Jo Smail, a Baltimore-based painter and MICA professor was awarded the “Best of the Best” Trawick Prize Award on November 2, during an exhibition of the winners of the past 10 years.
The Exhibit of the 10 Best in Show is on display from November 3 – December 1, 2012 at Gallery B, located at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E.
Jo Smail Baltimore, MD 2007 Trawick Prize winner Jo Smail, a graduate of the Johannesburg College of Art in South Africa, has been teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD since 1988. She has been honored with the Maryland State Art Council’s Individual Artist Award for painting four times; 1991, 1994, 2004 and 2007. Smail has had solo exhibitions at the Goya Contemporary in Baltimore, MD; the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA and Axis Gallery in New York, NY. Additionally, her work has been highlighted in group shows at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD; Jolie Laide Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Gallery 447 in Cambridge, MD; the Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University in New York, NY and the McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, VA.
Past Trawick Prize Winners 2003: Richard Cleaver 2004: David Page 2005: Jiha Moon 2006: James Rieck 2007: Jo Smail 2008: Maggie Michael 2009: Rene Trevino 2011: Mia Feuer 2012: Lillian Bayley Hoover
