CV — Karen Bullock

National Geographic YourShot, Lines/Patterns/Textures Oct. 27, 2017; Lowlight Story Dec. 2, 2015; Daily feature Nov. 21, 2011; Daily feature Dec. 3, 2009; Daily feature Oct 19, 2009.

Awards & Grants:

2021 Alabama State Council on the Arts, Grant Funding for Dye Workshop & Exhibition Collaboration with Central Arts

2019 PhotoPlace Gallery, Sanctuary, Honorable Mention, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Laura Valenti

Mobile Art Association, Awarded Honorable Mention. 2017

Mobile Arts Council. Awarded Arts Grant for Portraiture, 2017

Mobile Arts Council, Arty Award Finalist for Artistic Innovation. 2016

Curatorial Work & Installations

2021 Slow Exposures, Curated and installed a group pop-up exhibit: Southern Conversations, in collaboration with Ben Hillyer, Vicki Hunt, and John Bennette in Zebulon, Georgia. The exhibition included conversations between paired photographers about creating work in the South.

In 2019 Karen established a pop-up art & performance offering in Mobile, Alabama, where she collaborated with a team of women artists to curate and install quarterly exhibitions. In 2022, the space used for exhibitions became unavailable. The team plans to host future exhibitions within a church sanctuary starting in 2025. Listed below are previous exhibitions.

2021 Flights of Fancy, a juried group exhibition of art created with plant-based dyes, was installed in collaboration with Nancy Goodman and the Central Arts Collective with funding support from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Accompanying workshops on dyeing with plants were led by Aalbama artist Doug Balous.

2020 Stage to Street: Study of Dance and Motion, in collaboration with the ArtSanctuary team & artists Stephanie Morris & Richard Dollison. The exhibition included photographs of the Kinetics Dance Company by Dollison and paintings of dancers by Morris. The opening reception included dance by Kinetics Dance Company.

2019 Black and White, Hate & Love: A Visual Story: in collaboration with photographers Walter Bower and Vincent Lawson. The exhibition addressed themes of inherent bias & prejudice and included a panel discussion and recitation of poetry by Alabama spoken-word artist Huggy Bear.

2019 Picture Your Story. Curated and Installed an exhibition of photographs on loan from The Do Good Fund and local photographers with keynote speaker MM Pinky Bass. In conjunction with this, Karen also collaborated to host events throughout the month relating to storytelling: a quilting and storytelling workshop led by women from Gee’s Bend; a children’s story time with author Watt Key; a photography workshop with Lynn Henderson Oldshue and Vincent Lawson, and a monologue produced by Company 11

Prior to the establishment of Central ArtSanctuary, from 2016 to 2020, Karen Curated art for The Lost Garden, a community garden and public art space in a vacant lot in downtown Mobile, by collaborating with many local artists: painters, illustrators, musicians, and muralists to offer an engaging and educational space open to the public with special events during monthly LODA ArtWalk. Mobile Urban Growers, Master Gardeners, Bee Keepers, and others offered educational opportunities about sustainability and small farming.

LINKS

https://lenscratch.com/tag/karen-bullock/

https://lenscratch.com/2020/07/karen-bullock-presence-obscured/

https://www.nationalgeographic.es/animales/2017/11/el-trafico-ilegal-de-cachorros-en-la-ue-una-triste-historia-perruna

https://photonola.org/event/altered-states-2/

https://www.analogforevermagazine.com/online-exhibitions/where-do-we-go-october-2021

https://hafny.org/group-show-69-photo-for-nonmajors-part-1

https://www.praxisphotocenter.org/post/the-artist-intervenes-documentation

https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/photonola-currents-2020/

https://photonola.org/event/pn20-lamara-closing-recption-open-air-digital-exhibitions-in-partnership-with-luna-fete/

https://asmithgallery.com/exhibitions/light-3/

https://hafny.org/group-show-64-tropes-gone-wild

https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/new-juried-exhibition-at-government-plaza/

https://www.sec4p.com/home-19-ss/?mc_cid=63f93c543c&mc_eid=8d3487cc8e

https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/sanctuary/gallery/exhibition-gallery

https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/a-color-moment/gallery/exhibition-gallery

https://www.sec4p.com/shades-ss/

https://anewnothing.com/olivia-arratia-karen-bullock/

https://www.floatmagazine.us/portfolios/karen-bullock

https://rfotofolio.org/2018/11/25/2018-rfotofolio-selections/

https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/sanctuary/gallery/exhibition-gallery

https://mobilearts.org/artys-winners-2018/

https://lenscratch.com/2018/01/104840/

https://www.inthein-between.com/now-you-dont-photography-and-extinction/

https://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/86/groupexhibition.html

https://lenscratch.com/2017/12/the-2017-snow-exhibition-part-iii/

Education in Photography:

Maine Media workshop, 2017; Maine Media workshop-Susan Burnstine, 2018; 2020- Aline Smithson; The Humid workshop- Baldwin Lee, Mike Smith, Irina Rozovsky, Mark Steinmetz, 2019; The Humid workshop- Irina Rozovsky, Mark Steinmetz, 2020; mentorship-Traer Scott. The School of Light with Andrew Hall—online workshops; New Orleans Photo Alliance—online workshop with Natasha Sanchez.