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15th Annual Plein Air Juror’s Demo and Talk with Shanna Kunz

May 13, 2023 · 1pm-3pm

Shanna Kunz of Utah, Juror of Awards

Shanna Kunz of Ogden, UT is a naturalist painter of the landscape that surrounds her, interpreting the quiet and familiar places of the American West. Her work has been featured in numerous major art publications, including a feature article in Art of the West, Western Art & Architecture, Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter, Southwest Art Magazine, Western Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur. 

She won 2019 Best In Show For Body Of Work in The Hockaday Museum Invitational, The Coors Show - 2014, Maynard Dixon Camp Out 2015 - 2018, C.M. Russell Auction 2015, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Best of Show 2016, member 2017-2019, American Impressionist Society Exhibition 2016 - 2012, exhibiting at The Salmagundi Club, NYC, Maynard Dixon Country 2010, 2018, the Jackson Wildlife Museum Western Visions Miniature Show, the Contemporary Art of the American West Invitational, The Western Masters Art Show, and was chosen for the Fine Art Connoisseur Award at the Artist of the New Century Exhibit, Bennington Center for the Arts. 

Shanna is a signature member of American Impressionist Society and a member of Oil Painters of America, as well as The California Art Club Out of State Member. Shanna has been invited to exhibit at Catalina Island Conservatory Wild Side Show, 2021 and 2022 and has been a guest on The Artful Painter Podcast. 

She owns and operates an online art school Inspired To Paint. Shana exhibits at these fine art galleries across the United States: Mockingbird Gallery, Bend, OR Montgomery Lee Fine Art, Park City, UT Turner Fine Art, Jackson, WY Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID Illume Gallery, St. George, UT A. Banks Fine Art, Bozeman, MT 

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