Shows
2024
Walking With, Dance performance with in Walking at Night, Rori Smith & Max Laszewski. Bare Places: Diana Baumbach & Augusta Spark Farnum. The Parsonage Gallery.Searsport, Maine.
Film screening & Panel, with Rori Smith. Maine Mini Fest, Space Gallery. Portland, Maine
2023-2024
Two person show, Bare Places: Diana Baumbach & Augusta Spark Farnum. The Parsonage Gallery. Searsport, Maine. Group Show. Activating Art and Science, Visual Forestry and Nanocellulose
Artistic Research, Lord Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Group Show. In/between/intermedia. Rockland, Maine
Stage Installation. Intrusions: Art, Movement & Music for reproductive justice. Intermedia MFA visiting artist Performance,
2018-2020
Resident Artist. Studio Two Zero Two. Walla Walla, Washington.
2019
Group Show. Artist Trust Art Auction. Seattle Washington
Group Show. Sheets of Paper. Studio Two Zero Two. Walla Walla, WA. (with Squire Broel & Penny Michel)
Solo Show. Resident Artist Show. Studio Two Zero Two. Walla Walla, WA.
2018
Solo Show. Artist of the Year. Woodward Canyon. Walla Walla, WA.
Solo Show. Crush. Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce. Walla Walla, WA.
Two Person Show, PLAYEDAPART - APARTPLAYED, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla WA. ( With Kim Nemeth)
Boca De Chorro, Zeitgeist. Seattle, WA.
Group Exhibition, MANIBUS: HANDS OF IMMIGRANTS, Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition (WWIRC), Cavu Cellars, Walla Walla, WA.
2017
Vatican, Studio e Gallery, Seattle WA.
Boca De Chorro, Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, WA.
2016
Installation and group show, New Works: Something to build on. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, WA.
2015
Installation and group show, Something to stand on. Building a Place to stand. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, WA.
Installation and group show, Welcome to the Garden Party. Studio Two Zero Two, Walla Walla, WA.
Solo Installation, New Works: Besides the Garden. Brasserie Four, Walla Walla, WA.
2014
Solo Installation, Equivocal Space. Telander Gallery, Walla Walla, WA.
2013
Solo Exhibition, NEW WORK: Augusta Sparks Farnum. AMO ART. Waitsburg, WA.
Lectures 2012 - 2024
2024
Walking With, talk with Dancer Rori Smith. Maine Mini Fest Performances at Space Gallery.
Visiting Lecture, Clemente Course in the Humanities College
2022
Intermedial Practices: Collaboration with Nano-cellulose. Guest Lecturer, August 24, 2022. Process Development Center, Annual Cellulose Nano material research Forum Wells, University of Maine, Orono.
2021
Arts in Medicine. Guest Lecturer, Sept 21 2021. Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar, Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar for Intermedia Arts and Humanities in Medicine graduate certificate, University of Maine, Orono
Arts in Health: First Aid Art Kits. Guest Lecturer, April 5, 2021 Mental Health in Times of COVID-19
Symposium, University of Maine Institute of Medicine. University of Maine, Orono
A talk about Considered Art, Art in Healthcare Environments. Guest Lecturer, With Richard Borrelli, AIA,
NCARB and Dr. David Loxterkamp. Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar for Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine graduate certificate, Northern Lights Family Medicine Residency and Clinic & University of Maine, Orono
2020
Build a Community Therapeutic Garden Mural, Galvanize an Arts and Medicine
Community, Design Beyond Evidence Based Design. Guest Lecturer, Arts & Humanities in Medicine Seminar. Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine, Northern Lights Family Medicine Residency and Clinic & University of Maine, Orono
Arts in Health: First Aid Art Kits. Population Health’s Mission for Whole Person Care in the Walla Walla Valley. ACA Arts & Wellness Symposium: The Arts Within Whole Health, Atlantic Center for the Arts New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Quiet Force: 52 Women. YWCA, Walla Walla Washington
2018
The In-between Spaces, Annex Arts, & the return to Photography. Studio Two Zero Two Walla Walla, Washington
