Kenneth W. Shanika
Director of the Pikes Peak Plein Air Painters
Associate Member of Oil Painters of America
Associate Member of American Plains Artists
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A Short Resume
Kenneth W. Shanika
OBJECTIVE: My objective is to share my personal
artistic vision with other people, to explore and interpret the beauty of the
world around me, to record the vanishing west through my paintings, to teach
and inspire.
AWARDS:
2009
People's Choice Award at the Pikes Peak Plein Air Painters Show hosted by the Hunter/Wolff Gallery in Colorado Springs
First Place Landscape - Oils at the 60th Annual Wind River Valley Artist's Guild National Show
2008
Mayor's Choice Award at the Estes Park
"Painting The Parks" National Plein Air Show
Artist's/People's Choice Award at the Susan K. Black Foundation's miniature art show
Third Place at the Wind River Valley Artist's Guild
59th National Art Show
2007
Best Oil Landscape in the professional division
at the 58th
Wind River Valley Artists' Guild's National Show.
2007. Dubois, WY.
Invited to submit two paintings to the
C. M. Russell Museum's "2007 Masters in Miniature Show".
June 16th through September 8, 2007.
2006
Won the coveted "Purchase Award" and
the `People`s Choice Award" ( Oils ) at the 57th Wind River Valley
Artists` Guild Show in Dubois, Wyoming.
2005
One Man Show hosted by Earthwood Collections
Gallery,
Estes Park, CO (2005)
Selected as a featured artists and video taped
for the Rocky Mountain PBS 2005 and 2006.
Annually Invited to the Susan K. Black
Foundation National Juried Artists Retreat/Workshop, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
“Top 18” award at the Estes Park "Painting
The Parks" national juried invitational show 2003,
Mayors Award of Excellence at the Estes Park
"Painting The Parks" national invitational juried show 2004.
People’s Choice Award at the "Pikes Peak Plein Air Painters Artists Show" at the Cultural Arts Council Gallery of Estes Park
2004 and in 2006.
Selected for the first "Official City of
Woodland Park, Colorado Holiday Ornament" 2004.
EDUCATION:
The Kansas City Art Institute: Bachelor of Fine
Arts Degree
Painting/Printmaking,1975, Kansas City,
MO.
Attended via scholarship, studied both painting
& printmaking
Certified Picture Framer CPF - 1984
International Picture Framers Association
Co-Founder and Director of
"The Pikes Peak Plein Air
Painters",
a group of regional artists dedicated to sharing
and promoting the art of plein air painting. (over 35 members)