Olga de Chica - Honors and Distinctions

Honors and Distinctions

1976 Five Outstanding Colombian Primitivist Painters: -Regional Art Gallery, Medellín -a Gruta Art Gallery, Bogotá

Representing Caldas, Annual Art Show El Cable, Manizales

1978 Representing Colombia, First International Festival of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

1979 UNICEF International Art Committee, New York, Dual Selection of paintings for Unicef Greeting Cards and Unicef Calendar

1980 First Prize, Fourth Annual Juried Art Show, Women's Center Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara

Magazine Cover of Caribbean Review, Spring 1980, Florida International University

Invited by Yugoslav Primitivist Artists, Maison des Arts Spontanés et Naifs, Brussels, Belgium

Visión Plástica de Caldas, Caldas Cultural, Vol. I, October 1988, pg 72-73 Annual Government Publication, Manizales

1984 Cover, Telephone Directory, Quindío State, Armenia

Cover, Arts and Culture Supplement, Sunday Edition‑La Patria Newspaper, Manizales, 9 September 1984

Poster "International Women's Day", International Theater Festival, Los Fundadores Theater, Manizales

1985 Outstanding Women in the Arts in Caldas, La Patria Newspaper Section A, pg 8, 18 May 1985.

Distinguished Citizen of Quimbaya, The House of Arts and Culture, Quimbaya

Distinguished Citizen of Filandia, The House of Arts and Culture, Filandia

1988 Poster: 60th Anniversary Caldas Liquor Industri, Manizales

1989 Quindío: Land of Coffee – Triptych. Reproduction on 2 x 3 mts. Billboard on The Art Park Abadía Méndez Circle, City of Armenia Centennial

1991 Poster for the International Coffee Fair, Office of Tourism, Manizales

1992 UNICEF International Art Committee, New York, Dual Selection of paintings for Unicef Greeting Cards

Seeds of Change – 500 Years of Cultural Encounter and Exchange: Itinerant Art Show of the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History, presented at USA embassies and consulates.

1993 On Camera, Third Edition, INRAVISION TV Bogotá. Interviewing Four Artists from Caldas

Dual Selection for Greeting Cards 1994, Lorencita Villegas de Santos Children’s Hospital, Bogotá 1994 Dual Selection for Greeting Cards 1995, Lorencita Villegas de Santos Children’s Hospital, Bogotá

Personalities in Our Cultural World, Papel Salmon, La Patria Daily, Sunday Edition No. 95, p. 2-3, 31 July 1994

UNICEF International Art Committee, New York, Selection of painting for Unicef Greeting Cards for 1995

1995 Art Video including Olga de Chica (On Camera, Third Edition, INRAVISION TV- Bogotá) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts - Bibliographic Collection of participants in the United Nations 4th World Conference of Women, Beijing, China, August 1995.

1997 "Coffee Plantation" Selection for the month of August, University of Caldas 1997 Calendar, Manizales

1999 Awarded the Medal Founders of the City and Distinguished Citizen by the City of Filandia on the 150th Anniversary of its foundation.

UNICEF International Art Committee, New York, Selection of painting for Unicef Greeting Cards for 2000

2005 Selected to participate in the YWCA "Voices" Art Exhibit to benefit the YWCA National Capital Area