Dowsing for the Surreal. Woodward Canyon, Lowden Washington
I’m going. Are you coming? New work in Photography, and how I got there. Foundry Vineyards. Walla Walla, Washington
2016
Ester Howe Anderson. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
2014
Maira Kalman. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
2012
Judy Pfaff. The Walla Walla Art Club. Walla Walla Washington
Publications 2012-2024
Londs Reuter, Leaving room For Magic: a Conversation between Augusta Sparks Farnum and Rori Smith, April 15, 2024 https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/leaving-room-for-magic-a-conversation-between-augusta-sparks-farnum-and-rori-smith/
Carl Little, Bare Places: Diana Baumbach and Augusta Sparks Farnum, January/Februrary 2024, Art New England
Samantha Schipani, Intermedia students are creating art with nano-cellulose, August 23, 2022 UMaine News, University of Maine https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2022/08/23/intermedia-students-are-creating-art-with-nanocellulose/
Drew Woolly, Handcrafted Healing, Podcast September 15, 2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-heart-of-community/id1562384155?uo=4
Vicki Miller, Hand Crafted Healing, April 2021 Cover & story. Ruralite Magazine https://www.ruralite.com/hand-crafted-healing/
Augusta Sparks, First Responder: First aid Art Kit August 12, 2020 Artplace. https://www.artplaceamerica.org/blog/first-responder-first-aid-arts-kit
Caroline Lockwood, Arts in Medicine student provides Art kits to Covid-19 patients. July 15 2020. UF College of the Arts: In the Loop. https://arts.ufl.edu/in-the-loop/news/arts-in-medicine-student-provides-art-kits-to-covid-19-patients/
Carissa Lehmkuhl, YakTriNews: Providence St. Mary Foundation, community partners deliever art kits to people quarantined in Walla Walla April 13, 2020 https://www.yaktrinews.com/providence-st-mary-foundation-community-partners-deliver-art-kits-to-people-quarantined-in-walla-walla/
Augusta Sparks. Questioning Artists June 10 to December 27, 2019 Union Bulletion.
J. Matthew McKern, Exhale the Winter's Gush (Cover, Photo spread), Oddville Press, Summer 2018
J. Matthew McKern, Prompting For a Narrative (Photo Spread), Oddville Press, Spring 2018
Augusta Farnum, Welcome to the Garden Party, Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, Sept 2015
Hannah Bartman, Local Artist redefines landscapes with graphite, The Whitman College Pioneer, May 7, 2015
Dylan Farnum, “Brasserie Four to host new Farnum Art,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, April 30, 2015
Maria Ptucha, Radio Interview, KWCW, 6pm, February 28, 2015 https://storyofmylife.withknown.com/2015/augusta-sparks-farnum
Kirsten Telander, “Botanical Art installation at Telander Gallery,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, May 1, 2014
Maria P. Gonzalez, “Chihuly Glass act element of Carnegie Picture Lab partnership,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, January 24, 2013
Maria P. Gonzalez, “New Home, New life for Picture Lab,” Walla Walla Union Bulletin Newspaper, November 2012
Awards
2021
Dr. John Graham-Pole Scholarship for the Master of Arts in Arts in Medicine Program, College of the Arts - Center for the Arts in Medicine, University of Florida
1999
The Artist’s Valentine. Grant, Judged by David Aronson. Boston, Massachusetts.
1997
Best Documentary Photography Award, Jamie Lubarr Award, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Education:
2024 Masters of Fine Arts Intermedia, University of Maine
2022 Graduate Certificate. Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine, University of Maine
2022 Masters. Arts in Medicine at the Center for Arts in Medicine Graduate School, University of Florida, M.A.
1997 Bachelors of Arts in Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Experience:
1992/Present Artist, Multimedia: Cellulose Nano-Fiber, photography, drawings, and paintings. Lectures, blog, website,and a subscription newsletter. Showing,with installations around the world.
