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DON MYHRE

donmyhre@mac.com


Born 1942, Tacoma, WA


BA in Ed., Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA   1964

College of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA  1964-1966

MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA  1976


AFFILIATIONS

The Book Arts Guild, Seattle

The Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco

The Center for Book Arts, New York

Northwest Designer Craftsmen

American Craft Council


SELECTED EXHIBITS


SOLO SHOWS

Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland, WA  2004, 2002

Skaget Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA  2003

Solart Gallery, Seattle, WA  1997

Photographic Center Gallery, Seattle, WA  1996

Fine Arts Center, Washington State University, Pullman, WA  1992

King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA  1984

Omega Photo, Bellevue, WA 1983

Open Mondays Gallery, Seattle, WA 1982, 1979


GROUP SHOWS

“T(I)MBOOKTOBOOKAR(ES)T,” WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY  2010

“Banned Books,” Kirkland Public Library, Kirkland, WA  2009, 2007

“ECO ART,” Sammamish City Hall, Sammamish, WA 2009

“Book Works, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco, CA  2011, 2008, 1994

‘Northwest Designer Craftsmen: Nordic Roots, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA  2008

“High Tech-Low Tech,” South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA  2007

“Book and Text,” Rhino Gallery, Issaquah, WA  2007

“define: BOOK,” Art Book Press, Seattle, WA  2005

“Art of the Book,” Art Book Press, Seattle, WA  2004

“Phineas and Cecilia Brice Associates,” Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco, CA  2003

“Orihon and More: Books by Artists,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY  2002

“Open Sesame: The Magic of Word, Image and Form.” Everett Center for the Arts Everett, WA 1999

“From Xerox to Letterpress,” Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA  1996

“The Illustrious Art of Books,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA  1994

“The Book As Vessel,” Oregon State Library, Salem, OR  1991

“Image, Word, Form,” University of Washington, Seattle, WA  1991

“The Book Stripped Bare,” Art in Form, Seattle, WA  1990


JURIED SHOWS

“Things We Hunt,” Allied Art, Richland, WA  2010

KAC Members’ Exhibit, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA  2010

“10 x 10 x 10,” Warehouse Gallery, Tieton, WA  2010

Book Arts Exhibition, Northwest Bookfest, Seattle, WA  2001, 2000

Northwest International, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA  1999, 1994

Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA  1996, 1992

National Artist-Made Books Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL  1995

“The Land,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA  1995

Polaroid Transfer National, Nelleke Nix Gallery, Kirkland, WA  1993

Northwest Juried Art 88, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA  1988

New Photographics, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA  1980