WALT PADGETT
1763 Boundary Lane
Grants Pass, Oregon 97527 phone: 541-479-1805
waltpadgettart@gmail.com
EDUCATION: Florida State University (B.F.A., M. F.A.--majored in sculpture), 1965-‘69; Clemson University (architecture), 1963-‘65
workshops with Dan Weldon (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Barbara Mason (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Keith Howard (Imag-On non-toxic intaglio printmaking), Michael Edge (bronze patination), Welton Rotz (Italian marble carving), Akira Kurosaki (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Oregon School of Design (architecture & city renewal, team study of Portland’s “Northwest Triangle”, later known as “the Pearl”, culminating in proposals to property owners with recommendations for urban development), Nelson Sandgren (watercolor painting), Victor Morejohn (sculpture), Ted Goerschner (oil painting), Millard Sheets (watercolor painting), Robert McClain (Japanese woodblock printmaking), international bronze casting conferences /workshops (Albuquerque, Chicago, Boulder, Kalamazoo, Lawrence), Penland School of Crafts (bronze casting of sculpture: assistantship to John Acorn
SABBATICAL STUDIES: Japan's Tokaido--two months bicycle camping in Japan along the famous highway between Tokyo (formerly Edo) and Kyoto, documenting (photography) historic sites depicted in the "53 Stations of the Tokaido" print series of Ando Hiroshige (1832) and the 20th Century artist Jun’Ichiro Sekino; 1984. Japanese woodblock printmaking --one month intensive study at the Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo, Japan (1983), during which time I studied under Toshi Yoshida, his son Tsukasa, and the printers working in the studio. Day trip to the ancient capital of Kamakura; 1983. These two educational visits to Japan were focal points of study, within a two years’ leave of absence from employment at Rogue Community College, to pursue sabbatical experience as a full-time professional artist. 1984,1983.
ART TRAVEL ABROAD: Kuaii, Hawaii: watercolor painting and photography on location, sightweeing with family, one week 2014
Central Japan: member of delegation of nine artists representing Mendocino, California to Sister City, Miasa/ Omachi; participation (woodblock prints) in art exhibit of Mendocino artists’ work in Omachi, five-day homestay with Japanese family including sightseeing travel in area with group. After delegation visit to Omachi, I traveled independently through Central Japan, photographically documenting Japan’s historic highway, the Kisokaido., as represented in the famous series of woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Eisen, the “Sixty-nine Stages of the Kisokaido”, 2009.
Italy: Venice, Ravenna, Faenza, Florence, Rome, Tivoli, Maratea, Sorrento, Capri, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Naples; three weeks exploring by car with family, visiting historic sites, museums, sightseeing, watercolor painting and photography, 2009.
Big Island of Hawaii: watercolor painting on location, photography, professional contacts, sightseeing with family, sixteen days, 2008.
Central Japan: Karuizawa, Yokohama, Nikko, Matsumoto, Obuse; -- traveled/ documented historic highways (Tokaido thru Hodogaya, Kanagawa, private walking tour with Patrick Carey author of book Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige), by train to sections of the Nakasendo / Kisokaido highway (Karuizawa to Nagoya)--- traveled to Nikko to see the great shrines to the Tokugawa Shogunate, to Obuse, the town where Hokusai lived out his last years. Traveled to Kyoto to meet with Richard Steiner, founder/President of the Kyoto International Woodprint Association, then to Toyoma & Takaoka to visit friends, day trips to Kanazawa, Takayama. Photography and research for woodblock prints, professional contacts; three weeks 2006.
Great Britain (England, Scotland), Normandy, France: taught Oregon community college students, at the University of London, for the Oregon Consortium of Community Colleges for International Study; day trips to Stonehenge and Salisbury, Brighton, Henry Moore’s estate, private weekend travel to Dover, Bristol, Winsor, Scotland, two and a half months Spring term 2004; additional three weeks’ travel to Paris, Normandy to visit areas where Monet painted, Monet’s estate at Giverny, Southern France and the French Alps. Watercolor painting on location, photography, sightseeing with family.
Kakegawa, Japan: Eugene/ Kakegawa Sister City Association annual delegation; activities included ceremonial presentation gift of Padgett woodblock print “Tokaido series: Makino Iron Factory, Kakegawa” to the Mayor of Kakegawa City, opportunities to display prints, give public slide presentation, regional travel to further document the historic Tokaido, homestays with Japanese families, ten days 1996. During the following year, produced second print, “Tokaido series: Kakegawa Castle”, which was presented as a gift from the Eugene/Kakegawa Sister City Association, to the annual delegation of dignitaries from the City of Kakegawa, by the Mayor of the City of Eugene, at the Sister City banquet and ceremonies in Eugene, 1997.
Mazatlan, Mexico: gallery visits, sightseeing and photography, two weeks 1988, ‘87
Japan: Two visits, 1984,1983; see “Sabbatical Studies” above.
