Exhibits

Look for JoAnn Pippin’s work at these exhibits in 2026

Lost and Found.  Feb.9-Mar.9.   Ashe Arts Council, 303 School Ave., West Jefferson. 

Love our Parks-Solo Exhibit featuring paintings from my National Park Volunteer adventures.  April and May 2026. Morganton City Hall, 305 E. Union St. Morganton, NC.  Reception April 16, 5-7 PM.

Blue Ridge Art Clan Shadow of the Hills Exhibit.  April 23-May 30.  Ashe Arts Council, 303 School Ave., West Jefferson.  Reception May 8, 5-7 pm.

Art Mix Group Exhibit.  April 24-May 22, 2026. Rock School Arts Foundation, 400 Main St. West, Valdese, NC.  Reception: Sunday, April 26, 2-4 pm.

 

Blue Ridge Art Clan Exhibit.  Jones House, Boone NC.  April 29-May 28.  Reception Friday, May 1, 5-7 PM.

Architectural and Industrial Art Exhibit.  June 4-27. Ashe Arts Council, 303 School Ave., West Jefferson.  Reception May 8, 5-7 pm.

Ashe County Library. July 1-July 31.148 Library Rd., West Jefferson.

High Country Watermedia Society Annual Juried Show 2026. Jones House, Boone NC.  July 2-August 2. Reception Wednesday, July 8, 5-7 pm.

Ashe County Studio Tour.  July 29-Aug. 2, 10 AM-5 PM Sat., 12-5 PM Sun.  JLPippin Studio, 170 West Town Way, West Jefferson NC.

High Country Watermedia Society Exhibit. Florence Thomas Art School, 10 S Jefferson Ave, West Jefferson, NC. August 28-Oct. 3.

Whipporwill Celebration of United States 250 Anniveresary.  Sept. 19.  Whipporwill Academy, 11928 NC Hwy 268, Ferguson, NC.  Sept. 19 all day.

Best of the Blue Ridge.  Oct. 8-Nov. 14. Ashe Arts Council, 303 School St., West Jefferson, NC.

 

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Watch for my paintings in other themed Exhibits at Ashe County Arts Council and other venues in the High Country of North Carolina.

Past Exhibits:

*If the exhibit is a solo exhibit or an exhibit where my paintings are in special focus, there is an asterisk beside the listing.

