Karen Bartone
Curriculum Vitae
Connecticut
Gallery Representation
Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT
Meridian Art Consulting Firm, Boston, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2027 Paintings, Norwich Art Center Gallery, New Paintings, Norwich, CT, September
2025 Painting, Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 13 paintings, Clinton, CT
2024 Painting, Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 15 paintings, Clinton, CT
2023 Paintings, Clinton Art Gallery, Visiting Artist Oct & Nov, Clinton, CT*
Paintings, CAS, 1st & 2nd prize, juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing**
2019 Paintings, Three Rivers Gallery at Three Rivers Community College, Pondering Series, CT*
2014 Paintings, MxCC Gallery, Tondo Art, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT*
Paintings, Shoreline Art Alliance, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCCT), Guilford, CT*
2013 Paintings, Kellogg Environmental Center and Osborne Homestead Museum, Derby, CT*
2012 Paintings, Erector Square, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2011 Installation, Vermont Studio Center, Open Studios, Johnson, VT
2009 Painting, WCSU Student Center, Wind Power Office of the Dean, WCSU, Danbury, CT*
2008 Painting, the Jane Goodall Institution, Focus the Nation, WCSU, Danbury, CT*
2007 Painting, Seaport World Trade Center, Aesthetics of Wind Power, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Juror Karen Bartone, for Mystic Seaport Museum Plein Air Event for the New Hartford Art Guild, CT, August 2, 2026
Florence Griswold Museum, Patchwork CT, 250 Invitation, Curators Amy Kurtz Lancing, Jenny Parson, & David Rau
Plein Air by the Sea, Clinton Art Society, Awarded Third Place, Susan Jositas
New Hartford Art Guild, Juried Show, Field Notes, two paintings, juror gallery committee
CT Women Artists, Members Juried Exhibition, New Britain Art League - Juror Art Professor Janet Warner
Clinton Art Society, Open Juried Show, Curator Laura Leonard with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT
NAC Gallery, Norwich Art Center Gallery, Art Heist Fundraiser, donated painting, Norwich, CT
2025. Norwich Art Center Gallery, Small Treasures Winter Show, Norwich, CT
Bendheim Gallery, Holding Space, Juror Curator Roxanne Smith, with Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich, CT
Eastern Connecticut State University, The Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT*
Madison Art Society, Honorable Mention, Inspired Vision Award, Madison, CT
Benton Museum, National Juried Open Exhibition for the CT Women Artists, Storrs, CT
Slater Museum, Connecticut State 79th Annual Juried Exhibition, Norwich, CT
Three Rivers CT-State, Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
Flo Gris Museum, annual exhibition of the permanent collection of palette paintings, Old Lyme CT
Boston Art Inc., Boston Seaport Design District, Boston, MA
Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 13 new paintings, Clinton, CT
Norwich Art Center, Elected Member, Honorable Mention, Landscape Painting, Norwich, CT
Regional Artist for Harts Homes, Auburn, MA
2024 Flo Gris Museum, Invitation Gardens Aglow lantern painting fundraiser, Old Lyme CT
Boston Art Inc., Boston Seaport Design District, Boston, MA
Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 15 paintings, Clinton, CT
David Lussier Gallery, Invitation, Small Works Show, Kittery, ME
Norwich Art Center, Associate Member, Grand Reopening Exhibition, Norwich, CT
Clinton Art Gallery, Visiting Artist, Clinton, CT
2023 Florence Griswold Museum, Invitation, ten artists holiday show, upcoming Nov-Dec
David Lussier Gallery, Small Works Holiday Show, Downtown Kittery, Maine *
Clinton Art Gallery, Fall Exhibition Invitation, Guest Artist, Sept-Nov 2023*
Clinton Art Society, Winter Juried Exhibition, Clinton, CT, Juror, Artist Bernard McTigue**
2022 David Lussier Gallery, Small Works Holiday Show, Downtown Kittery, Maine *
Clinton Art Society, Clinton, CT, Juror, Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, 1st & 2nd prizes**
2021 Three Rivers Community College (TRCC), Art Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
2020 Eastern Connecticut State University, The Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT*
2019 Three Rivers Community College, Art Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
2018 Stillman Gallery, LACFA Alumni Show, Old Lyme, CT, | Cooley Gallery**
2017 LACFA, Metamorphosis, Alumni with MFA, Stillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Susanna Coffey**
2016 Guilford Art Center, Faculty Exhibition, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT*
2015 LACFA Alumni Exhibition, Stillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT**
Guilford Art Center, Faculty Exhibition 2015, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT*