Europe: England, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland; visited major art museums, historic sites of architecture, fine arts; sightseeing and photography, two months 1970
TEACHING: Rogue Community College full-time Instructor of Art (33 years), Department Chairman (11 years) 1971-2004; Florida A & M University full-time Instructor of Art 1970-’71; Northside High School full-time Art Teacher 1969- ’70
Full-time teaching exchange (three weeks) with Professor Nelson Sandgren, Department of Fine Arts, Oregon State University, 1979
workshop teaching: Fort Worden State Park—Alexander’s Castle (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Northwind Arts Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Mendocino Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking, Solarplate intaglio printmaking, sand-cast aluminum sculpture), Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), University of Oregon (Visiting Artist Program, Japanese woodblock printmaking), Portland State University & The Northwest Print Council (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Southern Oregon University (sand- cast aluminum sculpture), Coos Art Museum ( Japanese woodblock printmaking), Southwestern Oregon Community College (drawing), Central Oregon Community College (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Quinlan Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Blue Bay Press (Japanese woodblock printmaking)
part-time teaching: Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (“Printmaking Open Studio”); instructor of Japanese woodblock and other relief, intaglio, and monotype
printmaking, 2011-2006.
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS: Hilltop Gallery (Ashland, Or.), Eagle Point Public Library (Eagle Point, Or.), Board of Directors for the Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Medford, Or.), Grants Pass Museum of Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon, Eugene), Eagle Point Library (Jackson Co, Or.), Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), White Lotus Gallery (Eugene), Japanese Garden Society of Oregon (Portland), Print Arts Northwest (Portland), Oregon Watercolor Society (Roseburg), Annual Asian Celebrations (Eugene,OR), Redwood Art Association (Eureka, CA), Obon Celebrations of the Roseburg,/ Shobu Sister City Association (Roseburg, Or.).
GUEST LECTURER on subject "Bicycling Japan's Historic Tokaido": Shoreline Community College (Shoreline,Wa.), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in correlation with the exhibition “On the Road—Two Visions of the Tokaido” which featured a comparative display of the complete 53 Stations of the Tokaido prints by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido version) and Yunichiro Sekino, (University of Oregon, Eugene), Rogue Valley Manor (Medford, Or.), Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), the Docents of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon), Japanese Garden Society of Oregon (Portland), Asian Art Society of Portland ( Portland Art Museum), Umpqua Community College (Roseburg.), Redwood Art Association (Eureka, Ca.), Tokuiku Health Center ( Kakegawa, Japan), The Asian Studies and Cultural Center of Dankook University (Ashland, Or.), Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley, Ca.), Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Medford, Or.), Grants Pass Museum of Art (Grants Pass, Or.), Josephine County Public Library (Grants Pass), Rogue Community College (Grants Pass)
Guest lecturer on subject “Japanese Woodblock Printmaking” and demonstration of process, for outreach program of Southern Oregon University’s Schneider Museum of Art, featuring traveling exhibitions from the Zundel Collection of Japanese Art: Klamath Community College (Klamath Falls, Or.), Hilltop Gallery of Mountain Meadows Retirement Community (Ashland, Or.), Eagle Point Public Library (Eagle Point, Or.)
Guest Lecturer on subject: “Influences and Directions in my Work”, Visiting Artist Program, Department of Fine Art, University of Oregon (Eugene)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Grants Pass Museum of Art (Grants Pass), Kyoto International Woodprint Association (Kyoto, Japan), Oregon State University Library (Corvallis), Umpqua Community College (Roseburg), McClain's Printmaking Supplies (Portland), City of Kakegawa (Japan), Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay), Rogue Disposal and Recycling, Inc.(Medford), Suma Pacific (Grants Pass), Pinkham Press (Medford), the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts (Portland Art Museum), Rogue Valley Medical Center (Medford), Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham), Yoshida Hanga Academy (Tokyo, Japan), Blue Bay Press (El Cerrito, Ca.), Rogue Community College (Grants Pass), Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.)
CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION: Annex Gallery (Santa Rosa, Ca.), White Lotus Gallery (Eugene, Or.), Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum (Portland, Or.), Rental Sales Gallery of the Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay, Or.), Gift Shop and Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, CA), Beautiful Earth (Fort Bragg CA)
EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS:
2016
Upcoming inclusion in Expressions West 2016, Coos Art Museum,
Coos Bay, OR., a juried regional exhibition of paintings by artists of seven western states (watercolor)
Upcoming inclusion in KIWA 7, selected exhibition of prints by the Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (woodblock print), March
2015
“The Printmaker’s Hand 3”, A Juried Show, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA (woodblock prints) Juror’s Choice Award, September
2015 Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, VIEW Arts Center, Old Forge, N.Y.(watercolors), May- September; additional inclusion into a travelling exhibition currently ongoing into 2016.
For the Birds, VIEW Arts Center, Old Forge, N.Y. (woodblock print), June- August
Rail Art Show and Sale, Cheyenne Depot Museum, Cheyenne, WY (photograph), open juried competition of railroad themed artwork all media, Second Place award/ Photography, April-August
2014
Pacific Shores Photography Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or. Regional competition of photographers from the “Pacific shores states” reflecting current trends through all forms of photographic expression (digital photograph/ archival pigment print), December 2014- February 2015
CAM Biennial 2014, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or. An Exhibition of Recent Works by Oregon Artists (monotype print and cast aluminum sculpture), October- December
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), April- June
29th Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds Event Center, Eugene, Or.--(booth display of woodblock prints and demonstrations of Japanese woodblock printmaking), February
2013
Mendocino Open Paint Out, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino CA, a Plein Air Festival on the picturesque northern California coast, daily exhibition in the Mendocino
Art Center galleries of paintings (watercolors) done on location, Sept. 9- 14
Prints and Rubbings, Artists’ Coop of Mendocino, ACM Gallery: Contemporary & Traditional Fine Art since 1988, Mendocino, CA, guest artist (monotype print) and demonstrated woodblock printmaking for reception, Aug/ Sept.
