PRESENTER: Donna Davenport
Donna Davenport was born in Monterey California. She and her brother Eddie were raised on a seven-acre ranch near John Steinbeck’s “Castles”.
Her love of the outdoors and animals grew from her positive early experiences with their horses and other livestock. She and her brother especially loved to explore the local caves scattered across the property. They spent many hours creating art using flowers and rocks.
Donna’s strong passion for art led her to take art classes in high school, college and beyond. In 1992, she won the Boronda Scholarship through Hartnell College as an aspiring artist and traveled to study the southwest Indians with fifteen other students. This experience culminated in her writing and illustrating a children’s book entitled “The Magic Water Jar”.
Donna earned a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught at many local schools, the most recent being twenty years at University Park Elementary. She specialized in art of all forms, including puppetry and face-painting which delighted her students.
Over the past seven years, Donna has studied several mediums including water color and oils. She has used the techniques learned to paint life-like portraits of both people and animals alike. More recently, she has expanded her subject work to that of landscapes and abstracts of varying mediums.
Her work has hung in the Government Center in Salinas, the Walter Lee Avery Art Gallery in Seaside, as well as the Del Mesa Gallery in Carmel Valley. Her paintings have also been displayed in the Salinas Valley Art Gallery co-op on Main Street in Salinas and currently at the John Steinbeck Library and Assemblywoman Anna Caballero’s office.
DATE: October 20, 2018
TIME: 1-3:00pm
LOCATION ; PETRA BIBLE CHURCH (see the "ART DEMOS" page for a map.)
Donna Davenport was born in Monterey California. She and her brother Eddie were raised on a seven-acre ranch near John Steinbeck’s “Castles”.
Her love of the outdoors and animals grew from her positive early experiences with their horses and other livestock. She and her brother especially loved to explore the local caves scattered across the property. They spent many hours creating art using flowers and rocks.
Donna’s strong passion for art led her to take art classes in high school, college and beyond. In 1992, she won the Boronda Scholarship through Hartnell College as an aspiring artist and traveled to study the southwest Indians with fifteen other students. This experience culminated in her writing and illustrating a children’s book entitled “The Magic Water Jar”.
Donna earned a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught at many local schools, the most recent being twenty years at University Park Elementary. She specialized in art of all forms, including puppetry and face-painting which delighted her students.
Over the past seven years, Donna has studied several mediums including water color and oils. She has used the techniques learned to paint life-like portraits of both people and animals alike. More recently, she has expanded her subject work to that of landscapes and abstracts of varying mediums.
Her work has hung in the Government Center in Salinas, the Walter Lee Avery Art Gallery in Seaside, as well as the Del Mesa Gallery in Carmel Valley. Her paintings have also been displayed in the Salinas Valley Art Gallery co-op on Main Street in Salinas and currently at the John Steinbeck Library and Assemblywoman Anna Caballero’s office.
DATE: October 20, 2018
TIME: 1-3:00pm
LOCATION ; PETRA BIBLE CHURCH (see the "ART DEMOS" page for a map.)
