Bio
Linda Kortesoja Klenczar
Signature on art, Linda J. K. Klenczar
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Experience
2007-present Self Employed Artist in pastel, watercolor, and graphite.
1979-present Self Employed Interior Designer specializing in new construction and remodeling of residential structures. 1979-1992 also
designer of professional offices, banks, hospitals, restaurants.
1973-1979 Senior Interior Designer- designing and supervising interior design studio for upscale furniture store- Handicraft Furniture
Co. Ann Arbor, MI
1970-1973 University Interior Designer- Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,MI
I created the interior design department for design services within the University.
Education
2011
Workshop part two with Sally Strand, more on color and light.
Ongoing study of watercolor with Taylor Jacobsen.
2010
Workshop with Marla Baggetta, Nationally known pastelist.
Workshop with Sally Strand, Nationally known pastelist.
Workshop with Margot Schulzke, Nationally known California pastelist.
Ongoing watercolor study with Taylor Jacobsen
2008
Workshops for pastel painting with
Alan Flattmann, of New Orleans, Louisiana
Cityscapes and landscapes techniques.
Gil Dellinger, of Stockton, California
Landscapes, en plein air
Studied depth and character and techniques for catching light and shadows for outdoor painting.
On Going Watercolor painting techniques with Taylor Jacobsen, Saline Community Education, Saline, MI
2008
Watercolor Techniques
Keith McGuire, Two Twelve Arts Center, Saline, MI
Pastel Landscape Techniques
Bob Palmerton, Two Twelve Arts Center, Saline, MI
Pastel Workshops with
Jim Markel of Grand Rapids, MI
Colin Frey of Grand Rapids, MI
Sandy Jacoboice of Grand Rapids, MI
Pastel Class including Figure Drawing, Still Life and Plein Air with
Janet Koehler of the Ann Arbor Arts Center
Watercolor techniques with
Nancy Solo of the Ann Arbor Arts Center
2006
Watercolor Techniques with
Jan Israel of the Two Twelve Arts Center Saline, MI
Acrylic Mural Painting with
Kathy Rhadigan of the Two Twelve Arts Center Saline, MI
1970
Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI
BS Interior Design with Honor
Portfolio Design Award 1970
Minor instruction in Building Construction, Landscape Architecture And Industrial Design.
Summary of Creative Works
Juried exhibition of Great Lakes Pastel Society, Three Rivers, MI Carnegie Center for the Arts.
Juried exhibition of Ann Arbor Women Artists, Ann Arbor Public Library, main branch.
2010
Juried exhibition of Ann Arbor Women Artists
First Prize Winner, Juried exhibition, Water, Water Everywhere, Ann Arbor Women Artist with River Gallery in Chelsea. Passage to the World, pastel. Exhibition at River Gallery in Chelsea.
Summer
July 28 – September 11, 2009 Solo Exhibit of 18 new works at the Brighton
Public Library for the Brighton Michigan Arts Guild.
Exhibitions with Ann Arbor Area Pastelists.
April 2009
Participant in art show at the Saline District Library
March/ April 2009
Selected to exhibit “Evening Shadows” a pastel, at the Ann Arbor Public Library
For the Ann Arbor Women Artists Spring juried show.
February/March 2009
Selected to display Watercolor “At Rest”, a landscape, in the Winter 2009 Juried
Show of the Ann Arbor Women Artists at the University of Michigan League.
February 2009
Solo Show of 33 varied items in pastel and watercolor at the Saline District Library.
May/June 2008
Selected to exhibit in my first Solo Show with 55 selected watercolors, Pastels, graphite, ink and acrylic paintings and
drawings at the Two Twelve Arts Center, Saline, MI.
Summer 2008
Ann Arbor Women Artists, juried show, I displayed an acrylic painting “Night at the Fair”, at the Riverside Arts Center,
in Ypsilanti, MI.
Fall 2007
“July” a landscape, was selected in the juried show of the Great Lakes Pastel Society, and was displayed at the Toledo
Museum of Art.
Spring 2007
“Early Morning Mist” was accepted in the Spring juried show of the Ann Arbor Women Artists at the Riverside Arts
Center in Ypsilanti, MI.
Fall 2006
“Mission at San Juan Capistrano” was accepted in the juried show of the Ann Arbor Women Artists at the Ann Arbor
District Library. This was my first application for a juried show and the first accepted.
I have donated art for four years to the “Circle of Art”, an art auction to benefit Food Gatherers of Washtenaw County, an organization providing food for those in need.
I have also donated art for the fundraiser event, D”Art for Art to benefit the art program of the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey.
I have donated my services to design and provide inspiration drawings for the development of the Saline Community Garden in Saline, MI.
Home page photo by Kathy Rich, of Linda sketching at Hidden Lake Gardens, MSU, in Tipton, MI