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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 04:22:50+00:00

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Jakki Kouffman, a recent transplant from Santa Fe's painting, exhibiting and teaching scene, is now living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She recently participated in exhibitions at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin and the Suntan Art Center in St. Pete Beach.
Kouffman is now showing a 36" x 24" acrylic painting from her Floater series, How Heliconias Dream, and When at Woodfield Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Florida. This invitational show runs through November 30th, 2018.
The Plein Air Painters of New Mexico 10th National Juried Members Exhibition takes place from November 2 - 25, 2018 at the Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe. As a Signature Member of PAPNM, Jakki will be represented by her acrylic painting Rio Grande Overlook at Questa, a scene that she has painted often, after living, painting and teaching workshops for more than seventeen years in and around Santa Fe.
Opening on November 6 and continuing through March 4, 2019, the Taos Museum at Fechin House will present an exhibition of Signature and Master Signature Members of PAPNM at the 2018-19 Fechin Invitational Winter Exhibition. As a Signature Member, Jakki Kouffman was invited to show her acrylic painting Echo of the Red Rock Glow alongside an inspired group of landscape painters from New Mexico and beyond.
This summer, Jakki Kouffman exhibited an acrylic painting from her Floater series at the 100th Annual Members Show at the Morean Arts Center in St, Petersburg, Florida, July 13 - September 27.
Kouffman also juried her pastel Floater, Eggplants Aloft at Dusk, into the Dunedin Fine Art Center show You Are What You Eat. This exhibition took place from September 7 - October 14, 2018.
In St. Petersburg, Jakki exhibited her pastels and acrylics at Woodfield Fine Art in 2017 - 2018.
Internationally-known acrylic artist Mark Mahaffey awarded Jakki Kouffman's painting the Best in Show Award at the 2018 Spring Juried Exhibition, held at the Suntan Art Center, in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The 36" x 24" piece, Chiles Aloft at Day's End, was recently purchased by a private collector in St. Louis, Missouri.
Kouffman is showing a piece from her Floaters Series at the Member/Student/Faculty Show at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, through May 6.
Jakki Kouffman taught a 6-week course in acrylic painting, as well as a two-day workshop, at the Dunedin Fine Arts Center during the Winter I term. She also showed three paintings at the annual Glad Tidings Exhibitions, where her work was selected for the exhibition show card.
Jakki exhibited a three-part figure drawing at the Drawing Artists Together show at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg. This show commemorated the 40-year commitment by the Morean to their Saturday figure drawing sessions, which Jakki has attended regularly since her arrival in St. Pete in the spring of 2017. Kouffman also showed several several pieces at the annual Morean Holiday Exhibition.
On November 9th, Kouffman presented an art talk at the Dunedin Fine Art Center's Coffee & Conversation series. The lecture recounted the story of her transition from doing stone sculpture and bronze for a year in Pietrasanta - on a grant from her alma mater, Brandeis University - to working in acrylic, pastel and mixed media today.
On November 10 & 11, Jakki taught an acrylic workshop called Acrylic, Meet Your Future Better Half. This course explored how combining color with liquid mediums, solid gels and opaque pastes helps to magnify sheen, transparency, texture and chromatic brilliance in acrylic painting.
Kouffman won 1st Place at the Dunedin Fine Art Center juried show, On Your Mark, which opened on September 22, 2017.
On Saturday, December 2, she participated in DFAC’s annual Demo Day event. Faculty members in every medium and genre set up their easels and workstations to answer questions from prospective students about upcoming winter term classes. Lots of fun meeting all these prospective students!
Kouffman had an acrylic landscape painting selected for the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico 9th National Juried Members Show at Sorrel Sky Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico in November, 2017.
At the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, Jakki showed a painting from her Floaters Series at the 99th Annual Members Show, July 8 - August 18, 2017.

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