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Lynn Travis
Lincolnville, Maine

EDUCATION
Private study - Neil Welliver, 1987.
M.F.A. program - California College of Arts And Crafts, Oakland, California, 1986-87.
Art Students League - New York, New York, 1983-84.
B.F.A. program - University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Maine, 1985.
B.S. degree physical therapy - Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1973-77.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004   FOUR SEASONS, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine.
2004   WORK IN OIL ON MYLAR, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
2002   CLOSE TO HOME, Greenhut Galleries, Portland Maine.
2001   GALA v 1.0,  C.W. White Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2001   FULL DISCLOSURE: THE HUMAN FIGURE, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. 
         Curated by Carol Morrison.
2001  COMMON GROUND: UNCOMMON VIEWS, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,  Rockport, Maine.
         Curator Bruce Brown.  
1999   NEW WORK,   NTWH Gallery, Belfast, Maine.
1998   FROM THE ROOTS UP,   Spring Street Gallery, Belfast Maine.
1991   RECENT WORKS,    Portland Public Library,  Portland, Maine.
1988   DRAWINGS FROM THE ORCHARD,   Huston Tuttle Gallery One,  Rockland, Maine.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008   First Traces, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
2008  Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
2008   Betwixt and Between: Color, Line, Texture,  Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine.  Invitational.
2008 – 2006   Elan Fine Arts, Rockport, Maine.
2007   Artists as Naturalist, LC Bates Museum, Hinckley Maine.  Invitational.
2006  The Carina House Residents, Elan Fine Arts, Rockport, Maine.   Invitational.
2004   Portraits, Maine Natural History, LC Bates Museum, Hinckley Maine.   Juried.
2004  The Upper Coast:  MT Desert Island to Belfast, State House, Augusta, Maine.
2006- 2001     Greenhut Galleries,  Portland, Maine.
2004- 2001    Selected group shows, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
2003   Blossoms –Real and Respresented, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine. Invitational.
2002   The Portland Show,   Greenhut Galleries,   Portland, Maine.      Invitational.
2002   Mood Meets Narrative,  UMVA Show , Blum Gallery,  College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.  Juried.
2001 - 1996     Harbor Square Gallery,  Rockland, Maine.
2000 - 1998     Martin Gallery,  Charleston, South Carolina.
1999   NTWH Gallery,  Belfast, Maine.
1998 - 1996     Spring Street Gallery,  Belfast, Maine.
1995   J.S. Ames Gallery,  Belfast, Maine.
1991   UMVA Group Show,  Ogunquit Art Center,  Ogunquit, Maine.
1990   Island Artisans,  Bar Harbor, Maine.  

AWARDS
2004    Maine Arts Commission, Augusta Maine,  juried member of the  Maine Artist Access directory,
2003    Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Artist Residency,   Westport Island, Maine.
2000    Carina Residency on Monhegan Island,  Farnsworth Art Museum,  Rockland, Maine.
1999    Maine Artist Scholarship,   Art Week,  Great Spruce Head Island, Maine.
 
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
·L.C. Bates Museum catalog, “Portraits Maine Natural History”, L. C. Bates Museum , Good-Will Hinckley School, 2004
Jetsun Penkalski, “Blum Gallery Group Show Offers Variety of Viewpoints,” 
Ellsworth American, February 21, 2002
David Grima, “Verticle Views at MCA,” Camden Herald, April 26, 2001.
Barbara Sullivan, “Maine Coast Artists Center for Contemporary Art / Rockport  Common Ground: Uncommon Views,”                Art New England, April / May 2001.
Philip Isaacson, “Maine Coast Freshly Repacked in Usual Interesting Ways,” Maine Sunday Telegram, 
           January 21,  2001.
David Grima,  “Lynn Travis, Art is in the Balance,”  Camden Herald, November 23, 2000.
David Grima,  “Monhegan Under the Artist’s Eye,”  Camden Herald,  April 27, 2000.
Al Crichton,  “Art in Belfast…New Venues for Viewing and Doing,”  The Waldo Independent, July 22, 1999.

COLLECTIONS
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine.
MBNA America,  Wilmington, Delaware.
Eastman Kodak Company,  Rochester, New York.
Moss Inc.,  Belfast, Maine.
York Hospital,  York, Maine.
Migis Lodge,  Sebago Maine.
Robert Kulp
Remak Ramsay
Mr. & Mrs. James Mitchell