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Anita Smith Palmer, a retired educator, holds a Bachelor of Science, and Masters of Education degrees.  With her eight state certifications, she taught a wide range of subjects from Pre-K to graduate school in her thirty-year teaching career.  She was a presenter at reading conferences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and First Grants in Washington, D.C.  These experiences seemed to be prep classes for more to come.

Community service has always been of vital importance in her life.  Mrs. Palmer currently is the President of the Hamilton Hospital Foundation Board, Secretary of the Olney Methodist Church Board of Trustees, Vice President of Region IX Retired Teachers, Treasure of the Wichita Area Cattlewomen, and consumer member of the Texas State Board of Nursing.  She has been honored as Volunteer of the Year for Olney and Wichita Falls, Texas, a lifetime honorary member of the Parent Teachers Association, and Hall County Teacher of the Year.  She has been Past President of Republican Women, American Association of University Women, and Olney Retired Teachers.  For four years Anita judged local, state, and national Odyssey of the Mind.  The writing of the book From Bluebird to Mustangs, A History of Megargel, Texas  is another gift of herself to the people around her. 

Anita Palmer is an internationally acclaimed artist.  At seven years of age she won her first international art show. 

Recent awards:

            2005 Women Artist of the West --Signature Artist

            2004  Exhibited "Mourning" at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA

2001 Founders Award American Academy of Equine Art at the Museum of the Horse in Lexington, KY.

2000 People’s Choice Art Splash on the Square in Graham, TX

1999    Best of Show Jim Bowie Days in Bowie, TX

International Juried Shows: 

Hilton Head Art Show–Hilton Head, FL

National Oil & Acrylic Painters–Osage Beach, MO

International Portrait Painters—Omaha, NE

International Museum of the Horse–Lexington, KY

Mountain Oyster Art Show–Phoenix, AZ

Indian Market & Southwest Showcase–Arlington, TX

Her paintings hang in congressional offices in Washington, D. C. and other valued collections.  The covers of numerous magazines, CD's, and books exhibit Anita's art.  She is associated with the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, American Academy of Equine Art, and Women Artist of the West.

Mrs. Palmer and her husband Johnny live west of Olney, TX.  Keeping their ranching and oilfield business going is like spinning two tops at full twirl, but with every squeezed minute Anita paints.  Her paintings reflect this ranching environment; many friends and relatives also find themselves as subjects in her works. 

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ã Anita Palmer 1996-2005