Helen Vaughn — Resume

Education

1974-1976	University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
1963-1964	Bachelor of Arts, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1960-1963	Howard College, Birmingham, AL

Selected Solo Exhibitions

September-October, 2002	Images of Italy Recent paintings of the Italian landscape Dragonfly Gallery Fayetteville, Tennessee
February-March, 1999	Helen J. Vaughn: Recent Paintings Michelson Museum of Art Marshall, Texas
June 1997 - September 1998	Inhabited Places: Recent Works by Helen J. Vaughn An exhibition organized and circulated by the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
June 22 - August 10, 1997	R. S. Barnwell Memorial Garden and Art Center Shreveport, Louisiana
October 26 - December 14, 1997	Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts Florence, AL
December 28 - February 22, 1998	Maitland Art Center Maitland, Florida
May 3 - June 21,1998	Huntsville Museum of Art Huntsville, AL
August 8 - September 20, 1998	Wiregrass Museum of Art Dothan, AL

Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions

September13-November 16, 2003	2003 Appalachian Corridors Juried Exhibition Avampato Discovery Museum Charleston, West Virginia Purchase Award
April 27-May 10, 2002	The Wonders of Alabama Art The Energen Corporation Competition Birmingham, AL
November, 2000-January, 2001	The Red Clay Survey 7th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art Huntsville Museum of Art Huntsville, AL Juror’s Choice Award
September, 2000	Pastel Society of America 28th Annual Pastel Exhibition National Arts Club New York City, NY Merit Award
March-April, 2000	Pastel Society of North Florida Pastels 2000 - National Juried Exhibition Ft. Walton Beach Museum of Art Merit Award

Awards and Distinctions

2002	Feature article: May/June Pastel International
2001	Juror Montgomery Art Guild Juried Exhibition
1999	Adjudication Panel, Indianapolis Arts Council Lilly Foundation Creative Renewal Fellowships Feature article: November, 1998 American Artist
1988-1989	Statehouse Renovation Project State Capitol Buildings, Montgomery, AL
1989	Poster Artist State Arts Council Conference, Huntsville, AL
1987	Peer Review Adjudication Panel Alabama State Arts Council Individual Visual Artist Grant
1985	Individual Artist in Visual Art Grant Winner Alabama State Arts Council
1984	Nomination for Awards in the Visual Arts Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
1981	Symposium: The Ties That Bind Panel Participant Sponsored by the Women’s Committee of the Smithsonian Associates National Museum of American Art Washington, DC

Permanent Collections

	The White House, Washington, DC
	The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
	The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
	University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
	Alabama Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL
	BellSouth, Birmingham, AL
	Alabama State Arts Council
	Alabama State Bar Association
	Health South Corporation

“It has been said about Vaughn’s figurative work that it has a feminist slant. If this means not only a focus on images of women, but on the psychological truth of being female in today’s society, that message has always been reflected in deceptively ordinary images in Vaughn’s work.”

— David M. Robb