Karen S Fitzgerald
KAREN S. FITZGERALD lives and works in Newburyport, MA. Her work reflects her emotional connections with rhythmic patterns, repetitive color and joyful noise. She works in a variety of mediums but her primary focus is water media.
www.ksfitzgerald.com
[email protected]
RECENT AWARDS & HONORS, 2023-25
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, First Place 2026
Karla Breeding Trammell Memorial Award, Springfield Art Museum Watercolor USA 2024
Watercolor Award, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, National 2024
Thorton Oakley Memorial Award, Philadelphia Water Color Society International Works on Paper, 2024
Academic Artists Association 2024
American Watercolor Society Associate Show 2023
Second Place Topsfield Fair, Professional Division 2023, Honorable Mention 2024
Staff Award “Celebrating 75 years”, Newburyport Art Association 2023
North East Annual International Watercolor Society 2023, 24
Rhode Island Watercolor Society National Show 2023, 24
North Shore Art Association, National Show 2023-24
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/Memberships
Watercolor USA Honor Society, Signature Member
Philadelphia Water Color Society, Signature Member
North East Watercolor Society, Signature member
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Signature member
Academic Artist Association, Juried Artist member
North Shore Arts Association, Juried Artist member, Board of Trustee
Rockport Art Association and Museum, Juried Photography member
National Association of Women Artists, Juried Artist member (NY, MA chapters)
Newburyport Art Association; 2009-present, Master Artist member
American Watercolor Society, Associate Member
New England Watercolor Society, Associate member
Notable purchases/Collections:
Tufts International Relations Program Office-2023
Boston Children’s Hospital Lobby-2017
EDUCATION:
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, MA. 1999
Certificate of Graphic Design
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART, Boston, MA.
MS in Art Education, 1979
LOWELL STATE COLLEGE, Lowell, MA.
BA, cum laude, 1973: Major: Visual Arts, (Carlton Plummer AWS mentor)
