RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROJECTS INCLUDE:
Helen Frederick’s accomplishments over the past five years include residencies in the United States, Mexico and India where she worked and exhibited with international artists. Her one-woman show “Acts of Silence” was featured at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. A large piece titled “Free Fall” was included in a national drawing exhibition. In “Women Now”, an invitational at the Workhouse Center, a former prison in Lorton VA, where women were incarcerated, her installation was featured with works by Jennifer Bartlett, Jenny Holzer and Mickalene Thomas.
Frederick has received invitations to lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Chautauqua Summer Institute NY, the American University in Beirut, and the Rhode Island School of Design, among many others. At the 2018 College Art Association Annual Conference, she was honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award and in Washington DC, she received the 2018 Renwick Museum Distinguished Artist Award. The Brooklyn Museum of Art archives Frederick’s name and work in the Feminist Art Base. These public acknowledgements reflect the research and endurance that propel her in the studio; in collaborative creative pursuits; in acts of social activism, and in curatorial projects by serving on boards such as ArtWorks for Freedom and the Kala Chaupal, an Indian-based NGO.
While Helen served as a professor of art at the School of Art George Mason University and with regional schools, she worked with students to set in motion programs engaging diversity and social agency in collaborative artistic experience. Helen coordinated/curated exhibitions such as “10 Years After 9/11”, “Fear Strikes Back, the “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC” project regarding freedom of expression, with over 50 partner programs; and a “Call and Response: Reclaiming Freedom” exhibition in Washington DC to bring awareness to human trafficking and modern slavery.
Helen Frederick considers all of these endeavors and accomplishments part of her studio practice extended into real-life conditions and situations.
