ORIGINAL PAINTINGS IN PASTEL AND WATERCOLOR
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SELECT SOLO and GROUP EXHiBITS
·Art's Healing Journey, Traveling Exhibit Co-Cordinator with Mary Washington Hospice, January-April 2010
·Best of Collector's Showcase, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, December 2009
·10,000 People Project, ArtHouse Gallery, Atlanta, GA, December 2009
·Torpedo Factory Group Traveling Exhibit, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA September-October 2009
·New Works, Two Women Show, Bistro Bethem, Fredericksburg, VA August-October 2009
·Point of Connection: A Collaboration of Fine Art, Fiber Art, and Craft, Liberty Town Arts Main Gallery,
Fredericksburg, VA, October 2008
·Anticipating Spring, Solo Exhibit, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Member’s Gallery, March 2008
·Solo Exhibit, Salem Church Library, Spotsylvania, VA, January 2008
AWARDS AND JURIED COMPETITIONS
·Best in Show: Bowling Green Fine Art Exhibit, Bowling Green, VA, April 2008
·First Place: Feast for the Eyes, Liberty Town Arts Juried Exhibit, Fredericksburg, VA April 2010
·Second Place: Child’s Eye View, National Juried Exhibit, Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, VA Nov 2008
·Second Place: Heritage Rivers Fine Art Guild, WideRiver Gallery, Colonial Beach, VA, July 2008
·Second Place Watercolor: Fredericksburg Fine Arts Exhibit, Fredericksburg, VA, March 2007
·Third Place Watercolor: Uniquely Stafford, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Stafford, VA, Sept 2007
·Third Place Mixed Media: Uniquely Stafford, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Stafford, VA, Sept 2007
·Honorable Mention: About Face, All Media Juried Portrait Exhibit, Liberty Town Arts, Fredericksburg, Oct 2009
·Honorable Mention: The Pastel Journal’s “Creative Spark”, February 2009
·Honorable Mention: Celebration, National Juried Exhibit, Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, VA, Jul 2008
·Honorable Mention Watercolor: Fredericksburg Fine Arts Exhibit, Fredericksburg, VA, March 2007
·Honorable Mention: Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts Regional Exhibit, Fredericksburg VA, Feb 2007
·Best in Work on Paper: Healing Power of Art Juried Competition, Manhattan Arts International, May-Sept 2010
·Shades of Pastel, Biennial National Juried Competition, Bethesda, MD, Sept-Oct 2009
·Wildlife Juried Art Competition, Irving Arts Association, Irving, TX, Sept-Oct 2009
·Art at the Mill, Clarke County Historical Association Juried Exhibit, Millwood, VA 2009, April 2010
·Maryland Pastel Society 2009 Juried Show, The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD, January 2009
·Torpedo Factory, Target Gallery: 5X5(5) International Juried Exhibit, Alexandria, VA, Dec 2008
·Caton Merchant Gallery, Candy Factory Annual Juried Exhibit, Manassas, VA, October 2008
·Women’s Health Virginia Juried Art Exhibit, Richmond, VA, April 2008
·Feast for the Eyes, Liberty Town Arts Juried Exhibit, Fredericksburg, VA, 2007, 2008, & 2009
·National Juried Exhibitions, Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts, June, July, Sept, and Nov 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Best of America Pastel, 2009
ART AFFILIATIONS
Art First Gallery, Fredericksburg, Virginia
LibertyTown Studio Artist, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Workhouse Artists Associate, Lorton Arts Foundation
Maryland Pastel Society, Associate Member
Virginia Watercolor Society
WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR
Watercolor and Pastel, March 2008- Present
Watercolor Painting "Concentration" Project, Massaponax High School, March 2010
Summer Art Camp July & Aug 2009
Fredericksburg Academy, Visiting Artist Program, November 2008
ART EDUCATION
Self-Directed
© 2008-2010 Ariel Freeman, Artist- All Rights Reserved.
Art Resume
Ariel Freeman is an award-winning artist in Fredericksburg,
Virginia most known for her bold representational watercolors
and her pastel paintings in contemporary realism. Her work,
which has appeared in many select solo and group exhibitions,
has received numerous honors. In addition to teaching painting
workshops, she exhibits throughout Northern Virginia as well as
daily in her working studio at Liberty Town Arts and Art First
Gallery in downtown historic Fredericksburg. She is also a juried
member of the Workhouse Arts Center, a project of the Lorton
Arts Foundation. Her paintings have been purchased nationally
and internationally by private collectors and are included in the
public collection at the Stafford Hospital Center in Virginia.
Studio #3, Liberty Town Arts.
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