A Refresher... Who is this Jen artist chic?
Growing up on a ‘dead end’ road in the county; NWOhio-native artist, Jennifer Sowders, grew up spending a lot of time studying nature and it’s indelible thread is noted within her body of work.
Jennifer is a 1994 BFA graduate from the Columbus College of Art and Design. She is a Signature member and Trustee in the Ohio Watercolor Society, Associate of The National Watercolor, American Watercolor and National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Societies; on the board of the Fostoria Area Arts Council, member of the Ohio Art League and is in several N.W. Ohio arts groups.
She gained entrance into the National Watercolor Society’s 2020 “50 Stars” Exhibition, which was quite an honor as two artworks were chosen from each state-level watercolor society to represent their state. In 2021 Jennifer won a (National) Pentel of America’s Artist Spotlight and a National Bryn Du Award. In 2022....2 purchase awards by the Ohio Arts Council during the Ohio State Fair's Fine Arts Exhibition, and the V.O. Baker Award for the Ohio Watercolor Society's "Watercolor Ohio 2022". She'll also appear in the Artists Magazine “AcrylicWorks 9: The Best of Acrylic”, where she will have a page feature and an Honorable Mention Award.
She is currently represented by the Toledo Museum of Art's "Collector Corner".
Jennifer opens up her Fostoria, Ohio studio and gallery space: MONgallery and Art Studio, every MONday to visitors. She coined MON to represent “Middle Of Nowhere” because of her rural location where she lives with husband, Gary and has 3 sons.
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