Mission:
Constructing art to redefine spaces, reflecting where I have been and where I want to be.
Education:
2024 Masters Fine Art, Intermedia, University of Maine, Orono
2022 Masters. Arts in Medicine at the Center for Arts in Medicine Graduate School, University of Florida, Gainesville.
2022 Graduate Certificate. Maine Art and Humanities in Medicine, University of Maine, Orono.
1997 Bachelor of Arts. Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Shows:
2024
Walking With, Dance performance with in Walking at Night, Rori Smith & Max Laszewski. Bare Places: Diana Baumbach & Augusta Spark Farnum. The Parsonage Gallery.Searsport, Maine.
Film screening & Panel, with Rori Smith. Maine Mini Fest, Space Gallery. Portland, Maine
2023
Two person show, Bare Places: Diana Baumbach & Augusta Spark Farnum. The Parsonage Gallery.Searsport, Maine.
Group Show. Activating Art and Science, Visual Forestry and Nanocellulose Artistic Research, Lord Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
Group Show. In/between/intermedia. Rockland, Maine
Installation. Intrusions: Art, Movement & Music for reproductive justice. Intermedia MFA visiting artist Performance
2019
Resident Artist. Studio Two Zero Two. Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Show. Artist Trust Art Auction. Seattle Washington
Solo Installation, Undercurrents. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington
Solo Installation, WRB Process Works. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington
Group Resident Show, Sheets of Paper. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington
Project. Quiet Force: 52 Women. Commissioned by the YWCA Walla Walla to document 52 women with photographic portraits. IRB application accepted by Whitman College for research and presentation purposes.
2018
Artist of the year, Woodward Canyon Winery, Lowden Washington
Solo Installation, Walla Walla Movie Crush Medallion, Chamber of Commerce, Walla Walla, Washington
Solo Installation, ANNEX ARTS, Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington
Solo Installation, Meditations on Adorations: process drawings of a crush, Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington
Two Person Show, APARTPLAYED - PLAYEDAPART, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla, Washington
Solo Installation, Boca De Chorro, Zeitgeist: Art and Coffee. Seattle Washington
Resident Artist, 2018 - 2020, Studio Two Zero Two. Walla Walla, Washington 99362
Group Exhibition, MANIBUS: HANDS OF IMMIGRANTS, Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition ( WWIRC), Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington.
2017
Group Exhibition, MANIBUS: HANDS OF IMMIGRANTS, Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition ( WWIRC), Colville Street Patisserie Walla Walla, Washington.
Featured artist, Moveable Feasts & The Napkin Ring Project. Capital Hill Art walk. Niche Outside, Seattle, Washington
Will you still love me when I am old? Vatican, Studio e Gallery, Seattle Washington
Group Exhibition, ArtSquared Group Show and 6x6 Event. ArtWalla, Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington.
Solo Installation, Boca De Chorro, Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington.
2016
Installation and group show, New Works: Something to build on. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Exhibition, ArtSquared Group Show and 6x6 Event. ArtWalla, Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington.
2015
Napkin Rings. Mad Woven Sparks Studio: Dinnerware trunkshow. Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington.
Installation and group show, Something to stand on. Building a Place to stand. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington.
Installation and group show, Welcome to the Garden Party. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Exhibition, ArtSquared Group Show and 6x6 Event. ArtWalla, Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington.
Solo Installation, New Works: Besides the Garden. Brasserie Four, Walla Walla, Washington.
2014
Group Installation, wallaPop Up's 2nd Annual Holiday Group Art Sale. Painted Gloves, etched light Switches, and walnut a a luminum etched stories. wallaPopUP Co-operative Art Gallery. Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Installation, Metal Etched Group Show, The Smokey Farris Artist Challenge. Etched curved aluminum with walnut back. Brasserie Four, Walla Walla, Washington. (Curated By Claire Johnston)
Group Exhibition, ArtSquared Group Show and 6x6 Event. ArtWalla, Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington.
Solo Installation, Equivocal Space. Telander Gallery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Exhibition, wallaPopUP's Spring Exhibition Group Show. domesticated and undomesticated: Photographs. wallaPopUP Co-operative Art Gallery. Walla Walla, Washington.
2013
Solo Exhibition, NEW WORK: Augusta Sparks Farnum. Atmosphere Series, Installation, and Paintings. Drawings in Heaven. AMO ART. Waitsburg, Washington. (curated by Claire Johnston)
Solo Exhibition, Atmosphere Series. Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce, Walla Walla, Washington.