• David Stickel and Friends Watercolor Artist’s Exhibit. Nov. 14-Dec.23^rd. Wilkes Art Gallery, North Wilkesboro. 
• Best of the Blue Ridge Annual Juried Show, Ashe County Arts Council, W. Jefferson, NC, 2016-current.
• Ashe County Studio Tour 2019, 2023, 2025. Ashe County Arts Council, West Jefferson, NC.
• Watercolor Society of North Carolina Western Regional Exhibit.  2021-2025.
• Northwest Artists’s League Juried Annual Exhibits at Wilkes Gallery, North Wilkesboro, NC: 2016, 2020 – current,  (Second Place in 2020)
• Ashe County Arts Center Exhibits, West Jefferson, NC:  2016-current
• High Country Watermedia Society Annual Juried Exhibits, Jones House, Boone, NC. 2022- present. Previously Blue Ridge Artspace, Boone, NC, 2014, 2015,2016, 2017, 2019, 2021
• Annual Blue Ridge Art Clan Shadow of the Hills Exhibit, Florence Thomas School, West Jefferson, NC., alternate years at the Ashe County Arts Council. 206-present
• *Sketches of a National Park Volunteer   –  My paintings from National Parks across the country, at the Florence Thomas Art School Gallery in downtown West Jefferson, NC from May 7, 2024 – June 1, 2024.
• Edgewood Cottage Artist-in-Residence,  Blowing Rock, NC.  2014, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025
•  ArtMix Exhibit in the Jones House Gallery in downtown Boone, NC, May 1 -May 30, 2024
• Artists of Ashe County Exhibit 2023
• ArtMix Exhibit, Wilkes Art Gallery 2023
• Florence Thomas Art School Instructor’s Exhibit 2021-2022
• Annual Open Art Competition, Rock School Art Galleries, Valdese, NC.  Sept. 2025  Honorable Mention Award
• Watercolor Society of North Carolina Western Regional Exhibits, 2015-present.  Various locations 
• *Light and Lighthouses: Paintings of JoAnn Pippin and Carole Bryant*  Ashe County Arts Council, West Jefferson, NC. June 12 – July 6,  2019.
• Watercolor Society of North Carolina Annual Juried Exhibits:  2018, 2017, 2016, 2020, 2025
• Southern Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibits:   2016,2017,2018
• Cary Gallery annual “Small Treasures” juried exhibits,  2015, 2016, 2017,2020
• Carolina on My Mind Annual Juried Exhibit, Village Art Circle, Cary, NC, 2016
• Virginia Highlands Festival Juried Fine Arts Show,   Abingdon, VA, 2016,2014, 2015
• The Watauga County Arts Council’s Art Placement Program 2017
•  Ashe Memorial Hospital, 200 Hospital Avenue, Jefferson, NC, rotating paintings 2017, through present
• The Ashe County Library February, 2017, 2026
• Appalachian Regional Hospital Cancer Center, July-Sept. 2018
• Watauga County Arts Council Exhibits, Blue Ridge Arts Center, Boone: 2014, 2015, 2016.  
• Wild about Watercolor-Exhibit of works by the students of JoAnn Pippin and the artists in the Lifelong Painter’s Studio.  July 9-August 6, 2016.  Watauga County Arts Council Blue Ridge Arts Center,  Boone, NC.  
• Eye of the Artist Juried Show, Welborn Gallery, Yadkinville, NC  2014, 2015, 2025
• Of Three Brushes Theater Art Gallery, Highpoint, NC, May 16-July 11, 2013*
• *Just Being There Watauga Arts Council, Boone, NC Dec. 2011-Jan. 2012*
• “Seeing the Forest AND the Trees”  Morganton City Hall, Morganton, NC 2011*
• “Drawn to Nature” Two-Artist Show, Avery County Arts Council, July 2011*
•  Featured Artist, Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, Hanover, NH, Dec. 2008-Feb. 2009*
• “Just a Stone’s Throw from Lyme”  Lyme Public Library, Lyme, NH 2007*
• “New Hampshire Through the Trees”  Society for the Preservation of NH Forests, Concord, NH 2006*
• “Boathouses of Sunapee”  New London Inn, New London, NH, July 2006*  
• “New Hampshire Outside and In”  River Valley Club, Lebanon, NH, July 2006*
• Quechee Inn Gallery 2004
• Featured Artist/ Sept. 1997, Aug. 2001, Mt. Washington Valley Art Assoc. Gallery, No. Conway, NH*
• Two-Artist Show Feb.-Mar. 1998, North Country Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NH*
• Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital, Bridgeton, Me. March 1997.
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Awards:  

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  • Honorable Mention, Annual Open Art Competition, Rock School Art Galleries, Valdese, NC.  Sept. 2025  
  • Second Place, 2020 Northwest Artists’s League Juried Annual Exhibits 
• • Honorable Mention, 2020 Rock School Arts Foundation 33rd Annual Juried Exhibit for Sawdust in the Air

• • Third Prize, 2020 Cary Gallery of Art Small Treasures Exhibit for Crowberry Scramble 

• • Honorable Mention 39th Northwest Artist’s Juried Exhibit, Wilkes Gallery 2018 for Sawdust in the Air

• • Creative Catalyst Award, 2018 Watercolor Society of NC for Sale at the Veggie Row

• • Third Prize, 2017 High Country Watermedia Society Annual Exhibit for Like a Spiral in a Circle

• • Honorable Mention, High Country Watermedia Annual Exhibit, Watauga County Arts Council, August 2016, for Underway 

• • Third Prize, High Country Watermedia Annual Exhibit, Watauga County Arts Council, August 2014, for Gourmet Shop, August 2017 for Like a spiral in a Circle

• • First Prize, 2001 Art in the Park, N. Conway, for Leaves and Reflections.

• • Poster contest winner for the Portland, ME, Flower Show 2006, for Blue Flag by a Tidal Pool.  

• • Judges Awards for Misty Dawn at Cumberland Island, Sidewalk Potpourri, After the Ice Storm, North Country Waterfall, Trilogies, and At the Top.

Publications:  

• • Small picture book featuring 25 watercolor paintings of the boathouses on Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. Click here for information and to order this book.

• • Cover on the spring 2007 KEARSAGE MAGAZINE.   

• • Calendar page in the 2007 calendar for Muster Field Farm, Sutton, New Hampshire