About Me
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Prizes and Honors:
- 2011
- Finalist, ACOPAL competition, America China Oil Painting Artists League
- 2010
- Salmagundi Club Award, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Competition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
- 2010
- Portrait Society of America, 4th place in still life, Members Only Competition, on line
- 2010
- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, one of ten artists invited to participate in the “Inspiring Figures” exhibition of women portrait painters
- 2009
- Second Prize, National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA
- 2006
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, exhibit opening July 1
- 2006
- First Prize in Painting, National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg
- 2004
- Best of Show, National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA
- 2001
- First Prize in Painting. Art of the State, PA State Museum. Harrisburg, PA.
- 2000
- First Prize in Painting. Art of the State, PA State Museum. Harrisburg, PA.
- 1997
- First Prize in Painting, National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, Juror: Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld, Director of The Museum of American Art, PA Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
- 1996
- Best of Show, Contemporary Realism II, Gallery Alexy and The Contemporary Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA, Juror: Sydney Goodman.
- 1996
- Second Prize, Sixth Annual PA Juried Exhibit, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, Juror: Linda Cunningham.
- 1995
- First Prize in Painting, National Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, Juror: Phyllis Rosenzweig, Association Curator, Hirschorn Museum.
- 1992
- First Prize in Painting, Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA.
- 1979
- First Prize in Fine Arts, Rochester Women in the Arts, The Mill Gallery, Rochester, NY.
Selected Solo Exhibits:
- 2009
- YorkArts, York, Pennsylvania
- 2003
- The Phillips Museum, Dana Gallery, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
- 2003
- Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
- 2002, '94, '87, '84
- Faculty Solo Show, Messiah College
- 1988
- Gordon College, Wenham, MA
- 1986
- Greenville College, Greenville, IL
- 1985
- Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD
Selected Group Exhibits:
- 2011
- PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition
- 2011
- DOSHI Special Exhibition, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
- 2010
- Doshi Gallery at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, juried members exhibition
- 2010
- “Women Painting Women,” Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, S.C.
- 2010
- PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition
- 2010
- 82nd National Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg
- 2010
- “Figure Eight,” Elizabethtown College Invitational, Elizabethtown College, PA
- 2009
- PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition
- 2009
- 81st Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg
- 2008
- Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA, “Celebrate DOSHI”
- 2007
- Wayne Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, “Portraiture: A Philadelphia Tradition”
- 2007
- Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, “Figurative,” summer show
- 2007
- Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, portraits by faculty members
- 2006-2007
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C., Outwin Boochever Competition, July 1, 2006 through February 19, 2007
- 2005
- Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “New Philadelphia Realists,”, 4-person exhibition
- 2005
- Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “Out of Line,” Group Drawing Show
- 2005
- Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN."Prescott and Prescott: Image and Substance," two-person exhibition, catalog
- 2004
- Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “Masters and Mavericks: The Nude”
- 2004
- Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CN,“Artists Talk,” catalog
- 2002
- Susquehanna Museum, Harrisburg, PA, “Art of the State,” state juried show
- 2000
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, NY, NY
- 1999
- Art Association of Harrisburg, Four-Person Invitational.
- 1999
- Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, “Reality Check,”, Group Invitational
- 1999
- Houghton College, Houghton, NY, Two-Person Exhibit.
- 1998
- National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA.
- 1996-1998
- CIVA Creates the Portrait: Traveling Exhibit; Curators Lennart Anderson and Douglas Giebel.
- 1996
- Contemporary Realists at the Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA.
- 1996
- Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, Two-Person Exhibit.
- 1995
- Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA
- 1994
- “Searching for the Hidden,” C. S. Lewis Summer Institute, Cambridge, Eng-land, Invitational.
- 1988
- Art Association of Harrisburg, Annual National Juried Exhibit.
- 1988
- Bucknell University, Pennsylvania Painting Competition, Juror: Clement Greenberg.
- 1987
- The Colorado College, Alumni Exhibit, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
- 1985
- Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, “Shelter '85,” Juror: David Tannous.
- 1984
- The Gallery, York, PA, Tri-State Exhibit, Juror: David Tannous.
- 1981
- Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg, PA, Two-Person Exhibit.
Grants:
- 2008
- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship
- 1988-1989
- Pennsylvania Council on The Arts and National Endowment for The Arts, Artist in Residence, York Public Schools and Cumberland Valley Public School.
Education:
- 1966
- University of Wisconsin, graduate painting
- 1966
- B.A., The Colorado College
Selected Collections:
Mrs. Nancy Draughn, Lake Charles, LA
Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Appell, Jr., York, PA
Gregory and Suzanne Wolfe, Seattle, WA
Nicholas and Ellen Hughes, Mechanicsburg, PA
John Waldvogel, Atlanta, GA
Drs. Kim and Kelly Phipps, Grantham, PA
The Boyer Center, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Turkey Hill Dairy, Conestoga, PA
Walworth Memorial Public Library, Walworth, WI
Pine Rest Christian Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Office of the President, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Messiah College, permanent collection
The Murray Collection, Harrisburg PA
Richard and Linda Russell, Harrisburg, PA
Toquaiah Jackson, Harrisburg, PA
Bobby and Sarah Jones, Lake Charles, LA
Claire and Lewis Okser, Brooklyn, NY
John and Lois Scott, Lancaster, PA
Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky, Kirchner, Ontario, Canada
Galen Oaks, Massillon, Ohio
Donald and Christine Forsythe, Dillsburg, PA
John and Susan Skillen, Orvieto, Italy
John and Kate Quimby, Harrisburg, PA
Patricia Trunkett, Chicago, IL
Morris and Leona Sider, Grantham, PA
Anne and Lew Rinard, State College, PA
Melissa Clemence, Wellesley, MA
Russell and Linda Koons, Etters, PA
Dean and Jean Curry, Mechanicsburg, PA
Oliver Eberhard, Seelze, Germany
Teaching Experience:
- 2009
- Workshops on portrait painting limited to 3 or 4 students
- 2003, '05, '09
- Gordon College, The Orvieto Semester, Orvieto, Italy , course in Portrait Painting
- 1982-2002
- Adjunct Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- 2002
- IMAGE Summer Institute, instructor in portrait painting, Santa Fe, NM
- 2001
- IMAGE Summer Institute, instructor in landscape painting, Santa Fe, NM
- 1998
- Gordon College, The Orvieto Semester, guest professor of painting, Orvieto, Italy
- 1974-1980
- Adjunct Instructor in Art, Roberts Wesleyan College
Published Articles:
- 2009
- Image no. 60, "Four Corners: Painters Frame Contemporary Painting"