DOWN LOAD RESUME
DOWN LOAD RESUME
DENISE KUFUS WEYHRICH
Artist/Curator/Educator
seedsfineart.org
MFA: Advertising Design at Syracuse University, NY 1992
Teaching Credential K-Adults Designated Subjects Graphic Arts and Design 1989
BFA: Graphic Design, Design Department, California State University at Long Beach 1984
BA: Art, Art Department, California State University at Long Beach 1979
Teacher’s Credential K-12
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:
SEEDS Fine Art Exhibits: Founding Partner & Curator – curate traveling conceptual exhibits of worldwide
fine artists of all medias, to communities and universities, thus promoting the arts, supporting artists and
building community with artists and the public. Non-profit 2004 - present
Denise Kufus Weyhrich Art Studio, Conceptual fine art studio. 1994 - present
Artist in Residence Saddleback Church main campus, lecturer, workshops & exhibits 2020
Visiting professor at BIOLA University and Concordia University Irvine 2004 & 5
Chapman University 1992 - 2003
Assistant Professor – Founding Graphic Design Program Director 1994- Retired 2003
Chapman University – School of Communication Arts, Art Department, Orange CA
Founding Program Director Faculty, Art Department -Graphic/Advertising 1992 - 5/94
California State University Long Beach Faculty, Visiting Lecturer,
Visual Communication Design Art Department and Design Department1988-1993
Partner, Weyhrich+Weyhrich Design, (formerly D Kufus Design CA 1979-2004)
EXHIBITIONS CURATOR:
“Epitaphs, what dreams may come” 1st & 2nd edition 120 page history of Seeds and Epitaphs catalogue. 2022/23
SEEDS Gallery Full Circle Meaningful Marketplace 2 month exhibitions of contemporary artists, March 2022-
June 2023.Solo artist exhibits of: Kari Dunham, Eric Lenord Jones, James Paul Thompson, Neifa Consenza, LeRoy Schmaltz, Teri Shagoury,
Jason Leith, Katherine Leith, Christine Lee Smith, Moses X Ball, Carolyn Jenkins, Taryn Jenkins, ShenShen210, Juan Estrada, Deon Estrada.
“EPITAPHS – what dreams may come” Crean Lutheran High School 2020, Saddleback Church TBA (covid postponed)
BIOLA University, Inland Empire Museum of Art CA 2016-2017
“THE LAST WORD” The Warner’s Pacific Theater, Hollywood CA 2012
Preaching in the Visual Age Conference, collaborative event with Fuller Seminar, Brehm Center, Oglivie Institute, Calvin Institute, CIVA
“DARK INHERITANCE-purposeful dislocation”
Palos Verdes Art Center 2010-2011
BIOLA University Gallery 2010 24 artists group exhibit.
“VOICES” Lalo Garcia & LeRoy Schmaltz St John’s Lutheran 2010
“ACTIONS” Tom Clark & Zender St John’s Lutheran 2009
“SUCCOUR- Gift of Support and Solace” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove CA 2008 – 2009
St John’s Lutheran Orange
Masterpiece Christian Fine Art Foundation Benefit Exhibit- SEEDS Fine Art Exhibits event 2008
“OUT OF THE ASHES” Artworks of the late Ray Friesz, Jana Dierking, Hermann Graff, Stan Sinnett & Roger Tait. St John’s Lutheran Church & School 2007
CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL, CHICAGO “Who do you say I am?” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits conceptual installation with 16 artists 2007
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, IRVINE - Education, Business & Technology Building Permanent Installation 2006-7 Building the fine art collection for CUI –GRIMM HALL
“Masterpiece Collection” Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali-curator
“God’s Cross Cultural Purpose” classroom collection 35 contemporary artworks-curator
“Lessons gained, wisdom learned” 15 contemporary artworks
“DAWN TO DAWN- Journeys through pain to freedom” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits:
45 international artists 95 artworks traveling 9/2006-7/2007
Midland Lutheran College, Fremont Nebraska
Concordia University Irvine, CA
CAPO Beach Calvary, Capistrano Beach CA
California Baptist University Riverside, CA
St John’s Lutheran Church & School, Orange CA
Graceworks Kenya Benefit Exhibit – curator St John’s Lutheran, Orange 2006
“CONFESSING TONGUES” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits:
Concordia University 9-12 2005
St John’s Lutheran Church & School 9/2005
Multiculturalism view of God juried group exhibit of 45 artists.
