GARLAND FARWELL

b Los Angeles, California

BFA Rhode Island School of Design

Recent Exhibitions

2017 - PaperWest, National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition. Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

2017 – PRECISION. Juried Exhibition. The A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke

2017 – Featured Artist. Black Belt Treasures. Camden, Alabama

2017 – Featured Artist. Homewood Antiques and Marketplace. Homewood, Alabama

2017 – Sumter County Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Show. Coleman Center for the Arts.

York, Alabama.

2016 – Sumter County Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Show. Coleman Center for the Arts.

York, Alabama.

2015 – West Alabama Juried Show. Bama Theater Gallery. Arts Council of Tuscaloosa

2015 – CURIO. Solo Exhibition. Webb Gallery. University of West Alabama

2015 – Sumter County Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Show. Coleman Center for the Arts.

York, Alabama.

2014 – Sumter County Fine Arts Council Annual Juried Show. Coleman Center for the Arts.

York, Alabama.

Projects

2017 - THE SUMTER COUNTY DRAWING EXPERIMENT. Six weeks of community drawing sessions, happenings, and events. A pop-up Open Studio. Coleman Center for the Arts

2017 – SOUTH17.ORG. A web store and future brick and mortar shop dedicated to presenting and marketing rural, folk, and outsider artists located along the western corridor of Alabama. Nov.2017 launch.

Select Mural/Public Art Commissions

2017 – Barn Quilt Trail. Choctaw County, Alabama. Seven Barn Quilts for Seven municipalities.

Choctaw Co. Extension Office, Auburn U. – Sponsors

2016 – PASTORAL. Recreation Room Mural. 8ft x 28ft. Willow Trace Nursing Home. Butler, Al.

Choctaw Co. Board of Education - Sponsor

2015 – TIGER. Entryway Mural. 10ft x 25ft. Demopolis High School. Demopolis, Al.

2015 – THE VINE AND OLIVE COLONY. Marengo County history mural. A collaboration with Advanced Placement students. 16ft x 4ft. Demopolis High School.

2014 – ALABAMA FOLKLORE. Two panels. 5ft x 9ft each. Celebrating the lives and works of

Ruby Pickens Tartt, Mary Elizabeth Windham, Vera Ward, and Dock Reed.

Collaboration with Social Studies department. Demopolis HS

2013 – A STORYQUILT OF OLD KINTERBISH. 20ft x 8ft. Based on the memoirs of Mildred Black.

Collaboration with Kinterbish Elementary School students. Coleman Center for the Arts - Sponsor

2012 – CROSSING GUARD. 16ft X 30ft. All City Management Services. Corporate Offices.

Santa Fe Springs, California

Select Theater Works

2009-Present – Artist-in-Residence. Theater Department, Demopolis High School.

Overseeing design and construction of sets, props, masks and other visual aspects of theater productions.

Past shows include Treasure Island, Lion King, and Aladdin.

2010 – AND JESUS MOONWALKED THE MISSISSIPPI. Marcus Gardley, Playwright

Production Design. University of Massachusetts. Amherst

2007 – STRANGERS and OTHER ANGELS. Graffitti Wings. Compagnia de Colombari

Museum of the City of New York.

2007 – The BLACKAMOOR ANGEL  A Jazz Operetta. Masks, Puppets, Props, Set.

Diedre Murrey – Composer, Carl Rux – Libretto, Karin Coonrod – Director

Fisher Performing Arts Center, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY

2005 – NZINGA. Masks, Puppets, Costumes, Sets. Batoto Yetu Dance Company. New York. Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Carnegie Hall, Joyce Theater, Apollo Theater, Pan-African Festival, Trinidad and Tobago

2004 –COASTLINE. Alice Tuan, playwright.  Serious Play! Theater Ensemble.

Puppet design and construction. North Hampton, MA.  Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland

Awards / Residencies / Fellowships

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, COLEMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS – 2007-2008

URBAN ARTS INITIATIVE / ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE – With Hindustani singer, Samita Sinha- 2007

THE WHEELER FOUNDATION – 2006

CHANGE INC. - 2006

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE,  ArtSpace220 - 2002

JIM HENSON FOUNDATION – 2000,1998,1994,1990

FRANKLIN FURNACE FOUNDATION – 1994

NEW YORK FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS (NYFA) – 1993

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE,  LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL – 1993-1991

PEG SAANDVOORDT FOUNDATION – 1991

DIVERSE FORMS (NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS) – 1991

RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS – 1987