News and Publications
2022-2023
Women Painters of WA
group show
Aljoya Mercer Island
October thru February
Up Close to
2022
Artist of Edmonds Waterfront
WPW members living in the Edmonds area
Edmonds Waterfront Center
July 7, 2022 to October 4, 2022
2022
Golden – 50 and Older
International Show
Laguna Beach, CA
June, 2 to 30
Nest
2022
Inaugural Exhibition at Graphite
Art Building, Edmonds, WA
The Trees Among Us
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
From Darkness to Light IV
2021
Art Fluent
Lumiere
online Virtual Gallery
visit: art-fluent.com
Finalists in the Artavita contest!
From Darkness to Ligiht II
2021
First Place Award!
Up
2020
Matzke Fine Art and Sculpture Park
Celebrating 90 years!
March to April 2020
The Lovers
2019
Up
2019
Cascadia Art Museum
Invitational Solo Exhibit
Edmonds, WA
Totem
2018
9th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing
Drawing Discourse
Asheville, North Carolina
Royal Paulownia
2017
Invitational Show, Bainbridge Island Art Museum
Revering Nature
Bainbridge Island,WA
Sentinel
2016
WPW and NAWA juried show
Women Artists Coast to Coast – West
Washington State Convention Cente
Fragment III
2016
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
Living Mark Exhibition
Portland, OR
Torso
2016
Northwind Art Center
Expressions Northwest, 18th Annual Juried Show
Port Townsend, WA
Verulam
Publications
2015
Art Zone: Donna Leavitt
July 2, 2015
Meet Donna Leavitt, a graphite artist who specializes in large composite drawings of trees.
2015
Review: CityArts Magazine, March 2015
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