Jeanne Kennedy
After graduating from the University of Kansas, building a national reputation and garnering numerous advertising awards as a fashion illustrator in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Jeanne joined the faculty at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. For a number of years, Jeanne taught fashion art and related art techniques. Along with her academic endeavors, Jeanne’s reputation as a fine artist continued to develop. She exhibited her works in numerous Texas area shows and had a very successful one woman show in a large Fort Worth gallery. She currently has many paintings in Texas area collections and still sells through a gallery in Keller, Texas.
Since relocating to North Carolina, Jeanne’s art works have won a number of awards. She has also exhibited at the Women in the Arts show in Raleigh. Recently, her portrait of Jack Parks was reproduced in bronze to mark a skeet field dedicated to Jack at Camp LeJeune in Jacksonville. Jeanne and her husband divide their time between Greenville and their home in Ocean, NC, where Jeanne’s studio is located.
