Resume

Linda Armantrout has a BA in Studio Art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received an art history foundation from John Alcott and John Sloan and studied painting with Black Mountain College abstract expressionists.

Later, Linda studied with Edith Niblo, John Lencicki, Jim Valone, and Chuck Ceraso. Her lineage includes Maitland Graves, Hans Hofmann, Charles Hawthorne, Monet. Teaching, since 1989, compels Linda to think more deeply about art.

Linda taught at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design for nearly a decade. She has taught basic design for corporations, at Louisville Center for the Arts, and in her Studio.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 25th Annual Greenwood Village All Colorado Art Show, Juror Gwen Chanzit, (Denver Art Museum)

2007 Denver Modernism Show Art Gallery, Juror Gwen Chanzit, (Denver Art Museum)

1997-2010 National Juried Fall Festival of the Arts Show, Louisville Art Association

1996 13th Annual Greenwood Village All Colorado Art Show, Juror, Dianne Vanderlip (Denver Art Museum)

1993-94 Denver Botanic Gardens Plant Sale Fine Art Show, Juror, Steve Savageau

1993 ART ZONE 1993, Jewish Community Center, Denver

1992 10th Annual GVAHC- All Colorado Show, Juror, Sally Everett

1991 9th Annual GVAHC- All Colorado Show, Juror, Sally L Perisho

1990 Work introduced, Breckenridge Galleries, July/August

Solo/Duo Exhibitions

2011 Creative Framing Art Gallery
2009 NCAR Gallery 1, solo exhibition, Boulder, Colorado

2008 “Horse Power as Spirit”, solo exhibition of Power Images and Glory Series

1999 Mary Williams Fine Arts, 2 Woman Show, Fall

1999 Silver Song Studio, Boulder, CO, 2 Woman Show, Spring

1997 University of Denver Law Library, solo exhibition

Selected Awards

2001 Judge’s Award, Jeanne MacKensie, Louisville Art Association Fall Members Show

1998 Juror’s Award, 15th Annual GVAHC, Debra Jordy (Director, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities)

1994 Juror’s Award, Littleton Depot’s Annual Show, Sally L. Perisho (Curator, Visual Arts Center)

1993 Two awards, Tri-City Fine Arts Show, Jurors, Rich Hilker and Virginia Maitland

Professional Affiliations

2011-Present Louisville Arts District
2001-Present Boulder County Arts Alliance, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder Artists Register

1994-Present Member Louisville Art Association,

1999-2001 Founding Member, East Boulder County Studio Tour

Gallery Affiliations

2009/Present The Carla Wright Gallery, 870 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

2008/Present Creative Framing/Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, CO

2003-2007 Showing only in the studio by appointment.

1999-2003 Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, CO

1990-1999 Breckenridge Galleries, Savageau Galleries, other galleries throughout Colorado

Teaching

2009-present “The Art Process” offered as an on-line class

1998-Present Armantrout Studio

1998-Present Louisville Center for the Arts

1989-1998 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design Faculty

Education

1969 BA Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1977-1979 Edith Niblo, basic design and color theory

1986-1987 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, John Lencicki

1987, 1988 Art Students League of Denver

1988, 89, 90 Coloritalia Workshops, John Lencicki, who studied with Maitland Graves

1996 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Jim Valone, who studied with Hans Hofmann

2001, 2002 Chuck Ceraso, who studied with Henry Hensche, student of Charles Hawthorne