ResuMe

Education
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA (BFA, MFA, summa cum laude)
London Polytechnic, London, England
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Detroit Institute of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, MI

Professional Experience
Educator, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (full-time 1975-2007). Department Chair for 20 years. Received Innovator of the Year award
for establishing first computer graphics program in a college art department in the nation. Now Professor Emeritus. Taught Printmaking,
Painting, Experimental Painting, Watercolor Painting, Color and Design, Life Drawing, Illustration, Set Design, Humanities, Computer Graphics.
Past President, Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS)
Chair, 18th National Printmaking Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, 2005
Editor, Newsprint, journal of LAPS
Curator, Impact: The Big Print, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College (included works by Rufino Tamayo, Helen Frankenthaler,
Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, June Wayne, Roger Herman, Sandow Birk, Richard Estes, Joe Goode, Mimmo Paladino and others), 2009

Membership
Women of Letters, select group of women book artists of Los Angeles
Wood engravers’ Network (WEN)
Southern Graphics Council International
Los Angeles Printmaking Society
California Society of Printmakers

Residency
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2010-present

Collections
Work is in many public and private collections, including the Graphic Arts Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the print collection at UC Berkeley, Janet Turner Print Museum (Chico State), National Library of Luxembourg, Kennedy Library (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), San Francisco Center for the Book, Clark Library (UCLA), Honnold Library Special Collections (Claremont Colleges), Marine Midland Bank (New York) and the Kala Art Institute Archives.

Bibliography
Into the Woods: Recent Works of Donna Westerman, catalog, 2022
Impact: The Big Print, Exhibition Catalog, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, 2009

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 — Donna Westerman: Connections, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2022 — Into the Woods, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015 — Second Nature, Manna Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008Retrospective exhibition, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

Selected group Exhibitions
2025 — Expanding the Field: New Ideas in & Beyond Print, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2024 — EXHALE: A Contemporary Landscape Show, SHOH Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2024 — Forma Natura: Nature as Source, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2024 — Wood Engravers’ Network Fifth Triennial Exhibition
2024 — Kala 50, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2023 — Properties of Water, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2023 — Diablo Valley Printmakers Invitational, Orinda Public Library
2022 — LAPS 22nd National Print Exhibition, Remba Gallery, Mixografia, Los Angeles
2022 — Art for the Asking: the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library UC Berkeley, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2022 — New Work, Radius Gallery at the Tannery, Santa Cruz, CA, 2022
2021 — Extraction: Response to the Changing World Environment, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2021 — Searching for Meaning, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2021 — New to the Collection, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2021 — Altered States, Hawaii State Art Museum
2020 — The David Kabakoff Collection, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 2020
2020 — Wood Engravers’ Network Fourth Triennial Exhibition, traveling 2020-2023
2020 — Art Kala 2020, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2019 — Regional Collective, juror, Leslie Jones (curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2019 — The Boston Printmakers Biennial, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2019 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2019Codex International Book Arts Conference and Exhibition, Richmond, CA
2018 — Making a Mark, Slate Contemporary Gallery at San Ramon Valley Conference Center
2018 — Pacific States Biennial North American Printmaking Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Juror’s award and Recognition award from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
2018 — Thinking Outside the Frame, juror, Cathy Kimball, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2018 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2018 — Empreinte: International Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition and Forum, Luxembourg. (Artist’s book, Garden, purchased by National Library of Luxembourg for their permanent collection)
2018 — Air, Water, and Earth, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
2018 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2017 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2017Codex International Book Arts Conference and Exhibition, Richmond, CA
2016 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016 — WEN Relief Engraving Traveling Exhibition
2016 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2015LAPS Exchange, The Future, juror, Stas Orlovski, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2015 — California Dreaming, juror, Peter Frank, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oeanside, CA; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2015 — Layers of Identity, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 — Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Roseville, CA
2015 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015WEN Relief Engraving Traveling Exhibition
2015 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2015Codex International Book Arts Conference and Exhibition, Richmond, CA
2014 — California Dreaming, juror, Peter Frank, Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, Rome, Italy
2014 — Layers of Identity, Santa Monica, CA
2014International Mokuhanga Exhibition 2014, Tokyo, Japan
2014LAPS Juried Membership Exhibition, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
2014Central California Printmakers Juried Exhibition, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (juror’s award)
2014 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2014 — WEN Relief Engraving Traveling Exhibition
2014 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2013 — Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Roseville, CA
2013WEN Relief Engraving Traveling Exhibition
2013 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2013 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2012 — 75th Annual Exhibition of The Society of Wood Engravers, traveling in England (75th Anniversary Award)
2012 — WEN Relief Engraving Traveling Exhibition
2012 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2012 — Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Roseville, CA
2012 — California Centered: National Printmaking Exhibition, Merced, CA
2011 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2011 — Southern California Printmaking Exhibition, juror, Scott Canty, Palos Verdes, CA
2010 — Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009 — 20th National Printmaking Exhibition, juror, Peter Frank, Barnsdall Municipal Galleries, Los Angeles
2009 — The Visual Word, Curator, Jay Sagen, Coastline Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
2008 — Stone’s Throw, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Exchange Show, LA Artcore, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2008 — Contemporary Ruin, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum
2007 — Ink and Clay 34, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
2007 — Another View: selected works from the 19th National Printmaking Exhibition, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2006Belfast Print Workshop Gallery Exchange Show, Belfast, Ireland
2005New York Society of Etchers/LAPS Exchange, New York City
2004 — Mirror Images, Reflections of Southern California Printmaking, Terminal 1, Los Angeles International Airport and Ontario International Airport, curator, Todd Smith
2003 — Korea International Contemporary Prints Art Exhibition, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, and Danwon Art Center, Ansan City, Korea
2001 — Making a Scene: Landscape Paintings by David Skinner, Donald Archer, Michiel Daniel, Martin Alund and Donna Westerman, Square Blue at Bradford Gallery, Newport Beach
2001 — Different Strokes: A Painter's Group Show, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2001 — Occidental College: National Printmaking Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2001 — Evaluation Inversion, Cal State Long Beach Invitational Printmaking Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2001 — Southern California Perspectives in Printmaking/Invitational, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 — Pressing Engagements 2; Norman Schwab, Laurel Paley, Donna Westerman, Harbor College, San Pedro, CA
1999 — 15th National Printmaking Exhibition, juror, Gordon Fuglie, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1995 — Greater Los Angeles Printmakers, Wichita Falls Museum, Wichita Falls, TX
1994 — Printwork '94, Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1993 — The Prints and the Paper, National Juried Show, San Diego Art Institute (award, reviewed, San Diego Reader)
1992 — Pacific States National Biennial Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii Hilo (catalog, Juror's Award)
1989 — U.S./Korea Exchange '89, Seoul, Korea; Paris, France and Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1989 — Digitized Images, five person invitational, Orange Coast College Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA (reviewed, Los Angeles Times)