Bio
I grew up in the midwest but have lived in Southern California for most of my life. I’ve always loved art, creativity and making things, but chose a career path in college and university work, thinking it a more stable financial choice. Even though those years were important and happy ones for me, I’d had enough after a decade and went to art school. What a joy!
After finishing an MFA, I focused on creating works on paper using a multitude of mediums: printmaking, collage, painting, drawing, encaustic and experimentation. I’ve been awarded three residencies for a month each. These “gifts of time” were in Newfoundland (two visits) and in an electricity-free cabin in the California high desert hills. I wrote a book on screen printing for beginners, published by Lark Books, and taught a variety of printmaking classes at Long Beach City College for twelve years.
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EDUCATION
M.F.A. Studio art / Printmaking, California State University, Long Beach, 1994
M.S.W. Social work, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978
M.A. Sociology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978
B.A. Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, 1975
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Many More, Contemporary Craft Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Pandemic Response, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
Second Lives, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill, California
2019 LBMA Downtown Grand Opening: Collecting Long Beach, Seven Decades from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art Downtown, Long Beach, CA
7 Artists/7 Visions, Creative Group Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Uncommon Ground: Annie Stromquist and WS Milner, Art at Work, Long Beach, California
2018 Small Works for Living Spaces, Flux Art Space, Long Beach, California
Block and Line: New Work by Annie Stromquist, Michael Stearns Gallery, San Pedro, California
Home, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill, California
2003- Mid-City Studio Tour, Long Beach (biennial). Co-founder.
2023
2014 Shine: Long Beach 2014 Professional Artist Fellows, The Collaborative Gallery, Long Beach, California
Three person exhibition, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, California
Brand 42: Works on Paper, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California
2013 Summer Group Exhibition, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, California
2011 Printmaking, Fine Art Gallery, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
2008 Naestved International Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Square Prints,
Roennebaeksholm Art and Culture Centre, Naestved, Denmark
30 Dies: 13 Concurs Internacional de Gravat (13th Annual International Exhibition of Engravings),
El Caliu Gallery, Olot, Spain
2000- Faculty Show, Art Department, Long Beach City College, Long Beach (biennial)
2011
2006 New Acquisitions for the New Millennium, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
2004 Uncharted Terrain, Art Gallery, Soka University, Aliso Viejo, California
2003 Selected Works: Abrams, Cook, Evans, Stromquist, Walter Marks Center for the Arts, College of the Desert,
Palm Desert, California
2001 Evaluation Inversion, Design Gallery, California State University, Long Beach
2000 C, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, California (solo show)
Expanded Boundaries: The Matrix and the Monoprint, Channing Peake Gallery,
Santa Barbara, California
Group show, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, California
1998 Los Angeles Artists: In Series, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, Los Angeles
1997 Solo Show, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon (solo show)
Pressing Engagements, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 14th National Exhibition, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (catalog)
1996 Tools of the Trade, Main Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (solo show)
Beauty’s Plea, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Open Book, University Art Gallery, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Without a Pattern, Brand Gallery, Santa Ana, California
1995 International Group Exhibition: Work on Paper, Farid Chaib Contemporary Art, Venice, California - In conjunction with the 1995 L.A. International Biennial.
Six Views from the Inside, The Gallery at Stevenson Union, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
1994 Annie Stromquist: Etchings and Monotypes, Russell Fine Art Gallery,
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas (solo show)
Six, Orange County Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
1993 Solo Show, Gate Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California (solo show)
Los Angeles Exhibition, Watts Towers Gallery, Los Angeles
U.S./Norway Exchange Exhibition, Galleri Norshke Grafikere Oslo, Norway
Print Exhibition, Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2014 Professional Artist Fellowship, Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, California
2003 Beverly G. Alpay Award, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California
Residency in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, sponsored by the James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
2001 Individual Artist Fellowship, Public Corporation for the Arts,
City of Long Beach
1998 Residency at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California
Awards from the Newspaper Association of America and the California Newspaper in Education Association given to my publication ART IN PRINT: Guide to Teaching Art Concepts and Printmaking Using the Newspaper as a Resource.
1997 Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation International Artist Fellowship
Residency in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, sponsored by the James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 14th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles (cash award)
1996 First Prize: Technical Achievement, Art ‘96 Long Beach, Michael Levy Gallery, Long Beach, California (cash award)
Selected by Long Beach Symphony to participate as visual artist in collaborative project for 1996-97 season materials
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Flight (from The Memory Loss Series), Selected New Editions column, Art in Print magazine, Volume 3, No. 6
Arland W. - Before and After from the series Run Out of Town: Dr. Strawn’s Early Experiments in Plastic Surgery, Selected New Editions column, Art in Print magazine, Volume 3, No. 5.
2013 Cover art, vol. 86, No. 3, Mathematics Magazine
Withering (from The Memory Loss Series), Selected New Editions column,
Art in Print magazine, Volume 3, No. 4.
2012 Cover art, vol. 86, No. 2, Mathematics Magazine
Cover art, vol. 85, No. 4, Mathematics Magazine
2011 Cover art, vol. 84, No. 2, Mathematics Magazine
2004, 2005 Simple Screenprinting: Basic Techniques and Creative Projects, published by Lark Books in hard cover (2004) and soft cover (2005). Reviewed in Library Journal, 2/15/2005, and by Maryland Printmakers Association, August, 2005.
1994 Art in Print: Guide to Teaching Art Concepts and Printmaking Using the Newspaper as a Resource, published by the Press-Telegram newspaper (co-authored by Sue Ann Robinson)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000-2012 Instructor of courses in Printmaking, Art Department, Long Beach City College
2009 Workshop for Seven Plus Artist Collective, Arcata, California
1993 Instructor for Survey of Printmaking Techniques, CSULB (graduate teaching assistantship)
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Craft Museum, Los Angeles
Long Beach Museum of Art
California State University, Long Beach
numerous private collections