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 COMMISSIONS/HONORS/AWARDS

2022 Artist Fellowship Award, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, October 2021

2020 Artist’ Fellowship Award, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, October, 2019

Capitol View Library Children’s Room Wall Hanging, DC Public Library, Washington, DC 20019

Community of Hope Lobby Panels, WDC, 2018

Artist in Residency, Paducah, Kentucky, March 2017

2017 Fellowship Award, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, October, 2016

Concord Apartments, 20 Panel Painting, Crystal City, VA 2015

St. Elizabeths’ Way Finding Project, DCCAH, Washington, execution 2014 /installation 2015

St. Elizabeths’ Way Finding Project, DCCAH, Washington, execution/installation 2014

Community of Hope Mobile Project, Washington, D. C. 2014

Daisy Voight Award (Honorarium), Washington, D. C., January, 2012

Artist in Residence, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY July - August, 2011

Art in Public Places, Anacostia HS Modernization, 58 Corridor Art Panels, 2010 (installation 2011)

Art in Public Places Grant, Convention Center Mural, DC Commission on the Arts, 2010

St. Elizabeths’ Hospital Mural, DC Commission on the Arts, WDC, commission 2008 (execution 2009)

Hyatt Hotel, Crystal City, commission, 2008

Millennium Art Salon, Washington, D. C. commission, 2007

Artist-in-Residence, Leighton Studios, The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada, March, 2006

Washington Project for the Arts Artist’ Advisory Board Member, 2008 - 2013

WPA/Corcoran Program Committee Member, November, 2005 - 2007

Small Projects Grant, D. C. Commission on the Arts, March, 2003

Vermont Studio Center, NEA Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont, February/March, 2001

Apprentice to Reverend Kohei Takagaki, (Sumi Painting Master), Gifu, Japan, July - October, 1999

Panelist, East of the River Grants, DC Commission on the Arts, 2000, 1999, 1998

Artist-in-Residence, Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France, July - October, 1997

Small Projects Grant, DC Commission on the Arts, July, 1998, March, 1997

Art in Public Places Grant, DC Commission on the Arts, February, 1997

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Concord Apartment Building, Crystal City, Virginia

Hyatt Hotel, Crystal City, Virginia

African American Museum, Dallas, Texas

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Art in Public Places, Washington, DC

James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD

Library of Congress Print Collection, WDC

University of Maryland University College, Largo, MD

Paul R. Jones Collection, U of Delaware, Wilmington, DE

Yale University Book Collection, New Haven, CT

DC Public Library, Washington, DC

Frank Hale Collection, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Mino Washi Paper Museum, Mino, Japan

Ranger Italia, Serengo, Italy

State Department Print Collection, Washington, DC

Community of Hope Collection, WDC

IONA Services Collection, WDC

St. Elizabeths’ East Collection, WDC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2007– PRESENT

Group Exhibit, Honfleur Gallery, WDC, curated by Terence Nicholson, May-JUNE, 2022

"Intersectional Painting" solo exhibit, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, curated by Nancy Sausser, December, 2021-February 2022

“Sculpture Now” McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, curated by Nancy Sausser, September-November 2020

“Abstract Realities: Through the Eyes of Black Women,” Bowie State University Gallery, Bowie, MD, Oct-Nov 2019

“Global Metaphysics of Abstraction II,” Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkebela, NY, NY April-May, 2019                                                                                           University of Hawaii, Hilo, February 2019

"WhiteWashing" Solo Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD, Sept 2018

Group Show, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, WDC, February-March 2018

“Trans-fer-ence” Group Show, Artists and Makers, Bethesda, MD December, 2017

East of the River Group Show, Honfleur Gallery, WDC June – August 2017

“Chocolate Cities,” Martina Dodd, curator, PG County African American Museum, Hyattsville, MD Feb – Sept 2017

“January 2015 – October 2016,” solo show, DC Arts Center, WDC January – February 2017

“Volume Revisited,” solo show, New Door Creative, Baltimore, MD June – July 2016

“Menage,” group show curated by Molly Merson, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ, June – July 2016

“Alchemical Vessels,” Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, WDC, March – May 2016

Initial Public Offering Online Project September 2015 (rockethub.com/projects/60139)

“Volume,” Solo Exhibition, Honfleur Gallery, WDC November - December 2014

“Forces at Play,” Group Show, Gallery Molly Krom, NY, October-November 2014

“A Visual Language,” Group Show, U of MD University College Satellite Gallery, Greenbelt, MD, April 2014

“The Hiding Places Are (utterly) Empty,” group exhibit, Gallery Molly Krom, NYC, September-October 2013

“Alchemical Vessels,” Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, WDC , April – June 2013

Contemporary Art Fair NYC, October 2012

“came; enlightened,” Lumen8Anacostia, WDC, April – June 2012 (site specific installation)

“The Equalizers” Group Show, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, February – April 2012

“Ashes to Ashes Dust to Rust,” Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, July, 2011 - TBD

“Monoprints: 20 DC Artists” 

Millennium Art Salon, Kenekebele House, NYC, May - July 2012

Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D. C. April, 2011, Kreeger Museum, WDC, January – February 2011

“Catalyst,” Washington Project for the Arts, Katzen Center, WDC, November – December 2010

“Time Lapse Improvisation (objects),” (w/Gina Lewis) Bowie State U, Bowie, MD, Sept – Oct 2010

“re:construction,” Caos on F, WDC September-October 2009

“Between East & West,” Millennium Art Salon, WDC, March – July 2009

Art in Embassies Exhibition, US Embassy, Amman, Jordan, November 2006 – October 2008

“Dual Perspectives,” (w/Preston Sampson) Millennium Art Salon, WDC, April – June 2007

Group Exhibition, “Holding Our Own,” University of MD, October 2006 – January 2007

Edison Place Gallery, WDC, January 2007 – March 2007

DOCUMENTATION/PRESS 2007 – PRESENT

Callaloo Journal 41.3 , Interview & Portfolio, Winter 2019 (delayed publication, scheduled for print 2021)

Washington Post, “Sheila Crider,” review of DCAC exhibit by Mark Jenkins February 3, 2017 (photo)

review of Honfleur Exhibit by Mark Jenkins December 5, 2014 (photo)

“Forces at Play Catalogue,” Gallery Molly Krom, Publisher October, 2014

Studio Visit Magazine, Spring 2014, New American Press, Boston, MA

“Pocket Guide to Self-Publishing” by Brady Robinson (interview p.33) June 2013, Prof. Artist Mag, publisher

“Alchemical Vessels,” Exhibition Catalogue, June, 2013, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, publisher

Contemporary Art Fair NY Exhibition Catalogue, October, 2012, American Art Marketing, publisher

“Blackstraction: Putting the Word Out,” digital story, Dec 2010, American U/Anacostia Museum, producers

Washington Post, review of “20 DC Artists” by Kristen Capps, January 15, 2011 (photo); “Two artists’ ideas flow

together in mural at Convention Center” by Jacqueline Trescott, August 25, 2010, p. C1 (2 photos)

Washington Times/AP Story June 1, 2009 article on Artomatic (photo)

Amman, Jordan Arts in Embassies, exhibition catalog, US State Department, Feb. 2007