Biographical Information
Education/Employment/Personal
- Native of Mobile, Alabama
- BFA, Painting: University of South Alabama
- MFA, Painting/photography: Florida State University
- Married since 1974 to Rich Touart
- Employed as a screen printer and darkroom technician; painting and drawing instructor for USA and for Faulkner State University; Medical Illustrator at the USA College of Medicine
1991 - 2003, 2009-present - Member of Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society of Mobile since 1991, Secretary since 1999
- Member of Mobile Art Association
- Past member, Contemporary Artists’ Consortium of Mobile
- Designer, “Alabama Alphabets” series
- Past member, Performing Arts Association, Foley, Alabama
- Past member, People’s Art Co-Op, Tallahassee, Florida
- Past Sustaining Associate Member, American Watercolor Society
- Visual Arts Advisory Board, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama 2009
Selected Exhibitions:
- Greater Gulf State Fair, Mobile, Alabama (2 gold medals)
- Atlanta National, Atlanta, Georgia, 1970
- Dixie Annual, Montgomery, Alabama 1974 -73
- Dual exhibition with Rich Touart, Performing Arts Gallery, Foley, Alabama, 1976
- USA Art Faculty Exhibition, 1978
- Art & the Alabama Woman, 1982, Merit Award 1983 & 1984
- Gulf States Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Artists’ Consortium Saenger Gallery, 1982
- 25 Anniversary Alumni Show, USA,
- Mobile Museum of Art, "Evening with Mobile’s Artists" Invitational, 1988
- September Celebration: “Twelve of Mobile’s Best” invitational, 1988
- Ten Mobile/Baldwin Artists II, Invitational, 1989
- USA Medical Center Invitational, (purchase award and merit award), 1989
- "Best of Mobile" Juried Invitational, Mobile Museum of Art, 1990 - 96
- "Me, Myself, and/or I" Exhibition, Gulf ArtSpace, Fairhope, Alabama, 2002
- "BLUE" Exhibition, Gulf ArtSpace, Fairhope, Alabama, 2002
- Featured artist, one-person exhibition, Eastern Shore Art Center Whiting Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama, 2003
- "From the Heart" Exhibition, Gulf ArtSpace, Fairhope, Alabama, 2003
- "Southern Currents Inaugural" Exhibition, Space 301 Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama 2003
- "Region" Invitational Exhibition, Gulf ArtSpace, Fairhope, Alabama, 2003
- Mobile Art Association Juried Exhibition, 2004
- Mobile Arts Council Skinny Gallery, one-person show, 2004
- University of South Alabama Library Gallery, one-person show, 2004
- "Tickled Pink" Exhibition, Gulf ArtSpace, 2005
- Chesser Gallery, featured artist, January 2007
- "April Foolishness", Gulf ArtSpace 2007
- Space 301 “People's Art” CLA Award 2006 and 2008
- RSA ongoing exhibition
- "Drawing on Alabama", Auburn and Mobile, Alabama 2009
- Two-Woman Exhibition with Rita Skiadas, Unitarian Fellowship of Fairhope, Alabama 2009
- Solo Exhibition “Examples”, Eastern Shore Art Center of Fairhope Alabama 2009
- “Three Take on Texture”, USA Library, 2010
- Solo Exhibition at Edward Jones Financial, Mobile Alabama "Untitled" 2010, and "Ars Gratia Artis" 2011
- “DepARTmental” exhibition, USA Library, 2011
- Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society of Mobile, Juried and Members’ Exhibitions (Mobile Museum of Art Purchase Award 1996; 4 Best of Shows; 2 Members' Choice Award; 2 Francis Palmer Ward Estate Memorial Awards for water media; Bea Tucker Award for Graphics; Alabama Art Supply Award; Southern Art & Framing Award; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Merit Awards, etc.)