Fall Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), Oct.-Dec.
Living Legacies: the JSMA @80, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.(woodblock print), May- September
Expressions West 2013, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or., regional painting competition: sixty-nine recent paintings by fifty-four artists residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, (watercolor), May- July
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), April-June
2012
2012 Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or. –booth display 0f prints & demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, February 2012
2011
Behind the Shoji, Art and Craft Sale, Japanese Garden of Portland, Portland, Or. (woodblock prints), July-September
The 6th KIWA Print Exhibition 2011, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex, Kyoto, Japan, (woodblock prints), March 2011
Spring Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (photographs), April 2011
Rogue Valley Biennial, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (monotype print), February/March 2011
2011 Asian Celebration Art Exhibit, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or.(photograph); booth display of prints and demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, February 2011
Atlanta Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Chastain Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., (woodblock prints), January 2011
2010
Fall Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (photograph), October, 2010
3rd Annual Sister Cities Art Exchange Show, the Main Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA. (photographs), May-June 2010
Walt Padgett Woodblock Prints, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA. April 2010
Spring Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum (photographs), April 2010
2010 Asian Celebration Art Exhibit, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or. (woodblock print), February 2010
Permanent Collection Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Or., (woodblock print), January 2010
50 Cakes—A Tribute 50th Anniversary Event, Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, Or. (sculpture), January/ February 2010
“Wetlands” Exhibition, Spellman Library Gallery, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, Wa. (digital photographs), January-March 2010; White Sturgeon Gallery, Vancouver Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, Wa., March-May 2010
A Century of American Color Block Prints, The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, Ca. (woodblock print), January/ February 2010
2009
Artshow, display of prints, demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or., Feb. 2009
Permanent Collection Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (woodblock print), Jan. 2009
One-person Show, Rogue Valley Manor, Medford, Or. (prints), April 2009
The Paper Garden, Japanese Garden of Portland, Portland, Or. (prints), April 2009
Invitational Traveling Exhibition of Mendocino Artists, Salt Road Museum, Omachi City, Japan, June 2009; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan, September 2009 (woodblock prints)
Art About Agriculture, Giustina Art Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Or. (digital photograph), Mar.-Apr.2009; travels to The Dalles Art Center, Dalles, Or.
May, 2009, the Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Or., June/ July, 2009,
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Baker City, Or. Aug. 2009
Behind the Shoji, Art Show & Sale, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints), July/ August 2009
Printmakers and Processes, invitational exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass; assistant to curator, and exhibitor, August- Oct 2009
Hundred Valleys Northwest Art Show and Competition, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, (Roseburg, Or.); solo juror, Aug.-Oct. 2009
Members’ Juried Exhibit, Mendocino Art Center, Honorable Mention award (watercolor), August 2009
Seven Artists Visit Japan, College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Coast Campus, Fort Bragg, Ca., (digital photographs), September- November 2009
2009 Membership Show, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, (woodblock print), November-December
2008
International Print Project, Northwest-Middle East Dialogue, Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, (woodcut), Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009
Annual Membership Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (watercolor), Dec. 2008
New Work by Gallery Artists, White Lotus Gallery (Eugene), (woodblock prints), Nov.-Dec. 2008
“The Works”, solo exhibition of prints, watercolors and sculpture; the Main Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), Oct. 2008; Japanese woodblock printmaking demonstration, slide lecture “Cycling Japan’s Historic Tokaido”
Takanabe City Mayor’s Award, traveling exhibition of the 5th KIWA (Kyoto International Woodprint Association) Exhibition 2007, Takanabe Museum, (Takanabe City, Kyushu, Japan); the exhibition, which originated in Kyoto, Japan, represented 222 printmakers from 37 countries, who sent 550 prints to KIWA. When the exhibit was hosted in Takanabe, three award winners were chosen, by the Board of Education Chief (for printmaker Hasan Kiran, from Turkey), by the Takanabe Museum Director (for printmaker Alberto Ramos, from Peru), and by the Mayor of Takanabe City (for printmaker Walt Padgett, from the U.S.A.), Sept. 2008
Fall Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (plaster relief print), Sept. 2008
“Images of Water”, juried open exhibition of photographs, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (two digital photographs), July-Aug. 2008
“Landscapes of Oregon by Northwest Artists”, group exhibition, White Lotus Gallery, (Eugene), (watercolors), June-July 2008
The Northwest Eye, juried regional exhibition of photographs, Morris Graves Museum of Art, (b&w silver-based photograph), May-June 2008
“The Water’s Edge”, invitational group exhibition, Humboldt State University’s 1st Street Gallery, (Eureka, Ca.), (watercolors), Apr.-May 2008
“Viewpoints” International Drawing and Print Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, (Gresham), (prints), Apr.-May 2008
Travel and family vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii, photography and on-location watercolor painting, gallery and artists contacts
50th Annual Spring Exhibition, Redwood Art Association, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (monotype print), Mar.-May 2008
2007
“Deck the Walls”, Christmas sale show, Print Arts Northwest, (Portland), Dec. 2007
POVA Exhibition of selected PAN artists, October 2006- December 2007
The 13th Annual Junque Arts Competition and Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (steel sculptures), Oct.-Nov. 2007
Exhibition of selected PAN artists, the Art Bar, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, August-November 2007
Humboldt Arts Council Annual Membership Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (watercolor painting) 2007
Solarplate Printmaking Workshop with Barbara Mason, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2007
International Print Project, Northwest-Middle East Dialogue, Applied Sciences University of Amman, (Amman, Jordan), (woodblock print), September 2007
“Behind the Shoji Screen”, arts/crafts sales show, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints) 2007
