Biografie von Bettie Ilene (Bik) KENNY (1931)

Birth place: Longmont, CO

Addresses: Seattle, WA

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: Pacific Lutheran Univ. with George Roskos; design with James Marta; Univ. Wash. (B.A.Eng., with honors); Norman Lundin; Everett Du Pen; Edward L. Praczukowski; George Tsutakawa; Florence Gould; Jack Cady; E.H. Smith.

Exhibited: Boeing Art Shows, Seattle, 1958-60; Bellevue (WA) Arts & Crafts Shows, 1959-62; 10th Ann. Puget Sound Area Exh., Frye Art Mus., Seattle, 1968; Lambda Rho Art for Collectors Sale, 1971 & Women in Art, 1972, Henry Art Gal., Seattle. Awards: Creative Thinking merit awards, Boeing Co., Seattle, 1958-59; letter of commendation from Gov. Daniel J. Evans, State of Wash., 1972; commendation for portrait on glass, Lawrence Welk, 1972.

Work: Commemorative portraits on glass of Pres. Nixon & Tricia Nixon & Edward Finch Cox, The White House; commemorative portrait of Pres. J.F. Kennedy on glass, Smithsonian Inst.; pictures & slides of diamond-point work, Corning (NY) Mus. Glass; Henry Art Gal. Arch of Artists, Seattle, WA. Commissions: oil painting award for Nazarene Church, Longmont, 1947; Joan French (oil portrait), Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta Co., Seattle, 1958; Anniversary Commemorative (drawing in diamond-point), Church of God, 1971; diamond-point drawing (32 percent glass lead), Baptist Church, Seattle, 1972; "Ski Scene" (drawing in diamond-point), for State of Wash. to be presented at Heavenly Valley Ski Races, 1972.

Comments: Preferred media: oil on linen canvas, lead glass. Research: techniques of diamond-point engraving and techniques of the masters in glass work of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Publications: (written under pseudonym, Bik Kenny) "Birches to Brag About," Organic Gardening & Farming, 1963; "Science in Music," 1963, "The Baroque Organ," 1964 & "Opening the Piano to Play It Like a Harp," 1965, Keyboard Jr.; "Apricots by the Bushelful," Organic Gardening & Farming, 1970.

Sources: WW73; "Guest Artist Demonstration of Diamond-Point Engraving on Full Percent Lead Glass," Channel 5, King TV Telescope Program, May 31, 1972.