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Jim Rigg has been a professional practicing artist in Kansas for over thirty years. He challenges himself with juried competition, juried art festivals as well as being employed full-time as an Art Director and Graphic Designer. He's served the Kansas Watercolor Society for many of those years as a board member, as president, vice-president and treasurer. He has been employed by Printing Inc. as a graphic designer (his first job out of college at Wichita State University), as a designer and artist for Beech Aircraft, Avery Graphics and currently as the art director, set and print designer for the Educational Communications Center at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. As an artist he's "had the best of both worlds, by being employed during the day as full-time artist/designer and during the evening creating watercolors". Recently those two worlds have overlapped, in the development of a painting series currently in production at the ECC. A 4-part pilot has been produced and aired with favorable response throughout various PBS stations in Kansas and the go-ahead was approved to develop 13 episodes. As the art director he has designed and constructed the video set in which the show is produced as well as all the graphic design and marketing pieces and the ancillary materials (dvd's, workbooks and instructional guides & paint kits} that will be offered once the show airs.

During the summer months he attends 8 - 10 juried art festivals that take him to many regional area shows as well as traveling as far north as Madison WI, south to Houston, TX, west to Park City, UT and east to Louisville, KY. The rewards of these festivals are selling his original works as well as receiving many awards at these shows throughout the years.

The competition has been rewarding as well in the past and this year he has received an Award of Merit from the Wichita Garden Show, a merit award at the Prairie Art Exhibition in Sterling, KS and the Winston Churchill Memorial Award in the Watercolor Missouri National, in Fulton, MO.