Two-Person Exhibition, Place, Space, And Objects. Walla Walla Roastry, Walla Walla, Washington. (with Mary Ann Duffy)
Group Exhibition, wallaPopUP Group Show. Prompting For A Narrative: Photographs. Art in an Envelope. wallaPopUP Co-operative Art Gallery, Walla Walla, Washington.
Group Exhibition, ArtSquared 6x6 Event. ArtWalla, Charles Smith Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
2005
Collaborative Project, Chaos’ Symmetry, Marcus Whitman Wine Event, Walla Walla, Washington. (with Bear Ullman)
Solo Exhibition, Garden, Botanical & Floral. Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington.
2003
The Bird, 11 foot aluminum Cast sculpture. Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1999
Group Exhibition, Kingston Biannual Sculpture Show. The Bird, Kingston, New York. (catalog)
1998
Group Exhibition, Copper Sculpture Group Show. The Sense of Balance, Pigs in Space, Emerson Umbrella, The Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, Massachusetts.
Solo Exhibition, Known and Unknown: Color & Silver Print Photographs, Large and Medium Formate. Boston Portrait Company, Boston, Massachusetts. (Curated By Kristen Anderson)
1997
Solo Exhibition, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Love Came offer the Hill and Asked me to Dance. Black & White Large Formate Photography, Aluminum Sculpture, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
1996
Solo Exhibition, Known and Unknown: Color and Silver Print Photographs, Medium Format. Anderson Photo, Concord, Massachusetts. (Curated By Kristen Anderson)
Mural Commissions:
2020
The Merger & The Deep Down, Blumenthal & Golmarvi Collection, Walla Walla, Washington
2018
The deafening rustle of childhood. Commissioned Drawing Installation. Foundry Vineyards. Walla Walla, Washington
2017
The Tooth Acher's Garden, Commissioned Drawing Installation. Maitreya Study Centre, Blossom Village Resort, Sidhpur, Dharamshala, India
Bill Henry's Journey, Commissioned Drawing Installation. Seattle Washington
2016
Welcome to the Garden Party I, Commissioned Drawing Installation. Corliss Family Art Collection, Walla Walla, Washington
2015
And I fly, Commissioned Drawing Installation, Priviate Residence, Pressbaum, Austria
Noah’s Tree, Interior mural, Private Residence, College Place, Washington.
2014
The Bryant Barn, Commissioned Drawing Installation. Bryant Street VBRO, Walla Walla, Washington.
2013
Treehouse, Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
Lilliputian Room, Interior mural. Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
The Bathroom. AMO Gallery, Waitsburg, Washington.
2009
Interior Murals: tiles, plaster, wood & walls. Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
Collections:
2017
Collection, Boca de Chorro: Home is within me. Ceramic Altar. Mark Anderson Private Collection
Collection, Boca de Chorro: Photographic Series. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
2015
Collection, Stand in. Drawing. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
Collection, Quiet Meditation. Duffy Painting. Paul and Karen McCarthy Private Collection
Collection, Climb Up. Painting. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
Collection, Welcome to the Garden Party II, Drawing. Henry Family Art Collection, Seattle, Washington
Collection, Atmosphere Series. Blethen Family Art Collection, Yakima .Washington
2013
Collection, Photograph, Prompting for a Narrative series, Lynda Benglis Art Collection
Lectures:
2022
Intermedial Practices: Collaboration with Nano-cellulose. Guest Lecturer, August 24, 2022. Process Development Center, Annual Cellulose Nano material research Forum Wells, University of Maine, Orono.
2021
Arts in Medicine. Guest Lecturer, Sept 21 2021. Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar, Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar for Intermedia Arts and Humanities in Medicine graduate certificate, University of Maine, Orono
Arts in Health: First Aid Art Kits. Guest Lecturer, April 5, 2021 Mental Health in Times of COVID-19 Symposium, University of Maine Institute of Medicine. University of Maine, Orono
A talk about Considered Art, Art in Healthcare Environments. Guest Lecturer, With Richard Borrelli, AIA, NCARB and Dr. David Loxterkamp. Medicine, the Arts & Society Seminar for Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine Fellowship, Northern Lights Family Medicine Residency and Clinic & University of Maine, Orono.
