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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, 2009
Haydon Galley, Lincoln, NE, 2001 Clarke College, Dubuque, IA, 1999, 1982, 1978, 1975, 1973 Witter Gallery, Storm Lake, IA, 1997 Artspace, Metro Arts Council, Omaha,
NE, 1996, 1991 Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA, 1996,
1993, 1998 Arts for Living Center Gallery, Burlington, IA, 1994 Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1990 University of
South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 1989 Prairie State College, Chicago Heights,
IL, 1988 Luther College, Decorah, IA, 1988 Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Omaha, NE, 1983, 1979
SELECTED GROUP, INVITATIONAL, AND JURIED SHOWS
Dual Reflections,
Gallery 92 West, Fremont, NE 2010 Artists Choosing Artists, The Burkholder
Project, Lincoln, NE 2010 Landfill Arts Project: Global Artist
Reclamation Initiative, Wilkes Barre, PA, 2009-2012 Grounds for Art-Street Level Sculpture, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2008-2009 Sophisticated Children, Hot Shops Art Center, Omaha, NE, 2008 Love, Loss, Life, Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2007 March Meltdown, Hot Shops Art Center, Omaha, NE, 2007 New Perspectives, Invit.Great Plains Art Museum, Lincoln NE 2006 Re-Visioning, Juried, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, Florida, 2005 Quantum Leap: Art & Science Connect”, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE 2005 A Celebration of Quotable Women Artists, Juried, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, Dawson County Museum, Lexington, NE 2004, Jewish Community Ctr., Omaha, 2005 Second Annual All Sculpture Show, Invitational, Jackson Artworks, Omaha, NE, 2003 Elements: Environmental Arts Exhibit, Juried, Fontenelle Forest Nature Center, Bellevue, NE, 2003,
2002 Local Perspectives 2003, Juried, Sioux City
Art Ctr., Sioux City, IA Art in Bloom, Lauritzen Gardens, Invitational,
Omaha, Nebraska 2003 Earthpulse, Invitational, Louisville Art
Gallery, Louisville, NE, 2003 Erotic Art 2003, Invitational, Antiquarium
Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2003 Visual Prozac 4,
Nicholas Street Gallery, Omaha, NE 2002 Daughters, Traveling
Exhibition, Iowa, St. Louis, Chicago, Indiana and
Nebraska Chapters of the Women's Caucus for Art, 2002 Red, Invit. Group Show, Thirteenth Street Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2002 A Piece of My Mind! Norfolk Arts Center, Norfolk, NE 2002 In Memory of the Attack on America, An Exhibition and Installation of a New World Era, Nicholas Street Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska 2001 7th
Annual Juried Show, Arts/Living Ctr., Burlington, IA, 2001 Life Cycles, Lied Education Ctr.
for the Arts, Creighton Univ.Omaha, NE, 2001, Burkholder Project, Lincoln, NE 2001, J. Doe Project,
Omaha NE, May through September 2001; “Emerging”, placed at 1010 Howard St. in the Old Market and sponsored by
theIndian Oven Restaurant Heroines and Mentors: The
Nature of Nurture, Dawson County Museum, Lexington, NE, 2001, Belleview Univ. Art Gallery
Bellevue, NE,
2000-2001 Deja Vu All Over Again—Contemporary
Artists Inspired by the Masters Artists’
Cooperative Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2000-2001 Iowa Women Artists
Oral History Project, project creator/interviewer
Jane Robinette, IowaWomenArts@lucidplanet.com, 1998 -present Working Against
Time, Invit., Hillmer Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, 1999 Revealed:
The Figurative Form, Invit., Artists' Cooperative Gallery Omaha, NE 1999 Egypt Inspired
Artists, Juried 13th St. Gallery, Omaha, NE, 1999 Annual Juried Show,
Arts/Living Ctr., Burlington, IA, 1999 Paper Dolls: Self Portrait Narratives, Doane College, Crete, NE, 1999; Creighton Lied Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, 1998 Fred Wells 22, Juried, NE Wesleyan,
Lincoln NE, 1998;17/'93; 16/'92;14/'90;13/'89;12/'88 Vast Things/small scale, Gallery 9-Lincoln/NE, Componere Gallery- St.Louis/MO1997 Personal Sightings II, Juried Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Ft. Dodge, IA, 1997 Haydon Gallery,
Lincoln, NE, Group Exhib., 2002, annually: 1993-2001 Nat'l Juried Exhibition of Small Works, Montclair State Univ., New Jersey, 1994 Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL, 1993 13 Years Harvest: Iowa Woman Cover Artists, Johnson Cnty. Art Ctr., IA City, IA, 1992 Missouri River Centennial Exhib., Dahl FineArts Ctr.Rapid City, ND, touring 1/89-11/90 "New Work One: Birth", Invit. Exhibit, Cultural Arts Together/Bemis Foundation, 1988; Invitational Exhibit,
