B.F.A. Painting - University of Illinois - 1961
Continued study with Danni Dawson, Albert Handell, Daniel Greene, Burt Silverman, Aaron Shikler; in Portraiture, Pastel and Oil.

Member: Artist's Equity, Torpedo Factory Artists' Assoc., Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Montgomery County Arts Council (Maryland), Pastel Society of America, Portrait Society of America, American Portrait Society, National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Attended: Seminars; John Howard Sanden, Portrait Society of America, American Portrait Society, National Association of Pastel Societies.

Fellowship, Montgomery County Arts Council

Solo Exhibitions: "Chalkmarks: People in Pastel", The Art League Gallery "Art in Public Places" Fairfax County, Virginia

Television: "ART STROKES" with Allen Evry, Producer - Ann Evry
"GREENROOM" with Mike Baker - Virginia Cable

NATIONAL Juried and Invitational Exhibitions (* awards)
   
 
The Artists' Magazine Competition, Finalist - Portraiture
International Society of Artists 2nd Juried Show, Golden, Co.
* Winsor Newton Award and Honorable Mention (catalog)
33rd Annual Exh. Knickerbocker Artists, NYC
* Pastel Society of American Plaque and Cash Award (catalog)
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Exh. NYC
      *Cash Award for a Pastel
59th Annual Exh. Miniature Painters, Sculptors Society of Washington, DC
  *2nd Place, Drawings and Pastels (catalog)
Terrance Gallery National Drawing Show, Palenville, NY
  * lst Honorable Mention (catalog)
National League of American Penwomen Biennial Art Exhibitions
  ,*Award of Merit, Washington, DC
* Award of Honor, Atlanta
National Academy of Design 159th Annual Exh. NYC (catalog, juried)
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Exhibitions
Pastel Society of America 9th and 11th Annual Exhs.. NYC (juried)
13th Washington & Jefferson National Painting Show, Washington, PA (catalog)
Alice Lloyd College 2nd Annual National Works on Paper, Pippa Passes, KY
American Art Annual, Middletown Fine Arts Center, OH (juried)
Salmagundi Club Open Juried Exhibitions
Pensacola National Portrait Exh. Pensacola, FL (juried)
Schoharie National Small Print & Drawing Exh. (juror, Ivan Karp)

AREA Juried Shows (* awards)
  Academy of the Arts 14th Annual Show, Easton, MD
* Equal Award (Juror, Charles Parkhurst)
Montgomery County Juried Art Exhibition, Montgomery College
* 2nd Place Drawing (juror, Franz Bader)
Montgomery County Juried Art Exhibition, Strathmore Hall
* 1st Place Drawing (juror, Frank Wright)
Art League Juried Membership Shows (Selected Awards)
*Urquardt Award (juror, Clifford Chieffo)
*1st Place (juror, Philip Desind) (juror, Allan Marsh)
* Awards for Excellence (juror, Manuel Baker) (juror, Arthur Smith)
* Equal Awards (juror, Lee Weiss) (juror, Gerald Wartofsky) (juror, Allan Feltus)
* Best Pastel (juror, Lenore Miller)
The Eye of Adelyn Breeskin, Washington Womens' Art Center (catalog)
Baltimore Artscape (jurors, Ivan Karp, Romare Bearden)
Maryland Annual, Annapolis (jurors, Eleanor Poindexter and David Tannous)
Baltimore Arts Festival (jurors, Lowell Nesbitt and Lowry Sims)
Academy of the Arts (juror, Grace Glueck)
 




Jill Cohen can be reached at
jcohenmail@aol.com
703.548.1120
Alexandria, Virginia
or 301.279.7769
Potomac, MD

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