Arts in Health: First Aid Art Kits. Guest Lecturer, Mental Health in Times of COVID-19 Symposium, April 5, 2021 University of Maine Institute of Medicine. University of Maine, Orono
2020
Build a Community Therapeutic Garden Mural, Galvanize an Arts and Medicine Community, Design Beyond Evidence Based Design. Guest Lecturer, Medicine, the Arts & Society Seminar Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine Fellowship, Northern Lights Family Medicine Residency and Clinic & University of Maine, Orono
Arts In Health: First Aid Art Kits. Population Health’s Mission for Whole Person Care in the Walla Walla Valley. ACA Arts & Wellness Symposium: The Arts Within Whole Health. Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Quiet Force: 52 Women. YWCA, Walla Walla, Washington
2018
The In-between Spaces, Annex Arts, & the return to Photography. Studio Two Zero Two Walla Walla, Washington
Dowsing for the Surreal. Woodward Canyon, Lowden Washington
I’m going. Are you coming? New work in Photography, and how I got there. Foundry Vineyards. Walla Walla, Washington
2016
Ester Howe Anderson. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
2014
Maira Kalman. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
2012
Judy Pfaff. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
Professional Experience:
Artist Taught Workshop
2024 Exploring Softwood Cellulose Nano-fiber ( CNF) Community Labs Workshop, Haystack School. Deer Isle, Maine.
Lead Graduate Assistant
2022 - 2024 In Art: In Intermedia NanoCellulose Artistic Research Team, Processing Development Center & Intermedia Partnership, University of Maine, Orono
Research Assistant
2021 to Present Family Medicine Medical Humanities Faculty Toolkit, under the direction of Dr. Hugh Silk. Medical Humanities Database STMF Grant: Developing a Database and Faculty. Development Toolkit to Integrate Medical Humanities into Family Medicine Residency Training.
Teaching Assistant
2021 - 2023 Maine Arts & Humanities in Medicine, Graduate certificate, Institute of Medicine and Intermedia Department University of Maine, Orono
Founder
2020 Arts In Health: First Aid Art Kits. Arts in Health Response to COVID-19. In Partnership with Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Providence St. Mary Foundation, Carnegie Picture Lab and Art Walla to provide art activities, and artists made prompts in English and Spanish to those in isolation, quarantine, shelters, long term care, and tp their caregivers. Supported at http://artwalla.com/artshealth with Artist facilitation videos. Noted on the National Repository for artists response to COVID-19 https://covid.response.arts.ufl.edu/arts-in-health-first-aid-art-kits IRB in process and approved by Whitman College for research.
Photographer
2019 - 2020 Quiet Force: 52 Women Commissioned by the YWCA Walla Walla to document 52 women with photographic portraits to be accompanied by interviews. IRB in process and accepted by Whitman College for research and presentation purposes. To be archived at Whitman College Northwest Archives - Penrose Library.
Writer & Portraits
2019 - 2020 Questioning Artists, Column for Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper. Interviews, introductions, and a vehicle to learn about local art making in the Walla Walla Valley
Artist
1992-2020 Multimedia: Photography, drawings, and paintings. Lectures, blog, website, and a subscription newsletter and postcard subscription. Showing, with installations around the world.
Visiting Artist
2018-2019 How to Change Mind, Self and Body. Independent Study Fall - Spring Assistant to Professor Suzanne Morrissey. Whitman College
Founder
2006 - 2015 Picture Lady Chair to Founding Carnegie Picture Lab, Non-for-profit, Walla Walla, Washington The Carnegie Picture Lab Mission is to nourish creativity by supporting and enhancing art education for elementary school children in the Walla Walla Valley. 18 Art History & Art Interaction projects per 6 year Elementary school cycle, 5th grade trip to the Walla Walla Foundry, Art Family Fun Nights, yearly themed art books for all school, Art Show, 9 schools, over 4000 students, and 70 volunteers, with two paid staff, and a 10 person board, on Main street Walla Walla, Washington.
Resident Artist
2011 - 2013 A Living Classroom, Garrison Creek Stream Restoration Project at Fort Walla Walla, Illustrations and Graphic Design for Educational signs in collaboration with Susan How, Sherwood Leadership Program, Walla Walla, Washington.
