About the artist
Dawn Breeze is a creativity advocate, change agent, and internationally awarded interdisciplinary artist based in Germantown, NY. Ongoing social projects include Instar Lodge, the non-for-profit arts space she founded and directs in Germantown, NY; Wayfinding: Imaging History with (Our)story, a mapping odyssey at Olana State Historic Site; and her creativity curriculum, Creativity + Courage™, a series of participatory workshops throughout New England for institutions, corporations, and recovery programs. Breeze is committed to building community around creativity.
Breeze's personal creative practice includes: writing, teaching, place based research and making.
Education
MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, 2017
Socially Engaged Art, Art Education, Creative Non-Fiction, Interdisciplinary Studio
Social Art Projects
2017
Roving Confessional, HRE, Hudson, NY June
Call Hope, NY, VT, MA, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, January
2016
Wayfinding: Imaging History With (Our)Story, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY October 2016-Ocober 2017
2015
Wildflower, Germantown, NY October
The Art of Worth, Web, Hudson River Exchange Hudson,NY, June Germantown, NY, July Plainfield, VT July
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Eylenda, Tashmoo Waterworks Building, Martha's Vineyard, MA, September
2014
plant Magic dust, artSpace, Germantown NY, May
2012
Enough, McDaris Fine art, Hudson NY
2010
Finding Joy: Paintings 2009-2010, Gallery 135, Hudson NY
2009
Dawn Breeze: Paintings, Mix, Hudson NY, October
2007
Dawn Breeze: Recent Paintings, The White Gallery, Lakeville, CT, August
Group Exhibitions
2017
Taconic North, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY April
Nasty Women, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY, February
Post Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY January
2016
Girls In Trees, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY, October
Time and Again, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY, August
2015
To Be Everything, The Silo Gallery, Hunt Hill Trust, New Milford, CT, August-October
Exquisite, LABspace, HIllsdale, NY, August
2014
Your Spirit Don't Leave Knowing, presented by Jessica Jane at Switch Factory, Bantam CT, May
THE LAST BRUCENNIAL, presented by Vito Schnabel & The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY, March-April
2013
Common Denominator, Tremaine Gallery, Hotckiss, Lakeville, CT, September
Of Light and Dark: Five Artists Working in Contrast, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY, April
2012
Under 40, curated by Greg Slick, Woodstock Art Museum, Woodstock NY, November
2011
65 N., Baer Art Center, Hosfos, Iceland, August
IsolaPoesia, Catania & Modica, Italy, August
GAF, Tecnica Mista, Scicli, Italy, June
2010
Re-Institute, Millerton, NY, June
2009
ARTSWALK, CCCA (Cannonball Factory), Hudson NY, October
Take me to the River, Quadricentennial Exhibit, Stuyvesant NY, September (Juried)
Riders Mills Fence Show, North Chatham NY, September (Juried)
Summer Hot, CCCA, Hudson NY, June (Juried)
Art at Grasmere, Rhinebeck NY, June (Juried)
NYFA MARK Artists, Hudson Opera House, Hudson NY, February (Juried)
2008
Landscapes, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY, October
Local Color, Artspace, Germantown NY, November
Hudson River Landscapes, CCCA, Hudson NY, June (Juried)
NYFA MARK Artists Presentation, Exit Art, New York NY, June
Select Studio Tour, Artscape, Hudson Valley NY, June (Juried)
2007
Contemporary Landscape, GC Gallery, South Hampton, NY, May
Belushi Pisano Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA, July
Why Are We Here?, CCCA ARTSWALK (Cannonball Factory), Hudson NY, Septemberr
ARTSWALK, CCCA (Pocketbook Factory), Hudson NY, September
2006
Belushi Pisano Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA, August
Postcards, CCCA, Hudson NY, October (Juried)
2004
Encaustics and Abstracts, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY, May
In the Nude, CCCA, Hudson NY, June (Juried)
Curation
Act. I, co-organzied with Kristen Dodge of September Gallery, for Rally in The Valley, at Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY 2017
Tabitha, Artists: Ruby Palmer, Lauren Luloff, Meg Lipke, Alison Fox, at Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY 2016
Time and Again, Artists: Melora Kuhn, William Stone, Jersey Walz, Dawn Breeze, Nancy Barber, Michael Eudy, Stephen Reynolds, Pamela J. Wallace, Dana Gentile, Valerie Shaff and Artseeds—children from the Throwing Seeds arts class, at Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY 2016
