CV for Artist Paula Billups

Awards
2005 Salmagundi Award, Pen & Brush Annual Nonmembers Juried Exhibit, New York, NY
Best In Show, 12th Annual Regional Show, Artists Cooperative of Westerly, Westerly, RI
2001 Honorable Mention and Travel Award, National Watercolor Society, San Antonio, TX

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2010 Gallery 195 -- two-person show (with Meredith Miller), New Haven, CT
2006 Green Street Arts Center -- solo show, Middletown, CT

Selected Group Exhibitons
2010 University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
2009 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Stony Creek Gallery, Stony Creek, CT
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2008 Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
Ruggiero Gallery, Madison, CT
2007 Ruggiero Gallery, Madison, CT
2006 People’s Bank, Madison, CT
Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
Wallace Library, Stony Creek, CT
2005 Erickson Davis Gallery, Essex, CT

BFA Exhibition, Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT

Selected Juried Exhibitons
2008        Lyme Academy Alumni Biennial Show, Old Lyme, CT
                Salmagundi Club Annual Open Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2007        Pen & Brush Club Annual Brush Exhibition, New York, NY
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
                Mill House Gallery, Chester, CT
                Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Old Lyme, CT
2006 Jubilee Exhibition, Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, CT
Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Greenwich, CT
63rd Annual Exhibition, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
2005 Pen & Brush Annual Nonmembers Juried Exhibit, New York, NY

12th Annual Show, Artists' Cooperative of Westerly, Westerly, RI

Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT

Representation
2007-10 Ruggiero Gallery, Madison and Westport, CT

Professional Affiliations
2010 Arts Council of Greater New Haven
Since 2009 New England Fine Arts Registry
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Registry
Art Students League, New York, NY
2007 Pen & Brush Club, Artist Member, New York, NY
Copyist License, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Since 2006 Lyme Academy Alumni Association, Old Lyme, CT

Since 2005 Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
2005 Copley Society of Art, Student Member, Boston, MA
2004 Copyist License, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Selected Teaching
2008-Present Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2007-08 Classical Magnet School, Hartford, CT
2008 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2006-07 The Hygienic, New London, CT
2006 ConnectiKids Urban Initiative, Hartford, CT
Middletown Adult Education, Middletown, CT
Middletown Art Guild, Middletown, CT
2005-Present Farmington Valley Art Center, Avon, CT
2005 Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT

Education
2009 Grand Central Academy, New York, NY
Art Students League of New York , NY
2008 New School of Classical Art, Pawtucket, RI
Studio of Jon deMartin, Port Chester, NY
2005 BFA Painting, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT

1998-99 Houston School of Art and Art League of Houston

1993 BA English, University of Texas at Austin