“Woodcuts of Chris Pappa and Walt Padgett”, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, June 2007
“The 5th KIWA (Kyoto International Woodprint Association) Exhibition 2007”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex, (Kyoto, Japan), (woodblock prints), Mar.-Apr. 2007
Lecture: “Cycling Japan’s Historic Tokaido”, the Docents of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, (Eugene), 2007
Demonstration of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, and exhibit of woodblock prints, Japanese Garden of Portland, 2007
Demonstration of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, and exhibit of woodblock prints, Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, (Eugene), annually since 1995
“The Tokaido to Oregon: Prints and Watercolors by Walt Padgett”, White Lotus Gallery, (Eugene), 2007
“Smudge Pot Pourri”, commissioned to create a sculpture with an orchard smudge pot for the Rogue Gallery and Art Center, exhibit, public display, and auction, 2007, 2003
Exhibition of selected PAN artists, Lane Community College, (Eugene), January-February 2007
2006-1996
Solarplate Printmaking Workshop with Dan Weldon, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2006
“Directions”, retrospective exhibition of work from the past 35 years (sculptures, paintings in oil and watercolor, prints, drawings), Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2006
Travel abroad in Japan: research/documentation of the historic highways, Nakasendo, Kisokaido, Tokaido; sightseeing Nikko, Japan Alps area, Kyoto, Takaoka, 2006
Annual Spring & Fall Membership Exhibitions, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (Portland), 2008- 2006
Annual Faculty Art Show(s), Rogue Community College, (Grants Pass), 2005-1975
Commissioned to produce a limited edition print for the 7th Annual North American Sogetsu Seminar: Portland, 2005
Commissioned to produce a limited edition print for the Norma Seibert Printmaking Scholarship program: Oregon State University, (Corvallis), 2005
"Longitude and Latitude", three-person show, Print Arts Northwest, (Portland), 2005
8th Annual Southern Oregon Sculpture Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (Grants Pass), 2005
London Program, Oregon Consortium of Community Colleges for International Study, taught in London for Spring term of 2004, traveled in Great Britain, France
"Expressions West" regional painting competition, third place award winner (watercolor), Coos Art Museum, (Coos Bay), 2003
Annual Spring Show, Redwood Art Association, (Eureka),” Best in Show” award winner (watercolor), 2003
” Art of the Farm Paint-in”, to benefit the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Hanley Farms, (Central Point), (watercolor), 2002
One Person Show (prints), Mabel Hansen Gallery, Coos Art Museum, (Coos Bay), 2001
The 2nd KIWA Print Exhibition 1998, Kyoto City International Community House, (Kyoto, Japan)
"Points of the Compass", Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts and Dance, exhibition of alumni from 25 years, Florida State University, (Tallahassee) 1998
Retrospective One-person Print Show, Offices of the Rogue Community College Foundation, Rogue Community College, (Grants Pass)
One-Person Show (paintings), New York Life, (Medford)
One-Person Show (paintings, prints and sculpture), Rogue Gallery Outreach Center, (Jacksonville, Or.)
” Japanese Prints”, Asian Arts Society of Southern Oregon, (Ashland)
"Millenium Madonna”, theme invitational exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, plaster relief print
“Geijutsu Sai”, Japanese Garden of Portland, (9th and 6th annual)
Annual Obon Celebrations: Roseburg / Shobu Sister City Association,( Roseburg), displayed woodblock prints, blocks, tools
one-person show, Stardust Repertory Theatre, Grants Pass, (prints)
one-person show, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints)
one-person show, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, (prints)
New Members Show: Northwest Print Council, Portland
” Moku Hanga”, invitational traveling exhibition of contemporary Japanese woodblock prints by American and Canadian artists 1997/ ‘98
Annual Fall and Spring Exhibits, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum
Juried All-Media Works Exhibit, Eklektikos Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., (woodblock print) 1997
Georgetown Annual International Exhibit, Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.,(woodblock print) 1997
Southern Oregon Sculpture Exhibitions, Grants Pass Museum of Art 1997/ ‘98
Annual Southern Oregon Art Show(s): sponsored by the A.A.U.W., Grants Pass
one-person show, Josephine County Public Library, Grants Pass, (paintings) 1997
50 Years of Winners: A.A. U. W. Southern Oregon Art Shows, Josephine County Public Library, (Grants Pass) 1997
Tokuiku Health Center, Kakegawa, Japan, (exhibit of prints), 1996
two-person exhibit of works by Hisasi Matsuyama ( hand-blown glass beads) and Walt Padgett ( woodblock prints), Akaiyanenoie Gallery, Kakegawa, Japan, 1996
one-person show, Re/Max Ideal Properties, Inc., Grants Pass, (prints), 1996
one person show, Wild River Brewing & Pizza Company, Grants Pass, (paintings), 1996
Matsukaze Japanese Restaurant, Grants Pass, (ongoing display of woodblock prints), Grants Pass
The State of Jefferson Biennial, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, (woodblock print) 1996
Multicultural Mask Exhibition & Auction, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, 1996
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1763 Boundary Lane
Grants Pass, Oregon 97527 phone: 541-479-1805
waltpadgettart@gmail.com
EDUCATION: Florida State University (B.F.A., M. F.A.--majored in sculpture), 1965-‘69; Clemson University (architecture), 1963-‘65
workshops with Dan Weldon (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Barbara Mason (Solarplate intaglio printmaking), Keith Howard (Imag-On non-toxic intaglio printmaking), Michael Edge (bronze patination), Welton Rotz (Italian marble carving), Akira Kurosaki (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Oregon School of Design (architecture & city renewal, team study of Portland’s “Northwest Triangle”, later known as “the Pearl”, culminating in proposals to property owners with recommendations for urban development), Nelson Sandgren (watercolor painting), Victor Morejohn (sculpture), Ted Goerschner (oil painting), Millard Sheets (watercolor painting), Robert McClain (Japanese woodblock printmaking), international bronze casting conferences /workshops (Albuquerque, Chicago, Boulder, Kalamazoo, Lawrence), Penland School of Crafts (bronze casting of sculpture: assistantship to John Acorn
SABBATICAL STUDIES: Japan's Tokaido--two months bicycle camping in Japan along the famous highway between Tokyo (formerly Edo) and Kyoto, documenting (photography) historic sites depicted in the "53 Stations of the Tokaido" print series of Ando Hiroshige (1832) and the 20th Century artist Jun’Ichiro Sekino; 1984. Japanese woodblock printmaking --one month intensive study at the Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo, Japan (1983), during which time I studied under Toshi Yoshida, his son Tsukasa, and the printers working in the studio. Day trip to the ancient capital of Kamakura; 1983. These two educational visits to Japan were focal points of study, within a two years’ leave of absence from employment at Rogue Community College, to pursue sabbatical experience as a full-time professional artist. 1984,1983.
