"Photoglyph #8" 1999, photography on sandstone, 18" x 12”
Biographical Sketch
Glenda received a first-place award in Warhol's World Community Gallery Competition, Ovation TV, 2008. She was awarded a Hedgebrook Invitational Residency in 2000 and a First Place Award for "Shadow Dance #1" in the 1988 Crosscurrents Arts Contest.
She received both a B.A. in Art (1989) and a B.A. in Business Administration (1981) from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She also acquired a Professional Photography Certificate (1983) from Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood, Washington.
Her work is in many private and corporate collections, and in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (Paris, France), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), En Foco (Bronx, NY), Puyallup Tribe of Indians (Tacoma, WA), Chief Leschi Schools (Tacoma, WA), Steilacoom Tribal Cultural Center, Seattle Art Museum, and the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA).
Glenda published the book Shadow Dance (Nine Muses Books) in 2004 with poems by David Lloyd Whited.
Over thirty of her images have been reproduced in such publications as Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories, The Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Guide, Tacoma News Tribune, Peninsula Daily News, Sequim Gazette, Tacenda, Raven Chronicles, Gatherings, Reflex, Arches, Aristos, Art Access, and Russian Morning.
Her work has been shown in such places as the Bibliotheque national de France, Institute de Cultura Puertorriquena (Puerto Rico), Westfalishe Museum fur Naturkunde (Munster, Germany), Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the Governor's Invitational at the Washington State Capital Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Daybreak Star Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art (Seattle, WA), Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY), University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Seattle University, and Western Washington University. Her work has also traveled to Russia and Scotland.
Glenda J. Guilmet is listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Art, (2007-2015), 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century (2000), 2000 Outstanding People of the 21st Century (2002), Dictionary of International Biography (2000-2005), Marquis Who's Who in the World (2000-2004), Marquis Who's Who in America (1997-2004), Marquis Who's Who of American Women (1995-2007), Marquis Who's Who in the West (1998-2001), and more.