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| EDUCATION | ||
| 2009 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (painting) | |
| 2007 | Master of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 2002 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art/Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Honors) | |
| 1998 | North Carolina School of the Arts, High School Diploma | |
| SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | Bitter Harvest, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| Bitter Harvest, Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO | ||
| Forthcoming @ South Carolina State University Gallery, Orangburg, SC | ||
| 2006 | Crowd My Landscape, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Jungle Tender, Fraction Workspace, Chicago, IL | ||
| COOPERATE/COMPETE, Zebra Lounge, Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| 2005 | Photo A Go Go: Camera Obscura, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC (collaboration with Clare Britt) | |
| 2003 | Domestic Disturbances, Artspace, September 5 – 28, 2003, Raleigh | |
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / COLLABORATIONS | ||
| 2010 | I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilias Church Chapel, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Countertransferences: Approaches in Social Art Practice, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Cultural Arts Gallery | ||
| The Last Book Project, Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland, March 10 until July 31, 2010 | ||
| 2009 | A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York | |
| Anti-Diva Biennial, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine | ||
| Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC | ||
| 2008 | Pro/Con: Political Craft, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC | |
| The Last Book Project , National Library of Argentina, Beunos Aires, Argentina | ||
| 8-Hour Projects, Boweman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadeville, PA | ||
| Meet the Made: Robot 250, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients Exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY | ||
| Looking Back: Regional Emerging Artists-in-Residence 2000-2004, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina | ||
| 2007 | Findings, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery , Pittsburgh, PA (MFA Thesis Exhibit) | |
| 2006 | Meta-muse-ical, Kresge Theater, Carnegie Mellon University (collaboration with Jake Peterson and the MFA students of CMU) | |
| Rat Fink's Revenge, Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue) | ||
| Fly-Over State Perspectives, University of Maryland Union Gallery, College Park, MD (three-person exhibit) | ||
| Outside Project, ex-Turkish Bath, Belgrade, Serbia | ||
| Still Showing Signs of Life, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina | ||
| 2005 | Two for the Seesaw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC | |
| Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina, NC Museum of Art (catalogue) | ||
| Seeing Double: Encounters With Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Vaguely Positive, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| 2004 | The War Room, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Fabrications, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL | ||
| Million Stories Quilt, Million Mom March on Washington Mall (with Viktor Lytvenenko) | ||
| Best of the Triangle, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC | ||
| 2003 | Via Penland, Rebus Works, December 8- January 23, Raleigh, NC | |
| 2002 | Loom2, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, N.C. (Co-Curator) | |
| Camp's Camp, site-specific camera obscura installation with Clare Britt, Snow Hill, N.C. | ||
| On the Dot, performance under direction of Jen Talbot, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC | ||
| 2001 | Loom, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC (Co-Curator) | |
| Perpetuating History: A Duty to Truths, Chapel Hill, NC (collaborative performance held near Silent Sam, a statue to a confederate soldier) | ||
| Plantation Camera, temporary site-specific camera obscura to document performative landscaping, with Clare Britt, near Washington, NC | ||
| Blind Alley, video performance with Sara Noffsinger highlighting the racial stereotypes behind a local historical mural, Chapel Hill, NC | ||
| GRANTS / AWARDS | ||
| 2007 |
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant | |
| 2006 | Graduate Conference Funding, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2005 | GuSH Grant, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2004 | North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant | |
| 2002 | Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship (Europe) | |
| 2001 | Allcott Undergraduate Travel Fellowship (Mexico) Penland School of Crafts (ceramics scholarship) Jonathan E. Sharpe Scholarship, UNC-CH Kachergis Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship, UNC-CH | |
| 2000 | UNC-CH Robin Hanes Internship award, with muralist Michael Brown | |
| RESIDENCIES | ||
| 2010 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (July - August) | |
| 2008 | Jentel Artist Residency (June - July) | |
| 2006 | Outside Project: Belgrade (May - June) | |
| 2003 | Regional Emerging Artist in Residence, Artspace, Raleigh NC (January-June) | |
| SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |||
| 2010 | Carmen Rodriguez, "Social issues at forefront of UNCW art exhibit", Star News Online, June 30, 2010 | ||
| Shea Carver, "Shared Experience", Encore Magazine, May 26, 2010 | |||
| WHQR, Midday Cafe with Jemila Ericson, May 26, 2010 *link* | |||
| Byron Kerman, "Stitching in Time: Allison Smith's 'gas masks'", St. Louis Magazine, February | |||
| Esking <blog>, "A Bitter Harvest at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland," March 16, 2010, *esk18.blogspot.com* | |||
| 2009 | Frank Stasio, "The Bailout Biennial," WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio, 1/16/09 *listen to podcast* | ||
| David Fellerath, "Group shows in Raleigh and Durham tackle the troubles and hopes of the times:
Gone to Croatoan," Independent Magazine, 1/28/09 | |||
| Blue Greenberg, "Budgetless Political Art Show Rich With Ideas," Durham Herald-Sun, 1/25/09 *download .pdf* | |||
| Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, "Artists take shots at bailout," Durham Herald-Sun, 1/30/09 *download .pdf* | |||
| elin slavick and Maria DeGuzman, "The Bailout Biennial," Culture Work, October 2009, Vol. 13, No. 4 | |||
| Stefene Russell, "New Gallery in Benton Park: Cosign Projects," LOOK/LISTEN, St. Louis Magazine's Art Blog, 11/16/09 | |||
| 2008 | Penni Schaefer, "8 Hour Project," Meadeville Tribune, 09/07/08 David Millsaps, "Pro/Con: Political Craft @ Rebus Works" New Raleigh, 10/03/08 Michelle Natale, “Art Picks”, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC 4/4/08 Kurt Shaw, “Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots,” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA 8/07/08 Mary Thomas, “Mattress Factory's 'Meet the Made' has people behaving like androids,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA 8/14/08 Chic Cityrats [blog], “Meet the Made,” www.chic-cityrats.net/enArt, 08/2008 | ||
| 2007 | Sarah Mogin, “Finding Art on Campus,” The Tartan, 4/16/2007 | ||
2006 |
Ann Millett, “Crosscurrents,” Art Papers January/February issue Bad at Sports Podcast, Episode 34 Linda Luise Brown, "Turbulent Waters: Exhibit by NC artists is an eruption of emotion," Creative Loafing, 5/03/2006 "Museum Piece," Our State Magazine, 3/2006 Ted McIrvine, "Avant-Garde Exhibit," Hendersonville News, 2/12/2006 Peter Larsen, "A Bloodshot Visionary," The Orange County Register, California, 12/10/06 Rod & Custom Magazine, "Kustom Kulture Art Show" | ||
| 2005 | Ellen Sung, “NCMA's 'Crosscurrents' runs in many directions,” News & Observer, 10/9/2005 David Need, “Vision and Time: Photo A Go Go” Independent Magazine, 8/10/2005 | ||
| 2004 | Mollie McClelland, “The War Room,” New People Magazine, Pittsburgh, 11/2004 | ||
| Glen Justice, "Assault Weapons Ban," The New York Times, 5/10 (photo) | |||
| 2003 | Caitlin Cleary, “Textiles’ Not-So-Subtle Subtext,” The News & Observer, 9/12/2003 Todd Mormon, "In Search of Precision Journalism," The Independent Magazine, 5/3/2003 (photo credit) Dani Nation, “Same Space, New Blood,” Lather Weekly. 3/2003 Elin O’Hara Slavick, “On Target,” Independent Magazine, 3/13/2003 | ||
| 2002 | Kimowan McLain, “Show’s Success Inspires Another Exhibit,” Chapel Hill News, 2/17/2002 Nathan Galgud, "Sophomore Jinx," Independent Magazine | ||
| 2001 | Mandy Melton, “Students Use Art to tell UNC’s ‘Hidden Truths’,” DailyTar Heel, 4/27/2001 Jonnelle Davis, “Loom of History,” Chapel Hill News, 12/9/2001 Nathan Gelgud, “Loom in Essence,” Independent Magazine, 12/12/2001 | ||
| 2000 | Linda Haac, “La Fiesta Lives on in Memory and Artistry,” Chapel Hill News. 9/2000 | ||
| TEACHING APPOINTMENTS | |||