Univ. of Nebraska/Omaha '88 Erector Square Gallery, Juried, New Haven, CT, "That's What It's All About", 1988
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Barrington, IL, Invitational
Exhibit, 1987 University of Kansas, Lawrence, "Our
Lives: The Experience of Women Juried,
1985 Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN,
Invit. Exhibit, 1984 2nd SCAC Nat'l Small Print and Drawing
Exhibition, Juried, Cobleskill, NY, 1984
SELECTED AWARDS
Annual Juried Show, Arts/Living Ctr., Burlington/IA, 1997, Best of
Show Award
Iowa Arts Council Mini-Grant,
The Garden Series, 1995
Nebraska Holiday Greeting Card Competition, 1993, Drawing selection
and award
Iowa Woman Magazine, selected
featured artist & cover drawing
commission, Autumn 91
North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual, Juried, University of North
Dakota, Grand Forks, ND,
1986, 1981, 1980, Purchase Award
(drawing) 1980
National On-Paper Show '82, Juried Terrance Gallery, Palenville,
NY,
(Purchase Award drawing)
Mid-Four Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Nelson
Gallery-Atkins Museum,
Kansas City, MO, 1981, Active Sponsor Award (painting)
Iowa Artists'
Postcards Competition, Juried, IA Arts Council/ IA Development
Commission, Traveling Exhibit,
1980-1981, Post card selection and
reproduction
Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce Mural Design Competition, Council
Bluffs, IA,
1978 Design Selection and Award
SELECTED
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Tara
Heights Elementary School, Papillion, NE (mosaic) EMC Insurance Companies, Des Moines, IA (relief sculpture) Omaha
Children's Museum, Omaha, NE (relief sculpture) Schiff, Hardin and Waite Law Firm,
Chicago, IL (painting) United Standard Industries, Glenview, IL (drawings) Inacom, Incorporated, Omaha, NE (paintings) Terrance Gallery, Palenville, NY (drawing) University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (drawing) University of Nebraska at Kearney,
Kearney, NE (painting) Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA (sculpture) Clarke College, Dubuque, IA (painting, drawing) Clarinda Treatment Complex, Clarinda, IA (painting) St. Albert Schools, Council Bluffs, IA (painting) Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Council Bluffs, IA (drawings) Univ. of NE Medical Center, Omaha,
NE, Maternity wing (window designs) Also represented in many private collections throughout the country
SELECTED
COMMISSIONS
Tara Heights Elementary School, Papillion,
NE (mosaic) Missouri
River Transit, Lewis & Clark Icon Interpretive Sculpture
Project, glass mosaic on sculpture at Dodge Riverside Park,
Council Bluffs, IA Phoenix House (domestic violence shelter), Council Bluffs, IA (sculpture) Peed Corporation, Lincoln, NE (paintings) Glenwood State Hospital School, Glenwood, IA (painting) St. Francis Xavier Chapel, St. Albert Elementary School (window
designs) Queen of Apostles Church, Council Bluffs, IA (window designs) St. Marks United Methodist Church, Council Bluffs, IA (window designs) Alegent Health/Mercy
Hospital, Council Bluffs, IA (110th Anniversary of
the Sisters of Mercy commemorative
window design)
Abstract Guaranty Company, Council Bluffs, IA (window designs) St. Columbkille’s Church, Dubuque, IA (window designs)
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Artist-in-Residence
Shows Result of Creativity, Mark Coddington, Grand Island Independent, 5/1/2009, Omaha World Herald,
5/9/2009
Bringing the Gallery Home, Micholyn Fajen, The Iowan Magazine, Nov/Dec
2007 Sculpting Sessions with Omaha Children's Museum's Artist-in-Residence,
Sarah Baker, Today's Omaha Woman, Fall 2007 Council
Bluffs Artisan in Transition, Sunshine Dalton, The Daily Nonpareil, 9/20/2007 Making Sense Out of Her Life, Laural Ronk, The Daily Nonpareil, 9/16/2007
Timely Trails, Corey Ross, One Magazine, August 2004 Navigating 18 Holes, Jason Keese, Art Scene, August, 2004 Inspired Artists, Jan Thompson, Kearney Hub,
August 12, 2004 New Interpretive Trail Combines History, Art, Kim Roberts-Gudeman, Omaha World-Herald,
7/20/2004 Tile Transformation, Greg Jerrett, The Daily Nonpareil, 7/3/2004 From Hot Shops to Riverfront, Laura Lager, The Encounter Magazine, May/June 2004 Icon Art Project, Newswatch 7, interview, 11:30 a.m. broadcast,
4/13/04 Icon Interpretive Sculpture Project, interview, KVNO radio, broadcast 4/8/2004 Taking Shape, Tim Johnson,
