1996 - 2002 EXHIBITIONS (* One Person Exhibition)

2002 - “Paintings from the Chatov Atelier” – Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA (Invitational)
2002 – Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 106th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
2002 – &#South Cobb Arts Alliance 15th National Juried Art Exhibition”, Mableton, GA
2002 – 3-Person Show, Cultural Arts Council, Douglasville, GA
2002 – “The Nude 2002” – Lexington Art League Lexington, KY (Juror: Sharon E. Hunter, Vice President
Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT)
2001 – “Fifteenth Annual Juried Fine Arts Show National Competition, Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville, GA (Juror: Susan Masouka, Director of Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University)
2001 – “Past to Present: Lee Farms” – Gallery at the St. Edward the Confessor Episcopal Church (Invitational)
1998 – “Self Portrait Exhibition by Jim Schell River Painters” – Abernathy Art Center, Atlanta, GA (sponsored
by Fulton County Arts Council – Invitational)
1998 – Twelfth Annual Juried Fine Arts Show National Competition, Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville, GA
(Juror: Ann Baird, Director, Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highland Center for Visual Arts, Highland, NC)
*1998 – “Southern Charm” – William’s Salon, Atlanta, GA (curated by Jane Carroll)
*1997 – “Georgia On My Mind” – Georgia Mental Health Institute, Atlanta, GA (curated by Pat Driscoll)
*1996 – “Impressions” – Shepard Center, Atlanta, GA (curated by Pat Driscoll)
*1996 – “Highlands’ Natural Treasures” - 4 ½ Street Inn, Highlands, NC (curated by Tom 7 Linda Clark)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2003 – Grand National Exhibition Raymond Chow Memorial Award for Oil, American Artists Professional League
2002/3 – Who’s Who of American Women, 23rd Edition
2002 – First Place “Chariscurro”, Atlanta Artist’s Club, Atlanta, GA (Juror: Gary Selvy, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Perimeter College)
2002 – “Artist of the Year” Community Award, National League Of American Pen Women, Atlanta Branch
2002 – JMA Architecture Purchase Award, 2002 Art, Georgia National Fair, 13th Annual Juried Competition of Fine Art (Jurors: Robert Detamore, Adjunct Professor, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; Art Rosenbaum, Professor of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Robert Sherer, Professor of Anatomy, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, and Professor of Drawing and Painting, Kennesaw State University,
Kennesaw, GA)
2001 – JMA Architecture Purchase Award, 2001 Art, Georgia National Fair, 12th Annual Juried Competition of Fine Arts. (Jurors:
Marcia R. Cohen, Professor of Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; Bruce Little, Professor of Art, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, GA; Thomas Joseph Mew, III, Art Department Chair, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA)
2000 – “Family Fun Day plein aire Painter” Invitational, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2000 – Honorable Mention, “53rd Annual Member’s Exhibition”, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA,
(Juror: Dr. John Burd, President of Brenau University)

EDUCATION

New York Art Student’s League
Atlanta College of Art, Community College
University of Georgia, Bachelor of Science
University of Alabama, Graduate Studies
Studied plein-aire landscape painting with Albert Handell, John P. Osborne, Charles Sovek, Kenn Backhaus and Kevin Macpherson
Studied portraiture with Nelson Shanks, Jim Schell, Marc Chatov, and Nancy Honea
Studied painting with Tom Browning, Daniel Dickerson and Greg Kreutz
Studied figure drawing with Michael Burban, Cornell Rubino and Ben Smith