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Selected Exhibitions
2024 “5-10-100” Waltrous Gallery, Madison, WI
2022 “Mirror Mirror.” Springfield Museum of Art, IL
2022 “Crossing the River.” Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2021 “Everything Covid.” Overture Gallery, Madison WI”
2020 “Ossuary.” Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
2019 “Small Works Show.” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 “Women, Work and Gender Roles.” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
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:
Selected Catalogs:
Selected Collections:
2024 “5-10-100” Waltrous Gallery, Madison, WI
2022 “Mirror Mirror.” Springfield Museum of Art, IL
2022 “Crossing the River.” Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2021 “Everything Covid.” Overture Gallery, Madison WI”
2020 “Ossuary.” Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
2019 “Small Works Show.” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 “Women, Work and Gender Roles.” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
- Forward Arts Prize 2023
- 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:
- Ceramics in America 2023
- A Creative Place: The History of Art in Wisconsin by Thomas Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins, PhD
- 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