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ARTIST’S RESUME
Rhonda Besaw
Phone 603-837-3381
Email RhondaLBesaw@gmail.com
www.RhondaBesaw.com
Facebook:Wabanaki Beadwork
Etsy: WabanakiBeadwork
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
League of NH Craftsmen Juried Member
NH State Arts Council Cultural Resources Traditional Artist
2012, 2013 New England Foundation for the Arts-Native Arts Grantee
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield MA peaked caps and beaded purses
Abbe Museum Bar Harbor, ME “Fiddlehead” beaded purse
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH “Hands” beaded purse
cover art for the book "Elikewake Compact" by James Youngblood Henderson
advertising art for the movie "Dawnland"
cover art for the book "Dawnland Voices" edited by Siobhan Senier
SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS
2024
April-October 2024 "The Matter of Memory" NH Art Association and the Portsmouth Historical Society (First Place Award)
2022
August 27-September 20 Awikhigan:Evoking Indigenous Stories and Landscapes Elayne Bernstein Theater, Lenox, MA
June 4th-September 17th Watching The Seasons Change Museum of the White Mtns.
2021
CHAGA NOLOSAN ELLIOT, MAINE
2018
ALNOBAK: Wearing Our Heritage
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum,Vergennes, Vt.
Horatio Colony Museum, Keene, NH
2016
"Gathering" Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery Boston MA November 14-December 31, 2016
"Tradition and Innovation" Hera Gallery Wakefield, Rhode Island March 5-April 2, 2016
"Made of Thunder, Made of Glass II Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University New York February 7 to June 26, 2016
2015
“Made of Thunder, Made of Glass II May 30-November 1, 2015 Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, MA
"Protection and Warmth" August 1-October 31, 2015 Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH
2014
“All of My Relations: Faces & Effigies of the Abenaki World” August 2014-October 2014 Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Warner NH
"First Light" January 30-February 20, 2014
Native American Artists from New England Community College of Rhode Island
October 5-January 4, 2014 Native New England Now: Celebrating Six Years of NEFA’s Native Arts Program, Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Featured artist Abenaki and Indigenous Peoples Honoring Day White River Jct. VT
2013
NH Craftsmen’s 26th Member’s Juried Exhibition, Concord, NH
“Reading Native Art” MKIM Warner, NH
“Heros” exhibit Newport, NH
2011-2012
“Like Breathing” Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner NH
“Native Voices” Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA
“Splendid Clothes, Splendid Traditions” Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
“Twisted Path II” Abbe Museum Bar Harbor, ME
beadwork demonstration Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
Featured Artist The Institute for American Indian Studies, Washington, CT
2010
“Northeast Woodland: Interpretations” Cultural Center of Cape Cod So. Yarmouth, MA
“Tomorrow’s Masterpieces” Hopkinton (NH) Historical Society
“Honoring Our Northeast Native American Heritage II” Millbrook Gallery Concord NH
“Northern Lights: Variations on a Theme” AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
The Old Mill Studio, Whitefield, NH
“Spirit of the Maker-Continuing the Tradition” League of NH Craftsmen
“The Things We Do for Love” League of NH Craftsmen, Concord, NH
“Visiting Artist” The Balsam’s Resort, Dixville Notch, NH
2009
“First People of the Northeast” Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, NH
“Artisans Spotlight” NH Open Doors Fiddleheads, Colebrook, NH
“Tomorrow’s Masterpieces” NH Antiquarian Society, Hopkinton, NH
“Home is Where the Art Is” The Pen and Brush Gallery, New York City, NY
2008
NH Antiquarian Society Juried Art Show, Hopkinton, NH
2005
“Pathways: Evolution in American Indian Material Culture” Fairbanks Museum St. Johnsbury, VT
PRESS
2022 Interview withMoccasin Tracks on North Country Community Radio, WZNC LP Bethlehem, (www.nococommunityradio.org
2021 Interview on New Hampshire Public Radio
2021 beadwork used as cover art for the book "Elikewake Compact" by James Youngblood Henderson
2020 December issue Northern Woodland magazine
2018
beaded purse "Three Flowers" chosen as advertising art for the movie "Dawnland"
2014
Whispering Wind Volume 43 “With Open Arms Rhonda Besaw traditional Abenaki Beadwork Artist” by Richard Green
“Beads of Her People” NH Union Leader newspaper
Indian Arts and Crafts Association Journal “Pushing the Bounds of Tradition”
“Fiddlehead” beaded purse cover art for “Dawnland Voices” An
Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England” Edited by Siobhan Senier
Featured artist: “The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art” by Jeanne Kent
2013
The Bridge Weekly Wabanaki Beadwork by Andrea Fitzgerald
Radio interview WDGR “Walking With Our Sisters”
“Crafting the Roads and History of NH” by Andrea Gross, Irv Green
2012
“ Beading Beyond Tradition” NHToDo Magazine
“New Tradition” Concord Monitor (NH)
Radio interview WDGR
“A Need for Beads” Indian Country Today magazine
“Proud to Bead Abenaki” Indian Country Today (on line)
“Historic Iroquois and Wabanaki Beadwork” by Gerry Biron (on line)
2011
“Arcadia’s Sweet Season” Boston Globe
“A Proud Heritage…Rhonda Besaw Revives a Beadwork Tradition” by Eileen Alexander
2010
“Rhonda Besaw, Abenaki” portrait completed by artist Gerry Biron
Image of “blueberry” purse selected for promotional postcard Arts Alliance of Northern NH
Image of “American Ginseng” purse selected for promotional postcard “Northeast Woodland: Interpretations” Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Image of “rickrack” purse selected for promotional advertising by ArtSpider for the League of NH Craftsmen Sunapee, NH Craft show
Image of “flowers and heart shaped leaves” purse selected for promotional postcard “Tomorrow’s Masterpieces” Hopkinton Historical Society Art Show
2009
“Rhonda Besaw Traditional Abenaki Artist” by Richard Green, Bead Society of Great Britain magazine Autumn 2009
Image of “double curve” purse selected for promotional postcard Millbrook Gallery
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