Curriculum Vitae Patricia Anderson-Turner

Curriculum Vitae

Patricia Anderson-Turner

2025

Curated “The Beauties of Our Planet”, Museum of Contemporary Macedonia Art, North Macedonia, Curators Abdolreza Rabeti and Jagotka Tomovska “Hot & Exhausted”

Juried “We’re Doing It ALL Wrong”, Edward Dixon Gallery, Dayton Ohio, Jurors Ed Dixon, “The Georgia Gazette”

Juried “Teravarna 14th Abstract Exhibit” Virtual, International Finalist, “Seeking Safety”

Juried “Vice and Virtue” Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL Juror Jessica Todd, “Treasonous Clowns”, Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

Judged “NAWA 136h Annual Signature Member’s Exhibition” Leonovich Gallery, Chelsea, NYC flatscreen Mixed Media/Collage Award “Seeking Safety”

Curated “PEACE NOW!” Safa Bute, Art Nigde Gallery, Cappadocia, Turkey, “Waterswept Toenails” and “Mayhem in the Middle East”

Juried “Epoch of Change: Footprints of Humanity” Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL “Florida’s Flooded Future”

Juried “H.E.R. History, Power, Resistance” Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute, IN “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”   

Invitational OppArt for The Nation magazine “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition” Curator Andrea Arroyo

Juried “Diversia’s AntiWar ” Virtual International Exhibit “Post Traumatic Stress Demons” 45 artists selected i

Juried “Black Art Matters”, Corrallwood Art Center, Tampa, FL Merit Award for “The Georgia Gazette”

Juried “The Human Rights National Art Exhibit”, Sequoia, CA, First Merit Award  “Hot & Exhausted” Judge Richard Lubben

 2024

“135th National Association Signature Members Exhibit” One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, NYC “The Georgia Gazette Revisited”

Juried  “Twelfth Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art” Reece Museum, Johnson City, Meaghan Dee, Juror, FLETCHER H. DYER AWARD “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

Juried “In the Round” Orlando City Circular Hall Gallery, through May, 2024 “Drippin’ On Down the Drain”, “Hot & Exhausted” NAWA Florida Exhibit

Juried “Violence Transform’s ‘FACE IT’ Exhibit” Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA “The Georgia Gazette”, “Wounds the Size of Oranges”, “Treasonous Clowns”                              

Jurors Hakim Raquib, Colgan Johnson, Ellen Jacob

Juried “HERstory” Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, FL “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”, AWARD

Juried “Forced Perspectives” Decatur Arts, GA, First Place Award for “The Georgia Gazette”

Curated “Children of Afika” Safa Bute, Art Nigde Gallery, Cappadocia, Turkey, “Empty Bowls of War”

Juried Art Ovation Hotel NAWAFL Member Exhibit, Sarasota, FL Third Place Award for “Cayo Aria”

2023

Juried “Eleventh Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art”  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN  “Florida’s Flooded Future” and “Empty Bowls of War” 

Juror Adam DelMarcelle, AVERY HEALTHCARE and the ARTS AWARD

Juried “A Sense of Place” 41st A Sense of Place Exhibit” Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Athens, GA Juror Jeffrey Richmond-Moll,  “Good Trouble”

Live In Person Interview with Art Journalist Nanette Crist “Visual Essays” Art Advocacy Gallery, Sarasota, FL

Juried “50 and Older 2023” Las Lagunas Gallery, virtual

Curated “Art Ovation Hotel” Sarasota, FL “Cayo Aria” Third Place Award

Invitational “Junior League of Boston”, JL Headquarters “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

Juried “Stellar Posters” Finalist, Virtual Exhibit “Good Trouble” Curator Wesam Haddad

Juried “A Sense of Place” Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, (GHIA) Augusta, GA “Good Trouble” Juror Jeffrey Richmond-Moll

Curated “Dance with Orange” URI Providence Gallery, Providence, RI “Wounds the Size of Oranges”  

Judged “NAWA 134th Annual Signature Member’s Exhibition” One Art Space Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

Invitational “JL HQ” Boston, MA Junior League Headquarters Gallery “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

Curated “Confluence: Connections in Fiber” ArtWorks Gallery, Wilmington, NC “Laura Got Lycnhed From the Bridge”, “Empty Bowls of War”, “Gunned Down Grandsons”, Putin On the Fritz”, “Good Trouble”

