“Join me on this wonderful adventure of exploring the ways art can add meaning in your life either as a practicing artist or a valued art appreciator. I’ve worn many hats from teaching art, creating art, to promoting art as careers and I love sharing those experiences with others. Let me know if you have any questions or just want to start a dialogue by emailing me at valerieallenart@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you!”
Valerie Allen is a professional artist living in Michigan. She received her BFA from University of Cincinnati and post-graduate studies at Central Michigan University. She is currently a certified artist for Golden Artist Colors of New Berlin, New York, Master Mentor for Mastrius.com and podcast host for Art Ladders: The Creative Climb.
Valerie has exhibited nationally including the Chicago Biennial, New American Drawing in Santa Fe, and the National Collage Society in Massachusetts. Her work was shown at Site: Brooklyn in New York and Valerie’s paintings were included in the American Abstract Painters exhibit at the Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania.
She lectures across the Midwest on painting with acrylics at art departments, and associations. As an adjunct instructor at the college level, she taught foundation art classes in drawing. She conducts workshops and teaches virtual classes in abstract painting.
Valerie has juried exhibits in the Midwest, including Anton Art Center’s Michigan Annual XLVIII, Midwest National Abstract Art Exhibition by Indiana’s Southside Art League and the Great Northern International Art Explosion. As a curator, she collaborated with Studio 23 and Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy on the exhibit “Land to River.”
Valerie participated in artists residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wave Pool Gallery, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Port Austin Artist in Residence Program and Golden Apple Residency in Maine.
Valerie creates her abstract and nonrepresentational paintings in her studio located at Geisler Enterprises, a business and art incubator, in the Stadium District of Midland, Michigan. She is represented by ADC Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.