David Beale

David grew up in rural Middle Tennessee and received a BA in music from Duke University in 1967.  He served in the Peace Corps in Colombia for two years.
 
David attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina and Cornell University in music composition. His music has been performed throughout the East including a commercially recorded performance of his "Reflections on a Park Bench" in Carnegie Hall in 1974.   

David began painting in watercolor at the age of 50.  He has taken workshops with Arnie Westerman and Frank Webb.  His works have been included in local exhibits, regional exhibits in Rochester, NY, and Allentown, PA, and a National exhibit in Memphis, TN.

David now owns and operates The Picture House, a frame shop/gallery/studio located in Cortland, NY,  where he paints and teaches in addition to framing.

Affiliations

• Allied Artists of America
• Cortland Art League
• Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Signature Member
• Palette Club of Bethlehem (past member)
• New York Plein Air Painters, associate member
• Cultural Council of Cortland County, Executive Director

Awards

• First Place Award, Fine Arts Division, NY State Fair, 2006
• 3^rd Place Award, H2O Color 2006 online juried exhibit, www.artromgallery.com
• Steve McKray Memorial Award, 2005, National Watercolor Oklahoma Exhibit 2005
• Mary Garrison Memorial Prize for Watercolor, 2004, 13^th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, The Cooperstown Art Association
• 1^st Prize in Watercolor, 2004, Groton, NY, Art Exhibit
• Many awards in watercolor and drawing, 1996-2009, Cortland Art League annual membership exhibits
• Individual Artist Award, 2009, $1,000 grant from Cultural resources Council and New York State Council on the Arts

Regional, National and International Juried Exhibits

• Palette Club of Bethlehem
• Memphis Art Show on the River National Juried Competition
• Cooperstown Art Association
• Finger Lakes Exhibit at the University of Rochester Memorial Museum
• Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and Palette Club of Bethlehem
• Paint Out in the Bethlehem Steel Mills, 2004
• Allied Artists of America, NYC National Juried Exhibit, November, 2004
• Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, International Juried Exhibition, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011
• The American Juried Art Salon (online), 2006, 2 exhibits
• Rhode Island National Watercolor Exhibit, 2006
• Watercolor USA National Watercolor Exhibit, 2007
• NY State Fair Exhibits, 2006-2008, 2011
• Au Naturel International Exhibit, Astoria, Oregon, 2010
• Northeast Watercolor Exhibit, 2011
• Night Visions IV Exhibit, Flagstaff, AZ, 2011
• "Exposed:  The Nude Self" exhibit, Shoe Factory Arts Co-op, Rochester, NY, 2011
• Windsor NAtional Juried Small Works exhibit, 2011

Selected Solo Exhibits

• Delavan Art Gallery, December 2007
• Blue Frog Coffee House, Cortland, NY
• Alliance Bank, Cortland , NY
• Cortland Free Library, Cortland, NY
• Peck's Furniture, Cortland, NY
• Homer Free Library, Homer, NY
• Groton Public Library, Groton, NY
• Alternatives Federal Credit Union Lobby, Ithaca, NY
• Pinstriped Pokadots Galleries, Cortland , NY
• Collegetown Bagels, Ithaca, NY
• Fabio's Restaurant, Cortland, NY, 2008
• Marcellus Free Library, Marcellus, NY, in December 2009
• Beard Building Gallery,Cortland, NY 2010

Teaching Experience

• 1996-1998 Watercolor Classes at SUNY Cortland Center for Lifelong Learning
• 1999 Five part lecture series on 19^th and 20^th Century American Watercolorists at the     Blue Frog Coffeehouse
• 1999-2001 Watercolor class at Cortland BOCES
• 2000-2008 Weekly Watercolor classes at The Picture House
• 2006 Watercolor Classes at the Center for the Arts in Homer, NY
• 2006 One day Workshop Instructor, " Time Management for Artists," Cortland,  NY
• 2006- Watercolor Instructor, Groton Painting Class
• 2009- Weekly watercolor class at the Cultural Council of Cortland County Workshop Room.
• 2010 Plein workshop series funded by the New York State Council on the Arts Indiviual Artist Grant.