Juried “Boundless” Schuman Museum Gallery at Sandler Center, Boca Raton, FL “Good Trouble”, Putin On the Fritz”

State Funded Workshop “The Florida Division of Arts and Culture: Strategic Planning for Art Professionals” Fort Myers, FL  

Presentation “Confronting the Issues of Our Day: The Art of Patricia Anderson-Turner” Sarasota Art Museum’s Ringling Auditorium, Sarasota, FL

Juried “The Human Rights Art Exhibition” Sequoia, CA “Florida’s Flooded Future” Juror Richard Lubben 

Juried “Changing Directions” NAWA Tri-State, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL “Good Trouble, “The Georgia Gazette” Second Place Award Judge Morgan Paine, FGCU

Juried “What’s Going On” Violence Transformed, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA, “Gunned Down Grandsons” and “Forgiving-ness”

 2022      

Juried “10th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art” 10th ANNIVERSARY AWARD Judge Wesam Haddad, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN,“Treasonous Clowns”

Juried “The Price of Peace” Cotilla Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL “Post Traumatic Stress Demons” and “Mayhem in the Middle East”  First Place Award  

Signature Members “133rd Annual National Association of Women Artists Exhibition One Art Space Gallery, Manhattan, NYC “The Georgia Gazette Revisited”

OppArt for “The Nation” “Good Trouble” featured after the death of John Lewis for the Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Juried “Trust the Process” Nat’l Assoc Women Artists, Massachusetts Chapter, Gallery of the Moakley Courthouse, Seaport, Boston, MA “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition” Merit Award, Judge Christine Bergeron

Invitational “Water, Water, Everywhere” Dante Fascell Gallery, Biscayne National Park, Biscayne, FL “Cayo Aria,” “Red Tide, Green Algae,” Troubled Water”

 Juried “On The Edge” National Association of Women Artists, Art Vendue Gallery 26, Charleston, SC “Wounds the Size of Oranges,” “Social Media Suction”

Juried “The Paths We Take” National Association of Women Artists, Manhattan, NYC   Third Place Award “Mayhem in the Middle East”   

Invitational “Good Trouble” Violence Transformed, Town Gallery, Cambridge, MA “Good Trouble”, “Treasonous Clowns”

OppArt for “The Nation” “Treasonous Clowns” featured for first anniversary of January 6th

Curated “Unnatural Election” by Andrea Arroyo, online permanent collection “Good Trouble”, “Treasonous Clowns,” “Wounds the Size of Oranges”,

Co-curator with SBDAC staff and 3-exhibit Manager  “Women Take Issue” “Post Traumatic Stress Demons,” “Legacy”, “Refugees Risking the Seas,” Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition,” “Social Media Suction,” “Cellular Skyline,” “Empty Bowls of Yemen,” “Gunned Down Grandsons,” Bombing Black Wall Street,” “Treasonous Clowns,” Mighty Eve’s Daughters of Different Shades,” “Forgiving-ness,” “I Voted,” “Assault on Orlando,” and more.

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, a three-woman exhibit in Main Atrium Gallery featuring 70 works of art and an installation by Turner In addition to the Capital and Conservatory Galleries “The Female Spirit” and selections from “HERstory OURstory”

Interviews and Reviews

Art Critic Nanette Crist’s Review “Women Take Issue” https://nanettesnewlife.blogspot.com/search?q=women+take+issue

 Live One on One Interview with NPR’s John Davis with Turner about “Women Take Issue” art exhibit, February https://news.wgcu.org/show/gulf-coast-life-arts-edition-with-john-davis/2022-02-03/three-art-exhibitions-about-women-and-by-women-open-friday-at-the-sidney-berne-davis-art-center

 2021    

OppArt for “The Nation” “Wounds the Size of Oranges” featured on the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook murders

 Juried   132nd Annual Signature Members Exhibit One Art Space, Manhattan, NYC First Place Award, Mixed Media “Treasonous Clowns”

Juried “9th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit Socially and Politically Engaged Art” Robert J. Alfonso Award “Legacy” Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN, Judge Michael Ray Charles

Juried “Words Fail” Permanent online collection, Studio Art Quit Association, “Laura Got Lycnhed From the Bridge”

Presentation “Tools of the Trade” National Association of Women Artists

Juried “Beyond the Frame” National Association of Women Artists virtual exhibit Best of Show Award  “Assault on Orlando”

