S. E. Bland's Award winning artwork

 
 

Awards and Exhibitions

  • 2009 featured Artist, Casa del Parque Galeria, Spring Branch Texas
  • 2009, "Evening Clouds", on display by invitation, University of Texas-San Antonio Health Science Center Psychiatric Department
  • 2008 "Picking up the Pieces" altar, Bijou Theater, San Antonio Texas
  • 2008 "Sunday Morning", juried into New Braunfels Art League Artoberfest Show
  • 2008 "Morning Has Broken" diptych, winner, third prize, New Braunfels Art League Gallery
  • 2008 "Sometimes Love Hurts", by invitation, University of Texas-San Antonio Health Science Center, Psychiatric Department
  • 2007 "On the Beach," winner, second prize, Canyon Lake "Art in the HeART of Texas, New Braunfels, Texas.
  • 2006 "Morning Blessing," winner, second prize, Canyon Lake "Art Rocks" Show, New Braunfels, Tx.
  • 2005 "White Irises," winner, honorable mention, Canyon Lake "Red Hot Artists" Show, New Braunfels, TX.
  • 2005: "West Texas Deer Food," winner, third prize, Canyon Lake "Red Hot Artists" Show, New Braunfels Art League Gallery, Texas
  • 2005: Artist of the Month,  article: Canyon Lake Times Guardian March 30.
  • 2004: "Red Sunrise," winner, first place, Canyon Lake "Treasures of the Lake" Show, New Braunfels Art League.
  • 2004: Solo exhibition, Books & Java, Sattler, Texas.
  • 2003: "Shelter" (chosen for the invitations), The Art Center at Fuller Lodge Juried Show, "Enchanted by Bandelier," August 8 - September 6, Los Alamos, NM.
  • 2003: WIVLA Juried Membership Show, May 8 - 31, One Allen Center, Houston, Texas "Come Home Soon".
  • 2002: Featured artist, Fox 26 News, November 19, 2002. Painting "In His Hands".
  • 2002: "Santa Fe Impressions," Solo show, Cohen House Faculty Club, Rice University, October 9, 2002.
  • 2002: By Invitation Exhibit, Fox 26 TV Administrative Offices, October -December .
  • 2001: Painting "A Matter of Time" selected for center page in Spring 2001 issue of University Blue, the official student-run literary and visual arts magazine of Rice University.
  • 2001: Awarded Artist-in-Residence, The Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • 2000: "Maybe a Miniature"  Show at Bruce Mauldin Gallery, Houston, Texas, February 12 - 26, "Little Man Dancing", 4" x 6" watercolor, private collection.
  • 1999: Juried Exhibition, Mayor Lee Brown Summit Conference on Women, George R. Brown Convention Center, "A Matter of Time", 24" x 48" acrylic painting.
  • 1999: Juried into WIVLA collection opening at the Omni Hotel Cafi on the Green Art Gallery August 1999, "Magnolia Blossom", 40 x 40 acrylic painting.
  • 1997: Awarded Scholarship in juried competition held by Kingwood Art League, Houston, Texas, with "Kiva", 28 x 34 acrylic painting.
  • 1994: Juried into Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Competition, Houston, Texas, with the painting: "Jesse's Root", 36 x 48 acrylic.