Kathleen Weber Biography

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Kathleen Weber attended Boston College and UMassDartmouth, graduating with a BFA in Painting. She has worked as a commercial artist, greeting card illustrator, and art teacher while pursuing her interest in fine art. Her illustration work has been published by clients such as American Greetings, Gibson, Paramount Cards and Marion Heath. She has won a number of awards for her work in pastel, oil, and gouache, and her still lifes were featured on the cover of American Artist magazine. Her paintings are in collections across the U.S.

Education: UMass Dartmouth, BFA Painting 1980

Experience:

• Freelance Illustration and Painting, 1994-present
• Art Instructor:
  • Figure Drawing and Painting/ Rhode Island School of Design, Young Adult Program
  • Drawing/Hamilton House (Senior Center), Providence RI
  • Pastels/RI Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
  • Floral painting, East Side Art Center, Providence, RI
• Paramount Cards, Inc., Pawtucket, RI 1986-1994: Senior Designer/ Art Dept. Manager
• Providence Journal-Bulletin, Providence, RI 1982-1986: Advertising Layout Artist

Recent Art Exhibits:

• One Person Shows
  • “Florals”, BLVD Gallery, Newport RI, 2005
  • JRS Fine Arts, Providence, RI, 2001, 2004
  • The Donovan Gallery, Tiverton RI, 2002
  • Jewish Community Center, Providence, RI 2001
  • Annual Open Studio Event, 9 Newman Ave., Rumford 1997-present
• Juried Shows (* denotes Award)
  • “Rhode Island Painters for Save the Bay” 2005
  • “Scenes of Rhode Island”, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 2004*, 2005*
  • “Old Colony Now” Attleboro Museum 2000
  • “Images of Cumberland 1999”; Invitational Show, Rowbottom Gallery 2000
  • Yellow Springs Art Show, Yellow Springs, PA 1991,1999, 2000-06
  • Mystic Maritime Gallery International Show, 1996*, 1997-9
  • Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI 1998, 1999
  • Providence Art Club, 1993*, 1994*, 1996*, 1997, 1999*
  • Warwick Art Museum, 1995
  • Connecticut Pastel Society, Wallingford, CT 1994, 1997
  • South County Art Association, Kingston, RI 1991*, 1993
  • Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA 1989*, 1990, 1991
• Group Shows
  • “Plein Air Painters”, Green River Gallery, Bristol RI 2006
  • Foundry Artists Holiday Show 2004, 2005
  • Imago Gallery, Warren RI 2003
  • Providence Bookstore Cafe, Providence RI 1996
  • Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, 1995
  • Providence Public Library, 1995
  • Channel 36 Art & Antique Auction, 1994, 1995,1997-2003
  • Art Center of Northwest Rhode Island, Chepachet, RI

Publications:

• American Artist Magazine, Sept. 1995 (Cover)
• Aids Care Ocean State Calendar, 2004
• RI Medicine and Health (Cover) June 2001, April 2003