Biographical Information

The artist is a native of Northeast Tennessee, born in Kingsport.  She remained in this area through graduation from college, and becoming a resident of Rossville, in northwest Georgia, where she lived until 2002.  She then moved to Amelia Island, Florida where she set up her studio in Fernandina Beach.  She is now owner of Amelia SanJon Gallery where her studio is located in the Historic District of Fernandina Beach, Florida.

Educational and Professional Background

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in education at East Tennessee State University in 1965, she continued her education with workshops under several noted artists, including Wendell Mohr, Judi Betts, Lowell Ellsworth Smith, Jeanne Dobie, Carrie Brown, Carol Barnes, Arne Westerman, Wayne Wu, and Virginia Cobb and Judi Waggoner, Lana Grow, Nicholas Simmons.

Memberships

The artist was a founding member of the Chattanooga In-Town Gallery, begun in 1974, where she remained a regular participant in stable exhibitions of approximately forty artists until 2002.  She is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society, and the Tennessee Watercolor Society.  She is a member of the Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts, Jacksonville, Florida, and the Jacksonville Watercolor Society, The Island Art Association of Fernandina Beach, Florida, and The Southern Watercolor Society.  The artist is a past President of the Tennessee Watercolor Society and a Regional Director of the Georgia Watercolor Society.  She has been selected for Who’s Who in American for several years.  Her painting, “Intracoastal Images” was selected in 2004 to be the cover design for the National Watercolor Society’s “Side by Side” Show held jointly with the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.  Her painting was also the cover design for the Tennessee Watercolor Society in 2008.  She has her paintings, glass creations and photography on display in her own Gallery/Studio, Amelia SanJon Gallery in the Historic District of Fernandina Beach, Florida.
 

• “Primary Colors”  Jacksonville Women’s Center Exhibition, Winter of 2009  
• Cumberland  Island Show at Artique Gallery,  Lexington Kentucky, Fall of 2008  
• “Surviving and  Thriving Show” at the Jacksonville Women’s Center, 2008  
• Fogle Gallery,  Jacksonville, Florida, Five Over Fifty Show, March 2006  
• First Coast Community Show, Fernandina Beach, August 2006. 2009  
• Featured Artist  P.A.St.A. Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida, September 2005  
• Featured Artist  “Night” Florida Theatre. Jacksonville, Florida 2005  
• Featured artist at  the Springfield Film Festival Show, March 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008  
• Group Show, Melt  Into Art, Bell South Tower, Jacksonville, Florida November 2004-January 2005, also  selected to have an on going show there to continue indefinitely  
• Piano Expo,  Jacksonville, Florida, August, 2004*  
• The Women’s  Center, “Art Lives On”, Jacksonville, Florida 2004  
• First Coast  Community Bank, Fernandina Beach, 2004  
• Reese Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.  One of four women selected for the  “Women Artists:  A Place of Their  Own” show, 2002  
• Gallery 9, Banner  Elk, North  Carolina, 2000*  
• The Art League of  Voronezh Exchange Exhibition, Voronezh,  Russia (this show toured  numerous cities in Russia while there),  1997-99  
• Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1993*  
• Greater Visions  Gallery, Nashville,  Tennessee, 1993*
• Hunter  Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee*  
• Blue Cross-Blue  Shield, Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 1991*  
• Association of  Visual Arts, Market Court Show (juried), Chattanooga, 1991  
• In-Town Gallery,  Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• Kennedy-Douglas  Fine Arts Center, Florence, Alabama*  
• Dalton Creative Arts Guild,  Dalton,  Georgia, 1990  
• Dimensions  Gallery, School of Arts & Sciences, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1990  
• Raintree Fine Arts  Gallery, Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 1988*  