Western Connecticut State University, Looking Forward, Higgins Gallery, Danbury, CT*
2014 AKUS Gallery Eastern Connecticut State University, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT *
EBK Gallery, Tondo Art, Hartford, CT*
Cooley Gallery, All Paintings Great and Small, Old Lyme, CT**
Silvermine Art Center, Faculty Exhibition, New Canaan, CT*
2013 Cooley Gallery, All Paintings Great and Small, Old Lyme, CT*
CT Art List Exhibit, Six Emerging Artists, EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT*
Select Collections
2023 Florence Griswold Museum, invitation, Painted Palette, Permanent Collection, Old Lyme, CT*
2019 Three Rivers Community College Foundation, Pondering #1, Norwich, CT
2014 Eastern Connecticut State University Foundation, Tondo Art, Willimantic, CT
2009 Western Connecticut State University Foundation, Triangle Still-Life, Danbury, CT
2007 North East Sustainable Energy Association, Wind Power, Boston, MA
Education
MFA Painting, Western Connecticut State University (WCSU), Danbury, CT
BFA Painting, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (LACFA), Old Lyme, CT
BA Psychology, Vermont State University, Johnson Campus, VT
Post-Graduate Professional Development in Alla Prima Landscape Painting
Supported by Professional Development Grants from the AAUP and CSCU 4Cs
2024–2026 Individual Mentorship with David Lussier
2022–2026 Lussier Art Circle and Workshops, Maine
Academic Appointments - Traditional Classroom (TRAD) and Online
2018-present, Lecturer, Visual Arts, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT, Painting I, Global Art History I and II, History of Women in the Arts, 2D Design, and Studio Art Introduction (Online and TRAD)
2010-present, Lecturer, Visual Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU), Willimantic, CT, Drawing I, 2D Design, Color Theory, Studio Art Introduction, 3D Design, Relief Sculpture, and Expression with Color Media, (Online and TRAD)
2011-18 Mentoring Program, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, BFA Painting Students
2008-09 Teaching Assistant, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, Drawing I and Painting I
Research Grant Awards
ECSU 2026 AAUP Professional Development Grant for painting research in Jeffersonville, VT
ECSU. 2025 AAUP Professional Development Grant for painting research in Monhegan Island, Maine
TECC 2025 CSCU Professional Development Grant for painting research in Monhegan Island, Maine
TRCC 2025 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting with David Lussier, Kittery, Maine
ECSU 2024 AAUP Professional Development Grant for Artist Residency in Monhegan Island, Maine
TRCC 2024 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting, Rockport and Gloucester, MA
TRCC 2023 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting on Monhegan Island, David Lussier, Maine
Certificated 2023 CSCU iTeach Online, Connecticut State Colleges, Best Practice of Online Pedagogy Certificate
TRCC 2022 CSCU Professional Development Grant, Plein air painting in Ogunquit & Phippsburg, Maine
Certificated 2017 AAUP Travel Grant for Golden Artist Educator Certification, New Orleans, LA, with Patti Brady
ECSU 2017 AAUP Travel Grant for class on Byzantine Iconography, Enders Island, Mystic, CT
ECSU 2016 AAUP Professional Development Grant for Artist Residency in Paris, France
ECSU 2012 AAUP Travel Grant for postgraduate research with Hugh O’Donnell, Boston, MA
Awards/Grants/Fellowships - American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
2026. Award, Third Place, Clinton Plein Air By the Sea, CAS, juror Susan Jositas
2025 Award, Honorable Mention, Perkins Cover, Plein Air Paint out, Juror Olena Babak, ME
2025 Award, Inspired Vision Award, Madison Art Society, Madison, CT
2025. ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2025 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Kittery, ME
Award, NAC Norwich Art Center Gallery, Honorable Mention, Norwich, CT
2024 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2023 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2022 Award, Paintings, CAS, 1st & 2nd prize, juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing
2022 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Ogunquit & Phippsburg, ME
2016 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Artist Residency in Paris, France
2013 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
2011 Award, Gallery One, Painting Award, Old Saybrook, CT, Judith Osborne**
2010 Award, Connecticut Women Artists, Honorable Mention, New Haven, CT, Alyssa Monks**
Award, Vermont Studio Center, two Fellowship Awards, Johnson, VT**
2008-09 WCSU Full Scholarship, Graduate Studies, W.B. Connor Trust, Danbury, CT
Chautauqua School of Art, Scholarship Award, Chautauqua, NY
WCSU. Fellowship Grant for Graduate Summer Studies, Chautauqua, Danbury, CT
2003-07 LACFA, Merit Scholarship, Old Lyme, CT
CV Updated June 2026
Curriculum Vitae
