West Seattle Art Walk, Thursday May 9 2013, 6-9pm
Before coming to Seattle in 2004, Theresa exhibited her work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa. Since moving to Seattle, she has had a number of one-woman art exhibits. Her work has been shown at the Wallflower Gallery, Providence Mount St. Vincent Gallery, Seattle Design Center, the YMCA, the Bohemian, Healing Massage, Alki Bathhouse, Freshy’s, Revolution Coffee & Art, Alki Mail & Dispatch, Styling Studio, The Blue Willow, and Swanson & Seepersad. Other exhibition sites include Swedish Hospital in Issaquah, the East Shore Gallery in Bellevue, and Useful Vintage Goods in Georgetown. Theresa’s work has been featured at the West Virginia University Cultural Arts Center, Morgantown; at West Virginia State College, Institute; Cultural Arts Center, Charleston, WV; at Iowa State University Women’s Center; Emporia State University Student Union; and included in the Fresh Paint exhibits at the University of Arizona Art Museum. She is a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.
Theresa has traveled widely around the world and in the United States. Her body of artwork includes paintings of her travels in the United States, some of which are abstract, some realistic, some expressionistic, and some whimsical. Included are silkscreen prints (serigraphs), watercolor paintings, mixed media, oil pastels, oil paintings, collages, fabric wall hangings, and pencil drawings. Her fascination with texture, a constant in her art, is reflected in the way she uses materials and in the techniques she chooses to create multi-layered surfaces in her mixed media and fabric collage pieces. The realistic pieces were sketched or painted on location in Taos and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona; Outer Banks of North Carolina; rural Iowa; the Texas Panhandle; Samish Island, Orcas Island, Cascade Foothills, and Ocean Shores in Washington.
She taught art (K-12) in West Virginia before becoming a professor of education in multicultural and gender studies at Iowa State University where she taught 20 years. She has a BA in art education, a Masters degree in art, and a doctorate in education. In addition to being an artist and teacher, she is a writer, authoring two books, Creating the Nonsexist Classroom—A Multicultural Approach and Multicultural Education—Awareness and Activities and many journal articles, chapters in books on race and gender equity, and has written a memoir, A Far Cry From Here—Growing Up and Out of Fundamentalism.Theresa has two children, Michelle and Grant, two grandsons, Logan and Jack, and a tortoise cat, Abby.
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