Ptarmigan Arts Gallery proudly presents Rhonda Horton for our September 20 and 21 Pop-up Show during the World Arts Festival. Rhonda’s medium is printmaking and drawing. (See the slideshow below for samples of her artwork.)
Rhonda began capturing the world around her as a child through drawing and photography. As an emerging artist, she was set designer for adult and child musicals and also for children’s community theater camps.
Rhonda received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art, printmaking and drawing, at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Post Baccalaureate K-12 Art Education degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is on the State Teaching-Artist Roster (STAR artist) with Artist in Schools Program, Alaska State Council on the Arts. She constructed art lessons and taught in rural Alaska and Anchorage through residency grant programs.
Rhonda served six years as local chair, co-chair, and regional support for the National Parent Teacher Association, Cultural Arts Program Reflections. She was lead Teaching Artist in the construction of two large ceramic tile murals with multi-age students for a hallway installation at Snowshoe Elementary School in Wasilla and she taught a variety of art projects in place-based education.
Rhonda’s work has received local and national recognition and awards including Artist Award, U. S. Capitol Christmas Tree, 2015. She has shown her work in Southcentral Alaska with several individual exhibits and numerous juried and group exhibits. Rhonda’s work is also in public and private collections
Ptarmigan Arts Gallery will be hosting Rhonda Horton as our visiting artist for her Pop-up Show on September 20th and 21st, 10 am to 6 pm. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy her beautiful artwork. See you there!
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