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My love of art, I believe, stems from my experiences growing up as a child in a small mountain town in Nicaragua. While I did not study art as a child, I was exposed to art in very subtle ways through my family. My father had the soul of an artist, and beauty was always in my mother’s mind.

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My interest in art became much more academic as I received formal training in design, art, and art history. While studying Interior Design at the University of Texas, and completing a Masters of Art in Liberal Studies at the North Carolina State University, I never could have anticipated the rich diversity of jobs  and interests that one day I would have. While at NCSU, I had the privilege of studying under Duke University professor Dr. William Tronzo and conducting research at Dunbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, culminating in my thesis, “Prudentius, Tituli Historiarum.”

 

As a result of my love for art and education, my professional career has spanned over 30 years and has been centered around art, as I have worked in Graphic Design, Museum Exhibit Development, and Teaching.  I am now having the best time of my life teaching as an Art History Professor at Campbell University.

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I feel that I have now come full circle…..first by studying art, then by working in art fields, and now I am painting in oils and loving it!!