MALINDA BEEMAN
Born in Pomona, CA in 1949, Malinda Beeman grew up in Newport Beach. As a child, her mother brought her to watercolor painting classes at Scripts College in Claremont, where she studied with watercolorist Millard Sheets. She received her BFA from San Diego State University in 1971 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973; she spent a year at the Print Workshop in London while working toward her master’s thesis. She moved to Houston in 1974 and presented a solo exhibition, Honey Beeman: Blueprints and Other Works at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1976. Her work was featured in solo shows at Harris Gallery and in numerous group shows including A Glimpse of Houston: Works on Paper by Nine Texas Artists (Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1978); The 1984 Show (One Allen Center, 1984); and Fresh Paint: The Houston School (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1985). In 1980, she worked as the gallery coordinator at the Glassell School of Art under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act artist-in-residence program, and she taught at the University of Houston from 1984 to 1992, at which point she moved to Colorado to take a position as director of Painting and Printmaking at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village. She moved to Marfa, Texas in 1999 where she established the non-profit Marfa Studio of the Arts as well as Marfa Maid Goat Cheese, a fully licensed goat milk dairy providing artisanal goat cheese for the Big Bend region.
Pete Gershon interviewed Malinda Beeman at Marfa Maid on December 30, 2018.
Further research:
“West Texas Talk,” Marfa Public Radio broadcast, September 12, 2011