Jodie Wrenn Rippy

Rippy is an artist who thrives on finding a myriad of ways to make her marks. At her core she is a representational oil painter. Art and the making of art has been an integral part of her life since childhood. Her earliest memory of sharing her art with others was her portrait of young Caroline Kennedy, of which she promptly sent to the President himself. She was 10 years old and received a warm thank you from the White House.
She was the featured artist in the October 2008 issue of OUR STATE Magazine, a North Carolina periodical, as well as the May 2018 issue of SALT Magazine. She has been recognized with regional awards and appears in private as well as corporate collections. She has exhibited at St. John’s Museum of Art, now known as the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C., Fayetteville Museum of Art in Fayetteville, N.C., Davidson County Museum of Art in Lexington, N.C., and is in permanent collections of The Cameron Art Museum of Wilmington N.C., UNC Wilmington and William Peace University in Raleigh, N.C., as well as Port City Capital Bank of Wilmington, Bald Head Island Corporation, Bank of America.
Her work has been collected by movie producer Ms. Dino De Laurentiis, Oscar award winning actress Louise Fletcher and North Carolina’s own “Cheap Joe” Joe Miller. She has a permanent exhibit with First Union Securities in Atlanta, Georgia.