Josefa Vaughan, ArtSeed Founder, Educator, Executive and Artistic Director, www.artseed.org
P.O. Box 29277, San Francisco, CA 94129, josefa@artseed.org, 415-656-9849, www.josefa.com
Solo, Curated, and Collaborative Exhibitions
| 2024 | Earthseed, Undergrowth, and Afterlife co-curated ArtSeed’s 18th Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. |
| 2023 | Birds & Bees: Fact, Fantasy, and the Future of Art and Life on Earth co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. |
| 2022 | Dream Earth People on Sabbatical co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. |
| 2021 | New Normal: Learning from the Past to Move Forward Together, co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. |
| 2020 | Only Zombies Race to Mass Destruction, co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. |
| 2019 | Rendering Power, Envisioning Freedom: Lawmakers, Lost Lives, and Peaceful Resolutions, co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed and China Brotsky Galleries, San Francisco. Urban Art: The Eleventh Hour, directed and co-curated, Seed Gallery, Tides Converge, Presidio San Francisco. |
| 2018 | Peculiar Institutions, Curator and co-featured, Think Round Fine Arts, San Francisco. Mailing Home: Who Was John Brown? Who Is Jim Crow? Who Are We? Co-curated ArtSeed’s Annual Year-End Exhibition, Seed Gallery and China Brotsky Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio of San Francisco. |
| 2017 | Being in Turbulent Times, Solo Exhibition in June, Hardin Studios, San Francisco. Marching Home: Grasping Valor, Preserving Freedom, Protecting the Earth on the Way to Peace! ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2016 | Cottage Industry 16: Locomotion, Collaboration, Let’s Beat Poverty and Racism in All Their Forms! Curator, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2015 | Cottage Industry 15: Communication, Collaboration, Let’s Beat Poverty and Racism in All Their Forms! Curator, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. Freedom Art Indulgence, Imagine Bus Project Signature Event, SOMArts, San Francisco. |
| 2014 | Steinberg’s Abstention, Solo Exhibition in June, Hardin Studios, San Francisco. Legacies and Living Spaces, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2013 | Sums, Sustenance, and the Five Sense, ArtSeed Exhibition, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2012 | 75 Reasons We Are The Bridge! ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2011 | Stocking the Pequod, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2010 | Health, Healing and Community, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2009 | Structure and the Meaning of Life, ArtSeed collaborative installation, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2008 | James Grant and Company, curated Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. Hereafter: Futures With Which We Can Live? Conceived, curated Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2007 | If I Ruled the World, Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. Achenbach Inspired, The Point Gallery, curator, San Francisco. |
| 2006 | Forming ArtSeed, conceived and organized with Marissa Kunz, curator Thoreau Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2005 | ArtSeed Bridges, conceived and organized. Collaborative installation, performance, SFAI. |
| 2004 | Coloring Sounds: Songlines for Seibert’s Pipes, Solo Exhibition, The LAB, San Francisco. |
| 2001 | Dante’s (ArtSeed) Inferno, San Francisco Public Library, Western Addition Branch. Sticky Business (Art Growing Out of the Real World), Hunter’s Point Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2000 | Gods and Monsters, ArtSeed installation and performance, Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Friends of ArtSeed, Studio One, Oakland, California. |
| 1998 | House of Daddy Dreams, with Dean and Juliet MacCannell, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas. |
| 1994 | (Qu)alms, Solo Exhibition, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco (artist’s book and brochure). Onomatopoeias, Solo Exhibition, Davis Art Center, Davis, California. |
| 1993 | Inklings & Iotas, Solo Exhibition, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California. |
| 1992 | Kinder, Adult, Elder Signs, Solo Exhibition, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University. |
| 1991 | Signs, Cries, and Incentives, Solo Exhibition, DiverseWorks Artspace (artist’s book and brochure). |
| 1987 | Habits, 1401 West Gray Art Space, Houston, Texas. |
| 1986 | Climbing the Walls, Solo Exhibition, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
| 1983 | Mapping the Body, Solo Exhibition, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Texas. |
| 1982 | Introductions, Solo Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas. |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2007 | Artists Go Lightly, juried exhibition benefiting the SF Tenants Union, Temporary Autonomous Museum, San Francisco. Power in a Global Society, collaboration organized by World Savvy, Zeum Arts and Technology Museum, San Francisco. |
| 2006 | Annual Art Auction, The LAB, San Francisco. |
| 2005 | Big Deal, Visual Aids Annual Art Auction, San Francisco. The Drawing Room, curated by Lauren Davies, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA. Freedom of Impression: Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco Arts Commission, City Hall, San Francisco. Young Art Lives! ArtSeed Benefit Auction, Giant Killer Robot Studios, San Francisco. Inner Ear Fundraiser, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco. Families In Paradise, an installation by Heidi Hardin, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 2003 | Seventh Heaven, The LAB, San Francisco; No War, The Luggage Store, San Francisco. Art: Uninterrupted, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CAProof of life, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco. A Dialogue on Paper, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco. |
