LAST UPDATE 2005
jada rowland
Born in New York, raised in a family of artists, from childhood on jada was a successful actress on Broadway and television. She is most remembered for her twenty years on "The Secret Storm" as Amy and eight years on "The Doctors" as Carolee.
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.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2005-American Watercolor Society 138th
2003- American Watercolor Society 136th
Houston Watercolor Society 2003
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 Worfe Annual
Allied Artists of America Annual
PARTIAL LIST of PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
Joseph Keiffer Gallery-NY,NY
Royal Institute of Watercolor,Mall Gallery, London
Heffer's Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge Studios, Cambridge, UK
Broome Street Gallery-NY,NY
Salmagundi Club Non-members Annual,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
Columbia University- Low Librarly, NY,NY
Goodman Design Gallery-Southhampton L.I.,NY
Springfield Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Cerqueux-sous-Passavant "Les Arts" Gallery,France
PARTIAL LIST of PRIZES
21st Annual Artist's Magazine Competition Portrait Finalist
Houston Watercolor Directors Award
American Watercolor Society Barse Miller Memorial Award (elected Signature member)
American Watercolor Society Emily Lowe Memorial Award
American Watercolor Society Dong Kingman Award
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors Garnet Prize
CLWAC Frank B. and Mary Anderson Cassidy Memorial Award -(oil
Salmagundi Club open non-members 21st Annual Rita Duis Memorial Award
Catharine Lorrilard Wolfe Medal of Honor (oil)- Best in Show
Allied Artist's-Grumbacher Gold Medal for Oils
Springfield Museum Purchase Prize Watercolors
Watercolor Art Society of Houston Award
CNY Watercolor Memorial Award
13 BOOKS and STORIES Illustrated and/or 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
MAGAZINE Illustration:
-Ladybug magazine-'94-'05-Babybug,'96-'04 -
-Spider magazine- '96-'05 Cricket - '95-04,etc.
-Bard College Alumni Magazine - editorial illus.'98, '02, '03
MAGAZINES AND BOOKS FEATURED IN:
The Artist's Magazine, April, 2005
International Artist, "Masters", 2003, 2005
American Artist Watercolor Magazine, Fall, 2003
Watercolor Handbook Spring 2003
Watercolor Magic, Summer, 1995 and February, 2003
Soap Opera Digest, June, 2001
Soap Opera Weekly, May 26,1998
Exploring Color, Northlight Publishers, 1998
Best of Watercolor 3, Rockport Publishers, 1999
Best of Watercolor, Rockport Publishers, 1996
American Artist Magazine, January, 1993,
GALLERIES
Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Fiedler Gallery, Greenport , NY
Open Gallery, Northport, NY
TEACHING and DEMONSTRATIONS
Art Students League, Riverdale Art Center, Nassau County Art League, Pen and Brush, Floral Park Art League, Central Park Conservancy, Hudson River Art Association, Peconic Landing, and ongoing private classes and workshops .
EDUCATION
B.A. cum laude 1997,Columbia University, The Art Students League, National Academy, and the School of Visual Arts, with Mario Cooper, Harvey Dinnerstein, David Leffel, James MacMullan, Gene Sparkman, and in workshops or private classes with Ted Jacobs, Don Getz, Dan Greene, Aaron Shickler, and Burton Silverman.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Watercolor Society(Signature, 1stV.P.), Society of Illustrators (full artist member),Catharine Lorrilard Wolfe Art Club (full member), Art Student's League (life member), American Society of Portrait Artists Associate member, Portrait Society of America member, National Watercolor Society (Associate), Society of Children's Book Writers&Illustrators, Children's Book Illustrator's Group, A.F.T.R.A.
Listed in Who's Who of America and Who's Who of American Women.
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