Signe Nelson Stuart
born New London, Connecticut, 1937
Since 1972, Stuart has had 18 solo museum exhibitions including: the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Montgomery Museum of Art, Alabama; North Dakota Museum of Art; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis; South Dakota Art Museum (retrospective 2005) and, in 2015, the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell New Mexico. She has also participated in group exhibitions across the United States.
Among the awards Stuart has received are a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Art in Public Places mural commissions, South Dakota Arts Council Artist fellowship and NM Experimental Glass Workshop Fellow. She has also received several purchase awards including a Ford Foundation Purchase, Seattle Art Museum. Teaching and artist residencies include Professor Emerita, Visual Arts Department, South Dakota State University, Cowles Visiting Artist at Grinnell College, Iowa, Williams College, Massachusetts and the U-Cross Foundation, Wyoming.
Works by Signe Stuart are included in museum, corporate and private collections including the Sheldon Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art, South Dakota Art Museum, 3M Company, First Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Hawthorn Realty Co, Miami Airport, North Dakota Museum of Art, and others.
For additional information and artworks visit the artist’s website: https://www.signestuart.net/
[accessed Feb. 2021]
[source: artist’s resume]
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- New London
born Winona, Minnesota, 1876; died Westport, Connecticut, 1953
born Watertown, South Dakota, 1921; died Seattle, Washington, 2005
born Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1755; died Boston, Massachusetts, 1828
born Pierce City, Idaho, 1878; died Sheridan, Wyoming, 1932
born Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1903; died Eugene, Oregon, 1981
born Dithmarschen, Germany, 1854; died Alameda, California, 1924
born Middletown, Connecticut, 1843; died Boise, Idaho, 1917