penelope culbertson
PENELOPE CULBERTSON
Penelope Culbertson began her art studies at the Portland Art Museum as a child, in the art department at Cleveland High School, at Reed College with calligraphy master Lloyd Reynolds, at Willamette University in Salem, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Institute de Bellas Artes in San Miguel, Mexico.
Penelope was the co-founder of the Art Academy of Kona and the West Hawaii Arts Guild where she served on the Executive Board. Penelope worked in the Hawaii State Artist-in-School program and showed as the Artist-in-Residence at the Hyatt Regency. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Royal Waikoloan Hotel.
Since her return to Portland, Penelope has had seventeen solo exhibits of her watercolors. She showed year-round at the Hawthorne Arts Gallery and annually at the Buckman Art Show where she was the founding chairman of the Children's Art Sale. She taught children's art classes at the Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary and for the Portland Parks Dept. in their after-school program. In 1999 she helped produce a book of children's watercolors about the Portland Water System. She was co-founder of The Hawthorne Arts Guild and showed in all their monthly group shows.
Penelope teaches weekly classes in calligraphy and watercolors for the disabled. She experiments with watercolors, oil pastels, collages, tapestry weaving, and calligraphy. She is a member of the Portland Society of Calligraphy. Currently, she is showing at Fairweather's Gallery in Seaside, Oregon, and Arabella Gallery in Windsor, VT.
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WATERCOLORS
MIXED MEDIA CALLIGRAPHY AND WATER COLOR
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Calligraphy
