PAINT PARKVILLE 2015
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Thomas Merton
Participating Artists
Here are the artists participating in our Paint Out, Juried Art Contest and Art Auction. Here you will find more information about them and their art styles. We will be adding more information and artists every day.

Please explore their websites and other works.
Teddy says, "Each day brings new insight into the world of color, values, and composition. Feeling the mood of the moment and translating it into a piece of art is an adventure. Learning to see is a lifelong process." She is primarily a self-taught artist, adding to her skills by attending workshops with both local and national artists.
An accomplished artist, Teddy has received numerous awards. At the 2011 Door County, WI Plein Air Festival’s Dockside Quick Paint Competition, Teddy won 3rd place. In the 2013 Stems Plein Air Paint Out, she received third place. At the 2013 Augusta, MO Plein Air Festival, she was awarded 1st Honorable Mention and won second place at both the 9th and 10th Annual Augusta Events. Over the last few years, she has won 1st, 2nd, and Honorable Mention Awards at the Stems Plein Air Paint Outs. Teddy took Best of Show at the first and third annual George Owens Nature Park Plein Air Paints. One of her paintings appeared in the March 2013 issue of Plein Air Magazine.
When she is not painting, Teddy teaches classes and workshops and encourages others to get involved in the art community.
Teddy is represented by Got Art Gallery in Lee's Summit,
MO.
Charter Member of Missouri Valley Impressionist Society, Member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society, Past President and member of the Board of Directors of Summit Art, Co-Chair of the Blue Springs Art League Annual Fine Art Show,
Chris (Christina) Willey has an MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and a BFA in Drawing/Painting from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Before becoming a full-time painter she was a professor of art at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, for 22 years, and a full-time illustrator, painter and graphic designer for 13 years.
Chris has had numerous solo shows and conducted workshops in United States, France, and the Netherlands. Most recently, she taught a pastel workshop in France.
She has acquired signature status in the MidAmerica Pastel Society and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Her work has been juried into 8 international exhibitions, 28 national exhibitions, and 36 regional exhibitions. She has been in 16 invitational shows and 13 solo shows. She is the recipient of over 24 awards, including Best of Show and Gold. She won awards from the Kansas City Art Directors Club (3 Merit and 1 Bronze Award), Communication Arts Illustration Annual 1987 (Merit Award), and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (5 Merit Awards). Her art is held in a number of private and corporate collections in the U.S., Netherlands, and France.
Willey is an artist who paints from life. Her work always begins with direct observation, but the endpoint is about making a beautiful painting. She tries to distill the essence of what attracted her to the subject into her paintings, while allowing the paint, the design, and surface to have their own voice.
Alex Hamil is an experienced commercial artist in television, print, traditional studio and freelance work; but first and foremost he considers himself an educator. With a combined fifteen years in classroom instruction Alex's passion for teaching started as a visual art
instructor at Shawnee Mission South's Summer Enrichment program, meanwhile a student himself studying illustration at KU. After graduating with a BFA in 1992, he went into the commercial arts field as a promotional product illustrator (CCC, Lenexa) and eventually a
graphic designer working for (then) FOX41 News which eventually became Kansas City's NBC41 affiliate in 1995. Catapulting to the position of art director for KSMO-TV62 in 1996 after a brief stint with the Kansas City Star as a special promotions art director, Alex assumed
the position as evening graphics coordinator in 1998 with, then, the nation's number one ABC news affiliate KMBC-TV9. This position would last less than a year before choosing to leave commercial art in pursuit of his passion for instruction in the classroom setting.
In the fall of 1999, while starting as an evening adjunct instructor (Computers inDesign) at Penn Valley Community College (KCMO), Alex began a five-year stint working with K-8 students as a technology and communications instructor at St. Elizabeth's School (KCMO). While teaching, Alex was also taking classes toward his Master's in Education
(Humanities), which he received from Rockhurst (KCMO) in 2004 after completing his thesis entitled "A Blueprint to Media Literacy in the Classroom". Not published until the spring of 2005, this writing required him to give up his position as a full-time instructor in order to focus
solely on the completion of this monumental task.
In the summer of 2005, Alex assumed a position at KCAI (Kansas City Art Institute) asa regional admissions coordinator. Working with well over a thousand students per year, his efforts were focused on those most interested in pursuing a BFA degree where Alex would encourage their application, acceptance, and potential scholarship to the four-year, fullyaccredited program. While at KCAI he discovered the benefits of their Continuing Education (CE) for preparing students and their eventual post-secondary experience when he formulated a Portfolio Preparation class in the spring of 2006. In 2008, after developing and instructing additional classes in animation, design, and traditional drawing/painting methods, Alex left admissions in order to more fully commit himself to the CE program, meanwhile supplementing his income with freelance and studio work for various clients throughout the region.
Working as a media facilitator and adjunct instructor, Alex's CV also includes: Art Institutes International (AII/Lenexa, KS) as a Humanities instructor (PHI201/Critical Thinking and HUM100/An Introduction to the Humanities), the Johnson County Arts Council (10 years) and their Shooting Stars Scholarship Program, and the Kansas City, Missouri School District where he has served as a part-time instructor developing afternoon art classes oriented towards 'needs based' students.
In developing 'studio work' for submitting to galleries or as support for portfolio presentations, I've developed a term I call "The Cyclical Process of Art". This approach, from concept (sketch) to completion (finalized work) encourages students to explore the documentation process while developing their individual works. This approach pushes the student to explore as many alternatives to both media and dimension in regard to a single subject matter. The familiarity that they develop with their subject matter provides for and displays itself in a perceivable level of comfort along with their demonstrating a willingness to push the boundaries of what they might consider a finished piece. I've discovered that 'judges', when it comes to portfolio submissions (for scholarship) want to see how many directions a student is 'willing' to go when determining the best candidates for their course of study, scholarship, or simply the 'best-of-show'.