Instructor Janet Niewald
JANET NIEWALD
Born 1953, Kansas City, Missouri
BFA: Kansas City Art Institute, 1976 (painting/printmaking)
MFA: Indiana University, Bloomington IN, 1978 (painting)
Janet Niewald attended Connecticut College, New London, (Biology/Art/Asian Studies) and the New York Studio School Program in Paris before transferring to Kansas City Art Institute to earn her BFA in 1976 (Painting/Printmaking). In 1978, she received her MFA (Painting/Drawing) from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Subsequently, Niewald was granted a year-long Ford Foundation Grant for an artist-residency at the University of Georgia, Athens where she was then asked to teach. Since 1980, she has taught at Virginia Tech, focusing on courses in painting and drawing as well as developing/teaching courses for the Humanities program of the university. She received the CAUS Career Achievement Award in 2008, and has been awarded her department’s Teaching Excellence Award, and several institutional individual research and teaching grants.
Niewald exhibits her oil paintings, watercolors and drawings nationally and regionally. Her work has been included in many juried competitions such as the Bowery Gallery, the Prince Street Galllery, the First Street Gallery, biennial competitions in NYC, and she was selected for the 179th Invitational Exhibit at the National Academy of Design, NYC. She shows often at university venues, for example, in Wright State University’s “Drawing from Perception” and William and Mary’s “Pictorial Strategies”, and at art centers in the Northeast and the South (SECCA, the Greenhill Center, the Sawtooth, the Washington Depot Art Center). Her paintings have also been exhibited at the Masur Museum, the Taubman Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. She has been affiliated with Bedyk Gallery, Kansas City, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, and Reynolds Gallery, Richmond.