Signe Nelson Stuart

Signe Stuart grew up in rural East Lyme, Connecticut and studied art through high school. Between her BA (1959, University of Connecticut) and MA (1961, University of New Mexico,) Stuart went to the Yale Norfolk Summer Art School where intense studio work cemented her decision to be an artist.

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]