DONNA K. BRANCH
7621 Lakeshore Drive
McCalla, Alabama
35111
205.477.6661
www.donnabranch.com
Exhibitions
2007
“ Alabama Originals: Contemporary Craft”, Alabama Council on the Arts, Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama; Juror,Georgine Clarke
Helen Keller Festival of Arts, Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama;
2007 Southern Roots, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Central Library Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama; Juror, Dr Emily G. Hanna
Magic City Art Connection, Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama; Juror, Ron Platt
Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition, Thirty-Seventh; Juror, Dr. Clifton Pearson
2006
Moss Rock Art
Festival, The Preserve, Hoover,
Alabama; Juror, Eileen Kunzman
Magic City
Art Connection, Linn Park, Birmingham,
Alabama; Juror, Rick Lowe, juried exhibition
Group Show,
Artists Incorporated, Birmingham,
Alabama
2005
La Petite
XIII, Alder Fine
Art Gallery,
Coberg, Oregon;
Jurors: Ellen Tykeson, HattieMae Nixon
and Dena E. Brown, juried exhibition
Blue Hole Art
Fest, The Village at Blount Springs, Hayden,
Alabama; Juror, Eileen Kunzman, invitational
2005
Appalachian Corridors, Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia;
Juror, Faith Ringgold, juried
exhibition
Glass Now, National Liberty
Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
invitational
39th Annual
Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Regions Bank, Montgomery, Alabama;
Juror, Carlton Nell, juried
exhibition
Art by the
Lake, Deerwood Lake,
Harpersville, Alabama; Juror, Mary White Sowell, invitational
2005 Southern
Roots ,Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Birmingham,
Alabama; Juror, Miriam Fowler,
juried exhibition
Montgomery
Art Guild Museum Exhibition, Thirty-sixth Annual, Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Juror, Aaron
Berger, juried exhibition
2005
Exhibition South, Tennessee Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia,
Alabama; Juror, Scott Stephens, juried exhibition
Art With A
Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama; Juror, Aaron Lee Benson, juried exhibition
Magic City
Art Connection, Operation New Birmingham, Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama;
Juror, Louise E. Shaw, juried
exhibition
2004
Eye Candy,
Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga,
Tennessee; Juror, Susan W. Knowles, juried exhibition
38th Annual
Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Regions Bank Lobby, Downtown
Montgomery, Alabama; Juror, Mark Singer,
juried exhibition
2004 Southern
Roots, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute, Odessa Woolfolk Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama;
Jurors: Suzy B. Harris, Toby Hurt
Richards, juried exhibition
Art With A
Southern Drawl, 13th Annual Exhibition, University of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama;
Juror, Georgine Clarke, juried
exhibition
Magic City
Art Connection, 21st Annual Contemporary Art Festival, Operation New
Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Juror, Dr.
