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Irene Frances Sullivan (born 1950) is an eco-system Bean Chaointe artist of Irish descent, author and independent scholar. Her work is guided and influenced by her mytho-poetic heritage. She resides in the United States with studios in Colorado and in France. She founded The Grieving Planet Project in 2019 in response to the climate crises. Sullivan’s art work is Palliative Care for the planet. Her paintings, prints, photographs, videos and installations are P.O.E.M.S; Portals Of Eco Memory creating invitations of experience, grief awareness and care for the planet.
Early life[edit]
Sullivan was born in Alexandria, Virginia. She attended Holy Angels Academy for her secondary education, Buffalo General Hospital School of Nursing (1969-1972), Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse NewYork (1975) where she received an AMNP degree as one of the first Adult Medical Nurse Practitioners in the United States. She attended the Jesuit School of Theology and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago where she earned her Masters of Divinity Degree (1984). She earned her Master of Arts Degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado in 1988.
Career[edit]
As an AMNP, Sullivan worked on the Bering Sea Coast of Alaska in the Yupik Village of Hooper Bay. This experience was the beginning of her respect and awareness of circumpolar cultures, the roles of women, the fragility of arctic ecosystems and the importance of art and story in healing and community identity. She listened and learned the healing stories of the Yupik people while developing her extensive portfolio of B&W photography. While completing her Masters of Divinity degree in Chicago she worked on the southside of Chicago at the Chicago Osteopathic Hospital Emergency Department as a Trauma Nurse. In 1984 she married Will Reller and was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church. From 1984 through 1985 they lived and worked among the Swampy Cree people of northern Manitoba. In 1986 Sullivan began graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in Religious Studies concentrating on the oral story telling traditions of Circumpolar peoples. During this time she was awarded an American Philosophical Society Field Research Grant for her work with the storytelling elders of the Misipawistik Cree Nation of Northern Manitoba, Canada. (1987.) After earning her Masters degree Sullivan was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a year of study and research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Eskimoligie Institute. (1988). This research year included studies at the Dalhem Museum in Berlin, Germany and the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki, Finland. Upon her return to the U.S. Sullivan taught as adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology and the Department of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University (2000-2002). She co-authored with Sam D. Gill the award-winning Dictionary of Native American Mythology[1] (ABC-CLIO Press, 1992); Oxford University Press 1992). While developing her skills as an artist Sullivan precepted the clinical practice of Nurse Practitioner Students from the University Hospital School of Nursing in Denver, Colorado and worked as a senior Nurse Practitioner in the Outpatient clinic. It was during this time that she was a finalist (1993) and nominee (1996) for The Nightingale Award for Excellence in Human Caring. Sullivan was a guest lecturer and teacher at Planned Parenthood (1992), The Association of Women’s Health - AWHONN (1993) and Rocky Mountain Center for Health Care Ethics ( 4-15 -1994). Sullivan resigned her orders as an Episcopal Priest in 1996. In 2004 she began full-time art practice which included MFA studies at Lesley University in Boston (2006) and artist residencies at The Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Arts Ranch, The Art Students League of Denver and a tenure of atelier studies with Enrique Martinez Celaya (2005-2015). In 2016 she was awarded a Tenot Foundation Bursary for study in France followed by a NEA Career Advancement Award from Colorado Creative Industries in 2017. From 2017-2019 Sullivan was the primary researcher and archivist of the Claude Domec Archive in Marnay-sur-Seine, France. This included a translation project of Domec’s last and only interview from French into English in collaboration with the Alliance Francaise of Denver, Colorado (2017-2018) and the initiation of the Oral History Recording Project at the Domec Archive. In response to the climate crisis Sullivan founded The Grieving Planet Project in 2019 focusing on creating art as Palliative Care for the Planet which continues to develop.
Awards[edit]
- NEA Career Advancement Award - 2017 - Colorado Creative Industries
- Tenot Foundation Artist Grant - 2016 - CAMAC - Marnay-sur-Seine, France
- Martha Kate Thomas Fund - 2015 - Boulder County Arts Association, Colorado
- Joan Mitchell Foundation - 2013 - New York
- BANJAE Painting Award - 2011 - Massachusetts
- Colorado Artists Guild Painters Award - 2009 - Denver, Colorado
- Colorado Book Award, ”Best Work of Non-Fiction by Colorado Author “for her co-authored work: Dictionary of Native American Mythology (1992).
- Fulbright Scholarship (academic year 1988-1989) University of Copenhagen, Institute of Eskimology
- American Philosophical Society Field Research Grant (1987)
Exhibits[edit]
- 2023 “Ritual Place for Keening the Land -Riverbed of Lament” - Land Art Project with resident sculptures of Daughter’s of the Cailleach & Gobnait’s Treasure located on the traditional hunting grounds of the Hinon’elnd, Tsitsistas & Nuche people. - Wind’s Edge - Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.
