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Miriam
A Kilmer, Owner 307
Yoakum PKWY APT 225 Alexandria VA 22304 Résumé Education UNC-Greensboro      
1973       BFA Painting/Printmaking, magna
cum laude Corcoran
College of Art and Design credits toward BFA Allentown The Catholic University of America      credits
toward MA Theology De Private Study Sam Tamashiro,
photographer for the National Geographic and curator of Intuitive Eye Gallery, Reston, VA      Summer, 1971 William Swetcharnik,
artist and art teacher Pastel
Workshops, 1983 through 1985 Community and
professional activities Rising Dove
Fine Arts and Services (since 1994) - owner (Sole Proprietor) Pastel
Painting, Fine Art Photography, Photographic & Pastel Portrait
Commissions, Archival Framing, Event Photography, Digital Photographic
Restoration, Graphic Design, Web Page Design, Desktop Publishing, Book Sales Former member of these organizations: The Art League ( The Art Group, Mount Jackson, Alan á Dale Madrigal
Singers -
photography Current
Member The Folklore Society of Greater -
Organize and co-lead Sacred Harp/Shapenote workshops First Christian Church of MoveOn.org -
photography Web Sites I Design and Maintain http://www.risingdove.com -
Rising Dove Fine Arts and Services Pastels, Photographs and other
Artwork Exhibited ·
Galleries That Have Represented
My Work The Art League Gallery, Member of the Art League Bin Gallery (requires acceptance in at least
three juried shows during the previous year): 1984-85, 1985-86, 1988-89,
2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08, 2008-09 The Art Group Gallery, Mt. Barker’s
Bazaar, Santa
Fe Art World, Galleria
Americana, 33 juried group shows and five solo
shows as of August 1987; lost count thereafter. Partial lists follow. ·
Solo Shows “Beyond Reality,” Photography, 08/120-9/15/1981;
12/24/81-01/27/82; 04/16/82-05/20/82 Colorfax Galleries,
Additional Photography Show
(different theme) between 1983 and 1987, also at Colorfax Galleries “Harmony,” B&W Photography,
08/19-09/19/1987 The Potter’s House, “Harmony,” B&W Photography,
between 1987 and 1991 De Solo Show, primarily Color
Photography, 04/09/2006 Rockfield Manor, Harford
County, MD, sponsored by The Harford
Poetry Society in conjunction with my poetry reading: Joyce Kilmer’s
poetry, Aline Kilmer’s poetry, and excerpts a book by my father, Kenton
Kilmer: Memories of my Father, Joyce
Kilmer “Animals of the The Art Group,
"The Character of the Shenandoah Valley: a
Photographic Essay" August 1 ~ 28, 2014 The Art Group,
· Juried Shows 1970s or
1980s, Intuitive Eye, 1980 “Catholic
Artists of the 80’s,” St. Anthony's, SoHo, 1980s “Catholic
Artists of the 80’s,” St. Francis Xavier, The Art League Gallery, The
Art League Gallery, 1980s Washington
Women’s Arts Center, Washington, D.
C. - Pastels and Photographs in several juried shows, including the
“Mini-Maxi Show”; I was an active member of this cooperative gallery. 1980s two
Invitational shows, The Red Cross, 04-06/1985 04/1986 03-04/1988 01/1988-1989 “Life Exhibit” – National Traveling
Show, including Paul VI Institute, Group Shows Sponsored by The Art Group 04/2003 “Bryce and Orkney Springs; Paintings and
Photographs by Local Artists” - Bryce Lodge, 07/ 2003
“Town of 05-07/2008 “Fort
Valley Nursery Spring Exhibit”, 04-07/2008 RE/MAX
Allegiance, 07/2008 “Beach
Days” Group show at Woodstock Café, Woodstock, Virginia - Pastels,
Color 10/2008 Darrin-McHone Gallery, Accomplishments · Photographs,
Drawings and Pastels
included in many private collections internationally, notably: Bob Hall and Ella Wilcox (extensive collection of
photographs and pastels, including two commissioned double family pastel
portraits) They are my most faithful patrons. Charles Justice, who commissioned my best-selling
photographic print illustrating Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees” Jerry L.