ART TRAVEL ABROAD: Kuaii, Hawaii: watercolor painting and photography on location, sightweeing with family, one week 2014
Central Japan: member of delegation of nine artists representing Mendocino, California to Sister City, Miasa/ Omachi; participation (woodblock prints) in art exhibit of Mendocino artists’ work in Omachi, five-day homestay with Japanese family including sightseeing travel in area with group. After delegation visit to Omachi, I traveled independently through Central Japan, photographically documenting Japan’s historic highway, the Kisokaido., as represented in the famous series of woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Eisen, the “Sixty-nine Stages of the Kisokaido”, 2009.
Italy: Venice, Ravenna, Faenza, Florence, Rome, Tivoli, Maratea, Sorrento, Capri, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Naples; three weeks exploring by car with family, visiting historic sites, museums, sightseeing, watercolor painting and photography, 2009.
Big Island of Hawaii: watercolor painting on location, photography, professional contacts, sightseeing with family, sixteen days, 2008.
Central Japan: Karuizawa, Yokohama, Nikko, Matsumoto, Obuse; -- traveled/ documented historic highways (Tokaido thru Hodogaya, Kanagawa, private walking tour with Patrick Carey author of book Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige), by train to sections of the Nakasendo / Kisokaido highway (Karuizawa to Nagoya)--- traveled to Nikko to see the great shrines to the Tokugawa Shogunate, to Obuse, the town where Hokusai lived out his last years. Traveled to Kyoto to meet with Richard Steiner, founder/President of the Kyoto International Woodprint Association, then to Toyoma & Takaoka to visit friends, day trips to Kanazawa, Takayama. Photography and research for woodblock prints, professional contacts; three weeks 2006.
Great Britain (England, Scotland), Normandy, France: taught Oregon community college students, at the University of London, for the Oregon Consortium of Community Colleges for International Study; day trips to Stonehenge and Salisbury, Brighton, Henry Moore’s estate, private weekend travel to Dover, Bristol, Winsor, Scotland, two and a half months Spring term 2004; additional three weeks’ travel to Paris, Normandy to visit areas where Monet painted, Monet’s estate at Giverny, Southern France and the French Alps. Watercolor painting on location, photography, sightseeing with family.
Kakegawa, Japan: Eugene/ Kakegawa Sister City Association annual delegation; activities included ceremonial presentation gift of Padgett woodblock print “Tokaido series: Makino Iron Factory, Kakegawa” to the Mayor of Kakegawa City, opportunities to display prints, give public slide presentation, regional travel to further document the historic Tokaido, homestays with Japanese families, ten days 1996. During the following year, produced second print, “Tokaido series: Kakegawa Castle”, which was presented as a gift from the Eugene/Kakegawa Sister City Association, to the annual delegation of dignitaries from the City of Kakegawa, by the Mayor of the City of Eugene, at the Sister City banquet and ceremonies in Eugene, 1997.
Mazatlan, Mexico: gallery visits, sightseeing and photography, two weeks 1988, ‘87
Japan: Two visits, 1984,1983; see “Sabbatical Studies” above.
Europe: England, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland; visited major art museums, historic sites of architecture, fine arts; sightseeing and photography, two months 1970
TEACHING: Rogue Community College full-time Instructor of Art (33 years), Department Chairman (11 years) 1971-2004; Florida A & M University full-time Instructor of Art 1970-’71; Northside High School full-time Art Teacher 1969- ’70
Full-time teaching exchange (three weeks) with Professor Nelson Sandgren, Department of Fine Arts, Oregon State University, 1979
workshop teaching: Fort Worden State Park—Alexander’s Castle (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Northwind Arts Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Mendocino Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking, Solarplate intaglio printmaking, sand-cast aluminum sculpture), Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), University of Oregon (Visiting Artist Program, Japanese woodblock printmaking), Portland State University & The Northwest Print Council (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Southern Oregon University (sand- cast aluminum sculpture), Coos Art Museum ( Japanese woodblock printmaking), Southwestern Oregon Community College (drawing), Central Oregon Community College (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Quinlan Art Center (Japanese woodblock printmaking), Blue Bay Press (Japanese woodblock printmaking)
part-time teaching: Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (“Printmaking Open Studio”); instructor of Japanese woodblock and other relief, intaglio, and monotype
printmaking, 2011-2006.
