Lora Beldon

ARTIST RESUME

Solo Exhibitions

2002 "Final Stage" Hunt Gallery, Staunton, VA

1999 "Objects and Obsessions" Coincidence Gallery, Richmond, VA

1994 "Angels In My Closet" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1989 "Paintings" Bakers Treat, Richmond, VA

Group Exhibitions

2019 Sowing Seeds, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2018 "Bling It Out2" Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 "Bling It Out!" Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2015 "Old School New Rules" Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2015 "Monster Drawing" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2015 "Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show" Hays Heighe House, Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD

2014" Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show" Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY

2014" Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show" Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

2014" Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show" U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL

2013 "Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show" Hampden Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, VA

2006 "Silent Night" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2006 "R.O.S.M.Y. Benefit Auction" Plant Zero, Richmond, VA

2005 "and the levee broke: meditations on the power of water." Creative Change Center (C3), Richmond, VA

2005 "Small Works Invitational" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2005 "Off the Wall" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2005 "Art Education Student Art Show" Student Commons Gallery, Richmond, VA

2000 "Art-O-Matic" Washington, DC

2000 "Virginia Connections" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2000 "The Vietnam War, Art Expressions, Then and Now" The Dairy Barn Cultural Art Center, Athens, OH

2000 "Artist As Critic" Gary Stephan as critic, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2000 "The Shape of Coincidence" Coincidence Gallery, Richmond, VA

1999 "State of the Art" Fulton Hill Studios, Richmond, VA

1999 "Small Works" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1999 "Works on Paper" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA and Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA

1997 "The Enlightened Eye" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1997 "Mid-Atlantic" Dupont Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA

1997 "Persistence of Memory" Firehouse Theatre Gallery, Richmond, VA

1996 "Small Works Show" The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA

1995 "Diverse Images" Galerie Conti, Bruxelles, Belgium

1995 "L'Histoire Sud" Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1995 "17th Annual 1708 Benefit" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1995 "Arboretum Show" Arboretum Clark Gallery, Richmond, VA

1995 "Paper Prayers" Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

1994 "16th Annual 1708 Benefit" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1993 "1708 Now" Richmond, VA

1993 "15th Annual 1708 Benefit" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1992 "Irene Leach Memorial Exhibition" Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

1991 "14th Annual 1708 Benefit" 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

1991 "Choice" A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1990 "New Names '90" 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, VA

1989 "Urban Artists Amalgamated" Franklin Gallery, Richmond, VA

1988 "Larrick Center Juried Show" Larrick Center, Richmond, VA

1987 "Anderson Gallery Juried Show" Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

Curatorial

2016-present Manage the Art Estate and Traveling Exhibition of J. Alan Cumbey, Iridian Gallery (Richmond, VA), Baron and Ellin Gordon Gallery (ODU, Norfolk, VA)

2020 Evolution of the Sacred Self, Mahari Chabwera and Micah David-Scott, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2019 Barbara Dill, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017 Transit, Circe Strauss, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 Paige Critcher, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016 Truthful History Heals, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2013 Unclassified: The Military Kid Art Show, traveling art show

2012 Multiple Shows, Gallery of Colonial Heights, Colonial Heights, VA

1993-1995 Pine Street Barber/Gallery, Richmond, VA

1993-1996 Richmond Arts Council, Arboretum Clark Pollock Gallery, Richmond, VA

1992 "Artists That Work" Key Gallery, Richmond, VA

1991 "David Wojnarowicz: A Retrospect" Richmond for Life '91, City-wide event including coordinating a five gallery walking tour, Richmond, VA

1991 "One Artist, Three Bands" The Flood Zone, Richmond, VA

Other Creative Projects

SHOUT! Sharing Our Truth, Publication Date 2017, Authors Lora Beldon and Circe Woessner

SHOUT! The Play, Publication date 2019, First Performance, TheatreLAB, Richmond, VA

Honors

2020 GriffinHarte Foundation Grant

2018 Co-creator of multidisciplinary project which received the Albert B. Cory Prize

2018 ARCUS Grant

2013 Newman's Own Award

1998 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., Bronx, NY

1989 Award of Merit, Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking Department, Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

1988 Best in Show, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

1988 Best in Show, Larrick Center, Richmond, VA

1984 First Year Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Publications

2020 Arianna Coghill, For Military Kids Art Provides a Voice, RVA Mag

2019 Allen Dale Olsen, We Served Too, March, Blog from MAMF

2018 Nicole Cohen, Veteran Voices, Richmond Mag, August

2017 Gita Arian Baack, The Inheritors: Moving Forward From Generational Trauma, She Writes Press

2015 Lord, Jo, "Old School, New Rule" at Diversity Richmond, Richmond Times Dispatch

2015 Yarbrough Meyer, Janet, "Art that Speaks to and through military children in the Beach", The Independent News

2013 Lohmann, Bill, "The Art of Understanding Children of the Military, Richmond Times Dispatch

2000 McLeod, Deborah, "The Artist as Teacher", Style Weekly, June 2

1995 HOW Magazine, Design Process Annual, Page 109

1994 Bullard, CeCe, "Byzantine Influence Permeates Art", Richmond Times Dispatch, April 6

1994 Robert-Pullen, Paulette, "Feminine Intuition", Style Weekly, April 19

1993 The Hand Workshop Annual Report, Richmond, VA

1990 Gates, Katherine, "New Names, New Ideas" Style Weekly, October 16

1990 "Smiling Bitch", Richmond Arts Magazine, page 18

Articles

Capitol One, Iridian Gallery

U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity with the Military and Academic Support Program, VA Beach City Schools

Lohmann: The Art of Understanding Children of the Military

Video

PBS: "The Art Scene"

Donna Musil: "Our Own Private Battlefield"

Brats Without Borders: The "Hundred-Year Starship" Project

Audio

Military Family Museum: "SHOUT! Lora Beldon & Circe Olson Woessner""

Lectures

2019 Icons/Cultural Identity and The Military BRAT (Bridging the Military Civilian Divide) Appomattox Regional Governor's School, VA

2017 Military Kids and Art, Hunter Holmes McGuire, Richmond, VA

2016 Separating from the Military: After Effects on the Family, Montgomery County Health and Human Services, Center for Continuous Learning, Montgomery, MD

2016 Talk20: 13 Edition, Military Kids and Art Programming, Richmond, VA

2015 The Hundred Year Starship Project, Henrico High School for the Arts, VA

2015 Cultural Competency and the Military Child, University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL

2015 Military Brats' and Second Generation Trauma, VCU School of Social Work, Richmond, VA

2014 An Artful Approach to Creative Healing and Military Families, The Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA

Private Collections

Museum of the American Military Family, Tijeras, NM

Brats Without Borders, Denver, CO

Philip Morris USA, Richmond, VA

Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

Ginter House, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Corporate and Museum Frame, Richmond, VA

Presentation Resource Inc., Richmond, VA

Design Manifesto, Richmond, VA

Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA

Member

Museum of the American Military Family, Tijeras, NM

Brats Without Borders, Denver, CO

BRAT Art Institute, Richmond, VA

Emeritus Member of Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

Emeritus Member of 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA