7th Annual
Heartland Artist Exhibition
Juror: Professor Judith Kay Burns McCrea In 1980 Judith McCrea applied for a
visiting position at The University of Kansas where she has remained and
advanced to become Chairperson of the Art Department. As Chair, she has been
instrumental in broadening the curriculum and promoting diversity within the
faculty. In 2000, K.U. senior art students nominated Judith McCrea as
"their most influential art professor" in the second year of a
teaching award program sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence. She is
also the recipient of the Governors' Art Award for Achievement in Visual Art for
the year 2000.
Judith McCrea's work in painting has garnered many awards and is in numerous
private and public collections, including additions to the permanent collections
of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri: Museo Contemporaneo,
Asuncion Paraguay: Emprise Bank Regional Collection: and The Wichita Art Museum,
Wichita, Kansas. Judith McCrea has been a visiting artist at universities across
the United States. In Paraguay, she taught and exhibited under the auspices of
the Washington Based exchange program, Partners of America, and later, as a
representative of the U.S. Government through a grant from the United States
Information Agency.
McCrea's large figurative oil paintings are distillations of both personal
narrative themes and the combination of sensuality and spirituality she has
found during extensive travel to Mexico and South America. The sources for her
paintings are exotic and reflect the robust and adventurous spirit. McCrea's
mastery of form combines complex passages of realism and abstraction. Her
paintings are characterized by a tactile sensuality in the use of materials and
an ability to synthesize various levels of form development.
Community
Arts Association, Inc.
Juror: Janet
Walsh AWS Born and raised in Philadelphia. Janet divides her time between
her home, her studio in Lloyd Harbor, Long Island and teaching numerous
workshops in the United States and Europe. She has juried and judged many
regional and national art show. Ms. Walsh studied at the School of Visual Arts
and the Art Students League in Manhattan. In 1990, Ms. Walsh was the recipient
of the American Watercolor Society Bronze Medal of Honor. One of her works was
acquired for the permanent collection of the Museo de la Acuareal, in Mexico
City. In the fall of 1990 she had a solo exhibition in Tokyo Japan. This
exhibition contained seventy-eight paintings and was extremely well received.
Her paintings have also been exhibited in numerous museums across the United
States.
Limited editions and prints of her work have been published in the U.S., Europe
and Japan. Her watercolors can be found in many corporate and private
collections, and are often featured in the American Watercolor Society traveling
show.
Janet is listed in Who's Who in American Art. She is a member and President of
the American Watercolor Society; a Fellow in the Royal Society for the
Encouragement of the Arts, London, England. Ms. Walsh holds memberships in the
National Art Club, Allied Artists of America, Kentucky Watercolor Society,
Audubon Artists, Art Student League and Artists Fellowships. In addition to her
AWS awards, she has received many awards and honors some of which are: The
Edward Whitney Award, T. H. Sanders Award, Metropolitan Museum of Art Award,
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Award, Winsor & Newton Award, Katherine and
Marshall Howe Award. Arts Students League Concurs Award, Adirondack National
Show Award and 1st Bank of Westland Award.
Gallery
West, "6th National Juried Show"
Juror: Joann Moser, Ph.D., Art Historian, Author, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts
at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Her recent exhibition
is on American Impressionist Paintings from the museum's permanent collection.
Dr Moser's most recent book is Singular Impressions: The Monotype in
America that served as a catalog for an exhibition by the same title at
the National
Museum of American Art.
Dr. Moser is an advisor to the Washington Print Club, and serves on the advisory
boards of The Tamarind Papers, Pyramid Atlantic, and Hand Print Workshop
International.
Lyme Art Association, "Art of New England"
Juror: Everett Raymond Kinstler, Art Memberships: N. A., National Academy of
Design, American Watercolor Society, Pastel Society of America (Hall of Fame),
Five U.S. Presidents have posed for Mr. Kinstler: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and
Clinton. The Ford and Reagan paintings are the official White House Portraits.
Mr. Kinstler teaches at the Art Students League and the National Academy School
in New York City.
Hilton
Head Art League's 2002 National Juried Art Exhibition
Linda's painting "Under the Trees" has won Third Place in
the water media category in the Hilton Head Art League's 2002 National
Juried Art Exhibition.
There is a total of 663 entries from 316 artists overall and it was Juried by a
panel of three Judges as profiled in the entry form and including:
Judi Betts Internationally recognized water media painter who is highly
respected as a painter, author, instructor, and juror. A native of Baton Rouge,
Betts received a M.Ed. from Louisiana State University and has done postgraduate
work at both Brigham Young and Southern Oregon State Universities. Reputed to be
at the apex of watercolor in the US, Betts is renown for demonstrating "a
quiet elegance and sensitivity" along with "a controlled freedom
rarely found in watercolor compositions." Her award-winning book, Watercolor...
Let's Think About It, is now in its fourth printing. A feature artist in
a variety of publications, her technique has been highlighted in numerous books
and magazines. Her work hangs in a number of important private, corporate,
university and museum collections, and her posters have appeared on various
television shows and sitcoms, including Murder She Wrote. Among
her awards are the Mary Pleisner Memorial Award of the American Watercolor
Society, and the Audubon Artists Medal of Honor and their Silver Medal for Creative
Aquarelle. Betts has even had the pleasure of teaching aboard the QE2
luxury liner.
Dean Mitchell. One of America's most highly awarded and prolific artists,
Dean Mitchell received his formal training at Columbus College of Art and
Design. Few artists of our generation have such a penetrating depth of
perception or as complete a command of so broad a spectrum of the painter's
media, including oil, egg tempera, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, pen and ink,
charcoal and pencil. His work has been featured in many national art
publications, including the recently published The Art of Dean Mitchell:
The Early Years, and in solo exhibitions across the country.
Mitchell's art hangs in the permanent collections of many museums, and is an
integral part of both public and corporate collections. In 1992 Mitchell was one
of five finalists in the $250,000.00 Hubbard Award for Excellence, and in 1999,
he received the $50,000.00 Grand Prize in the Arts for the Parks competition.
Mitchell's outstanding talent was further recognized in 1995 when the US Postal
Service commissioned him to do a series of Jazz stamps. A member of many
professional societies, Mitchell currently resides in Overland, Kansas.
Burt Silverman Burt Silverman's is a life in art, painting the
"human landscape" since early childhood. A graduate of Columbia
University, Silverman had his first one-man show in New York City in 1956. Now,
26 Solo shows later and after having won 32 major awards -- including the John
Sargent Medal for distinguished achievement in portrait painting -- his work
appears in museums from New York to London. Silverman's portraits reflect a
stellar technical mastery combined with a profound psychological insight and a
unique fascination with emotion as facial expression. While primarily focused on
oils, he is equally proficient in watercolors and pastels. Silverman's work and
his ideas live beyond gallery and museum walls; on eight Time
magazine covers, in two published books (Painting People, 1977,
and Breaking the Rules of Watercolor, 1983), in numerous book and
magazine illustrations including over 125 in the Profiles section of the New
Yorker, in published articles and essays as well as in his teaching. In
1999, the Butler Institute of American Art held a major retrospective of his
work.
"Obviously I am honored to have received this award for my work and wish to
keep those of you who have supported me in years past aware of my continued efforts in
the art world". States Linda.
