Alexa Lee
Birmingham, AL
lexalee99@gmail.com
Education
2024 BFA Studio Art - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Scholarships/Awards
2024 Ellen Shizuko Takahashi Award for Painting (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Third Place, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL, STofArt: UAB Juried Exhibition
Best 2-D Artist, Gateway Art Festival, Trussville, AL
2023 Best of Show Award, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS, 49th Annual Bi-State Art Competition and Exhibition (Juror: Gary Chapman, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL)
Betty Loeb Scholarship for Painting (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship
2022 Edith H. Frohock Memorial Scholarship (Art scholarship at University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Exhibitions
2024 Unremember, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS (Solo Exhibition)
Person and Place, Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, MS (Duo Exhibition with Mary Ellen Winborn)
BFA Exhibition: I Am No Bird, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
STofART: UAB Juried Exhibition, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL (Jurors: Gary Chapman and Stacey Holloway, Professor of Painting and Drawing and Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham)
48th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL (Juror: Amanda Ross-Ho, artist, artist Los Angeles, CA)
2023 Shared Beginnings, Diverse Creations, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL (Group, with Sydney Marlin and Izabella Janush-Hernandez)
49th Annual Bi-State Art Competition and Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian MS, Best of Show Award (Juror: Gary Chapman, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL)
Alabama A to Z: 45th Biennial Museum Exhibition, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (Juror: Dana-Marie Lemmer, executive director and curator of the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama)
A Recent History of the Near Future: Art by Current BFA Students, Art Lab, Birmingham, AL (Invitational)
47th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL (Juror: Donté K. Hayes, artist, Cliffwood, NJ)
Permanent Collections
Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
Bibliography
"The Prettiest Whistles" and "Out of Reach" Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 51 Issue No. 1, March 2024
“Miles to Go," "Hard Luck," and "Someone's Ghost" Aura Literary Arts Review Vol. 50 Issue No. 1, November 2023
Lectures
2024 Gallery Talk: Unremember, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS, September 7
Artist Talk, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, June 13
Technical Experience
2024 Production Ceramicist, Earthborn Ceramic Studios, Leeds, AL (August 2024-present)
Assistant Instructor “Charcoal: Expressive Mark Making, A Painter’s Approach to Drawing,”(Instructor: Gary Chapman), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN (June 9-14, 2024)
2023 Ceramic Studio Intern, Red Dot Gallery, Homewood, AL (artists Scott Bennet and Dori DeCamillis) (August-December 2023)
Service
2024 Artwork contributor to Oasis Artcard (Oasis Counseling, Birmingham, AL)
2023 Artwork contributor to Take Back the Night (UAB Wellness, Birmingham, AL)
2019-2021 Volunteer Art Teacher for Alabama Baptist Children’s Home (Dothan, AL)