Marilene Yoakim Sawaf

marilene@marilene-sawaf.com

Education 

• Fine Arts Interior Design and Architecture, Universite du Saint- Esprit-Kaslik,  Lebanon (1974-80)
• Art correspondence coursework, ABC School of Fine Arts, Paris (1972-74)

Memberships

• The New Hampshire Art Association [NHAA] (1982 - present)
• The Nashua Area Art Association [NAAA] (1981 - present)
• The Sharon Art Center (1993 - present)
• The Art Group (1981 - 82)
• The Cambridge Art Association (2004-05)
• The Newburyport Art Association(2005-06)

Galleries

• Art 3 Gallery, 44 Brook st., Manchester NH
• The Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH. Permanent collection
• Three Graces Gallery, 105 Market str, Portsmouth NH
• Levy Gallery, 136 State Street, Portsmouth, NH
• Sharon Art Center, 30 Grove str, Peterborough. NH
• Bilancia Gallery, 85 West Pearl st, Nashua, NH(2001-2006)
• Sheldon Fine Arts, 59 America's cup Ave, Newport RI
• Shore Road Gallery. Ogunquit.NH(2006-present)
• Marilene’s Studio, Call for Appointment(603-465-2013)
• The Framer’s Market, Bedford, NH(1995-present)
• Powers Gallery, Acton, MA(1995-2004)
• ARCLIGHT, Design Center, Nashua, NH
• Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• Salmon Falls Village gallery, Rollingsford, NH(2007)
  
• www.Worldgalleryonline.com,  online gallery
• www.Boundlessgallery.com, online gallery
• www.Original Art Online.com
• www.artwanted.com
• www.fineartamerica.com

Talks

• The Creation of Art,Lunch with the Artist, Whistler House Museum of Art, August 1998
• Lunch with the Artist ,  Whistler House Museum of Art, March 2000
• Using Acrylic Wash in my women painting, talk and demo at the Chelmsford Art Society,  April 26, 2005
• Demo and talk at Chandler library for the Nashua Area Artists Association , June 2005

Links

• Caroline Doucette, watercolorist  
• Brilor Art Gallery 
• Avisen Avk Art Gallery 
• World Gallery Online      
• Monkdogz ,urban art 
• Boundless Gallery.com  
• Original Art Online    
• leventakayligalerisi
• Daily painters of America

• http://www.marilene-sawaf.blogspot.com
• http://www.marilenesawaf.blogspot.com
• http://www.marilenesart.blogspot.com

Solo Exhibits

•  Art Exhibit at Maison de L'Art (2007)
  
•  Solo Exhibit in July and August at Nashua Public Library (2006)
•  "Marilene Sawaf and Jean Hua Dalia." Gallery One in Nashua, NH. May- June 2006
  
• "Paintings by Marilene Sawaf", Bilancia Gallery, Nashua, NH (April, 2005)  
• “ Marilene Sawaf", Bilancia Gallery, Nashua, NH ( April, May 2005)  
• "Paintings by Marilene Sawaf", Bilancia  Gallery, Nashua, NH ( October 2004) 
• " Paintings by Marilene Sawaf",Three Graces Callery, Portsmouth,NH ( June2004)
• " Women, Music and Dreams", Chelmsford Public Library,Chelmsford,MA( March2003)
• "Medieval Women", Stevens Memorial Library, North Andover, MA (Dec2002/Jan2003)
• "The Art of Marilene Sawaf", Memorial Hall Library, Andover, Ma (Nov 2002)
• "Women and Landscapes", Ground Floor exhibition space, Hollis, NH (Nov 2002)
• "Painting of ladies"through Sharon Art center at Borders.Nashua,NH(1999)
• "Vision of women" , Nashua Public Library (May/June 1998)
• "Landscapes" at the Design Center , Hollis, NH (1994)
• "Memorial Hall Library, Andover, Ma (1985)

