Jan Palemone Art Resume
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Jan Palemone was born and raised in Sonora, California and is the daughter of George and Dana-Sue Palemone. She studied art history at the University of California, Davis and received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art and an Art Teaching Credential from California Statue University, Sacramento. She has taught art in a variety of venues of rover 20 years. Her passion is to share her love of art and to impart the fundamental elements of art and design to her students.
Jan worked for the Stanislaus Arts Council for five years and coordinated their STARS Art Reach to Schools program.
In 2003 Jan completed the California Arts Project (TCAP) Collaborative Design Institue, Visual and Performing Arts Standards Training Program. Jan has also taught visual arts standards-based workshops for elementary school teachers in Tuolumne County.
Jan was the art consultant for grades 3-5 for Columbia Elementary School for two years. She was also the art consultant for Basics and Beyond elementary and high school students for two years. She also taught for the California Gold Camp for 3 years.
Jan coordinated annual G.A.T.E. Art Saturdays for elementary students through the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Sch9ools office.
She taught art for 15 years through the Central Sierra Arts Council's Arts Reach program in the public schools. She taught hundreds of classes to third to fifth grade students. The classes included: coral reef collage, floral and butterfly paintings using basic watercolor techniques, two-point perspective historic buildings, one-point perspective landscapes, handmade paper and Victorian marbling.
Retired from teaching in the public elementary schools, Jan joined her mom, Dana-Sue Palemone and twin sister, Jill Figler in teaching weekly adult watercolor classes. The family of artists has showcased their art in numerous Palemone Studio Shows.
Painting primarily in watercolors, Jan's subject interests encompass floral, abstract collage. One of her specialties is creating unique handmade paper collages. She enjoys helping beginning and intermediate artists explore their unique creative abilities, while teaching them about the basic elements of color, design and perspective drawings. Jan enjoys sharing her love of art and the Lord by combining bible verses with calligraphy and design.
Jan's paintings have been included 8in several Gallo Spring Shows, Kautz Ironstone Winery Shows and she has won awrds in several Mother Lode Art Association Art Shows.
Most recently she has focused on combining multi-media artwork with calligraphy bible verses.
