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ROSE MARIE STRIPPOLI

  About Rose Marie……..

 After raising a family (four children) and operating her own bridal and design business for many years, Rose Marie decided to focus on one of her first loves, painting, in late 1989. Since then she has studied, and continues to study, at various workshops around the world, where she has studied under many well-known artists and teachers.  She has also matriculated at Bowling Green and Jacksonville Universities, Bucks County C.C., and Lorain County C.C.

  Since her first public exhibition in 1991, her acrylics, hand-built pottery, enamels, and watercolors have garnered numerous awards and ribbons.  A wood sculpture, “Geisha”, won “Best of Show” at the 1992 Clyde Art Show.  A watercolor titled “Eternal Flame” was “Best of Show” at the 2002 Firelands Area Art League exhibition.  An acrylic, “Rising Star” was the recipient of the prestigious “Doug Pasek Memorial Award” at the ’04 Ohio Watercolor Society juried show.   In 2005, she placed third in the Best of Pennsylvania promotion in both pottery and acrylic.  In 2007, “Castles and Moonbeams” placed first in the Mixed Media category at the Artsbridge 13^th annual juried show.

 Her work has been exhibited in many juried shows including ……

             Ohio Watercolor Society                                                 ’04, ’05, ’06,’07, ’08, ‘09, '10

            Pennsylvania Watercolor Society                                                       ’98, ’04, ’05, '10

            West Virginia Watercolor Society                                                                       ‘99

            Jacksonville Watercolor Society                                                                        ‘00

            Artsbridge “Works on paper”                                                                             ^‘06

            Artsbridge Annual Show                                                                              ’06. ‘07

            Gallery 125 – Spring Show                                                                                  ‘07

            Phila. Sketch Club                                                                                          ’07, ‘08, '10

            Perkins Art Center                                                                                                  ‘09

Rose Marie has been the subject of individual shows at Bowling Green University, Firelands Campus, Huron, OH, 1993,  Riverside Theater and First Federal Bank, Bristol, PA, 1993,  Key Bank, Vermilion, OH, 1994, Avon Lake Library, Avon Lake OH, 1996,and Hopewell Gallery, Hopewell, NJ, 2008.  She has also exhibited at the Zanesville Art Center, the Bucks County Visitors Bureau, and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.  She was part of the Ohio Watercolor traveling exhibitions in ’04, ’05, ’06, “07, AND ‘08. Galleries in which her work can be viewed are ArtisZen Arts in Lambertville, N.J., Absolute Abstract Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Riverbank Gallery in Stockton, NJ, and Wobblefoot in Lakewood, OH.

Ms. Strippoli is a signature member of the Ohio W.C. Society, the Pennsylvania W.C. Society, and the Society of Experimental Artists.  She also maintains associate membership in the American W.C. Society, and is active in the Artists of Yardley, Artsbridge, and Artists of Bristol.