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Jake SeniukExecutive DirectorJAKE SENIUK has been both director and curator at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center since 1989. During that time he has brought to the Olympic Peninsula more than 100 exhibitions by contemporary Northwest masters including Leo Kenney, Charles Stokes, Gayle Bard, Dennis Evans, Nancy Mee, Richard Cook, Dale Chihuly, Nöle Giulini, William Morris and Trimpin. Thematic exhibitions such as Wood, Utopian Visions, HomeLand and the ongoing Strait Art series have showcased both well-established and emerging artists from the Peninsula and the greater Pacific Northwest. Since 2000 he has curated Art Outside, an ongoing exhibition of sculpture and site works that now number over 100 spread over the five acres of the former Webster estate.
As an artist Seniuk has created introspective works that combine photography, text and sculptural elements. His works have been exhibited at many museums and public venues including the National Gallery of American Art (Washington, D.C.), the Seattle Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT), the Yale University Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, the George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), the International Center for Photography (New York City), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, and the Bellevue Art Museum. He is past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, an Artist Trust Visual Artists Fellowship, and the Logan Prize for Critical Writing in Photography, among others. He has served as a juror for the Washington State Arts Commission, the Seattle Arts Commission, the Idaho Council on the Arts, the Nevada State Arts Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Flintridge Foundation, and others. He has taught photography at Cornish College for the Arts and the University of Washington and, prior to coming to Port Angeles, managed per-cent for art projects for the Washington State Arts Commission. |