| 2008 - | Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Professor | ||
| 2007-2008 | Chatham University, Adjunct Professor of Art (Drawing, Design and Digital Media) | ||
| 2007 | Carnegie Mellon University, Adjunct Professor of Art (Painting) | ||
| 2006 - 2007 | Carnegie Mellon University, PreCollege Art Program (Collaborative Installation) | ||
| SELECT LECTURES / PANELS / PRESENTATIONS | |||
| 2010 | San Jose State University, Digital Media BFA/MFA Program, March (seminar lectures), March | ||
| "Women in Art World Academia," Faculty Panel Discussion for the Committee on Women and Art, Washington University in St. Louis, March | |||
| Curator's Talk on Needle Work, Kemper Museum of Art @ Washington University in St. Louis, March | |||
| "NSFH (Not Safe for Home): Politics and Domestic Decoration," presentation on the panel 'Pattern and Decoration from Rococo to the Present' at the South Eastern College Art Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 2010 | |||
| 2009 | Presentation with Huong Ngo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Art, April, 2009 | ||
| Southeastern College Art Conference in Mobile, Alabama (October) with Carrie Hott | |||
| 2008 | “Space Invaders: An Afternoon with the Rat King,” Mattress Factory Robot250 Programming, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2008 | ||
| “Jentel Presents,” Fulmer Library, Sheridan, Wyoming, July | |||
| "A Select and Somewhat Narrative History of Self-Portraiture," University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA Photography, March | |||
| 2006 | "Fly-over State Perspectives," a panel with Zoe Charlton and Jeffry Cudlin at the University of Maryland, College Park entitled "Identities: Personal Perspective," September | ||
| "On the 100 year anniversary of Sinclair's The Jungle," a Fraction Workspace Workshop with Stacey Kirby, April | |||
| EXHIBITION CATALOGUES / PUBLICATIONS | |||
| 2010 | Needle Work, Allison Smith at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago Press | ||
| 2008 | Meet the Made, Published by Robot 250 and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients, Published by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York *VIEW ESSAY* | |||
| Looking Back, Published by Artspace, North Carolina | |||
| 2007 | Findings, Published by the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery and Carnegie Mellon University, MFA catalogue | ||
| 2006 | Rat Fink's Revenge: The Custom Monster Collection, Tornado Design *VIEW* | ||
| Jungle Tender, Published by Fraction Workspace | |||
| 2005 | Crosscurrents, Published by the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design *VIEW* *VIEW ENTRY* | ||
| CURATORIAL PROJECTS | |||
| 2010 | Needle Work, Allison Smith at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis *VIEW* *VIEW PRESS RELEASE* | ||
| 2009 | I'm #1, Clare Britt at Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO Flags for Hiroshima, elin o'Hara slavick at Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO Home Game, Jessica Langley at Cosign Projects, St. Louis, MO The Other Side, Cheryl Wassenaar and Brigid Dolan at Cosign Projects Past Perfect, Present Tense, the students of the eponymous course at Washington University in St. Louis, Des Lee Gallery *VIEW CLASS BLOG* | ||
| 2007 | You Wouldn't Know it Unless You Asked Them, These Are the Things They Hold Dear to Their Hearts, The Skinny Building, Downtown Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the students of the Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Installation Course Rodent Redux and Other Prospects, Michelle Fried at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| 2006 | Arboreal Resonance, Daniel Letson and Spencer Longo at TAI + LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Emerging in Summer Eyries, Jessica Langley at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| Git 'er Done, Jan Descartes at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| Dance Dance Revolutionary, Fereshteh Toosi at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| The Tale of Old Lady Merrell, Julia Stein AKA Juliacks at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| Go With the Flow: A Whole Other Kettle of Fish, Ian Ingram and Thomas Sturgill at TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| 2002 | LOOM2, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC (Co-curator) | ||
| 2001 | Loom, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC (Co-curator, co-founder) | ||
| Last update July 2010 |