Resume & Statement

delda skinner__________________

8111 Doe Meadow Drive
Austin, Texas 78749
(512) 288-1116
deldaskinner.com
deldaart@sbcglobal.net

Masters of Pastoral Ministry, 1999, The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas.

B.A. Dominican Collage, 1973, Fine Art & Art Education, Houston, Tex. Graduated summa cum laude.

B.B.A. Baylor University, 1949, Economics & Personnel, Waco, Tex.

Instituto del fino Arte, Summer Session , 1972, Florence, Italy

One year graduate work, Oblate Seminary, San Antonio, Tex.

Adjunct Professor of Pasoral Ministry, Episcopal Theological Seminary Experience of the Southwest, Austin, Tex.

St. Thomas High School for Boys, Houston, Tex.

Olle Middle School, Alief, Tex.

Annunciation High School for Girls, Houston, Tex.

Art demonstrations and lectures for schools, churches and art organizations.

Seminars Springmaid Water Media Workshops, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina & Penland Craft School, Paper Studio, Penland, North Carolina.

Workshops Southwest Craft Center, Paper & Surface Design, San Antonio, Tex.

Studied with glenn Bradshaw, Ed Reep, Mary Todd Beam, Kathering Chang Liu,Dolph Smith, Susan Grant, Carrie Burns Brown, M. Phillis.

Memberships National WaterColor Society, Signature member. Society of Layerists

In MultiMedia, Full member. National Collage Society, Signature member, First Frontier Collage Society, Founder. Center for the Book Arts.

Selected Invitational exhibition with the Walt Disney Imagineers for the Ryman Exhibitions Foundation, Los Angeles, Calif.

& Spiritual Essence of Art essay published in Bridging Time and Space; Honors Essays on Layered Art, 1998.

New, Paper, Invitational exhibition, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex.

Crossings, Invitational exhibition, Society of Layerists in Multi Media, Bradford Collage , Bradford, MA.

Artists of the Spirit, Invitational exhibition, Walton Art Center, FayetteVille, Ar.

Two Collage Paintings featured in Creative Collage Techniques by Nita Leland/V. Williams.

Women View Art & Healing, juried exhibition, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram Texas.

Consensus X 3, three person exhibition, Brazosport Art League, sponsored by BASF, Brazosport, Tex.

Co-Treasurer of the International Society of Paper Makers and Paper

Artists, based in Belgium.

Elected Vice-President of the Society of Layerists in MultiMedia, based In Albuquerque, NM.

National Watercolor society 76th Annual Juried Exhibition, Muckenthler Cultural Center, CA

Tree of Life, Invitational exhibition, Art Institute of San Miguel de Allende, Sam Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Founder and 1 president of the First Frontier Collage Society, Austin, Tex. Invitational exhibition in Malborough, England.

Grant Recipient from the Episcopal Evangelical Educational Society .

Invitational Exhibition, Art in the Aisles & Jazz in the Stacks, Booher Library, The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Tex.

Juried Exhibition, Landscape and Memory, Sedona Art Center, Sedona, Az.

Juried Exhibition, Hiestand Gallery, University of Miami, Oxford, OH.

Juried Exhibition, Texas Watercolor Society, Rockport Art Center Rockport, Tex.

I have always been intrigued by how life’s experiences on a conscious and/or subconscious level affect the tenor of my work. These experiences translate into symbols that one comes back to over and over and uses in different artistic forms. This symbolic visual language that is unique to each individual can be read by color, texture, image and edge. There are no language or cultural barriers. The viewer connects with the art work and there is a relationship forged on every layer experience.

I realize that there is little, if anything “new” in art. Ideas are always recycled, and it is in this recycling that I try to bring about communication between the viewer and the art work. By using all of the above, metaphorically, to symbolize experience, growth and understanding I invite the viewer to participate in an unforgettable visual verbalization with the art work.

Under the layers of paint there are names, prayers, poems and blessings that I feel adds to and sends out synergetic energy which has a positive influence universally.

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