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SUSAN MEYER SINYAI

EDUCATION

2006 Color Workshop with Thomas Nash
2004 Mural Painting with Tucker Cooke (UNCA)
1997 Portrait Seminar with Daniel Greene
1995 Portrait Painting with Tucker Cooke
1994 BFA UNC-Asheville
1973 BA Sociology UNC-Chapel Hill

HONORS

 2000 Recipient of Emerging Artist Grant, Asheville Arts Alliance

EXHIBITIONS
2011   "Pure Color-the Power & Versatility of Pastel"  3 woman show, Blackbird Gallery, Asheville NC
          Art Kudos International online show - Holly Koons McCullough, juror
          Pastel Society of American online exhibition (2 paintings)
          Swananoa Valley Fine Art League Member Show  Paul Harcharik, Juror, 1st place Pastel
2010  Appalachian Pastel Society National Pastel show- Ann Templeton juror, award
         Art Kudos National Online Exhibition-Mitchell Albala, juror
         Swananoa Valley Fine Art League Member show, Black Mountain Center for the Arts, award

2009  The American Artists Professional League, Inc., Eighty-First Grand National
         Exhibition; Salmagundi Club, New York

2009  Southern Appalachian Coalition Vanishing Landscape Exhibit
         Blackbird Frame and Art Gallery

2009  One-woman show, Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Black Mountain NC

2009  Halpert Biennial, Boone, N.C. National Juried Visual Art Competition, 
        Juror:  Terry Suhre, Director and Assoc. Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis

2008  Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried(Wendy Outland)1st Place Pastel
         Division
         Southeastern Pastel Society Exhibition, Atlanta, Ga.juried(William Hosner)
2007  Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried (Drew Deane)1st Place Pastel
         Division

         Appalachian Pastel Society-juried(Luana Luconi Winner)2nd Place
         Work Purchased by Montgomery Museum of Fine Art,Montgomery, AL, for Art
         Auction '08

         Solo Exhibition Asheville Gallery of Art (Artist of Month)
         Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried(Sterling Edwards) Award
2006  Appalachian Pastel Society-juried, award
2005  Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried, award
         Grace  Center Exhibition-juried, award
2004  Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried (Robert Tynes) Best of Show
2004  Grace Center Exhibition-juried, award
2003  Swananoa Valley Fine Art League-juried, award
         Grace Center Exbition-juried, award
2002  Grace Center Exbition-juried, award
2001  Biltmore Festival of Flowers-juried(Tucker Cooke)award
2000  Asheville Art League-juried,award
1997-2008 Annual UNCA Alumni Exhibition
1996  Solo Exhibition-"Windows on the Arts" Asheville Arts Alliance
1994  Solo Exhibition, Senior Exhibit, Owen Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
2012  The Laurel of Asheville -cover artist, April 2012
2009  Visual Art Guide-Best of American Pastel Artists-Kennedy Publishing