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Honors

National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS) "Best of America" 18th Annual Exhibit  2008! Sept. 28-Nov. 21, 2008  Ella Carouthers Dunnegan Gallery of Art Bolivar, Missouri
Bosque Conservatory,  23rd annual Conservatory Art Classic, National Juried Exhibition, Clifton, Texas.  September 20 - 28, 2008
Coos Art Museum, 15th Annual Maritime Art Exhibit, Coos Bay, Oregon July 19-September 20, 2008
*American Society of Marine Artists, 2008 New England Exhibition, May 7, 2008 - Jan. 5, 2009, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Mass., Herreshoff Marine Museum, Rhode Island,  Maine Maritime Museum
*American Women Artists 2007 National Juried Competition,"Award of Merit" for "Daybreak", exhibiting at LeKAE Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, Dec.6, 2007-Jan.6, 2008
*The National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society, 17th annual National Juried Exhibit, "Best of America" 2007,  Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO. beginning September 30th, 2007
*American Academy of Women Artists, National  exhibition, "Visions of America", Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont.  July 28, 2007 through September 9, 2007
*American Artist magazine, 70th Anniversary Competition, semi-finalist 2007
*Art Splash on the Square, National Juried Art Exhibition, Old Post
   Office Museum, Graham, Texas May, 2007
*Awarded Commission, Bald Head Island Club, Bald Head Island, SC,
   2006
* Juried Show Winner, WSOC-TV, Charlotte, NC, June 1999
* Invitational, Emerging Artists, "Rising Stars", Charlotte  Latin School,
   Charlotte, NC 1997,  1998, 1999

Solo Exhibitions
"Horizons", Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC July 2008
"Island Images", Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC July 2007
"Carolina Impressions", Fountainside Gallery. Wilmington, NC July 2006
"New Paintings by Paula Holtzclaw", Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC
   May, 2006
"New Paintings by Paula Holtzclaw", Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  December, 2002

Group Exhibitions
NOAPS, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society "Best of America" 2008! annual Exhibition, National Juried Event, Ella Carouthers Dunnegan Gallery, Bolivar Missouri SEpt. 28, 2008-Nov 21, 2008
Bosque Conservatory, 23rd Annual Art Classic , National Juried Exhibition, Clifton, Texas.  September 20-28, 2008
Coos Art Museum, 15th Annual Maritime Art Exhibit, Coos Bay, Oregon. July 19- September 20, 2008
Cultural  Center of Cape Cod, Mass., ASMA New England Exhibition, May 7, 2008- June 15, 2008  
Herreshoff Marine Museum, America's Cup Hall of Fame, Rhode Island, ASMA, NE Exhibition June 28, 2008- September 1, 2008
Maine Maritime Museum, ASMA NE Exhibition  October24, 2008- January 5, 2009
"Snapshots", Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, N.C. May 23- June 30, 2008
American Women Artists 2007 National Juried Competition/ Exhibit, LaKae Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, Dec.6, 2007- Jan. 6, 2008
"Hip To Be Square"  Annual Holiday Exhibition of Square Paintings, December 2007.  Providence Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.
"Tidewaters", New Paintings by Paula Holtzclaw and Robert Brown, Providence Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.  November 2- Nov. 30, 2007
The National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society, "Best of America" 2007, 17th annual National Juried Exhibit, Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, Mo., beginning September 30th,  through October 21, 2007, traveling  to other locations in Mo. through November 25th, 2007
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont "Visions of America", American Academy of Women Artists National Exhibition, July 21-September 9, 2007
"Art Splash", Old Post Office Museum, National Juried Competition Exhibition, Graham Texas, May 2007
Gallery Artists Group show, "Hip to be square", Providence Gallery, Charlotte, N.C. December 2006
"Gallery Artists Group Show", Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC,
  December 2005
"Land, Lake and Sea", (Featured Artist) Merrill Jennings Gallery, Davidson,
  NC, October 2004
"Gallery Artists Group Show", Providence Gallery Charlotte, NC
  December 2002
 E. S. Lawrence Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2000-2004
"Bainbridge Crew Designer House", Charlotte, NC, 1999


Benefit Exhibitions
 "An Evening at the Museum of the Waxhaws", Annual benefit, Waxhaw, N.C., Saturday Evening, September 22, 2007
"Art With Heart" Benefit Auction, Charlotte, NC February 2008, February 2007
"50th Annual Greater Charlotte Heart Ball",  American Heart Assoc.  Feb. 9th, 2008  Charlotte, N.C.
"The Friends of Brookgreen Gardens", Annual Benefit Gala, Pawleys Island, SC, May 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
"Aids Council of Gaston County Annual Benefit Show", Gastonia, NC
  2005, 2003, 2002
"Blast for the Past", Historic Charlotte Incorporated, Charlotte, NC
  September 2004

Special Collections
Bald Head Island Club
Catherine Bessant, Charlotte, N.C.
John Bond, Atty., Charlotte N.C. office
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cavanaugh, Wilmington, N.C.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Graper, Charlotte, N.C.
Mark D. Mitchell , Bald Head Island, N.C.
Gabrielle Shain, Charlotte, N.C.
Collection of Christopher Trotman"Trot" Nixon, Boston Red Sox
R.S. Turner, DDS PA, Charlotte, N.C.
Buck and Patti Williams of Nashville, Tenn.and Figure Eight Island


Bibliography
American Artist Online Magazine, November 2007
American Art Collector, July 2008
SouthwestArt Magazine, "Art in unexpected places",  Sept. 2008,  Sept. 2007
SouthwestArt Magazine, "Best of the West, Coast to Coast," July 2007
Carolina Arts, Bonneau, SC, July  2008, 2007
Carolina Arts, Bonneau, SC, July 2006
Carolina Arts, Bonneau, SC, May 2006
Charleston Magazine, Charleston, SC, July-August 2006
Where: Charleston, Charleston,SC, Fall 2002

Gallery Representation
Fountainside Gallery, Wilmington, NC 
Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Professional Organizations
American Women Artists
Artist Member, American Academy of Women Artists
Artist Member, American Society of Marine Artists
The National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
Oil Painters of America
WAOW  (Women Artists of the West)