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Jacqueline Stella

jstellafineart.com

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instagram: @jstellafineart

Professional Affiliations :

Salmagundi Club (Artist)
Lyme Art Association (Associate Artist)
Madison Art Society (Elected Artist)
Oil Painters of America (Associate Artist)

Awards:

Lyme Art Association First Impressions 34th Annual Juried Exhibition Associate Artist Show, 2026: First Place Award
Madison Art Society 50th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition, 2025: Second Place Award
CT + 6 Regional Juried Exhibit (CT, NY, MA, RI, ME, VT, NH) 2025 : Oil Painting Award
Lyme Art Association Bon Appetit Juried Exhibition 2024 : First Place Award
Pen Journal of Arts and Sciences Cover Art Competition 2025 Finalist
7th Annual Animal Kingdom International Juried Art Competition, online, 2022 Finalist

Selected Exhibitions:

2026

The Salmagundi Club of New York Annual Fall Benefit Auctions Exhibition, NY, NY, October 6 - October 22, 2026
Solo Exhibition 'Amabile' at Simsbury Pubic Library, Simsbury, CT, September 1 - September 30, 2026
Madison Art Society's 51st Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, CT, August 3 - August 28, 2026
Lyme Art Association Expanding Visions, Old Lyme, CT, July 24 - September 11, 2026
The Salmagundi Club of New York Summer Living Exhibition, NY, NY, June 30 - July 31, 2026
The Madison Art Society's 51th Annual Members Exhibition, Madison, CT, May 4 - May 29, 2026
Solo Exhibition at Lyme Art Association 'There is Power,' Old Lyme, CT, April 17 - May 29, 2026
Lyme Art Association Ship to Shore Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, April 17 - May 29, 2026
The Salmagundi Club of New York Annual Spring Auctions Exhibition, NY, NY, March 17 - March 26, 2026
The Salmagundi Club of New York 142nd Annual Members Exhibition, NY, NY, February 3 2026 - February 20, 2026
Lyme Art Association First Impressions 34th Annual Juried Exhibition Associate Artist Show, Old Lyme, CT, Jan 9 - Feb 20, 2026: First Place Award

2025

The Salmagundi Club of New York 117th Annual Thumb-box Exhibition, NY, NY, December 9 2025 - January 2, 2026
Madison Art Society 50th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition, Madison, CT, Nov 10 2025 - Jan 2 2026: Second Place Award
Lyme Art Association Deck the Walls Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, November 14, 2025 - January 1, 2026
The Academic Artists Association 75th Annual National Exhibition of Traditional Realism juried exhibition, Vernon, CT, October 12 – November 2, 2025
The Salmagundi Club of New York 155th Annual Fall Auctions Exhibition, NY, NY, September 30 - October 24, 2025
Lyme Art Association New England Landscape Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, September 19 - November 6, 2025
The Salmagundi Club of New York 16th Annual Sylvia Maria Glesmann: Floral Exhibition, NY, NY, September 16 - October 3, 2025
Lyme Art Association Paint the Town Plein Air Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, September 6, 2025
Oil Painters of America Summer Online Showcase Exhibition
Madison Art Society's 50th Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, CT, August 6 - September 5, 2025
The Anderson Museum of Art 14th Annual Juried Exhibition "Figures of Speech", Anderson, IN, August 1 - September 10, 2025
The Salmagundi 47th Annual Open Painting, Sculpture & Graphics Exhibition, NY, NY, June 10 - June 27, 2025
Lyme Art Association Expanding Visions: Traditional & Beyond Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, June 6 - July 17, 2025
CT + 6 Regional Juried Exhibit (CT, NY, MA, RI, ME, VT, NH), West Hartford, CT, April 27 - June 1, 2025 : Oil Painting Award
Lyme Art Association Stillness: A Still Life Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, April 18 - May 29, 2025
Lyme Art Association Four Acts, Weather or Not Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, Feb 28 - April 10, 2025
The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists Open Juried Portrait Exhibition"Portraits in Bloom", Greenwich, CT, March 17-April 24, 2025
The Madison Art Society's 50th Annual Members Exhibition, Madison, CT, Feb 10 - March 14, 2025
Lyme Art Association First Impressions Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, Jan 10 - Feb 20, 2025

