Exhibitions, Murals,
Illustrated Books, and Awards
50 Plus Years of Rie's major Accomplishments, Enjoy!
1951 Mural, Teenage Club, Juneau Alaska
1951-1952 Taught school and painted on
King Island in the Bering Sea
(See January 1954
article in the National Geographic Magazine)
1952-1967 Political Cartoonist, Juneau
Empire
1953 Mural, Pacific Northern Airlines, Ketchikan Alaska
1953 Mural, Ellis Airlines, Ketchikan
1956 Illustrated book: Juneau an its Development, (Alaska Dev.
Board)
1961 Illustrated annual reindeer roundup on Nunivak Island in the
Bering
Sea for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs1962-67 Illustrated for Alaska Magazine
1962 Illustrated Alaska Camp Cook Book
1963 Mural 1008 Club Juneau
1965 Illustrated Handbook
for the Freshman Legislature
1967 Mural Alaska Council of Churches, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks
1967 Author and illustrator; Nursing on Alaska 1987-1967
1968-1972 Alaska State Museum,
Juneau, Curator of Exhibits
1968 Mural, Alaska State Museum, Juneau
1971 Watercolor exhibition Alaska State Museum, Juneau
1971 Watercolor exhibition Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum
1972 Alaska State Council of the Arts Grant for art tour on Bering
Sea
Coastal Villages
1972 Watercolor exhibition, Tongass Historical &Fine Arts Museum
Ketchikan
1973 Watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1975 Watercolor exhibition Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1976 Watercolor exhibition Alaska State Museum, Juneau
1976 Illustrated book, Kahtahah
1977 Outstanding Alaska Artist Award, Anchorage Fine Arts Museum
Association
1977 Mural Harborview School, Juneau
1978 Contemporary Art from Alaska show, Smithsonian Institute
Washington D.C.
1978 Watercolor exhibition Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum
1981 Watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1982 Tapestry exhibition Alaska State Museum, Juneau
1983 Illustrated Good-bye My Island children’s book, Green
willow Books
1983 Watercolor exhibition, Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1985 Oregon Art Tour
1985 Illustrated King Island
Christmas children’s book.
1986 Illustrated Runaway
Mittens children’s book
1987 Illustrated Andy
Children’s book.
1987
Published Rie Munoz Artist in Alaska art book
1988 Alaskan Art Tour,
exhibitions in 9 galleries
1989 Cover of Eddie Buaer
Christmas catalog
1992 Washington Art Tour,
exhibitions in 8 galleries
1992 Guest Appearance on TV’s
Evening Magazine Seattle
1992 Watercolor
exhibit Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1992 Grand Opening Rie Munoz
Gallery Building in Juneau
1994 Guest Appearance on TV’ s
Good Morning America
1994 Oregon Art Tour, exhibitions
in 5 galleries
1995 Published Rie Munoz, Portrait of Alaska
1995 Washington Art Tour,
exhibitions in 7 galleries
1995 Alaska Art Tour, exhibitions
in 4 galleries
1998 Oregon Art Tour, exhibitions
in 5 galleries
1998 Commissioned for State of
Alaska Birth Certificate
1999 Received Honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degree From the University of Alaska SE
1999 Washington Art Tour 7 cities
1999 Published Rie Munoz at the Frye Art
Museum art book
1999 Watercolor exhibition
Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle
2000 Pacific Rim Art Exposition
Artist of the Year
2001 Commissioned for State of
Alaska Marriage Certificate
2003 Puyallup Fair Art Exposition
Artist of the Year
2004 Alaska
Governor's Awards for the Arts, Individual Artist Award
2005 For
the Second time;
Puyallup Fair Art Exposition
Artist of the Year
2006
Original watercolor retrospective exhibition at the Alaska State Museum in
Juneau. This exhibition was shown for over a month with a tremendous
viewing.
2006 Museum
of the Aleutians - Tea & Reception for Featured artist Rie Muñoz - Slide
show accompanied her lecture and
presentation
2007 Muñoz
Receives $25,000 Art Award - Rie Muñoz was awarded the Rasmuson Foundation's
$25,000 2007 Distinguished Artist Award.
2007
Anchorage Museum of Art Exhibition Late November through December.
There will be over 130 Lineal feet of wall space for this exceptional
display of Rie's Art.
Rie's Biography
Rie
Munoz' (REE MOO NYOS') paintings and prints have a freshness, a spontaneity, and a sense of humor that
is unusual in today's art world. She has the ability to convey a happy feeling to
the viewer that is truly refreshing and enchanting.
Rie, a long-time resident of Alaska, was born and raised in California. She has lived in
Alaska since 1950 when she first came to Juneau on vacation. She fell in love with
Alaska and gave herself until the boat was to leave the next day to find a job and a place
to live. That was almost a half century ago and since then Juneau has been home to Rie
Munoz.
During her years in Alaska, Rie has become well acquainted with most of the southeastern
villages. She has also visited many of the
northern communities teaching one year on King Island (featured in January 1954 National
Geographic).
Rie's paintings reflect
her interest in day-to-day activities of village life such as whaling, berry picking and
games the children play, as well as in the folklore and legends.
She
averages about sixty originals per year. In 1972, she began to publish full color
reproductions of a small number of her watercolors.
Her reproductions and original
prints are carried by galleries in the U.S. and Canada and throughout the world. She has
had many solo watercolor exhibits in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State including
frequent exhibits at the Charles and Emma Frye Museum. In 1985, 1989, 1992, 1995 and
1997 she visited with her fans at Eastside Gala~Rie in Olympia, Washington.
The book
"Rie Muñoz Portrait of Alaska" was published in 1995 and brings together all of
her published art through 1995, including linocut, soapstone, stencil, serigraph and stone
lithographic prints; posters; and color lithographic reproductions of original watercolor
paintings. The collection spans 30 years (1966 through 1995) and includes 351 full-color
plates presented in chronological order and annotated with captions by Rie. Text written
by Alaskan author Sarah Epenbach tells of Rie's life from childhood to the present.
Books are available at Gala-Rie.
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