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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

Education

BS 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
All images on entire website are copyright Louise Thies 2016