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Judy Webber has spent her entire life involved in the arts,
particularly visual art. She has a Bachelors/Masters in Art and a
Masters of Education, Curriculum and Instruction. Additionally, she is university
certified in Web Design and in Graphic Design. She is an independent
contractor in web design, graphics, art, and education. Though her
career edge stays in the arts, it is her desire to paint full time.
Judy has done everything from painting murals, building floats, and
making moccasins to free forming Plexiglas skateboards. Ceramics,
weaving, printmaking, candle arts, enameling, acrylics, oils, watercolors,
gouache, egg tempera, batik, lapidary...there's not much she hasn't tried at
one time or another! She has been a city art director, K-12 art
supervisor, university art project director, chair of numerous county and
regional Visual and Performing Arts Committees, CSU university lecturer in
art, UC consultant in the arts, recognized for TCAP Leadership in the arts,
a two year participant in Prelude to Performance (a state project in
the arts), and a secondary art teacher for over 30 years. Now retired, Judy
concentrates on watercolors. She says she is back where she started
due to the fact she loved watercolors in college and has demonstrated in
watercolors for years.
"When you are painting for others, you often forget the artist in
you," says Webber. Having painted mainly realistically during her
teaching career, Judy is discovering her inner artist through original
images she sees before she paints. She often paints wet on wet with
watercolor glazes and spray, using chemical knowledge of what colors will
do. Very keen on nature and ecology, Judy feels in tune with shapes
and colors that create moods.
Raised in Eastern Oklahoma Ozarks Plateau by two strong-willed Texans, Judy
was raised to love the earth and its creatures. Her Native American
heritage has always influenced her sense of connecting to nature.
Having become a Californian over thirty years ago, she has strong ties to
the mountains of California and finds them a constant source of subject
matter.
Attributing Sylvia Megerdichian as the one who keeps her on task, she
has only high praise for the artists who paint with Sylvia on Mondays.
Judy says that the critiques are really university level, yet thoughtful and
encouraging. She highly recommends the Art Box Studio Workshops as
absolutely the "BEST!" "We, as artists, need to invest in
lifelong learning; these excellent workshops are a wonderful venue to
accomplish that. Our art doesn't grow if we don't grow!" asserts
Webber.
Judy Webber has exhibited in a number of venues in California,
Arizona, and in Oklahoma. She also has had her art displayed as part
of the California art subject matter projects. Additionally, Judy has
set up gallery shows for the arts at Idyllwild, San Bernardino education
center, CSUSB art education, and in Oklahoma. You may also see Judy's
work on the web:
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here.
Judy Webber is the web designer and webmaster for Associated
Artists of the Inland Empire. She is also the web designer for
Riverside Art Museum as well as others.
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