Nan Rumpf Water Media Artist

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MJ1 Award 2015 from Concord Art
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Group Exhibits:

Metropolitan Waterworks  Thinking About Water Juried Show in Boston, MA 2017

Brookline Arts Center Up/rooted National Juried Show in Brookline, MA 2017, 2022, 2023

Wellesley Community Center, Wellesley, MA - 2002 to 2020

Middlesex Community College Gallery, Bedford MA - 2003

V Gallery, Needham, MA - 2003

Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, MA - 2003 to 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Concord Art Gallery, Concord MA - 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Art Emporium Gallery In Needham, MA – 2004 to 2011

The Center For The Arts In Natick, Natick, MA - 2004, 2006, 2011, 2014

DeCordova Museum School Gallery, Lincoln, MA - 2004, 2005

Needham Library, Needham, MA - 2004, 2006, 2008

Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Ma - 2005

Framingham Library, Framingham, MA - 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2020

Gallery 55, Natick, MA – 2005, 2006, 2008

Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA - 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016 

Joy Street Studios, Somerville, MA - 2006, 2007, 2008

Wellesley College Greenhouses, Wellesley, MA - 2006, 2007

Moose Hill Sanctuary, Sharon, MA - 2006

Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham, MA - 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mosesian Center For The Arts, Watertown, MA - 2007, 2008, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Post Road Art Center, Marlborough, MA - 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Natick Public Library, Natick, MA - 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015

Worcester Art Museum (Higgins Education Wing) Worcester, MA - 2007, 2008

Cotuit Center For The Arts, Cotuit, MA - 2008

Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA - Juried – 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Museum Of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA - 2009, 2010

The Art Complex Museum, Winter Juried Show Duxbury, MA - 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023

Archer West Gallery, Quincy, MA - 2010

South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA - 2010, 2016, 2017

South Shore Art Center national juried show 2019

Framers Edge, Braintree, MA - 2010, 2011

Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, Framingham, MA - 2011

Westfield State University Downtown Gallery, Westfield, MA – 2011

Attleboro Arts Museum – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018

New England Watercolor Society Signature Members' Show, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA -2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

New England Watercolor Society National Juried Show, Plymouth, MA 2014

New England Watercolor Society Regional Juried Show, Creative Arts Center in Chatum, MA 2015

New England Watercolor Society National Juried Show, Gloucester, MA 2016

New England Watercolor Society regional juried show 2023

Just Us Chickens in Kittery, Maine 2015

Rhode Island Watercolor in Pawtucket Rhode Island juried shows 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020

American Watercolor Society's Juried International Show in New York City 2016

Moseian Center for the Arts Juried Show 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024

New Art Center in Newton 2019, 2020 (virtual exhibit) Women in Abstraction 2021

Beacon Gallery in Boston 2019

Webster Bank in Wellesley 2019, 2020, 2022

Plymouth Art Center Educators exhibit 2021, 2022

Plymouth Art Center NEWS all members juried 20212023

Sandwich Arts Alliance June Kershaw Juried 2021

Satellite gallery - BerryDunn 2021

LexArt collaborative show juried 2021

SOWA in Boston 2022

Art Gallery Grace Chapel in Lexington 2022

Gallery Twist in Lexington 2022

Walpole library 2022, 2023

Diana Stelin Gallery 2023

Weston Library 2022, 2023, 2024

Solo Exhibits:

Merino Center, Wellesley, MA - 2003

Quebrada, Wellesley, MA - 2004

Clever Monk, Natick MA - 2004

Broadmoor Sanctuary, Natick, MA - 2004

Trident’s Booksellers and Café, Boston, MA - 2004

Harvard Vanguard, Wellesley, MA - 2005

Wellesley College Greenhouses, Wellesley, MA - 2005

West Roxbury Library, Boston, MA - 2005

Dover Library, Dover, MA - 2005

SAPAS (-St Andrews Performing Arts Series) Wellesley, MA - 2005, 2007

Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, MA - 2004, 2008, 2018, 2019, 2023

Fidelity Art Space, Boston, MA - 2006

Goodnow Library, Sudbury, MA - 2007

Newton Free library, Newton, MA – 2008, 2018

The Center For The Arts, Natick, MA - 2009

Ashland Public Library, Ashland, MA - 2011

Habitat Education and Wildlife Sanctuary, Belmont, MA - 2011, 2017

Archer West Gallery, Quincy, MA - 2011

Morse Library in Natick, MA - 2013, 2015

Bacon Library in Natick, MA - 2013, 2014

Bedford Library in Bedford, MA 2014, 2015

Lumina in Wayland, MA 2015, 2018

Habitat Center in Belmont, MA 2017

Brookhaven 2020

Wellesley Library 2023

 Awards:

