Rita Jacks

"Fall Harvest"--Watercolor"--$105 plus shipping and 6% tax

"Underwater Dream"--Watercolor--$180 plus shipping and 6% tax

Artist Bio

Except for a five-year period in the seventies, Rita Jacks has always lived in Parke County.  She joined the Covered Bridge Art Association in 1978, took a ten-year hiatus in 1982 to raise her children, and returned to active status in 1993.  She has served in 2001-02 as president of the organization.

Her paintings often focus on old buildings, flowers and plants, baskets, or underwater scenes in her preferred media of oils and watercolors.

Her interest in art goes back to early elementary school when art was her favorite class.  With the encouragement of her high school art teacher, she applied and was accepted into John Herron Art Institute, now a division of IUPUI. 

After graduation from Herron, she became an art teacher and pursued a master's degree at DePauw University.  For almost twenty years, she has been teaching art to junior and senior high students in the Rockville school system.

A practicing professional artist since 1975, Rita has won first and second place awards in many local exhibits.  She has shown her works in banks at Greencastle and Rockville and offers her work on the Internet.