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Rushworth with Governor Kenny Guinn and Mrs. Dema Guinn |
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Michele Rushworth has been a professional artist
for over thirty years. Her work is included in numerous public
and private collections.
Some notable portrait commissions include:
· Governor Gary
Locke, Washington
· Governor Kenny
C. Guinn, Nevada
· Governor James Geringer, Wyoming
· Governor Clifford P Hansen, Wyoming
· Governor Michael J. Sullivan, Wyoming
· Ford Motor Company CEO Donald
E. Petersen (retired)
· Alliance One International CEO, Brian J. Harker
· Dean of Campbell University Law School, Patrick
L. Hetrick
· Artistic Directors, Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Kent Stowell and Francia
Russell
· President, University of Alabama Medical Foundation,
Dr. Raymond Watts
· Georgia Power and Light executive, William
Mashburn
· Seattle Mariners baseball player Edgar
Martinez |
Michelle Rushworth’s work has appeared on or been mentioned
in:
· CBS national news program “The Early
Show”
· The Washington Post
· Fox News
· ABC News
· The Boston Globe
· American Artist Magazine
· The Seattle Times
· Las Vegas Review Journal
· Associated Press news wire service
· United Press International news wire service
· and numerous other national and international
news media outlets
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Professional memberships and affiliations include:
· Portrait Society of America
· Portrait Brokers of America
· listed in Who’s Who in America and
in Who’s Who in American Art.
· Washington Arts Council/National Endowment
for the Arts grant recipient
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Education, Teaching and Exhibitions:
Michelle Rushworth has studied with such modern masters as
William Whitaker, Juliette Aristides, and Tony Ryder. She
completed extensive Fine Arts studies at Queen’s University
in Canada and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
She has been a guest lecturer on the subject of being a professional
portrait artist at the Gage Academy of Fine Art, has taught
at the Kirkland Arts Center and currently holds workshops at
the Fall City Fine Arts Center in Washington. Her work has been
included in exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club, New York, Allied
Artists of America, New York, and the American Watercolor Society
annual exhibition, also in New York. |
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