Jason Sobottka
Academic Appointments:
Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Faculty Director: Applied Art-Illustration BAS Degree Kirkland, WA: September 2008-present
- Launching the Applied Art Illustration Bachelor of Applied Science September 2023
- Former Department Chair for Visual Art
- Former Department Chair for Humanities
- Tenured Visual Arts Professor teaching color theory, photography appreciation, drawing, human life drawing, and printmaking.
Tacoma Community College, Adjunct Faculty, Visual Art, Tacoma, WA: July 2019- December 2020
- Professor of beginning-advanced painting and art appreciation
Academic Experience:
MFA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2001
BFA University of Montana, Missoula, MT 1998
AA Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen, WA 1996
Selected Juried Exhibitions:
2023 Ghost Shadows, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 21st Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2023 Nature, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), South Korea
2022 The Hand at Fenix Arts, Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2022 Abstract Art Contemporary Approaches, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2022 9th Annual Icon, Lynn Hanson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Printmakers Hand V, Corvidae Press and Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2021 Earth Action Initiative Art Show, Earth Action Initiative, Berkely, CA
2021 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
2019 16th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2018 National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington D.C.
2018 Expressions Northwest, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA Merchandise Award
2018 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
2017 16th Annual Small Expressions, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2017 15th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2017 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA Purchase Award
2016 4th Annual Icon Juried Exhibition, Lynn Hanson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 14th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2016 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
2016 Sugar and Spice, Gallery, Tacoma Community College, WA
2015 Small Expressions, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2015 13th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, WA Juror’s Award
2015 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
Juror’s Merit Award
2014 Exhibeo Human Figure Competition
2014 Beasties, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2014 17th Annual Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Springs, MD
2014 Redux, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2012 10th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, WA
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2018 Adventures Through the Anthropocene, Helen Smith Gallery, Green River College, Auburn, WA
2018 Adventures Through the Anthropocene, Kirkland Public Library, Kirkland, WA
2016 Adventures Through the Anthropocene, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2014 Seriously, Serious, Unseriously, UC Gallery, Missoula, MT
2009 Landscape Claimed/Reclaimed: Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2009 Urban Migration: Sarah Dillon and Jason Sobottka, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2008 Jason Sobottka: Landscape Suburbia, Museo, Issaquah, WA
2007 Topo and Paper, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Art Community Experience:
2019 Organizer and Educator: 2nd Saturday Life Drawing, Tacoma Gallery in contract with Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2018 Curator: FOR TACOMA, Tacoma Gallery and Alma Mater, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Tacoma Art, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Grit City, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2016 Nominee, Greater Tacoma Foundation of Art Award
2015 Juror, Pi and Pie, Kirkland Art Center
2015 Artist Mentor MAPS, Arts Impact, Puget Sound Educational District
Group Exhibitions:
2022 Collector’s Cabinet, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College, WA
2019 Juror’s Invitational, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
2018 Apparitions, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2018 Portray>Portrait, John Spellman Gallery, Aberdeen, WA
2018 Juror’s Invitational, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA
2017 Artist Mythos 2017, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma WA
2016 Greater Tacoma Foundation of Art Award Exhibition, Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2016 Print or Die! (Superstition), DO317 Gallery, G.C. Murphy Building, Indianapolis, IN
2015 Peep Show, Creative House, Tacoma, WA
2015 Print or DIE! Hoofprint Workshop, Chicago, IL
2015 Imaginature, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2014 Print or DIE! Marsh Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2014 Humanimal/Print or Die!, Dos Calaveras, Chicago, IL
2014 Keys to the Studio, Mobius Gallery, Bothell, WA
2013 Figural, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2013 The Hand-Pulled Print, John Spellman Gallery, Aberdeen, WA
2012 Faculty Art Exhibition, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Kirkland, WA
2011 White, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2011 Faces and Figures, Aljoya, Mercer Island, WA
2011 Reflect/Respond, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2011 PULP6, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2011 Collage, Fair Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Print NOW!, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2010 Small Works, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2010 Food for the Soul, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2010 Nature Always Wins: Stephan Filla, Tori Karpenko and Jason Sobottka, Confluence Gallery,
Twisp, WA
2010 Unbridled Narcissism, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
2010 Evergreen: A Sense of Place, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2010 Food for the Soul, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2010 PULP5, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2010 Wetlands, John Spellman Gallery, Aberdeen, WA and White Sturgeon Gallery, Vancouver, WA
2010 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Art Community Experience:
2019 Organizer and Educator: 2nd Saturday Life Drawing, Tacoma Gallery in contract with Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2018 Curator: FOR TACOMA, Tacoma Gallery and Alma Mater, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Tacoma Art, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Grit City, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2016 Nominee, Greater Tacoma Foundation of Art Award
2015 Juror, Pi and Pie, Kirkland Art Center
2015 Artist Mentor MAPS, Arts Impact, Puget Sound Educational District
2011 Washington Arts Commission Public Art Committee Member: Lake Washington Institute of Technology: Katy Stone selected artist
2008 Washington Arts Commission Public Art Committee Member: Pioneer Middle School: Ross Palmer Beacher selected artist
09-11 Chairman of the Board: Gallery 110
08-09 Board Member: Gallery 110
Residencies and Collaborations:
2018 Lettuce 253, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2017 Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2017 Tacoma Wayzgoose, Laser Cut Woodcuts
2016 Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2015 Centrum and Corvidae Press Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2014 Nirvana and Aberdeen, Erik Sandgren’s mural project for Our Aberdeen, Aberdeen WA www.nirvanamural.com