| 2001 | Big Deal, Visual Aids Benefit Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco. |
| 2000 | Blueprint, TILT, Southern Exposure. Big Deal, Benefit Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco. Tender and Y2K Youth 2000, Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Opening Tricks, Afishionados, Sticks Gallery, Berkeley. Art Auction, Walter/McBean Gallery, SF Art Institute. |
| 1998 | Summons I, 509 Cultural Center. Fast Art Stop, San Francisco Art Commission, Grove Street. Give and Take, Mills Building. Self, Stuff, and Others, The Randall Museum, S.F.A.E.P. |
| 1997 | Art, an Anti-destiny, Global Culture Center, La Grande Arche, Paris. Dreams and Nightmares, SF Art Commission Gallery. One-Mile Shebang, Collision Gallery. Sixth Annual, The Luggage Store. Thirteenth Annual, McBean Gallery. Post-postcard II, Four-Walls, San Francisco. |
| 1996 | Discards, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Big Deal, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco. |
| 1995 | Visual AIDS, Space 743; Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco. |
| 1994 | Commodities and Discards, Haines Gallery. Holiday Store, New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Tenth Annual, Berkeley Art Center. Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. |
Selected Awards
| 2008 | AT&T Community Hero Spotlight Award, 92.7fm broadcast, catered reception and printed publication. |
| 2007 | Teaching Artist Residency, Young Artist at Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. |
| 2006 | Teaching Artist Residency, Young Artist at Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. |
| 2003 | Artist Residency, Shipyard Trust for the Arts, Bayview Opera House. Individual Artist Commission, Cultural Equity Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission. |
| 2000 | LEF Foundation Grant in support of ArtSeed’s summer camp and website Artist-in- Residence, de Young Museum Artist Studio, San Francisco. |
| 1997 | Artist-in Residence Fellowship, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA. |
| 1995 | Commission, Muni Key Stops Project, San Francisco Arts Commission. |
| 1994 | LEF Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Fund Grants supporting the (Qu)alms project. |
| 1992-95 | Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. |
| 1987 | Artist in Residence Fellowship, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA. First Award, East End Show, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston. |
| 1984 | Commission, 15 paintings, Philip Johnson’s Transco Tower, Transco Energy Company, Houston. |
Selected Professional Activities
| 2014 | Guest Lecturer, Art History/Arts Management class, Barabara Jaspersen, instructor, USF. Grant-maker panelist for Panel 1, Creating Places of Vitality Award, California Arts Council. |
| 2012 | Grant-maker panelist for Panel 2, Artists in Schools Award, California Arts Council. |
| 2008 | Consultant, Senior Field Study Project, Research on Mural Painting, Bay School of San Francisco. |
| 2007 | Guest Speaker, Saratoga Parent Association. |
| 2006 | Juror, Bridge Design Competition, Student Impact Project, Engineers for the Arts, San Francisco. |
| 2004 | Panelist, The Drawing Room, organized by Lauren Davies, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA. |
| 2003 | Founder, ArtSeed, tax exempt, arts-in-community, youth-leadership nonprofit, San Francisco. Director/Instructor, Conceptual ArtSeed Workshop, Pacific Community Charter School, Pt. Arena, CA. Director/Instructor, ArtSeed’s Fine Arts Summer Camp, Bayview Opera House, San Francisco. Conceived & organized, From Hand to Hand, panel discussion & Flash! performances, The LAB, San Francisco. |
| 2002 | Director, Art Is Education workshop, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland; Juror, Youth Arts Festival Exhibition, Zeum, San Francisco. |
| 2001 | Director, ArtSeed Family Day oil painting workshop, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
| 1999-00 | Artist-in-Residence, de Young Museum Artist Studio; I Ching Inferno, The Lab. Instructor: Synergy, SFAEP, Western Addition Beacon Center. Curator: Studio One, Oakland. Organized ArtSeed’s summer camp and website. Hills Project Artist-in-Residence. |
| 1992-93 | Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State and Stanford University. |
| 1985 | Curated, in conjunction with Barbara Rose’s Fresh Paint, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Fresh Roots, First Marks: The Houston School, The Drawing Room Gallery, Houston Texas. |
Selected Press
| 2017 | “ArtSeed,” Woman Eco Artists Dialog, online magazine, issue #9. |
| 2015 | KALX, Berkeley, and KALW, and San Francisco radio interviews of Josefa Vaughan arranged by Sally Douglas Arce, Media Relations & Marketing Communications April 18. |
| 2013 | Jonathan Kuperberg, “Cultivating a Path for Budding Artists,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 19. |
| 2012 | Michelle Gienow, “The Tool Kit,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 31. Thomas Figg, “Enhancing Education by Training in Drawing and Fine Art,” Western Edition, April. |
| 2010 | Al Norman, “Josefa Vaughan Shares Her Experience of Art,” Bayview Community Voices, March. |
| 2004 | David Buck, “’The Drawing Room’ at Kala Art Institute,” Artweek, April, Volume 35, Issue 3. |
| 2003 | Meredith Tromble, “Pointed Remarks,” Shipyard Trust for the Arts Newsletter, May. |
| 2001 | Christine Jegan, “ArtSeed…Connects Children,” San Francisco Observer, May. Josefa Vaughan (quoted), “Times Like These,” Studio Notes, October-December, #34. |
| 1995 | Terri Cohn, “Some Collaborations,” Art Week, May. |
| 1994 | Diane Roby, “The Stuff of Life,” Artweek, August 18. |
| 1985 | Patricia Johnson, “Work from Artists’ Youth has Some Surprises,” Houston Chronicle, January 28. Carol Everingham, “Innocence to Experience,” The Houston Post, January 27. |
| 1983 | Patricia Johnson, “Josefa Vaughan’s Triple Threat…,” Houston Chronicle, May 6. |