2024

Madison Art Society 49th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition, Madison, CT, Nov 25 2024 - Jan 3 2025
Oil Painters of America Fall Online Showcase Exhibition
Lyme Art Association Bon Appetit Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, November 1 - December 31, 2024 : First Place Award
Lyme Art Association Deck the Walls Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, November 1 - December 31, 2024
Madison Art Society's 49th Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, CT, August 6 - September 7, 2024
Lyme Art Association Taking Flight Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, July 26 - September 5, 2024
National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society International Juried Associate Exhibition, permanent online collection
Lyme Art Association Expanding Visions: Traditional & Beyond Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, June 7 - July 18, 2024
The Madison Art Society's 49th Annual Members Exhibition, Madison, CT, June 1 - June 29, 2024
CT + 6 Regional Juried Exhibit (CT, NY, MA, RI, ME, VT, NH), West Hartford, CT, April 14 - May 19, 2024
Lyme Art Association Four Acts, Phases of Light Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, March 1- April 11, 2024
Connecticut Women Artists Council Show, The Jorgensen Gallery, CT, Jan 2 - Jan 26, 2024

2023

Lyme Art Association Deck the Walls Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT, Nov 17 - Dec 31, 2023
Madison Art Society 'Tis the Season Exhibition, Madison, CT, Nov 18 2023 - Jan 5 2024
Oil Painters of America Summer Online Showcase Exhibition
National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society International Juried Associate Exhibition, permanent online collection
National Open Juried Exhibition hosted by Connecticut Women Artists, Farmington, CT, Sep 1 - Sep 29, 2023
Madison Art Society's 48th Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, CT, August 7 - September 9, 2023
“L’arte della Pesca – La Pesca nell’Arte” (“Art of Fishing – Fishing in Art”) International juried art exhibition hosted by the Italian Fly-Fishing School (SIM) and the Italian International Museum of Flyfishing -“Stanislao Kuckiewicz” , Castel de Sangro, Abruzzo, Italy, June 24 - July 30, 2023
"The Golden Brown" in Oil - Exhibited as a permament collection at the Italian International Museum of Flyfishing -“Stanislao Kuckiewicz”

2022

New England Watercolor Society Biennial North American Open Juried Exhibition, Plymouth, MA, November 2 -December 3, 2022
Connecticut Women Artists Annual National Open Juried Exhibition, West Hartford, CT, October 16 - November 13, 2022
7th Annual Animal Kingdom International Juried Art Competition, online, September 10 - October 9, 2022 (Finalist in Traditional category)
CT + 6 Regional Juried Exhibit (CT, NY, MA, RI, ME, VT, NH), West Hartford, CT, September 11 - October 9, 2022
New England Watercolor Society Juried All Members Show, Plymouth, MA, July 8-Sept 7, 2022

2019 - 2023

Exhibited marine/fish art in various Fly Fishing Shows and Fishing Expos

2015-2018

Exhibited illustrated work in various stationary conventions

Featured on TV:

2023

Broadcast on Rete8, Italian TV channel
Featured in the Fly Fisherman Channel (the world's first fly fishing only streaming channel)

Publications:

Tail Fly Fishing Magazine May/June Issue 2026 pp 12-13
Pen Journal of Arts and Sciences Summer Issue 2025
2 time Cover Art for Lyme Art Association Gallery brochure
Cover Art for the book "Colors in the Current" by Joseph Cordeiro
H2O Magazine Winter issue 2021 : Cover art & article pp 52-56
In the Loop Fly Fishing Magazine Spring issue 2021 #28 : Interview pp 266-283
Fly Fishing Show cover art 2020
On the Water Magazine, Holiday Gift Guide : Selected as the Best Gift for the Angler who has everything Category in 2019

Commissioned Public Project:

Simms Artist Series 2021

Education:

Studied under the tutelage of Christopher Zhang (OPA Master, Master of the Copley Society of Art, Artist member of the Salmagundi Art Club, Elected Artist member of the AAPL, AAA, and LAA)

Workshop with Christopher Zhang, Hollis Dunlap, Eileen Eder, Zufar Bikbov

Private studies in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, UK, USA

Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom
- Bachelor of Music
- Diploma of the Royal College of Music for Teachers
Yale University
- Master of Music
- Artist Diploma
Eastman School of Music
- Performer's Certificate
- Doctor of Musical Arts