“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave it neither power nor time.” —Mary Oliver, Of Power and Time

This is a quick summary of how I got to this place in my life and in my art, which are really the same deal.
Thanks to all my teachers, students, and fellow seekers: peace to you all.

Education

• BA, Art Studio, phi beta kappa
  Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College), Lynchburg, VA

• MA, Art History
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Experience

• Former textile research associate
  Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM

• Began learning batik in 1980 during a weeklong workshop with Australian artist Jeffrey Service
  

• Many workshops with internationally known artists

• Study trips to Japan, Malaysia, Bali, Europe

• Seasons of Silk, Juried show at Silk Painters International, Santa Fe NM, July 2014, awarded 3rd place.

• Many juried shows since 1984, including New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair & Southwest Arts Festival in Albuquerque NM, Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh PA, Ruidoso Arts Festival in Ruidoso NM, Mountain Artists Rendezvous in Jackson Hole WY, Mill Avenue Show in Tempe AZ.

• STILL HERE, THEN AND NOW: Women Artists of Placitas, 1940s to 1970s
  September 27–October 30, 2014, Placitas Community Library
  

• Solo show, Placitas Artists series, Placitas Presbyterian Church, Placitas NM, April 2014.

• Solo show, Through the Tree, Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas NM, August 2013

• Featured artist, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta, May 2009
  Retrospective Exhibit title: Out of Time: Ten Thousand Days with a Brush

• Teaching Experience
  Taught Batik, Silk Painting and Rozome at Ghost Ranch Conference Center 1996 - 2009
  Also taught batik and silk painting through Albuquerque Senior Arts
  Have taught Workshops for fiber art professionals through NM Silk Painters Guild and Colorado Surface Design Association

• Graphic art design: chapbooks, ads, brochures

• 2018: Founding Member of Wild Hearts Gallery, an artists' collective in Placitas NM

• Website Design and Maintenance
  This site and these others:

www.albertostoneworks.com www.donaldatubesing.com www.PlacitasStudioTour.com www.EarthSpirituality.org www.LornaSmithArt.com

www.kiranadasterlingbenjamin.com www.kiranada.com www.riverstonecate.com www.voicesfromtheamericanland.org www.michelangelosworkshop.com

Selected Publications

• FORUM: The Futures of Silk Arts? By Bunny Bowen and Nadja Lancelot. Silkworm Magazine, Spring 2020. Read the article here.

  THE ART FOUND IN BEETLE GALLERIES: Bunny Bowen’s Beetle-Killed Trees, By Clarke Condé, Alibi Magazine, August 2019.
  

• “Outer Doors and Inner Worlds,” by Tunizia Abdur-Raheem, Silkworm, Autumn 2016. Read pdf here.

• “A Tale of Bantams and Bobcats,” Sandoval Signpost, March 2012. Reprinted here.

• “Five artists continue vision of original Placitas Holiday Sale,” Oli Robbins, Sandoval Signpost, November 2011. Read pdf here.

• Korean textiles textbook, February 2011, includes illustration of Bowen's batik.

• Fiberarts Magazine, Summer 2010 Issue, features an artist profile.

• “Bunny Bowen’s Rozome silk paintings featured in spring exhibit,” Valencia County News-Bulletin, Feb 10, 2010.

• “Sorcery in Silk: Acclaimed artist uses Japanese form of batik to create magical fiber art," by Aurelio Sanchez, Albuquerque Journal, May 17, 2009.

• TEXTILES NOW, Drusilla Cole, 2008.

• “Bunny Bowen innovates in batik, using soybean wax,” Sandoval Signpost, January 2006. Read here.

• “Soy Wax: an Alternative Resist,” Proceedings, World Batik Conference Boston-2005, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 2005.

• Above paper presented at the Kuala Lumpur International Batik Convention, KL, Malaysia, 2005
  Download a copy of the paper in pdf format

• SILK PAINTING FOR FASHION AND FINE ART, Susan Louise Moyer, Watson-Guptill Pubns. 2004 revised edition, illustration: “Kyoto Spring,” rozome on kimono silk;
  Order the book from Susan Louise Moyer

• SPANISH TEXTILE TRADITON OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO, Nora Fisher, ed, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1979 (research and contributing author)

• “American Batik Emerging to the Fore,” Guizhou Province, Peoples Republic of China, 2000. (Chinese travel publication)

Arts Boards

• Placitas Artists Series board, graphic design, 6 years

• Albuquerque Art Business Assn. board, 3 years

• Placitas MountainCraft Soirée Society, current

• Placitas Holiday Sale committee, 1990?–2021

• Placitas Studio Tour committee, current

• Voices from the American Land, board Member, art director, current

• World Batik Council, Kuala Lumpur, 2005–2009

Business / Professional Affiliations

• Founding Member, Wild Hearts Gallery, an artists' collective in Placitas, NM, 2018

• Registrar, World Batik Conference, Boston, June 2005

• Member, Silk Painters International

• Member, Amapola Gallery Artists’ Cooperative, 11 years

• Piñon Tree Gallery, owner-partner for 9 years

• Studio artist since 1980