Solo and Two Artists Exhibitions
2013
Palimpsest, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
Terra Nullius, Waterstone Gallery Portland OR
A Library - Gone to Seed NW, Gallery of Fine Woodworking Seattle WA
2012
A Fine Line 642, Harrison Street Port Townsend WA
Studio Show, Port Townsend WA
2011
Relic of Place, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
Hidden and Revealed, Northwind Arts Center Studio Show,
Port Townsend WA
2010
Artist Residency Show, Centrum, Port Townsend WA
2009
Circles and Squares, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
2007
The Language of Wood, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
2006
Helga Winter, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
2003
It’s Winter Time Again, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
1995
Turning Points, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
Journey Home, Earthenworks, Port Townsend WA
Roots, Museo Piccolo Gallery, Langley WA
1994
Selected Works, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
Turned Inside Out, Museo Piccolo Gallery, Langley WA
1993
The Art of Receiving, Franklin House Gallery, Port Townsend WA
It’s Broken Already, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
1991
Recent Turnings, Franklin House Gallery, Port Townsend WA
1986
Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibit, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville TN
1985
Turned Wood by Helga Winter, Ridgeway Gallery, Oakridge TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Harmony, American Association of Woodturners, St. Paul MN
Coming Unbound, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA
First Light, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge
Island, WA
2012
From Tree to Treasure: An International Invitational Exhibition, Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach SC
2011
A Wood Collector’s Home, Grovewood Gallery, Asheville NC
Artclectic, University School of Nashville Art, Nashivlle TN
Sitka, Art Invitational Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Sitka OR
40th Anniversary Invitational, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
Into The Woods, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA
2010
Women in Wood Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts TN
Be Our Guest: A Progressive Invitational Ohio Craft
Museum, Columbus OH
2009
Spirit of the Southwest, American Association of Woodturners, Albuquerque NM
Small Treasures, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend WA
Small Works, Museo, Langley WA
2008
Stories Myths and Legends Childhood’s, End Gallery, Olympia WA
Eighth Contemporary Wood Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma WA
2007
Turning Green, An International Exhibition of Woodturning
American, Association of Woodturners, Portland OR
Vessels, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA
40th Anniversary Catalogue, Tennessee Arts Commission
Individual Artist Fellowship
2006
Then and Now, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA
Sitka, Art Invitational Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Sitka OR
35th Anniversary Show Childhood’s, End Gallery, Olympia WA
2005
Invitational Group Show, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Philadelphia PA
1996
Turn, Turning, Turned, Contemporary Turned Wood Objects Exhibits USA, A National Division of Mid America Arts Alliance, Drechseln-Gestern-Heute-Morgen HTBLA, Hallstatt Austria
1995
International Woodturning Conference Exhibit, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco CA
Invitational Turning Show, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1994
Turning Plus, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe AZ
Women in Wood, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco CA
Turned Wood, Show of Hands, Denver CO
Invitational Turning Show, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1993
International New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago Il
Contemporary Turnings Mendelson Gallery Washington Depot CT
Women in Wood, Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking,
Issaquah WA
Invitational Turning Show, White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR
Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Ten Woodturners, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco CA
1992
Women Woodturners, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
Lathe Turned Objects Defined III: Functional and Sculptural, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston MA
Turned Wood ’92, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Thrown, Turned and Blown! Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking, Seattle WA
Contemporary Wood, Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek CA
1991
Renwick Holiday Show, Smithsonian Museum Shop. Washington DC
Woodturning - Special Exhibition, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
Ninth National Lathe-Turned Objects Exhibition, Highlight
Gallery, Mendocino CA
NW Women in Wood, Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking, Seattle WA
Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, Metropolitan Home Show, New York City NY
Contemporary American Wood, Banaker Gallery Walnut, Creek CA
1991
Artfully Done, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1990
Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
Goblets, Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking, Seattle WA
1989
Washington Crafts Then & Now, Tacoma Arts Museum, Tacoma WA
American Contemporary Works in Wood, Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens OH
Awards
2009
Best of Show Art In The Pearl, Portland OR
Benchmark Award Art in the High Desert, Bend OR
2008
Best of Wood Arts & Crafts Festival, Sun Valley ID
2004
Best of Show Art In The Pearl, Portland OR
1990
Scholarship American Craft Enterprises ACC, Baltimore MD
1988
Best of Show in Wood Bellevue Arts & Crafts Show, Bellevue WA
1986
Merit Award Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta GA
Merit Award Tennessee Fall Crafts Fair, Nashville TN
Individual Artist Fellowship Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville TN
1884
Merit Award Tennessee Spring Crafts Fair, Nashville TN
Selected Collections
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island WA
Luce Foundation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Nelson Fine Arts Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Commissions
2013 Port Townsend Film Festival Port Townsend WA
2011 Port Townsend Film Festival Port Townsend WA
1986 Tennessee Governor’s Awards for the Arts
Presentations
2011 Looking Inside - A Tribute to Dr Robert Innes - a presentation about the creative process influenced by the CDS experience
2008 The Art and Craft of working with Wood School of Woodworking, Port Townsend
1996 Turning-Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, HTBLA, Hallstatt Austria
Teaching Experience
1996 ymposium: Workshop and Lecture HTBLA Hallstatt Austria
1992 - 1995 Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, Port Townsend WA
1987 - 2006 Studio Classes in Woodturning, Port Townsend WA
Publications
2009
American Woodturner Fall 2009 Vol 24 No 3 Cover Story
The Mysterious Process of Creativity
Oregon Home A Process of Change by Margaret Foley
2008
Master Gardener Spring 2008 Vol 2 No 2
Art Created From Our Most Graceful Tree by Mary Robson
2004 Lark Books 500 Wood Bowls
1996
Drechseln Nummer 4 Winter ’96 Aufbruch in Österreich bei Martin Nolte
Drechseln Nummer 2 Sommer ’96 Understanding the Tree
1994
Woodwork Ross Periodicals Inc Cover Story
Helga Winter-Turning Life Outside to Meet the Life Inside
by Jim Tolpin
1992 Drechseln 2/92 Schalen mit starkem Eigenleben Cover
Story
Fine Woodworking Design Book Six Taunton Press
1991
American Woodturner June 1991 Vol 6 No2 Whimsical Madrone Goblets
Education
1987 Woodturning Workshop Liam O’Neill Edgar Evans Center Smithville TN
1986 to present Member of American Association of Woodturners
1982 Woodturning Workshop Rude Osolnik David Ellsworth Berea College KY
1981 to 1984 Apprenticeship Paul Pitts Fine Furniture Maker Nashville TN
