Alma Haertlein
Associate Professor Studio Arts, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
Education
M.F.A., Studio Art, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.
M.A., Agriculture, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.
B.F.A., Studio Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
One-Person Exhibitions
2006 Instructions, Brooks-Venice Gallery, Venice, CA.
2001 Very large, very small, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, Texas.
1993 Vista Series, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas.
Other People’s Dreams, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas.
1992 Local Color Gallery, Brazos Valley Arts Council, Bryan-College Station, Texas.
1991 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas.
1987 Subversions of the Pastoral, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas.
Group Exhibitions
2015 Waterworks, Maryland Federation of Art at the Annapolis Maritime Museum
Curvature, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, TX
Back to Basics, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, TX
2013 TAMIU Faculty Exhibit, Laredo, TX
2012 Texas National, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacodoches, TX
2012 TAMIU Faculty Exhibit, Laredo, TX
2009 Conceptualizing In/Justice; Images/Voices of Resistance, University at Texas-Pan American, Edinburgh, Texas.
2008 Eyes On the Border, Lakeview Art Gallery, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, TX.
2006 Duality: La Muerte y la Vida, the University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX.
2005 The Amarillo Biennial 600: DRAWING, the Amarillo Museum of Art
2003 1st Annual Faculty Exhibit, Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
2002 New Images: M/ F, Laredo Center for the Arts. Curator: Janet Krueger. Remembrance: a Tribute to 9/11, Nave Art Museum, Victoria, TX.
2001 Local Artist’s Tribute to El Dia de los Muertos , Nave Museum. Retablos -- Works on Metal, El de León Centro Cultural de Victoria and the VictoriaArt League Inc., Victoria, TX.
2000 Group show at Victoria College.
1998 Rapture as Big as Texas, Satellite Space, M.F.A. thesis show (two-person), San Antonio, TX.
1997 Tracking, Satellite Space, group show, San Antonio, TX.
1992 Introductions, Robinson Gallery, group show, Houston, TX.
1990 Collage Exhibition, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX.
1989 Evidence: Contemporary Narrative Painters of the Southwest,
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX.
Storytellers AIR Gallery, Group show, Austin, TX.
North Harris County Community College, Group show, Houston, TX.
1987 New American Talent, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX.
Texas Annual
Two-person show with James Cogswell, AIR Gallery, Austin, TX.
A Salute to the Texas Arts, University of Texas Performing Arts Center, Austin, TX.
1986 Texas Annual, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
Austin ‘86: Art Is Not a Thing, It’s a Way, Austin Community College, Austin, TX.
1985 Twentieth Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jewish Community Center of Houston, First Prize.
Twenty-eighth Annual Delta Art Exhibition, The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, Arkansas.
Seventh Annual Spring Exhibition, Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association Austin, TX.
New Dramas, AIR Gallery, Austin, TX.
Nude, Naked and Unclothed, AIR Gallery, Austin, Texas.
1984 Texas Fine Arts Association State Citation Exhibition, Austin, TX.
Women Envision: Central Texas Artists’ Tour, presented by Women & Their Work.
A Treasury of Austin Artists, Texas State Treasury Department, Austin, TX.
The Water Show, AIR Gallery, Austin, TX.
United States National Fine Arts Competition & International Exhibition sponsored by the Florida Secretary of State. This show traveled to France, Italy and Germany.
1983 Texas Fine Arts Association State Citation Exhibition, Austin, TX.
Director for the Texas A&M International University Fine and Performing Arts
Gallery from 2004 through Spring 2011, and 2015 to present:
Private Collections
Deborah Hay, Austin ,Texas Gary McDonald, Santa Monica, Ca. Gov. Ann Richards, Austin, Texas Roger Joseph, Austin, Texas Lee N. Smith, Dallas, TX. Bonnie Grajales, Austin, Texas Seton Hospital, Austin, Texas Philip Dempsey, Austin, Texas John Robertson, Austin, Texas Bert Guthrie, Dallas, Texas Jean Glass, Austin, Texas Chuck Cooper, Austin, Texas Jenkins & Gilchrist, Austin, Texas Pat Dorfman, New York City
Bibliographies
Olsen, J.R., “Austinite sees art in Victorian style”, Austin American Statesman, July 13, 1991. Nightbird, Jeff, Nightbeat, The Austin Chronicle, August 2, 1991. Goldman, Saundra, “Household or Death Grip”, The Austin Chronicle, Aug. 9, 1991.
Edwards, Jim, ”Evidence: Contemporary Narrative Painters of the Southwest”, catalog for San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts exhibit Evidence: Contemporary Narrative Painters of the Southwest, July, 1989