“SUCH AS THESE” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits: The Garden Gallery Orange CA 4-7 2005
Conceptual group exhibit on God revealed through children with 36 artist and 75 artworks.
“GOD REVEALED THROUGH NATURE” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits:
St. John’s Lutheran School & Church, Orange, CA 2004
24 artist group exhibit
“MESSAGES OF WORLDWIDE HOPE” Seeds Fine Art Exhibits:
St. John’s Lutheran School & Church, Orange, CA 2004
16 artist’s multicultural view
Annual Graphic Design BFA Exhibits, and Graphic Design Junior Exhibits As the sole Graphic Design Professor responsible to oversee all exhibits for the BFA program at Chapman University 1992- 2003
“The Contemporary Legacy of the Soviet Poster” Chapman Guggenheim Gallery, CA 2001. 1920- 1940 soviet posters exhibited with nationally published contemporary graphic design works. Co-curator.
“100 Views of Graphic Design” seniors from 5 Universities- Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, 2000
“2 PARTNERS, 2 VIEWS, 2 DESIGN” Posters from the works of Modern Dog Design Studio and Adams/Morioka Design, Guggenheim Gallery, Project Room, Chapman University, 1999
ARTIST’S EXHIBITS:
She/they Gallery “Home, earth, heaven, heart” solo exhibit 7&8 2023
Capo Beach Church Grove group exhibit 6/2023
SASSE MUSEUM “Parables, tributes & journeys of faith” solo exhibition 8&9/2022
“Casting Crowns” Installation locations include: multiple times Orange CA, Saddleback Home Campus CA, Austin Texas. 2020-2022
Grove Center for the Arts “unto dust” 2022
SASSE Museum “Stories” group exhibition “unto dust” and “Defining Moments” 2021
Center for Christianity Culture and the Arts Advent Daily devotions selection of “this time” January 1 2022 & 4/2022 “Casting Crowns”
Good Ground online Canadian devotions December 27th of “Beacon” 2021
CIVA Conference small works group exhibition “manna, what is this?”
“Footsteps in Prayer” Artworks for Hebrews, Titus & Philemon, UK Anglican Bible Study
CCCA Lenten Devotional online selections “Beacon” & “Tabernacle” 2021
Gratitude Walk Installation, built “Gratitude mound” with “Surrounded by a Cloud of Witnesses” and “Behold the Lamb” 2020
Denise Weyhrich Artist in residence exhibits “Life as parable” installations “Grace” and “SEEN” at Saddleback Church 2020
Luminate 2020 Group Exhibit, virtual Los Angeles
“All Saints Epitaphs Installation” St John’s Lutheran 2019
“Solo Exhibit of Book Forms- Orange Public Library Main Branch 2019
“Illuminate” Event Installation of “Unto Dust” EV FREE Burbank, CA 2019
“Epitaphs, what dreams may come” BIOLA University & Inland Empire Museum of Art 2016-2017
“Come to the Table” CIVA 3-5 year touring exhibit 2014- 2019
Inaugural Opening of The Inland Empire Museum of Art, Millard Sheets Art Center Los Angeles.
“This time” installed “Sweep” permanent collection
Solo Exhibit Tablets installation- Fuller Theological Seminary 2014
“Home” group show at Orange County Center Contemporary Art 2014
Grove Gathering Installation- two person one night happening Capistrano Beach CA 2013
Tabernacle Installation- Little Church by the Sea, Laguna Beach 2013
Beacon Installation- Calvin Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 10/2012-1/2013
Group Exhibit Belfast, Ireland 2012
“Passionate Play” two person exhibit with Wayne Forte, St John’s Lutheran 2011
“Dark Inheritance- purposeful dislocation” LA County Palos Verdes Art Center, and BIOLA University 2010-2011
“Redlight the Ritual” Calvary Chapel Montebello group exhibit 2010
Solo Exhibit- “recyclable, reusable, redeemable” California Baptist University, Riverside 2009
Arts Conference Saddleback Church, Exhibit of installations throughout campus, Saddleback CA 2009
“SUCCOUR” St John’s Lutheran Orange & Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove CA 2008-2009
5th Annual Evening of Arts & Entertainment, Venice CA 2008
Upstream People Gallery, 10th annual Summer All Media International Online Juried Art Exhibition 2008-2009
“Let There Be Light” Masterpiece Christian Fine Art Foundation Tour, Juried group exhibit. Exhibits in Crystal Cathedral CA, LA, Seattle, Dallas 2008-2010
“Explorations of Faith” Exhibited with Mel Andrews, CAPO Beach Calvary, CA 2008