•  2008 “Monadnock Arts Auction 2008", Jeffrey, NH
• 60th Annual Currier Museum of Art Exhibition at the  Manchester Institute of Arts. Georgeopoulos Memorial Award for drawing.
• "60th Annual Members' Exhibition" at the Sharon Art Center.Peterboutough, NH
• 2007 “The Art Gallery” juried exhibit at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. 59^th Annual Exhibition supported by the Currier Museum of Art and the New Hampshire Art association.
•   “Monadnock Arts Auction 2007”by the Souhegan Vallery Chamber of Commerce
• "59th Annual Members' Exhibition" at the Sharon Art Center
• "Gardens" invitational exhibit, Hancock Library, NH
• "Green with Envy", exhibit at Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "Influenced by the Masters", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• "Reference and Reverence",The Salmon Falls Village gallery, Rollingsford, NH
• "When Polymers Collide", Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "Gallery One juried exhibit", Honorable mention, Nashua, NH
• Hillsborough area artisans, 3d annual "Spring into summer" Faire
• Haley Art Gallery, "Summer art show", Kittery, Maine
• Breakfast Club Exhibit at Gallery One.
• Artisan Fair at Gallery One.
• 2006  Currier Museum of Art. Fifty Eight Annual Juried Ehibit.Ezechiel A.Straw Memorial Award .
• Whistler House Museum of Art. "Looking Back “1996-2006”. Lowell, MA .
• Monadnock Art Auction, Jaffrey Civic Center,Jaffrey, NH.
• "Dreams". Collective Exhibit at Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "Wish List". Art 3 Gallery, Manchester.
• Sharon Art Center Member's show.Peterborough.NH
• "20th Annual T.Omar Lassonde Memorial Juried Exhibit".Levy Gallery, Portsmouth,NH
• "Complements:Art and Food.", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• Nashua Public Library Solo exhibit
• "Marilene Sawaf and Jean Hua Dalia." Gallery One in Nashua, NH. May- June 2006
• Art 3 Gallery Collective Exhibit. "Music and Movement"
• Sunapee Fair in August with the NHAA
• "Prescott Park" juried Exhibit in Portsmouth, NH
• "The Sky is the limit" collective exhibit, Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "Paint Out in Thorndike park"exhibit, Sharon Art Center
• "Small Art does Great things", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• "Breaskfast Club Exhibit" at Gallery One
• 2005-Members' Exhibit, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
•  The Monadnock Art Auction, Jaffrey, NH
• "Wild about Art", Gallery One, Nashua, NH
•  "A breath of fresh air"  ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
•  "Memories", Chandler library, Nashua, NH
•  "All about Love", Three Graces Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
•  " Sunswept City Art" , Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "19th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial" , Juried Exhibit, Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH. Memorable mention
• ."8th regional juried exhibit",Newburyport Art Association. (juror Carl Benz of Brandeis University)
• " Summer in the City", Invitational Collective Exhibit, Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• "The Travelling artist at home or Abroad", Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH.
•  Cambridge art Association member's show, Kathryn Schultz gallery, Cambridge, MA
•  "PEACE ", Juried Exhibit, Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH.
•  Mariposa Museum Auction, Peterborough, NH
• "Oceans" collective exhibit, Gallery One, Nashua
• “Old dogs, new tricks” Art 3 gallery, Manchester, NH
•  "Seasons of Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness", Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• 2004 - "Fifty sixth Annual Juried Exhibit" , New Hampshire Art Association, Currier Museum of Art
• Members' Exhibit, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH  
• "Hour by hour", Invitational Exhibit, Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
•  The Monadnock Art auction, Jaffrey, NH
• "The Art of Marilene Sawaf" East Pearl gallery, Nashua, NH
• "Dreamscapes", Chandler Library, Nashua, NH
• " Travelogue", Art 3 gallery,
• "Looking through the window", Art 3 gallery, Manchester, NH
• "Artists by the Sea", Seacost Science Center, Wet paint Auction, Rye , NH
• Mariposa Museum Auction,"Art in August", Peterborough, NH
• "In the Garden" Jaffrey Civic Center exhibit, Jeffrey , NH
• "Ladies through the Window", Maison de L'Art, Nashua, NH
• "Winter show,"Jaffrey Civic Center invitational exhibit
• "Holidays at Home", Bilancia Gallery Art Competition. First prize
• 2003 - Members' Exhibit, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH  
• "The Luminosity of Light", Chandler Library, Nashua, NH
• The Monadnock Art auction, Jaffrey , NH
• "Women, Music and Dreams", solo show, Chelmsford Public Library
• "Mixed Messages", Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• "Storytelling", Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• Breakfast Club exhibit, Border's, Nashua, NH
• Wilton's 4th miniatures Art Exhibit, Wilton, NH
• Pierce Gallery miniature show, Portsmouth, NH
• "Seeing Red", Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• Jeffrey civic center, area artists exhibition, Jeffrey, NH
• "Holiday Spirit exhibition" at the Franco American Center Belivau  Gallery, Manchester , NH
• " Nashua 150 th anniversary" Bilancia Gallery, Nashua , NH
• 2002 - Members' Exhibit, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
