Kathi Nordone Beautybellajoy
ART BIOGRAPHY
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Kathi Nordone started sketching portraits at 13years old, with the forgiving pencil. Then while in Highschool, she taught on Saturdays under the Tutelage of John Osborne; Pencil, Pen, Paintings and later Mural, her first for Tapestry dance Company. While getting her BFA at University of Texas Austin, she worked as a Sign Artist - Art Director, at a local grocery store, winning awards and singing on fruit crates "She's a GOOD'n" KVET said.
Soon creating a line of Greeting Cards.
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Her cards were inspired by old Angel prints her father found, she reached out to find him after many years apart. She would sketch them. Her first buyers were Wheatsville Coop, Whole foods, The Cadeau, Breed & Co. Ann Breed was a mentor & inspiration to her.
Kathi moved from Austin in 1992 with an Angel musician postcard in her suitcase, she left behind her painting of it.
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The post card was called Angel Musician, she heard a song and took it home to paint -at her friend's home- where a blank canvas awaited her.
her Angel of Forgiveness song was played on WFUV - 1992
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After the miraculous event, the very next day she was invited to show at The Jacob Javitt's Convention Center with Tarkay a famous artist. She accepted and all of her art was shipped to NY by a college friend in Texas. Lance Lestcher.
Kathi moved back to Austin to perform at KUT 90.5 with John Aielli and record "Angel of Forgiveness" She performed her song "Sweet Reality" at The (Dougherty Arts Center) in Austin .
As an Adjunct professor of Color Theory at Austin Community College and started her own Home Portrait Business. (homes)
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Eventually moving to Maine, where her Angel winged cards gave way to intimate portraits of the humble songbird Cheering,
followed by a series of whimsical ink images,
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Currently her paintings are for sale at various Galleries in Maine.
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Bachelor of Fine Arts and wip All Level Art Teaching Certification from the University of Texas.
Her work has shown at
the Jacob Javitt's Center in New York City,
Texas Carved Stone in Florence, Texas,
Image gallery Austin,( Brian Joseph Deborah Roberts gave her a One Woman Show.
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Pemequid Gallery Bristol Maine & currently at River Arts Gallery Damariscotta, Maine.
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In Austin, Kathi was interviewed by John Aielli KUT, written about by the Austin American Statesman by Michael Barnes and been played on air at KGSR and WFUV radio stations.
Art Exhibits
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