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS: Hilltop Gallery (Ashland, Or.), Eagle Point Public Library (Eagle Point, Or.), Board of Directors for the Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Medford, Or.), Grants Pass Museum of Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon, Eugene), Eagle Point Library (Jackson Co, Or.), Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), White Lotus Gallery (Eugene), Japanese Garden Society of Oregon (Portland), Print Arts Northwest (Portland), Oregon Watercolor Society (Roseburg), Annual Asian Celebrations (Eugene,OR), Redwood Art Association (Eureka, CA), Obon Celebrations of the Roseburg,/ Shobu Sister City Association (Roseburg, Or.).
GUEST LECTURER on subject "Bicycling Japan's Historic Tokaido": Shoreline Community College (Shoreline,Wa.), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in correlation with the exhibition “On the Road—Two Visions of the Tokaido” which featured a comparative display of the complete 53 Stations of the Tokaido prints by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido version) and Yunichiro Sekino, (University of Oregon, Eugene), Rogue Valley Manor (Medford, Or.), Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), the Docents of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (University of Oregon), Japanese Garden Society of Oregon (Portland), Asian Art Society of Portland ( Portland Art Museum), Umpqua Community College (Roseburg.), Redwood Art Association (Eureka, Ca.), Tokuiku Health Center ( Kakegawa, Japan), The Asian Studies and Cultural Center of Dankook University (Ashland, Or.), Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley, Ca.), Rogue Gallery and Art Center (Medford, Or.), Grants Pass Museum of Art (Grants Pass, Or.), Josephine County Public Library (Grants Pass), Rogue Community College (Grants Pass)
Guest lecturer on subject “Japanese Woodblock Printmaking” and demonstration of process, for outreach program of Southern Oregon University’s Schneider Museum of Art, featuring traveling exhibitions from the Zundel Collection of Japanese Art: Klamath Community College (Klamath Falls, Or.), Hilltop Gallery of Mountain Meadows Retirement Community (Ashland, Or.), Eagle Point Public Library (Eagle Point, Or.)
Guest Lecturer on subject: “Influences and Directions in my Work”, Visiting Artist Program, Department of Fine Art, University of Oregon (Eugene)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Grants Pass Museum of Art (Grants Pass), Kyoto International Woodprint Association (Kyoto, Japan), Oregon State University Library (Corvallis), Umpqua Community College (Roseburg), McClain's Printmaking Supplies (Portland), City of Kakegawa (Japan), Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay), Rogue Disposal and Recycling, Inc.(Medford), Suma Pacific (Grants Pass), Pinkham Press (Medford), the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts (Portland Art Museum), Rogue Valley Medical Center (Medford), Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham), Yoshida Hanga Academy (Tokyo, Japan), Blue Bay Press (El Cerrito, Ca.), Rogue Community College (Grants Pass), Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.)
CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION: Annex Gallery (Santa Rosa, Ca.), White Lotus Gallery (Eugene, Or.), Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum (Portland, Or.), Rental Sales Gallery of the Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay, Or.), Gift Shop and Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, CA), Beautiful Earth (Fort Bragg CA)
EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS:
2016
Upcoming inclusion in Expressions West 2016, Coos Art Museum,
Coos Bay, OR., a juried regional exhibition of paintings by artists of seven western states (watercolor)
Upcoming inclusion in KIWA 7, selected exhibition of prints by the Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (woodblock print), March
2015
“The Printmaker’s Hand 3”, A Juried Show, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA (woodblock prints) Juror’s Choice Award, September
2015 Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, VIEW Arts Center, Old Forge, N.Y.(watercolors), May- September; additional inclusion into a travelling exhibition currently ongoing into 2016.
For the Birds, VIEW Arts Center, Old Forge, N.Y. (woodblock print), June- August
Rail Art Show and Sale, Cheyenne Depot Museum, Cheyenne, WY (photograph), open juried competition of railroad themed artwork all media, Second Place award/ Photography, April-August
2014
Pacific Shores Photography Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or. Regional competition of photographers from the “Pacific shores states” reflecting current trends through all forms of photographic expression (digital photograph/ archival pigment print), December 2014- February 2015
CAM Biennial 2014, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or. An Exhibition of Recent Works by Oregon Artists (monotype print and cast aluminum sculpture), October- December
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), April- June
29th Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds Event Center, Eugene, Or.--(booth display of woodblock prints and demonstrations of Japanese woodblock printmaking), February
2013
Mendocino Open Paint Out, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino CA, a Plein Air Festival on the picturesque northern California coast, daily exhibition in the Mendocino
Art Center galleries of paintings (watercolors) done on location, Sept. 9- 14
Prints and Rubbings, Artists’ Coop of Mendocino, ACM Gallery: Contemporary & Traditional Fine Art since 1988, Mendocino, CA, guest artist (monotype print) and demonstrated woodblock printmaking for reception, Aug/ Sept.
Fall Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), Oct.-Dec.
