ARTIST
Mt. Crawford, VA | Richmond, CA
pat@pataugsburger.net | pataugsburger.net | 510-282-8472
STATEMENT
I am a maker, a doer, a creator. The process feeds my soul, calms my mind, and stretches my body. It is what I believe I was made to do while on this earth, what I need to do to manage in our chaotic world. I have been blessed with a curious mind and as a child rewarded by my parents for exercising and feeding my curiosity. But this process of making and my ability to see it through keeps me wanting to wake up every day.
I continue to be filled with awe and wonder from the beauty and ugliness of our world and how these two divergent realities coexist. Creating helps all of me manage the disparities between the beauty and ugliness and the exploration involved with creating is a very satisfying distraction from what I call chaos.
As I work in my studio, I use whatever medium fulfills my need at the time, feels right in my hands and pleases my eyes and my sense of smell. I have used textiles and other fibers, the photographic process and oil painting. There are still more mediums I hope to explore, but, at the moment I am completely entranced with oil paints. They can be very forgiving yet unapologetically powerful. For me oils have a sensuous, passionate quality that can reveal anger or love in one brush stroke, can turn day into night with the slightest addition of pigment and can completely convince me that I never was an artist and never will be one and then a moment later make me feel as if I am the best at my craft. If through all of this process, what I create awakens something in another person, challenges someone’s thinking or brings them pleasure in any way, then that is utterly amazing for me.
If any or all of this earns me the title of Artist. I will own that with pride. Most of my life I would not call myself an artist. I always thought that selling work or some sort of acknowledgement from outside of myself was necessary to own that title but I believe now that the act alone of creating, making, being, is the artist in all of us, if we choose, and it is what I choose.
EDUCATION
STAR I & I I Certificates
Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience
Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA - 2013
MA/ Urban Studies
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA - 2010
BGS/ Photography & Design
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA - 1995
EXPERIENCE
Artist Member Coordinator, August 2022 - September 2023 | Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes Station, CA
Artist Member, April 2022 - present | Gallery Route One, Pt Reyes Station, CA
Artist Member, December 2022- present | Arts of Pt. Richmond, Pt. Richmond, CA
Artist Member, Oct. 2021 - present | Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA
Chair Board of Directors, 2014 - 2023 | Black Swan Arts & Media formerly ALICE Arts, Oakland, CA
Consultant to Board of Directors and Executive Director, Directed SOAR Methodology Strategic Planning workshops, 2017 - 2019 | NIAD (Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development,) Richmond, CA
Artist in Residence, September 2013 - December, 2013 | Eastern Mennonite University, Center for Justice and Peace, Harrisonburg, VA
Pres. Board of Directors/Executive Director, June 2013 - May 2014 | Central Shenandoah Arts, Harrisonburg, VA Interim Professor & Dept. Head, Fiber Arts Dept., August 2011 - May 2012 | James Madison University, School of Art Design and Art History, Harrisonburg, VA
Program Manager, Feb. 2011 - July 2011 | Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA
EXHIBITIONS | PUBLICATIONS | CURATED EXHIBITIONS
TIO(Taking It Outdoors), jurried exhibition, Arts of Pt. Richmond, Richmond, CA. March, 2024
FOOD MOMENTS: musings from the Shenandoah Valley, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA - Jan. 2024
Members Show, jurried exhibition, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA - November 2023
Call & Response, jurried exhibition, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA - August 2023
Time of Wonder, Solo exhibition, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, May 5, 2023 - June 11, 2023
Summer Exhibition, jurried exhibition, Lara’s Fine Dinning, Richmond, CA July 2023 - November 2023
Faces and Places, jurried exhibition, Arts of Point Richmond, Pt Richmond, CA - April 2023
Opening Doors: The Art of Inclusion, jurried exhibition, Arts council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA - March 2023
Members Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA – Oil on linen, May 2023
Convergence from the Edge, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA - November 2022
Spotlight Magazine, October 2022
Circle Quarterly Art Review, August 2022
Women in Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, July 2022
VMRC Annual Juried Show, Harrisonburg, VA, June 2022
Members Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, May 2022
Blessed Unrest Juried Show, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA, March 2022
Art Lotto, Smith House, Harrisonburg, VA - Artist, Mixed Media, August 2019
Art Lotto, Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA - Artist, Mixed Media, August 2014
A Peace in Process, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA - Curator & Contributing Artist, November 2013
Grateful Sarees, Rockingham Memorial Hospital Women’s Health Center, Harrisonburg, VA - Textile Commission Permanent Installation, March 2013
Performing Our Stories, Performing Ourselves: In Search of Kenya’s Uhuru Generation, Mshai Mwangola, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA - Textiles, November 2012
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya - Kanga Stories Research Project, August 2009
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance exhibition for World AIDS Day, United Nations Secretariat, New York, 2004
HIV/AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004
X- Change, developed and curated pilot program, SFAI, San Francisco, CA
Co-curator for global advocacy project on HIV and AIDS - related stigma and discrimination for Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children, Geneva, CH, October 2006
Co-curator of exhibition for Secretary General, United Nations, NYC and Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights, Geneva, CH, 2001 - 2006
Design, and photography of, A Place at theTable, International Decade of Indigenous Peoples, 2005 - 2006
Co-curator & concept development of the advocacy exhibition for the first United Nations Permanent Forum on In digenous Issues Exhibition, 2001 - 2002 United Nations, New York, NY and United Nations, Geneva, CH, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Geneva, CH, 2002 - 2004
BIO
I am an artist, mother and grandmother with studios in Virginia and California. I completed my bachelor’s degree from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA and my master’s degree from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. I am very fortunate to have traveled and exhibited internationally, experiencing our world’s beauty and diversity.
Presently I am in the midst of a collaboration with Phyllis Ressler, Food Moments: musings from the Shenandoah Valley. The first stage of this project was recently exhibited at the Arts Council of the Valley in Harrisonburg, VA. The project explores communities and cultures of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia through stories and paintings. In May of 2023 I exhibited a solo show of my paintings, Time of Wonder, at Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA. I have also recently exhibited at Arts of Pt Richmond, Faces of Pt Richmond, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Call and Response, Arts of Pt. Richmond Annual Juried Summer Exhibition 2023, Gallery Route One Annual Jurried Exhibition 2022, Pt Reyes Station, CA, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA and Arts Council of the Valley Juried Members Exhibit 2022. My textile piece, Grateful Sarees, is in a permanent installation at the Sentara Center for Women’s Health. I have also exhibited internationaly in Bangkok,Thailand, Nairobi, Kenya and Geneva, Switzerland.
have also worked with multiple non-profits as a Board Chair and as a consultant to various Board of Directors. I presently serve as the Board Chair of Black Swan Arts and Media in Oakland, CA. I am an Artist Member at Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station, CA and the Arts Council of the Valley in Harrisonburg, VA. I also served as the interim Head of the Fiber Arts Department at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
My artistic practice previously focused on textiles, e.g., quilting, weaving, crochet, needlework and photography as my mediums for expression. Recently oil painting has been my main artistic medium. I explore expressionism in both figurative and landscape painting.