Profile

2023-1986          Owner & Art Director of Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2019                   Curated “Tom Majors Tribute to Wood” at The Studios of Key West, FL

2018 Harrison Gallery co-produced “Undying Love The Musical” with The Studios of Key West  

2014                   Featured in Sailing Down The Mountain, a memoir by Ben Harrison

1985-83              Sailed East Coast of the United States and the Bahamas

1986-81              Established Harrison Studio, Truman Annex, Key West, FL

1979-78              Sailed throughout Central America

1978-74              Boatbuilding in Costa Rica

Education

1972                    BFA Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Exhibitions

2023, 2020          From a Woman’s Hand, Custom House, Key West, FL

2019                    With the Grain: Tom Majors Tribute To Wood, The Studios of Key West, FL

2019-2017           Small Works, Lemonade Stand Gallery at The Studios of Key West, FL

2019-2017           Art In Public Places Rotating Art Program, Key West Airport, Key West, FL

2018                    On the Waterfront Truman Annex Artists, Custom House, Key West, FL

2017                    Members Show, The Studios of Key West, FL

2016                    Feather Your Nest, The Studios of Key West, FL

2015                    Members Show, The Studios of Key West, FL

2015                    Helen Harrison & Cheryl Troxel, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2014                    Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL

2012                    A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Norman Stevens, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2012                    Tropical Elegance, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012                    Pop-Up Art Gallery, Fast Buck Freddie’s, Key West, FL

2012                    Black on White, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2012                    5 Wood Artists, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2011                    White on White, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2011                    The Hungry Muse: Key West Literary Seminar, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL

2012,05-03,99    Aids Help, Invitational Auctions, Key West, FL

2010                    Lovers. Mothers. Sisters. Others, The Studios of Key West, FL

2010                   Gathering of Spoons, Association of American Woodturners, Hartford, CT

2010                   The Black Pearl & The Blond, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2009                   Wood III, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2009                    Santa Fe Meets Key West, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2008                    Food…Glorious Food!, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

2007-2003          Sculpture Key West, Key West, FL        

2007                   Tropical Botany, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2006                   20th Anniversary Show, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2006                   MTV’s The Real World set, Key West, FL

2006,04              24 Hour Lock-In, The Lemonade Stand, Key West, FL

2003                   Helen Harrison & Melinda K. Hall, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2003                    Works in Wood, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2002                    Women’s Show, The Custom House Museum, Key West, FL

2002                    The Exotic & The Esoteric: 17 FL Woodworkers, FL Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

2002                    Helen Harrison & Benjia Morganstern, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2002                    Studio Wood, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

2001                    Three Women, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1999                    Solo Show, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1998                    Women’s Show, Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL

1997                    Group show, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1996                    Sansar Gallery, Washington, DC

1994                    Helen Harrison & Wali Cunningham, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1993                    Images, Stock Island, FL

1993                    Helen Harrison & Wendy Gell, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1992                    Living Sculpture: Wood, Pottery, Bonsai, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1992                    Christmas Show, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1991                    Juried: Florida Keys Artists, Florida Keys Community College, Key West, FL

1990                    Our Fragile Environment: Invitational, East Martello Museum,  Key West, FL

1989                    Sculpture - Five Artists, East Martello Museum, Key West, FL

1988                    Group Show, Harrison Gallery, Key West, FL

1987                    New Artists’ Works, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL

1984-83               Group Show, Gingerbread Square Gallery, Key West, FL

Articles and Reviews

2021                    “The Secret to Life with Harrison Gallery”, Backyards of Key West Podcast, Mark Baratto

2019                     “Knock on Wood: Tom Majors Tribute To Wood”, Keys Weekly, Hays Blinckmann

2016                     “Meet the Harrisons”, Florida Weekly, Maxine Lopez-Keough

2016                     “Harrison Gallery Charts Its Own Course…”, Keys Weekly, Hays Blinckmann

2015                     “Still Life: Judy Blume”, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Judy Blume/Christoper Ross