 Invitational “Exception Creativity” Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL “Wounds the Size of Oranges”  

Juried “Different Strokes” Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL, “Treasonous Clowns”

Juried “Some Like It Hot II” NAWA Florida South Carolina, and Massachusetts Chapters “Wallowa Mountain Wildfire”

Juried “Promise of Spring” Manatee Art Center, Bradenton, FL First Place Award Juror Amy Sturdevant, “Treasonous Clowns”

Juried “Heroes, Heroines, and Heroics” Flagler County Art League, Palm Coast, Florida “Earth’s Super Heroes”

Interview with Curator Karen Gutfreund Turner’s Instagram link

Presentation: Visual Essays presentation for Art Quilters Unlimited link

Interview with the Artists by Curator Karen Gutfreund “Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America”     

Invitational Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America “Assault on Orlando” Installation selected by Curator Karen Gutfreund Art Rage Gallery Syracuse, NY

Juried “Resilience of Grief” National Association of Women Artists Second Place Award “Gunned Down Grandsons”

 Invitational “H2O Exhibition” Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Art Gallery, Sanibel, FL  “Drippin’ On Down the Drain,” “Troubled Waters,” “Cayo Area” Florida’s Flooded Future Redux”

 2020    

Juried  “Onward and Upward”  Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL   Merit Award  “Gunned Down Grandsons” and “Forgiving-ness”  Jurors Michele Redwine and Paul Caragiulio

 Juried “Gravity of Gratitude” Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL “Forgiving-ness”

Interview: Ehren Gerhard, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers,, FL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Signature Member 131st National Association of Women Artists Annual Virtual Exhibition  “Laura Got Lynched From the Bridge”

NAWA Florida Artist Presentation: “Visual Essays”

Juried “8th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially & Politically Engaged Art” Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN  “Very Fine People”

Juried “Pain, Process, and Promise” Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL, “Laura Got Lynched From the Bridge”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Artist Interview with Patricia Anderson- Turner by Alliance for the Arts Gallery Director Ehren Gerhard

Juried “Some Like it Hot” National Association of Women Artists, virtual “Hot & Exhausted”

Juried “Rumors or Reality” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL “I Voted”          

Juried “Florida Artists Group 70th Annual Exhibit” Foosaner Museum, Melbourne, FL, Museum’s “Wounds the Size of Oranges”   https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OSg8OJYWy/

Juried  “Grand Visions: Here We Are”  National Association of Women Artists, Grand Central Library, Manhattan, NYC “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

 Invitational “Contradictions” Florida Artists Group, Webber Gallery, Ocala, FL “Asylum Seekers”

 2019      

Member “New Member’s Exhibit” National Association of Women Artists’ Gramercy Gallery, NYC  “Stop the Bleed Kit”

Juried “Turf Wars”  Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL “Red Tide, Green Algae”

Juried “7th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art”  Award of Excellence,  Juror Sue Coe “Laura got Lynched From the Bridge”

Juried Member Exhibit “Florida Artists Group 69th Annual Exhibit” Ringling Art and Design, Sarasota, FL “Empty Bowls of Yemen”     

Juried “Unbound” Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL Juror Nathan Beard, First Place Award   “Wounds the Size of Oranges”

Juried “Florida Artists Group Area VII Exhibit” Naples Art Association, Naples, FL “Social Media Suction”

2018         

Juried 6th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art”  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN    Healthcare and The Arts Award  Jurors Cheryl Goldsleger and Larry Millard “Wounds the Size of Oranges”

Juried “Creativity Takes Courage” Gainesville Fine Arts, Gainesville, FL “Social Media Suction”

Juried “Art of Armistice”  Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA  Juror Spencer Dormitzer “Wounds the Size of Oranges”

Curated: Waging Peace! Museum of Modern Art, Tallahassee, FL Curated, included in North  Florida State K-12 Arts Curriculum

68th Annual Florida Juried Artists Group Exhibit  Webber Gallery, Ocala, FL

Solo Exhibit “All Angels Gallery, Longboat Key, FL

2017      

Juried “5th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art”  Reece Museum, TN “Gunned Down Grandsons”

 Curated “Art & Conflict" Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO, “Mayhem in the Middle East”, “Devolution”,   Juried “Art of Engagement” Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC   

