Art Activity Summary for Mary Helsaple for 1991 to 2000
Helsaple is currently working with filmmaking partner, Neal Williams on a HDTV program about great nature spectacles in North America. Program species segments and development takes place over 1999-2001. In the 1999-2000 Binney & Smith, Crayola Millennium Traveler curriculum book, Helsaple’s endangered species paintings will be featured in this nationwide school publication. Helsaple, along with artist Illustrator, Michael Hague and the Pikes Peak Library District's Imagination Celebration programs will be featured. In September 1999, Helsaple was part of a 10-day painting/ rafting expedition down the Grand Canyon with a group of nationally known artists sponsored by the Grand Canyon Land Trust Foundation. The Grand Canyon Land Trust is hosting a national exhibition tour of the works to New York, and San Francisco, hosted by Forbes Magazines, Inc. A fund raising auction is being considered by Christie's Auction House in New York to benefit the Grand Canyon Trust Foundation. Helsaple was commissioned to create the CITIES poster, Treasures of the Wetlands, presented to the delegates at the Conference of Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands, (Ramsar), held in Costa Rica in 1999. In January 1999, Helsaple’s work was accepted into Watermedia X at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center . Helsaple's painting, Protection From the Jaguar Spirit, received the Silver Metal Award in the national Watermedia IX, 1998, which is sponsored by the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society. Exhibition was nationally juried by master watercolorist Sondra Freckelton and Carolyn Hoyle and held at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Museum, Colorado Springs. During the summer of 1998, Helsaple was commissioned by Beidleman Nature Center to create an educational mural of Colorado Landscape habitats to work in conjunction with the book, Explore Colorado; A Naturalists Notebook. An exhibition of paintings to celebrate the Quadrennial (400th) Anniversary of the Chateau’s architect, Francois Mansart was held at the Forbes Gallery in New York through the summer of 1998. Several articles appeared during the spring, 1998, in American Artist Magazine, Watercolor Magazine and several French publications highlighting the artist’s experience and artwork generated about the Chateau. In the summer of 1997, Helsaple was one of 16 artists’ invited to paint at the Forbes, Chateau de Balleroy in France. The Chateau De Balleroy is on the coast of Normandy and near the gardens of the Mid-western region of France, noted to be the area which inspired the great French Impressionists, Renoir and Monet. In the fall of 1997, Helsaple was one of 5-invited Artists to exhibit her work at the Capps Capozzolo Center for the Creative & Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Southern Colorado. Artists were selected based on reputation and on the educational components found in each of their work. In 1997 Helsaple and educators Gibson and Gebben created a 1,000 sq. ft. Louisiana forest and educational exhibition for the Old State Capital building for the State of Louisiana and sponsored by Baton Rouge Green and WBRZ. In the Heart of Our Forest simulated the forest environment and demonstrated the value and diversity of trees found in the south. The exhibition included lesson plans and educational materials that interfaced with curriculum goals and educational requirements. 15,000 children visited the exhibit. In 1997, Watercolor Stories of the Rainforest, premiered by performance artist Lance Wedor for the Kennedy Center’s, Imagination Celebration at the Pikes Peak Community College, Downtown Studio. Helsaple’s paintings, along with Lance Wedor’s rainforest program, toured the southeastern cities of Colorado on an educational grant from the Colorado Council of the Arts to bring quality art & education to rural communities. In September, 1996, Helsaple was one of 12 artists invited to, Interpret the Colorado Landscape, at the Forbes Trinchera ranch in southwestern Colorado. This resulted in a profile in American Artist Magazine January issue in 1997, an exhibition at the Forbes Gallery in New York and inclusion of her work in the Forbes Magazine Corporate Collection. In 1995, a 1500 sq. ft. walk- through rainforest exhibition, art and curriculum materials also traveled to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, in California and broke summer attendance records during the 4-month exhibit that attracted 20,000 visitors. Mary Helsaple, and artist/educators Sharon Gibson and Judy Gebben, created the rainforest simulation and art exhibitions, In the Heart of the Rainforest in 1994, Earth Sea & Sky, Oh My, and in 1995, Kyrgyzstan: Ancient Culture of the Nomads. In 1993, Helsaple was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund, US & Traffic, to produce Wild Treasures of the Caribbean, a watercolor painting showing the endangered species of the Caribbean Ecosystem. This painting was presented by CITES & WWF to the US Department of the Interior and dedicated to Mollie Beattie, then director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service at the Conference of Parties which is a International governing body of over 126 nations that protect, preserve and regulated global environmental laws. In the summer on 1993, Helsaple presented an educational program for the National Wildlife Federation as part of the NWF Summit Conference, whose theme was endangered habitats, and educating the public on rainforest dynamics. This conference was held in Cedar City, Utah. 1992, Helsaple's artwork, Another Point of View, was reproduced in print to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the CITES agreement sponsored by the Conservation Treaty Support Fund at the US. Botanical gardens in Washington DC. (CITES is a worldwide organization of 126 countries that abide, protect, and regulate trade of endangered wildlife worldwide.) In 1991, Helsaple’s series of South American paintings of the Peruvian rainforest was shown in conjunction with the Smithsonian's Rainforest Exhibit, A Disappearing Treasure, at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Her photos from the Amazon have been published in Time, Wildbird, Boston Herald, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, on the Video Tape Cover for the Manu program for PBS Home Video, and in the natural history book, Peru's Amazonian Eden: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve, written by Kim Macquarrie, with photos by BBC photographer of the Year 1994, Andre Bartschi. |
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