ABOUT ARTIST

Pattie Porter Firestone is a sculptor working in metal, wood and stone. She uses flat sheets of metal as her vocabulary in a language about forces of energy for both indoor and outdoor sculpture. She served as President of the Washington Sculptors Group 2004-2009. She co-founded the Westside Arts Center, a nonprofit arts organization of artists teaching children in Santa Monica, CA 1980-1990.

GAIA PRIZE WINNER, this permanent installation is in Potomac Overlook Regional Park, Arlington, VA .

EDUCATION
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, BA Studio Art/Education, 1972

Institute for American Universities, Leo Marchutz School of Painting,
Aix-en- Provence, France, 1970

New York Studio School studied with Elaine de Kooning, Wayne Thiebaud, and
George Spaventa, 1976

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, with Joseph Martinek, 1978

Corcoran School for the Arts, Washington, DC, with Allyn Massey, 1995

Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, with Rick Parsons, Sam Hernandez,
William Christenberry, Topher DeLaney, and others.

EXHIBITIONS
2010
Porous Borders, Historical Society of Washington, Jayme McLellan, juror Sept.- Dec.
Arts in Foggy Bottom, Shirley Koller, curator, May – Oct.
Watergate Gallery, Dale Johnson, Washington, DC May-June
Salisbury Sculpture Show, Salisbury, NC, Jeff York, juror March – Dec.
Sculpture on the Grounds, Lorton Arts Center, Lorton, VA March – Dec.
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, Sally Troyer, juror April-May

2009
Flora: Growing Inspirations, US Botanic Garden, Washington, DC, May – Oct.
Sculpture on the Grounds 2009, Rockville, MD civic Center June – Oct.
Reform, Workhouse Gallery at Lorton Arts Center, juror Claire Huschle, May –June
National Outdoor Sculpture Competition, David Furchgott, N Charleston, SC
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, Sally Troyer, juror April-May

2008
Aquifer, Edison Place Gallery, jurors JW Mahoney, Deborah McLeod, Nov.-Dec.
WPA American University, Katzen Center Exhibition, February–March
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, Sally Troyer, juror, April-May
Sculpture NOW, Washington Square, Wash, DC, juried show, Feb.-May

2007
Intervene/activate, Union Gallery, UMD, juror, Donald Russell, January
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, April-May
Sculpture NOW, Washington Square, Wash, DC, juried show, Feb.-May

2006
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA Outdoor Solo Show April-August
Sculpture Unbound, Edison Place Gallery, juror, Glenn Harper, February–March
Chevy Chase Village Hall, Group Show, April-May

2005
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, April-May
Something New in 2005 Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC January-February

2004
Capitol Hill Sculpture Project, Washington, DC, Ma –Oct.
Chevy Chase Village Hall, Group Show, April-May

2003
Chevy Chase Village Hall Group Show, April-May

2002
Something New in 2002 Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC January-February
Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD

2001
Sculptors at Work, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Strathmore Hall, Juried Show Oct-Nov.
Sculpture NOW, Washington Square, Wash, DC, juried show, Feb.-May
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD, juried outdoor Spring show

2000
Collaborative Mail-art, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, Jan
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD, juried outdoor Spring show
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, juried Summer Exhibition June-August
Montgomery College, Outdoor Sculpture Program

1999
Montgomery College, Outdoor Sculpture Program
Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Colorado Mountain College Gallery, Glenwood Springs, CO, July-Sept.,

1998
Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD, juried outdoor show
Sculpture NOW, Washington Square, Wash, DC, juried show, Feb.-May
Gallery 505, Washington Sculptors Group: Maquette Show, Oct.
Montgomery College, Outdoor Sculpture Program