2021/Present Art Consultant and Research Assistant, Medical Humanities Database, STMF Grant: Developing a Database and Faculty. Development Toolkit to Integrate Medical Humanities into Family Medicine Residency Training with Dr. Hugh Silk and Dr. Sara Shields at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
2024/Present Artist Taught Workshops, Exploring Softwood Cellulose Nano-fiber (CNF) Sense Making workshops, with an andragogy framework. Community Labs Workshop, Haystack School. Deer Isle, Maine. Art Department, University of Maine, Orono.
2021 - 2023 Lead Graduate Assistant, InArt: Intermedia NanoCellulose Artistic Research Team, University of Maine
2021-2023 Teaching Assistant, Arts & Humanities in Medicine, Graduate certificate University of Maine, Orono
2019-2020 Photographer, Quiet Force, 52 Women. Commissioned by the YWCA Walla Walla. Photographic portraits. IRB expedited, and approved by Whitman College for research and presentation.To be archived at Whitman College Northwest Archives - Penrose Library.
2020 Artist, Arts In Health: First Aid Art Kits. Arts in Health Response to COVID-19. Providence St. Marys Medical Center. IRB approved by Whitman College, with support from a Mellon Grant.
2019 Writer & Photographer, Questioning Artists. Interviews & Portraits of artists in the Walla Walla Valley. Union Bulletin Newspaper.
2018-2019 Visiting Artist. How to Change Mind, Self and Body. Independent Study Fall - Spring, Assistant to Professor Suzanne Morrissey. Whitman College
2006-2015 Founder, Carnegie Picture Lab, Non-for-profit, Walla Walla, WA The Carnegie Picture Lab Mission is to nourish creativity by supporting and enhancing art education for elementary school children in the Walla Walla Valley. Walla Walla, WA
2011-2013 Artist, A Living Classroom, Garrison Creek Stream Restoration Project, Ft Walla Walla,WA Plant selection, Illustrations and Graphic Design for Bilingual Educational signs with collaborator Susan How, Sherwood Leadership Program.
2011 Facilitator, Partners-in-Learning Round Table, Three Minute Presentations for the Walla Walla Public School Systems, Walla Walla, Washington
2000-2011 Florist and Landscape Designer, Certified by office of Minority & Women Business Enterprises, as a Woman’s Certified Enterprise, Walla Walla, Washington
2007-2009 Artist, CURB (Creating Urban Riparian Buffers), Resident Artist, Graphic Design, Landscape designer, & Workshop Teaching Coordinator, Native Plants within city limits on residential creeks. Walla Walla, WA
2000 Became a Mother.
Collections
Lynda Benglis
Paul and Karen McCarthy
Corliss Family
Commission 2013 - 2024
2020
The Merger, Blumenthal & Golmarvi Collection, Walla Walla, Washington
The Down deep, Blumenthal & Golmarvi Collection, Walla Walla, Washington
2018
Deafening Rustle of Childhood, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla Washington
2017
The Tooth Acher's Garden, Maitreya Study Centre, Blossom Village Resort, Sidhpur, Dharamshala, India
Bill Henry's Journey & Welcome to the Garden Party II, Henry Family Art Collection, Seattle, Washington
2016
Welcome to the Garden Party I, Corliss Family Art Collection, Walla Walla, Washington
2015
Noah’s Tree, Interior mural, Private Residence, College Place, Washington.
And I fly, Madden Family Art Collection, Pressbaum, Austria
2014
The Bryant Barn, Bryant Street VBRO, Walla Walla, Washington.
2013
The Bathroom. AMO Gallery, Waitsburg, Washington.
Curriculum vitae. 2024
Experience
2000 - 2024
Awards & Education
1997 - 2024
Lectures
2012-2024
Publications
2012 - 2024
Shows
2013-2024
Commissions
2013 - 2020