Juried  Member Florida Artists Group SW Florida Exhibition   Sandlin Gallery, Historical Museum, Marco Island, FL  “Social Media Suction,” “Cellular Skyline” “Ghost Panther”

Juried “Tell Me A Story” Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, “Humpty Trumpty,” Hill and Bill”      

Juried “Growth”  Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL “Refugees Risking the Seas,” “Cellular Skyline,” Social Media Suction”

Sacred Threads: Biennial Herndon, VA  “Post Traumatic Stress Demons”

Positive/Negative Curated Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN  “Day at The Beach”      

Displacement & Migration St Louis Artists’ Guild, St Louis, “Refugees Risking the Seas,” “Day At the Beach”

Florida Juried Member Artist’s Group 67th Annual Exhibit  Coral Springs Art Museum, Coral Springs, FL

2016      

Juried “4th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art” Eric Avery Award “Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Ebola in Liberia”  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

Juried “Art Advocacy Speaks: Art for Social Change” The Spinning Plate Gallery,” Pittsburg, PA “Day At The Beach”

Juried “Art As Politics” Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC , “Mayhem in the Middle East”    

Juried “Notes” Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL

Florida Artists Group 66th Annual Juried Members Exhibit  Art Center of Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, FL; “Refugees Risking the Seas”

Juried “First LaGrange Southeast Regional”,  LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA; Juror Deanna Sirlin

 Juried “Art Council of Southwest Florida" Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft. Myers, FL

Juried Arts & Cultural Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition of 2016” The Emporium Center,  Knoxville, TN;  Juror Samantha Andrews   “Refugees Risking the Sease”

Curated "The Engaged Object" Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO;  

“What Lies Beneath” Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL;  Jurors Morgan Janssen and Nancy Goff

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022       "Women Take Issue" Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers River Arts Fl

2018       "Take Issue" Longboat Key, FL

2017       “Viewpoints”  The  Hub on Canal, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2016      "Viewpoints: All Sewn Up" Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

AWARDS:  INTERNATIONAL

2024    “12th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN  The FLETCHER H  DYER AWARD, “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees” Judge Megan Dee

2023    “11th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art, Avert Healthcare and The Arts Award, “Empty Bowls of War” Judge Adam DelMarcelle

2022    10th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN   10th Anniversary Award “Treasonous Clowns” Judge Wesam Mazhar Haddad

2021     “9th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN  Robert J Alfonso Award for “Legacy”, Judge Michael Ray Charles

2019      "7th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art" Reece Museum Johnson City,  Award of Excellence  “Laura For Lynched From the Bridge” Judge Sue Coe

2018      "6th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art" Reece Museum Johnson City, TN Healthcare and The Arts Award “Wounds the Size of Oranges”

2016      “4th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art” Reece Museum Johnson City, TN Healthcare and The Arts Award “Earth’s Super Heroes Battle Ebola” Judge Dr. Eric Avery

2011      "Le Vie Della Si Incontrano a Verona" Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy First Place: Contemporary Silk Art

AWARDS:  NATIONAL

2021       “132 Annual Member Exhibit National Association of Women Artists” First Place

2021       “Beyond the Frame” National Association of Women Artists First Place

 2020      “Resilience of Grief” National Association of Women Artists Second Place

2015       "Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII" Philadelphia, PA; Third Place

2015       "Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII" Philadelphia, PA; Best Use of Color

2015       "Environmentally Engaged" Jupiter, FL; Honorable Mention

AWARDS:  REGIONAL

Art Center Manatee

2021       “Promise of Spring” First Place Award

Art Center Sarasota, Juried Fine Arts, Sarasota, FL

2020       “Onward and Upward” Merit Award

2019       "Unbound" First Place

2014      "Coming Home" Honorable Mention

2012      "Breaking Boundaries" Honorable Mention

2010      "Fiber of Our Being" First Place  

FEATURED FILMS AND PUBLICATIONS

2022       NPR interview with Arts Critic John Davis

2017       Quilts and Health Michigan State University and Indiana University Press

2016       Quilts and Human Rights Michigan State University and University of Nebraska Press

2013      Florida PBS film, “The Fabric of Florida“ featured artist

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2024 The Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee Permanent Public Collection “Good Trouble”

2015 South Texas College, McAllen, TX "Human Rights Art Exhibit" Permanent Public Collection “Aftermath of Abu Ghraib”

2014 Museum of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI "Quilts and Human Rights" Permanent Public collection, “Mud Cookies” and “DARkly FURgotten”          

