A freelance artist who worked out of her private studio since 1969, Janice Koenig Ross' work has mostly consisted of oil and painted portraits.
AUBURN, AL, January 08, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Janice Koenig Ross with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Ross celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Ms. Ross was a professor of art at Tuskegee University in Alabama who taught for 23 years before retiring in 1991. While teaching, she also lectured in her field, was an artist-in-residence with the Art Studies Abroad Program through the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy, in 1984, and was a participant the Fulbright-Hays Cross Cultural Study Tour of Traditional Arts and Crafts of Pakistan in 1986. In 1991, she was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.
A freelance artist who worked out of her private studio since 1969, Ms. Ross' work has mostly consisted of oil and painted portraits. Her work has been included in exhibitions in both oils and works on paper at such locations as the Montgomery Art Guild Museum and the Montgomery Art Guild Bank. The Albany Arts Gallery exhibit, Albany, CA, titled "Alone Together" in 2000 and the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum exhibit, LaGrange, GA, titled "Through the Years " in 2003 were dual exhibitions with husband Conrad Ross. In 2003 her work was included in the Alabama Artist's Gallery, Montgomery, AL, Invitational "Alabama: Goat Hill to the Valley". Her works have earned her cash awards and several Merit Awards, as well as the Myrtle Cohen Memorial Award and the Kelly Fitzpatrick Memorial Award.
Ms. Ross' work is featured in the Ross Koenig Ross Collections in Auburn, Alabama, and has been displayed at the Wycross Press, owned and operated by her husband Conrad Ross. Both Wycross Press, WycrossPress.com, and Ross Koenig Ross Collections, www.RossKoenigRossCollection.com, have hosted numerous open houses over the years.
A member, founder and former president of Studio 218, a women artists support group, Ms. Ross also served on the national advisory board to, and as secretary-general for, the Women's Caucus for Art. She was the project director and co-author of the first MFA survey program for the College Art Association of America.
The recipient of a technical assistance fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1981 and the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1991, Ms. Ross also received a Committee for the Humanities in Alabama grant in 1982 and Hambidge Center fellowships in 1997 and 2000. She has been included in several editions of Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who of American Women.
Falling in love with art while she was in college, Ms. Ross earned a Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1947, where she studied with Viktor Lowenfeld and assisted him in the painting of two murals for the University. Dr. Lowenfeld was the founder of the Department of Art Education at Pennsylvania State University and is most well known for the Visual-Haptic Theory in Art Education. Ms. Ross then completed postgraduate coursework at both the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 1950 and American University between 1950 and 1951 before earning a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois in 1954. She later completed additional postgraduate coursework at the University of Iowa in 1961. Married to her husband, artist Conrad Ross, since 1954, Ms. Ross and he share 3 children.
Ms. Ross' work are in several permanent collections including Craig and Gaulden Architects, Greenville, South Carolina; Interlope systems, Inc., winston-Salem, North Carolina; Alabama Power Company and the Alabama Resource Center in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Auburn University President's Gallery and the Veterinary School at Auburn University. Her work is in many personal collections including Leslie and John Kuykendall, past president of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina; Mary and Tom Belser, Auburn, Alabama; and Carolyn and Gene Hunter of Opelika, Alabama.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Janice Koenig Ross has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
Images:
"Family Portrait", 1983, oil on canvass, 48" x 76"
"Agnes Taugner", oil on canvass, 1976, 28" x 36"
"Jennifer Camp", oil on canvas, 1997, 26" x 42"
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