OTHER NEWS 2011 - 2024

ETERNAL PAPER Exhibition

University of Maryland Global College Arts Program Gallery

October 2023 to May, 2024

Adelphi, Maryland

The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark

July 13- August 11, 2024

This exhibition presents fifty-two works of twenty international artists working in hand formed paper. The artists, who bridge several decades, communicate their individual aesthetics and the cross pollination engendered in studios and projects where they have collaborated together. The show features two-dimensional large-scale wall-hung work, sculptural artist books, and various smaller sized works.

Featured artists are: Maria Barbosa, Elsabe Johnson Dixon, Nicole Donnelly, Cheryl Edwards, Susan Firestone, Helen C. Frederick, Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter, Alexis Granwell, Ellen Hill, Ken Polinskie, Tongi Philip Qian, Randi Reiss-McCormack, Tara Sabharwal, Soledad Salame, Preston Sampson, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Joyce J. Scott, Buzz Spector, Mary Ting and Anne Vilsboell.

In the age of the instant, disposable image, this exhibition asks:

What do we hold close?

What serves us?

What is lasting?

Curator: Helen Frederick

LECTURES

Frederick moderated a webinar The Virtual Environmental Situation Room for the Kala Chaupal Trust and Institut Francais Indie, that featured Yasmine Ostendorf (Green Art Lab. Alliance, the Netherlands), Arun Kumar H.G (Sculptor and Trustee, Sara Centre), and Lauren Fournier (architect). July, 2020

Frederick delivered a lecture at the American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington DC, 2018 as part of the Renwick Art Alliance Distinguished Artist series; and at George Mason University for their Visual Voices series.

Keynote: Our Body and Hands in Expressive Waters, Jaipur Kala Chaupal, India, November, 2017

In October, 2016 Frederick enjoyed giving presentations at her alma mater Rhode Island School of Design - “Absorbing Traditions: The Labor of Art”- and at the Rochambeau Lycee in Bethesda, MD, and in 2019 at NOVA, VA, Manassas Campus.

These talks continue her interests in global ecology and cultural literacy as a follow up to her publication “Investigating Cultural Literacy”, Hand Papermaking magazine, winter issue 2013.

BOOKS IN MOTION

Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book. American University in Beirut, May, 2016

IDENTIFYING AND COLLECTING THE FINE PRINT. Presented a lecture in coordination with the major print exhibition “Multiplicity”, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, WDC, 2012. 

ARTS, MILITARY AND HEALING project gave military members and their families a chance to work side by side with art therapists, veteran artists and established artists. A week-long hand papermaking, writing and bookmaking workshop was held in the George Mason University print and papermaking studios, from May 14-18, 2012 and offered a creative outlet to for veterans to express their wartime experiences

SOFAlab (Science of Art Laboratory)
As a co-founder of SOFAlab, coordinated the presentation of panels, and speakers that discussed the bridging of the healing arts, ecology, and social networking in the creation of art; and conversely examined how art influences scientific and clinical practice and pedagogies.

Some CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES

Juror/Artist-in-Residence
2018 Pacific States Biennial North America
University of Hilo, Hawaii

ARTS IN FOGGY BOTTOM OUTDOOR SCULPTURAL BIENNIAL

“Absence and Presence” Co-curator with Peter Winant, April-October, 2018

Washington’s award-winning public art program featuring contemporary sculptures—many of which are site-responsive—by 15 emerging and established local and regional artists. In cooperation with neighborhood homeowners, all sculptures will be displayed in front of private homes throughout the Foggy Bottom Historic District between 24th and 26th Streets NW, and H and K Streets NW. The six-month exhibition is free and open to the public.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: RECLAIMING FREEDOM

Call and Response collaborative exchange exhibition between artists and poets

Watergate Gallery, Washington DC,

September – November, 2017

FEAR STRIKES BACKCurated by Helen Frederick
Fine Arts Gallery, George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
October 14-November 1, 2013

This exhibition examines how we handle our fears and anxieties culturally, and how we build upon distortions of information fed to us by various types of media and social networking. One of the most urgent challenges facing society today is how we live with people who differ economically, racially, religiously, and ethnically. The thirteen artists selected were asked to present works that may transfigure suffering into other concepts, depending on their sensibilities. The work in FEAR STRIKES BACK, allows us to observe our 21st century overexposure to the troubling, violent, and sometime staged images, which can lead us to mixed emotions enjoying the spectacle of a horrible situation or sobering subject, while wanting it to stop or be stopped. It featured Shahla Arbabi, Ed Bisese, Colby Caldwell, David Carlson, Mei Mei Chang, Michele Colburn, Nick Collier, Anna U. Davis, Sam Holmes, David Page, Annette Polan, Joyce J. Scott, and Julia Kim Smith.

NOETICS 
Curated by Helen Frederick
Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, WDC
May 14 to September 19, 2013
 
Featured in Noetics is the work of Maria Barbosa, Rosemary Cooley, Oletha DeVane, Helen Frederick, Jenny Freestone, Amelia Hankin, Fleming Jeffries, Trudi Y. Johnson, Randi Reiss McCormack, Christine Neill, Margaret Adams Parker, Soledad Salome’.The artists in Noetics provided insights coupled with acute sense of observation in the media of printmaking. With willingness to provide an opening for us to enter the intuitions of their images, they offer abstract and more literal meaning to guide us into a state of noetics. The works include objects of desire, notes from the natural world, liminal space, and disrupted visual words.

BREAKTHROUGH

Twenty Years After German Unification Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists, 2010-2011

Curated by Helen Frederick

Aspen Institute, CO; ,First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN; Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC; University of Texas at San Antonio; and U.S. Equities Gallery, Chicago, IL

This project engaged American students, artists, and leaders from the business, government, and non-profit sectors in enlightened conversations with a select group of 10 artists from Berlin, Germany. All of the selected artists lived on both sides of the Berlin Wall and suffered disadvantages -- some were even imprisoned -- as a result of their free expression through art in former East Germany. Universal values such as freedom of expression, courage, optimism, endurance, commitment, risk-taking, and others formed the basis of the interaction with the art and the artists.