About the Artist
Beverly Dodge Radefeld
beverlydodgeradefeld.com
Education – Bachelor of Fine Arts (1968) – Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
With a BFA from Washburn University, Beverly Dodge Radefeld worked as an activity therapist at the renowned Menninger Foundation in Topeka, KS, where she used art as a vehicle to help the healing process. In addition, she ran a small business and volunteered in the community teaching kids and adults many of the art techniques for which she has a deep passion. Early in her career, Beverly found soft sculpture as an outlet to deal with personal grief. Her soft sculpture work has been shown nationwide and throughout England, Ireland and Japan. Twice, her work was selected to ornament the White House Christmas Tree. A few years ago Beverly participated at a plein air retreat, which rekindled her passion for painting. “This really got me excited about the landscape we live in,” she said. “I love the simple shapes of the Flint Hills and the color of the open sky. My oil paintings have been the vehicle for me to express these feelings and have allowed me to capture the movement and colors of the soft sculptures that I enjoy.”
Exhibitions–
2023: Solid Ground: Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2020-2021: Two Visions- One Prairie : Traveling Exibit including The Vernon Filley Museum, Pratt, Ks
2019:Two Visions-One Prairie, Coutts Museum of Art, El Dorado, KS
2019:Cup-O-Joe, Beauchamp's Gallery, Topeka, KS
2019:Shapes of Land Kansas, Reuben Saunder's Gallery, Wichita, Ks
2018: She Knows Color, Beauchamp's Gallery, Topeka, Ks
2016: e’ Scapes, Hays, KS
2016: Flowers, Beauchamp's Gallery, Topeka, Ks
2016: 30 Women Artist Paint Kansas , Cotts Museum, El Dorado, Kansa
2015: One Woman Show, 5.4.7 Arts Center, Greensburg, KS
2014: 8 Women, New Work by Contemporary Topeka Artists
2013: Endless Horizons – Women paint the Prairie –Deines Cultural Center, Russell, KS
2013: Earth & Sky, Women of the Prairie. Artworks, Wichita, KS
2010,2011 & 2012: Visions of the Flint Hills
2007: The Kansas Masters Invitational Art Show , Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Ks
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University
Winhem Museum, Winhem, Mass.
Kansas Crafts – Topeka Public Library
Kansas Craftsman – Wamego, Kansas
2002: Ornament for Bush White House Christmas Tree
1999: Ornament for Clinton White House Christmas Tree
Figures in Fiber, Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, Ks
8th International Quilt Week Yokohama. Japan
Textile Figures at The Knitting and Textile Show, London, Dublin & Harrogate
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University
Winhem Museum, Winhem, Mass.
Kansas Crafts – Topeka Public Library
Kansas Craftsman – Wamego, Kansas
1996 & 1997: Sulky Challenge (traveling show)
1995, 1998, 2000 & 2002: Celebration of the Doll (traveling show)
1993: Figure in Cloth (traveling show)
The Kansas Masters Invitational Art Show 2007, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Ks
Ornament for Clinton White House Christmas Tree 1999
Ornament for Bush White House Christmas Tree 2002
Visions of the Flint Hills 2010
Two Visions, One Prairie, Traveling show 2020, 2021, 2022
Solid Ground, Reuben Saunders Gallery April 2023
Loosely Speaking, Hays Art Center, Hays, Ks July-August 2024
Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE 2024
Summer Shift, Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, Ks, August 2024
Les Fleur Quatre, Coutts Museum of art, El Dorado, KS August- October 2024
Documentary Film – The Art of the Doll Maker
Publications – Finishing the Figure
Anatomy of a Doll
Designing the Doll
Topeka Capital- Journal, “Puffy’s on Parade” June 2003
Topeka Capital-Journal, “Figures In Fiber” June 2006
The Washburn Review winter 2001
Topeka Magazine “Looking Around” Winter 2009/10
Kansas! Spring 2017
Galleries Prairiebrooke Arts
7900 Santa FE Drive, Overland Park, Kansas 66205
913-341-0333
3113 Sw Huntoon, Topeka, Ks 66604
785-233-0300
3215 East Douglas, Wichita, KS 67218
316-682-1481
Alabaster Collective
112 North Main, El Dorado, Kansas 67042
316-323-3292