2011 Florida South Western College, Keystone Gallery, Punta Gorda, FL Permanent Public Collection “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”

PRESENTATIONS

Listening to Women, Sarasota Art Museum, interview with Nanette Crist

Video

AFFILIATIONS

Signature Membership, National Association of Women Artists  

Inaugural Member, Sarasota Art Museum

Art Center Sarasota

INVITATIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Violence Transformed, Dr. Mary Harvey, Boston

OppArt  Curator Andrea Arroyo

The Nation news magazine

Unnatural Election  Curator Andrea Arroyo 

Art As Activism  Curator Karen Gutfreund

2025 Juried

“PEACE NOW!”

Art Nigde Gallery, Cappadocia, Turkey, May-Jun 2025 “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

“Vice and Virtue”

Art Center Sarasota, FL: May-Aug 2025 “Treasonous Clowns” and “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

“ National Association of Women Artists 136th Annual Exhibit"

June, 2025, Leonovich Gallery, Chelsea, NYC “Seeking Safety”

OppArt for The Nation Magazine

Feb, 2025 “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

“Epochs of Change: Footprints of Humanity”

Art Center Sarasota Art, Mar, 2025 “Florida’s Flooded Future”

“H.E.R. History, Power, Resistance”

Arts illianna Gallery, Terre Haute, IN Feb-Apr 2025 “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

“Black Art Matters”

Corrallwood Art Center, Mar, 2025 Tampa, FL Award for “The Georgia Gazette”

“AntiWar”

Diversia online international exhibit, 49 artists selected, Feb. 2025

“The Human Rights Art Exhibit”

Sequoia, CA Jan-Feb 2025 Award with “Hot & Exhausted”

2024 Juried

12th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit” Social and Politically Engaged Art”

Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN 10th Annual FL3TCH3R Award for “Bulldozing Millennial Olive Trees”

“Violence Transformed’s Face IT”

Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA “The Georgia Gazette”, “Treasoous Clowns”, “Wounds the Size of Oranges”

“In the Round”

NAWA FL, Orlando, FL “Hot & Exhausted”, Drippin’ On Down the Drain”

“Art Ovation Hotel”

Sarasota, FL “Cayo Aria”

“HERstory”

NAWAFL Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, FL “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition” AWARD

“Humanity”

Art Nigde Gallery, Cappadocia, Turkey, May-Jun 2025 “Refugees Risking the Seas”

Natl Assoc Women Artists 134th Annual

One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, NYC with “The Georgia Gazette Recisited”

“Children of Afrika”

Art Nigde Gallery, Cappadocia, Turkey, May-Jun 2025 “Empty Bowls of War”

“Forced Perspectives”

Decatur Arts, GA first Place Award for “The Georgia Gazette”

2023 Juried

11th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit” Social and Politically Engaged Art”

Reece Museum, TN Award

Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (GWIA), Augusta, GA

“Poster Stellars 2023”

Finalist in the intercontinental Online Exhibit, 17 jurors from across the globe

“50 and Older 2023 “

Las Lagunas Online Gallery

“National Association of Women Artists” 134th Annual Exhibition”

One Art Space Street Level Gallery, Tribeca, NYC

“Confluence: Connections in Fiber”

Curated, The ArtWorks, Wilmington, NC

“Dance With Orange”

University of Rhode Island Gallery, Providence, RI, Nat’l Asoc Women Artists, MA

“Boundless”

Schuman Museum and Gallery at the Sandler Center, Boca Raton, FL

“Junior League Headquarters”

Boston, MA, Nat’l Asoc Women Artists, MA

“The Human Rights Art Exhibition”

College of the Sequoias, CA, published

“Changing Directions” Second Place Award

National Association Women Artists, FL, SC, MA Chapters, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL

“What’s Going On”

Violence Transformed, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA

2023 Grants

“Strategic Planning for Artists Workshop”,

Florida Division of Arts and Culture, Fort Myers, FL

2022       Juried

“10th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art”     10th Annual FL3TCH3R

Award for “Treasonous Clowns” Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

“The Price of Peace”      First Place Award for “Mayhem in the Middle East”

Cotilla Gallery, Ft Lauderdale, FL

“133rd Annual National Association of Women Artists Exhibit”

One Art Space Gallery, Manhattan, NYC

 “Trust the Process” Merit Award for “Primary Suffragists, Secondary Recognition”

