Awards (a selection)NOAPS - National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society
Award of Excellence - 2016 NOAPS Best of America! First Place - NOAPS Plein Air Event - 2015 Purchase Award Merit Award - 2014 Southwest Art Merit Award NOAPS Best of America! Signature Status - NOAPS Awarded to Artists whose work has been selected for their Best of America! Show at least three out of five consecutive years. Brush Creek Art Walk Inaugural Painting Competition - 3rd Place Paint the Forest - Redwood Forest Foundation Bronze Medal - Region II & top 50 Colorado Mountain Plein Air Event Salida & Buena Vista, CO - Third Place Paint America Top 100 - Paint America Association Third Annual 2nd 100 Artist's Choice Award - NOMO Plein Air Paint Out Marceline, Missouri First Prize - Paint the Square - Springfield Regional Arts Council & the Urban District Alliance Exhibitions/Shows/Events (a selection)NOAPS Best of America! 2016 - Addison Art Gallery
Orleans, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) OPS - Plein Air Southwest Salon 2016 - Southwest Gallery, Dallas, Texas (and multiple years) Louise Thies New Works Show - Hawthorn Gallery - Springfield, Missouri Salon International - Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art - San Antonio, Texas (multiple years) APA (American Plains Artists) Art of the Plains - Kerr Arts and Cultural Center - Kerrville, Texas The Ellen Noel Art Museum - Odessa, Texas Great Plains Art Museum - Lincoln, Nebraska Museum of the Midwest - Midland, Texas Loch Vale Fine Art Gallery - Estes Park, Colorado Kwahadi Kiva Indian Museum, Amarillo, Texas NOAPS Best of America! - 2014 - 2004 - Dunnegan Gallery of Art (and other venues; multiple years) NOAPS Signature Invitational Show - The Cultural Arts Council Fine Art Gallery - Estes Park, CO ARTichokes Gallery - Leawood, Kansas (and other venues, multiple years) PAAC - Plein Air Artists Colorado - (multiple years) Abend Gallery - Denver, Colorado SAKS Galleries - Denver, Colorado The American Royal Western Art Show and Gala - Kansas City, Missouri WAOW - Women Artist of the West - (multiple years) R S Hanna Gallery - Fredericksburg, Texas Olaf Wieghorst Museum - El Cajon, California WAOWing the Lone Star State - Rockport, TX Mountain Summertime - Joyous Lake Gallery Pinetop, Arizona OPA - The Great Paint Out at Ha Ha Tonka -organizer Nomades del Arte - Top Artists* 12 months * 6 states * 1 show Southwest Art Gallery - Dallas, Texas A Painting Adventure - Three Woman Show - NOMO Art Center - Marceline, Missouri Augusta Plein Air Event - (multiple years) Augusta, Missouri Kansas-150 Art Show and Sale SouthWind Gallery - Topeka, Kansas Paint The Forest - Redwood Forest Foundation National Tour Big Cedar Lodge Plein Air Event, Paint Out, Show and Sale - Ridgedale, Missouri Art of Ending Hunger - Benefit for Ozarks Food Harvest - Springfield, Missouri Oktoberfest/Prairie Day - Cole Camp, MO Colors of The Ozarks - Sponsored by MacCreeds Gallery - Lebanon, Missouri Heart of America Artists' Rendezvous & Paint Out Bentonville, Arkansas Kansas Park Trust Art - Visions of the Flinthills The Buttonwood Art Space - Kansas City, MO Colorado Mountain Plein Air Festival - Virtuosity Gallery - Salida, Colorado In Plein Thin Air or Two Wild Women Paint the Rockies - Strecker-Nelson Gallery - Manhattan, Kansas Rolla Center for the Arts - Two Person Show Rolla, Missouri - Invitational WAM - Women Artists of the Midwest (multiple years) Hawthorn Gallery - Springfield, Missouri Grand National Art Show and Sale - Invitational Cow Palace - Daly City, California Estes Park Plein Air Event - The Link Gallery Estes Park, Colorado Manifestation of Expressive Minds - Rozier Gallery Jefferson Landing State Historic Site - Jefferson City, Missouri - Two Woman Show NOAPS in Kansas - Coordinator - National Invitational Plein Air Event - Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Mountainside Miniatures - Littleton, Colorado Prairie Art Plein Air Event - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Chase County, Kansas Along the Missouri En Plein Air Event - Hermann, Missouri Branson Fest - Featured Artist - Branson, MO Jazzing Through the Arts - Breckenridge, Texas Artwest - Artwest Gallery - Jackson, Wyoming Wildlife West Festival - San Bernardino Museum Redlands, California Memberships (present and past)NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society)
Signature Member OPS (Outdoor Painters' Society) APA (American Plains Artists) PAAC (Plein Air Artists Colorado) Signature Member OPA (Oil Painters of America) WAOW (Women Artists of the West) AIS (American Impressionist Society) WAM (Women Artists of the Midwest) NOMO (North Missouri Arts Council) SPA (Springfield Painters Association) |
