-Kym Allison
-The Olive Tree Studios
K Y M   A L L I S O N,  A R T I S T

CONDENSED RESUME
full resume available on request
Glenwood Springs, CO
(ph) 970.945.9299

 CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY                
• Born 1957, Denver, Colorado
• Denver/Boulder, CO: B.S. Architectural/Civil Engineering, Fine Art, 15 years working in engineering,
... active in the arts community.
• San Luis Valley, CO: Working artist, community radio general manager, teaching tai chi, math and art.
Santa Fe, NM: Completing M.A. in transformational counseling and art therapy
• Glenwood Springs, CO: Working artist, psychotherapist and art therapist

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
• CultureClash, Salida, Colorado

RECENT MAJOR PURCHASES & COMMISSIONS      
• "San Luis Cow", CowParade International, Denver CowParade, Summer 2006.
• San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center,  Purchased/Commissioned  Nov. 2005 
• Kaiser Permanente Public Collection, Two Paintings, Purchased June 2005 
• Dana Bennett Matthews Law Offices, Boulder, CO, Purchased June 2005
• Kaiser Permanente Public Collection, Rock Creek Medical Center, Boulder, CO, Two Paintings,
...Purchased February 2004
• Michael Sczekan & Co. P.C. Certified Public Accountant, Englewood, CO, Purchased 2002
• Numerous private collections, nationally.

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• A Living Arts Center, grand opening, Centennial, CO, December 2007
• Bella Art & Frame, featured artist, Monument, CO, September 2007
Solo Exhibit, Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO,  August 2006
• Salida, Colorado Annual Artwalk, Solo Exhibit, Laughing Ladies (CultureClash), June 2005, 2006 & 2009
• Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, Boulder, CO, August 2004
• Parkside Gallery,127 West Ryus Ave, La Veta, CO, June 2002 
• Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, CO, Spring 2009

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• Summer Art at the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO, Aug 2004, 
...Aug 2003
• Women in the Visual Arts 10th Anniv. Exhibition, Erector Sq. Gallery, New Haven, CT, March 1996 
• Colorado ’96 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO, March 1996

GRANTS & HONORS
Women of Rothgerber, Lyons & Johnson LLP, art event, invited artist, October 2005
• El Pomar, Grant Recipient, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, April 2001
• SLV Rural Electrical Co-op, Grant Recipient, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, March 2001
• Change Inc. (Robert Rauschenberg, President), Grant Recipient, Nov. 1998

SELECTED AWARDS
• Waldemarsuddes, Stockholm, Sweden, Skapa 2000-talets konstfrimarke, Sept 1997,  
...Honorable Mention              
• Taos Arts Association Annual Members Award Show,Taos, NM, June 1997, Second  Place  

TEACHING POSITIONS
• Art Instructor, Alamosa Open High School, 216 Victoria Ave., Alamosa, CO, Sept 2002 to May 2006.
• Artist in Residence, Ortega Middle School Expulsion Program (SOENA), art therapy program for
...disenfranchised youth aged 12 to 15, Jan 2002 to June 2003
• Artist in Residence, Youth Visionaries Community Arts Project, a three-month  collaboration between
...area businesses, Adams State College, and the Alamosa Open High School, August – Nov. 2001,
...Alamosa, CO

EDUCATION
Architecture, Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• B.S. Civil Engineering, Fine Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO
• Art Students League of Denver
• Psychology, Fine Art, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
• M.A. Transformational Counseling and Art Therapy, Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM

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