•  Margaret Fitzwilliam Award For Excellence In Watercolor / W.S.A show 2004, 2022

• Duxbury winter juried show / first place in watercolor 2023

• Deham art group library show in Milton/ first place 2022

• Deham art group library show in Milton second prize 2023

•  First Place in Art On The Common Show / Needham 2004 & 2007

•  Best In Show / Clinton Art Show 2007 / First Place 2008

•  Woodruff’s Art Center Award / New England Watercolor Society Show in Cotuit 2008

•  First Place in Post Road Abstract Show / Marlborough 2008

• First Place  / Duxbuiry Winter Juried Show 2022/2023

•  Second Place / Duxbury Winter Juried Show 2009

•  First Place For Watercolor in Marina Bay Arts Affair Show 2008 & 2010

•  First Place In Weston Spring Awards Show 2010, 2011

•  Maxine Hegstead Award / WSA spring show 2012

•  Awarded by George Nick in Concord Members Juried I (painting and sculpture) show 2013

• MJ1 award in Concord Arts Members Juried Show 2015 (Juror: Mary Tinti, Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum)

• Honorable Mention New England Watercolor Society's Regional Show on the Cape 2015

• Golden Award in New England Watercolor Society's National Show in Gloucester, MA 2016

* Directors Award  - Signature Member's show at Boston Artists Guild. 2022

• First Place in Newton Watercolor Society's abstract show 2021

• Excellence in Watercolor award WSA exhibit 2023

• First place in Walpole in Dedham art 2022

• Best in Show for Newton Watercolor Society

 Teaching:

•  painting and experimental water media techniques in home studio - 2000 to present

•  organized dramatic arts workshops in public elementary schools - 2008 to 2011

•  art for adults at Amazing Things Art Center in Framingham, MA - 2008

•  water media painting classes at the Danforth Museum School - 2008 to 2018

•  water media painting classes at the Wellesley College Greenhouses – 2009

•  water media painting classes at Concord Art Association  - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015

•  visiting artist at Framingham State University – 2010, 2011

•  visiting artist at Medfield High School (power point presentations and demos) - 2013

• watercolor texture workshop for Newton Watercolor Society 2014

• taught professional development workshop for Framingham teachers 2016

• Water media workshops at the Five Crows in Natick, MA - 2014

• Visiting Artist at Bancroft School in Worcester, MA - 2014

• Small workshops in home studio - 2015

• Dedham Art Group - 2016

• Watercolor workshops at New Art in Newton 2017 to present

• Watercolor classes at Elm Bank in Wellesley 2017 to present

• Watercolor classes in Bedford 2017 to present

• Watercolor classes in Wayland at the W Gallery 2019 to 2020

• Chinese Brush painting classes in Needham 2016 to 2020

• Chinese brush Painting classes at Tolles Parsons Center in Wellesley 2017

• Chinese Brush Painting classes in home studio in Wellesley 2015 to present

• Water Media Workshops in home studio in Wellesley 2015 to present

• 2020  to present - virtual (Zoom) Watercolor and Chinese Brush Painting classes

Castle Hill in Truro MA 2023, 2024

 Art Demonstrations:

Post Road Art in Marlborough, MA – 2008, 2009

Concord Art Association Gallery in Concord, MA – 2010

Needham Art Association 2012

Newton Art Association 2013, 2018

Franklin Art Association 2013, 2023

The Guild of Boston Artists 162 Newbury Street in Boston 2014, 2019

The Framingham Artists Guild 2014, 2019, 2024

Wellesley Society of Artists at the Wellesley Library 2014

Wellelsley Library Artist/Demo 2017

Lynnfield Art Group 2020

North Shore Artists 2020 (Zoom)

Dedham Art Group 2020 (Zoom)

Needham Art Association 2020 (Zoom)

Watertown Artists 2022

New England Watercolor Society's Signature Members Show 2022

Newton Watercolor at New Art 2023

 Artist Talks:

Archer West Gallery in Quincy, MA – 2011

Lumina in Wayland - 2018

 Publications:

• Wrote and Illustrated (ink drawings) PUPPETS AND MASKS, Stagecraft and Storytelling – published by Davis Publishing in 1996.

• Painting (Accumulations) was one The Best In Watercolor 2021 in Watercolor Artist magazine wintert 2022.

 Art Juror

Co -Juror for fine arts show at Amazing Things in Framingham MA. 2012

Co-Juror for LynnField Art Society 2022

Jurror for Needham Art Association 2023

Jurror for online exhibition Rhode Island Watercolor


Contact:  NanRumpf@gmail.com