about me
RESUME
Art Education
2010 Clay class at NWFSC with Stephen Phillips
2008 Wet Carved Concrete with Elder G Jones
2008 Abstracts with Roscoe Wallace
2007 Abstract – JB Cobb
2007 Creative Concrete with Sherry Warner Hunter
2006 Gesture Drawing and Painting – Mary McShane
2006 Alla Prima painting - Linda Blondheim
2004 Acrylics Workshop - Roscoe Wallace
2001 Clay and Saggar Firing Workshop - Chuck Solberg
2000 Architectural Ceramics Workshop - Peter King
1996 Pastel Workshop - Robert Frank
1994 Mixed Media Workshop - Pat Reagan
1976 BA in Art – Northland College – Instructors: Paul Hubinski, Karlyn Holman and John Clouse.
Awards:
1st Beaux Arts 'van Gogh Trees 'Clay 2011
2nd ‘3-D’ ADSO 'Mother and Daughter 'Clay 2010
3rd ‘Western HO!’ ADSO 'Cactus' Concrete/Wire 2010
3rd ‘In the Style of Kandinsky’ ADSO 'Family' Acrylic 2009
2nd ‘Cube-It’ ADSO 2009
HM ‘Water’ ADSO ‘Ice in Spring’ Photography 2009
2nd Place ‘Strut Your Stuff’ ADSO ‘Seduction’ Concrete 2009
3rd Place Beaux Arts ‘The God’s Eyes’ Concrete 2009
3rd Place Northwest Florida Fair ‘Flowers’ Acrylics 2008
2nd Place ‘Figures Galore’ ADSO ‘New Life’ Concrete 2008
HM Beaux Arts 2008 ‘Patchwork Bowl with Green’ Raku 2008
HM Northwest Florida Fair ‘Margaret” Acrylics 2007
3rd Place Northwest Florida Fair Sweatered Teapot Clay 2005
3rd Place Beaux Arts ‘Remember When . .’ Sculpture 2005
Merit Beaux Arts ‘Fish Bowl’ Pottery 2003
2nd Place ADSO Art Challenge ‘Ragged Diner’ Pottery 2003
HM Northwest Florida Fair ‘Raku Amphora’ Pottery 2003
2nd Place Northwest Florida Fair ‘Desert Colors’ Pottery 2002
HM ADSO SE Juried Arts Ex. ‘Sections’ Pottery 2001
2nd Place Northwest Florida Fair ‘Smoke Design’ Pottery 2001
1st Place Okaloosa County Fair ‘Ho Hum' Sculpture 1996
3rd Place Okaloosa County Fair Patchwork Sally Sculpture1994
1st Place FWB Art Museum ‘Bagpipes’ Sculpture 1993
3rd Place Eglin AFB Art Show ‘Space Ship’ Sculpture 1992
3rd Place Okaloosa County Fair Bonnie’s Jewel Sculpture 1992
3rd Place Hurlburt Field Art Show ‘Sugar’ Sculpture 1990
1St Place North Dakota State Fair ‘Fall Trees’ Macramé 1984
3rd Place North Dakota State Fair OrangeWhite Macramé 1984
3rd Place North Dakota State Fair ‘Flask w/ Spouts’ Clay 1984
1St Place Minot AFB Art Show ‘Fall Trees’ Macramé 1984
2nd Place Minot AFB Art Show ‘Winter Trees’ Macramé 1984
1st Place Loyalty Day, Hartland, WI Crayons, Pencil 1968
Juried Shows:
2011 OPA:The Court House Project, Fort Walton Beach, FL
2011 Arts Quest - Seaside, FL
2009 NWF Airport Exhibit
2008 Pensacola Museum of Art Member’s Show
2006 Pensacola Museum of Art Member’s Show
2006 Prima Facia – Artel Gallery, Pensacola
2005 Member’s Show – Artel Gallery Pensacola
2005 Pensacola Museum of Art Member’s Show
2005 Florida Teapot Show – A Houberbocken, Inc, Bloom Flowers & Gifts, Ft Myers, Florida
2004 Cinco Banderas Exhibition, Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL
2002 George E Ohr National Arts Challenge, Biloxi, Mississippi
2001 ADSO’s SouthEast Regional Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
2012 May - June Ft Walton Bch Library Gallery.
2012 OPA - NWFSC Student Services Building, Niceville, FL
2009 May ‘Take Out’ Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida
2007 Nov – Dec Ft Walton Beach Library Gallery
2005 Nov /2006 Feb “Where Do We Go From Here” Friends of Mary C O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs. Mississippi
2001 Aug ADSO ‘Clay & Color’ Rosalyn O’Grady & Marcy Eady
1996 ADSO Exhibit with Marianne McDonald & Mara Viksnins
Judge for Art Shows:
Children
Van Porter Student Artist of the Year Exhibition/ADSO-March 2011
Elliot Point Elementary Art Show – March 2010
Okaloosa County School Art Show – April 2009
Okaloosa County School Art Show – April 2004
Okaloosa County School Art Show – April 2003
Okaloosa County School Art Show – April 2000
Van Porter Student Artist of the Year Exhibition/ADSO-March 1999
Adults
August 2004 Glass Show – Glass Act
February 2004 Show for the Seeing Impaired – Artel– Juror and Judge
As Instructor:
2011 VSA FL - Meigs Middle School - grade 6- 8 CHildren with Disabilities
2011 VSA FL - Valparaiso Elementary - K & 1st grade - Children with Disabilities
2010 VSA FL – Walker Elementary -3rd grade – Children with Disabilities
2010 Concrete Sculpture Workshop
1992 – still Children’s Clay Class – Arts and Design Society
1995 – still Adult Clay Class – Arts and Design Society
1999 – 2010 Kid’s Art Camp – Arts and Design Society Clay &/or Printmaking
1990 – 1992 Volunteer Clay teacher at New Heights Combs Elementary School
1987 – 1988 Children’s Craft Classes – Maranatha School, Nijkerk, The Netherlands
My passion is most any form of fine art 3-d or 2-d. I currently work with clay, concrete, printmaking and acrylics.
Satisfying the need to work with sculpture, I make free form pots or sculptures using clay. When the need to do subtractive work over takes me, I get out the concrete and carve away the extra to find the jewel inside.
I attended Arrowhead High School, in Hartland Wisconsin and then Northland College in Ashland Wisconsin where I was awarded a BA in Fine Arts and Business. With my Air Force husband and family, I lived in different areas of the United States and for a few years in The Netherlands. We finally moved to Fort Walton Beach about 20 years ago. I was the director of the Arts and Design Society from 1995 to 2009. During this time and to this day, I have taught classes in clay to adults and children as well as entered art shows and exhibits, where sometimes I get lucky and receive an award.
Some of my award winners
