CV
Sophia V. Wheelwright
Email: sophiawheelwrightartist@gmail.com
Website: www.sophiawheelwright.com
Instagram: sophiamesh
Facebook: Sophiawheelwrightartist
PROJECTS
2019 Stage Set for musical, The Devil and Sarah Blackwater, collaboration with set designer, Suzi Tucker, Annex Theatre, Seattle, WA
2018 Installation, "Visible Currents", Office of Arts & Culture commission, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2018 Installation, Music Video "The Fall" for band: The Sound of The Hunter (https://youtu.be/fHieweRtIHk)
2018 Set pieces for The Williams Project production of Garcia Lorca's, Blood Wedding, staged at Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA.
2017 Installation, “Undersea Aviary”, private residence, West Seattle collaboration with Michael Henderson, Seattle, WA
2017 Installation, "OxBow Park Hat", Georgetown Art & Garden Show, Seattle, WA
2016 Installation, "Suspended Eddies", Downtown Seattle Association commission Occidental Square, Seattle, WA ( lighting by/David Verkade)
2016 Installation, "MacKinnon Mass", Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA
2016 Installation, "MacKinnon Weather", Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA
2015 Installation, "Pathways", Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA ( w/Betty Jo Costanzo)
2015 Installation “Vernae” (sculptural elements in multimedia performance) The Drugstore, Belgrade, Serbia
2015 Installation “Vernae”, (sculptural elements in multimedia performance), Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2015 Installation, “Vernae” (sculptural elements for a film shoot), Yakima River, Washington
2014 Installation, “Accreted Mesh”, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2014 Installation, (outdoor),“Glen & Now”, Lo-Fi Festival, Arlington, WA
2014 Installation, “Women of Equinox”, All City Coffee, Seattle, WA
2013 Installation, “Mesh 101”, Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA
2013 Installation, (outdoor, w/ Mary Hubbard), Gigapixel Art Zoom Project, parking garage, Seattle
2012 Installation, “Giraffe”, Equinox Studio, Seattle, WA
2012 Installation, “Extraordinary in the Everyday”, Fremont Abbey Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2011 Installation (w/Mary Hubbard), empty commercial space, 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA
2009 Assorted sculpture, “New Growth”, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
1997 Paper Works, sculpture, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS/Documentaries
2018 Artist of the Week 1/19/18 - interview in Seattle Refined, a KOMO News online magazine
http://seattlerefined.com/features/artistoftheweek/artist-of-the-week-sophia-wheelwright
2017 featured in article in online magazine, All About Aluminum, https://aluminiumleader.com/focus/another_sky_at_occidental_park/
2016 feature article in online magazine, Creators Vice, https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/pgq537/suspended-eddies-mesh-installation
2016 TV mention on Nancy Guppy’s, New Day Northwest,
https://www.king5.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/weekend-zone-nancy-guppys-top-5-arts-entertainment-events/323992825
2016 online mention on Nancy Guppy’s, Art Zone calendar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4J0Ab2Uok
2014 Video documentary on “Glen & Now”, @ Lo-Fi 2014 Festival: Ad Hoc
2014 iBook publication including text and interview connected with:
Installation, “Accreted Mesh”, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/accreted-terrane/id940668724?ls=1&mt=11
EDUCATION
2018 Certificate received from Seattle Public Art Boot Camp - intensive public art training
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Experiential Learning - Antioch University, Seattle
2006 Participant in Fiber Arts Certificate program - University of Washington, Seattle
1998 Certificate: Fine Art Studio - School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1991 Certificate: Intensive Studio training - Actors Space, NYC
1981-1985 Bachelors Studies: Humanities - UC Berkeley, CA
AFFILIATIONS - current /past
The Field, Seattle, WA (artist project development group)
Studio Current, Seattle, WA (performative studio space and artist group)
Fiberati, Seattle WA (A Collective of Fiber and Mixed-Media Artists)