Living Legacies: the JSMA @80, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.(woodblock print), May- September
Expressions West 2013, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Or., regional painting competition: sixty-nine recent paintings by fifty-four artists residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, (watercolor), May- July
Spring Show, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. (photographs), April-June
2012
2012 Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or. –booth display 0f prints & demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, February 2012
2011
Behind the Shoji, Art and Craft Sale, Japanese Garden of Portland, Portland, Or. (woodblock prints), July-September
The 6th KIWA Print Exhibition 2011, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex, Kyoto, Japan, (woodblock prints), March 2011
Spring Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (photographs), April 2011
Rogue Valley Biennial, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (monotype print), February/March 2011
2011 Asian Celebration Art Exhibit, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or.(photograph); booth display of prints and demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, February 2011
Atlanta Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Chastain Art Center, Atlanta, Ga., (woodblock prints), January 2011
2010
Fall Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (photograph), October, 2010
3rd Annual Sister Cities Art Exchange Show, the Main Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA. (photographs), May-June 2010
Walt Padgett Woodblock Prints, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA. April 2010
Spring Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum (photographs), April 2010
2010 Asian Celebration Art Exhibit, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or. (woodblock print), February 2010
Permanent Collection Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Or., (woodblock print), January 2010
50 Cakes—A Tribute 50th Anniversary Event, Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Medford, Or. (sculpture), January/ February 2010
“Wetlands” Exhibition, Spellman Library Gallery, Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, Wa. (digital photographs), January-March 2010; White Sturgeon Gallery, Vancouver Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, Wa., March-May 2010
A Century of American Color Block Prints, The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, Ca. (woodblock print), January/ February 2010
2009
Artshow, display of prints, demonstration of Japanese woodblock printmaking, Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Or., Feb. 2009
Permanent Collection Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (woodblock print), Jan. 2009
One-person Show, Rogue Valley Manor, Medford, Or. (prints), April 2009
The Paper Garden, Japanese Garden of Portland, Portland, Or. (prints), April 2009
Invitational Traveling Exhibition of Mendocino Artists, Salt Road Museum, Omachi City, Japan, June 2009; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan, September 2009 (woodblock prints)
Art About Agriculture, Giustina Art Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Or. (digital photograph), Mar.-Apr.2009; travels to The Dalles Art Center, Dalles, Or.
May, 2009, the Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Or., June/ July, 2009,
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Baker City, Or. Aug. 2009
Behind the Shoji, Art Show & Sale, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints), July/ August 2009
Printmakers and Processes, invitational exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass; assistant to curator, and exhibitor, August- Oct 2009
Hundred Valleys Northwest Art Show and Competition, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, (Roseburg, Or.); solo juror, Aug.-Oct. 2009
Members’ Juried Exhibit, Mendocino Art Center, Honorable Mention award (watercolor), August 2009
Seven Artists Visit Japan, College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Coast Campus, Fort Bragg, Ca., (digital photographs), September- November 2009
2009 Membership Show, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, (woodblock print), November-December
2008
International Print Project, Northwest-Middle East Dialogue, Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, (woodcut), Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009
Annual Membership Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (watercolor), Dec. 2008
New Work by Gallery Artists, White Lotus Gallery (Eugene), (woodblock prints), Nov.-Dec. 2008
“The Works”, solo exhibition of prints, watercolors and sculpture; the Main Gallery of the Mendocino Art Center (Mendocino, Ca.), Oct. 2008; Japanese woodblock printmaking demonstration, slide lecture “Cycling Japan’s Historic Tokaido”
Takanabe City Mayor’s Award, traveling exhibition of the 5th KIWA (Kyoto International Woodprint Association) Exhibition 2007, Takanabe Museum, (Takanabe City, Kyushu, Japan); the exhibition, which originated in Kyoto, Japan, represented 222 printmakers from 37 countries, who sent 550 prints to KIWA. When the exhibit was hosted in Takanabe, three award winners were chosen, by the Board of Education Chief (for printmaker Hasan Kiran, from Turkey), by the Takanabe Museum Director (for printmaker Alberto Ramos, from Peru), and by the Mayor of Takanabe City (for printmaker Walt Padgett, from the U.S.A.), Sept. 2008
Fall Show, the Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (plaster relief print), Sept. 2008
“Images of Water”, juried open exhibition of photographs, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (two digital photographs), July-Aug. 2008
“Landscapes of Oregon by Northwest Artists”, group exhibition, White Lotus Gallery, (Eugene), (watercolors), June-July 2008
The Northwest Eye, juried regional exhibition of photographs, Morris Graves Museum of Art, (b&w silver-based photograph), May-June 2008
“The Water’s Edge”, invitational group exhibition, Humboldt State University’s 1st Street Gallery, (Eureka, Ca.), (watercolors), Apr.-May 2008
“Viewpoints” International Drawing and Print Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, (Gresham), (prints), Apr.-May 2008
Travel and family vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii, photography and on-location watercolor painting, gallery and artists contacts
