Allyson Packer

Education:
BFA with Honors and Distinction from The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2009.

Selected Exhibitions:

2011

• As Much as I Can Carry: Personal Plans for Survival, solo show at The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.
• Fall Artist in Residence Exhibition, the McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC.
• LOCAL HISTORIES: The Ground We Walk On, 523 East Franklin, Chapel Hill, NC.
• For This is What We Do, Maryland Institute College of Art Fox 2 Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
• Performance Series for the Commuters of Northern Parkway, collaborative public performances with Sarah Lloyd, Baltimore, MD.

 

2010

• Plans for a No Man's Land, solo show at the Petting Zoo Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
• Duality, collaborative installation and performance with Sarah Lloyd at the Towson University Center for the Arts, Towson, MD.
• What I Do in the Morning, VSA North Fourth Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.
• LOVE, the Factory on 5th, Albuquerque, NM.

 

2009

• The Suburban Frontier, The Nightlight Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
   
• The Rethinkery: Thesis Exhibition, The John and June Allcott Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill.
• Red Thread, installation at the Carolina Union Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.

 

• Agoraophobe, installation at Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN.
• Courtesy of the Department of Public Information, installation at the Davis Library, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Who Says, installation at the Morehead Planetarium Rotunda, Chapel Hill, NC.

 

• Offering, installation at the Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

 

Awards and Residencies:

• Fall Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2011.
• Recipient of the Harwood Artist Fund's Marion and Kathryn Crissey Emerging Artist Award, 2010.
• Selected as a Resident Intern Artist, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN, 2008
• Kachergis Scholarship Award in Art, 2008.

Publications:

• Featured in Sage, the Albuquerque Journal's women's magazine, October 2010.
• Artwork featured in the book Stuck-up Piece of Crap: from Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, Rizzoli, 2010.
• Featured on the web site Wooster Collective: A Celebration of Street Art, 2008.

Relevant Experience:

• Community Art Coordinator at the Hamilton Arts Collective and Hamilton Elementary/Middle School (through the Maryland Institute College of Art Community Arts Collaborative), Baltimore, MD, 2010-2011.
• Visual Art Instructor, VSA North Fourth Art Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2009-2010.
• Resident Production Assistant, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC, 2008.
• Art instructor for the Hidden Voices Project at the Carrboro Arts Center, Carrboro, NC, 2008.
• Curatorial Intern, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC.