EDUCATION
August, 1995 Art Center of Design, Pasadena, California
B.F.A. with Honors, in Illustration
GALLERIES
May 2003 – Present The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, Kansas
June 2003 – Present Scapes Gallery of Fine Art
Corona Del Mar, California
January 2002 – 2003 Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
January 2002 – 2003 DNFA, Pasadena, California
October 2001 – 2003 Winfield Gallery, Carmel, California
September 2001 – March 2002 Montecito Frame and Art Gallery
Santa Barbara, California
May 2001 – Present Kodner Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
June 1997 – May 1998 The Esther Wells Collection, Laguna, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
April 21 – May20, 2006 One Woman Show, Kodner Gallery, St Louis Missouri
November 2005
Mural, Ranken Jordan Aqua Explo, Ranken Jordan Pediatric Specialty Hospital, Maryland Heights, Missouri
May 2004
One Woman Show, Roeland Park City Hall Roeland Park, Kansas
March 2003 Demonstrator for the Greater Kansas City Art Associations
Art Exhibition & Sale October 2002
Open Studio 2002 Art Exhibition & Sale
October 2002 One Woman Show, Flint Hills, Kansas Purina Mills Event
July 2001 – August 2001 One Woman Show, Westwood, Kansas
September 1995 One Woman Show, Kaldi, Pasadena, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
April 2 – 23, 2006
95th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
March 14 – May 31, 2006
Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, North Newton
March 3 – 4, 2006
Contemporary Art Museum, Community School Exhibition / Event
February 3 – March 4, 2006
Erman B. White Gallery, Butler County Community College
January 18 – February 10, 2006
Miniature Exhibition, Pacific Palms Conference Resort, Industry Hills, California
January 1 – January 30, 2006
City Arts,Wichita
October 16 – December 11, 2005
Shafer Gallery, Barton County Community College,Great Bent
August 16 – September 30, 2005
Emporia Arts Council in conjunction with the Center for Great Plains Studies, Emporia
June 1 – July 15, 2005 Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence
April 30, 2005 Third Place Oil, Juried Competition and Auction
Third Annual Historic Augusta Plein Air Painting Event, Augusta, Missouri
April 26 – May 20, 2005
2 – D Award Northeast Arts Commission and Purchase Award Cultures Without Borders, A Juried Exhibit,
Central Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
April 16 – May 28, 2005
Manhattan Arts Center, in conjunction with the Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau, Manhattan
March 29 – April 23, 2005
Cultures Without Borders, A Juried Exhibit, UMB Bank Lobby, Kansas City, Missouri
March 5 – March 27, 2005
Cultures Without Borders, A Juried Exhibit, The Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
March 3 – April 3, 2005 The Midland Arts Association, A Juried Exhibition The Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
March 2 –April 2, 2005
Junction City Arts Council, sponsored by the Junction City Arts Council and the Geary County Convention and Visitors Bureau
January 1 – February 28, 2005 Chanute Art Gallery, Chanute
October 23 – 29, 2004 American Southwest Art Exhibition!
Reagan Presidential Library and Museum Wildomar, CA.
October 2nd & 3rd – 2004 Hidden Glen Plein Air Painting Event! Cedar Creek, Olatha, KS
September 2 – 24, 2004
All-Media Competition and Show Gallery International, Baltimore, MD
August – September 2004 National
Small Oil Painting Exhibition 2004 The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
August 19 – September 20, 2004
Walter Greer Gallery, Hilton Head Island, SC
July – August 2004 Landscapes
The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, Kansas
June 21, 2004 – 2005 Homage to the Flint Hills
Traveling Exhibition, Kansas
April 2 – June 2004 Art at the Center Gallery
Annual Juried Exhibition Overland Park Arts Commission, Overland Park, Kansas
March 16 – June 2004 Kansas Artists and the Flint Hills, State of Kansas Capitol, Governor Sebelius, Topeka, KS
September 6 – 20 2003 5th
International WAOW Juried Competition Headwaters Arts & Convention Center, Dubois, Wyoming
August 2003 Landscapes
The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Overland Park, Kansas
June 2003 – August 2003 Investigating the Regional Landscape The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
June 2003 “Honorable Mention” Award 3rd Annual Plein Air Art Show & Sale Johnson County Park & Recreation, Greater Kansas City
June 2003 – August 2003 Landscapes
The Galore at the Sheraton Suites, Country Club Plaza, Kansas
November 2002 “Honorable Mention” Award National Juried Exhibition Fall 2002 Impact Artists’ Gallery, Buffalo, New York
October 2002 $500.00 “Best of Show” Award Color 2002, A National Juried Exhibition of Fine Art
La Grange Art League & Gallery, La Grange, Illinois
October 2002 22nd Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show Stamford Art Association, Stamford, Connecticut
September 2002 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition 2002
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
September 2002 2nd Annual American Landscapes Exhibition
Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland
August 2002 Louisville Art Association’s Annual Juried Art Show Louisville Arts Festival
2002, Louisville, Colorado May 2002 Oil Painters of America 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
April 2002 Originator of Prairie Art, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas A Plein Air Painting Event.
October 2001 – October 2002 Artists Along the Katy Trail 2002 Juried Traveling Exhibition
St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
January 2002 Landscape – A Group Show Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California
October 2001 Group Show
Winfield Gallery, Carmel, California
May 2001
Women of the 21st Century, A Group Exhibition
Kodner Gallery, Clayton, Missouri
December, 1995 1995 Annual National Show and Publication Illustration West 34, Pasadena, California
Society of Illustrators, Nationally Juried Exhibition