Connecticut
Gallery Representation
Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT
Meridian Art Consulting Firm, Boston, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2027 Paintings, Norwich Art Center Gallery, New Paintings, Norwich, CT, September
2025 Painting, Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 13 paintings, Clinton, CT
2024 Painting, Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 15 paintings, Clinton, CT
2023 Paintings, Clinton Art Gallery, Visiting Artist Oct & Nov, Clinton, CT*
Paintings, CAS, 1st & 2nd prize, juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing**
2019 Paintings, Three Rivers Gallery at Three Rivers Community College, Pondering Series, CT*
2014 Paintings, MxCC Gallery, Tondo Art, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT*
Paintings, Shoreline Art Alliance, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCCT), Guilford, CT*
2013 Paintings, Kellogg Environmental Center and Osborne Homestead Museum, Derby, CT*
2012 Paintings, Erector Square, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
2011 Installation, Vermont Studio Center, Open Studios, Johnson, VT
2009 Painting, WCSU Student Center, Wind Power Office of the Dean, WCSU, Danbury, CT*
2008 Painting, the Jane Goodall Institution, Focus the Nation, WCSU, Danbury, CT*
2007 Painting, Seaport World Trade Center, Aesthetics of Wind Power, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Juror Karen Bartone, for Mystic Seaport Museum Plein Air Event for the New Hartford Art Guild, CT, August 2, 2026
Florence Griswold Museum, Patchwork CT, 250 Invitation, Curators Amy Kurtz Lancing, Jenny Parson, & David Rau
Plein Air by the Sea, Clinton Art Society, Awarded Third Place, Susan Jositas
New Hartford Art Guild, Juried Show, Field Notes, two paintings, juror gallery committee
CT Women Artists, Members Juried Exhibition, New Britain Art League - Juror Art Professor Janet Warner
Clinton Art Society, Open Juried Show, Curator Laura Leonard with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT
NAC Gallery, Norwich Art Center Gallery, Art Heist Fundraiser, donated painting, Norwich, CT
2025. Norwich Art Center Gallery, Small Treasures Winter Show, Norwich, CT
Bendheim Gallery, Holding Space, Juror Curator Roxanne Smith, with Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich, CT
Eastern Connecticut State University, The Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT*
Madison Art Society, Honorable Mention, Inspired Vision Award, Madison, CT
Benton Museum, National Juried Open Exhibition for the CT Women Artists, Storrs, CT
Slater Museum, Connecticut State 79th Annual Juried Exhibition, Norwich, CT
Three Rivers CT-State, Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
Flo Gris Museum, annual exhibition of the permanent collection of palette paintings, Old Lyme CT
Boston Art Inc., Boston Seaport Design District, Boston, MA
Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 13 new paintings, Clinton, CT
Norwich Art Center, Elected Member, Honorable Mention, Landscape Painting, Norwich, CT
Regional Artist for Harts Homes, Auburn, MA
2024 Flo Gris Museum, Invitation Gardens Aglow lantern painting fundraiser, Old Lyme CT
Boston Art Inc., Boston Seaport Design District, Boston, MA
Six Summit Gallery at Chamard Vineyards, 15 paintings, Clinton, CT
David Lussier Gallery, Invitation, Small Works Show, Kittery, ME
Norwich Art Center, Associate Member, Grand Reopening Exhibition, Norwich, CT
Clinton Art Gallery, Visiting Artist, Clinton, CT
2023 Florence Griswold Museum, Invitation, ten artists holiday show, upcoming Nov-Dec
David Lussier Gallery, Small Works Holiday Show, Downtown Kittery, Maine *
Clinton Art Gallery, Fall Exhibition Invitation, Guest Artist, Sept-Nov 2023*
Clinton Art Society, Winter Juried Exhibition, Clinton, CT, Juror, Artist Bernard McTigue**
2022 David Lussier Gallery, Small Works Holiday Show, Downtown Kittery, Maine *
Clinton Art Society, Clinton, CT, Juror, Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, 1st & 2nd prizes**
2021 Three Rivers Community College (TRCC), Art Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
2020 Eastern Connecticut State University, The Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT*
2019 Three Rivers Community College, Art Faculty Exhibition, Norwich, CT*
2018 Stillman Gallery, LACFA Alumni Show, Old Lyme, CT, | Cooley Gallery**
2017 LACFA, Metamorphosis, Alumni with MFA, Stillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Susanna Coffey**
2016 Guilford Art Center, Faculty Exhibition, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT*
2015 LACFA Alumni Exhibition, Stillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT**
Guilford Art Center, Faculty Exhibition 2015, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT*
Western Connecticut State University, Looking Forward, Higgins Gallery, Danbury, CT*
