About
Hita von Mende paints images of the West in a contemporary style. For the 2014 National Western Art Show in Ellensburg, WA, she has been chosen as the featured artist. In 2012 and 2005, she won the Ellensburg National Rodeo Poster Award.
She has designed sets for theater, opera and ballet. Her paintings live in private collections, public corporations, and on the TV show “Longmire.” Her paintings are featured at the Due West Gallery in Santa Fe, voted Best New Western Art Gallery by True West Magazine.
Distinctions
Featured Poster Artist: National Western Art show, May 16-18, 2014
Featured Artist: Due West Gallery, Santa Fe, June 2014
- 1st Place Puget Sound Energy Purchase Award 2006
- Ellensburg National Rodeo Poster Award 2004
- Commissioned Artist, Vashon Allied Arts, Vashon, WA 2006
- Cover, Forum Poetry Magazine
- Brochure cover, CLE International 10th Annual Art Law Conference
- Perpetual Trophy, American Rottweiler Club
Other:
- Designed and painted sets for Oklahoma!, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, and many others for Drama Dock in Vashon, WA
- Designed and painted sets for Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf, Swan Lake for Olympic Ballet, Edmonds, WA, currently working on a set for a new work by the Olympic Ballet
Commissions, collections:
- Renaissance Hotel, Seattle, WA
- Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA
- City of Enumclaw
- Van Ness Feldman, Seattle, WA
- Denver Tech Center
- Café Berlin, Denver, CO
- Madrona Law Group, Seattle, WA
Education:
University of Minnesota, BA, Art, 2 years with artist John Podrebarac, workshops with David Leffel, Daniel Greene, Wm. F. Reese, and Ray Vinella