Resume
Rebecca Poulson
107 Jeff Davis Street
Sitka, Alaska 99835
Phone (907) 747-3448
email: rebecca_poulson@hotmail.com

Education
M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2000
B.A. Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1986

Grants, Awards
2000 Temple University Project Completion Grant
1999 Technical Assistantship (scholarship, stipend), Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1998 Teaching Assistantship (scholarship, stipend), Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Selected Exhibitions
2002 March Celebrate Northwest Women juried exhibition, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass OR
2001 November Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, juried exhibition, Arkansas State University
2001 November Link from Alaska, group show, Café Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2001 December La Petite IX, juried exhibition, Alder Gallery, Coburg, Oregon
2001 December Women Artists, group show, The Back Door, Sitka, Alaska
2000 December, Colin Hereforth, DJ Robidou and Rebecca Poulson, The Back Door, Sitka, Alaska
2000 November, Love and Mountains (solo show), William Henry Gallery, Homer, Alaska
2000 October, Georgia College and State University, Pressed and Pulled IX, juried exhibition, Milledgeville, GA
2000 May, Where We Are, MFA Thesis Exhibition,Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 March, Landscapes: E. J. Herczek and Rebecca Poulson, Artscape Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Southern Graphics Council, Work in Process, juried print exhibition, Arizona State University
1998 Tyler Print Invitational, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1997 Twelve Women Artists, Decker/Morris Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska
1996 Water, Work and Wilderness: Wood Engravings by Rebecca Poulson, Fireweed Gallery, Homer, Alaska
1996  Form and Function Gallery (solo show), Haines, Alaska

Art Commissions, Donations

2002: Illustrations including cover for Kachemak Bay Years, Hardscratch Press
2001 Greater Sitka Arts Council: donated wood engraving for their logo
2000 Raven Radio (public radio station, Sitka, Alaska): created and donated two wood engravings. T-shirts and mugs with my images, and the original prints, were donation premiums for spring and fall 2000 fund drives
1999 Cape Decision Lighthouse Society: created and donated edition of a wood engraving of the lighthouse for use as premiums for donations to the society
1998 Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival: donated use of print, and did lettering for the 1998 festival
1997 Sitka Summer Music Festival: commissioned wood engraving used on brochures, t-shirts, a poster, etc., and prints for sale, for the 1997 Festival
1995 Allen Memorial Preservation Project: made wood engraving of the Allen Memorial building and donated the edition to the project for use in fundraising and as their logo

Publications
�Survival of the Fittest,� a history of West Coast trolling boats, feature article in WoodenBoat magazine, May 1996
"Historic Wood Tugboat Tyee Gets New Lease on Life," Daily Sentinel , May 24 1996, and other feature articles on boats and history, interviews and book reviews in the Daily Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska

Current Employment
1995 to present Printmaker, mainly in wood engraving.
1994 to present creator and publisher of The Outer Coast wall calendar of poetry and wood engravings, sold in bookstores and galleries in Alaska and the Northwest and by mail. Website www.theoutercoast.com
Fall 2000 to present Adjunct Instructor, Drawing, Etching and Relief Printmaking, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus
I am currently on the boards of the Greater Sitka Arts Council and of the Maritime Heritage Society
Before 1996 I was a shipwright (repairing wood fishing boats and building wood rowboats) and commercial fishing deckhand. I went to a boatbuilding school for a year in England in 1989.