Carolyn
Kilgo Weinman
I am
native Texan, born in Gatesville and have lived in the Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex since 1969. I have no formal studies in art other
than the public school systems. I love the out-of-doors and have a
deep appreciation for the beauty of nature and animals. I try to
express that love through my art. The mediums that I work in are
acrylic, oil, and watercolor. I also work in mixed media, collage,
photography and graphic design.
Art has
always been a part of my life in one form or another. Drawing and
painting through school and as a young adult. I didn’t paint again
for almost thirty years. Photography filled my artistic challenges
for those years. My love of nature has taken me on travels
throughout the United
States,
London, and
Tanzania &
Kenya,
Africa. After
returning from my last trip to Africa in 2000
I started painting again and haven’t stopped.
I
free-lanced as a photographer for the Fort Worth Zoo with photos
published in the quarterly newsletter, 1994. The warthog habitat
exhibition sign features two of my photographs at the Fort Worth
Zoo. Southwestern Bell 1994-95 edition of the Fort Worth Telephone
Directory published one of my photographs of “Neela” the white
Bengal tiger at the Fort Worth Zoo and two photos of Sumatran tigers
(Fort Worth Zoo) were featured in an October 1994 edition of “Cats
Magazine”, a national publication.
A business in Austin,
Texas displays one of my black
leopard photographs on their promotional materials and business
cards and a business in Gainesville,
Florida features two of my
photographs on their website, one of a black leopard and one of a
lion painted on denim jackets.
I make
several donations of my art each year to various non-profit
agencies, such as, Campfire Artists Christmas Auction, Artists
Against Aids, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN), the
local Alzheimer’s Association, and
Smith
History
Center in
Cleburne.
I belong
to several local art associations and I am on the Board of Directors
of two of them.
Juried Shows:
«
9th
Annual Rio
Brazos Art
Exhibition 2005 Juried Show
«
Society
of Watercolor Artists Fall 2005 Juried Show
«
Lake Granbury
Art Association Fall Festival 2005 Juried Show
«
Plano Art
Association National Juried Show Spring 2006
«
Plano Art
Association's 125 Juried Art Show 2007
«
Irving
Art Association Members Juried Show, May 2007
«
Society
of Watercolor Artist 2007 Members
Show
« Texas Visual Arts Association's Citation 2007
Juried Show, October
2007
«
Irving
Art Association's 6th Annual Wildlife Juried Show, October
2007
«
Grand
Prairie Arts Council's Annual Juried Show, October
2007
«
Plano Art
Association's Juried Members Show, October
2007
Awards:
«
First
Place, Second
Place and Honorable
Mention ribbons from the Texas State Fair for
Photographs
«
Second & Third Place ribbons
from the 1995 Tarrant County Fair, Chisholm Trail Round-Up for
Photographs
«
2nd
Place -
Painting of the Month-January 2006, Mid-Cities Fine
Artists
«
1st
Place Painting
of The Month – April 2007, Mid-Cities Fine
Artists
«
1st
Place in Water
Media at the Richardson Civic
Arts Society +50 Show, April 2007
«
Painting
of the Year – May 2007, Mid-Cities Fine
Artists
«
Honorable
Mention – Mid Cities Fine Artists 22nd Annual Juried Fine
Art Show, August 2007
«
Honorable
Mention –
Society of
Watercolor Artists Members Show, September 2007
