Education & Scholarships
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
2001 Kuzmitchi-McCutchon Scholarship to UGA in Drawing/ Fine Arts
2025 Full Scholarship (General Artist) to Watercolor Live 2025
Selected Awards & Group Exhibitions
2025 American Women Artists, National Annual Juried Show, Online
2025 Georgia Watercolor Society, National Juried Exhibition~ 4th Place Award, Morris Museum, Augusta GA
2025 American Watercolor Society Associate Member’s Exhibition, Online
2025 Jerry’s Artarama May Flowers Competition, Online ~ Third Place Award
2025 Decatur Arts Alliance: Cat & Mouse, Decatur, GA
2025 Woodstock Reeves Art House: All the Fixins’: Artists from the South, Woodstock, GA
2025 Wigwag Art Fair with Cat Eye Creative, Avondale Estates, GA
2025 Suwanee Art Center Summer Exhibition, Suwanee, GA
2025 Booth Artists Guild at the Booth Western Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Cartersville, GA
2024 Booth Artist Guild, Winter Juried Members Show ~ Honorable Mention Award, Cartersville, GA
2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, Juried Exhibition ~ Honorable Mention Award, Stone Mountain, GA
2024 Avondale Arts Alliance, Bountiful Earth, Juried Exhibition, Avondale Estates, GA
2024 Louisiana Watercolor Society, International Juried Exhibition, Online
2024 Georgia Watercolor Society, National Juried Exhibition, Sandy Springs, GA
Featured Artist Installation / Solo Exhibition
2024-current Woodlands Garden, long-term rotating exhibition of botanical work
Teaching
2024-current Woodlands Gardens, ongoing monthly classes
2025 Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, workshop
2025 Avondale Arts Alliance, workshop series
2025 Garage Door Studio, workshop series
Press & Speaking
2025 Morris Museum, Cover Art for Quarterly Newsletter
2025 Woodstock Reeves Art House, Invited Speaker for All the Fixins’: Artists from the South
2025 Canvas Rebel, Meet Jessica Lily
2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, Invited Speaker for Making Friends with Watercolor with Jessica Lily
2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, Making Friends with Watercolor with Jessica Lily, Article
Professional Exhibiting Affiliations
2025-current American Watercolor Society
2025-current National Watercolor Society
2025-current American Women Artists
2025-current Alpharetta Art Guild
2024-current Georgia Watercolor Society
2024-current Portrait Society of Atlanta
2024-current Women in Watercolor
