Jun 23, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
GLENN DEAN’s CHILDHOOD INTEREST in art matured into a love of painting landscapes by his early twenties. Exposure to the California and Western landscape painters of the early 1900’s had a great influence on the young artist, and directed the course of his career...
Jun 23, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
S. LIANG WAS BORN IN CHINA and raised in a family of artists. He studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and later furthered his art studies in the United States. He earned his BFA in painting at Massachusetts College of Arts in 1986 and his MFA in...
Jun 23, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
DAVID JONASON’S WORK draws upon a wide variety of inspirations: the austere beauty of the American Southwest, the esthetics of cubism and deco, plus the crafts of the Southwest’s Native tribes.His love of desert landscapes began in childhood on family rock hunting...
Jun 11, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
JILL SOUKUP’S LIFELONG INTREST in art began at an early age, laying the foundation for a career shaped by discipline, curiosity, and creative drive. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Colorado State University in 1991, where she received awards for illustration...
Jun 11, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
SINGLETARY’s ART HAS BECOME synonymous with the relationship between Tlingit culture and fine art. His glass sculptures deal with themes of Tlingit mythology and traditional designs, while also using music to share his contemporary perspective of Native culture....
Jun 10, 2025 | Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West
STARR HARDRIDGE WAS BORN IN DENNISON, TEXAS in 1974 and was raised throughout central Oklahoma. Hardridge is of Muscogee Creek and European ancestry. He is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek nation of Oklahoma and is a Tuskegee tribal town descendant. He...
