Brenda Fisher Awards-Exhibits

Awards:

2002 Best Of Show - 38th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition.
"Own" Award- 38th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition.
2003 Mr and Mrs Charles Gotta Award - Missouri Watercolor Society "Member's Invitational"
Fulton Missouri
2003 First Place Water media category - 39th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition.
Dr. Robert Jones Award - 39th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition.
2004 Best Of Show - River Arts Fest, Hannibal, MO.
2004 Merit Award - Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, IL.
2004 First Place - Palmyra State Fair Art Show, Palmyra, MO.
2004 Second Place - Palmyra State Fair Art Show, Palmyra, MO.
2004 Best Of Show - 40th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition.
2004 Second Place water media category - 40th Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibition
2005 Dr. Robert Jones Award-41st Area Wide Exhibit and Competition-Hannibal, MO
2005 Second Place in Water Media-41st Area Wide Exhibit and Competition-Hannibal, MO
2005 Daler-Rowney Award-Missouri Watercolor Society Member's Only Exhibit
2006 (May) Honorable Mention, Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Chicago,
Illinois
2006 First Place in 2D - River Arts Fest, Hannibal, Missouri
2006 Great River Watercolor Society Merit Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
Great River Watercolor Award, Originale Exhibit and Competition, Hannibal, MO.
ArtMart Award, Missouri Watercolor Society, Member's Only Exhibit, Columbia,
MO.
2006 Best Of Show-32nd Art Exhibit and Competition-Clarksville, MO.
2006 Best Portrait Award-32nd Art Exhibit and Competition-Clarksville, MO.
2006 Great River Watercolor Society Award-32nd Art Exhibit and Competition,
Clarksville, MO.
2007 Earned signature status with Missouri Watercolor Society
2007 First Place in Children's Gallery Exhibit, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy,Illinois.
2007 Art Achievement Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois.
2007 Cotman Merchandise Award, Missouri Watercolor Society Member's Invitational, Columbia,
MO.
2007 Third Place, Prairie Days Exhibit, Vandalia, MO.
2007 First Place Glassed Painting, 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO.
2007 Dyno Nobel Purchase Award, 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, Mo.
2008 Honorable Mention, Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition And Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Merit Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois.
2008 Second Place, Best Of Missouri Hands, "Celebrating Creativity" Exhibition, Fulton,
Missouri.
2008 Best Of Show, Gazebo Art Festival, Macomb, Illinois.
2008 Purchase Award for "Clear Water", Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Gazebo Art
Festival, Macomb, llinois.
2008 Great River Watercolor Society Water Media Award, Professional Division, Originale I,
Hannibal, Missouri.
2008 Artist Award, Hannibal Arts Council Annual Paragon Awards
2008 First Place Glassed Division, Clarksville Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, Missouri
2008 Great River Watercolor Society Award, Clarksville Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville,
Missouri.
2009 Merit Award for Mango Girl graphite drawing, Originale II Fine Art Division, Hannibal,
Missouri.
2009 Afternoon Shadows at Les Bourgeois accepted into Southern Watercolor Society's
32nd Annual Exhibition, Columbus, Georgia.
2009 Second Place in Children's Gallery, Sixth Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois.
2009 Achievement in Art Award for Oh Christmas Tree, Sixth Annual Midsummer Arts Faire,
Quincy, Illinois.
2009 Yellow Hibiscus and Pink Hibiscus accepted into the "Celebrating Creativity" exhibit, Fulton,
Missouri.
2009 Third Place for "All American Boy", Missouri Watercolor Society Member's Invitational,
Columbia, MO.
2009 Merit Award for "Opaque Glass in Transparent Watercolor", Originale I, Hannibal, MO.
2010 March, People's Choice Award, Arts by the River, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2010 Best of Show, City of Quincy Purchase Award for "The Weaver."

Exhibits:

2002 Solo Exhibit - Hannibal LaGrange College, Hannibal, MO.
2003 Missouri Nationals Juried Exhibition, Missouri Watercolor Society, Fulton, MO.
2003 Solo Exhibit - Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, MO.
2004 Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Juried Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago,
IL.
2004 54th Annual Quad-State Juried Art Exhibition, Quincy, IL.
2004 Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, IL.
2004 1st Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
2005 Solo Exhibit, Hannibal LaGrange College.
2005 July, Solo Exhibit-Hannibal Arts Council-Hannibal, MO
2005 41st Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibit
2005 2nd Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
2006 March, Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, IL
2006 May, Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition and Exhibition-Municipal Art League of
Chicago
Two watercolors in a permanent collection- Barnard's Mill Art Museum, Glen Rose, TX.
2006 July, Solo Exhibit-Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, MO
2006 3rd Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
2007 Missouri Nationals, Fulton, Missouri
2007 "Looking Back At Myself" open exhibit, Hannibal, Missouri.
2007 43rd Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibit.
2007 Group Exhibit, John Wood Community College, Quincy, IL.
2007 Prairie Days Exhibit, Vandalia, MO.
2007 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO.
2007 November--Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, Illinois
2007 4th Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
2008 Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition And Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois.
2008 Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, Illinois
2008 "Red Pear" and "Yellow Pear" in "Inanimate Objects: Still Life Art from the Permanent
Collection", Western Illinois University Art Gallery.
2008 5th Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois
2009 Solo exhibit, Dr. Ugs Drugstore, Virginia, Illinois.
Originale II, Hannibal, Missouri.
Southern Watercolor Society's 32nd Annual Exhibit, Columbus, Georgia.
2009 6th Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois.
Celebrating Creativity, Fulton, Missouri.
Originale I, Hannibal, Missouri.
April 2010, "Afternoon Shadows at Les Bourgious" was accepted into Watercolor Missouri.
Arts by the River, Cape Girardeau.
National 2010, Winston Churchill Memorial & Library, Fulton, Missouri.
Best of Missouri Life Festival, Boonville, Missouri
2010 7th Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois.

COLLECTIONS:

"Red Pear", "Yellow Pear" and "Clear Water", permanent collection Western Illinois University
Art Gallery.
"Siew's Penguins", permanent collection Dyno-Nobel Industries, Louisiana Missouri.
"Deer at Forest's Edge" and "Vanishing Village", permanent collection Barnard's Mill Art
Museum, Glen Rose, Texas.
"The Weaver", permanent collection Quincy City Hall, Quincy, IL.