J.K. Williams
Awards & Special Recognition -Intern’l Museum of Contemp. Masters of Fine Art Salon International 2010: “Top Sixty Award”; 2012 “Honorable Mention”
- Art Students League Vavagiakis Class Exhibition, 2011: Red Dot Award
- Art Students League Vavagiakis Class Exhibition, 2010: Two “Blue Dot” Awards
- Art Students League, 2009-2010: Gail von der Lippe Merit Scholarship
- Salmagundi Club Art Class Exhibition, 2010: “Best in Show”
- Salmagundi Club Art Class Exhibition, 2009: “Honorable Mention”
- Art Students League Vavagiakis Class Exhibition, 2009: “Blue Dot” Award
- Salmagundi Club Art Class Exhibition, 2008: “Best in Show”
- Masur Museum of Art, 29th Annual, “Honorable Mention” cash prize
- “Academic Artists Association Award”, Academic Artists Association, 1996
- The Artists Magazine, “Win a Dream Studio” Finalist, 1995
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, “Honorable Mention” 1993
Solo Exhibition
- Hudson Guild Gallery II, Fulton Center, NY, NY: “J.K. Williams – Selected Works” 2008
Selected Juried Museum and Art Center Exhibitions at International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art Salon International 2010, 2011,2012; Masur Museum of Art, Twin City Art Foundation, Monroe, LA; Coos Art Musuem, Coos Bay, OR; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA; Roseville Art Center, Roseville, CA: Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Brea Civil and Cultural Center, Brea, CA; Walton Art Center, Lafayette, AR; Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, FL; Hillcrest Art Center, Cambria, CA; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR; Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center, Springfield, MA; Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
Numerous juried group exhibitions sponsored by many professional art organizations, including but not limited to Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, Academic Artists Association, American Artists Professional League, Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, Audubon Artists, Knickerbocker Artists and others, as well as at university galleries, across the country. Numerous group exhibitions at New York’s Hudson Guild Gallery Fulton Center, and other New York City venues.
Demonstrations
- Home Farm Festival, The School of Practical Philosophy, Wallkill, NY
Professional Memberships
The American Society of Classical Realism, Minneapolis, MN, Life Member; Academic Artists Association, Enfield, CT, Qualified Member; Art Students League, NY, NY: Life Member
Publications
- Art Calendar, “Let’s Play Post Office”article on art shipping problems Oct. 1997
- Keltoi: A Pan-Celtic Review, Issue 7 Vol. 4, No. 1, Cover illustration and feature article
Education
- Art Students League, NYC, under Costa Vavagiakis; Hilary H. Holmes, Nathaniel Kaz, Diana Kan,
Irwin Greenberg, Frank Porcu. Workshops: Daniel Greene, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Timothy J. Clark
- Salmagundi workshop with David Kassan, landscape class with Joseph Perez
- Independent landscape study with Curtis Hanson
- Private study with Costa Vavagiakis
- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, BFA with honors
Mentor
- Robert Douglas Hunter, New England artist, former President of the Guild of Boston Artists and
listed in Who’s Who in American Art