The Daily Nonpareil, 3/28, 2004 Uniting Art With Nature, Ashley Hassebroek, Omaha World-Herald, Sept,
25, 2003 Sunday in the Park, Greg Jerrett, interview, the Daily Nonpareil, 4/27/2003 Art, Life Intertwined for Bluffs Teacher, Greg Jerrett, The Daily Nonpareil, 2/24/2003 Gardening concept turned into pieces of art, Casey Johnson, Daily Nebraskan 3/2/2001 Heroines inspire BU art exhibit, Jason Keese,
Bellevue Leader, 12/20, 2000
Déjà vu, Jessica Hoffman, Review, Omaha Weekly, 12/14/2000 Iowa
Women Artists Oral History Project, interview, Jane
Robinette 1999 Joffe-Bouska
to be Featured at Town and Country Arts Festival, Tim Johnson, Nonpareil, 6/15/1999 These Books
Begin With Artful Covers, Janine Calsbeek, Sioux County Capitol Democrat 10/17/1996 Iowa Woman Magazine, Colleen Hildreth Myers, Autumn, 1991 Newswatch 7, noon broadcast, KETV,
interview, June 5, 1991 Joffe-Bouska’s artwork gains CBAA recognition, Maureen Bogues, Nonpareil,
8/7/1988 Joffe-Bouska committed to creating, teaching art, Winnie Wilmarth, Nonpareil, 4/24/1988 The Messier, the Better,
Keith Thorpe, The Daily Nonpareil, 12/7/1984 Artist Applies an Old Technique in Creating her Newest
Works, Roger
Catlin, Omaha World-Herald, 5/15/1983 Joffe-Bouska’s Works Still Evolving, Gary Rosenberg, the Nonpareil,
5/8/1983 Three Different Looks, Jim Williams, Nonpareil 11/1/1981 Art From a Tube, Jim Williams, Nonpareil, 10/19/1980 Clear Vision of Council Bluffs Artist Stand Out From Crowd, Roger Catlin, Omaha World-Herald, 10/28/79
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Studio in home. Painting, drawing, sculpture, design. Permanent Professional teaching certificate, State of Iowa, Art K-12 Iowa Arts Council, Artists in Schools/Communities, 1992-present Nebraska Arts Council, Artists in Schools/Communities, 2007-present Selected residencies
and teaching: National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony--worked
with Girls, Inc. to create ornaments for
the Nebraska state tree, 2010 Tara Heights Elementary School,
Papillion, NE, residency resulting in cement
and mosaic sculpture 2009-2010; residency resulting in glass relief mosaic, 2008-2009 Statewide Art Connection "Particles to Planets",
Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, North Platte, Columbus,
Nebraska City, Grand Island, 2008-2009 ArtsLIVE Youth Festival, Spirit Lake, Iowa, July 2008 Mutual of Omaha's "Reach for Your Dreams", worked
with Girls, Inc. to create artwork on display at the Olympic Swim Trials, Quest
Center, Omaha, NE, 2008 Artist in Residence, Omaha Children's Museum, July through December, 2007 Orange City Elementary, 2006,1996
TCA Artists in the Park, Harrison County, 2006, ‘05,’04, ’03,
’02, ’01, ’00, ’99, ‘98
Chanticleer Theater, at Abraham Lincoln High School, Lewis
Central High School, St. Albert High School, Council Bluffs,
IA, 2003
Postville, Iowa, 2002; Pottawattamie County
Crime Prevention Office, Council Bluffs, IA, 2001, 2000; Westridge Elementary, West Des
Moines, IA, 2000; Arts at
Large, Co.Bluffs, 2000 Longfellow
School, Co.Bluffs, 1999 MOC-FV High
School, Orange City, 1998 Edmunds
Academy, DesMoines, 1997 Irving Elementary,
Creston, 1996 Lewis Central
Comm.Schools, Council Bluffs Comm.
Schools, St. Albert Elementary, Co. Bluffs, 1994
Artist-in-Residence, St. Albert Elementary Schools, Co. Bluffs,
1994-1995 Instructor,
Black Squirrel Arts Festival/BAC, Co. Bluffs, IA,
1995, 1994, 1992, 1990 Instructor,
Art: 2-D and 3-D, Duchesne Academy, Omaha, NE,
1989-1992 Instructor,
Cultural Arts Together/Bemis Foundation, Omaha,
NE, 1987-1991 Studio & Vine Fall Art & Wine Tour of Southwest Iowa, co-organizer, 2008,
2007 Bluffs Arts Council, Board Member, 2006-2009 Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Omaha, NE, Exhibiting Member: 1999-
present, 1989-1991, 1978-1985; Board of Directors 1980-1985 Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art, 1996-present; Vice President 2001; Co-Secty.
1998-2001 Octagon
Center for the Arts, Ames, IA, 1996-2008 Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 1991- 2004 Artspace, Metropolitan
Arts Council, Omaha, NE, 1991-1996 Alter/Associates,
Inc., Highland Park, IL, 1982-1995
EDUCATION
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
1977, Master of Arts Degree in Painting and Drawing
Clarke College
Dubuque, IA 52001
1973 Bachelor of Arts Degree in Studio Art and Art Education
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