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Born: 1944 at Binghamton New York

Studied: Elmira College, Elmira NY; Harpur College, SUNY Binghamton -- BA; University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; City U, Bellevue WA -- MA.

Exhibited: One Woman Shows: Turtle Bluff, Nordland Washington, 2001; Bruskin Gallery 1998; Women’s Center, Port Townsend Washington, 1995; Yorkshire 510, Norman Oklahoma, 1988; Die Roemer Gallery, Wiesbaden Germany 1988; Zoliborz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 1981; Penryn Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1970, 1973, 1976; Haines Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1974, 1975; Attica Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1968; Willoughby Wallace Memorial Gallery, Stony Creek, Branford Connecticut, 1967.

Group Shows:

Gallery 9, Port Townsend Washington, 2004; Anacortes Washington 2000-2003; Jefferson County Arts Alliance Gallery Port Townsend Washington, 2002; Quimper Arts 1993,1994, 2003; Ichikawa, Japan, 1997; Binghamton University Gallery 1996; Blue Heron Gallery, Port Hadlock Washington 1991-1992; International Sculptors Symposium, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, 1977; Hajnowka Poland Gallery, 1977; Scott Milo Gallery, Manawata Art Gallery, Palmerston North N.Z., 1976; The Artist in the City, Modern Art Museum, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, 1976; Major Works in Wood by Northwest Artists, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1976; International Sculptors Symposium, Biskupin, Poland, 1976; the Lamda Rho Association Juried Show, University of Washington Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1974; Seattle Center Summer Festivals, 1971-1974; Harpur College Gallery, Binghamton New York, 1967; New Rochelle Arts Association, 53rd Annual Sculpture Exhibition, New Rochelle, New your, 1967; Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Art Association, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1967.

Awards: Travel Grant from the Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City, for Artistic Research, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981; Position of Artist-in-Residence, Cit of Seattle, Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency, Washington, D.C., 1975; Position of Artist in Residence, Seattle Arts Commission and Seattle Public Library, 1978; Second Prize Seattle Science Fiction Art Exhibit, 1979; first Prize Non-Objective Sculpture, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1967; Award for Creative Work in the Fine Arts, Harpur College, Binghamton, New York, 1966.

Public Collections: Cowlitz Indian Tribe; US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Georgia; City of Znin, Poland; City of Zalaegerszeg, Hungary; Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington; Lowell School, Seattle, Washington; Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Seattle, Washington; Childrens Hospital, Seattle, Washington; City of Seattle CETA Collection of Public Art Works; Exposition Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; King County Arts Commission and Kenmore Library, Kenmore, Washington.

Teaching: Mount Carmel Art Association, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967; Southington Arts Association, Southington Connecticut, 1967; Experimental College, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1972-1974; Artist Apprentice program Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1974-1978.

Writing: Northwest Arts; The Arts Newsletter; The Seattle Post Intelligencer; Leonardo Magazine; Poland Magazine; Polska Panorama.

Listings, Reviews Articles:
Who’s Who in American Art; Who’s Who in American Women; Who’s who in the World. New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut; The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington; the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington; The ARTS: Newsletter for Seattle and King County Arts Commissions; Women Artists in America II - University of Tennessee, 1975 by J.L. Collins; Zycie Warszawa, Warsaw Life, Warsaw Poland; London Arts Review, London England; Currant, Sand Francisco, California; the Cultural Post – National Endowment for the Arts; Zalai Hirlap, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary; KING TV, KRAB Radio, KOMO TV, KIRO TV, KUOW Radio, KIRO Radio, all of Seattle Washington; Hungarian National Radio, Budapest, Hungary.

Founder: Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, 1984.

Rita Kepner

8643 Flagler Rd.

Nordland WA 98358

phone: 360-385-5971

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