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Thierry Bal
Brian Craig-Wankiiri
Paula Billups
Dr. Paul Johnston
Rebecca Taber

Paula Billups   Visiting Artist, June 2011


Painting and Installation, Chicago, USA

Based in Connecticut, USA, Paula will join us in July 2011 for a one-month residency.  
Awards:
  • 2005     Best In Show, 12th Annual Regional Show, Artists Cooperative of Westerly, Westerly, RI Salmagundi Club Award, Pen & Brush Club Nonmembers Juried Exhibit, New York, NY
  • 2001     Travel Award, National Watercolor Society, San Antonio, TX

     
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:

  • 2010      Gallery 195, New Haven, CT (With Meredith Miller)
  • 2006      Green Street Arts Center, Middletown, CT (Solo Exhibit)


Group Exhibitions and Events:
2010
  •  Tunisian Collaborative Painting Events, Lyme Academy (Feb) and Mystic Art Center (Sept)
  • University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
  • Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

2009
  • Stony Creek Gallery, Wet Paint Exhibition to Benefit Lyme Disease, Stony Creek, CT
  • Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

2008
  • Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
  • Ruggiero Gallery, Madison, CT

2006
  • Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
  • Wallace Library, Stony Creek, CT

2005
  • Erickson Davis Gallery, Exhibition to benefit Middlesex Cancer Center, Essex, CT 
  • BFA Exhibition, Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT 


Juried Exhibitions:

2008

  • Lyme Academy Alumni Biennial Show, Old Lyme, CT             
  • Salmagundi Club Annual Open Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2007      

  • Pen & Brush Club Annual Brush Exhibition, New York, NY
  • Christmas Exhibition, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT 
  • Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Old Lyme, CT                   

2006      

  • Jubilee Exhibition, Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT
  • Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Greenwich, CT
  • 63rd Annual Exhibition, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT

2005      

  • Pen & Brush Annual Nonmembers Juried Exhibit, New York, NY 
  • 12th Annual Show, Artists' Cooperative of Westerly, Westerly, RI 
  • Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT
  Teaching

  • 2010          Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT
  • 2008-10     Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
  • 2007-08     Classical Magnet School, Hartford, CT
  • 2008          Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • 2006-07     The Hygienic, New London, CT
  • 2006         ConnectiKids Urban Initiative, Hartford, CT       
  • 2006         Middletown Adult Education, Middletown, CT
  • 2005-09    Farmington Valley Art Center, Avon, CT
  • 2005         Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT


Education

2010      

  • MFA Candidate, Class of 2012: Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • RADIUS Professional Practice Series, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  • Professional Development Series, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT

2009      

  • Grand Central Academy, Summer Intensive, New York, NY
  • Art Students League of New York, NY

2008      

  • New School of Classical Art, Pawtucket, RI
  • Studio of Jon deMartin, Port Chester, NY

2005      

  • BFA Painting, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT

1993      

  • BA English Literature, University of Texas at Austin, TX

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