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Winter Ross, BFA
Address:
4818 Sayre Avenue
,
Parkersburg
,
West Virginia
26101
P.O. Box 1176
,
Crestone
,
Colorado
81131
e-mail: winterross@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
Parkersburg
High
School
;
Parkersburg
,
West
Virginia
; Journalism major.
1968 – 1970
University
of
Hartford
,
Hartford
Art
School
;
Hartford
,
Connecticut
;
Painting major.
1970 – 1973 BFA; Rhode Island School
of Design,
Providence
,
RI
;
Communications Design major.
Washington
University
,
St.
Louis
,
MO
;
Accepted in Graduate Printmaking Program.
Fontebonne
College
,
St.
Louis
,
MO.
Weaving.
1979
Pilchuck
Glass
Center
,
Stanwood
,
WA
, Architectural glass design, Ludwig
Schaffrath.
Emergency
Medicine, Nationally Registered EMT;
Parkersburg
,
WV
;
Specialized training in mountain rescue.
1983 Colorado Outward Bound, Denver, CO. Wilderness
Survival and Leadership Training.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Fine Arts Residencies and Grants
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer,
Grand
Island
,
NE
(1976) One month Artist -in-Residence. Gallery exhibition of original
quilts, children’s classes in design / geometry and quilting
demonstrations at a living history museum.
Oregon Arts Commission,
Klamath
Art
Center
,
Klamath
Falls
,
Oregon
,
, (1978) Six month CETA Artist-in-Residence for
Klamath
County
.
Set up silkscreen studio for classes in stencil and photo silkscreen. Gave
art workshops in public elementary schools, at the local college and the
YMCA. Designed newsletters and various publicity for local non-profits.
Created a series of seven 24 x24 in. acrylic paintings inspired by the
eastern
Oregon
desert, Prayers
for the Earth. The paintings were created to be hung in a public building and
were exhibited with the work of two other artists-in-residence at the local
art center.
Metropolitan Arts Council of Omaha,
Omaha
,
NE
(1981) Ten month CETA Artist-in-Residence. Produced public art in the form
of murals, paintings and demonstrations. Folk Art Coordinator. Projects
included a 4x10 ft. painting for the
American
Indian
Center
celebrating land that had been returned to native Americans by the US
Government, a mural designed for the AFL-CIO as a Labor Day celebration and
promotion of the arts council projects at fairs and in schools. As one of a team of eight artists and
performers, I was the only one asked to attend board meetings due to my
ability to offer an alternative perspective.
ArtsBridge,
Parkersburg
,
WV
/
Marietta
,
OH
(1995-1998) An arts agency
serving the
Mid-Ohio
Valley
.
Artist in the Schools, Exhibitor, Workshops, Entertainment at arts functions
and fairs. Major piece (Art Quilt) commissioned for lobby.
Honoring the Source: Artists and Ecologists Celebrate the River. An
independent project which included a regional juried exhibition of visual
art, an original choreographed performance by a professional dance company,
original music and an educational exhibit on the theme of the Ohio River.
The project premiered at the
Hermann
Fine
Arts
Center
,
Marietta
College
,
September 5, 1998
and ran through October 9 of that year. It was funded through grants by the Ohio
River Border Initiative, a joint project of the Ohio Arts Council and the West Virginia
Commission on the Arts and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. I
was aided in organizing this project by a small group of artists and
scientists concerned with the chemical pollution of the
Ohio
River
. The exhibit entertained and raised awareness of the river
ecosystem and its history.
Arts Administration
Wheeler Gallery,
Providence
,
RI
(1971) Attendant. Duties included opening and closing gallery, addressing
and mailing invitations, serving food and wine at openings, and answering visitor’s questions
concerning the art on exhibit.
Church Gallery,
Providence
,
RI
(1972-3) Co-director of a non-profit gallery. Duties included recruiting
exhibitors, packing and transportation, hanging shows and publicity.
Confluence Gallery, Denver,
CO (1976) Volunteer Board Member of a cooperative gallery of fine crafts, in
charge of members’ traveling shows. Exhibited contemporary quilts and
stained glass, helped with retail sales.
Parkersburg
Art
Center
,
Parkersburg
,
WV
(1994-95) Staff. Education Coordinator.