Solo Exhibit- “Episodes of Grace” Proverbs House Gallery, Camarillo, CA 008
San Fernando Sun’s Dia de los Muertos Exhibit, San Fernando CA 11-12 2007
Cornerstone Festival Chicago “Who do you say I am?” 2 installations & 1 mono-print 2007
Installation ”out of the clay” collaboration with Ray Friesz
Concordia University Permanent Collection
“God’s Cross Cultural Purpose” Mixed media letterpress & mono-print- Portrait of British Veterans
“Lessons gained, wisdom learned” 46 stoneware tablets installation -Portrait of American Pioneers
“Dawn to Dawn” Midland College, Fremont NE; California locations: Concordia University, Irvine; CAPO Beach Calvary; California Baptist University, Riverside; St John’s Lutheran Church & School. 2006-7
Concordia University- “Portraits of Faith” Solo exhibit & campus installations. 2006
Virginia Commonwealth University, California Baptist University Riverside CA, Georgia State University, Ohio State University- “And the levee broke: meditations on the power of water” Group exhibit- 2005-7
Bluebird Gallery, Whittier CA “Seeds” 2 person exhibit-12/2005
Concordia University & St John’s Lutheran School & Church Orange CA 2005 “Seeds, Confessing Tongues” 8-12 2005
Coast Hills Community Church, “Portraits of Faith” solo exhibit 9/2005
The Garden Gallery Orange CA “Seeds, Such As These” 3-6 2005
St. John’s Lutheran School & Church, “Seeds, God revealed through nature” 11/2004
St John’s Lutheran School & Church, 2004 “Seeds, Messages of Worldwide Hope” 8-9 2004
Bluebird Art Gallery, Whittier CA “PROFIT” 4/2004
St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Women’s Retreat, Newport Beach CA 2004 “Portraits of Faith” installation solo 3/2003
Barton Museum, Barton College, North Carolina National Invitational Exhibition, 2002
Open Window Gallery, Venice CA Solo Installation “1500 Years of Faith” - Premiere exhibit 2002
FUSE Gallery, San Diego, CA “Layers” 2002
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University “Vital Signs,” 2001
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Chapman University, Faculty Exhibition 2000
Syracuse University, New York , Alumni Exhibit 1999
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, “Collection Show” Faculty and Student Show 1999
Huntington Beach Art Center, CA “Centered on the Center” 1998, 1999, 2007
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, “Residue Show” Faculty and Student Exhibit 1998
California State University Long Beach, Visual Communication Department Graduate Show 1984
PERMANENT INSTITUTIONAL INSTALLATIONS:
Inland Empire Museum of Art, CA “Tabernacle” & “Sweep”
Concordia University, CA EBT Collection: “The Hand of God, the hands of men”
“Memory clings- Soldier’s Field” 3/2007
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, CA “Life in the Spirit” Panels #1-#6, Arches 3.5’ x 14’ 1999 – on going installations.
Kirk O’ Shotts, Scotland “Kirk O’Shotts Portrait of Faith” Arches 40” x 30” 2001
Numerious Private collections over the decades
AWARDS:
Grove Center for the Arts & Media Grant Award 2022
Saddleback Artist in Residence 2020
CIVA VOICES 2020 Publication featured artical, cover artworks
Grove Center for the Arts & Media, SEEDS Grant Award 2019
Christian in the Visual Arts Bi-Annual Award for “This Time” 2017-18
CIVA Artist of month 2016
American Graphic Design Award for “Holiday Mixer” Poster, 1998 (Published in "Graphic Design USA Journal" Dec.1998 and June 1999)
American Graphic Design Award for “Online @Interplay w/ AIGA” Poster, 1996
Chapman University Awards/Grants:
Creative Activity Grant: Nashville memorials, Hatch Show Print Letterpress 2003
Chapman University Faculty Merit Award of Excellence in Teaching, Creative Work and Service 2001
Faculty Development Leave: Sabbatical in England and Scotland, Fall 2001
Creative Activity Grant: Scotland and England, 2001
Fine and Performing Arts Grant: “The Contemporary Legacy of the Soviet Poster Exhibition” 2001
Creative Activity Grant: Scotland and England, June 1999
Creative Activity Grant: AZ and CA, 1999
Faculty Development Grant: Graphic Design Conferences in NY and New Orleans, 1997
For list of Artworks, please contact the artist for current list and images.
photo by Jeff LeFever