Lucia Harrison

Artist Statement: Red Salmon Creek Project 2009-11

I volunteer as a salmon watcher for the Nisqually Tribe at Red Salmon Creek in South Puget Sound. The creek flows into the Nisqually River and then Puget Sound. Recently the Nisqually Tribe removed 100-year-old agricultural dikes. Now salt water floods the estuary allowing the river to breathe once again. This dramatically increases the habitat for salmon and lots of other species. Extensive restoration efforts are underway that include removal of invasive plants and planting of over 7000 native trees and shrubs. I visit the spring fed creek and salt marsh frequently during the year and record my observations. I'm inspired by the hardiness of and interconnections between the species that live there. This series focuses on my discoveries at the creek during the winter and spring of 2010.

CURRENT POSITION
1981-present Member of the Faculty (Visual Arts), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505
EDUCATION
1988-2009 Attended classes in the visual arts at Portland State University, Pacific
Northwest College of Art, Academy of Realist Art, Pratt Fine Arts
Center, and Penland School of Crafts
1979 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Higher Education Admin
1976 MA University of Wisconsin-Madison, Public Policy and Admin
1972 BA Antioch College, Arts Administration
1967-69 Washington State University, Fine Arts Major

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2003-4 Tacoma Garden Club, Drawings for Native Plant Garden Interpretive Panels at Point Defiance Park
2002 "Erasing the Landscape: Journals About Place, TESC
2002 "Journals About Place" WA State Department of Ecology
2000 "Northwest Berry Watercolors" Indian Summer Golf Club
1999 "In the Thicket" Gallery II, The Evergreen State College
1999 "Northwest Berry Watercolors" Tumwater Valley Athletic Club
1999 "Charcoal Drawings" Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Olympia, WA
1999 "Watercolors" Willow Bookstore, Westport, WA
1999 "Watercolors" Cherburg Building on WA State Capitol Campus
1995 "Landscapes" Olympia Little Theater

JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2010-11 Hand to Hand, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Beyond Words: The Book As Art, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Olympia Open Studio Tour, Olympia Arts Commission
1997 "Dance, Music Theater" WA Center for the Performing Arts
1996 "Portraits" WA Center for the Performing Arts
1996 "Watercolor Invitational Show" WA Center for the Performing Arts
1991-95 Western Washington State Fair Juried Show
1991-95 Peninsula Art Association Annual Juried Show