'Abstract Composition' by Beth Swartz, 1966; Smithsonian, Jewish Museum, Woman Artist, Phoenix

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Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' and dated 1966.

Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions … more Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' and dated 1966.

Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York. In addition, she participated in three major traveling museum exhibitions and her work is held in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press.

Swartz explores systems of knowledge by translating philosophical concepts into aesthetic visual experiences.

Fellowships, Awards, Grants and Honors:

New York, NY - 2003
Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor
Phoenix, AZ - 2001
Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer.
Snowmass Village, CO - 2000
Anderson Ranch, Artist in Residence
Phoenix, AZ - 1994
Founder, Culture Care , an international, non-profit organization sponsoring The Sacred Souls Project, to identify, support and honor individuals who demonstrate positive human societal values
New York, NY - 1994
Awarded Flow Fund grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit
New York, NY - 1994
Panelist, College Art Association, Art, Earth and Medicine: A Healing Approach
New York, NY - 1993
Panelist, The Sacred in the Arts Conference
New York, NY - 1992
Speaker, MedArts Conference, Research Study on A Moving Point of Balance
Stinson Beach, CA - 1991
Speaker, Symposium, Art as a Healing Force
New Harmony, IN - 1990
Keynote Speaker, Art and Healing Conference
Phoenix, AZ - 1988
Co-Founder, International Friends of Transformative Art (IFTA), an international, non-profit organization for positive global change
Payson, AZ - 1988, '87
Project Coordinator, Rim Institute, Transformative Artist's Conference and Workshop
Phoenix, AZ - 1985
Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create
Sun Valley, ID - 1980
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Artist in Residence, The Awesome Space: The Inner and Outer Landscape
Hawaii National Park, HI - 1979
Volcano Art Center, Artist in Residence
Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77
Named Master Teacher by State Department of Public Instruction
Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77
Educational Grant for Inquiry Into Fire, Arizona Commission on Arts and Humanities

Selected Bibliography and Reference:
Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.2468; Arizona/Women '75 (exhibition catalogue). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Art Museum, 1975; Baigell, Matthew. "Art and Spirit: Kabbalah and Jewish-American Artists." Tikkun vol. 14, no.4, (July-August 1999): 59-61 (illus. in b&w of Shen Qi Series: the Cabalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds #5); Beth Ames Swartz, Inquiry Into Fire (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Introduction by Melinda Wortz; Beth Ames Swartz, Moving Point of Balance (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Introduction by John Perreault; Biennial 1979 (exhibition catalog). Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, March 9-April 8, 1979, 35-37, 64 (illus. in color Sedona, #23; illus. in b&w, Torah Scroll, #5); Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1994. Introduction by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, and Sara Rehm Roberts; Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion." ARTnews vol. 90, no. 6 (summer 1991): 96-105; The First Western States Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Denver: Western States Art Foundation, 1979. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor (with illus. in color of Torah Scroll #4); Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. Thames and Hudson: New York, 1991, 155-57; Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 245-46; 248; Henderson, Barbara. "Beth Ames Swartz," A Magazine of Fine Arts vol. 2, no. 15 (April 1976): 34-41; Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981: 40 pp. Introduction by Harry Rand; Paperworks: A National Invitational (exhibition catalog). Spokane, WA: Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum and Eastern Washington State Historical Society, April 20-May 20, 1984 (illus. in b&w of Rock Form series works); Presti, Lorinda Lo and Vichules, Ruth. "Trial by Fire." Woman Image Now. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona: 1980; Reed, Mary Lou. Beth Ames Swartz's Stylistic Development: aster's thesis). Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1981; Reminders of Invisible Light. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2002 (156 pp., 90 colorplates, 34 black-and-white illus.). Essays by David S. Rubin and Arlene Raven; Revelations: The Transformative Impulse in Recent Art (exhibition catalog). Aspen, CO: Aspen Art Museum, 1989. Essay by John Perreault (llus. in color of Return of the Chalice #2); Rothschild, John D. A Story for the Eleventh Hour (exhibition catalog). New York: E. M. Donahue, 1994. Introduction by Berta Sichel; Tradition in Transition (exhibition catalog). Irvine, CA: Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, January 21-February 20, 1982, 1-8 (illus. in color of Israel Revisited, Safed #1 and illus. in b&w, Israel Revisited, The Red Sea #1).

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