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Since
1980, award-winning artist Teresa Ascone has portrayed her impressions of Alaska in watercolor. Ascone images have
appeared on the covers of Alaska Horizons, Arctic Horizons, and Marine Highway News magazines, and UAA's 1997 Summer
Sessions Course Catalog. An award-winning PBS-produced video, Landscapes
of the Imagination-The Art of Teresa Ascone,
honored her work in 1988. Clients include the Caverly Senior Center, KTUU Channel 2, KAKM Channel 7, Arctic Circle
Enterprises, the Alaska Women's Resource Center, the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and the Anchorage Sister
Cities Commission. Original paintings have been sent to Inchon, Korea, Whitby, England, and Magadan, Russia as
official gifts from the Municipality of Anchorage. In 1995 Teresa illustrated Things in the Sky, a textbook portraying
various elements of nature as seen in the Arctic. She is a regular contributor to Tole World Magazine's "Watercolor
Page" with her instructional articles.
Teaching
watercolor has been a rewarding element of Teresa's work, providing the opportunity to travel to various locations
such as Dutch Harbor, Dillingham, Barrow, Bethel, Seldovia, Homer, Naknek and Juneau. Teaching has led to the development
of a step-by-step learning system using her book, We're
All Artists: Watercolor for Everyone, and The Ultimate Palette,
patented in 1995. A second book of watercolor lessons, Painting
Pleasure: Adventures in Watercolor, was published
in August 1999.
In
1998, Teresa restructured her UAA classes into The Ultimate Watercolor Academy, a community-based learning experience
for adults who want to learn watercolor in a safe, non-threatening atmosphere-a hallmark of Teresa's teaching style.
Academy design consists of a series of one-day workshops and concludes with an annual student art show. Since its
inception, the academy has received an enthusiastic response from the adult community and continues to attract
both beginning and more experienced painters.
Taku Graphics distributes Ascone prints at,
http://www.takugraphics.com.
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