As a young girl growing up in Seattle, I found that drawing was my salvation from boredom on many rainy days. I practiced drawing everything around me including the models from my mother’s “Ladies Home Journal” magazine to the outrageous caricatures from my brother’s “Mad Magazine”. I found that I was infatuated with drawing faces in particular.
I pursued my love for art at Arizona State University, earning a BFA and specializing in graphic design. I worked in the advertising field and was a freelance illustrator for 10 years before I went back to school to get my teaching certificate. Although commercial art provided a paycheck, it did not fulfill my passion for drawing and painting.
As I began my teaching career at Apollo High School in Glendale in 1992, my love for art took off in a way I had never expected. I found my gift through teaching. All of a sudden I started earning awards and accolades for my students’ success. I decided after my children were grown up and on their own, it was time to take my own advice and start entering contests with my own artwork. To my delight, I found immediate success. Now I find my passion growing stronger than ever as I embrace the exciting journey of inspiring others as I discover my own artistic voice. If there is one thing I have learned, it is that there is always more to learn about art, and that’s the journey.
Education
Arizona State University, BFA
Chapman University, MA
Awards
Maricopa County Fair Teacher of the Year
Achievement Above All — 2004 GUHSD Club of the Year (Art Club)
Achievement Above All– 2005 GUHSD Club of the Year (Signatures Literary & Fine Arts Publication)
Achievement Above All– 2006 GUHSD Teacher of the Year
13 Congressional Student Art Show Winners
1st place: 2011 Soho Colored Pencil Contest, “Looking on the Brighter Side”
1st place: 2012 Soho Colored Pencil Contest, “Mahikan”
3rd place: 2012 Prismacolor Art Contest, “Fatima”
Honorable Mention: 2014 Colored Pencil Magazine Calendar Contest
1st place: 2013 Soho Colored Pencil Contest, “El Blanco”
Celebration of Artists-West Valley Art Museum 2014, 2nd place: “Potential”, 3rd place, “Dad”, West Valley Art Museum Award
3rd place: 2014 Fabriano Contest, “Fatima”, colored pencil
1st place: 2014 Arizona State Fair, “Eric”, colored pencil
1st place: 2014 Arizona State Fair, “Krista-Illuminatus”, mixed media
2nd place: 2014 Arizona State Fair, “Dad”, colored pencil
1st place: 2015 Celebration of Artists-West Valley Art Museum, “Eric”, colored pencil
Best of Show, Mayor’s Award, 1st place: 2015 Celebration of Artists-West Valley Art Museum, “Krista-An Illustrated Beauty”, mixed media
West Valley Art Museum Award: 2016 Celebration of Artists “Destiny Awaits”, 2nd place, “Behind Rose Colored Glasses”, mixed media
2016 Arizona State Fair: 1st place and People’s Choice Award, “Behind Rose Colored Glasses”, 2nd place and Director’s Award, “Abstract Thought”, 3rd place, “A Trail Less Traveled”
2017 Colored Pencil Magazine Calendar Contest: 1st place, “Behind Rose Colored Glasses”
2018 Glendale Annual Statewide Arts Exhibition: 1st place, People’s Choice Award for “Cat’s in the Cradle”
Publications
Colored Pencil Magazine Dec. 2012
Ann Kullberg’s Magazine for Colored Pencil Artists, Feb. 2013
Colored Pencil Magazine Mar. 2013
Ann Kullberg’s Magazine for Colored Pencil Artists, May 2013
Colored Pencil Magazine’s 2014 Calendar
Ann Kullberg’s CP Treasures II, 2013
Colored Pencil Magazine’s 2015 Calendar
Ann Kullberg’s CP Treasures III, 2014
Ann Kullberg’s Magazine for Colored Pencil Artists, March 2015
Ann Kullberg’s Magazine for Colored Pencil Artists, June 2015
Colored Pencil Magazine Dec, 2016
Colored Pencil Magazine’s 2017 Calendar
Colored Pencil Magazine’s 2018 Calendar
Exhibitions
Jan. 30-Feb 2, 2013 –Faculty Art Show, Nielsen Design Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Feb. 2o-April 2013–Northern Trust Bank, Phoenix, AZ
Mar. 2013 Celebration of Artists, Peoria, AZ
July-Sept. 2013 –Colored Pencil Society International Exhibition, Brea CA
Sept. 8-10 2013 –Artel, Phoenix, AZ
Jan. 28-Mar.2 2014–Arizona Artist Guild, Westgate Gallery, Glendale, AZ
March 27-May 15, 2014–West Valley Art Museum, Peoria City Hall, Peoria AZ
April 1-April 28, 2014–Glendale Art Gallery-Westgate, Glendale, AZ
April 30-May 30, 2014–The Winnie Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
June 2014 — Art Headquarters, Blank Canvas Exhibition, Surprise, AZ
July-Sept. 2014–Surprise City Hall, Surprise, AZ
Sept-Nov. 2014–Avondale City Hall, Avondale, AZ
Oct-Nov. 2014–Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, AZ
March-April 2015–Glendale Gallery-Westgate, Glendale, AZ
March-May 2015–West Valley Art Museum, Peoria, AZ
June-August 2016–American Gallery, Tacoma WA
June-August 2016–Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Oct-Nov. 2017–Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, AZ
March-May 2017–West Valley Art Museum, Peoria City Hall, Peoria AZ
June 2017-Aug. 2017–The Mansion, Bethesda, Maryland
Oct. 2017-May 2018–Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Phoenix AZ
Oct.-Nov. 2017–Richeson Portrait Exhibition, Wisconsin
Nov. 2017-Jan. 2018 –”Coloring Outside the Lines”, West Valley Art Museum, Peoria, AZ
Jan. 2018–Glendale Annual Statewide Art Exhibition, Glendale AZ
Feb. 2018-Jan. 2019 –”Explore This!, Colored Pencil Society of America, online exhibition
1 Comment
Jozef
August 4, 2014Me agustado mucho Tu obraz