Virginia Ocken

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  • Native of Iowa
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, K-12 Art Education, UNO at Omaha
  • Master of Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Strategist/Teacher at Council Bluffs Community Schools
  • Fine Arts Instructor  Buena Vista College
  • Member of Artists' Coop Gallery in Old Market, Omaha, NE
  • Assoc. of Nebraska Art Clubs, ANAC, Award of Excellence, 2003 & 2006
  • Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, IA, 2008, one-person show
  • Ankeny Art Center, Ankeny, IA, 2009, one-person show

 

Drawing, design, and creativity have always been means to implement my ideas, my story, through various media: watercolor, charcoal, graphite, oil, acrylic, clay, dyes on silk, other.

 

Figures

 

Figures…the living forms treading on one’s soul

 

Offering only their quiet sensitivities,

 

Vehicles  to express human states of being,

 

Stages of life and relationships, and

 

Moments of inter-connectedness—

 

The story, humanity--fluid, spontaneous, intense,

for me,

 

Starts with Drawing the Figure.
 
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