Artwalk
April artist: Theresa
West Seattle Artwalk: Thursday, April 9th, 6-9 PM
Theresa moved to Seattle from Iowa in 2004. Since then, she has had three one-woman art shows in West Seattle, where she lives. Previously, she had one-woman shows in West Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa. Currently, two serigraphs and one mixed media, expressionistic and abstract, of Theresa’s work are on exhibit at the Bohemian in West Seattle. 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.
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 or realistic and even whimsical. Included are silkscreen prints (serigraphs), watercolor paintings, mixed media, oil pastels, oil paintings, collages, fabric wall hangings, and pencil drawings. The realistic pieces were sketched or painted on location in Taos, New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona, Iowa, Samish Island, Orcas Island, and other places 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
