Mission:
Constructing art to redefine spaces, reflecting where I have been and where I want to be.
Education:
1997 B.A. in Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
1997 Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France
2011 - 2013 Sherwood Leadership Program, Walla Walla, Washington.
2015 Artist Trust: I Am An Artist with Barbara Noonan
Shows:
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
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.
2013-2014
Two-Person Exhibition, Place, Space, And Objects. Walla Walla Roastry, Walla Walla, Washington. (with Mary Ann Duffy)
2013
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.
Solo Exhibition, NEW WORK: Augusta Sparks Farnum. Atmosphere Series, Installation, and Paintings. Drawings in Heaven. AMO ART. Waitsburg, Washington. (curated by Claire Johnston)
2006
Group Exhibition,"The Artistry of Flora” Seven Hills Winery, Walla Walla, Washington. (curated by Kirsten Telander)
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.
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)
Installations, Commissions & Collections:
2018
The deafening rustle of childhood. Commissioned Drawing Installation. Foundry Vineyards. Walla Walla, Washington
2017
Boca de Chorro: Home is within me. Ceramic Altar. Mark Anderson Private Collection
Boca de Chorro: Photographic Series. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
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
Stand in. Drawing. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
Quiet Meditation. Duffy Painting. Paul and Karen McCarthy Private Collection
Climb Up. Painting. Lynda Benglis Private Collection
Welcome to the Garden Party II, Drawing. Henry Family Art Collection, Seattle, Washington
Commission, Noah’s Tree, Interior mural, Private Residence, College Place, Washington.
Commission, And I fly, Commissioned Drawing Installation, Priviate Residence, Pressbaum, Austria
Collection, Atmosphere Series. Blethen Family Art Collection, Yakima .Washington
2013-2015
Installation, Atmosphere Series. Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce, Walla Walla, Washington.
2014
Commission, The Bryant Barn, Commissioned Drawing Installation. Bryant Street VBRO, Walla Walla, Washington.
Commission, Logo Design, Tensegrity Productions, Walla Walla Washington
2013
Collection, Photograph, Prompting for a Narrative series, Lynda Benglis Art Collection
Installations, Treehouse, Interior mural. Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
Installation, Lilliputian Room, Interior mural. Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
Commission, The Bathroom. Commissioned Drawing Installation. AMO Gallery, Waitsburg, Washington.
2009 -2013
Installation, Interior Murals: tiles, plaster, wood & walls. Private Residence, Walla Walla, Washington.
2003
Installation, The Bird, 11 foot aluminum Cast sculpture. Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Publications:
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
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
Denise Slattery, “FACES AND PLACES - Picture Lady program brings art to life,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, May 31, 2011
Maria P. Gonzalez, “Lessons swirl art, art history,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, April 14, 2010
Interviews:
Maria Ptucha, Radio Interview, KWCW, 6pm, February 28, 2015
https://storyofmylife.withknown.com/2015/augusta-sparks-farnum
Professional Experience:
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.
2009-2015 Board member, Carnegie Picture Lab
2013 Board President, Carnegie Picture Lab
2012 Board Vice-President, Carnegie Picture Lab
2011-2013 Americorps Contact, Carnegie Picture Lab
2009-2014 Classroom Carnegie Picture Lab Presenter, Edison School, Walla Walla, Washington
2009 - 2013 School Carnegie Picture Lab Advocate, organizer of volunteers at Edison School, Walla Walla, Washington
2008-2012 Curriculum Chair, Carnegie Picture Lab
2008-2012 Workshop Chair and Presenter, Carnegie Picture Lab
2008 -2012 Volunteer Chair, Carnegie Picture Lab
2009 Established, yearly kid art book donation, every participating school library & public library in Walla Walla Valley, Carnegie Picture Lab
2009 Family Fun nights, family learning, Carnegie Picture Lab
2009 Established, Walla Walla Foundry fifth grade field trips, Carnegie Picture Lab
2009 Founder, Carnegie Picture Lab, Non-profit. Walla Walla, Washington
2008-2009 Chair of Picture Lady Program, New Program Initiative: Every Child Every Class. Serving grades Kindergarten - 5th grades with both art project and art history, workshop for volunteers program, and spreads program over the year. Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, Washington
2006-2009 Presenter, Picture Lady, spring art history for the second grade, Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, Washington
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.
2011 Partners-in-Learning Round Table, Three Minute Presentations for the Walla Walla Public School Systems, Walla Walla, Washington
2008-2011 Florist and Landscape Designer, Certified by office of Minority & Women Business Enterprises, as a Woman’s Certified Enterprise, Walla Walla, Washington
2007-2009 CURB (Creating Urban Riparian Buffers), Resident Artist, Graphic Design, Landscape designer, and Workshop Teaching Coordinator for the CURB, installing Native Plants within city limits on residential creeks. Walla Walla, Washington
2000-2009 Trafficking in Beauty, Florist and Landscape Designer: Restaurants, and Events. Self-employed
Awards:
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.
Internships & Mentorships:
2018 ANNEX ARTS, Artist-in-Residence, Castine, Maine
2017 Boca De Chorro, Lynda Benglis Residency New Mexico
2014 Studied With Muralists David Guinn and Desiree Bender-Guinn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014 Philadelphia City Arts Mural Program. Eagle Day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013 Studied with Amy Davila, Consultant. ArtSmart, Los Angles, California
2012-2013 Studied with Amy Bruner, Consultant, Living Portfolio, Walla Walla, Washington
1995 Gallery Intern, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Studied with Photographer William Clift, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Memberships:
Artist Trust:
Member, Artist Trust is dedicated to supporting Washington State artists working in all creative disciplines.
Art Walla:
Membership Level: Working Artist, The mission of ArtWalla is to support and strengthen the Arts as an integral part of daily life, education and economic development in the Walla Walla Valley. ArtWalla envisions an arts culture of excellence with vibrant events, innovative programs and multiple, diverse sources of sustained support. To this end, ArtWalla is dedicated to collaborative participation, aggressive Arts advocacy and dynamic membership services. Our volunteer Board of Directors includes artists, community members, and professionals.
The Walla Walla Art Club:
Active Member & Presenter. The chief object of this art club is the study of art and art literature and the creation and dissemination of the love to art. Constitution-Walla Walla Art Club, established, Nov. 13, 1898