50th Annual Spring Exhibition, Redwood Art Association, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (monotype print), Mar.-May 2008
2007
“Deck the Walls”, Christmas sale show, Print Arts Northwest, (Portland), Dec. 2007
POVA Exhibition of selected PAN artists, October 2006- December 2007
The 13th Annual Junque Arts Competition and Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (steel sculptures), Oct.-Nov. 2007
Exhibition of selected PAN artists, the Art Bar, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, August-November 2007
Humboldt Arts Council Annual Membership Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, Ca.), (watercolor painting) 2007
Solarplate Printmaking Workshop with Barbara Mason, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2007
International Print Project, Northwest-Middle East Dialogue, Applied Sciences University of Amman, (Amman, Jordan), (woodblock print), September 2007
“Behind the Shoji Screen”, arts/crafts sales show, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints) 2007
“Woodcuts of Chris Pappa and Walt Padgett”, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, June 2007
“The 5th KIWA (Kyoto International Woodprint Association) Exhibition 2007”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex, (Kyoto, Japan), (woodblock prints), Mar.-Apr. 2007
Lecture: “Cycling Japan’s Historic Tokaido”, the Docents of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, (Eugene), 2007
Demonstration of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, and exhibit of woodblock prints, Japanese Garden of Portland, 2007
Demonstration of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, and exhibit of woodblock prints, Annual Asian Celebration, Lane County Fairgrounds, (Eugene), annually since 1995
“The Tokaido to Oregon: Prints and Watercolors by Walt Padgett”, White Lotus Gallery, (Eugene), 2007
“Smudge Pot Pourri”, commissioned to create a sculpture with an orchard smudge pot for the Rogue Gallery and Art Center, exhibit, public display, and auction, 2007, 2003
Exhibition of selected PAN artists, Lane Community College, (Eugene), January-February 2007
2006-1996
Solarplate Printmaking Workshop with Dan Weldon, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2006
“Directions”, retrospective exhibition of work from the past 35 years (sculptures, paintings in oil and watercolor, prints, drawings), Rogue Gallery and Art Center, (Medford), 2006
Travel abroad in Japan: research/documentation of the historic highways, Nakasendo, Kisokaido, Tokaido; sightseeing Nikko, Japan Alps area, Kyoto, Takaoka, 2006
Annual Spring & Fall Membership Exhibitions, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum, (Portland), 2008- 2006
Annual Faculty Art Show(s), Rogue Community College, (Grants Pass), 2005-1975
Commissioned to produce a limited edition print for the 7th Annual North American Sogetsu Seminar: Portland, 2005
Commissioned to produce a limited edition print for the Norma Seibert Printmaking Scholarship program: Oregon State University, (Corvallis), 2005
"Longitude and Latitude", three-person show, Print Arts Northwest, (Portland), 2005
8th Annual Southern Oregon Sculpture Exhibit, Grants Pass Museum of Art, (Grants Pass), 2005
London Program, Oregon Consortium of Community Colleges for International Study, taught in London for Spring term of 2004, traveled in Great Britain, France
"Expressions West" regional painting competition, third place award winner (watercolor), Coos Art Museum, (Coos Bay), 2003
Annual Spring Show, Redwood Art Association, (Eureka),” Best in Show” award winner (watercolor), 2003
” Art of the Farm Paint-in”, to benefit the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Hanley Farms, (Central Point), (watercolor), 2002
One Person Show (prints), Mabel Hansen Gallery, Coos Art Museum, (Coos Bay), 2001
The 2nd KIWA Print Exhibition 1998, Kyoto City International Community House, (Kyoto, Japan)
"Points of the Compass", Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts and Dance, exhibition of alumni from 25 years, Florida State University, (Tallahassee) 1998
Retrospective One-person Print Show, Offices of the Rogue Community College Foundation, Rogue Community College, (Grants Pass)
One-Person Show (paintings), New York Life, (Medford)
One-Person Show (paintings, prints and sculpture), Rogue Gallery Outreach Center, (Jacksonville, Or.)
” Japanese Prints”, Asian Arts Society of Southern Oregon, (Ashland)
"Millenium Madonna”, theme invitational exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, plaster relief print
“Geijutsu Sai”, Japanese Garden of Portland, (9th and 6th annual)
Annual Obon Celebrations: Roseburg / Shobu Sister City Association,( Roseburg), displayed woodblock prints, blocks, tools
one-person show, Stardust Repertory Theatre, Grants Pass, (prints)
one-person show, Japanese Garden of Portland, (prints)
one-person show, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, (prints)
New Members Show: Northwest Print Council, Portland
” Moku Hanga”, invitational traveling exhibition of contemporary Japanese woodblock prints by American and Canadian artists 1997/ ‘98
Annual Fall and Spring Exhibits, Rental Sales Gallery of the Portland Art Museum
Juried All-Media Works Exhibit, Eklektikos Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., (woodblock print) 1997
Georgetown Annual International Exhibit, Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.,(woodblock print) 1997
Southern Oregon Sculpture Exhibitions, Grants Pass Museum of Art 1997/ ‘98
Annual Southern Oregon Art Show(s): sponsored by the A.A.U.W., Grants Pass
one-person show, Josephine County Public Library, Grants Pass, (paintings) 1997
50 Years of Winners: A.A. U. W. Southern Oregon Art Shows, Josephine County Public Library, (Grants Pass) 1997
Tokuiku Health Center, Kakegawa, Japan, (exhibit of prints), 1996
two-person exhibit of works by Hisasi Matsuyama ( hand-blown glass beads) and Walt Padgett ( woodblock prints), Akaiyanenoie Gallery, Kakegawa, Japan, 1996
one-person show, Re/Max Ideal Properties, Inc., Grants Pass, (prints), 1996
one person show, Wild River Brewing & Pizza Company, Grants Pass, (paintings), 1996
Matsukaze Japanese Restaurant, Grants Pass, (ongoing display of woodblock prints), Grants Pass
The State of Jefferson Biennial, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, (woodblock print) 1996
Multicultural Mask Exhibition & Auction, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, 1996
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