Juried Shows
            

• Jacksonville Watercolor Show. 2009 & 2010  
• National Member  Watercolor Exhibition, 2008  
• Florida Watercolor Show, 2008  
• Tennessee  Watercolor Show, 2008  
• Jacksonville  Watercolor Society,  at the  Haskell Gallery, Best in Show Gold  Metal Award April 2007, Spring Show 2008  
• Jacksonville  Coalition for the Visual Arts Juried Show, April 2007, 2008  
• Five Over Fifty  Show at Fogle Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007  
• Women’s  Center of Jacksonville Juried Show, XLarge & XSmall, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007  
• Jacksonville Watercolor  Society Juried Show, Merit  Award, St.  Augustine, Florida,  November 2006  
• Island Art  Association, “Places I’ve Been” Show, Second  Place, August 2006  
• Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts Juried Show, Second  Place, April 2006  
• Jacksonville Watercolor Society Juried Show, Third  Place, April 2006  
• Island Art  Association, “Music in the Air” Show, Second  Place, April 2006  
• Jacksonville  Watercolor Society juried show, Third  Place, November 2005  
• Island Art  Association, “Literary Visions”, Second  Place, September 2005  
• Island Art  Association, “Island Living”, Honorable  Mention July 2005  
• Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts, “Enlightenment”, December 2004, 2005  
• Island Art  Association, “Puttin on the Ritz”, (2 pieces) Fernandina Beach, Florida, Fall 2004  
• Island Art  Association, “Spring Has Sprung”, (2 pieces) Fernandina Beach, Florida, Winter 2005  
• Island Art  Association, “Outside the Box”, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Summer 2004, Honorable Mention  
• Island Art  Association, “Sizzlin’ Summer Show”, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Spring 2004, Second  Place
• National  Watercolor Side by Side Membership Show, California, 2004.  Painting selected for the Show Catalog  Cover
• Foundry Art  Centre’s “The Adventure Begins”, St.  Charles, Missouri  2004  
• Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts Spring Show, 2004  
• Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts Summer Show, 2003  
• Shrimp Festival,  Fernandina Beach,  Florida, 2003, 2004  
• Tennessee  Watercolor Society 28th Exhibition, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1980,1993, 1995, 1997, 1998,  Traveling Show 1992 (two pieces, Traveling Show) 1992, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006,  2008  
• Association for  Visual Artists, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2002  
• Spectrum 2001,  Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2001  
• Audubon Artists  Show, Salmagundi Club, New York  City, New York,  2000  
• “Outside the Box”  Touring Exhibition, Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum, Clarksville,  Tennessee, (Third Place), 2000  
• “Fringes” show,  Individual Visual Artists Coalition, 1999  
• National  Watercolor Society’s 78th Annual Exhibition, Fullerton, California, 1998  
• Spectrum 1998,  Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1998  
• Art with a  Southern Drawl, Mobile,  Alabama, 1998
• Southern  Watercolor Society, 1982, 1998  
• The Allied Artists  of America 84th  Annual Exhibition 1997, New York  City, New York,  1997  
• ART Station Juried  Competition, Stone Mountain, Georgia, 1992-1998  
• Art in Autumn  CAL-TVA Exhibit, 1990-1995  
• Association of  Visual  Artists Airport show, 1992, 1994,  1995  
• Creative Arts  Guild Show, Dalton, Georgia, 1986-2000  
• Georgia Watercolor  Society, 1981, 1992 (Touring Show), 1992, 1998  
• Georgia Watercolor  Society Member Show, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997 (Honorable Mention), 1999,  2000  
• Festival of the  Masters, Walt Disney World, 1991  
• Mardi Gras Arts  Exhibition, Dekalb Council for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia 1988  
• Virginia Beach Boardwalk Show, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1987-1994  
• Southdown Fine  Arts Biennial, Houma,  Louisiana, 1988  

Awards

• JacksonvilleWatercolor Society Show, Best in Show, Spring 2007  
• Island Art  Association, “Places I’ve Been”, Second Place, August 2006  
• Island Art  Association, “Music in the Air” Show, Second Place, April 2006  
• Jacksonville  Watercolor Society Spring Show, Third Place, 2006
• Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Artists Competition, Second Place, April 2006
• Jacksonville Watercolor Society, Third  Place, November 2005
• Island Art  Association, “Literary Visions”, Second Place, September 2005  
• Island Art  Association’s “Island Living Show”, Honorable Mention, July 2005  
• Island Art  Association’s “Sizzlin Summer Show”, 2nd  Place July, 2004
• Georgia Grassroots  Arts Program, Artist-in-residence Grant, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia, 2002  
• “Outside the Box”  Touring Exhibition, Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum of Art, Clarksville,  Tennessee, 3rd Place, 2000  
• ART Station Show,  3rd  Place 1992, Honorable Mention 1997  
• Georgia Watercolor  Society Member Show, Honorable Mention, 1997  
• Merit Award,  Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, 1983, 1995  
• Artist-in-Residence, O. N. Jonas Foundation,  Whitfield County,  Georgia,  Schools, 1991-1995  
• Honorable Mention,  Creative Arts Guild Area Show, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995  
• 1st  Place  CAL Airport, “Art in Autumn”,  1995  
• 2nd  Place  CAL Airport, “Art in Autumn”,  1994  
• 1st and  2nd  Place, “Art-in-Autumn” Annual Blue Cross-Blue  Shield Show, 1989, 2nd  Place Watercolor, 1991, 1992, First Place  1993  
• Third and Merit  Award CAL-TVA Exhibit, 1989, 2nd Place and Merit Award,  1991, Third Place 1993  
• Georgia Council  for the Arts, Painting chosen for display in Georgia Governor’s Office,  1991  
• Riverbend  Committee Purchase Award, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1991  
• Corporate Purchase  Award, Creative Arts Guild Show, Dalton, Georgia, 1989  
• Artist-in-residence, Chattanooga School of Arts and  Sciences, Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 1990  
• Purchase, Georgia  Art Collection, 1981

Corporate Collections
 

• Suntrust National  Bank, Chattanooga,  Tennessee  
• Blue Cross-Blue  Shield, Chattanooga,  Tennessee  
• Hazlett, Lewis and  Bieter (CPA’s), Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• McKee Baking  Company (maker of “Little Debbie’s”), Collegedale, Tennessee  
• Advertising and  Commercial Associates, Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• Life Touch,  Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• CBL Associates,  Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• Colonial Mortgage,  Chattanooga, Tennessee  
• TVA, Sequoyah  Nuclear Plant (Art Selection Committee Choice)  
• TVA, Watts-Bar Training Center (Art Selection Committee  Choice)  
• Lyle Industries,  Dalton,  Georgia  
• Contel  Corporation, Atlanta,  Georgia

Work Featured in

• The Islander 2009,  “Marsh Birds”, Photography
• Full Page feature  in “Skirt” magazine, December 2006  
• The Islander  Magazine  
• Folio Magazine  
• Waters Edge  Magazine, 2003  
• Marriott, set  décor for TV commercial  

Gallery Representation, Painting
 

• Gallery at the  House of Stereo, Jacksonville, Florida  
• Raiford Gallery,  Roswell,  Georgia  
• Amelia SanJon  Gallery,  Fernandina Beach, Florida

Gallery Representation, Glass & Photography

• Arts &  Antiques, Fernandina  Beach, Florida  
• Amelia SanJon  Gallery, Fernandina Beach,  Florida

 

Sandra Baker-Hinton