My work will be on display in the gallery at ASU Beebe for the month of February. I’ve pulled together a lot of things to make this show happen, so check it out if you have a chance. There will be a reception and I will give a lecture on Wednesday, Feb 28th, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
Land/Scape at Cedar Rapids Art Museum
From Feb 10 through May 19th my collaboration with Liz Koerner titled Heartwood will be part of the Land/Scape exhibition at Cedar Rapids Art Museum.
Upcoming Workshop: BACAA
March 21-24, 2024 I will be teaching a flower painting workshop at BACAA! This class will emphasize color and flower structure while painting from observation. See the BACAA website for details: https://www.bacaa.org/bacaa-workshop-products/bacaakrista-schoening-floral-painting-workshop-2024
Online Flower Painting Class with Studio Escalier
I am once again offering Flowers: Form and Color online with Studio Escalier in July of 2022. This is a really fun course for me to teach — I think of it as a floral form boot camp. If you want to get serious about painting flowers, I’ll help you! This class is exclusively offered through Studio Escalier, and is my only currently scheduled workshop for the entirety of 2022, as I am very busy painting and teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. For those of you who have taken this class before, be advised that there will be repeated content in the lectures and some of the demo videos. The link to the course website is here: Flowers: Form and Color
Arkansas Zinnias, 16” round, oil on board, 2021
Seasonal Still Life with BACAA
Join me in March as I paint a seasonal still life on Monday evenings via Zoom. This class is through BACAA, so for details please visit their website at this link: BACAA. The first four weeks will be live painting demos via Zoom, and the final week will be a group critique or an art historical lecture or some combination of the two. This is going to be fun and I hope to see some of you there!
Garden Still Life
Cold Frame at Shift Gallery, Seattle
After Anne Vallayer-Coster, oil on linen, sewn, 2020
In early January I’ll be having a show titled “Cold Frame” at Shift Gallery, in Seattle, WA. This is a chance for me to exhibit some recent work that I see as foundational to what is coming next — hence the decision to call this “Cold Frame” — a sort of miniature greenhouse placed over tender plants to keep the frost off of them outside of the main growing season. Due to the pandemic visits to the gallery will be by appointment only. Please contact me using the contact form on this website if you want to make an appointment. I will also be posting video tours of the show on social media once it is hung.
ANJE 2020 at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art
I’m pleased to announce that this quilted painting after Ingres is included in the Annual National Juried Exhibition this year at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. See this link for details.
Online Flower Painting Class with Studio Escalier
Beginning on September 13th I will be offering an online flower painting course with Studio Escalier. The class will be four weeks long and will include two weekly pre-recorded demos, as well as group meetings and individual crits via Zoom. I’m really excited about this class, and have been recording a variety of flower paintings to share with my students, including one of the round dahlia paintings I’ve been making for a few years now. For details on this new class, please go the the Studio Escalier website by clicking this link: Studio Escalier Page for my Class.
Please feel free to get in touch via the form on this website if you have any questions about the class.
Fantasia for Four Hands, after Jacques-Louis David and Franz Schubert, 2020, oil on linen, hand sewn, 12.5” x 12.5”
New Work at the Susquehanna Art Museum
My recent work Fantasia for Four Hands, after Jacques-Louis David and Franz Schubert will be on display at the Susquehanna Art Museum until September 20th, 2020. The exhibition explores the relationship between music and the visual arts. My work in this show combines the arts of quilting and oil painting, and was inspired by Franz Schubert's "Fantasia in F Minor," for piano, four-hands. This piece is a copy after David's portrait of husband and wife, Antoine Lavoisier and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. The idea of the duet played on one instrument reminded me of the intellectual collaboration between the Lavoisiers, and also the way in which working after an historical artist is a sort of duet in itself.
Visit the Susquehanna Museum Website at this link for details.
Paris Color Class 2020
Join me in Paris for an intense three weeks of studying observational color at Studio Escalier. This is one of the highlights of my year, and I strive to make it an excellent experience for my students as well. We will be working with a model in an historic natural light studio (once used by none other than Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and in the same building where Suzanne Valadon lived!) In addition I will offer weekly art historical lectures on the subject of color throughout the ages. Students in this class receive “treasure hunt” handouts with my detailed notes on points of interest relating to color in the museums, monuments, and public parks of Paris and the surrounding region. We also typically take one group field trip to a museum or monument that has an important role in the history of color in European art (location TBD). Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. For more information or to register please go to this link: Paris Color 2020
Everyone is welcome in this class, from absolute beginners to seasoned professionals.
Come paint with me in Paris!
I am delighted to be a guest instructor at Studio Escalier this summer. Join me in a studio that once belonged to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, in Montmartre (Paris). We will be going deep into the study of color, through both painting practice and art historical lectures. On weekends and evenings you can wander the museums of Paris, reflecting on some of the world's greatest art and contemplating how it reflects the principles we will discuss in class! This is a rare opportunity, and I am delighted to have the chance to paint in this special place. All skill levels (even total beginners) are welcome. See the Studio Escalier website for details.
Curatorial Project: The Time. The Place. at the Henry Art Gallery
As a Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Henry Art Gallery, I had the privilege to research and co-write extended labels for this exhibition, with the guidance of the brilliant Nina Bozicnik. This is certainly a show worth seeing, and the breadth and depth of the selections on view is remarkable. I'd urge you to go for the wonderful Richard Long piece alone! But there are so many gems in this show, including work that Allan Sekula made here in Seattle, and a very early piece by Miguel Calderón. You can catch it at the Henry from now until March 25, 2018. For more information, see the Henry's website at this link.
Public Art Project
I am so happy to announce that Coley Mixan and I have a collaborative poster series that will be going up in Vancouver Canada, as part of the Costal City Public Art Platform. From August 8th through September 11th, our posters will be hanging in transit shelters around the city of Vancouver. If you are in town, check them out! If not, here is the website for the Costal Cities Platform, 2016.
Show at the Alice
My collaborative piece with Sarah Norsworthy, Apple Tree (Dress) is at The Alice as part of cover reveals until July 2nd! Check it out, it is a really strong show, curated by Julia Freeman. Here is a link for the gallery website. And here is a link to The Alice's Facebook page.
Botanica, at the Bedford Gallery
I'm very honored to announce that one of my pieces received one of the top awards during the Botanica exhibition at the Bedford Gallery! This show, which ran from July 12 - Sept 6, 2015, was curated by Ken Harman (Hashimoto Contemporary) and MacKenzie Stevens (Hammer Museum).
GRAM Nature/Nurture Exhibition Opening Sept 16th!
In tandem with ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Art Museum is hosting an exhibition with the theme Nature/Nurture. I'm so pleased that my painting, Karma Dahlia II, will be part of this great show! For more info, and to see images of the work in the show, see the GRAM website.
ArtPrize 2015!
My large dahlia painting, Karma Dahlia II, will be part of Art Prize 2015. Here is a link to the painting's page on the ArtPrize Website.
UW MFA 2015 at the Henry Art Gallery
May 23 – June 21, 2015
UW SOA has a page here where you can download the catalog from the exhibition in PDF format.
You can see images of my piece, Still Life (Banquet Piece) in UW Today, and the Seattle Times.