• "A Winter juried Art show" , Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lawrence, MA
• Juried Exhibit, 3rd place oils, Daniel Webster College Auditorium Gallery, Nashua, NH
• Champagne Art Auction , Nashua Symphony Association & Nashua Area Artist Association
• "In and out of the garden",Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "RED",  Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• "16th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial  Juried Exhibit", Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth,
• Second Annual Downtown Festival , Nashua, NH
• "WATER WORKS",  Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• Greeley Park Art show. Second place, mixed media. Nashua, NH 
• Andover Art in thePark exhibit, First place, mixed media. Andover, MA
• "3rd Annual Joan Dunfey Memorial Juried Exhibit" , Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• ART 3 at the Home showcase for the Symphony, Lakes Region.. Center Harbour
• "THREE @3".(Glass, Sculpure, Textile),  Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• The Artists Breakfast club Exhibit. Parish Center for the Arts. Westford, MA
• The Artists' Breakfast club. Borders bookstore. Nashua, NH
• "SMALL WORKS",  Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• 2001 - Members' Exhibit , Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
• "15th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial" , Juried Exhibit, Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth,
• Wilton Art Juried Exhibit , 2d place acrylics, Wilton, NH
• "THE FIGURE INTERPRETED", Invitational Collective Exhibit, Powers Gallery, Acton MA
• "NEW HAMPSHIRE NATURALLY", collective exhibit,  Robert Lincoln Levy gallery. Portsmouth, NH
• "48th Annual Greeley Park Show", 2d place oils, Nashua, NH
• "1st Annual Dowtown Nashua Fine Art Festival", 1st place acrylics, Nashua, NH
• "Biennal 2001 Juried Exhibit" , New Hampshire Institute for the Arts, Manchester, NH
• "2nd Annual Joan Dunfey Memorial Juried Exhibit" , Robert Lincoln Levy gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "3rd National Miniature Art Exhibit" , Sharon Art Center, Peterbough, NH
• "THE WOMAN BEYOND THE FACADE ", Invitational Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester,
• 2000 - Auction 2000, Peterborough, NH
• Members' Exhibit, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
• "Two Women exhibit", Amherst Public Library
• "REFLECTIONS" , Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
• "First Dunfey Memorial Juried Exhibit", Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "Biennal Juried Exhibit" , Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
• "13th Annual Omer T. Lassonde Memorial" , Juried Exhibit, Portsmouth NH
• "51st Annual Member Exhibi"t, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough NH
• Juried Exhibit , Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
• New London Historical Society Exhibit, New London, NH
• "From the Garden" Collective Exhibit, Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "LAST LOOK AT 99", Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester NH
• "Society of New England Artists Exhibit" , Hunt Memorial Library, Nashua NH
• Fine Arts Gift Fair Juried Exhibit, Nashua Country Club, Nashua NH
• Whistler House Museum of Art Auction, Parker Gallery, Lowell, MA
• 1999 - Fifty first Annual Juried Exhibit , New Hampshire Art Association, Currier Museum of Art
• Annual Members' Exhibit Sharon Art Center, Peterborough NH
• Annual Silent and Live Art Auction , Peterborough, NH
• "Omar T. Lassonde Memorial Juried Exhibit",  Porstsmouth, NH
• NHAA Silent Auction, Levy Gallery, Portsmouth NH
• New London Historical Society Exhibit, New London, NH
• Whistler House Museum of Art Juried Exhibit, Lowell, MA
• "Catharine Lorillard 102nd Annual Open Exhibition", New York, NY
• "RETROSPECTIVE", Collective Exhibit, The Design Center, Hollis, NH
• "The Breakfast Club Collective Exibit", Nashua Public Library, Nashua, NH
• "FIGURESCAPES", Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• 1998 - "Omar T Lassonde Juried Exhibit" , Portsmouth, NH
• Juried Exhibit, Vertu Art Gallery, Newburyport, MA
• Juried Exhibit, Whistler House Museum of Art , Lowell, MA
• Sharon Art center Members' Exhibit , Sharon, NH
• NHAA Silent Auction, Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
• "GOLD AND GLITTER", Collective Exhibit, ART 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• 1997 - "NHAA Forty Ninth Juried Exhibit" , Institute of Art and Science in collaboration with Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
• 19th Annual Juried Show, Sharon Art Center, Sharon, NH
• "POT POURR"I, an eclectic mix Exhibit , Covered Bridge Gallery, Contoocook, NH
• 1996  - "Juried Exhibit", Daniel Webster College , Merit Award Excellence
• Second National Miniature Juried Exhibit, Sharon Art Center
• "Women, Power and Vision Juried Exhibit", Levy Gallery,  Portsmouth, NH
• 1995 - "Spring palette 94” , Center for the Arts, Nashua, NH, 1st place oils
• “!7th Annual juried show" , Killian Gallery, Sharon, NH
• 1994 - "Spring Palette 93" , Center for the Arts, Nashua NH, 2nd place oils
• “Best of Show " , "Purchase Award “, “First Place oils", Greeley Park Art Show
• 1992 - Best of Show “, “Purchase Award”, “First place in oils” , Greeley Park
• 1988 - Forty second Juried Exhibit “ of the NHAA, Currier Museum of Art
• 1983 - Thirty seventh Juried Exhibit “ of the NHAA, Currier Museum of Art