EXHIBITIONS
2023
August Featured Artist, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
July Group Show, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2022
October Featured Artist, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
2021
Painting as Sculpture, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Group Show, Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Layers, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts
October Featured Artist, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
We Are Poems, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2020
November Featured Artist, Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
Hot/Cold: Expressions in Wax, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
2019
(in)Forming Works, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Fusion: Encaustic Works, Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2018
Keep It 100, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
The Blues, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Trans, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, Massachusetts
Small Works, Swallowfield, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2017
Some Like It Hot, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, New York
Yutori, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Shifts, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Now Becomes Then, The Press Hotel, Portland, Maine
Sense of Place, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, Massachusetts
Black Tie, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Depth Perception, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts
10 Minutes of Quiet, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Work x 5, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Abstraction, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
The Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Chaos + Order II, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
2016
ENCAUSTIC/Works in Pigment and Beeswax, University of Maine Fernald Gallery, Belfast, Maine
Exhalation, Vestibule 594, Portland, Maine
The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, New York
Vision + Verse, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine, Juror Anne Zill, Director, University of New England Art Gallery
No. 10, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
On Your Mark, Truro Center for The Arts, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Curator Patricia Dusman
Mark of the Brush, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Juror Christine McCarthy, Executive Director of PAAM
Length x Width x Depth: 11th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tuscon, Arizona
Beneath The Surface, Saco Art Museum, Saco, Maine, Juror Ron Crusan, Director, Ogunquit Museum of Art
From The Inside, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2015
Chaos + Order, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk, Maine, Juror Anne Zill, Director, University of New England Art Gallery
Minimal/ Maximal, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, Massachusetts, Juror Mike Carroll, Artist and Owner, Schoolhouse Gallery
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
One + One, A Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
From The Inside, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2014
4th Annual National Juried Encaustic Exhibition, Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, New Mexico, Juror Merry Scully, Head of Curatorial Affairs, New Mexico Museum of Art
Poetry Bleeds Rust, National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York, Juror Jenn Dierdorf
Transformations, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, New Hampshire, Juror Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher, Artscope
The Diptych Project II, Engine Gallery, Biddeford, Maine
Breaking Boundaries, Fountain Street Arts, Framingham, Massachusetts
From The Inside, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
Big Bad Wax, Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Mount Dora, Florida
2013
Materials Matter, Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine
Element: Water, 3Fish Gallery, Portland, Maine
Process & Place, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
From The Inside, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2012
The Power of Ten, Discover Portsmouth Gallery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Converge, Zand Head Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Free For All, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
From The Inside, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
Launch: Emerging Artists, York Art Association, York, Maine
AWARDS + GRANTS
2020 ArtsEngageME Maine Artist Relief Fund recipient, Maine Arts Commission
Portland Artist Fund Relief recipient, Creative Portland
Westbrook-Warren Memorial Foundation Emergency Arts Fund recipient
2019 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2018 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2017 Tending Space Artist Fellowship, Hemera Foundation
2016 Juror’s Award, 10th International Encaustic Conference
Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2015 Emerging Artist Grant, International Encaustic Artists
2014 Award of Excellence, 4th Annual National Juried Encaustic Exhibition, Encaustic Art Institute
RESIDENCIES
2012 Artist Residency, The Stephen Pace House, Maine College of Art
PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
“A Focus On Education,” WAX FUSION, Fall 2021
“The Absence of Words,” UPPERCASE, issue 47, October 2020
“Q&A with Encausticbord artist Dietlind Vander Schaaf,” All Things Ampersand, June 2020
“Giving Pause: Vander Schaaf’s Visual Poems at Bromfield,” Artscope, March/April 2020
“Seventy-five Noteworthy Maine Artists,” Maine Home + Design, 2020 Art Maine Annual Guide
“Collect” Decor Maine, June 2019
“Artist’s Retreat” Downeast Magazine, March 2018
“Ones To Watch” Maine Home + Design, April 2016
“The Art of Collaboration” Encaustic Arts Magazine, Winter 2014
“Transformations: Encaustic Artists Challenge Boundaries,” Artscope, September/ October 2014
“Big Bad Wax opens at Mount Dora Center For The Arts,” Orlando Sentinel, January 2014
COLLECTIONS
2022 Charlesbank Capital Partners, New York, NY
2021 Canopy Hotel LLC, Portland, ME
2014 The Press Hotel LLC, Portland, ME
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2019–2024 Ampersand Artist Ambassador
2017–2019 President, New England WAX
2015–2017 President Elect, New England WAX
2013–2021 Member, New England WAX
2014–2024 Core Artist Instructor, R&F Handmade Paints