Kodak Colorama, Greater Rochester International Airport*
of the Discovery Room, George Eastman Museum of Photography
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
GALLERY 1516, Nebraska Artist Biennial, juried, May-August, 2021
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART, SPIRIT 2020, April 2020
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, Recent Acquisitions: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 11-2019 to 2-2020
BURKHOLDER PROJECT, Summer Flowers, July 2019
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, From Paint Brushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains,
ANDERSON O’BRIEN FINE ART, The Art of Growing: A Celebration of Floral Photography and Painting, May 2019
ANDERSON O’BRIEN FINE ART, Flower Bomb, Empire Room Grand Gallery, May 2019
BURKHOLDER PROJECT, Holiday Mosaic, December, 2018
BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Benefit Art Auction October, 2018
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, Collecting Nebraska, August-December 2017
BONECREEK MUSEUM OF AGRARIAN ART, 150 for Nebraska’s 150th, May-July 2017
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY (MEDICI FOUNDATION) 2017, 2016, ‘15, ‘14, ‘12, ‘11, ‘10, ‘07, ‘06
CHAMPIONS’ CLUB, UN-L, Alumni art show, September 2016
COLUMBUS LIBRARY/ART CENTER, September/October 2016
BRIGHT LIGHTS, Commemorating 15 years of USA/Japan International programming, June 2016
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART, 2016 SPIRIT, April 2016
GALLERY NINE, Photography Invitational, March 2016
PRESCOTT GALLERY, We Care Endowment Benefit Exhibition, August 2015
PRESCOTT GALLERY, Home and Away: Landscapes from Nebraska and Beyond, February 2015
SHELDON ART MUSEUM, Dialogues: Recent Acquisitions of the Sheldon Museum of Art, Oct 2014-Feb 2015
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM, Narrow All Horizons, Aug-Dec, 2014
SHELDON ART MUSEUM, Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years, summer 2013, and exhibition catalog
CATTLEMEN’S BALL, Trail for the Cure, Hanging H Ranch, June 2013
FOLLOW THE RAILS ART TRAIL, Mullen, NE, October 2012,
SHELDON ART MUSEUM, authored & featured in 3-page article in Artland Magazine, October 2012
PINNACLE BANK, Collection 2010 & ongoing, panoramic images
HAYDON ART CENTER Juried Artist Fellows’ Exhibits 2010, ‘09, ‘08, ‘07, ‘06, ’05, Celebrate Life 2005
ELDER GALLERY, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Photography Invitational, 2009
NEBRASKA HEART ASSOCIATION, “Hearts of Gold“ — Gala & Silent Auction, 2007
SHELDON ART MUSEUM, ofrenda, El Dia de los Muertos, 2007
EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION, panorama/Monhegan Island, 2007 & ongoing
“L” MAGAZINE, “Bouquets of Life”, 2-page article, published July 2005
THE SOUTHEASTERN FLOWER SHOW, Atlanta, Georgia 2005
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE, 1983-1990,
— Discovery Room, Rochester, NY – also part of Kodak Colorama in Rochester airport
NEW YORK ART REVIEW, published in 1988 Annual Edition
PERU STATE COLLEGE 2-person show with Douglas Ross 1985
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, PRINTS/DRAWINGS/PHOTOGRAPHS, INVITATIONAL, Rochester, NY, panoramic
— Photomosaic Adirondack view 1984
FIBERARTS MAGAZINE, Rochester Honor Quilt published, Sept/Oct, 1983
MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ROCHESTER HONOR QUILT, Rochester, NY, 1983
— Traveling Exhibition of 40 women artists‘ work, now on permanent display
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, CLOTHESLINE ART SHOW & SALE, 1983, Rochester, NY
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, CLOTHESLINE ART SHOW & SALE, AWARD OF MERIT 1982
GEORGE FREDERICK GALLERY, New Work by Gallery Artists, 1982
ON MY OWN TIME, Business Committee for the Arts, Best Painting in Show Xerox Exhibition, Rochester, NY 1981
REPRESENTED BY ANDERSON O’BRIEN FINE ART, OMAHA, NE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
BURKHOLDER PROJECT, Skylight Gallery, October, 2019
CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA, Jan-Feb, 2015, Osprey, Florida,
HAYDON ART CENTER & SARATOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLC, May 2010; Lincoln, NE
LEXUS OF OMAHA 2004-2012; Omaha, NE
NEBRASKA ARTS COUNCIL, Governor’s Residence Exhibition Program 2008; Lincoln, NE
NE HEART HOSPITAL 2007; Lincoln, NE
EYE SURGICAL ASSOCIATES 2007; Lincoln
THE LAURITZEN, OMAHA’S BOTANICAL CENTER, Omaha, 2004/2005;
PYRAMID ARTS, Rochester, NY 1985;
IGGY’S STUDY, Winter’s Escape, Rochester, NY, 1982;
HAVERHILL PUBLIC LIBRARY, Life As It Was, Haverhill, MA, 1974;
KNOTT ART GALLERY, Photographs Of Laughter & Other Apprehensions, Bradford, MA 1973
ARTIST RESIDENCY:
WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY, August 2018, Coon Rapids, IA
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER –14TH ANNUAL WRITERS’ WORKSHOP 1984
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND/NAT‘L ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
–Business of Art & the Artist Seminar 1981
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, BUSINESS SCHOOL Summer Institute 1972, Graduate Diploma/Arts Administration
–(first International pilot program), on Scholarship from Massachusetts Council on the Arts
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, BFA 1971 (senior year @ Massachusetts College of Art 1970-71)
–While attending MassArt & building the “VictoryGarden“ greenhouse, was also free-lance darkroom
technician for Harvard University Grey Herbarium, printing scanning electron microscope images of fern
spores and South American specimen negatives
SHELDON ART MUSEUM:Life Member
MEDICI FOUNDATION:Board Member, on hiatus
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Sheldon Art Museum, Museum of Nebraska Art, Great Plains Art Museum, Pinnacle Bank, Jones Bank, Frontier Bank, Nebraska Synod – ELCA, Perry Reid Properties, UN-O College of Pharmacy, National Indemnity of Omaha, EducationQuest Foundation, Arthur Anderson & Co, Seneca Paper Group, Monroe Community College, Detection Systems Inc, Haverhill Historical Society, & numerous private collections (including Duncan, Rohman, Seacrest, Woods, Northrup, Holtmeier, Heiser, Burmeister, Rockwell, federal magistrate judge, Clymer, and more)
OTHER CAREER ENDEAVORS
Ms. Christensen supported herself/her art throughout adult life by working for & with Fortune Fifty corporations, writing international product launch materials, speeches/scripts (for CEOs, Vice Presidents, and Product or Manufacturing Plant Managers), writing/publishing of international marketing materials/guides, national/international sales force training and management development.
As a sales executive with a Fortune Fifty corporation, she ranked 4th in the Nation in Sales in 1979. Her professional writing clients included Eastman Kodak (more than 50 projects), International Business Machines (IBM), Citibank, Bausch & Lomb, Xerox, Marine Midland Bank, Bob Wright Productions, Rochester Products, Lapp Insulators, Philips Electronics, and more.
She also worked in public relations with a division of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide in Upstate New York. Her clients there included the Carborundum Division of Standard Oil Engineered Materials and Kodak Magazine. The Carborundum Div. makes the high-fire hybridized bricks that, once assembled, create the furnace that glassifies nuclear waste.