Artist Biography:
Victoria Powers grew up in the small college town of Newark, Delaware where her father was a college professor, and later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where she graduated from Myers Park High School. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a fine arts/ art education major with a concentration in painting. Victoria has been a multimedia artist exhibiting professionally in the community and beyond, in juried and solo shows, since 1989. She has enjoyed exploring a wide range of media and working in depth in each. She has worked in acrylic, water color and oil painting, handmade paper collage, black and white film photography, mixed media and recycle arts and foil relief etchings, to name a few. While exhibiting her own art professionally through the years, Victoria was also simultaneously teaching art with the Wake County public school systems at Wiley International Studies Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she enjoyed teaching, creating, and writing a variety of over 50 different elective classes which took the students in-depth into a variety of media.
Retiring in January of 2014, an award winning Professional Art Educator, with 28 1/2 years of teaching experience with the state, Victoria earned her National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification (NBPTS) initially in 2002, and renewed the certification in 2012. In 2009, she was awarded the North Carolina Art Educator’s Association (NCAEA) Elementary Art Teacher of the Year Award for the top Elementary Art Educator for the state. Victoria’s experience as a professional art educator helped inspire her to want to learn new techniques and to explore new media. She knew that what she learned, she could also teach. This partially explains Victoria’s diversity as a professional artist.
In December of 2010, while still teaching full time, Victoria realized a lifetime dream, and opened up her own private art studio and retail gallery space at the Blake Street Studios in Downtown Raleigh City Market. For four years, she was fortunate enough to be able to share with others the diversity of the works that she had created in the past as well as those that she continued to create in the present. In January 2015, the 11 tenants at Blake Street Shops and Studios lost their lease and had to close their studio doors at Blake Street. While now working out of her home studio, she is concentrating on creating new works and getting them out into the community in various shows. (Please see the exhibitions tab for more details!) In the meantime, she will continue to run her business, creating and selling her art, doing commission work for her clients, and teaching small group classes and private art lessons for all ages, from her home studio in Raleigh, North Carolina.
On a personal level, Victoria enjoys year-round lap swimming, walking, spending time at the beach, performing in a duo band called "The Boomers", with her partner Jonathan, and spending time with her three delightful grandchildren! If you'd like to learn more about the Boomers Band, go to their website at
https://www.TheBoomersDuo.com!
Click the button below to take you there!
Victoria Powers grew up in the small college town of Newark, Delaware where her father was a college professor, and later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where she graduated from Myers Park High School. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a fine arts/ art education major with a concentration in painting. Victoria has been a multimedia artist exhibiting professionally in the community and beyond, in juried and solo shows, since 1989. She has enjoyed exploring a wide range of media and working in depth in each. She has worked in acrylic, water color and oil painting, handmade paper collage, black and white film photography, mixed media and recycle arts and foil relief etchings, to name a few. While exhibiting her own art professionally through the years, Victoria was also simultaneously teaching art with the Wake County public school systems at Wiley International Studies Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she enjoyed teaching, creating, and writing a variety of over 50 different elective classes which took the students in-depth into a variety of media.
Retiring in January of 2014, an award winning Professional Art Educator, with 28 1/2 years of teaching experience with the state, Victoria earned her National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification (NBPTS) initially in 2002, and renewed the certification in 2012. In 2009, she was awarded the North Carolina Art Educator’s Association (NCAEA) Elementary Art Teacher of the Year Award for the top Elementary Art Educator for the state. Victoria’s experience as a professional art educator helped inspire her to want to learn new techniques and to explore new media. She knew that what she learned, she could also teach. This partially explains Victoria’s diversity as a professional artist.
In December of 2010, while still teaching full time, Victoria realized a lifetime dream, and opened up her own private art studio and retail gallery space at the Blake Street Studios in Downtown Raleigh City Market. For four years, she was fortunate enough to be able to share with others the diversity of the works that she had created in the past as well as those that she continued to create in the present. In January 2015, the 11 tenants at Blake Street Shops and Studios lost their lease and had to close their studio doors at Blake Street. While now working out of her home studio, she is concentrating on creating new works and getting them out into the community in various shows. (Please see the exhibitions tab for more details!) In the meantime, she will continue to run her business, creating and selling her art, doing commission work for her clients, and teaching small group classes and private art lessons for all ages, from her home studio in Raleigh, North Carolina.
On a personal level, Victoria enjoys year-round lap swimming, walking, spending time at the beach, performing in a duo band called "The Boomers", with her partner Jonathan, and spending time with her three delightful grandchildren! If you'd like to learn more about the Boomers Band, go to their website at
https://www.TheBoomersDuo.com!
Click the button below to take you there!