Residencies/Fellowships
Homeschool, Claremont, CA 2017
Good Work Institute Fellowship, Hudson Valley Bio-Region, 2016
BAER, Iceland, May 2015
BAER, Iceland, August 2011
NYFA Mark Fellowship, Hudson, NY January - June 2008
Haystack, Deer Isle, ME September 2007
Awards
Spirit of Goddard Scholarship 2017
Individual Artist Award a de-centralization grant from the New York State Council on the Arts 2016 administrated through the Green County Council on the Arts 2016
Massachusetts Arts & Culture Award 2015
Spirit of Goddard Scholarship 2015
NYFA SOS Grant, 2011The Peoples Choice Award for best experimental short (Running Still), The Masters On Main St. Film Festival, 2012Festival, 2012
The Peoples Choice Award for best experimental short (Running Still), The Masters On Main St. Film Festival, 2012
Linda Arnoud Individual Artist Award 2010
Grant Panelist
Columbia & Greene County Council on The Arts Individual Arts Award, 2015
Columbia & Greene County Council on The Arts, Community Arts Awards 2014
Columbia & Greene County Council on The Arts, Community Arts Awards 2010
Publications
Anthologies
Athens Laundry Volume III, “untitled” (Poetry), Athen’s Laundry, Spring 2017
Suicide Imprint, “Don’t Ask Me How My Sister Died”, (essay) MCPress, Summer 2016
Girls In Trees, “The Giving Tree”, (Story), Instar Lodge Publications, Fall 2016
Creative Nonfiction and Essays
Huffington Post, “Don’t Ask Me How My Sister Died”, Fall 2016
Thrive, “The Disease of More”, Fall 2016
Articles, Interviews and Journalism
LEX*I*CON, “Key’s to the Heart: A Love Story Between Two Players and a Piano”, Spring 2017
LEX*I*CON, “Creating More Time: Sonia Corina Ruscoe”, Spring 2017
Leadership
2017-Present: Good Work Institute, working as a facilitator and coach Hudson Valley Entrepreneurs and Change-makers selected as fellows in Hudson, NY
2016-Present: Founder/ CEO of Instar Lodge, a fiscally sponsored nfp community arts organization, which offers artist residencies, workshops, exhibits, readings, concerts, creative education with partnering organizations and produces publications online and print in Germantown, NY
Teaching Experience
2017: Creativity=Capital, designed and led unique adult workshop for Hudson River Exchange
2016: Wholeness and Integrity, designed and led unique adult workshop for Good Work Institute
2016: Wildlings, designed and led eight-week advanced children’s art workshop for Instar Lodge
2016-Present: Tailspinning: Co-designed and lead adult creative writing workshop
2015: Courage to Begin: Design and led adult creativity workshop, Waterworks, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2015-2017: Arts Director at The Liberi School: Design and lead unique k-8 weekly studio and integrated/interdisiciplinary arts program. Liberi School, Hudson, NY
2012-Present: Creativity & Courage™ workshops, design and facilitated unique weekly workshops, Clients include: Etsy, Hudson NY Highwatch Recovery Center, Kent, CT, Instar Lodge. Germantown, NY, Private clients throughout New England.
2012: Creative Goal Mapping: Design and led unique adult workshop for Escape To Shape
Professional Presentations
DIY Modes of Navigating the Art World at Labspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2017
How Can We Help Eachother/New Modes of Artist Networking, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, February, 2017 and July 2016
Art Talks, Morton Library, Rhinecliff, NY October 2016
Art & Spirituality in Practice, First Presberterian Church, Hudson, NY May 2015
Creativity is Mankinds Greatest Natural Resource, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, NY 2014
Artist Presentation, Incubator, Hudson, NY November 2013
Appearances/Readings
LEX*I*CON I. Instar lodge, Germantown, NY, February, 2017
Suicide Imprint, Readings Included: Mid-Hudson Valley Mental Health Association, Kingston, NY July, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY, September, The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY August 2016
Girls In Trees, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY October 2016
Select Press
Girls In Trees (In Art and Literature) Dec. 2016 lithub
A Vibrant Upstate NY Town, NY Times
The Approval Matrix, November 2016 NY Magazine,
IG October, 2016 NY Times Style Magazine
Plant Magic dust, IMBY.com, May, 2014
Light as Breeze November 2012 Woodstock Times,
WORK interview March 2012 WGXC radio
When Life Touches Down April, 2010 Chronogram Magazine