Jerry Cullum, juried exhibition
2003
2003 Southern
Roots, 14th Annual Juried Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil
Rights Museum, Jurors, Suzy B. Harris, Toby Hurt Richards, and
Ahmad Ward, juried exhibition
4 Bridges
Arts Festival, Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Exhibition
South, Tennessee Valley
Art Center
Museum, Tuscumbia, Alabama;
Juror, Peter J. Baldaia, juried
exhibition
Art With A
Southern Drawl XII, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama; Juror, Joseph Mella, juried exhibition
Magic City
Art Connection, 20th Annual Contemporary Art Festival, Operation New
Birmingham, Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama; Juror, Scott Stephens, juried exhibition
Winterfest
2003, Guntersville Museum & Cultural Center,
Guntersville, Alabama; Jurors: Georgine Clarke, Jack Dempsey, Pamela Watters, juried exhibition
Winter
Members Show, Birmingham Art Association,
Birmingham Art Association Gallery, Birmingham,
Alabama
2002
Holiday Treasures,
Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art
Association Gallery, Birmingham,
Alabama
Kentuck
Festival of the Arts, Kentuck Museum Association, Kentuck Park, Northport,
Alabama; Jurors, Bruce Lineker and Susanne Theis, juried exhibition
Artwalk,
Historic Loft District, Downtown Birmingham,
Alabama;
BAA Annual
Juried Show, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art Association Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama;
Juror, Cam Walker, juried exhibition
Glass
Innovations & Expressions, Moonstone Studio & Gallery, Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin; Juror, Sophia Pichinos,
juried exhibition
Southern
Roots, Thirteenth Annual Juried Exhibition, Academy
of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Jurors: Suzy B. Harris, Toby Hurt Richards,
juried exhibition
Members Show,
Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art
Association Gallery, Birmingham,
Alabama
Art With a
Southern Drawl XI, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama; Juror, W. Steve Rucker, juried exhibition
Magic City
Art Connection, 19th Annual Contemporary Arts Festival, Operation New
Birmingham, Linn Park, Birmingham,
Alabama; Juror, Brett M. Levine, juried
exhibition
Members Show,
Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art
Association Gallery, Birmingham,
Alabama
2001
Spotlight
2001, American Craft Council Southeast Region, Arrowmont School of Arts &
Crafts, Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Juror, Arlene
LewAllen, juried exhibition
Exhibition
South 2001, Tennessee Valley Art Association, Tennessee
Valley Art
Center, Tuscumbia, Alabama;
Juror, Dr. Clifton Pearson, juried
exhibition
Members Show,
Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art
Association Gallery, Birmingham,
Alabama
Annual Juried
Member Show, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Art Association Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama;
Juror, Georgine Clarke, juried
exhibition
Magic City
Art Connection, 18th Annual Contemporary Arts Festival, Operation New
Birmingham, Linn Park, Birmingham,
Alabama; Juror, Dr. Lorenzo Pace,
juried exhibition
At With a
Southern Drawl X, Juried Exhibition, University
of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama;
Juror, Gregory Sanders, juried
exhibition
2000
Members Show,
Alabama Designer Craftsmen, Birmingham Botanical Gardens;
Birmingham, Alabama
Commissions
Mr. &
Mrs. Rob Warner, Cullman, Alabama, January 2006
Collections
Samuel and Selma Savitz, Bala
Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Eileen
Kunzman, Birmingham, Alabama
Jerry
O’Toole, Birmingham, Alabama
Bibliography
2007
Alabama Originals: Contemporary Craft, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama, July 2007
Montgomery Art Guild Newsletter, July 2007
Birmingham News, May 2007
Magic City Art Connection, Operation New Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, April 2007
Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition, Montgomery Art Guild, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, February 2007
Birmingham Magazine, February 2007
The Western
Star, December 2006
Montgomery Art Guild News, December 2006
Birmingham Magazine, October 2006
Art in America: Guide
to Museums, Galleries, Artists, 2006-2007Montgomery Art Guild News, Featured
Artist, Montgomery Art Guild, November 2005
Appalachian
Corridors, Avampato Discovery Museum,
Charleston, West Virginia, September 2005
Glass Now, National Liberty
Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
September 2005
39th Annual
Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Regions Bank, September 2005
Southern
Roots, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Birmingham,
Alabama, May 2005
Montgomery Art
Guild Museum
Exhibition, Montgomery Art Guild, Montgomery Museum
of Fine Arts, Montgomery Alabama, April 2005
Exhibition
South, Tennessee Valley
Art Center,
Tuscumbia, Alabama, April 2005
Art With A
Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama, April 2005
Magic City
Art Connection, Operation New Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama,
April 2005
Eye Candy,
Association of Visual Artists Gallery, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, December 2004
38th Annual
Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition, Regions Bank, Montgomery, Alabama,
September 2004
Southern
Roots, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Birmingham,
Alabama May 2004
Art With A
Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama, April 2004
Magic City Art
Connection, Operation new Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama,
April 2004
“Looking
Glass, City employee reflects on life with glass art”, The Birmingham News,
Barnett Wright, April 2004,
“Canvas:
Donna Branch,” Birmingham
Magazine, November 1, 2003.
