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About
Spencer Plumlee is an American Painter born in 1997 and is currently living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Plumlee received a BFA from Rogers State University in May of 2019. Her practice focuses on community engagement by painting from personal experience and the people she encounters. She chronicles the human experience through personal reflections in each piece and immerses the viewer through paintings that act as time capsules. Plumlee presented a solo exhibition titled "Day 'N' Nite" in 2019 at the Cameron Studios in partnership with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She has shown across the United States and Italy. Plumlee has attended the Tyler School of Art Summer Painting Intensive, The New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, the Mount Gretna School of Art, and received the 2019 Momentum Grant from Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition.
Résumé
Education
2019 BFA: Studio Art, magna cum laude (3.98 GPA), Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2016 Associates in Art, magna cum laude, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
Awards & Acknowledgments
2022 Tulsa Creative Engine Sponsorship Recipient: Art Basel Miami 2022, Miami,FL
2020 Spotlight Artist Recipient for Momentum 2020, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, OKC, OK
2019 Outstanding Capstone Award, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2015-19 President’s Honor Roll, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK & Tulsa Community
College, Tulsa, OK
2019 First Place, RSU Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 First Place, RSU Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2017 LaMonica Endowment Recipient, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2016 Three Art Talent-ships, TCC Juried Art Show, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
2015 Art Excellence Award, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
2015 Tulsa Gay & Straight Alliance Leadership Award, Equality Center, Tulsa, OK
2015 Community Excellence Award, Catoosa, OK
Solo Exhibition
2023 Psychedelic Cemetery, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2023 Psychedelic Cemetery, The Studio Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2022 Solo Exhibition, Neff Brewing Company, Tulsa, OK
2021 Solo Exhibition, The Coffee House On Cherry Street, Tulsa, OK
2021 Solo Mural, Leftys on Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
2021 Solo Exhibition, Bar46, Tulsa, OK
2021 Solo Exhibition, Live Painting, Lefty’s on Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
2020 Social + Distance, Shoebox Gallery, Online Gallery Space
2019 Day ‘N’ Nite, Cameron Studio Gallery, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK
2019 Spencer Plumlee, North Eastern Cancer Center, Claremore, OK
2018 Art Market After Dark, Guthrie Green, Tulsa, OK
2014 Permanent Solo Mural, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
2014 Permanent Solo Classroom Mural, Catoosa High School, Catoosa, OK
Selected Group Exhibition
2024 Mayfest HeArt of Tulsa Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2024 “GOOD GIRL”, The Studio Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2023 Champagne & Chocolate Gala, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
2023 Blurry Vision, Highside Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2023 “I WANT TO SUSPEND DISBELIEF”, LaVerne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR
2022 Mount Gretna School of Art Group Exhibition, Mount Gretna, PA
2022 “Faces & Figures”, The Studio Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2021 “Seeing Red”, Art House Show 7, The Canopy, Tulsa, OK
2021 “Music Appreciation”, Lot No. 6, Tulsa, OK
2021 “Oh Tulsa!”, Living Arts Of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2021 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Project, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa. OK
2021 Art House Show 5, Tulsa, OK
2021 Art House Show 4, Tulsa, OK
2020 Art in the Time of Covid, Center For Public Secrets, Tulsa, OK
2020 Quarantine Showcase: Art & Artists in Isolation, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
2020 Momentum 2020, Dead People’s Stuff, OKC, OK
2020 Momentum 2020, Modella Art Gallery, Stillwater, OK
2020 Momentum Spotlight Preview, 21C Museum Hotel, OKC, OK
2019 Anagram Generator, The Stella Elkins Galleries, Tyler School of Art,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2019 BFA Capstone Exhibition, Gary Moeller Gallery of the Arts, Claremore, OK
2019 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Art Off the Hill Festival, Ne-Mar Center, Claremore, OK
2018 Italy Art Exhibit, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Mostra d’Arte, Student Art Exhibition, Montone, Italy
2018 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Back Gallery Portrait Show, Tulsa, OK
2016 Student Juried Art Show, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK
Residencies
2022. Mount Gretna School of Art Summer Painting Residency, Mount Gretna, PA
2020 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson, New York Studio School, Brooklyn,NY
2019 Summer Painting Intensive, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2018 RSU Summer Art Program in Italy, Montone, Florence, Rome, & Venice, Italy
Curatorial Work
2020 Strange Encounters of the Close Kind, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2019 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Student Juried Art Show, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Publications & Press
2020 Issue #1: Inaugural, Ode to Queer Literary & Art Journal
2020 RSU alumna Spencer Plumlee captures history through art. The Claremore Daily Progress
2020 Issue #8, ASLUT Magazine
2020 March 2020 Issue, Pikchur Magazine
2019 Cooweescoowee, Collegiate Journal of Arts & Letters, Rogers State University
2018 Student Art Exhibition Poster Art, Montone, Italy
2018 Italy Art Exhibit Poster Art, Rogers State University
2018 Cooweescoowee, Collegiate Journal of Arts & Letters, Rogers State University
Study Abroad & International Travel
2019 College Art Association 107th Annual Conference, Times Square, New York
2019 Rogers State University Art Abroad Program, Montone, Venice, Florence, Rome, Italy
2017 Tallinn, Estonia
2016 Study Abroad, Scotland, London, & Ireland. Cultural Geography & Economic Geography
Credits, Tulsa Community College
Teaching & Related Experience
2023 Adjunct Professor of Fine Art, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2021 Observational Painting Instructor, Tulsa Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2018-23 Painting Instructor, Pinot’s Palette, Tulsa, OK
2019 Student Office Worker, Department of Fine Arts, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2019 Gallery Preparator, Gary Moeller Gallery of the Arts, Rogers State University, Claremore,
OK
2019 Art Model, Freelance, Tulsa, OK
2018 Art Market After Dark Event Vendor, Guthrie Green, Tulsa, OK
2015-18 Art Model, Tulsa Art Center, Tulsa, OK
2019 Portfolio Review Panelist, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
2018 Informational Panelist, Summer Art Program in Italy, Rogers State University, Claremore,
OK
Artist Talks & Philanthropy
2021 Live Panel Painting Donation, Food On The Move, (Painted a panel centered around the
theme of community that will be at each future food donation center events with the
ability for participants to draw on it and encourage further community involvement. ) OSU
Tulsa Campus, Tulsa, OK
2020 Trump Political Puppet, Created and donated a 20 ft papier-mâché marionette satirical
puppet of Trump that was passed around to anti trump rallies and town halls in 10
different states in the summer of the BLM Protests
2020 Painting Fundraiser, “Tulsa, 99 Years Later”, ($4K raised for the Greenwood Cultural Center),
Tulsa,OK
2020 Artist Talk, Bedroom Talk, Momentum 2020, Dead People’s Stuff, OKC, OK
2019 Artist Talk, BFA Capstone Presentation, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK
Television
2020 NowThis Spotlight Artist Interview for the Art House Shows, Tulsa, OK
2020 Center For Public Secrets to Showcase Art Made During Pandemic, Matt Rahn, Interview, News
on 6, Tulsa, OK, October 20th, 2020.
Professional Organizations
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
College Art Association