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GraceKettell / PROFILE
Profile type:Artist
Gender:Female
DOB:30/08/1990
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  Contact information  
Home phone:540-788-3135
Cell phone:540-878-3681
Address:9524 Workhouse Way #412
Lorton
Virginia, 22079
United States
Email:grace@gracesartstudio.com
Website:www.gracesartstudio.com

  Personal interests  
Artists:
Rosalind Cook, Timothy Chambers, Patricia McMahon Rice


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      Professional history  
    Education:

    - Kettell Home School, High School Graduate, 2008
    - Studied oil, pastel, graphite, and ink under Patricia Rice, fall 2005-spring 2007, photography and illustration workshops, summer 2006
    - Studied oil panting under Timothy Chambers, spring 2007
    - Studied fundamentals of drawing, anatomy, oil painting, and pastel under Natalie Litwinowicz, spring 2004-spring 2005
    - Studied fundamentals of drawing, charcoal, pastel, and extensive studies of acrylics under Mary Abing, summer 2003


    Honors and Awards/Grants:

    - Winner, 27th Annual Congressional Art Competition for the 1st District of Virginia, "Chesapeake Bay Crab"-pastel, displayed in U.S. Capitol gallery for one year, received Savannah College of Art and Design full scholarship subject to application and jury, 2008
    - Winner, 26th Annual Congressional Art Competition for the 1st District of Virginia, "Quiet Tranquility"-pastel, displayed in U.S. Capitol gallery for one year, received $5,000 Savannah College of Art and Design scholarship, 2007
    - "Best of Show," Patricia Rice's Student Art Show, Art Beat Gallery, Old Town Manassas, VA, "Quiet Tranquility"-pastel, 2007
    - Winner, color pencil, Catalog Cover Design Contest for 54th Annual Fauquier County Fair, art piece printed on 55th Annual Fauquier County Fair catalog cover, 2004


    Related Work Experience/Professional Experience:

    - Business Owner and Manager of Grace's Art Studio LLC, 2006-current
    - Commissioned for portraits, family portraits, pet portraits, and greeting card design
    - Prints on display for sale through Framecraft’s Frames and Fine Art, Warrenton, VA
    - Worked on set designs and props for backdrops and stages for church performances

      Disciplines  
  • Drawing
  • Painting

  •   Affiliations  
    Lorton Art Foundation
    9601 Ox Road
    Lorton, VA 22079
    www.lortonarts.org

      Collections  

      Latest activities  
    Commissions:
    40 x 60 Oil painting - a view looking off a patio out at the Chesapeake Bay and the beach

    Christmas ornaments for Framecraft.

    13 x 19 ratio, graphite drawing - a little boy

    Projects:
    Recently finished the ornament for the 1st Congressional District of Virginia that will hang in the White House this Christmas.

    Publications:
    Discover Fauquier County's Values, featured article "Local Artist Wins 2008 Congressional Art Competition," October 2008 issue.



     

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