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Teen Art Portfolio Prep
TEACHERS
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Drawing
& Pastels
Tue - 10:00 – 11:30
Come Draw With Elaine
For Children
Wed - 4:30 - 6:00
Thu - 4:30 - 6:00
Sat - 12:00 - 1:-30
Watercolor with Elaine
Thu - 10 - 11:45
Come Draw With Elaine
for Adults & Teens
Mon 7-8:30
Sat 10 - 11:30
Multi-Media with Elaine
Wed - 6:30-8:00
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Award winning artist
and teacher Elaine Smith has taught all mediums to students from ages 5 - 85
for over a quarter of a century.
Relying on right
brain teaching approaches, she has guided hundreds of students through the
creative process, which she believes is everyone’s heritage.
During the
18 years
Elaine has been teaching at the Around the Corner Art Center she has
repeatedly demonstrated that, "Everyone, when shown the proper techniques,
has the ability to create drawings and paintings".
Student Scholarships
Every year Elaine helps at least one
teenager develop a Portfolio and earn an Art Scholarship. Her students have
gone on to such schools as the Red Bank HS. Art Program, Rhode Island School
of Design, University of Arizona, and the University of the Arts,
Philadelphia.
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Some of Elaine's best students |
Some of Miss Elaine's best students |
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Biography
Elaine has developed proficiency in a
variety of mediums and techniques including caricatures, portraits,
personalized cards, acrylic, watercolors, pastels, web art, book
illustration, and portfolio presentation.
Education and Training
Brookdale Community College - Art and
Psychology
Omega Institute - Advanced Drawing from
the Right Side of the Brain New School, NYC - Greeting Card Design
Studied with New Age Artist and Teacher
Alexander Gray (NYU)
Exhibits & Affiliations
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Collaborative Art Show; Brookdale Alumni Show ; American Artists Professional League;
Freehold Art Society; Mid State Art Resource Team Sharks for
the Arts (sculpture) ; Monmouth Festival of the Arts;
One Woman Art Show Lomurro Law Offices Freehold; Guild of Creative Arts, Shrewsbury, NJ
Awards
Elected by
jury to the Pastel Society of America, National Art Club, Gramercy Park
South, NYC
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Judges Awards, Freehold Art
Society
Howell Library show, August 1999
Freehold Library show, May 2001
Freehold Library show, September 2001
First Place Awards
Freehold Art Society Library show, February 1999
Freehold Art Society Monmouth County Library Show 2001
Monmouth Arts Gallery Henry & Elsie Luhrs Endowment art Show,
Oct. 2002
Art Society of Monmouth County, Autumn Art Show, Oct. 2005 |
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