encouraging their careers. Awards and Exhibitions Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011 New York, NY, ACA Galleries, The Word in Paint 2010 Los Angeles, CA, Lawrence Asher Gallery, The Word in Paint 2008 Phoenix, AZ, Arizona State University, College of Public Programs and Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, The Word in Paint 2005 Aspen, CO, Aspen International Art, Time's Call 2004 Scottsdale, AZ, Vanier Galleries Ltd, The Fire and the Rose 2002, Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Reminders of Invisible Light: The Art of Beth Ames Swartz 2002 Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Museum of Art, Reminders of Invisible Light: The Art of Beth Ames Swartz 1998 Montagnola, Switzerland, Hermann Hesse Museum, A Story for the Eleventh Hour 1989 Palm Springs, CA, Palm Springs Desert Museum 1985 Calgary, Canada, The Nickle Arts Museum 1983 Tel Aviv, Israel, American Cultural Center, Israel Revisited 1982-83, Berkeley, CA, Judah Magnes Museum, Israel Revisited 1981 New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, Israel Revisited Selected Collections The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO The Jewish Museum, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Selected Awards 1985 Phoenix, AZ, Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create 1994 New York, NY, Awarded Flow Funding grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit by Marion Rockefeller Weber 2001 Phoenix, AZ, Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer. 2003 New York, NY, Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor Books and Catalogs Wortz, Melinda. Inquiry into Fire: Beth Ames Swartz. Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Rand, Harry. Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz. Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981. Nelson, Mary Carroll. Connecting: The Art of Beth Ames Swartz. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1984. . Carde, Margaret and John Perrault. Beth Ames Swartz, 1982-1988: A Moving Point of Balance. Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Rothschild, John and Berta Sichel. Beth Ames Swartz: A Story for the Eleventh Hour. New York: E. M. Donahue Gallery, 1994. Raven, Arlene, David Rubin and Eva S. Jungermann. Reminders of Invisible Light: The Art of Beth Ames Swartz. New York, Hudson Hills Press in conjunction