jada rowlandAWS
Born in New York, raised in a family of artists, from childhood on jada was a successful actress . She is most remembered for her twenty years on "The Secret Storm" as Amy and eight years on "The Doctors" as Carolee as well as eight shows on Broadway.
With a painter/illustrator grandfather and artist/writer parents to inspire her, jada started drawing and writing as soon as she could hold a pencil. The back of every script of every show she was ever in, was covered with sketches of the other actors. And finally, in 1983, tired of acting, never having been unemployed for more than three months at a time, and having the opportunity to join her astrophysicist husband on sabbatical in Denmark, she took a big gamble. She decided to fulfill a lifelong desire to be a professional artist and writer; she quit acting.
She has kept on drawing and painting and writing.
2007- American Watercolor Society Annual, NY
Oil Painters of America National, Whistle Pik Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas
Bennett Galleries, (upcoming)
East End Arts (solo), Riverhead, NY (July 20)
Fiedler Gallery, Greenport, NY (ongoing)
Old Forge Art Center, Old Forge, NY (August)
National Museum of Women Artists (November Auction)
Grenning Gallery (upcoming)
2006- Salmagundi Non-Members Juried Annual, Grenning Gallery, Cecily Jaffe Cecily's Love Lane Gallery, Fiedler Gallery
2005- American Watercolor Society Annual, Grenning Gallery, Fiedler Gallery, Open Gallery, Garrison Art Center2004- Grenning Gallery, Fiedler Gallery, Garrrison Art Center
2003- American Watercolor Society Annual, Watermedia 2003 Houston
2002- “Side by Side”-National WC Society .and Philadelphia WC Society, Hudson Valley Art Association Annual, Mexico Watercolor Society International, Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors Annual, East End Arts Council Portrait Show
2001- Houston Watercolor Society, Garrison Art Center, Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors Annual, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Annual, Allied Artists of America Annual
Royal Institute of Watercolor,Mall Gallery,London
Heffer’s Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge Studios, Cambridge, UK
Broome Street Gallery-NY,NY
Mazza Museum Collection Gallery-Findley,Ohio
Olympia and York Gallery-NY,NY
Bush Gallery- Mass. and Carmel,CA
Blackwell Street Center for the Arts, Dover, New Jersey
Keiffer Gallery-NY,NY
Columbia University- Low Library, NY,NY
Goodman Design Gallery-Southhampton L.I.,NY
Springfield Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Cerqueux-sous-Passavant "Les Arts" Gallery,France
El Museo Nacional de la Acuarela, Mexico
Open Gallery, Northport, NY
Oil Painters of America Directors Award 2007
Salmagundi Non-Members Juried 29th Best in Show 2006 (oil)
Non-Members 21st Annual Rita Duis (oil)
American WatercolorSociety (Signature member)
Clara Stroud Memorial (2007)
Barse Miller Memorial Award
Emily Lowe Memorial Award
Dong Kingman Award,
Watercolor Art Society of Houston Board of Directors Award
21st Annual Artists”s Magazine Competition Portrait Finalist (oil)
Portrait Society of America Honor Award (oil)
Adirondacks National Exh of American Watercolors Garnet Prize
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
Frank B. and Mary A Cassidy Memorial Award (oil)Medal of Honor Best in Show (oil)
Allied Artist's Grumbacher Gold Medal for Oils
Springfield Museum Purchase Prize Watercolors
Central NewYork Watercolor Memorial Award
WSAOE First Prize (WC '87) and First Prize (oils'88)
13 Children's BOOKS and STORIES Illustrated or Illustrated and Written including:
"Miss Tizzie", Simon and Schuster,NY - featured in Best 200 Original Art
"The Statue of Liberty", Random House
"Raising the Roof", Habitat for Humanity
Multiple issues illustrated (ongoing) for magazines, Cricket, Babybug, Ladybug, Spider, Bardian Magazine (editorial), etc.
TEACHING and DEMONSTRATIONS
New York Times Art Show
Connecticut Watercolor Society
Suburban Art League
National Art League
New Jersey Watercolor Society
Huntington Art League
American Watercolor Society
Pastel Society Annual
Fine Arts Connoisser Magazine, December, 2007, "The Human Touch"
The Artist's Magazine, May, 2006
Suffolk Times, April, 2005
The Artist’s Magazine, April, 2005 “In Character.”
International Artist Magazine, Spring 2003 “Masters of the United States”
Watercolor an American Artist Magazine, Fall, 2003, “Picturing Scenes”
Watercolor Magic, Summer, 1995 and February, 2003
Watercolor Handbook Summer 2003
Soap Opera Digest June, 2001
Soap Opera Weekly, May 26,'98
American Artist Magazine, January, 1993 - "Under The Influence”
Best of Watercolor 3, Rockport Publishers, 1999
Exploring Color, Northlight Publishers, 1998
Best of Watercolor, Rockport Publishers, 1996
Who’s Who American Women and Who's Who in the World
THEATER DAYS (under construction)