Hired instructors, scheduled, promoted and taught classes, worked
with docents and tour groups, produced art education newspaper distributed
to Wood Co. schools, designed and produced newsletters and posters,
reorganized library, organized extra exhibits, worked at fundraisers.
Liaison with public school teachers. Wrote organizational grants.
Riverside Artists Gallery,
Marietta
,
OH
(1998) Volunteer. On Steering Committee which organized this cooperative
gallery. Arranged for consultant through a program by WV Arts and
Humanities. Researched policies of other cooperatives and helped write
by-laws. Currently a consignment artist with gallery.
Museum in the Community, Hurricane, WV (1999) Staff. Exhibits and
Program Coordinator. Researched and hung exhibitions, designed newsletter,
ads, invitations and signage, arranged for and scheduled classes and
lectures.
Teaching
Educational Service Units 9 and 3, Hastings and
Omaha
,
NE
(1975) Artist-in-the Schools. Federal grant program. Classes in design and
geometry through the techniques of piecing and
quilting.
Oregon Institute of Technology.
Klamath
Falls
,
OR
(1978) During my residency I lectured on “Design in Nature”. Shot
original 35mm slides for this series.
Lundblade Glassart Studio.
Klamath
Falls
,
OR
.
(summer 1979) Taught stained glass classes and did wholesale purchasing and
retail sales in trade for studio space and use of tools for private
commissions.
Denver Free University, Denver, CO (fall 1982) Wilderness
Survival and First Aid. Discussions on various subjects from orienteering to
hypothermia were discussed with students while exploring the foothills of
the
Rockies
on day hikes.
ArtsBridge,
Parkersburg
,
WV
/
Marietta
,
OH
,
Artist-in–the-Schools (1995-8) Workshops on the elementary level. Using
the theme of quilting, I taught geometry and design basics by discussion and
hands-on work, using basic shapes to create paper “quilts”. I also
related history and social movements to this unique American art form.
Lessons in cultural diversity were taught through the study of African
American and Hawaiian quilts. Children also did some actual quilting on a
Children’s Community Quilt – a memorial to children who had died through
violence.
Capitol
High
School
,
Charleston
,
WV
(spring 2002) Demonstration and lecture on Shibori, a traditional form of
Japanese textile dyeing.
West Virginia State College, Institute, WV (summer
2002) Charleston Stage Company Fine Arts Camp. Two week course in batik and
shibori for junior and senior high age students.
Design and Quilting. Numerous workshops and talks on
contemporary textile design have been done privately and in connection with
exhibits over the years. I often use a slide show of quilt collections and
my own photography to illustrate the lectures.
Graphic Design
Fahlgren Advertising Agency,
Parkersburg
,
WV
(1982-83, 1994) Temp and Freelance Production Artist and Art Director’s
Assistant. Layout, Comprehensive and Mechanical preparation, stat camera
operation, type ordering, locating and organizing models and props for photographic
shoots.
Clear Creek Graphics, Inc. Denver, CO (1983-88)
Officer of the Corporation. Duties included all those of a small business
owner, including technical aspects of a high-quality two-color print ship:
customer service, bookkeeping, collections, ordering stock, inventory, lease
negotiations, vendor relations, sales, darkroom, graphics, bindery,
deliveries, training and overseeing up to four employees. Sold the business
to a larger corporation in 1988.
KRMA-TV Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Denver, CO (1988-92) Graphic and
Broadcast Designer. As a member of the Marketing Department for a PBS
station, I designed publications, ads, posters, sets and signage. Some
broadcast design and animation. Dealt with and took bids from outside
vendors (usually printers) met with volunteers, students, producers and
engineers, helped plan fund raising campaigns. Involved with art department
budgeting, purchasing and in the move from traditional graphic equipment to
a computerized system.
S.W. Graphics,
Parkersburg
,
WV
(1995-96), Graphic Designer and Sign Technician. Designed all signage (engraving,
sublimation, metal photo, vinyl and advertising specialties). Fabricated all
vinyl banners and signs. Some installation.