2014 AKUS Gallery Eastern Connecticut State University, Faculty Exhibition, Willimantic, CT *
EBK Gallery, Tondo Art, Hartford, CT*
Cooley Gallery, All Paintings Great and Small, Old Lyme, CT**
Silvermine Art Center, Faculty Exhibition, New Canaan, CT*
2013 Cooley Gallery, All Paintings Great and Small, Old Lyme, CT*
CT Art List Exhibit, Six Emerging Artists, EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT*
Select Collections
2023 Florence Griswold Museum, invitation, Painted Palette, Permanent Collection, Old Lyme, CT*
2019 Three Rivers Community College Foundation, Pondering #1, Norwich, CT
2014 Eastern Connecticut State University Foundation, Tondo Art, Willimantic, CT
2009 Western Connecticut State University Foundation, Triangle Still-Life, Danbury, CT
2007 North East Sustainable Energy Association, Wind Power, Boston, MA
Education
MFA Painting, Western Connecticut State University (WCSU), Danbury, CT
BFA Painting, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (LACFA), Old Lyme, CT
BA Psychology, Vermont State University, Johnson Campus, VT
Post-Graduate Professional Development in Alla Prima Landscape Painting
Supported by Professional Development Grants from the AAUP and CSCU 4Cs
2024–2026 Individual Mentorship with David Lussier
2022–2026 Lussier Art Circle and Workshops, Maine
Academic Appointments - Traditional Classroom (TRAD) and Online
2018-present, Lecturer, Visual Arts, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT, Painting I, Global Art History I and II, History of Women in the Arts, 2D Design, and Studio Art Introduction (Online and TRAD)
2010-present, Lecturer, Visual Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU), Willimantic, CT, Drawing I, 2D Design, Color Theory, Studio Art Introduction, 3D Design, Relief Sculpture, and Expression with Color Media, (Online and TRAD)
2011-18 Mentoring Program, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, BFA Painting Students
2008-09 Teaching Assistant, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, Drawing I and Painting I
Research Grant Awards
ECSU 2026 AAUP Professional Development Grant for painting research in Jeffersonville, VT
ECSU. 2025 AAUP Professional Development Grant for painting research in Monhegan Island, Maine
TECC 2025 CSCU Professional Development Grant for painting research in Monhegan Island, Maine
TRCC 2025 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting with David Lussier, Kittery, Maine
ECSU 2024 AAUP Professional Development Grant for Artist Residency in Monhegan Island, Maine
TRCC 2024 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting, Rockport and Gloucester, MA
TRCC 2023 CSCU Professional Development Award, painting on Monhegan Island, David Lussier, Maine
Certificated 2023 CSCU iTeach Online, Connecticut State Colleges, Best Practice of Online Pedagogy Certificate
TRCC 2022 CSCU Professional Development Grant, Plein air painting in Ogunquit & Phippsburg, Maine
Certificated 2017 AAUP Travel Grant for Golden Artist Educator Certification, New Orleans, LA, with Patti Brady
ECSU 2017 AAUP Travel Grant for class on Byzantine Iconography, Enders Island, Mystic, CT
ECSU 2016 AAUP Professional Development Grant for Artist Residency in Paris, France
ECSU 2012 AAUP Travel Grant for postgraduate research with Hugh O’Donnell, Boston, MA
Awards/Grants/Fellowships - American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
2026. Award, Third Place, Clinton Plein Air By the Sea, CAS, juror Susan Jositas
2025 Award, Honorable Mention, Perkins Cover, Plein Air Paint out, Juror Olena Babak, ME
2025 Award, Inspired Vision Award, Madison Art Society, Madison, CT
2025. ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2025 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Kittery, ME
Award, NAC Norwich Art Center Gallery, Honorable Mention, Norwich, CT
2024 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2023 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Monhegan Island, ME
2022 Award, Paintings, CAS, 1st & 2nd prize, juror Florence Griswold Museum Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing
2022 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Plein air painting in Ogunquit & Phippsburg, ME
2016 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for Artist Residency in Paris, France
2013 ECSU, AAUP Travel Grant for College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
2011 Award, Gallery One, Painting Award, Old Saybrook, CT, Judith Osborne**
2010 Award, Connecticut Women Artists, Honorable Mention, New Haven, CT, Alyssa Monks**
Award, Vermont Studio Center, two Fellowship Awards, Johnson, VT**
2008-09 WCSU Full Scholarship, Graduate Studies, W.B. Connor Trust, Danbury, CT
Chautauqua School of Art, Scholarship Award, Chautauqua, NY
WCSU. Fellowship Grant for Graduate Summer Studies, Chautauqua, Danbury, CT
2003-07 LACFA, Merit Scholarship, Old Lyme, CT
CV Updated June 2026