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

• THE SPIRIT UNSPOILED: Haitian art From Milwaukee. UWM  Art Gallery, WI
• WEAVING WOMEN’S COLORS: Emory University Gallery. Atlanta, GA

1973 FEMMES PEINTRES D’HAITI: Le Centre d’Art. Port-au-Prince, Haïti
 
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