Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Elaine Scheer Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 1990 Ceramics, Mixed Media 1982 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute 1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sonoma State University Artist’s statement Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County I always painted and made things. I did not always get good grades in art in the Los Angeles Public Schools. Some of my art teachers also worked in the entertainment industry and one, who painted the “Sock-It-To-Me-Girls”—like Goldie Hawn—for the TV show Laugh-In, didn’t think I showed much promise. I loved my weekend art classes at the County Museum, as LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) was referred to then. Like many children I painted with watercolors, but unlike most I kept at it with my undergraduate degree in painting. For YHZ[

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