- 2022 - “Artio’s Guardianship” - Installation of Handmade Clay Bear Figure - Banks of the Rio Grande River - Taos, New Mexico.
- 2022 - “Daughters of the Cailleach” - Exhibit/Installation of Repurposed Tree RootSculptures - Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.
- 2021 - “Ngondro for The Bees” - Installation of Lace Sculpted Bee Skeps at Lowtide on the Pacific Coast - Stinson Beach, California.
- 2020 - “Standing With The Grieving Planet” - EarthDay - Boulder, Colorado.
- 2020 - “Installation of Remembrance Day Stones for Lost Species - November 30 - First Annual Event in the forestlands of Wind’s Edge Studio, the traditional summer hunting grounds of the Hinonoelno (our people) Southern Arapaho, Tsitsistap (like hearted people) Cheyenne and Nuche (mountain people) Southern Ute.
- 2019 - “Alchemy on the Seine” Notre Dame de l’Assomption - Marnay-sur-Seine, France.
- 2017 - ** National Juried Annual Contemporary Art Survey - Lincoln Center - Fort Collins, Colorado
- 2016 - “You will cease to be powerless.” - CAMAC - France.
- 2014 - “Uprooted” - Boulder, Colorado
- 2011 - ** 9th Annual BANJAE at Borderland - Easton, Massachusetts.
- 2010 - ** 18th Annual Juried Exhibit - Bowery Gallery - NewYork City.
- 2009 - ** 14th Annual Annual Juried Exhibit - AOC - Denver, Colorado.
- 2008 - “Wit(h)nessing the Arctic” - Stinson Beach, California.
- 2005 - “Tides of Change, Tides of Quiet” - Point Reyes Station, California.
Bibliography, Interviews, Press & Articles[edit]
- Podcast with Dr. Maria Christodulou, Awakening Doctor Episode 6, December 2023.[2]
- Raymond, Emmanauele. L’universe d’eau et de poesie d’Irene. L’EST eclair. 13 September 2019
- Sullivan, Irene F. “Painting & The work of Luce Irigaray: A Crucial Meeting” 2017.
- Whittaker, Richard. Review of On Art & Mindfulness. Acknowledgement: ‘Based on the notes of Irene F. Sullivan.’ in Works & Conversations, Issue 31, February 2016.
- Whittaker, Richard. “A conversation with Irene F. Sullivan: Understanding of the Heart”, Works 7 Conversations. Vol 16, 2008, p.3-63.[3] http://www.dailygood./org/ 3-17-16
- Cragg, Claudia. KGNU PUBLIC RADIO Live Interview with Irene F. Sullivan, “Slipping Through The Polar Seas.” 2007
- Referenced in:Dossey, L. Healing Beyond the Body. Shambala Press 2001.[4]
- Contributor to American Academy of Religions HarperCollins Dictionary of Religions. HarperOne 1995.[5]
- University Hospital of Denver Colorado. Nursing Matters. Vol.4 No.2 .”The Final 15 University Hospital N.P. Named Finalist for Nightengale Award.” April 1993.
- Sullivan, Irene F. Nurse Practitioner Forum. “Eve Hoygaard: Breast Center Coordinator and Nurse Practitioner.” Vol.4, No.2 (June) 1993 pp.66-67.[6]
- Sullivan, Irene F. Nurse Practitioner Forum. “The Nurse Practitioner As Healer: A Process of Interactive Simultaneity.” Vol.3 No.4 (December) 1992 pp.226-227.[7]
- University Hospital of Denver Colorado. STAT. “From Artic Circle to Texas Border: Her Book has Healing”. 11-17-1992
- Cornett, Linda. Boulder Daily Camera. “Spotlight on Irene F. Sullivan.” September 1988.
References[edit]
- ^ Gill, Sam D.; Sullivan, Irene F. (1994-07-07). Dictionary of Native American Mythology (Reprint ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508602-7.
- ^ FM, Player (2023-12-06), Irene Sullivan, The Heart of a Healer, retrieved 2023-12-11
- ^ "Conversations.org: A Conversation with Irene Sullivan, by Richard Whittaker". www.conversations.org. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind by Larry Dossey. Retrieved 2023-12-11 – via www.publishersweekly.com.
- ^ Religion, American Academy Of (1995-10-27). The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion (1st ed.). London: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-067515-8.
- ^ Hoygaard, E. C. (June 1993). "Eve Cook Hoygaard: breast center coordinator and nurse practitioner. Interview by Irene Sullivan and Karna Bramble". Nurse Practitioner Forum. 4 (2): 66–67. ISSN 1045-5485. PMID 8513264.
- ^ Sullivan, I. (December 1992). "The nurse practitioner as healer: a process of interactive simultaneity". Nurse Practitioner Forum. 3 (4): 226–227. ISSN 1045-5485. PMID 1467674.