Solo Exhibition
What If
November – December 2024
Artist Talk Saturday December 21 at 6pm

Ilwaco Artworks Gallery 109 First Ave N, Ilwaco, WA 98624

“Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)! A total of $97,500 will be directly invested in 65 Washington State artists through unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 each.“

“This year’s GAP program received more applications than any Artist Trust grant in the last 7 years, with the exception of our COVID-19 Relief Fund. The 2024 recipients, selected by a panel of five working artists from this record-breaking pool of applicants, represent the most competitive GAP cohort in the award’s 35-year history. Funding will reach artists living and working across all of Washington State to support project related needs including, but not limited to, materials, space rental, travel for research, and professional development opportunities.”

2024 Gottlieb Foundation Grant Recipient

Dawn Stetzel has been selected to receive a 2024 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in New York. Dawn will receive an unrestricted cash grant award of $25,000 in recognition of the quality of her work and dedication to her art over a period of many years. She is one of 20 artists selected from a group of 994 applications from 47 countries by a panel of five advisors, each of whom is either a working artist or a professional curator or critic.

Solo Exhibition: Managed Retreat

March 7 – April 13, 2024

Opening Reception Thursday March 7th 5-8pm

Press Release and Exhibition Details

Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery
815 North Killingsworth
Portland, Oregon 97217 USA

Free and open to the public:
Wed-Fri 12-7pm
Sat 12-5pm

Artist-In-Residence at The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Nebraska City, Nebraska USA
Summer/Fall 2023

Artist-In-Residence at Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon USA
July 20 – August 14, 2023

it’s all around us
Exhibition February 3 – March 29, 2023

Heather Brand
Alan Shuptrine
Dawn Stetzel

Greenville Center for Creative Arts
101 Abney St, Greenville, South Carolina 29611
artcentergreenville.org

Volland Foundation Artist Residency September 20 – October 18, 2022
Volland, Kansas USA

Artist-In-Residence June 27 – August 8, 2022

Two of my pieces were selected for this exhibition: Housedress and Fire or Flood Jacket.
Ready To Wear: An international art exhibition featuring women artists from around the world

detail of “Got To Wear Shades” by Kassondra Friedman

Online Exhibition
Ready To Wear
August 12 – September 12, 2022
Arts To Hearts Project with Celine Gabrielle, Guest Curator

“What we wear can mark a time and place, tell the world who we are or maybe who we want to be. Clothes & dressing up are not just essential for warmth and modesty – they can be for so much more. They can be a source of joy or misery, a memory, a celebration, a disguise, a means of self-expression or a way of proclaiming allegiance to the tribe. They can attract judgement, compliments and condemnation. They can gild the lily or disguise the unmentionable. They can proclaim your age, your era, your politics or your rebellion. They can be serviceable, impractical, ugly or beautiful. They can also tell stories.” Charuka Arora, Founder Arts To Hearts Project

“Ready to Wear is about the fabrics and clothes that weave their way through our lives from birth to death through the minds of a diverse group of artists. The works in Ready to Wear really cannot be understood with a quick glance, because in some case the connection is obvious and in others it requires more contemplation so the audience is forced to slow down. When curating this collection my goal was to create interesting exhibitions in which visitors want to spend a lot of time with each artwork.” Celine Gabrielle, Guest Curator

Pack, 2019, included in book and exhibition, ecoconsciousness
ecoartspace 2020

October 2020 Artist-In Resident at Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington USA

Click here to listen to the 45 min interview in October of 2020 while I was an Artist-In-Residence in Port Townsend, Washington USA during the full month of 2020.

“The second in our series of conversations with Centrum’s 2020 Emerging Artists. In this installment Michelle Hagewood chats with Dawn Stetzel about the evolution and processes within her work. Stetzel generously shares her thoughts on how the work deals with safety, edges, and elements of the ridiculous. She talks through the way the works are performed and documented, and the nuanced ways in which she approaches thinking about place.”

Fugitive

September 14 through October 6, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday Sept 14th 5-8pm

Jesse Jones, Jessica Schleif and Dawn Stetzel

AVA Gallery
1000 Duane Street (on the corner
of 10th and Duane at the
street-level in the restored
historic Van Dusen Building)
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-741-9694

Thurs 3pm-6pm
Fri & Sat 12pm-5pm
Sun 11am-3pm
Second Saturday Art Walk open until 8pm

(additional viewing hours are open by appointment, please call 503-440-3007)

Established in 2010, the Portland Biennial is a major survey of Oregon artists who are defining and advancing the state’s contemporary arts landscape. Building upon the success of its predecessors, the Portland2016 Biennial is a two-month celebration of the here and now that showcases 34 artists at 25 partner venues in 13 communities across the state – the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Oregon art ever.

Curated by Michelle Grabner
Presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center

“Tsunami Evacuation: Test-Roll Test-Float” selected for inclusion at Disjecta in Portland, Oregon, Salon: Portland2016 Biennial, The Studio Visits, July 9 – September 18, 2016

Video made by Astoria Visual Arts of the 2016
Coastal Oregon Artist Residency with artists Dawn Stetzel and Sean Barrow