Karolyn Kaye (McMillan) Farrell won awards and sold art at an early age. She has taught art to students from ages 5 to 95, for school districts on the East Coast (MD), in the Kansas City area, and Fayetteville, AR as well as for Art Galleries.
She holds a Master's and an Educational Specialist Degree with emphasis on "Creativity and the Older Adult." Her paintings are in numerous private, corporate, medical, state and other collections across the United States. As director of the Fayetteville Community Schools and Adult Education under the school district and the State, she was able to offer wide areas of art education for the community as well as fund part time teaching positions for many artists. Farrell wrote and directed grants through the Levi Foundation, the National Office of Aging, the AR Arts Councils, etc. A video "Bridging the Gap" was produced and disseminated internationally depicting intergenerational art activities as a result of this.
She is listed in "Who's Who among Women Internationally." in America and in the South. She is a signature member of the Artists of Northwest AR (successfully juried into 6 or more multi-state shows), a member of Oil Painters of America, Mid-America Pastel Society, Portrait Society of America and Plein Air Painters of the Ozarks. Her work is in local and out of state galleries. She enjoys painting the beautiful environment in the Ozarks as well as on her travels. She has studied with D. Leffel, A Handell, G. Frick, and others.
She is thankful she is able to share her work and bring peace and happiness to others.
SELECTED AWARDS INCLUDE: Sager Creek Regional Spring show, 20073rd place, monetary award, "Home Place" Oil Ozark Arts Alliance Competition, 2007April, Special Award, "Still Life with Fruit" Oil, monetary award Artists' Fellowship Show, John Brown University, 20062 purchase awards, "Peonies in glass" Oil and "Farmhouse in France" Oil Sager Creek ARts Center Competitive Show, September, 2006Bronze award, monetary award, "Antique Vase with Fruit" Oil Artists' of Northwest AR Favorite Works, 20053rd Place, $300.00 award "Pansies" Oil Sager Creek Arts Center, 2004 Honorable mention, monetary award, ""Crabapples and Antique Jug" Oil Ft. Smith Regional Art Show, 2003Monetary award, "Summertime" pastel, honorable mention AAUW Invitational, juried, Kansas City, MO 19991st Place, purchase award, pastel, "A Little Night Music" Regional Fine Arts Show, Boatman's Bank, Fayetteville, 19952nd place, "The Pig Trail" Oil Siloam Springs Sager Creeks Arts Center, 19942nd place, monetary award, "At Home on Sunrise Mountain" pastel Walton Arts Center Pen Women of America Show, Fayetteville, 1993Purchase award, "Hollyhocks" watercolor Arts in Education Shows, Fayetteville, AR 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989Purchase awards, pastels and Oils PUBLICATIONS, SELECTEDFirst Friday ART WALK, Springfield, MO, October, 2008 and November, 2008Karolyn Farrell at DB Design and Gallery The Morning News, 2007Small number creates big interest in ART The Morning News, Springdale, PROFILE, December 11, 2005A Vision of Beauty, Fayetteville Artist Revels in Ozarks' Natural Surroundings Northwest AR Times, AR Democrat, PROFILE, mAY 19, 2003Semi-retirement, Time for Art Northwest AR Times, Ozark PROFILE/An Educator and an Artist, 2000Following her own "signposts" by Rusty Garrett Buffalo Reflex, MO 2000Profile of an artist and an educator Celebrations Magazine, 2007Arts Rocks, Walton Arts Center The Morning News and Siloam Springs News, Dec. 2006, Artists' Fellowship show Northwest AR Times/AR Democrat, 2005Clinton House taking shape with mural, photo displays Northwest AR Times, 2001Fayetteville Library hosts 4 invited artists Northwest AR Times, 1998People who make it work by Scott Flanagin Northwest AR Times, New Art association forming in Fayetteville, Oct 6, 1991