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Artist Exhibitions:
Recently, I have been the
7-8th grade teacher in a
Catholic School, as well as
Head Teacher, so I haven't
made time for exhibitions.
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Artist Galleries:
Prairie Winds Art Center, 112
West Third, Grand Island, NE
Columbus Art Gallery, Columbus
Public Library, Columbus, NE
McCook Artists Guild, Norris
Avenue, McCook, NE
Settles Gallery, Mitchell, NE
GROW Nebraska Artisans Group
Annual Art Fairs:
Kearney Art in the Park,
Kearney, NE (Summer )
Countryside Village Art
Fair, Omaha, NE (...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Gretchen Olberding
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Web site: http://wildgrovegallery.com
http://www.cornhusker.net/~oding
Gretchen is a lifelong resident of Nebraska who loves its wide open landscapes, fabulous sky effects, fresh clean air and incredible wildlife.
"I'm fortunate to have such beauty around me on a constant basis. This land has a forlorn, isolated, yet soothing, beauty that is reflected in my paintings. I strive to create the variety and dynamics of the skies we experience here.
My glass art also retains the organic quality of nature. That something so beautiful as glass can come out of something so basic as sand is like a metaphor for our own Sand Hills of Nebraska."
Gretchen's designs are original and are copyrighted.
Gretchen was educated at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earning her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in History with a minor in Political Science and dual matriculating in Teacher's College. She began a middle school teaching career in Lincoln, NE.; then also taught high school at a private school in Gainesville, Florida.
An interest in the arts developed and she studied with many Nebraska and National Artists. Obtaining graduate hours at the University of Nebraska-Kearney led to an elementary art teaching career for ten years.
She currently is teaching ALL subjects to 7th and 8th graders at a Catholic School in Ord, NE.
Her evolving interests have led her to a variety of mediums which she shares with students in her continuing summer Art Camps. She & her husband have renovated an old 1904 Barn on their property, and the new "Art Loft"
serves as a learning sanctuary for the creative arts in the community.
She was fortunate to have been selected as one of the Grant Recipients/Participants in the Nebraska Arts Council's "Open Studio" Project where Nebraska artists were taught how to design their own web site in order to get their art "out to the world."
She enjoys the good life in Nebraska with her husband, two sons and their wives, one labrador and a cat. She is the artist/owner of Wild Grove Gallery / Studio at their home in the Loup River Valley country.
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