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HEIDI
GOTTFRIED
- A contemporary artist, who paints
in her studio by the Monterey Bay in Pajaro Valley.
- Uses a variety of media, specializing
in oil based pigments and transparent watercolor.
- Has been painting in Santa Cruz
County and the Pajaro Valley for over twenty years.
- Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from San Jose State University.
- Associate in Arts degree from
Cabrillo College.
- For the past four years she has
featured Watsonville's historic and contemporary landmarks and
the Latino contribution to the fields, economy, and daily life
of the people of the Pajaro Valley.
- An Open Studio's artist for over
ten years, her work is exhibited in the Monterey Bay region and
in private collections throughout the central coast.
- 2001 - started teaching art at
the Watsonville Charter School of the Arts and Freedom Elementary
School. She enjoys working with children of all ages to build
their artistic skills both on individual projects and collaborative
pieces.
- 2003 - she was commissioned to
design and paint the Santa Cruz County Fair Poster and had one
of her China artworks selected from over 600 juried pieces to
be included in "El Rio, Images of the River" at the
McPherson Center for Art and History in Santa Cruz.
- 2004 - One of her Watsonville
paintings was chosen to be part of a juried art exhibit, "Images
of California Agriculture", at the National Steinbeck Center
in Salinas.
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