News and Publications

2023

Paperworks 2023

Juried Exhibition

B.J. SPOKE gallery
online exhibition

July 1-  31, 2023

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Guardian

2023

BIMA Spotlight

Juried Exhibition

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Bainbridge Island, WA

Jun 30 – Sep 10, 2023

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Nest

2023

Fresh Perspectives

Women Painters of WA
Juried Show

Gallery Syre
Bellingham, WA

August 5 to September 23, 2023

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Into the Light I

2022-2023

Women Painters of WA
group show

Aljoya Mercer Island

October thru February  

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Up Close to

2022

The Keller Prize

Listing in the on-line gallery

Kellerprize Gallery link

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2022

Artist of Edmonds Waterfront

WPW members living in the Edmonds area

Edmonds Waterfront Center
July 7, 2022 to October 4, 2022

 

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2022

Golden – 50 and Older
International Show

Laguna Beach, CA
June, 2 to 30

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Nest

2022

Gallerium Art Exhibitions

online exhibition
gallerium.art

Gallerium Art Prize (GAP) 2022

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Up

2022

Inaugural Exhibition at Graphite
Art Building, Edmonds, WA

The Trees Among Us

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

photo by Tracy Felix

2022

Women Painters of WA
Juried Show  Creative Paradigm

 

Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park

OPEN every weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) 11 to 5, weekdays by appt. 360-387-2759 or email: matzke@camano.net

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

From Darkness to Light IV

2021

Circle Quarterly Art Review

Contest Finalist Award
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Nest

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2021

Exhibizon

Summer 2021 Exhibition
online Virtual Gallery
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Nest

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2021

Art Fluent

Lumiere
online Virtual Gallery
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Finalists in the Artavita contest!

From Darkness to Ligiht II

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2021

Women Painters of WA 90th Anniversary Juried Show

Reflection 

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First Place Award!

Up

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2020

LAS LAGUNA GALLERY

Botanical
online Virtual Gallery
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Torso IV

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2020

Art Fluent

Muse
online Virtual Gallery
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Verulam III

2020

Matzke Fine Art and Sculpture Park

Celebrating 90 years!
March to April 2020

The Lovers

2019

Circle For the Arts

Artist of the Year Competition
Honorable Mention Award

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Up

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2019

Cascadia Art Museum

Invitational Solo Exhibit

Edmonds, WA

Totem

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2018

9th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing

Drawing Discourse

Asheville, North Carolina

Royal Paulownia

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2017

Invitational Show, Bainbridge Island Art Museum

Revering Nature 

 Bainbridge Island,WA

Sentinel

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2016

WPW and NAWA juried show

Women Artists Coast to Coast – West

Washington State Convention Cente

Fragment III

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2016

Verum Ultimum Art Gallery

 Living Mark Exhibition

Portland, OR

Torso

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

2016

Northwind Art Center

Expressions Northwest, 18th Annual Juried Show

Port Townsend, WA

Verulam

Drawing by Donna Leavitt

Publications

2015

Art Zone: Donna Leavitt
July 2, 2015

Meet Donna Leavitt, a graphite artist who specializes in large composite drawings of trees.

watch the video

2015

Review: CityArts Magazine, March 2015

Devoid of Color

In 1930, Women Painters of Washington was launched to represent female painters from across the state and to mount regular exhibitions in Seattle and beyond. On March 5, 38 members of WPW present work that interprets the world through a palette devoid of color, exploring themes of light and dark, black and white. Donna Leavitt’s graphite drawing “Verulam” is a rendering of a lime tree in St. Albans, England, pieced together from many sheets of paper. “[This process] started in Macedonia where I served in the Peace Corps from 2006 to 2008 and had to make my drawings fit into a suitcase at the end of service,” Leavitt says. “Thus all of my big trees are done on multiple papers.” This tree is drawn from a series of photographs taken last September in St. Albans. “I was attracted to the way the light was working on the structure of the tree, and its elegant form,” Leavitt says.

Verulam  

Additional Publications

  • 2016 Southwest Art Magazine, “The Western Landscape”.
  • 2015 Visual Voices, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
  • 2013 Green Art, Trees, Leaves and Roots
  • 2010 Colored Pencil Society of America, Signature Showcase
  • Anniversary Exhibition, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
  • 2005 An Enduring Legacy, “Women Painters of Washington, 1930-2005”
  • 1999 Kuwait, Millenium Images, Kuwait and America
  • 1999 The Best of Colored Pencil, Vol. 5