2014 Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, WA
2001 Shotgun Woodcuts (with Erik Sandgren) Southern Graphics Print Conference, Austin, TX.
Art Community Experience:
2019 Organizer and Educator: 2nd Saturday Life Drawing, Tacoma Gallery in contract with Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2018 Curator: FOR TACOMA, Tacoma Gallery and Alma Mater, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Tacoma Art, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2018 Curator: Grit City, Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma WA
2016 Nominee, Greater Tacoma Foundation of Art Award
2015 Juror, Pi and Pie, Kirkland Art Center
2015 Artist Mentor MAPS, Arts Impact, Puget Sound Educational District
2011 Washington Arts Commission Public Art Committee Member: Lake Washington Institute of Technology: Katy Stone selected artist
2008 Washington Arts Commission Public Art Committee Member: Pioneer Middle School: Ross Palmer Beacher selected artist
09-11 Chairman of the Board: Gallery 110
08-09 Board Member: Gallery 110
Selected Articles and Publications:
2015 The Hand: A Magazine for Reproducible Art, Issue #42, November 2023
2023 Nature Exhibition Catalog, Nature, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea
2022 Healing Arts Expo, OpenWA Pressbooks
2019 Tacoma Gallery Is Growing the Tacoma Art Scene, Lani Lisa Lawrence, South Sound Magazine, April 5, 2019
2018 Studio Visit Magazine, June, 2018
2017 Lettuce Presents: Live Art Still Life, December 14, 2017 Tacoma Weekly,
2017 Reporter’s Notebook: Juried Local Art Exhibit, Dave Davison, September 21, 2017, Tacoma Weekly
2017 Jason Sobottka Paintings, Alec Clayton, Nov. 17, 2017, Weekly Volcano
2017 Crosscurrents 2017, Washington Community College Humanities Association
2018 Crosscurrents 2016, Washington Community College Humanities Association
2016 Adventures Through the Anthropocene, Jason Sobottka, Tacoma Community College, WA
2016 Sandgren: Painter of the Harbor, Jason Sobottka, Polson Museum, Hoquiam, WA
2015 TCC’s 13th Annual Juried Local Art Show, Dave Davison, October 1, 2015 Tacoma Weekly
2015 Crosscurrents 2015, Washington Community College Humanities Association
2015 The Hand: A Magazine for Reproducible Art, Issue #9, July 2015
2015 The Hand: A Magazine for Reproducible Art, Issue #8, April 2015
2014 Crosscurrents 2014, Washington Community College Humanities Association
2014 Hometown crowd comes as they are to gala saluting “Nirvana and Aberdeen”, September 23, 2014, Daily World, Erin Hart
2014 Krist Novoselic returns to Aberdeen for Nirvana Mural dedication, Seattle Times, September 23 2014, Gillian G. Gaar
2014 Team for Nirvana mural set, March 15, 2014, Daily World, Erin Hart
2014 TCC Hosts Annual Show of Local Artists, Dave Davison, October 1, 2014 Tacoma Weekly
2013 TCC’s Local Juried Show, October 2013, Dave Davison, Tacoma Weekly
2012 Best Juried Exhibition Yet, October 1, 2012, Alec Clayton Weekly Volcano
2012 10th Annual Juried Local Exhibition, October, 2012, David R. Davison, Tacoma Weekly
2010 Nature Always Wins, Methow Valley Arts, September 25, 2010