Education

Seattle Pacific College in Seattle, Washington (4 years) – Graduated – 1960 with a BA in Education and Art.

Major Exhibitions

Boston Museum of Science, Boston Massachusetts, 1989 St. Hubert Geralda, Madison, New Jersey, 1989 Art League, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1990 Twin Lakes Country Club, Kent, Ohio 1990 Wyland Art Gallery, Hale Ewa, Hawaii Margies Art Boutique, St. Petersburg, Florida Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1986 Pauma Valley Art Gallery, California – 1989 Stephans Fine Arts Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska – 1983 – 1986 Artic Rose Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska – 1989 Window Gallery – Anchorage, Alaska, 1988 Signatures Art Gallery – Fairbanks, Alaska 1979 – 1989 Scanlon Art Gallery – Ketchikan, Alaska – 1979, 1989 Firdale Gallery, Edmonds, Washington Forster’s Ship and Sea in Seattle, Washington Metrapole Gallery, Seattle, Washington Kirsten Gallery in Seattle, Washington West Side Gallery, Tacoma, Washington Llubs Gallery, Edmonds, Washington Hammersla Gallery, Edmonds, Washington Summer House – Santa Fe, New Mexico Biltmore Gallery – Los Angeles, California Art Center Museum, Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage Fine Arts Museum in Anchorage, Alaska Art Show Place in Seattle, Washington Bon Marche Gallery in Seattle, Washington Sixth Avenue Gallery in Tacoma, Washington Lake Side Gallery in Tacoma, Washington Leavenworth art Gallery in Leavenworth, Washington Countryman Gallery in Snohomish, Washington Art Haven in Fairbanks, Alaska Wasilla Gallery in Wasilla, Alaska The Garrett in Anchorage, Alaska Dee Harrower’s Show Room (Art Broker) in Anchorage, Alaska

Art Activities

Juror for:	Edmonds School District Art Show Edmonds Senior Citizen’s Art Show Anchorage Women’s Club Anchorage Fur Rendezvous Southeast Alaska Art Show
Selected for:	Nationally Published Prints for Swan Graphics Published Posters for KHAR TV and Radio Station, Anchorage, Alaska Portrait for Mayer George B. Sullivan for the Sullivan Civic Sports Center, Anchorage, Alaska 1983 Game Conservation Stamp Mural Collage of Eskimo way of life, 10’x 25’ for the village of Noorvik, Alaska (commissioned by the State of Alaska) Paintings for the villages of Selawik, Ambler, Deering, Alaska (commissioned by the State of Alaska) Collection of paintings of Alaska’s legal history for Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell, & Brundin, Attorneys-At-Law Collection of paintings for the Commercial Fishing & Agriculture Bank, Denali Towers, Anchorage, Alaska Collection of paintings of the Tsimshian Indians for the National bank of Alaska in Metlakatla, Alaska Alaska National bank of the North, Barrow, Alaska – an assortment of wildlife work. Governor Eagon’s portrait, Eagon Convention Center, Anchorage, AK Niva Eagon’s portrait – Fireside Room - Anchorage, AK General Elmore portrait, Elmore Bldg. Alaska Air National Guard Lt. Albert Kulis, portrait 35th Anniversary 1987 – Alaska National Guard John O’Brien, Speaker of the House, Olympia, WA, portrait John Hrdleka, Mayor of Lynnwood, WA, portrait
Awards	1st National Marine Boat Show, Seattle – 1976 1st Watercolor – Quad A, Seattle 1st Ink, WC, on Ricepaper - Anchorage, Alaska, 1981 Award of Excellence, Windward Artist Guild, Hawaii, 1988 Quad A Bi-Annual Juried Art Shows in Seattle, Washington area for a number of years Honor: 2nd Place in Oils Marine art Exhibit in the Seattlt National Boat Show Honor: 1st Place in Oils Northwest Ceramic Show in Seattle, Washington Honor: 1st Place in the Creativity Division Painting selected to express the 1978 Christmas Greetings in the Anchorage Times Alaska Watercolor Society Audubon Society Honors: 1980, 1st Place 1982, Honorable Mention

Workshops Attended

Watercolor:	Jerry Stitt Ed Whitney Dell Gish Robert Wood Zoltan Szabo Joe Ireland
Oil and Drawing	Joe Ireland Dell Gish Marshall Joyce Charles Frace

Experience

Established Firdale Gallery in cooperation with Barbara Conrad and held classes for two years in Edmonds, Washington

Teaching Experience in the State of Washington:

• 1 year Grades 1-7, Art and Girls’ P.E.
• 1 year Senior high, all grades, Art
• 2 years Kindergarten
• 2 years Private lessons
• 1 year Adult Education
• 6 years Edmonds Community College, Art
• 1 year Various Workshops for organizations
• 1 year Workshop at Port Townsend

Workshops Taught:

Virginia Alaska Washington Hawaii Tennessee Ohio

Portraits:

Congressman Don Young (hangs in Washington, DC) Mayor George Sullivan (hangs at the Sullivan Sports Arena in Anchorage) Governor William Egan (hangs at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage)

Murals for Inuit Village schools:

Buckland Noorvik Selawick Ambler Deering

Organizations

Member of:

1. Quad A, Seattle, Washington 2. National Artist’s Equity 3. Anchorage Artist’s Guild, Anchorage, Alaska 4. Alaska Watercolor Society 5. Society of Animal Artists – International

Artistic Statement
I have enjoyed being an artist since I was very young. I want to bring beauty to people with which they can identify as well as lift their spirits. I want to help educate the eye to see the beauty of our world.