Baker Artist Portfolios

Dawn Whitmore is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is based social mythology, play, and the natural world. Using elements of sculpture, sound, performance, video, photography and painting she creates immersive and engaging spaces that explore the relationship between internal psychic worlds and outer ecologies.

Her work plays on a tension that links storytelling and reality; the friction between fantastical playfulness and uncertainty. There is a reoccurring theme of journeying through conjured realms anchored in the philosophies of deep ecology and naturalism.

Dawn received a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in 2005. Her work has been shown nationally including: the Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Hemphill Fine Arts, Area 405, Spring Gallery and published in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She is a recipient of multiple Artist Fellowship Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts, an CAH-NEA CARES Act Grant, and a Maryland State Arts Council Project Grant.

Dawn was a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington from 2013-2019 and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was a photography juror for the International Photography Awards (IPA) from 2014-2025 and is currently serving as a Photography + Media Curriculum Advisory Board Member for Northern Virginia Community College.

Since 2019, Dawn has taught an art/meditation class called Channeling the Emotional Landscape where she teaches student how to visualize and express emotions through mixed media projects.