Eisley, owner of Sacred Ed Knippers, renowned
artist and art collector Peter and Laura Sailer Green Hedges Elementary School, Vienna, VA
(photographic portrait of the founders, huge photographic collage of the
American flag that was featured in a local paper, and two sets of 10 Giclée reproductions of paintings by my maternal
grandfather, F. C. Frieseke Gary and Sarah Smith (candid photographic
portrait of Sarah’s father leading Sacred Harp Singing, used as the cover of
“Joe Beasley Memorial Sacred Harp Album,” a Shape-Note CD) · Photographs
published The
Potter’s House Press, Glencoe Publishing Company, William
C. Brown, Smithsonian in Your
Classroom, United Presbyterian Church, St.
Mark’s Catholic Church, Christians in Visual Arts, Joyce Kilmer
Centennial Commission ·
Graphics Published · Artwork
published Saint
Mary's Press, Joyce Kilmer Centennial Commission, Write-Fit Communications (book jacket illustration), small presses and
newsletters ·
Photographic Restoration published Buckle Down Publishing
Company, New York University Press, National Apostolate for Inclusion
Ministry, and many others, both book publishers and web
sites
http://www.artmesh.org/profiles/miriam_a_kilmer/portfolios http://www.yourartsource.com (I have
not sent up my art yet)
I have been juried into these websites (but cannot
afford their fees): http://timothysfineart.com
(September 2008 Show) (Robert Sterling lobbied to get me in free, but by then
they were full.) http://DiscoveredArtists.com (annual fee) I received personal invitations to
join these websites (I will follow up shortly): http://www.browseabit.com http://www.imageprovider.com.au I
was selected to be an absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio Artist in 2003 (85
were accepted out of 180 applicants.) I did not continue because of the
expense. My
design product, “Paper Dolls” children of the world diversity, was selected
as one of “Today's Best” on Zazzle.com.
It appeared on Zazzle's homepage on January
21, 2008 and was added to the “Today’s Best Awards Showcase.” My
pastel “Smiling Jesus” was selected to appear on the home page of alltradeart for August 2, 2008. I
received a letter from Robert A.
Strawn, Picture Editor of the National
Catholic News Service, stating: “I think yours are some of the finest
pictures covering parish life that I have seen.” I
received a letter from Gayle Boss, Editor of The Potter’s House Press, stating: “Thank you for the invitation
to your opening at the [Potter’s House].
If that is your invitation, what the photos themselves must
be!... In fact, the invitation photo
is so fine I wanted to encourage you to send it to the [ Artist
and Art Director of Santa Fe Art World Denise
Williams wrote in an email: “I like the emotion expressed in 'Charles,' 'I Am
Somebody,' and 'Fulfillment' - really amazingly powerful works. To express that kind of emotion in a work
of art is rare.” Catholic
Artists of the 80s chose my pastel painting, “Blessed
the Fruit,” to represent their show in a The
Vienna Photographic Society awarded two
prizes to my photographs, one second prize and one honorable mention, in the
early 1980s. I was selected as one of
their jurors one year in the late 1980s. I
was invited to, and am listed in Relevant Past Employment History Reflections in Photography, Inc. 01/20/2005 Assisted
in photographing a George W. Bush
Inaugural Ball Amor Dei Communications: Spirituality and Fine Arts (1979-1994) Owner/Operator Cook’s Photo-Art Studio, Vienna, VA c.1988-1994 Assistant Photographer Portrait Industries
Corporation, Chesapeake, VA c.1986-1988 Studio Manager and Photographer, Elementary Teacher, Summer School, Math and Art ST Marks Catholic Church (Volunteer) Photography for calendars,
newsletters, exhibits, collages, multimedia presentations, etc. Numerous art projects:
multi-media banner, drawings for flyers and programs, posters, etc. I also did a workshop and tutorial
on “Spirituality and the Arts” for a parish near |
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