Recent Exhibitions & Awards:

Potomac Valley Watercolor exhibit
November 2023
St Andrews Church, Arlington, VA
First Place award

Rockville Art League
Winter Exhibit
Glenview Mansion, Rockville. MD
Watercolor First Place award

Juried Show at Brookside Gardens (Best in Show)
July 10 – August 14, 2023
Brookside Gardens
Wheaton, MD

Exhibit for BWS Signature Artist Members (3rd Place Award)
June 28 – August 13, 2023
Quiet Waters Gallery
Annapolis, MD

Teravarna 5th Still Life International Juried Art Competition (Runner-Up Prize Award)
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Potomac Valley Watercolorists St. Andrews Show (Memorial Award)
November 12-13, 2022
St Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Arlington, VA

An exhibition of four Baltimore Watercolor Society artists: Karen Norman, Sherry Morell, Karen Schuster and Janet Arsenault
July 2022
Hollingsworth Gallery, Patuxent Research Reserve
Laurel, MD

National Watercolor Society
Accepted Artist
101st International Open Exhibition 2021

Women in Watercolor International Online Exhibit (Honorable Mention Award)
Accepted Artist

West Virginia Watercolor Society National Juried exhibit (Merit Award)
July 15 – September 4, 2021
Oglethorpe Arts Center
Wheeling, West Virginia

52nd Annual Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition (Merit Award)
May 8 – 30, 2021
Montpelier Arts Center
Laurel, MD

Baltimore Watercolor Society Signature Members Exhibition (2nd Place Award)
January 16 – March 13, 2021
Strathmore Hall Mansion
North Bethesda, MD

Potomac Valley Watercolorists Fall Show (Baltimore Watercolor Society Award)
November – December, 2020
Online.

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Show (Jurors Award)
December 2018
Kentlands Mansion
Gaithersburg, MD

Potomac Valley Watercolorists (2nd Place Award)
August 20 – September 16, 2018
Brookside Gardens Exhibit
Wheaton, MD

Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition
Tilghman Island Workboats won the Virginia Watercolor Society Award
June 9 – July 14, 2018
BlackRock Center for the Arts
Germantown, MD

Baltimore Watercolor Society Exhibit at the Howard County Department of Education (First Place Award)
October 5th – November 22nd, 2017
Central Office Gallery
Ellicott City, MD

Karen’s work was featured on the cover of Smithsonian Associates magazine in September 2017:


One woman show – Different Angles – Watercolor paintings by Karen Norman
March 12 – April 16, 2017
The Metropolitan Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016

Laurel Art Guild 48th Annual Open Juried Art Show (First Place Award)
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
March 2017

Rockville Art League Juried Members Show (Best in Show Award and Second Place Award)
Glenview Mansion
December 2016

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Exhibit (Best in Show Award and Jurors Award)
Woodlawn Mansion

November 2016

“Real and Imagined” (First Place Award)
Juried member exhibit of the Baltimore Watercolor Society 
Hoffberger Gallery
March/April 2016, Palden Hamilton (Juror)

Rockville Art League Juried Member’s Show (1st Place in Watercolor)
Glenview Mansion
December 2015

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Show (Best in Show Award)
Woodlawn Manor
November 2015 

Local Color 2015 Juried Exhibition
Artists Gallery, Columbia, MD
August 3-28, 2015

Friendship Heights Center Juried Show (Second Place Award)
Montgomery Art Association
May 2015

Rockville Art League Juried Show (First Place Award) 
Glenview Mansion
May 2015

MNCPPC Selected Artist
House of Delegates Building, Annapolis, MD
January through April, 2015

Patuxent Art League Annual Invitational Juried Show (3rd Place Award)
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel MD
December 2014

Rockville Art League, Annual Members Show (3rd place award)
Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD
December 2014

Olney Art Association Annual Juried show (Best in Show – Ed Longley Award)
Woodlawn Mansion, Sandy Spring, MD
November 2014

“Strokes of Genius” National Juried Painting Exhibition
MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
October 31 – November 22, 2014

“Local Color” Juried Art Show (First Place)
Artists’ Gallery, Columbia, MD
August 4 – 29, 2014.

Baltimore Watercolor Society Exhibit (Third Place)
Ocean City, MD
May, 2014

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (First Place)
Glenview Mansion
May 2014

2nd Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibit
UMUC, College Park, MD
November, 2013 through January, 2014

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (Second Place)
Glenview Mansion
December 2013

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Show (Best in Show)
Woodlawn Mansion, Olney, MD
November 2013

2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition
Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD

Laurel Art Guild Annual Open Juried Exhibition (First Place)
Montpelier Arts Center
March 2013

Patuxent Art League Open Juried Exhibition (3rd Place)
Montpelier Arts Center
December 6-30, 2012

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (First Place)
Glenview Mansion
December 2012

Olney Art Association 2012 Annual Juried Show (Juror’s Award)
Woodlawn Mansion
November 2012

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (First Place, 2nd Place)
Glenview Mansion
May 2012

Washington Watercolor Association Exhibition (First Place)
Maryland Gallery of Friendship Heights, Chevy Chase, MD
April, 2012

Memories from All Directions Juried Exhibit
State House, Annapolis, MD
January through April, 2012

Baltimore Watercolor Society, WSSC Juried Show (First Place)
December 2011

Rockville Art League December Juried Member Show (Honorable Mention)
Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD

78th Annual Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (Honorable Mention)
Strathmore Hall
December 2011

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Show (Juror’s Award)
Woodlawn Mansion
November 2011

Baltimore Watercolor Society Exhibit
Heather Glenn Show Home
June 11 to July 28, 2011

2011 Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition
UMUC Inn and Conference Center
March 21-June 29, 2011

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (Second Place)
Glenview Mansion
December 2010

Olney Art Association Annual Juried Show (Juror’s Award)
Woodlawn Mansion
November 2010

Rockville Art League Juried Member Show (Second Place)
Glenview Mansion
May 2010

Baltimore Watercolor Society Exhibition (First Place)
Kentlands Mansion
April 2010

Time/Space Juried Exhibition
State House, Annapolis, MD
December 17, 2009 to April 20, 2010

Rockville Art League December Juried Member Show (First Place in Watercolor)
Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD
December 6, 2009 to January 5, 2010

19th Annual Patuxent Art League Open Juried Exhibition  (Second Place)
Montpelier Arts Center
December 4, 2009 to January 3, 2010

Holy Cross Hospital Exhibition: Baltimore Watercolor Society 
November 30, 2009 to January 30, 2010

September Splendor, five artist exhibition
Dennis and Philip Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD
September 3 to 27, 2009