Victoria Franck Wetsch

Victoria Franck Wetsch Victoria Franck Wetsch Click Here to View More Photos Victoria Franck Wetsch 310 South Billings Boulevard Billings, Montana 59101 Phone: 406-598-1418 Contact: Send Email Web Site Address: www.franckwetsch.com Working from my Montana studio and traveling across many states, I exhibit, compete and demonstrate my artistic techniques. My art career began when I worked as an architectural store planner and commercial interior designer with Frederick & Nelson and Meier & Frank, leading upscale retailers in Oregon and Washington. During the course of my design experience, I developed an interior design and visual display company in Portland, Oregon. This business eventually expanded to include a full service floral shop where I earned prestigious design awards in Oregon competitions. Following my move to Montana, I studied at the University of Montana with nationally recognized artist, Professor Neil Jussila and I was deeply inspired by his great talent. In 2002, I was awarded an academic scholarship from the University of Northern Colorado where I earned my BFA in art and history. There, I received guidance and inspiration from Professor Jenkins, currently Department Chair of Art and Design at the University of Minnesota in Duluth and Sieger Hartgers, professor of printmaking. Also, I received my AA at the Art Institute of Portland, Oregon where I studied with Joachim Omneczinski, interior architect and designer from Hamburg, Germany. Continuing education is very important to me and I have made it my priority to study with outstanding artists such as David DeVillier, nationally known painter; Santa Fe pastel painter, Mike Mahon; northeastern encaustic artist, Lorraine Glessner and internationally recognized glass artist, Richard Parish from Montana. Since 2005, my works of art have been juried into national and international competitions, awarded and exhibited at galleries throughout the western and mid-western regions, including several national museums. Selected works have been published on book covers and in the Rosicrucian Digest: Atlantis, Egypt, Essenes and Orphic Mysteries editions and my art was chosen from among 10,000 entries and three rounds of judging by the international, Artist Magazine as one of their finalists in the 23rd Annual International Juried Competition. Presently, I am composing original art compositions with exceptional archival properties involving a method of hand rubbing colorful designs of pastel medium onto fabric. Supported in part by the Montana Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, I was awarded a Professional Development Grant to study, practice and exhibit my work using this unique method of art creation. My process, represents an important innovative movement in art today which allows me the freedom of spontaneity, to follow my intuitive impulses and to ultimately characterize a visual embodiment of creative images from under a stratum of unique impressions. My work is inspired by Native American and Celtic mythology which I interpret through their ancient language of visual symbology.

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