SAL STROM
732 NE Polk Drive
Newport, OR 97365
(541) 265-7643
sal.strom @ mac.com (remove spaces around the "@")
Education
2008 Massachusetts College of Art, Masters of Fine Arts
2002 Excelsior College, Albany, New York. B.S. Humanities & Psychology
2001-02 Oregon State University, assisting with Cadaver Dissection, A.& P. DR. Tom Roberts
1978-79 Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy
1978 Dartington School of Art, England
1977 Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, Seattle, WA
1980-Present: Independent Study - Eastern and Central Europe, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, New York, Mexico, Costa Rica
Continuing Education, (Selected) OR. Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Marylhurst College, Portland State, Reed College; WA. Realist Academy, Seattle
Featured or Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2005 Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR, Avatar Series (Jul-Sep)
2004 Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR, Figurative Intimacy, (May)
2004 Runyan Gallery, Newport Visual Art Center, OR. L.I.P.S. (Mar.)
2000 Omni Gallery, Portland, OR, Cyber Series (Sept)
2000 Visual Art Center, Newport, OR, Five Year Retrospective & Cyber Series (Aug)
1999 Omni Gallery, Portland, OR, Chase the Free (Dec)
1999 Omni Gallery, Portland, OR, Living on the Edge (Feb)
1999 Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR, Living on the Edge (Aug)
1998 Omni Gallery, Portland, OR, Passion Play (Sept)
1997 Omni Gallery, Portland, OR, Gods and Goddesses (Sept)
1997 Traveling Exhibition Cross Cultural/Human Contact
- Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR (Feb)
- Cornish College of Arts, Seattle, WA (Mar)
- Omni Gallery, Portland, OR (Apr)
- Robert E. Frey, Seattle, WA (Sept)
1995 Gallery at Salishan, Gleneden Beach OR, Freedom Flight
1994 Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR, Summer Memories,
1992 Allied Arts, Bellingham, WA New Beginnings
1992 Artwood, Bellingham, WA
1991 Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA
1990 Fyre Museum, Seattle, WA
1989 Bruskin Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
1987 Sunriver Gallery, Sunriver, OR
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2003 Oregon Arts Commission/ City Hall/ Tile Installation/ Newport, OR.
2001 Vizivarosi Gallery/ Hungarian Multicultural Center Artist/ Budapest, Hungary
2001 Gallery of Social/Political Art, Boston, MA
1999 Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1998 East West Gallery, Baltonfured, Hungary
1995-Present: Sitka Art Invitational, Portland, OR
1990-92 Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, WA
1989 Humberston Edwards Fine Art, West Vancouver, B.C.
1988-90 Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1988 Western Wash Viking Union Gallery, Bellingham, WA.
Grants & Scholarships
2000-2001 Oregon Art Commission, Art Reaching Youth
1999 Lincoln County Commission on Children, Contemporary Art History Gender Equality
1998 Hungarian Multicultural Center, Artist Residencies of Hungary, July
1996 Art School Young Voices Collaboration with Children of the World, Texas Equilibre, France
1996 Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation - Art Teacher to implement fine arts in Romanian Orphanages.
1995 Meyer Memorial Trust: Artist as Teacher/Teacher as Artist.
1978 Dartington College of Art, England (Scholarship)
1977 Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy (Scholarship)
Publications (Selected)
2001 Portland Art Museum "Art History Symposium" (Apr)
2000 Oregonian "Critics Pick", (Dec)
1999 Statesman Journal "Kids Feelings Emerge In Art" (Mar)
1996 Ink Fish Magazine "The Making of an Art Activist" (Oct)
1996 The Womans Journal "Upon Meeting Royalty" and "Mama, We Want Color" (Dec)
1996 Studio Art Center International, "The New Scholarship Fund" (Sept)
1995 Sea Hag Cookbook Illustrator
1994-Present: News articles in New York Times, Newstimes, Newsguard, Depoe Bay Beacon
Presentations (Selected)
2001 Lecturer, Portland Art Museum, Performance Art History: "The Illusion of Life" (Apr)
1999 Guest Lecturer Pacific Communities Hospital Foundation, Arts and Healing Symposium: "Listening to Your Inner Voice"
1997 Guest Lecturer NW Public Power Association Convention. Eugene, OR: "What's Most Worth Knowing About Art and Humanitarianism"
1997 Guest Lecturer Cornish College of Art, Seattle, WA: Cross Cultural, Human Contact
1996 Guest Lecturer Vita Gallery, Portland, OR, Children of the World Benefit
1995 & 1996 Rotary and Optimist Club, Children of the World
1995-96 Public Television - "Wake up Lincoln City, Art School Young Voices / Creating Art With Children".
Teaching
2002 Westin Lodge/ Conference Art Teacher
2000-2001 Youth at Risk Inside/ Out Magazine & Art project
1995-2002 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
1988-Present Artist in Education, Very Special Arts, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Oceanspray
1980-Present Civic Service Art Teacher; Public School, Romanian Orphanage, Care Centers, etc.
Selected Collections
Sea Hag Restaurant, Depoe Bay, OR
City Hall Tile Mural Commission, Newport, OR
Inn at Spanish Head, Lincoln City, OR
Barbara Cady & Jean-Louis Ginibre, Executive V.P. & Editorial Director Hachette Publications, N.Y., N. Y.
Indra Tjiptamulla, Bali, Indonesia
Dean Valentine, President, United Paramount Network, Los Angeles, CA
Robert B. Smith, Portland, OR
Judith K. Hofer, President, Meier & Frank, Salem, OR
Dr. Glynn Jones, Alberta, Canada
Alan Wilson, Victoria, Australia
Robert E. Frey, Seattle, WA
Dr. Randi Burke, McMinnville, OR