1989 MFA, University of Houston, Houston, TX

June Woest

1989 MFA, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1971 BS, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, KS

HCC Duties, Responsibilities, & Awards 2015- 2017 Exhibitions and Core Curriculum, Art Department, HCC, SE 2015 Instructional Technology, Award for Student Engagement, HCC 2013 - 2014 Advocate for and Selection Committee Member, Resident Artist’s Project, HCC, SE 2012 - 2014 Coordinating Program Member, Wedge Space, Fine Arts & Languages Division, HCC, SE 2009 - 2012 Selection Committee Organizer and Founding Member, Artist in Residence Project, HCC, SE 2008 - 2009 Personal Consultant to the President on Arts and Culture, HCC, SE 2010 - 2011 Associate Chair, Fine Arts and Languages Division, HCC, SE 1999 - 2011 Instructional Technology Fellowship Award/s 1994 - 2008 Instructional Technology Committee Member

Houston Area Arts 2009-17 Creator of Roadsign USA, a cultural initiative that is part spectacle and part art exhibition space. Front street signage is located on an unremarkable, but heavily traveled boulevard near the medical center in Houston, TX, inside Loop 610. Four municipal jurisdictions share the boulevard road frontage. The sign rises above the federal train tracks on the west. It is diminutive compared to the cell phone and electricity towers on the south. On the landscape it looks just like another public utility pole, more or less. Ten artists have participated in the project to this date.

2009-14 Founding member of Municipal Dirt, an evolving group of independent artists contemplating urban culture and aesthetics in and around Houston, TX. Principal partners are Russ Pitman Park and its conservancy naturalists. The park is 4-acres of exotic and native plants located in Houston’s first suburb, Bellaire, TX.

Public and Solo Art Installations 2014 Mast Arboretum, Sculpture for All, National Juried Exhibition, Pharmacy Domesticus, Nacogdoches, TX 2013 Nature Discovery Center, Outdoor Installation, Food & Water – Weighed and Measured - $6.00 an Ounce, Bellaire, TX. 2012 Diverseworks, L’esprit de L’escalier, an indoor landscape for the construction of memories and regrets, Houston, TX. 2011 NCECA, Knitting Time, a large screen video projection with repeating spiral images looped in the background of a reception space that contained three 5’ round tables, touch screens, covered in wet clay that was set between sheets of thin plastic. Viewer interaction with the circular orbs was welcomed. 2008 Skydive, Performative Installation, Home Health Care, 2007 Central College Fine Arts Gallery, Installation: The Seed Rooms: East and West, Houston, TX 2006 Wortham Center Reflection Pool, Lily Pads, 2004 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Installation: Borrowed Hands & Artificial Flowers, Houston, TX

Invitational Exhibitions 2008 Terra Incognita: Unknown Land , Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 2006 Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX Adaptation and Survival, Waterstop Gallery, Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa TX 2005 Project Row Houses, Sculpture Park Invitational, Houston, TX Affinities, Chase Bank & Art League of Houston, Houston, TX June Woest

2004 Holiday Trees, Buffalo Bayou Art Park & Sculpture Garden, Wortham Center, Houston, TX 2002 Mentor Show, HCCS, Southwest College Gallery, Houston, TX

1998 Altered Landscapes, ArtScan, Contemporary Art, Houston, TX 1997 New Work, Houston Art League, three-person show, Houston, TX 1994 The Print As Object, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX Travel Show, West End Gallery, Houston, TX

Juried Exhibitions 2007 True to Form, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, juror: Clint Wilhour 2007 Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, juror: Rita Gonzalez 2005 Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, juror: Michael Olijnyk 2004 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, juror: Lawrence Rinder Visual Arts Alliance, Williams Tower, Houston, TX, juror: Sally Sprout

2000 Millennium Platter Event, Sydney, Australia, juror: Gudrun Klix 2001 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX, juror: Terri Sultan 1997 Texas International Visual Art Competition, El Paso, TX, juror: Thomas McEvilley 1996 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX, juror: Jock Reynolds Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, juror: Dana Friss-Hansen

1995 Lawndale Art and Performance Center, The Big Show, Houston, TX, juror: Paul Schimmel 1993 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX, juror: David Ross 1992 Critic’s Choice Exhibition, D-Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX, juror: Betty Moody 1990 Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX, juror: Neil Printz 1989 Wichita National, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS, juror: Tony Hepburn Fourth Annual Monarch Tile National, San Angelo, TX, juror: Bill Hunt East End Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX

1988 Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, juror, Houston, TX, juror: William Campbell 1985 Crafts National, Buffalo State College, juror: Eudorah Moore, Buffalo, NY

Education MFA, University of Houston, TX BS, Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, KS

Art Awards & Honors 2006` Menil Museum, Artist’s Eye Lecturer 2004 Artist Residency, Jingdezhen, China Honorable Mention, Visual Arts Alliance, Williams Tower, Houston, TX 2003 Creative Capital Artist Associate, DiverseWorks, Andy Warhol Foundation, and CACH, Houston, TX Fox News Segment, Artist of the Week, Channel 26, Houston, TX

Related Activities 2005 Current-See of Art, Marfa Studio of Art, open call, Marfa, TX 2000 School of Visual Arts, Metamorphoses 2000: Expressive Technology, Art and Humanities, HCCS, travel award, New York, NY 1998 Phi Kappa Theta Award for Scholarship, Omega Sigma Chapter, HCCS, Houston, TX 1997 Innovation in Teaching Award, HCCS, Central College, Houston, TX June Woest

Bibliography 2007 Woest, E. June & Scott Douglass, The Museum Experience, Southwest, Thomson-Wadsworth, Belmont, CA 2005 Padgett, Dana. Review, Critical Ceramics, North Bennington, VT 2004 Woest, E. June. “Robert Rauschenberg: The Chemistry of the Photographic,” International Portal for Photogram Research, Oppenau, Germany 1997 Woest, E. June. “Using the Internet for Art and Writing,” Department of English, Houston

Community College, Central Thoughts, Houston, TX 1992 Woest, E. June. “My Compulsion for Clay,” West University Magazine, Houston, TX Kutner, Janet. “Women Artists Make a Strong Showing in Exhibit,” Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 1989 Woest, E. June. “Julian Schnabel,” Ceramics Monthly, Cincinnati, OH