About Wendy
I was raised in Flint, Mi., home of the Flint Institute of Art. At age 8, I started attending the Children Art program at the FIA. The Institute has European and American collection of which I became familiar with and studied. I followed in my paternal grandmother’s path and became an art educator. I studied painting at Michigan State University Summer Art Program in Leland, Mi. I received my bachelors from and art education degree from Eastern Michigan University. I taught art to K-12 in the Lansing School District. When I retired I swapped teaching tempera and watercolors for painting with oils, my favorite medium and moved to Northwest Michigan. Plein-air painting is my passion from April through October. When the temperature dips I’m in my studio using field studies to paint from and indulge in buying bouquets of flowers to arrange for interior settings to paint.
Honors:
Sawbill Artist Residency, Elberta, MI., May 2025
Creators Corner Invitational, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, March 7-April 19, 2025
SHE Exhibit, juried show, Oliver Art Center, Feb. 21-March 28, 2025.
Michigan Blue Magazine, Summer 2024 studio artist featured studio artist
Juried Antrim County Public Art Exhibit Summer/Fall 2024, Bayview Farm
Solo Exhibit, Three Seasons Gallery, Botanic Gardens at Historic Barns Park, Traverse City, MI, Spring 2024
Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Paint Out, July 2024 Third place award, Belvedere Veranda
Miniature Masterpieces juried show at Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI., March-April 2024
7x7 Show, Graci Gallery, Marquette MI, Nov. 30-Dec. 31, 2023
2023 Holly Palmer Memorial Juried Exhibit, Holland Arts Council Oct. 6- Nov. 11, 2023
2023 SBNL Poster winner for Port Oneida Fair: Image, Forgotten Coneflowers at Burfiend Farm
Small Works, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey MI, 2022
Muskegon Museum of Art: 40th Annual Fine Arts Competition, 2021
Glen Arbor Art Center, Birdlandia, 2020
Home exhibit, Glen Arbor Arts Center, 2019
People Choice Award, Traverse City Art Center, 2015
Dennos Museum Center: Art of the Sleeping Bear Dunes Transforming Nature into Art Exhibition, watercolor. October 2013- January 2014
Publication: Art of the Sleeping Bear Dunes, Transforming Nature into Art, Leelanau Press, pg. 87, 2013
Paint-Outs: Leland Air, Glen Arbor Paint Out and Charlevoix Circle of Arts Paint Out
Galleries:
Circle of the Arts, Charlevoix, MI
Center Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI
True Blue Gallery, Alden, Mi
True North Interior designs and Antiques, Charlevoix, MI