Nat’l Assoc Women Artists, Massachusetts Chapter, Gallery of the Moakley Courthouse, Seaport, Boston, MA

 “Water, Water, Everywhere”

Invitational, Dante Fascell Gallery, Biscayne National Park, Biscayne, FL

“On The Edge”

National Association of Women Artists, Art Vendue Gallery 26, Charleston, SC

“The Paths We Take” Third Place Award    

National Association of Women Artists, Manhattan, NYC

“Good Trouble”

Invitational Violence Transformed, Town Gallery, Cambridge, MA

“The Nation” OppArt  “Treasonous Clowns”

featured for anniversary of January 6th

“Unnatural Election”

curated by Andrea Arroyo, online permanent collection

Co-curator with SBDAC staff

“Women Take Issue”

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, a three-woman exhibit in Main Atrium Gallery featuring 70 works of art and an installation by Turner In addition to the Capital and Conservatory Galleries “The Female Spirit” and selections from “HERstory OURstory”

2022 Interviews and Reviews

Art Critic Nanette Crist’s Review Women Take Issue      https://nanettesnewlife.blogspot.com/search?q=women+take+issue

 Live Interview with NPR’s John Davis with Turner about “Women Take Issue” art exhibit, February

https://news.wgcu.org/show/gulf-coast-life-arts-edition-with-john-davis/2022-02-03/three-art-exhibitions-about-women-and-by-women-open-friday-at-the-sidney-berne-davis-art-center

2021      

Juried  

“132nd Annual Members Exhibit”   First Place Award Mixed Media

One Art Space, Manhattan, NYC

“9th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit Social and Politically Engaged Art “   Robert J. Alfonso Award

Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

“Words Faii “Permanent online collection

Studio Art Quilt Association

Tools of the Trade     publication

National Association of Women Artists

“Beyond the Frame “   Best of Show Award

National Association of Women Artists, virtual

Exception Creativity     Invitational

Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL   

“Different Strokes”

Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL

“Some Like It Hot II “ 

NAWA Florida South Carolina, and Massachusetts Chapters, virtual

“Promise of Spring”   First Place Award

Art Center Manatee, Bradenton, FL

“Heroes, Heroines, and Heroics”

Flagler County Art League, Palm Coast, Florida

Interview with Curator Karen Gutfreund Turner’s Instagram link

Visual Essays presentation for Art Quilters Unlimited link

“Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America”     Curated

 Interview with the Artists by Curator Karen Gutfreund

“Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America “

Installation selected by Curator Karen Gutfreund

Art Rage Gallery Syracuse, NY

“Resilience of Grief”   Second Place Award

National Association of Women Artists, virtual

“H2O Exhibition”    Invitational

Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Art Gallery, Sanibel, FL  

 2020     “Onward and Upward”     Award

  Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

“Gravity of Gratitude “

Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL

“131st National Association of Women Artists Annual Exhibition”    virtual

NAWA Florida Artist Presentation: Visual Essays    

“8th Annual FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art “

Reece Museum, TN  

“Pain, Process, and Promise”

 Alliance for the Arts, Ft Myers, FL
Artist Interview with Patricia Turner  by Alliance for the Arts Gallery Director Ehren Gerhard

“Some Like it Hot “ 

National Association of Women Artists   virtual

“Rumors or Reality “

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL

“Florida Artists Group 70th Annual Exhibit”

Foosaner Museum, Melbourne, FL, Museum’s

 https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OSg8OJYWy/

 “Grand Visions: Here We Are”

 National Association of Women Artists, Grand Central Library, Manhattan, NYC   

 “Contradictions”  

Florida Artists Group, Webber Gallery, Ocala, FL

 2019       “New Member’s Exhibit “

National Association of Women Artists’ Gallery, NYC

“Turf Wars”

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL

“7th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art”     Healthcare & the Arts Award

Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

“Florida Artists Group 69th Annual Exhibit “            

Ringling Art and Design, Sarasota, FL      

“Unbound      First Place Award

Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL                

“Florida Artists Group Area VII Exhibit”

 Naples Art Association, Naples, FL

2018         

“6th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art”     Healthcare and The Arts Award  

Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN                                       ""

“Creativity Takes Courage”

