Curriculum Vitae
SELECTED NATIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
American Women Artists, National Online Show, 2021; Spring Online Show, 2021
International Guild of Realism Salon Show, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2017, Annual Exhibition, 2017 Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA; Annual Exhibition, (Best Landscape Award, Alexandria, VA 2019; Annual Exhibition, 2020, Charleston, SC; Annual Exhibition, Annapolis, MD 2022, Annual Online Exhibition, 2024
Women Artists of the West National Exhibitions: Fredericksburg, Texas 2016; Annapolis, MD 2017 (Best Landscape Award); Bartlesville, OK, 2018; Boulder, CO, 2019; Kerrville TX, 2020; 2021; Annapolis, MD 2022
National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society (NOAPS) Best of America: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 (Best Landscape Award), Master Signature Exhibition: 2015, 2016; Best of America Small Works: 2017, 2021, 2022
Salon International: Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2013, 2014
OPA (Oil Painters of America) Regional Exhibitions: 2002, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2022
2013 National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society (NOAPS) Fall 2013 OnLine Exhibition; 2nd Place Award; Spring OnLine Exhibition, 2013, Award of Excellence
OPA, Salon Show of Traditional Oils, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, 2013, 2014
Salmagundi Club, New York City: 18th & 14th Annual Open Exhibitions: 1991, 1995; Members' Annual Exhibition, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018; Thumb Box Exhibition, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012
2010 Paint the Parks, Top 100 (3 paintings): 2010
National Arts for the Parks, Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Top 100: 1989, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2006; Top 200: 1990, 1993, 1996, 2006
Oil Painters of America National Exhibition: 2000 (Gallery Americana, Carmel CA), 2001 (Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA);
State Department Arts in Embassies Program: 1994-1996 (Vatican, Rome), 2003-2005 (Ankara, Turkey), 2007-2009 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Artist's Magazine Still Life Competition Finalist: 1996; Landscape Competition Finalist: 2003
Listed in Who's Who of America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who of American Women, 1991 through the present, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
American Painting Fine Art, Washington, DC
Andrei Kushnir/Michele Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Troika Gallery, Easton, MD
Strathmore Hall Art Center, North Bethesda, MD
Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MD
Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
Grand Style Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art League Gallery (Torpedo Factory), Alexandria, VA
Penn State University, State College, PA
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Silver Spring, MD
Bendann Galleries, Towson, MD
PUBLICATIONS
Author of Secrets to Composition, (the paperback version of 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes) published by North Light Books, 2012
100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic, by Gary Pendleton, 2014
Article on landscape composition in Artist's Magazine , 2014
Author of 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes published by North Light Books, 2004
Contributor to Painting the Elements, Weather Effects in Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor, North Light Books, 2006
Two landscape paintings included in Art from the Parks, North Light Books, 2000
A landscape painting included in How did you Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Landscapes, International Artist Publishing, 2004
Paint Annapolis 2004 painting on cover of Exclusively Greater Annapolis 2006, a book benefiting Historic Annapolis Foundation Jordan Publishing Co., 2006
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Oil Painters of America (OPA, signature member)
National Oil & Acrylic Painter's Society (NOAPS, signature member)
American Women Artists (AWA, signature member)
International Guild of Realism (IGOR, signature member)
Washington Society of Landscape Painters (WSLP president: 2001-2003, 2007-2014)
Women Artists of the West (WAOW) (signature member)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Schuler School of Fine Arts, Baltimore MD
SELECTED JURIED GROUP SHOWS
America the Beautiful, Mary Williams Fine Art, Boulder, CO
Arti et Amicitiae American Landscape Exhibition, Amsterdam, Holland
Salmagundi Club, NYC
RSHanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, TE
Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TE
Barnsite Art Gallery, Kewaunee, WI
Brazier Gallery of Fine Art, Richmond VA
South Street Art Gallery, Easton, MD
Hilligos Gallery, Chicago, IL
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Illuminaria Fine Art; Chatham, MA
Richland Fine Art, Nashville, TE
American Painting Fine Art, NYC and Washington, DC
Gallery Americana, Carmel, CA
Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Troika Gallery, Easton, MD
Grand Style Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Bendann Art Galleries, Towson, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Atrium Gallery Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Art Showcase of 100 Maryland Artists, Baltimore, MD
Strathmore Hall Art Center, Bethesda, MD
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
The Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC
The Meeting House Gallery, Columbia, MD
Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
National Park Service Headquarters, Washington, DC.
JUDGING EXPERIENCE
Baltimore Watercolor Society, Annapolis Maritime Museum Exhibit, Juror, 2025
National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS), Awards Judge, Best of America, 2023
Kent Island Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 2021
Women Artists of the West, Annual Exhibition, 2020
National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS), Awards Judge, Spring On-line Exhibition, 2018
Women Artists of the West, New Members, 2018
National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS) Spring On-line Exhibition, 2015
Chestertown Art League, Chestertown, MD, 2015
Laurel Art Guild, Laurel MD: 2011, 2016
Frederick Art Association, Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick MD, 2009
Potomac Valley Watercolor Show, Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD, 2005
American Landscape Show, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, 2002
66th Annual Forest Festival, Elkins, WV: 2002
Montgomery County Art Association Exhibition, Bethesda, MD, 2001, 2004
Where Vision Meets Canvas.
