Solo Exhibitions
2023 Sacred Biodiversity: Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2023 “Saving Beauty: The Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species of Angela Manno,” Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
Past:
2016-2017 May You Walk in Beauty: The Contemplative Landscapes of Angela Manno, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA
2014 - 2015 The Evolutionary Art of Angela Manno One Spirit Learning Alliance, New York, NY
2003 Les paysages d’âme d’Angela Manno—The Soul Scapes of Angela Manno, Bastide Le Mourre, Oppède-le-Vieux, France
1998 The Art of Transfiguration, MLT Gallery, Litchfield CT
1995 A Sense of Place, Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, Colorado
1985 - 1988 Conscious Evolution: The World At One, International Touring Museum Exhibition. United Nations Pavilion, Vancouver; BC; Museo Technologico, Mexico City; and museums and galleries throughout the U.S.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 (ongoing) One World Connected, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 2023 Animal Kingdom, Cape Cod Cultural Center, South Yarmouth MA 2022 Mayday! Eaarth, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 2021 Earth on the Edge, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Endangered Earth, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2017-2018 Arts Select at Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
2017 Art of the Garden, The Lazarus Gallery, United Hebrew of New Rochelle, NY
2016 Lucille Lucas Gallery, Gunnison, CO
2015 Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2014 82nd Annual Juried Exhibition of the Hudson Valley Art Association, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2014 Laudes Creaturarum, St Paul’s Lutheran Church for Climate Week, Williamsburg, NY
2013 High Art: A Decade of Collecting, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2011 Fracking: Art & Activism Against the Drill, Exit Art, New York, NY
2011 WaterAid, Bone/Levine, New York, NY
2010-2011 Digital 2010: PLANET EARTH, New York Hall of Science Museum, NY, NY
2010 Northeast National Pastel Exhibition, Lorenzo Chavez, Juror - The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, NY
2010 Out of this World: Art of the Space Age – Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC Virtual Exhibition
2009 Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY Juried Show 2009 HerStory 2009, Manhattan Arts International Online Exhibition 2009 MLT Gallery, Litchfield, CT 15th Anniversary Retrospective #2
2009 Columbia County Council on the Arts: “The Artist and The Elemental Landscape,” Hudson, NY
2008 Dolan Arts Center, Locust Valley, NY
2008 36th Annual Pastel Society of America Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York NY
2008 Seven Pillars House of Wisdom Art Exhibition, Joline Art Center, New Lebanon, NY
2007 35th Annual Pastel Society of America Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2006 34th Annual Pastel Society of America Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2004-2006 Generous Friends, Building an Art Collection For the National Air & Space Museum National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2004 Arts for the Parks, National Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
2002-2004 Lucille Lucas Gallery, Crested Butte, CO
2002 l’Exposition de Peinture Salon d’Eté, Office de Tourisme, Sault, France
2001 Dolan Arts Center, Locust Valley, Long Island, NY
2001 l’Exposition de Peinture Salon d’Eté, Office de Tourisme, Sault, France
2001 Traces of Provence, Alliance Française/ French Institute, New York, NY
2001 Landscapes, Real and Imagined, Juror: Anthony Grant, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
2001 Une Soirée Provençale, Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL
2000 Messages from Earth, Aosta, Italy & Huntsville, AL
1998 Women Artists of the NASA Art Program, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1997 Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Ward Nasse Gallery, NY, NY
1991 Art of the Cosmic Age, Smithsonian Institution, National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
1989 The Art of STS-26, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1989-1994 Art of the Cosmos, Traveling Exhibition - Hayden Planetarium, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport Connecticut, Alabama Rocket and Space Center, Arts and Science Center, Statesville, North Carolina, Bergen Museum, New Jersey, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore
1989 Star ways to the Heavens, International Space Art Exhibition, Pavilion of Achievement Cultural Center, Moscow, USSR
Public Collections
Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., Permanent Fine Art Collection -- 12 piece mixed media series, “Conscious Evolution: The World At One” donated by Tom Hanks, AXA Space, The Whizin Foundation, Xerox Foundation, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, Ned and Jessica Dansen and dozens of individual sponsors.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center, Florida - Permanent Exhibition
