kastellaannimaja, Gallerii, Tallinn, Estonia
SELECTED NATIONAL AND REGIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2018 Solid Gone, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA
“Fe!” Collective Experiences in Iron, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
Regional Faculty Show, Eula Mae Edwards Gallery, Clovis Community College, Clovis NM
2017 HOT IRON, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2012 IRON TRIBE “12”, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
2010 AMoA ALLIANCE RECYCLE ART FESTIVAL, Amarillo Museum of Amarillo, Amarillo, TX
The Object Gallery, Solo Show, Amarillo, TX
2008 Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical. Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Taking a Pulse, 516Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Occupying Forces, Adams State College Art Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2007 Solo Show. New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
NM Committee of National Museum of Women in the Arts Original 2007, Taos NM
2005 Explorations in Bronze: Degas and New Mexico Sculptors, Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Fe” 2005, Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2004 West by Southwest Invitational, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
2003 Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium 2003, Houston, TX
REFINED: Small Forms in Precious Metals, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
2002-3 Ruidoso Annual Invitation Art Exhibition, Ruidoso, NM
2001 Visionary Artist, Kinston Art Center, Kinston, NC
Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
Project Sculpture 2001-1 College Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Las Vegas Arts Council 9th Annual Faces of Woman, Las Vegas, NM
1998 ECU National Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture, Greenville, NC
1996 20th Annual Arts Festival, Ayden, NC, Sculpture Award 3rd place
1995 ECU National Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture, Greenville, NC
Rebel Competition, Greenville, NC, Sculpture Award 1st place and Drawing Award 2nd place,
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997-2018 Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, New Mexico
Professor and Bronze Foundry Director
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC
Associate Business, University of Cincinnati, OH