Curriculum Vitae

Virginia Townsend (bunny rabbit)
Visual Artist, Painter

GRANTS + AWARDS
2024
Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, recipient, Arts Midwest, August 14
2023
Creative Individuals FY 2024 recipient, Minnesota State Arts Board + National Endowment for the Arts, Oct. 12
Best in Show winner, Artability, group exhibition, People Incorporated, St Paul, MN, Oct. 27

MEMBERSHIPS + WORK EXPERIENCE
2024
Visual Artist, Midwest Special Services (MSS), Eagan, MN — Licensed day program supporting artists with disabilities
2023
Application Panel Reviewer, Minnesota State Arts Board FY 2024 Arts Education Grant
2019-24
Visual Artist, Interact Center for Visual & Performing Arts, St Paul, MN — Licensed day program for artists and actors with disabilities

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
In Response, forthcoming, multiple locations in MN, solo exhibition, May-July, 2025 — 15 Series of paintings, each 24x24 inches, acrylic on cradled wood
2023
Great Big Holiday Sale, Interact Gallery, St Paul, MN, group exhibition
Artability, People Incorporated, Union Depot, St Paul, MN, group exhibition
Rooted in Nature, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska, MN, group exhibition
20 painting mural, Interact Center lobby, Saint Paul, MN, solo installation
Bona Fide, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, group exhibition
Three month lease of four selected works, Bold Orange, Minneapolis, MN, solo installation
2022
Great Big Holiday Sale, Interact Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, group exhibition
Uniquinox: Tarot Alive, Interact Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, group exhibition
2021
Zoomtopia, Interact Gallery (online), group exhibition
2020
Great Big Holiday Sale, Interact Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, group exhibition
Free Not $Free, Interact Gallery (online), solo exhibition
We Are Not Disposable, Interact Gallery (online), group exhibition
2019
Groundswell, Artspace Jackson Flats, Minneapolis, MN, group exhibition
Art Crawl, Group Show, Interact Center, Saint Paul, MN, group exhibition

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023
Artist talk, Zoom, Bold Orange, Minneapolis, MN
2021
Panelist, Zoom, Neurodiverse Literature and Art, Online panel cohosted by Minnesota Humanities Center and Cow Tipping Press

PUBLICATIONS & COLLABORATIONS, & LICENSING
2024
Artability, advertising, print and online, Fall
Turn Back Toward Tomorrow, cover art, Cow Tipping Press book, Spring
2023
Art Partners Group, licensing
Day and Night Spell zine, editor and contributing artist, Interact Gallery
2022
Happy New Year card, cover art, 350 count, Media Minefield, Minneapolis, MN
2021
Moon Made of Chicken, cover art, Cow Tipping Press book, Summer
Ya Mo Da La Va, cover art, Cow Tipping Press book, Spring
Snow in Texas, cover art, Cow Tipping Press book, Spring
2019
Do Fart Make Art zine, contributing artist (pseud. Abbi M.), Interact Gallery, Fall/Winter

NOTABLE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2022
University of Minnesota, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, Minneapolis, MN, permanent collection, June
Minnetonka United Health Care, Minnetonka, MN, April