Bibliography
Lynn Warren, “Underwater Icon: An Artistic Tribute to the Manatee,“ National Wildlife Magazine, July 4, 2023
Ray Hardman, “Sacred Biodiversity: An Artist’s Unique Approach to Species Conservation,” National Public Radio, All Things Considered, April 20, 2023
Jim McDermott, “This Earth Day, “The artist painting beautiful i cons of God’s Endangered Species,” America Magazine, April 21, 2023
Sarah Rose Sharp, “The artist painting icons of Earth’s endangered species”, Hyperallergic, March 2023
Andrea M Couture, “Creating a Sense of Reverence for Every Species,” Sojourners Magazine, July 2022
Brian Roewe, “ ‘When Biodiversity Flourishes, Human Life Flourishes,’ Vatican Officials Say” Earthbeat, a project of the National Catholic Reporter May 26, 2022
“Picturing Earth, Inspiring Artists, and Shifting Perspectives” Smithsonian, National Air & Space Museum, February 2022
Mary Jo DiLeonardo, “Artist paints endangered species as icons” Treehugger Jan 6, 2022
Barbara Fraser, “Artist paints icons of endangered species to ‘foster ecological conversion’ “ Earthbeat, May 21, 2021
Jennifer Lavasseur, “Through Astronaut Eyes,” Purdue University Press, June 30, 2020, pp 178-179
Benjamin Krevolin, Hudson Valley News, “Art in the Loft, Summer 2009,” July 2009
Renée Phillips, Art Calendar, “Dare to Step Outside the Box,” June 2009
Howie Kahn, “The Easel Has Landed,” ART News, January 2005
“Une Américaine en Luberon pour trouver de la lumière,” La Provence, Marseille, France, June 25, 2003
Shara Rutberg, “Profile: Angela Manno,” The Crested Butte Weekly, December 12, 2002
Sandy Fails, “Angela Manno: Homage to a Fragile Planet,” The San Luis Valley Magazine, 2002
Debra Christensen, “Angela Manno: Connection to the Land Through Landscape Painting,” Pastel Journal, May/June 2002
Anne Silver, “Artist Angela Manno Affirms “The Big Picture,” The Crestone Eagle, February 2002
“Broad Street Art Galleries Open House,” Naples Daily News, (Naples, FL), February 16, 2001
“Conscious Evolution: The World At One” Flyer, the Newsletter of the National Air and Space Society, Fall 1999, Volume 4, Issue 2
“Angela Manno,” Magical Blend, July, 1994
Clare Ellis, “One Small Step for Manno,” New Age Magazine, March/April, 1999
“Des Peintres Américains Conquis par la Lavande” La Provence, Marseille, France. July 30, 1997
Sandy Fails, “Angela Manno brings her art back home” Crested Butte Chronicle & Pilot, Crested Butte, CO. August 4,1995
Beth Schmidt, “NASA’s Art Program Captures What the Cameras Can’t” NASA Magazine, Arts & Sciences, Spring, 1992 pg 13-16
Carolyn Blakeslee and Drew Steis, editors, Making a Living as an Artist, Volume I, Art Calendar Publications, 1992
Andrei Sokolov, Ron Miller and Vitaly Myagkov. Edited by William K Hartman. In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet-American. New York, Workman Publishing, 1990
David Hardy, Visions of Space. London, Dragon’s World Press, 1989
Todd Halvorson, “Artistic Discovery: NASA Should Send Artists Into Space,” Florida Today, September 30, 1989
Emily J. Smith, “NASA Relinquishes Secrets, Puts Artists Into Launch Picture,” The Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach, FL. September 29, 1988
Greg Booth, “Conscious Evolution: Angela Manno fuses fabric, space to make ‘a world at one’” Grand Forks Herald, September 1988
Francisco José Bernal, “Pintura Esotérica; lo Divino y lo Bellamente Humano, El Heraldo, Mexico City, Mexico. October 25, 1987
John Colson and Paul Anderson, “If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?” The Aspen Times, June 18, 1987
Shari Fey, “Artist strives for a better world” Beaumont Enterprise, (Beaumont, TX) April 19, 1987
Laura Brown, “Global unity theme of batik exhibit” The News, New Westminster, BC July 6, 1986
Lucille Cutler, “Conscious Evolution: The World At One” Sunstorm, June 1985
“Angela Manno, The World at One,” The Long Islander (Huntington, NY) July 18, 1985
Malcolm Preston, “A Sense of Holiness, A Sense of Oneness” Newsday, Melville, NY. July 8, 1985
Angela Manno, Fiberarts Sept/Oct 1985, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p18 Interior Design Magazine, September, 1984
Grants and Awards
Celebrate HerStory 2009, Best in Mixed Media, Manhattan Arts International
2004 Award for Excellence, The National Park Academy of the Arts
2000 Thematic Award, College of Art and Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
The Xerox Foundation, 1999 – Smithsonian Museum Acquisition Sponsor
The Xerox Corporation, Spring and Fall, 1987 - Traveling Exhibition Grant
Radio/Television/Film
NPR- All Things Considered, “Sacred Biodiversity: An artist’s unique approach to species conservation,” April 20, 2023
Living Hero: Conversations with Living Luminaries and Mavericks, podcast. “Solastalgia and the Creative Response,” with Angela Manno, Glenn Albrecht and Suzi Gablik, March 7, 2013