“Local
Artists’ work to be auctioned at Crisis Center Benefit”, The Birmingham News,
February 2003,
Winterfest
2003, Guntersville Museum & Cultural Center, Guntersville, Alabama,
January 2003
“Unique Gift
Ideas/An Angel For An Angel,” Birmingham Home and Garden Magazine,
November/December 2002,
“Artist with
State Ties,” The Birmingham
News, May 26, 2002,
Southern
Roots, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham,
Alabama, May 2002
Art With A
Southern Drawl, University of Mobile, Mobile,
Alabama, April 2002
Magic City
Art Connection, Operation New Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama,
April 2002
Spotlight
2001, American Craft Council, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg,
Tennessee, November 2001
Exhibition
South, Tennessee Valley
Art Association, Tuscumbia,
Alabama, October 2001
“Glass-Forming
Demonstration Planned,” The Huntsville
Times, August 2001,
“View Artists
At Work in the Modern Studio,” Artviews, Summer 2001
Magic City
Art Connection, Operation New Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama,
April 2001
“Signs of
Christmas,” The Birmingham
Post Herald, Leigh Anne Monitor,
“Altrusa Club Putting on the Ritz this
Saturday,” The Western Star, Gaynell Morrow, February 1999
Awards, Grants, Honors
2007
Second Place in Sculpture, Cash Award, “Southern Roots”, Academy of Fine Arts, Central Library Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama; Juror, Dr. Emily G. Hanna, Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, Birmingham Museum of Ar
Juror Award,
Cash Award, Appalachian Corridor, Avampato
Discovery Museum,
Charleston, West Virginia; Juror Faith Ringgold, 2005
Juror Award,
Cash Award, Eye Candy, Association of Visual Artists Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee;
Juror, Susan Knowles, 2004
Honorable
Mention Award, 38th Annual Montgomery Art Guild Regions Bank Exhibition,
Regions Bank, Montgomery, Alabama, Juror, Mark Singer, 2004
Purchase
Award, Purchase by the Academy of Fine Arts, Southern Roots 2003
Exhibition, Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute, Birmingham, Alabama; Jurors: Toby
Hurt Richards, and Suzy B. Harris, 2003
First Place Award, Cash Award, Winterfest 2003, Guntersville Museum
and Cultural Center, Guntersville,
AL; Jurors: Georgine Clarke, Jack Dempsey, and Pamela Watters, 2003
Collector
Award, Patron Purchase Award, 2002 Kentuck Festival of the Art”, Kentuck Museum
Association, Northport, Alabama; Jurors: Bruce Lineker, and Susanne
Theis, 2002
Honorable
Mention, Cash Award, Annual Juried Show, Birmingham Art Association Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama;
Juror: Cam Walker, 2002
First Place Award for Sculpture, Cash Award,
Southern Roots, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama;
Jurors: Suzy B. Harris and Toby Hurt Richards, 2002
Selection of
work to represent artists of Alabama, by
Governor Fob James, to the State of Minnesota
1999
Lectures/Public Speaking Engagements
“History and
Art of Glassmaking”, Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham,
Alabama June 2006
“Glassblowing,”
feature story/interview, Chris Montana, WBRC/FOX 6, Original Broadcast, May
2004
“The Other
Side,” WEAB-TV, Live Television Interview, Host, Chandra Cobb “CC”, May 2001
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Please see the Forthcoming Exhibitions & Events page.
Forthcoming Articles
Please see the Forthcoming Exhibitions & Events page.
Formal Education
1989 -
1993 M. A. Birmingham Southern
College
1971 -
1974 B. S. University of Alabama, Birmingham
Selected Additional Study
Introduction
to Metal Casting, Sloss Furnace, Birmingham,
Alabama; Instructor, Vaughn
Randall, 2005
Paperweight
Making, Studios of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York;Instructor,
Chris Buzzini, 2001;
