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A native Kansan, Judith Mackey lives in the Flint Hills, painting landscapes of the prairie, working cowboys and the ranch life that surround her rural Chase County home. She has won many professional honors during her 43-year career, including acceptance into the Salon International Competition (San Antonio) in 2003 and 2004. In the prestigious international competition Arts for the Parks, she has won multiple awards, placing in the Top 200 in 1997, 2003 and 2004. Three of her paintings were accepted for the 2005 Arts for the Parks Mini Competition, and that same year her work was accepted in the National Oil Painters of American competition. In 2001, 2005, and 2007, her work appeared in the American Women Artists competition and she is now a signature member. She has been featured in the New York Times and in a CBS documentary about the Red Buffalo Ranch in Sedan, Kan., and her tenure there as artist in residence. Her work hangs in the Kansas State Capitol and the governor’s residence at Cedar Crest and is prized worldwide by private and corporate collectors.