Lois DeWitt BFA, MFA

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          I hold a BFA degree from the Minneapolis College of
Art and Design and an MFA degree from Pratt Institute, NY where I attended on a
full-tuition grant for graduate study. I was an art instructor at Orange County
Community College in Middletown, NY and at the Brooklyn Friends School.  I created and directed a rural ceramic
workshop in upstate NY and taught wheel thrown and hand built ceramics to
children and adults.  After moving to
Florida, I taught at the Miami Art Center and then became Supervisor of the
North Miami Branch of the Metropolitan Museum.

            Moving
to Boston, I worked as secretary to the Director of the Smithsonian Archives of
American Art and during that time launched Kidquilts and Capability, two
enterprises creating colorful hand painted quilts for children and hand-sewn
woolen capes that were sold in several Boston boutiques.

              In western Massachusetts, I worked with a
fashion designer for an apparel firm and produced line lists and fashion
graphics on a CAD system. I renovated my old barn into a beautiful studio in
Falls Village, CT and taught private classes in ceramics, painting, drawing and
printmaking.  For nine years I
coordinated with the Sharon, CT Teen Center to produce the Sharon On The Green
Arts and Crafts Fair, a thirty-year old annual event featuring over 150 juried
artists and artisans.

            During
my two-year residency in Sarasota, FL, I wrote a cookbook for toaster ovens,
entitled “Pop It In The Toaster Oven.” 
It is available on Amazon and most bookstores.  Returning to Western Massachusetts, I began working in a lighting
showroom--a position I thought would be temporary, but it turned into a
position I held for four years, during which time I became a certified Lighting
Specialist and a lighting consultant for clients.

            I now live in Wilmington, NC and work
part time in Lighting/Electrical at the Myrtle Grove Home Depot. 

            I exhibit my work at Lauren Clark
Fine Art in western Massachusetts and Le Soleil in Carolina Beach, NC.  Last year I completed a series of oil
paintings and pastels of the Fort Fisher Historical area.  My paintings and pastels can be seen on my
website, as well as two children’s stories I recently wrote and
illustrated.  The website http://www.free-online-art-classes.com  offers free online art classes in oil
painting, acrylic painting, oil pastels, basic drawing, colored pencils,
collage and discovering the artists within, as well as information on art
travel, art tours, artful inspiration and creativity resources.  Presently, I am creating a series of videos—in-depth,
step by step, information-rich demonstrations of the various techniques and
skills taught in the free online art classes.

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