Community practice
Advisor, ARTS at King Street Station November 2018 - present
Committee working with ARTS staff to ensure that the programming at ARTS at King Street Station centers racial equity, represents and welcomes diverse communities, and showcases many creative disciplines.
Publications
Artists O’Leary and Vaughan at King Street Station: Feminine Power
South Seattle Emerald, June 9, 2022
https://southseattleemerald.com/2022/06/09/artists-oleary-and-vaughan-at-king-street-station-feminine-power/
Exhibitions and projects
Pop-up Gallery Group Show (Exhibiting artist)
1426 S. Jackson St., Seattle, WA, March 24, 2018
Open Studios Group Show (Exhibiting artist)
Studio #7, 1426 S. Jackson St., Seattle, WA, Nov. 11, 2017
Gender Odyssey Art Exhibit (Conference Art Coordinator)
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
To Survive on this Shore, Jess T. Dugan, photographer (Curator)
Large format color photographic portraits of older transgender people presenting the complex and intimate social intersections of individual lives.
Imagine the Possible: Trans* Teens Paint (Curator)
Annual, international Gender Odyssey conference art exhibit. Original artwork produced for exhibit by group of six gender non-conforming youth reflected a range of artistic and personal propositions.
Central Library Community Based Exhibits (Curator)
Imagine the Possible: Trans* Teens Paint Exhibit from art workshop for trans*gender teen Seattle Public Library, June - Aug. 2016
Trans* Teen Art Intensive (Project coordinator, teaching assistant)
Gender Diversity, Seattle, WA, March 2016
Organized and assisted painting workshop on self expression (taught by artist Jacqui Beck); studio classroom space donated by Gage Academy of Art.
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival 2016 Exhibit (Invited artist)
Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle WA, April 22-24, 2016 Gay City Arts Showcase
For the Love of Our Earth (Juror)
Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts, Seattle, WA, February 2016
Open Studios (Participating artist)
Studio #7, 1426 S. Jackson St., Seattle, WA, Oct. 29, 2016
Gender Odyssey Art Exhibit (Curator)
Gender Odyssey Conference, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, August 2015
Kids Art at Gender Odyssey
Art by kids ages 4 to 17, from Gender Diversity Family Support group.
Kids’ Camp Art Activity (Project coordinator)
Structured art activity for conference Kids’ Camp; resulting artwork auction to raise funds for Gender Diversity family programming.
Gender Diversity Family Support Group (Art instructor)
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, June - August 2015
Taught structured art projects for youth, ages 4 to 17
Capitol Hill Pride Art Walk 2015 (Invited artist representing Gender Diversity)
Ingersoll Gender Center, Kaladi Brothers Coffee, Pike St., Seattle, June 2015
1426 S. Jackson Open Studios (Participating artist)
Studio #7, 1426 S. Jackson St., Seattle, WA, May 9, 2015
1426 S. Jackson Open Studios (Participating artist)
Studio #7, 1426 S. Jackson St., Seattle, WA, June 1, 2014
Gender Odyssey Art Exhibit (Curator and exhibiting artist)
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2013
UNFOLDING
Group show of 12 artists from the trans*gender community, including painting, photography, video, jewelry and apparel.
Gender Odyssey Art Exhibit (Curator and exhibiting artist)
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2012
The Beautiful Struggle
Group show of 16 artists from the trans*gender community, including painting, photography, video, jewelry and apparel.
Gender Odyssey Art Exhibit (Curator, exhibiting artist, moderator)
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2011
We Made This Road by Walking
Group show of nine artists from the trans*gender community, including painting, photography, video, jewelry and apparel.
Meet the Artists panel discussion (moderator)
Chinese Painting: The Authentic Approach (Exhibiting student)
Pratt Fine Arts, August 2011
Chinese Painting: The Authentic Approach (Exhibiting student)
Seattle Central Community College, January 2011
Education
M.A. Education (Instructional Technology)
San Francisco State University, CA, 1994
B.A. Communications and Media Arts
Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH, 1988
Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
Notan (two day workshop), Mitchell Albala, Seattle, March 2013; Mixed Media Painting (two day workshop), Patrick Locicero, Seattle, February 2013; Mixed Media Painting (two day workshop), Hamid Zavareei, Seattle, January 2013; Expressive Figure Drawing, Mark Kang-O'Higgins, Seattle, April - June 2011
Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA
Chinese Painting - The Authentic Approach, Hong-Duan Yang, Seattle, June - August 2010
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Chinese Painting (two day workshop), Hong-Duan Yang, June 2011; Figure Drawing, Jeanne Ferraro, June 2010 - March 2011; 2D Design, Alice Case January - March 2011; Art for the Socially Aware Artist (two day workshop), Juan Alonso, July 2010; Drawing Fundamentals, Ryan Finnerty, March - May 2010; Abstract Painting, Michael Ottersen, Jan - March 2010; Oil Painting Fundamentals, Alice Case, September - November 2009
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Mixed Media and Collage, Mina Markovic, Jan - March 2005
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Painting Fundamentals, Jan Harrison, two quarters first level studio class,1986; Drawing Fundamentals, David LaPalombara, two quarters first level studio class, 1986
Biographical details
Born in Urbana, Ohio, U.S.A., 1959
Lived in San Francisco, CA 1988 - 2004
Currently lives in Seattle, WA