WGDR Goddard Community Radio, Goddard, VT, “Angela Manno: Art & Activism,” March 2, 2013 Angela Manno, Interview:
“Art & Spirituality II,” PCTV, Pleasantville, NY June 2012
“Love for Nature and the Integrity of the Spiritual, Human and Natural World,” LadyBug Live internet radio, May 2010
“Voyage aux Pays des Lavandes,” French documentary film, Jean-Jacques Dubois, 2000
Angela Manno, Interview: “The Power of Intuition,” Manhattan Cable, 2000
“Sights and Sounds of Space” National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989 Interview with Angela Manno, French CBC Radio, Vancouver, Canada, 1986
“Angela Manno at the South Huntington Library,” WCWP Radio, Greenvale, NY, Oct 10, 1985
Book, Article and Magazine Illustrations
Come Have Breakfast, Meditations on God and the Earth, Elizabeth Johnson, Feb 24, 2024
Animal Dignity, Melanie Challenger ed., Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2, 2023
Doors of Understanding: Conversations in Global Spirituality in honor of Ewert Cousins, Franciscan Press, Ed Steve Chase, 1997
Jonah: A Prophecy at the Millennium, Albert LaChance, 1998 Dorrance Pub Company
Magical Blend Magazine, “The Story of the Earth and Us,” Albert Gore, Jr., July, 1994
Magical Blend Magazine, “Angela Manno,” February 1994
Creation Spirituality, Volume 1 #5, “Communities”, November 1, 1985
Publications as Author
“Art, Big Dreams and Mythic Vision ” essay in Shamanic Journey Into Earth’s Wisdom: Reflections on the Cosmovision of Thomas Berry, Ed. Gail Worcelo, New Perennials Press, August 2024
“The Soul of the Moment” The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, March 16, 2021
“Contemplating Beauty: The Universe as Icon,” Chrysalis, The Journal of the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World. Volume 17, 2020 10-16, reprinted in Teilhard Perspectives, Winter 2021 “Venerating the Sacred: Art as Cultural Therapy,” Kosmos Journal, Autumn 2020 “Angela Manno-Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species,” Rewilding Earth, Feb 15, 2020 “Reclaiming Visual Ministry,” Friends Journal, September 1, 2009. 28–29 “Practical Mysticism: Contemplation, Creativity and the Ecozoic Age,” The Ecozoic Reader, 2008. 37–40 “Light, Creation and Creativity,” Desert Call, Summer, 2005. 4–7 “Techniques of Resist Painting” The Artist's Magazine, February, 1986. 63–67
Public Appearances, Lectures and Workshops:
Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue, March 16, 2023 Art for Earth’s Sake, Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Nova Scotia, September 2022 Artists Talk on Art, 82 Virtual Open Studio, November 2021 The Art of Evolution, Findhorn Foundation, March 7, 2021 Voices of the Great Work American Teilhard Association, Annual Meeting, June 2020 Painting Color & Light in Pastel, Hunter College, New York, March-April 2015 Color & Light in Pastel, Friends Academy Visiting Artist, Locust Valley, NY April 2015 Color & Light 3 Day Painting Intensive in the Berkshires, May 8-11, 2014
Picturing the Ecological Age, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY March 31, 2014
Picturing the Ecological Age, One Spirit Learning Alliance, New York, Jan 10, 2014 Painting Color & Light, New York Open Center, New York, NY 2012-2013 Teilhard’s Legacy Conference presenter Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2006 Couleur et Lumière en Provence®/ Color & Light in Provence - 5 Day Intensive workshop, Sault-en-Provence, France July, 2005
Color & Light still-life studio classes, Crested Butte, Colorado, Winter 2003
Color & Light 5 Day Intensive, Crested Butte, Colorado August, 2002
Color & Light 5 Day Intensive, School of Living Arts, Crestone, CO July 1998
Sacred Sources of Creativity with Ewert Cousins, New York Open Center, New York, NY April 1997 Honors Colloquium, University of North Dakota, September 1988
Artist Speaker Series, Daytona Beach Community College, December 1988
Techniques of Resist Painting, Parsons School of Design, Summer Session, 1985
Techniques of Resist Painting, Demonstration and Slide presentation, Donnell Library, New York, NY 1985 Techniques of Resist Painting, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, May 1985
Organizations:
Pastel Society of America, Gramercy Park, New York, NY Artists for Conservation, B.C., Canada New York Artists Circle, New York, NY ecoartspace, Santa Fe, NM EcoArt Network American Teilhard Association, New York, NY.
Education:
B.A. French & English, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, 1975
Sarah Lawrence College, l’Ecole des Arts, Lacoste, France, 1972
School of Batik Painting, New York & Bombay, 1975-78 San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate studies in film, film animation, printmaking, 1976-1977 Parsons School of Design, Fiber Art 1982
Prosopon School of Iconology, Vladislav Andrejev, 1994-1998
Cape Cod School of Art Instructors, Plein air painting, 1994-1998
South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA, Encaustic painting, Spring 2000
Creative Aging Training Institute, Creative Center, N.Y. March 2017