Visual Purple, Freelance graphic design and
illustration. Clients have included Fahlgren Advertising Agency; SW Graphics, ArtsBridge and Paideia
Educational Foundation, Inc. Parkersburg;
Katalyst Public Relations,
Charleston
; Tamarack -The Best of West
Virginia (juried vendor),
Beckley
,
WV
;
Peoples Bank,
Marietta
,
OH
.
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Broadcast Designers Association, an
international organization of television graphic designers and animators.
Studio Art Quilters Association, an
international organization dedicated to the promotion of fabric artists and
the education of the public and trade to the medium.
American Crafts Council.
PUBLICATIONS
The Contemporary Quilt: New American Quilts and Fiber Art; Contributing Artist. Patricia Chase,
E.P. Dutton Company. 1978
Crafts
Range
, Contributing writer/reviewer;
Colorado
,
1975
Gambit, Contributing
writer/fiction. Mid-Ohio Valley Writer’s Guild publication, 1982
The Conscious Use of Metaphor in Outward Bound,
Cover Design and Illustration.. Stephen Bacon,
Colorado
Outward Bound. 1983
U.U. World Magazine, "Creations" feature,
Sept/Oct 2003 issue.
Promo Magazine, Layout and Design; viewing guide for
Denver Public Television, ‘88-92
Colorado
Parent and Child Magazine, Cover Photograph, June Issue, 1989
Studio Art Quilters Association
Newsletter;
Contributing writer.
ArtWorks; Contributing writer. Quarterly
publication of the West Virginia Division of Arts and Humanities.
Artycles, Designer and Editor. Art education
newspaper published by the
Parkersburg
Art
Center
through theParkersburg Sentinel Newspapers. A six issue project distributed
during the school year to grades five through high school. 1994-5
Art Quilt Magazine, “New Work”, Issue 11, 2001
U.U.World Magazine, “Creations” column, Sept./Oct. issue,
2003
EXHIBITIONS and
AWARDS
1971:
National Scholastic Print Exhibition,
Louisville
,
KY
;
Juried National
First
and
Third Place
, Regional Scholastic Print
Competition.
First Place
etching purchased by the Art Institute of Zanesville Museum,
Zanesville
,
OH
.
Juried Regional
1973:
Brown
University
,
Providence
,
RI
.
Ladies of the Faculty sale and exhibit; Dec.
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Senior Thesis exhibition, Rhode Island
School of Design; Feb.
Loomis-Chaffee
School
,
Windsor
,
CN; one-woman show; May
1974:
First Place
,
Portsmouth
Summer Art Exhibition,
Portsmouth
,
NH
Newport
Arts Festival,
Newport
,
RI
Westerly Arts Festival,
Westerly
,
RI
Second Place finalist, City Symbol competition, City of
New Bedford MA.
Icons, Signs and Symbols,
Parkersburg
Community
College
,
Parkersburg
,
WV
.
April ; 2-person show.
1975:
Young Professionals 2, Craft Alliance Gallery;
St.
Louis
,
MO
;
July; 3-person Invitational.
Springfield
Museum
45th Annual Exhibition;
Springfield
,
MO
;
Oct. Juried Midwestern
Regional.
1976:
Midwest
Fiber/Ttextile Invitational; Craftmens Guild Gallery,
Omaha
,
NE
;
May
Bed, body and Wall Works, Fiber Works Gallery,
Chicago
IL
;
One-Woman
show; June
Colorado Artist Craftsmen Annual Exhibit, Boulder Art Center,
Boulder, CO; October.
Colorado Artist Craftsmen Traveling Exhibit, Loveland, CO;
Nov-Dec. Juried picks from members’ exhibition.
Toys For Adults, Confluence Gallery, Fine Crafts
Cooperative, Denver, CO. Dec.
1977:
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO; Jan.; Invitational
Dakota
Art
Gallery
,
Rapid
City
,
SD
;
Feb.; Invitational
CDA Designer Showroom, Denver, CO; Feb.; Invitational
The Fantasy Show; Bodycraft Galleries,
Winston-Salem
,
NC
;
Aug. Juried
Northwest Crafts Exhibition 1977;
Henry
Gallery
,
University
of
Washington
,
Seattle
,
WA
;
Nov. Juried Northwest
Regional
1978:
Oregon
Crafts ’78; Bush Barn Gallery,
Salem
,
OR
;
Feb. Juried
State.