 Gainesville Fine Arts, Gainesville, FL

“Art of Armistice “ 

Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA  Juror Spencer Dormitzer

“Waging Peace! “

 Museum of Modern Art, Tallahassee, FL

                 Curated, included in Florida State K-12 Arts Curriculum

“68th Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibit”  

Webber Gallery, Ocala, CL

 2017      

“5th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art”

 Reece Museum, TN J

“Art & Conflict"   Curated

Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO

 “Art of Engagement “

Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC   

 “Florida Artists Group SW Florida Exhibition”    Curated

Sandlin Gallery, Historical Museum, Marco Island, FL  

T”ell Me A Story”  

Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO      

 “Growth”

Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL    

“Sacred Threads: Biennial”

Herndon, VA    

“Positive/Negative Curated”

 Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University,  Johnson City, TN        

“Displacement & Migration”

 St Louis Artists’ Guild, St Louis, M

 “Florida Artist’s Group 67th Annual Exhibit  “

Coral Springs Art Museum, Coral Springs, FL

2016      

“4th FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art “  Award

Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

“Art Advocacy Speaks: Art for Social Change”

The Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburg, PA

“Art As Politics”

 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC     

“Notes”

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers, FL

“Florida Artists Group 66th Annual Exhibit”

Art Center of Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, FL;

First LaGrange Southeast Regional “       

 LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA; Juror Deanna Sirlin

“Art Council of Southwest Florida”

" Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft. Myers, FL

Arts & Cultural Alliance’s National Juried Exhibition of 2016

The Emporium Center,   Knoxville, TN;  Juror Samantha Andrews   

The Engaged Object"

Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO;  Curatoed 

“What Lies Beneath”  

Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL;  Jurors Morgan Janssen and Nancy Goff

  2023     Live  Interviews

“Listening to Women”

Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling Auditorium, live 90 minute one-on-one interview with Art Journalist Nanette Crist

LINK HERE to edited video

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022       "Women Take Issue" Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Ft Myers River Arts District, Florida

2018       "Take Issue" Longboat Key, FL

2016      "Viewpoints: All Sewn Up" Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

AWARDS:  INTERNATIONAL

 2021      “8th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art  Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN

                Michael Ray Charles Award

2019       "7th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art" Reece Museum Johnson City, TN

                 Award of Excellence, Sue Coe

2018       "6th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art" Reece Museum Johnson City, TN            

Healthcare and The Arts Award

2016       “4th Annual Fl3TCH3R: Social and Politically Engaged Art” Reece Museum Johnson City, TN

Healthcare and The Arts Award

2011      "Le Vie Della Si Incontrano a Verona" Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy

First Place: Contemporary Silk Art

AWARDS:  NATIONAL

2021       “132 Annual Member Exhibit National Association of Women Artists” First Place

2021       “Beyond the Frame” National Association of Women Artists First Place

 2020      “Resilience of Grief” National Association of Women Artists Second Place

2015       "Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII" Philadelphia, PA; Third Place

2015       "Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII" Philadelphia, PA; Best Use of Color

2015       "Environmentally Engaged" Jupiter, FL; Honorable Mention

AWARDS:  REGIONAL

Art Center Manatee

2021       “Promise of Spring” First Place Award

Art Center Sarasota, Juried Fine Arts, Sarasota, FL

2020       “Onward and Upward” Merit Award

2019       "Unbound" First Place

2014      "Coming Home" Honorable Mention

2012      "Breaking Boundaries" Honorable Mention

2010      "Fiber of Our Being" First Place  

FEATURED FILMS AND PUBLICATIONS

2022       NPR interview with Arts Critic John Davis

2017       Quilts and Health Michigan State University and Indiana University Press

2016       Quilts and Human Rights Michigan State University and University of Nebraska Press

2013      Florida PBS film, featured artist

PUBLIC AND PRIVATED COLLECTIONS

2015 South Texas College, McAllen, TX "Human Rights Art Exhibit" permanent public collection

2014 Museum of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI "Quilts and Human Rights" multiple works          

2011 Florida South Western College, Keystone Gallery, Punta Gorda, FL permanent public collection

AFFILIATIONS

Selected Membership, National Association of Women Artists

Studio Art Quilt Associates

Inaugural Member, Sarasota Art Museum

NVITAIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Violence Transformed, Dr. Mary Harvey, Boston

OppArt  Curator Andrea Arroyo

The Nation news magazine

Unnatural Election  Curator Andrea Arroyo 

Art As Activism  Curator Karen Gutfreund

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