VALERIE FAIR
Selected PUBLICATIONs, Awards & Exhibits
An extended resume can be seen by contacting the artist by email valeriefairarts@hotmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
CAPTIVATED: Fearfully, Wonderfully Made! A Compilation of Women Visual Artists, Phyllicia M. Hatton, M.Div.
American Visions: The Art of Collecting, WCCCD, Northwest Campus, Brown and Juanita C. Ford Art Gallery
Artists On the Cutting Edge 2016-June 2023, Artist/Publisher, https://www.artistonthecuttingedgee-magazine.com/
Bold Journey, 2024 "Meet Valerie Fair - Bold Journey Magazine "
Art In America, Annual Guide 2000 – 2006
Art In America 1997-98 Guide of Museums and Artists
World Traveler, Northwest Airlines, September 1997
The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 24 No. 3B
The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 14 No. 14
Ebony magazine, February 1998
AWARDS
2009 Artist of Promise, South Mountain Community College
2007 Best in Show, Arizona Republic, Chandler ArtWalk June
1998 Traveling Exhibition “She Be Me”, Art League of Michigan
Nokomis Learning Center, Lansing, MI
Canton Cultural Center, Canton, MI
Casa Unidad, Detroit, MI
North American Cultural Center, Detroit, MI
SELECTED SOLO & Group EXHIBITIONS
2025 National Conference of Artists, Michigan Chapter, Art Party 34, "Under Seize Series", 15 Paintings
Annual Community Consciousness-Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast and Community Artists
WCCCD Brown & Juanita C. Ford Art Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2023 Scottsdale Library Gallery, "Diversion" Scottsdale, Arizona, Group Exhibit
2019 “Beneath the Mountains” new paintings, acrylic, Detroit Repertory Theatre
2016 Scottsdale Civic Center Library Gallery, 11 Miles of Color
2018 Installation, Hearts & Plastic All Over Town”, Crochet heart, plastic bottles, marker, paper, string
Multiple Detroit locations
2005 “Vibes of the City”, Arizona State University, West Campus
2005 “New Work” Paintings, Fiber, Ceramics, National Conference of Artists, Detroit
1999 Detroit Repertory Theatre, Retrospective
1997 "Kitchen Cabinets", National Conference of Artists, Detroit
1986 "Fabric Works", Southfield Civic Center, Southfield