Featured Artists

May Artist: Theresa McCormick

May 13th 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Theresa moved to Seattle from Iowa in 2004. Before coming here, she had one-woman shows in West Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa. Since moving here, she has had a number of one-woman art shows in West Seattle, where she lives. Her work has been shown at the Bohemian, Healing Message, Alki Bathhouse, Freshy’s, Revolution Coffee and Art, Alki Mail and Dispatch in West Seattle and in Bellevue at the East Shore Gallery. Currently, her art is on exhibit at the Alki Bathhouse and at the Styling Studio.

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 N.C., rural Iowa; Texas; Samish Island, Orcas Island, in the foothills of the Cascades, and at 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 and chapters in books on race and gender equity.

Theresa has two children, Michelle and Grant, two grandsons, Logan and Jack and a tortoise cat, Abby. Theresa may be reached at: theresamcco@comcast.net.