Facilitator
2011 Partners-in-Learning Round Table, Three Minute Presentations for the Walla Walla Public School Systems, Walla Walla, Washington
Florist and Landscape Designer:
2000 - 2011 Trafficking in Beauty. Restaurants, and Events. Self-employed Certified by office of Minority & Women Business Enterprises, as a Woman’s Certified Enterprise, Walla Walla, Washington
Resident Artist:
2007 - 2009 CURB (Creating Urban Riparian Buffers), Walla Walla County Conservation District. Graphic Design, Landscape designer, and Workshop Teaching Coordinator, for stream restoration with Native Plants within city limits on residential creeks. In collaboration with founder Allison Bower. Walla Walla, Washington http://www.wwccd.net/programs/curb/
Mother
2000 Became a Mother
Paint maker
1999 - 1997 R&F Handmade Paints. Kingston, New York
Publications:
Loads Reuter, Leaving Room for Magic: a Conversation between Augusta Sparks Farnum and Rori Smith, April 9 2024 Critical Correspondence Movement Research. https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/
Carl Little, Bare Places: Diana Baumbach and Augusta Sparks Farnum, January/Februrary 2024, Art New England
Samantha Schipani, Intermedia students are creating art with nano-cellulose, August 23, 2022 UMaine News, University of Maine https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2022/08/23/intermedia-students-are-creating-art-with-nanocellulose/
Drew Woolly, Handcrafted Healing, Podcast September 15, 2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-heart-of-community/id1562384155?uo=4
Vicki Miller, Hand Crafted Healing, April 2021 Cover & story. Ruralite Magazine https://www.ruralite.com/hand-crafted-healing/
Augusta Sparks, First Responder: First aid Art Kit August 12, 2020 Artplace. https://www.artplaceamerica.org/blog/first-responder-first-aid-arts-kit
Caroline Lockwood, Arts in Medicine student provides Art kits to Covid-19 patients. July 15 2020. UF College of the Arts: In the Loop. https://arts.ufl.edu/in-the-loop/news/arts-in-medicine-student-provides-art-kits-to-covid-19-patients/
Carissa Lehmkuhl, YakTriNews: Providence St. Mary Foundation, community partners deliever art kits to people quarantined in Walla Walla April 13, 2020 https://www.yaktrinews.com/providence-st-mary-foundation-community-partners-deliver-art-kits-to-people-quarantined-in-walla-walla/
Augusta Sparks. Questioning Artists June 10 to December 27, 2019 Union Bulletion.
J. Matthew McKern, Exhale the Winter's Gush (Cover, Photo spread), Oddville Press, Summer 2018
J. Matthew McKern, Prompting For a Narrative (Photo Spread), Oddville Press, Spring 2018
Augusta Farnum, Welcome to the Garden Party, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, Sept 2015
Hannah Bartman, Local Artist redefines landscapes with graphite, The Whitman College Pioneer, May 7, 2015
Dylan Farnum, Brasserie Four to host new Farnum Art, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, April 30, 2015
Maria Ptucha, Radio Interview, KWCW, 6pm, February 28, 2015 https://storyofmylife.withknown.com/2015/augusta-sparks-farnum
Kirsten Telander, Botanical Art installation at Telander Gallery, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, May 1, 2014
Maria P. Gonzalez, Chihuly Glass act element of Carnegie Picture Lab partnership, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, January 24, 2013
Maria P. Gonzalez, New Home, New life for Picture Lab, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, November 2012
Residency, Internships, Continuing Education & Mentorships:
2021 Arts Intern, Arts and Humanities in Medicine, Northern Light Health Family Medicine Residency and Clinic
2020 Center For Performance and Civic Practice. Sojourn Theatre
2019 Emerging Program Institute, Alliance of Artist Communities
2018 Artist Residency, Arts Annex, Castine Maine
2017 Boca De Chorro, Lynda Benglis Residency New Mexico
2015 Artist Trust: I Am An Artist
2014 Studied With Muralists David Guinn and Desiree Bender-Guinn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011 Sherwood Leadership Program, Walla Walla, Washington.
1997 Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France
1995 Studied with Photographer William Clift, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Awards:
2023 Trustee Scholarship Award from the University of Maine
2021 Dr. John Graham-Pole Scholarship for the Master of Arts in Arts in Medicine Program, College of the Arts - Center for the Arts in Medicine, University of Florida
1999 The Artist’s Valentine. Grant, Judged by David Aronson. Boston, Massachusetts.
1997 Best Documentary Photography Award, Jamie Lubarr Award, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York