Light, Form and Color, Klamath Art Association Gallery,
Klamath
Falls
,
OR
;
July; 3-person artists-in-residence exhibition.
1979:
Glass Invitational; Craftmens Guild Gallery,
Omaha
,
NE
;
April.
Liberty
;
Commissioned painting for American Indian Center through the Metropolitan
Arts Council of Omaha, NE; Aug.
1996:
Tamarack; The Best of West Virginia;
Beckley
,
WV
;
Juried vendor, Books and Paper
Pick of the Valley: the
Ohio
Valley
Artists Invitational,
Parkersburg
Art
Center
,
WV; May
A-May–Zing, Art and Religion Exhibition; First
Unitarian Universalist Society of
Marietta
,
OH
;
May
1997:
Winter Regional Exhibition,
Parkersburg
Art
Center
,
Parkersburg
,
WV
;
Jan.
Art on View ’97; Dairy Barn Southeastern
Ohio
Cultural
Arts
Center
,
Athens
,
OH
;
April; Juried
Regional.
Reflections: Contemporary Fiber Images;
Etowah
Art
Gallery
,
Cartersville
,
GA
; May; Juried Southeastern
Regional
Quilts at Crossroads; The Greater
Flint
Arts Council,
Flint
,
MI
;
June; Juried International.
Hanging By A Thread – a contemporary quilt
exhibition;
Northern
Arizona
University
Art
Museum
; July; Juried National.
The Art of Elements; Peoples Collection 1997, Peoples Bank,
Marietta
,
OH
;
Oct.
1998:
Reflections, Purchase Award, The
Peoples Collection 1998, Peoples Bank of
Marietta
,
OH
, Oct.
Honoring the Source; Artists and Ecologists Celebrate the River; Hermann Fine Arts Center,
Marietta College, Marietta, OH; Sept. Project Administrator, Judge and Guest
Exhibitor.
1999:
Riverside Artists' Gallery,
Marietta
,
OH
Salon des Refuse; Gallery Nuchims,
Charleston
,
WV
, Oct.
2001:
Sexually Charged: The Liberating Nature of Sensuality; Carmesi Gallery;
Lawrence
,
KS
;
May; Invitational.
Gallery Nuchims,
Charleston
,
WV
, Aug.
2002:
River Goddess series; The Annex Gallery, Taylor Books;
Charleston
,
WV
;
July; 3-person.
River Goddess series; Court Street Gallery;
Fayetteville
,
WV
;
Sept-Dec.
2003:
Contemporary Fabric Art ’03; Levee House,
Marietta
,
OH
;
Jan. Regional Invitational.
Creating The Goddess, Covenant House,
Charleston
,
WV
.
April. 2-person
Riverside Artists' Gallery,
Marietta
,
OH
.
May. Guest Artist
Tari’s Wild Women Gallery,
Berkeley
Springs
,
WV
.
On-going.
Southern Highland
Crafts Guild,
Asheville
,
SC
,
accepted for entry.
Tamarack, The Best of
West
Virginia
, Fine Art Jury Selection for Dickirson
Gallery. April
U.U. World Magazine, "Creations" feature,
Sept/Oct 2003 issue.
Wrapped in Cloth – The Human Figure in Textiles,
Tubac
Center
for the Arts,
Tubac
,
Arizona
,
Oct – Nov. 2003
Moving Mountains. River Goddess series chosen to illustrate
cover and inside booklet for C.D. compilation of Appalachian songwriters.
Collections (public)
American
Indian
Center
,
Omaha
,
NE
ArtsBridge,
Parkersburg
,
WV
Art Institute of
Zanesville
Museum
,
OH
Children’s
Museum of Denver
,
CO
Girls Club of
Omaha
Omaha
YWCA
Ohio
Valley
Environmental Coalition, WV
Oregon
Arts Commission
Omaha
School
of Music.
Omaha
,
NE
Peoples Bank,
Marietta
,
OH
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the
Kanawha
Valley
,
WV
February and ongoing,
2004
Artisans Cooperative Gallery of Crestone,
Crestone
,
Colorado
. "Lucid Dreams Series"
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