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Marcia Willman
Recent Shows and Awards
2024
Honorable Mention, “Hint of Spring,” Monterey Bay Plein Air Association Member Show
(Judge: Cynthia Wagner Weick, Author; Professor Emeritus, University of the Pacific
Selected Shows and Awards
2018
Best Watercolor, “Garden of the Gods,” Fairfield Paint Out, Fairfield, IL
(Judge: John P Lasater, IV, artist)
Second Place, “Down in the Valley,” Sunflower Stroll Plein Air, Tonganoxie, KS
(Judge: John Hurley, artist)
Third Place, Watercolor, “Levee Access,” Augusta Plein Air Festival, Augusta, MO
(Judges: M. Shawn Cornell, Bryan Haynes, artists, Vic Brown, gallery owner, Augusta Wood)
Third Place, “Under the Wire,” Main St. Quick Paint; Steelville Arts Council Plein Air, Steelville, MO
(Judge: Fred Schollmeyer, artist)
Honorable Mention, “Scout, Too” PleinAir KC, Kansas City, MO
(Judge: Patrick Saunders, artist)
Purchase Award, “The Lake Sings,” PleinAir KC, Kansas City, MO; sponsored by Capitol Federal Bank, Kansas City, MO; (Judge: Patrick Saunders)
Purchase Award, “Sun and Shade,” Steelville Arts Council Plein Air, Steelville, MO; purchased by John & Melanee Bell, Sela and John Henry, Steelville Manufacturing Co., Steelville, MO
Juried, Plein Air Festival, Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, LA
(Juror: Eric Koeppel, artist)
Juried, Group Show, 7th Annual National Missouri Valley Impressionist Society Show, Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE
(Juror: Stephen Cornelius Roberts, artist)
Juried Group Show, Symphony in the Flint Hills, SFH Gallery, Cottonwood Falls, KS
(Juror: Saralyn Reece Hardy, Marilyn Stokstad Director of the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas)
Juried, Group Show, 3rd Annual National Plein Air Show, Rice Gallery of Fine Arts, Leawood, KS
(Juror: Peggy Rice, owner)
2017
First Place, Brush Creek Art Walk, Zone 3, Anita B Gorman Discovery Center, Kansas City, MO
(Judge: Zac Barnes, artist)
Second Place & Honorable Mention, PleinAir KC, Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City MO
(Judge: Kim Casebeer, artist)
Second Place, Summit Art’s Starlight Theater Plein Air, Kansas City, MO
(Judge: Brian Hearn, art critic, The Independent)
Honorable Mention, Juried, 6th Annual Missouri Valley Impressionist Society Show, Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Leawood, KS
(Juror: Stephanie Fox Knappe, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO)
Honorable Mention, Juried, 2nd Annual National Plein Air Show, Rice Gallery Fine Arts, Leawood, KS
(Juror: Peggy Rice, owner)
Honorable Mention, Juried, Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Festival, New Iberia, LA
(Juror: Eric Koeppel, artist; Judge: John P. Lasater, IV, artist)
Juried, Group Show, Small Works, Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
(Juror: Vanessa Lacy, artist, owner)
Juried, Group Show, Alaris, Alaris Crossroads, Kansas City, MO (Juror: Alex Hamil)
Two of my paintings, “Sky Stations” and “Perfectly Peared” were selected by Alaris as featured artwork in their opening reception(s) invitations
Public Quick Paint, Door County Plein Air; Sister Bay, WI; My painting “Beach Party”
sold during viewing for people’s choice award
2016
First Place, Studio, and Honorable Mention, Plein Air, Thundering Oaks Paint Out, Vivelore Gallery, Independence MO
(Judge: Mark Weber, artist)
Second Place, Penn Valley Plein Air Fest, Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City, MO
(Judge: Michael Albrechtsen, artist)
Second Place, Watercolor, Augusta Plein Air Art Festival, Augusta, MO
(Judges: M. Shawn Cornell, artist and Peggy Rice, owner, Rice Gallery of Fine Art, Leawood, KS)
Purchase Award, Big Picnic, Nelson-Atkins Museum and Kansas City Parks and Recreation, Kansas City, MO,
“Big Picnic” purchased by DRAW Architecture + Urban Design, Kansas City, MO
Rosemary Brush Award, Fairfield Fall Foliage Paint Out, Fairfield, IL
(Judge: M. Shawn Cornell, artist)
2015
Third Place, Watercolor, Augusta Plein Air Art Festival, Augusta, MO
(Judges: Carol Carter, artist, Vic Brown, owner, Gallery Augusta, and Bryan Haynes, artist/illustrator)
Honorable Mention, Penn Valley Plein Air Fest, Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City, MO
(Judge: Rachel Blackburn Cozad, Rachel Cozad Fine Art)
Juried, 4th Annual Missouri Valley Impressionist Society Show, Portfolio Gallery, St. Louis, MO
(Juror: Greg Gobberdiel, Gobberdiel Graphic Design)
Four-person Show, Main St Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2014
Solo show, Reanimate, Shirley Stiles Gallery, Westwood, KS
First Place, Steelville Arts Council Plein Air, Day 1, Steelville, MO
(Judge: David Plank, artist)
Juried, 3rd Annual Missouri Valley Impressionist Society, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO
(Juror: Dr. William Eickhorst, artist, professor emeritus, Wester Missouri State University)
Related Experience
Artist Residency: Madeline Island School of the Arts, Madeline Island, WI; 2015
Curator: Brush Creek Art Walk, Anita Gorman Discovery Center, Kansas City, MO; 2016 & 2017
Artist Talk: Northland Art League, Kansas City, MO; 2018
Publications as Author
2016 Third Annual Penn Valley Plein Air Hits its Stride, Plein Air Magazine’s e-newsletter;
May 25, 2016 edition
2015 How to be Different . . . Go Underground, Plein Air Magazine’s e-newsletter;
July 15, 2015 edition
Education
2019 Master Watercolor Workshop with Joseph Zbukvic, Second Level, Denver, CO
2017 Master Watercolor Workshop with Alvaro Castagnet, St. Louis Watercolor Society,
St. Louis, MO
2017 Master Watercolor Workshop with Graham Berry, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts,
Mt. Vernon, IL
2015 Master Watercolor Workshop with Joseph Zbukvic, Madeline Island School of the Arts;
Madeline Island, WI
2015 Master Watercolor Workshop with Andy Evansen, Madeline Island School of the Arts;
Madeline Island, WI
2013 Master Watercolor Workshop with Mary Whyte, Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
2010 Certificate in Fine Arts, Painting Emphasis, Kansas City Art Institute, KCMO
1998 – 2013 Annual Watercolor Workshops with Ed Fenendael, Kansas City, MO