Rie's Work - Exhibitions, Murals, Books and Awards

Exhibitions, Murals, Books
and Awards

1951 Mural, Teenage Club, Juneau, Alaska
1951-52 Taught school and painted on King Island in the Bering Sea

(See January 1954 article in the National Geographic Magazine)

1952-67 Political cartoonist, Juneau Empire newspaper, Juneau, Alaska
1953 Mural, Pacific Northern Airlines, Ketchikan, Alaska
1953 Mural, Ellis Airlines, Ketchikan, Alaska
1956 Illustrated book: Juneau and Its Development

(State of Alaska Development Board)

1961 Illustrated annual reindeer roundup on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea

(For the State of Alaska’s Bureau of Indian Affairs)

1962-67 Illustrated for Alaska Magazine
1962 Illustrated Alaska Camp Cook Book
1963 Mural, 1008 Club, Juneau, Alaska
1964 Clothespin Art Tour—14 cities in Alaska
1965 Illustrated Handbook for the Freshman Legislature
1967 Mural, Alaska Council of Churches, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1967 Author and illustrator, Nursing in Alaska 1987-1967
1968-72 Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Curator of Exhibits
px 1968 Mural, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
1971 Watercolor exhibition, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
1971 Watercolor exhibition, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
1972 Alaska State Council of the Arts Grant for an art tour of the Bering Sea Coastal Villages
1972 Watercolor exhibition, Tongass Historical & Fine Arts Museum, Ketchikan, Alaska
1973 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1975 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1976 Featured watercolor exhibition, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
1976 Illustrated book, Kahtahah, Alaska Northwest Publishing Company
1977 Outstanding Alaska Artist Award, Anchorage Fine Arts Museum Association
1977 Mural, Harborview School, Juneau, Alaska
1978 Contemporary Art from Alaska show, Smithsonian Institute Washington D.C.
1978 Featured watercolor exhibition, Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
1981 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1982 Tapestry exhibition, Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
1983 Illustrated Good-bye My Island children’s book, Green Willow Books
1983 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1985 Oregon Art Tour, exhibitions in six galleries
1985 Illustrated King Island Christmas children’s book—musical adaptation 1997
1986 Illustrated Runaway Mittens children’s book
1987 Illustrated Andy children’s book
1987 Published Rie Muñoz Artist in Alaska art book
1988 Alaskan Art Tour, exhibitions in nine galleries
1989 Cover of Eddie Bauer Christmas catalog
1992 Washington Art Tour, exhibitions in eight galleries
1992 Guest appearance on NBC’s Evening Magazine, Seattle, Washington
1992 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1992 Grand Opening of Rie Muñoz Gallery building in Juneau, Alaska
1994 Guest appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America
1994 Oregon Art Tour, exhibitions in five galleries
1995 Published Rie Muñoz, Portrait of Alaska
1995 Washington Art Tour, exhibitions in seven galleries
1995 Commissioned by the League of Women Voters for their 75th Anniversary poster
1995 Alaska Art Tour, exhibitions in four galleries
1998 Oregon Art Tour, exhibitions in five galleries
1998 Commissioned for the State of Alaska Heirloom Birth Certificate
1999 Received Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Alaska Southeast
1999 Washington Art Tour, exhibitions in seven galleries
1999 Published Rie Muñoz at the Frye Art Museum art book
1999 Featured watercolor exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2000 Pacific Rim Art Exposition Artist of the Year, Seattle, Washington
2001 Commissioned for State of Alaska Heirloom Marriage Certificate
2002 Commission by Alaska Governor-elect Frank Murkowski for an inauguration poster
2003 Western Washington Fair Association’s Artist of the Year, Puyallup, Washington
2004 Alaska State Council on the Arts 2004 Governor's Award for Individual Artist
2005 Published Alaska Through the Eyes of an Artist art book
2005 Western Washington Fair Association's Artist of the Year, Puyallup, Washington
2006 Featured watercolor exhibition, Alaska State Museum, Juneau
2009 Rie's last Print Release
2011 Rie's 90th Birthday, August 17