Laurel Schoolar

schoolarart@yahoo.com

 

Artist�s Statement: Fine art is a skilled human accomplishment. The greatest art is a blend of the best technical and creative skills. It always involves talent and work, never gimmicks.


Earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in January, 1973 from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Selected for Who�s Who of American Women 1997-98.

Fall, 2006 begins my sixteenth year as the drawing, watercolor and oil/acrylic painting instructor for the Adult Learning Enrichment program at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Current board member of Jackson Municipal Art Gallery. Current signature member and former board member of the Mississippi Watercolor Society.  Vice president of the Rankin County Arts Alliance. Volunteer worker/donation for the Mississippi Symphony, Mississippi Museum of Art, Hearts Against Aids, New Stage Theater, American Cancer Society, and the Mississippi Kidney Foundation.

Recent art accomplishments: Work included in Fresh Inspiration II, the Challenge of Peace at the Welty Library in Jackson and the University of Mississippi art Gallery in Oxford, 2005.  Work accepted ( 300 artists worldwide) for the Unity Canvas (artist�s response to events of September 11, 2001)...exhibited at the Williamsburg Art Center in Brooklyn in 2003, as a traveling exhibit the next couple of years, and shown the month of May, 2006 at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  Recent guest exhibitor with the Mississippi Experimental Art Group. One man show at Deposit Guaranty Plaza and work included in the Fall Fine Art Exhibit at Callaway Gardens in Georgia. Art work chosen for internet art auction for Sela Ward�s Hope Village for Children. Created set designs for the Black Rose Theater. Involvement for many years in the Holiday Studio Tours in Jackson.