About the Artist, Julie Rodriguez Jones

Older Group Exhibits

2004 Spiritual VII International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

Ongoing The Artists' Universe, A traveling, ongoing juried exhibition of Space Art of the IAAA

("Solar Flares" was accepted to the show 7/04)

2004 Color III International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2004 Heart to Hearth: Kelowna Art Gallery Show of Art for the 2003 Kelowna, BC Fire Victims

July-August 2004

2004 11th International Art/Photo Contest, First Inspection Exhibition-Japan

2004 Digital IV International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2004 Landscape IV International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2004 A Spring Obsession 2004, Ironstone Vineyards International Art Exhibition, Murphys, CA

2003 Spiritual VI International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2003 Inaugural Evening, Martinez Opera [small group show], Martinez, CA

2003 Digital Experimental III International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2003 Realism V International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2003 9th International Art/Photo Contest, First Inspection Exhibition-Japan

2003 Health and Harmony Music and Arts Festival 2003, Santa Rosa, California

2003 Beautiful III International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2003 Landscape III International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2003 Realism IV International Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2003 A Spring Obsession 2003, Ironstone Vineyards International Art Exhibition, Murphys, CA

2003 2nd Sacred Visionary Art and Music Video Festival, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco,CA

2002 8th International Art/Photo Contest, First Inspection Exhibition-Japan

2002 Science and Technology Digital Arts Competition, Arts Alliance Center, Houston, TX

2002 Pittsburg Arts Collaborative Summer Art Show, Impulse Gallery, Pittsburg, CA

2002 "Celebrating Spirituality" [Small Group] Robert Peck Gallery, CWC, Riverton, WY

2002 "Art and Science [Small Group] Exhibition 2002" BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2002 "Realism IV" International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2002 "Water Colors" International Exhibition, Globe Gallery, Roswell, NM

2002 "Spring National Invitational Exhibition" Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2002 "The Color of the Universe" International Art Exhibition, Globe Gallery, Roswell, NM

2002 "Reddish," International Art Exhibition, Globe Gallery, Roswell, NM

2002 All Media IV International Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2002 Contemporary IV International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2002 A Spring Obsession, Ironstone Vineyards Int'l Art Competition, Murphys, CA

2002 All Media Invitational 2002, Period Gallery Omaha, NE

2001 Place Scapes International Exhibition, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY

2001 Small Works Invitational National II Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001-2002 Westworks 2001 International Art Exhibition

Robert A. Peck Arts Center, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY

2001 Science and Technology Digital Arts Competition, Arts Alliance Center, Houston, TX

2001 Drawing II International Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 Small Works National All Media Invitational 2001, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 Drawing II International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 2-3-4 Dimensional II Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery Omaha, NE

2001 2-3-4 Dimensional II International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 All Media III Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 Spiritual Art III Internet Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 All Media III Invitational International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2000 Spiritual III International Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2000 Visions Art Gallery

1999 Art Attack Art Gallery

1999 Wings of Solimar, Lafayette, California

Awards and Honors:

December 2004 Grandfather's Song Chosen For Book Cover

November 10, 2004 "Clouds Over Pyramid Lake" was selected as the Weather Picture of the Day.

October 29, 2004, "Sundogs in San Pablo" was selected as the Weather Picture of the Day

October 26, 2004 "Stubby Rainbow" was selected as the Weather Picture of the Day

Spring 2004 AIDS sensitivity poster is distributed in Uganda by the AfricaHumanists.org

August 2004 "Red in the Morning" and "Aurora Reflection" are chosen to promote the book, "Grandfather's

Song" by Jake George.

April 2004, Setting the Planets into Motion featured on the inside front cover of The Mountain Astrologer

June/July 2004 issue

March 8, 2004 Church in the Woods selected for Weather Picture of the Day (archives here, select pg. 26)

November 2003 Apogee Books releases Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier by Laura

S. Woodmansee including astronomical artist as a career, interviewing

Julie Rodriguez Jones (Career #78).

October 2003, The November issue of Astronomy magazine arrives showing a trio of

Astronomical cards (shown at the invitation of the magazine).

July 2003, Special Recognition Award from the Period Gallery, Omaha, NE for Through the Eyepiece

June 2003 Storybook Ending chosen as the Period Gallery's homepage icon for the Summer Invitational

2003 show.

May 29, 2003 Angel Wing Nebula, Image of the Day, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

May 2003, Special Recognition Award from the Period Gallery, Omaha, NE for Angel Wing Nebula.

February 2003, CNN Student News includes "Final Re-entry" as part of their Memorial Lesson Plan

December 2002, The National Greaves Disease Foundation Commissions new art (Stained Glass Butterfly) and logo for corporate wide use.

December 2002, Winter Tree selected by the Wallkill Central School District, NY for their homepage

holiday image

November 2002, Kente Cloth selected by the National African American Tobacco Prevention Network as

their corporate image.

September 2002, Prayer of the Trinity selected for show postcard to promote "Celebrating Spirituality" at

Peck Gallery in Riverton, Wyoming

July 8-12, 2002, Sunny Days, E-card of the Week at ByRegion.net

June 2002, First Place for "Endangered" from the Water Colors International Exhibition,

Globe Gallery, Roswell, NM

May 2002, "Award of Merit" for "Stained Glass Grapes" from Ironstone Vineyards Gallery, "Spring Obsession" 2002 International Juried Art Exhibition

March 2002 Digital Color Artist of the Month, Digital Consciousness

December 2001 Stage Gallery Press Release 2001

Genesis, Image of the Day, 3/3/01, 4/1/02 and 5/30/02, 6/16/02 Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

December 2000, "Special Recognition" from the Period Gallery's "Spiritual III International

Art Exhibition" for "Prayer of the Trinity"

July 2000 Featured Creator, Say It Greeting Cards

May 2000 Gabriel's Trumpet: Say It Greeting Cards, Image of the Week

April 2000 Featured Artist, Arts Fusion Magazine

March 2000 "Say It," Greeting cards award in the Artist Resource contest

January 2000 Artist of the Month, Visions Art Gallery

December 1999 "Artistic Excellence" from nationally award winning photographer Allan MacKinnon

December 1999 Finalist: Emerging Artist 2000-Limner Gallery, New York, NY

Reviews:

Gallery and Studio, New York, Spring/Summer 2000

Seminar

December 2002, Colored Pencil Challenge (Online): Enhancing Colored Pencil with Digital Techniques