2014                     “Forty Year Saga of Gallery Owner, Helen Harrison…”, Miami Herald, Cammy Clark

2014                     “HAH x2”, Eye On Art Blog, Helen A. Harrison

2014                     “Home Is Wherever I Am”, Key West Citizen, Leslie Linsley

2013                     “Art Loft”, video, WPBT Miami Channel 2

2012                     “A Gathering of SPOONS”, Linden Publishing, Norman D. Stevens

2012                     “Quirk Gallery”, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jo Lord

2011                      Photo Series, Key West Literary Seminar Catalogue 

2009                     “Santa Fe Meets Key West”;  “Wood III” ; “It’s the Light”, Solares Hill, George Murphy

2008                     “Key West: A Tropical Life Style”, Key West Citizen, Leslie Linsley

2008-2006            Sculpture Key West Catalogue

2007                     Key West Magazine, Margit Bisztray

2007                     Our Spectrum of Visual Arts, Barney Cornaby    

2007                     “Tropical Botany”, Solares Hill, Joel Blair

2006                     The Media General Arts Collection Catalogue, Richmond, VA

2006                     “Harrison Gallery”, Key West Magazine, Barbara Bowers; Margit Bisztray

2006                     “A Jewel Box Looks at 20”, Solares Hill, Joel Blair

2005                     “Bird’s Eye View”, Cape Air

2004                     “Costa Rican Adventure”, Boatbuilder Magazine, Ben Harrison

2003                     Key West Magazine, Donna Smith

2003                     “Keys Life”, The Key West Citizen

2002                     L’Attitudes, Judi Bradford

2002                     Solares Hill, Mark Howell; Matt Dukes Jordan; Joel Blair

2002                     Celebrate, Constance Gilbert

2002                     L’Attitudes, Judi Bradford

2001                     Florida Travel Magazine

1999                     On the cover of Country Kitchen 

1999                     K.W. The Newspaper, Barbara Bowers

1999                     Solares Hill, David Ethridge

1995                     “The Traveling Collector”, Art & Antiques

1995                     K.W. The Newspaper, Barbara Bowers

1995                     Photo Series, HOME Magazine, December/January issue

1994                     Travel + Leisure, David Kaufelt

1993                     Island Life, Jane Phillips

1998                     Solares Hill, Shawn Atkins

1987                     “Accent on the Arts”, Humme’s Guide 

1986                     Island Life, Julie Perrin

1986                     The Key West Citizen, C. Lee

1985                     The Miami Herald, Bob Smith

Selected Collections

NOAA Weather Station - Key West, FL

Art & Historical Custom House Museum - Key West, FL

Longwood Center for Visual Art - Blanton Collections - Richmond, VA       

Norman D. Stevens Wooden Spoon Collection

The Central Trust Bank - Jefferson City, MO

Private Collections

Richard & Rhonda Taylor

Terrance McNally & Tom Kirdahy

Judy Blume & George Cooper

Jeffrey & Walton Goldring

Daphne Farago

David Wolkowsky

Andrea & Bill Spottswood

Helen A. Harrison & Roy Nicholson

Mitch Kaplan

Stanley & Judy Zabar

Chahan Minassian

Tim & Nancy Grumbacher

Nancy Friday

David & Susan Goode

Selected Awards

2022 Golden Mango Award, The Studios of Key West

2014                     Perfect Score Award, Juried Show, Small works Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL

2003                     Best in Show: Art in the Park, Key West Art In Public Places, Key West, FL

2003                     Sculpture selected for Spottswood Pocket Park, Art In Public Places, Key West, FL  

2002                     Rodel Foundation Fellowship, The Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO

Boards and Organizations

2022-06               Save Our Pines

2019-14               The Studios of Key West

2014-12, 04-03    Friends of Ft. Zachary Taylor

2013-10               The Studios of Key West, Residency Consultant

2012-10               Key West Art In Public Places

2010, 05-04         Sculpture Key West