WoodSong Art Institute ~ Biography

A multi-faceted career characterizes this dynamic Texan, born in Oklahoma during the dust bowl. Gallery artist, Associate Art Professor at Collin College in McKinney, illustrator, writer, musician and speaker — she does them all.

"My heart soars in God's unfolding panorama of light and color. Each day brings fresh energy and insight as His Word illuminates new pathways, ideas. I paint with singing color, transformed and renewed daily. Expect fluid shifts in focus, like an eagle in flight, layers of paint and scrapings, rough and smooth transitions of pigment on canvas or paper. I am not contained in anyone's box, even my own past. After a life spent painting from all 48 contiguous states, America is now my backyard."

Educational background:

• 1958 - BFA from the University of Oklahoma
• 1966 - MA in painting and printmaking from Tulsa University
• 1980 - Ed.D. in Higher Education on a Helen Jones Leadership Doctoral Fellowship from Texas Tech, Lubbock
• Additional graduate work at the Chicago Art Institute
• Founded WoodSong Institute of Art at Whitewright, TX for studio/art workshops/educational development

Travel / study abroad:
British Isles, Europe, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Mexico

Awards and Honors:

• Selection as a Fine Arts dissertation/thesis reader for Warnborough College in Canterbury, England, 2006
• Exhibited one week in U.S. Senate Russell Bldg., Washington, D.C., as part of the International Believers Art Exhibition. 1999, 2001, 2003
• Best of Show, Sherman Art League, 1983, 2003. Many additional awards in juried shows
• People's Choice Award, Horse Artist Association Annual Show (founding member)
• Over thirty-nine one woman exhibitions in galleries and museums, including the Kentucky Derby Museum in 1988
• Outstanding Educator of America, 1971, 1972
• Biblical Art Center in Dallas, TX. exhibited from 1999 to 2005
• Sacred Art Center, Great Passion Play, Eureka Springs, AR., 1999-2009 exhibit

Publications:

• Wrote and published Thirty-Nine Stripes, Invitation to the Dance, 2003
• Todd Travels, calendar with illustrations of England's 1974 horse trials.
• Wrote and illustrated forty articles for Equine Images Magazine (1987-1996)
• Wrote and published The Complete Book of Equine Drawing, 1993
• Illustrated Freebee, the Story of a Good for Nothing Horse by Lynn Renau, Herr House Press, 1996

Books and Magazine Covers:

• Are You Ready for War? Victoria Simpson-Linder
  
• Evening Service Booklet at Westminster Abbey Cathedral in London
  (June 16, 2006 )
• Appaloosa News
• Quarter Horse Journal
• Arabian Express
• Chronicle of the Horse
• Brio
• Paso Fino Association Journal

Videos:

• Wrote and directed two teaching tapes, Celebration of the Horse--Drawing I, Painting II
• I'll Rise Again and Four Horsemen paintings featured on Earth's Two Minute Warning by Jeremiah Films

Prints:

• Edition of three 5-color serigraphs, The Year of Happiness
• Eight limited edition prints, four open editions
• Photo prints available for selected images
• Giclee prints available for the same selected images.

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