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RESUME

Allison Spreadborough

916.804.6248

 

EXPERIENCE:

Watercolor, Nature Journaling, and Plein Air Painting

 

GALLERIES:

Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

 

MEMBERSHIP:

• American Watercolor Society

• California Art Club

• California Plein Air Painters

• California Watercolor Association

• National Watercolor Society

• Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA

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ARTIST RESIDENCY:

Residency at Pond Farm - California State Park Recreation Area, Guerneville, CA in May 2019

 

RECENT SHOWS:

2020

• KVIE Art Auction, Sacramento, CA

• 1st Annual Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition; Linda Kemp, Juror

• Pence Gallery Art Auction, Davis, CA

• Solo Show March-May at Crepeville, Sacramento, CA

2019 

• California State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibit, Sacramento, CA

• Slice, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA; Julia Couzens, Juror

• KVIE Art Auction, Sacramento, CA

• Verge Center for the Arts, Preview Exhibition for 2019 Sac Open Studios

• If I only had words to tell you/Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One - Point Reyes Station, CA; M. Louise Stanley, Juror

• 7th Annual Open Fine Arts Juried Competition, Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, Elk Grove, CA; Michelle Gregor, JudgeCenter for

• Pence Gallery Art Auction, Davis, CA

• Members Inaugural Show; Rancho Cordova Arts

• Elk Grove Artists – 2019 Art Extravaganza Fair and Show, Elk Grove, CA; HONORABLE MENTION; Telagio Baptista, Judge

• Big Names, Small Art, Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2018 

• In the Fields: Botanical Lore, Juried Competition, Arts Benicia; Jennifer Perlmutter, Juror

• 6th Annual Open Fine Arts Juried Competition, Elk Grove Fine Arts Center, Elk Grove, CA; Kristina Gilmore, Judge

• Road Maps/Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One - Point Reyes Station, CA; DeWitt Cheng, Juror

• Elk Grove Artists - Inaugural ARTSbeat Art Fair and Competition, Elk Grove, CA; HONORABLE MENTION; David Peterson, Judge

• Big Names, Small Art, Art Auction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

• Pence Gallery, All Things Wicked, Davis, CA, Curated by Eileen Hendren

• Celebration of Life, Gallery 1855, Davis, CA; 9th Annual Non-Juried Group Show

• Pence Gallery, Annual Art Auction, Davis, CA 

• Verge Center for the Arts, Preview Exhibition for 2018 Sac Open Studios

 

PERMANENT COLLECTION:

• Sacramento City College, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA

• Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Point Reyes, CA

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TEACHING:

 

• Assistant, Sacramento City College – Davis Campus, Sacramento, CA (course: Beginning and Advanced Watercolor, Spring 2017 with Professor David Lobenberg)

• Assistant, American River College, Sacramento, CA (course: Beginning Watercolor, Fall 1990 with Professor Gary Pruner)

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CURATION:

February 2020: Watercolor Masters - Landscape; Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Masters: Barbara Nechis, Carolyn Lord, Dale Laitinin and Juan Pena. Curators: Allison Spreadborough and Jennifer Tachera

 

MEDIA/PUBLICATIONS:

Print: One Hundred Years, One Hundred (and Twenty) Artists, An Exhibition Featuring Seven Decades of Sacramento City College Art Alumni, 2016

 

Online:  KVIE Art Auction 2019:

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​Online:  Administrator and Creator of “Sacramento Watercolor Artists”, a Facebook Group est. 2015:

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Online: Administrator and Creator of Sacramento Urban Sketchers and Plein Air Artists, a Meetup Group est. 2019

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EDUCATION:

2008 – current   Multi-day art workshops taught by: Andie Thrams, Anthony Rogone, Barbara Nechis, Bill Cone, Birgit O’Connor, Carol Carter, Tony Couch, Carolyn Lord, Charles Reid, Cynthia Schildhauer, Dale Laitinin, David Lobenberg, Don Andrews, Gary Bukovnik, Jeannie Vodden, Joan Hoffmann, John Hewitt, John Muir Laws, Juan Pena, Karen Bowers, Kathleen Dunphy, Kristin Meuser, Laurie Wigham, Lucy Sargeant, Michael Reardon, Robert Regis Dvorak, Sandy Delehanty, Sara Post, Stephen Curl, Stacey Vetter, Sterling Edwards, Tom Hoffmann, and Tracy Reid Lewis.

 

1987 – 2007     Sacramento State University, American River College, and Sacramento City College with professors: Anne Gregory, Bill Chambers, Fred Dalkey, Gary Pruner, Harold Schwarm, Joan Moment, Michaele LeCompte, Oliver Jackson.

 

2012   Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Psychology, National University, La Jolla, CA

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Born in Sacramento, California

 

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