Marilene Yoakim Sawaf

marilene@marilene-sawaf.com

Education 

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 gallery, 30 Grove str, Peterborough. NH
• 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)
• Powers Gallery, Acton, MA(1995-2004)
• Arclight, Design Center, Nashua, NH
• Fine Art America

• Talks
• Art Demo for Rise at Rivier College.Nashua.NH
• 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
• Monkdogz ,urban art
• Daily painters of America


• Solo Exhibits
• "Mysterious Reflections"Solo exhibit at Tower Gallery of the NH Antique Coop.
• Milford, NH (February-May 2010)
• Nashua Public library solo exhibit (July-August 2009)
• "Between the lines" Three Graces Gallery ( April  2009)
• Art Exhibit at Maison de L'Art (2007)
• Solo Exhibit at Nashua Public Library (July- August 2006)
• "Marilene Sawaf and Jean Hua Dalia" Gallery One. Nashua, NH. (May-June 2006)
• "Paintings by Marilene Sawaf" Bilancia Gallery, Nashua, NH (April 2005)  
• “ Marilene Sawaf" at 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)


• Collective Exhibits
• 2010
•  "The World around us, International Art Group Exhibit . Logan Airport. Boston, MA
• “Monadnock Arts Auction 2010". Jeffrey. NH
• "62th Annual Members' Exhibition". Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
• "Breakfast Club exhibit at the Chelmsford Public Library, MA
• "Pairs and Pears", Exhibit at ART 3 Gallery. Manchester, NH
• "Mysterious Reflections" Exhibit at Tower Gallery. NH Antique Coop, Wilton, MA
• "Artistic Creations that touch the heart". New community Council Gallery, Nashua
•  2009
•  “Monadnock Arts Auction 2009". Jeffrey, NH
• 61th Annual Currier Museum of Art Exhibition
• "61th Annual Members' Exhibition", Sharon Art Center.
• "Spring Fling" photography exhibit, Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "Wild Animal Art Exhibit", Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• "Diversions", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH(April-June)
• "Breakfast Club Annual Exhibit", Jaffrey, NH
• "At the Water's Edge", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH (June-August)
• "Anything goes,"Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH (October-/November)
•  Kennebunkport Annual Paint out and Auction (June)
• Old Home Days Artisans and Art Exhibit, Hollis, NH
• Sunapee and Greeley park outdoor Exhibits(First Prize in Oils)
• International Art Exhibition at the Logan Airport in Boston
• "Treasures,", Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
• Collective Exhibit at the Galletly Gallery of the New Hampton School
•  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.
• "Summertime Blues", NHAA exhibit at the Levy Gallery
• "Travel to", Art3 Gallery.
• "Looking in, Looking out", Art3 Gallery
• "Around the World", Gallery One, Nashua, NH
• NH Tapestry Gallery Holiday Exhibit, Hollis, NH
• Sharon Art Holiday Exhibit, Peterborough,NH
• 2007
•  “The Art Gallery” juried exhibit at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. 59th
  Annual Exhibition supported by the Currier Museum of Art and the NHAA.
•   “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 
• 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