RESUME
Selected Exhibitions
2014 ELEVATING CLAY: Overture Art Gallery. Madison WI
2013 WISCONSIN 30: Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2012 WISCONSIN TRIENNIAL: Madison Museum of Art, WI
2011 14th INTERNATIONAL: Open Exhibition, Woman Made gallery. Chicago, Illinois
2010 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Contemporary Art by Caribbean Women. Gulf Coast, Fl
2007 SMALL RAYS of HOPE: Rhonda Schaller Gallery. Chelsea, N Y
2007 VISCERAL MAPPINGS: Transdiasporic Art Practices. St. Charles, IL
2005 ROOTS: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters. Madison, WI
2004 WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE: Borders, Barriers, Intersections. UWM, WI
2003 TRADITIONS: the Blessing and the Curse” WOMAN MADE Gallery. Chicago, IL
2002 CENTER POST: King's Foot Gallery. Madison, WI
2000 Of RADA DRUMS and KALBAS: Solo exhibition. Jura Silverman Gallery, WI
1998 CRIC-CRAC: Solo exhibition Alfons Gallery. Milwaukee, WI
1995 NOSTALGIE: Solo exhibition. UW Madison Theatre Gallery
1993 KINDRED SPIRITS: Solo exhibition. Koran Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA
1992 BREAKING THE SILENCE: Lawrence University. Appleton, Wisconsin
1991 ENTRE NOUS: Solo exhibition. Pillsbury House, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990 WOMAN IN THE ARTS: Hales Gallery. Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin
1989 PASSAGES: University of Maryland Art Gallery
Selected Awards and Reviews
Medium: Oil on canvas. Low fire clay, oxides, sisal, wood, animal skin and bones
Education: MFA in Ceramics, UW, Madison, WI
MSW, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
B.A in Psychology, LSU, Baton Rouge LA
Selected Catalogs: Clay Times, March/April 2001
Women of Color Art Slides Project.
Women's Caucus for Art 1996
Le Centre d'Art Expose 42 Femmes peintres d'Haïti 1973
Selected Collections: Madison Area Technical College
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Memorial Union. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mental Health Center of Dane County, Madison, Wisconsin
Various Private Collections
2014 ELEVATING CLAY: Overture Art Gallery. Madison WI
2013 WISCONSIN 30: Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2012 WISCONSIN TRIENNIAL: Madison Museum of Art, WI
2011 14th INTERNATIONAL: Open Exhibition, Woman Made gallery. Chicago, Illinois
2010 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: Contemporary Art by Caribbean Women. Gulf Coast, Fl
2007 SMALL RAYS of HOPE: Rhonda Schaller Gallery. Chelsea, N Y
2007 VISCERAL MAPPINGS: Transdiasporic Art Practices. St. Charles, IL
2005 ROOTS: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters. Madison, WI
2004 WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE: Borders, Barriers, Intersections. UWM, WI
2003 TRADITIONS: the Blessing and the Curse” WOMAN MADE Gallery. Chicago, IL
2002 CENTER POST: King's Foot Gallery. Madison, WI
2000 Of RADA DRUMS and KALBAS: Solo exhibition. Jura Silverman Gallery, WI
1998 CRIC-CRAC: Solo exhibition Alfons Gallery. Milwaukee, WI
1995 NOSTALGIE: Solo exhibition. UW Madison Theatre Gallery
1993 KINDRED SPIRITS: Solo exhibition. Koran Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA
1992 BREAKING THE SILENCE: Lawrence University. Appleton, Wisconsin
1991 ENTRE NOUS: Solo exhibition. Pillsbury House, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990 WOMAN IN THE ARTS: Hales Gallery. Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin
1989 PASSAGES: University of Maryland Art Gallery
- THE SPIRIT UNSPOILED: Haitian art From Milwaukee. UWM Art Gallery, WI
- WEAVING WOMEN’S COLORS: Emory University Gallery. Atlanta, GA
Selected Awards and Reviews
- Second prize at the “15th International Open” at the Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011
- Bolaji Campbell. “Of storytelling and the slippery medium of clay: Babette Wainwright’s Image of the Women at the Diasporic Crossroads 2008
- Image of the Woman at the Diasporic Crossroads”. 2011
- Clay Times Magazine Award of Merit, NCECA 2001 Clay National
- The Wisconsin Arts Board Artist Fellowship award. 2002
- The Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Grant. 2000
- Lynch, Kevin. “Story of Slavery and Transformation.” The Capital times, June 16th, 2000
- Davidoff, Judy. “Babette’s Feat: A Haitian Exile Turns Alienation Into Art.” Isthmus, March 25, 1994
- Hellekson, Diane. “Canvases of Hope” St. Paul Pioneer Press. January 26, 1991
- Rogers Katherine K. “Through her Paintings, Artist checks the Pulse of Haiti” Wisconsin State Journal
- Esposito, Katherine. “Haitian Native’s Art is Colorful, Political.” The Capital Times. February 12, 1987
- Landry, Maury. “Baton Rouge Artist Babette Wainwright” Times, May 21, 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas. Low fire clay, oxides, sisal, wood, animal skin and bones
Education: MFA in Ceramics, UW, Madison, WI
MSW, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
B.A in Psychology, LSU, Baton Rouge LA
Selected Catalogs: Clay Times, March/April 2001
Women of Color Art Slides Project.
Women's Caucus for Art 1996
Le Centre d'Art Expose 42 Femmes peintres d'Haïti 1973
Selected Collections: Madison Area Technical College
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Memorial Union. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mental Health Center of Dane County, Madison, Wisconsin
Various Private Collections