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Summarized List of Solo, Curated and Juried Exhibits:

Somerhill Gallery, Durham NC -- Guernsey’s Beasts Park Ave Armory, NYC -- AIR Auction, NYC -- Chuck Levitan Gallery, NYC -- Islip Art Museum, NY --
Anthony Girodano Gallery, Long Island NY -- Eleanor Heartney Catalog -- National Arts Club, NYC -- Christie's Wildlife Auction, London -- Washington Women's Art Ctr, DC -- Gallery 10 LTD, DC -- Foundry Gallery, DC -- City Without Walls Gallery, Newark NJ -- Aljira Fine Art Auction, Newark NJ -- Artemesia Gallery, Chicago IL -- NC Museum of Art, Raleigh NC -- SECCA, NC -- BTI, Raleigh NC -- Durham Art Guild, NC -- Morehead St. University, KY -- Green Hill Center for Art, NC -- UNC PBS TV Production Alligator and Ellis -- Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro NC -- Springfield Art Museum, Mo -- Carol Reece Museum, TN -- Fayetteville Museum of Art, NC -- Irene Leache Memorial & Exhibit -- Audubon Museum, Henderson KY -- Chrysler Museum, VA -- UN World Conference Beijing, China -- OCAG, CA -- Attica, GA -- Dog Show, Wichita, KS -- Carrack Gallery of Art, Durham, NC -- FRANK Gallery Chapel Hill, NC -- Horace Williams House Chapel Hill, NC -- NC State Legislature Building Raleigh, NC -- center/gallery  Carrboro, NC -- CAM, Raleigh, NC


 Art in Museum Collections:

Kruianga Art Museum, Hope College Holland MI: 5 Endangered Lithographs (Zoo, Round UP, Give Us This Day, White Elephant, Both Endangered) and    3   Lithographs relating to Original Sin (Original Sin, Expulsion Ghost, Death Angel)
More works are in museums; but, unfortunately I don't have the specifics. If any have seen my work in museum collections, please do notify me so I can add it to this listing.

Awarded Honors by these Jurors:

D Furchgott -- J. Jordan -- L. Dennison -- Ivan Karp -- Lloyd Herman -- Herb Jackson -- Maud Gatewood.

Publication Credits:

Haddad’s Fine arts -- Best of Worldwide Wildlife Artists Vol1 (invitation) -- Scribum -- NC Literary Journal -- Art Calendar -- Reinhard/Holt, NYC -- Canadian Women Studies --  Duke University Press --  Genetics in Medicine
2017 on:
Article on Louise Francke: Surrealism to Abstraction: A creative transformation

The Charles Carter online literary magazine website has featured:
     "Mists" alongside "Gemstones" by Donovan James: http://www.thecharlescarter.com/writing/2017/07/11/gemstones/
     "Weather Warning" alongside "Body Subconscious" by Mike Edmundson: http://www.thecharlescarter.com/writing/2017/07/19/body-subconscious/

Art Archives:

The Mint Museum, NC -- Bronx Museum of Arts, NYC -- The National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC -- center/gallery Rutgers University, NJ.

Grants/Fellowships:

NC Humanities   1992 & 1991, Samuel Kress Fellowship (Art History, IU Bloomington, IN)

Panel Participant:

Artists Talk on Art, Curator’s Choice at Fulcrum Gallery, Soho, NYC

Finalist:

Creative Artists Network Philadelphia PA - Jurors: Jamie Wyeth -- Janet Fleischer -- Wil Barnet

On-Line Locations of my art works:

    Saatchi Online Gallery        http://ocagnc.org/profile/50/          http://trianglevisualartists.com/artist-galleries/louise-francke/
                                            

Online Shops:

Hand pulled lithographs and drypoints:      http://www.artfinder.com/louise-francke
Paintings:                                                            http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/27325




Art Education:

Mat Radford -- Reilly Brewster -- Wilbur Neiwald -- William Bailey -- Robert Barnes -- Robert Nelson -- Rudy Pozzatti -- Beth Grabowski -- Keith Crown -- Leo Jungblut
The Bergen School - Hope College - New York University at Washington Square - Indiana University in Bloomington - University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany - University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill - The Studio School in NYC
          All Artwork is ©2015-2018 Louise Francke     Protected by the Copyright Act