Publications'Area Artist's Painting of Local 'Concrete Man' to be Shown at National Show in Cape Cod' - Lake Sun Leader - Weekend Edition - August 19-21, 2016
'Outdoor Painters Society' Plein Air Southwest Salon - Plein Air Magazine May 2016 'Thies Goes National...' - Lake Sun Leader March 4-5, 2016 'NOAPS Masters & Signature Artists Exhibition' - Southwest Art - June 2015 'Outdoor Painters Society' Plein Air Southwest Salon - Southwest Art, April 2015 'Louise Thies on an Artistic Journey' - Lake Life, Artists Profile - Lake Sun April 17-18, 2015 'A Tradition of Excellence' - NOAPS Society Best of America! - Exhibit Catalog 2014 "'Daisy' Featured in National Art..." - Lake Sun Leader - Sept 19-20, 2014 'WAOWing the Texas Hill Country' - Southwest Art, November 2012 Lauren Young, 'Into Plein Air' - Missouri Life August 2012 'Artists on Exhibit' - North Missouri Arts Council Winter 2012 'Salon International 2011' - Exhibit Catalog 'Visions for the New Decade' - NOAPS Signature Artists Invitational Catalog - 2010 'Local Artist ...' Lake Sun Weekend - Sept 3-4, 2010 'Women Artists at Hawthorn' - News, Art of the West - Nov/Dec 2009 'Remainder' The Manhattan Mercury - Jan 31, 2009 'Womens's Fine Art in Oil Across the United States' - Art of the West - Guidebook of Art 2009 'Manhattan; 'In Plein Thin Air'" Art Exhibit - The Topeka Capital-Journal - Jan 26, 2009 'Strecker Nelson Gallery Presents'In Plein Thin Air' or 'Two Wild Women Paint the Rockies' Art of the West - Jan/Feb 2009 'Best of the Best' - NOAPS Signature Artist Invitational Exhibit Catalog 2008 'Celebrating Women Artists' - Community Free Press Springfield, Missouri - Nov 5-18, 2008 Joyce Miller, 'The Great Paint Out at Ha Ha Tonka' Lake Sun, Camdenton, MO - August 22, 2008 'Mountain Summertime - Women Artists of the West' - Art of the West - July/August 2008 'American Plains Artists' - Western Art Collector July 2008 'Women Artists of the West' - Horses in Art - Summer 2008 'Hawthorn Gallery Presents Louise Thies and Don Goin' - It's All Downtown, Urban District Alliance, February 2008 Eric Olsen, 'Capturing the Wild' - Springfield Business Journal - Art Review - Jan 28, 2008 Samantha Edmondson, 'A Stroke of Excellence' - Lake Lifestyles Magazine - Osage Beach, MO Nov/Dec 2007 'A Tradition of Excellence' - NOAPS Best of America! Exhibit Catalog 2007 Jennifer Bondurant, 'Blossoming Art Scene' -Kansas City Home and Gardens - Prairie Village, Kansas September 2007 'Estes Park Plein Air 2007' - Southwest Art - Sept Jennifer Bondurant, 'Blossoming Art Scene' - St. Louis Home and Lifestyles - St. Louis, MO - September 2007 Frank Johnson, 'Local Artist Chosen for Colorado Gallery' - Lake Sun Leader - Camdenton, MO August 17-18, 2007 Chris Ankeney, 'Artful Happenings' NOMO News - Marceline, Missouri - Summer 2007 Frank Johnson, ''Into Plein Air' Lake Sun Leader - Camdenton, Missouri - June 29-30, 2007 'Local Paint Out' - Linn County Leader - Brookfield, Missouri - May 21, 2007 'Louise Thies, Lyn Phariss, Manifestation of Expressive Minds' Rozier Gallery 2006 EC - Missouri DNR, Jefferson City, MO 2006 Prairie Art Plein Air Event Exhibition Catalog - Peggy Rice and the Rice Gallery, Chase County Kansas - 2006 Elise K Long, 'Nature Lover' Featured Artist - The Lake Observer, Vol 1, Issue 2, LO, MO April 2006 Noelle Caylor, 'Focusing on the Arts' - Branson Daily News - Branson, Missouri - April 6, 2006 'BAC Open House' Branson Daily News - Branson, Missouri - November 8, 2005 'A Tradition of Excellence' NOAPS Best of America! 2005 Exhibit Catalog Sony Hocklander, 'Battlefield Subject in National Art Exhibit' - Springfield News Leader - Springfield, Missouri - September 30, 2005 "'Forsaken'-Wilson Creek Battlefield on Canvas,' - Lake Sun - Camdenton, Missouri Sept 28, 2005 "Thies' 'Forsaken' Repeats Best List' - WestSide Star - Laurie, Missouri - September 14, 2005 Brian Day, ' Capturing Nature' - Linn County Leader Brookfield, Missouri - February 18, 2005 'BEST of America 2004' - NOAPS Exhibit Catalog Sarah Shumaker, 'From Childhood Art to Winning Awards' - The Lake News Focus - Osage Beach, MO - October 6, 2004 'Camdenton's Thies Selected for Show' - WestSide Star - Laurie, Missouri - September 8, 2004 EducationBS in Art Education (K-12),
Art Department - Missouri State University - Cum Laude, 1994 - Springfield, Missouri AAS in Computer Programming North Harris County College - 1982 Houston, Texas Spring Branch Senior High - Art Award 1979 Houston, Texas |
