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About the Artist Who Created the Awards

Jean Koeller, painter, New Carlisle

Jean Koeller first began painting in 1978 and received her undergraduate degree from Wright State University. She received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from Parsons School of Art and Design in New York City and she also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 1981. She is a 1998 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship recipient, two-time recipient of the Montgomery County Culture Awards for Individual Artists and received travel and teaching Grants for Italy and France from the University of Dayton. She was awarded Outstanding Alumni for 2005 by Wright State University College of Humanities. Her one person shows include Duveneck Gallery, Ky., Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Pa., University of Massachusetts Lowell, Kirkland Fine Arts Center in Illinois, Doris Ulmann Galleries in Berea, Ky., Lakeland College in Wisconsin, Xavier University Chicago, Ill., Austin Peay University, Clarksville, Tenn., Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, Ky., and numerous group shows regionally, nationally and internationally in France, Tokyo and Hungary. Her work is found in many collections including the Evansville Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts in Columbus, Ohio Supreme Court, Deloitte & Touche, Mallincordt Corp. and Aileron Corporation. She is represented by the Keny Galleries in Columbus. Jean has spent most of her painting life in Dayton, but recently moved to three acres in New Carlisle where she has returned to painting from nature.

Visit Jean Koeller's Web site at: http://www.jeankoeller.com/