03/31/2016
Our guest speaker for this unique Art Workshop, April 9 in McKinney:
Jodi McKee, LPC-S - Art Therapy
Jodi McKee is a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor with over 15 years of experience. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Austin College and her graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy/Clinical Art Therapy from Loyola Marymount University. Her passion is for children and families in crisis. Most of her professional work has been spent in hospital or shelter settings. She currently supports clients with eating disorders, and she lives in Plano with her teenage son.
Talley Williams - Communicating through Art
Talley Williams is an autodidactic entrepreneur and artist whose career spans a more than a quarter of a century. Talley relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband of 27yrs David Williams ,and two sons, Nicholas and Jordan 20+ years ago to Plano Texas. Mrs. Williams enjoyed a prosperous career in Dallas/Texas, as a proprietor, interior decorator and image consultant to professional men and women. She holds a patent, copyrights and a published art novella of her own unique works, and is currently seeking trademark. She is known for her ability to marry visual presentation and intention in unusual and bold ways
In 2010 Talley Williams underwent a miraculous experience which served as the catalyst for a career change. She experienced what is known as an OBE, gifting as a result the ability to paint and create vast artworks/ products of ancient culture and design.
In 2012-2015 Mrs. Williams brought her unique brand and background to the city Plano, as the Director/Gallerist for Plano Art Association. In that position she exercised full use of her skillset to, as she puts it, build bridges between communities using art as a platform.” Utilizing the arts Mrs. Williams expanded the city’s desire to promote diversity and represent itself as a city of excellence. During her leadership Plano Art Association’s membership grew four fold in the area cultural diversity and set precedence for suburban art groups.
Talley Williams received honors in 2014 from The Indie Festival as The Dallas Metro Plex’s most innovative and influencial contributor to the art’s community, first place in Plano’s Multicultural Exhibit, with a repurposed sculpture entitled EARTH. She is also a designer of wearable art and received 2nd prize in Plano Art Association’s jurored Grand Opening Art exhibit, a win seized by a memorable piece entitled “Cloak of Zion”’. In 2012 Mrs. Williams was a featured artist at the Mc Kinney Art Center of Dallas where she rendered a performance entitled, “Pangea: We Are All In This Together”. During the performance Mrs. Williams reformed a massive textile in response to the audience.
Talley has exhibited in a number local exhibits ,participated in solo and group exhibits to include the exclusive Dragon Street galleries where Talley was the premier artist at “1111”, Gallery of artist/gallerist Erich Trich.
Talley Williams’ artistry spans several genres to include 2D/3D, performance, design, mixed media, fragrance and home décor as well as art photography. Mrs. Williams is currently in preparations of a one woman exhibit/performance piece entitled
Blackswans Conversation with the Five Wise Brides: An Issue of Oil
Jennifer Siebert - Observation of Art
Seibert’s installations, drawings, paintings, and videos have been exhibited nationally and
internationally with solo and group exhibitions in the United States, France, Switzerland, Albania,
and Italy with her drawings, paintings, and installations. She has created two feature length
films and several short films, many of which were made possible through competitive research
fellowships and grants. She has attended residencies home and abroad and has won multiple
awards for her paintings, installations, and short films. Seibert is currently a Professor of Art at
Collin College, and was a Tenured Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University for 9 years
before moving home to Texas to raise her family. She currently teaches painting and 2-dimensional design. Past courses have been drawing, installation, video, animation, and graduate seminars.
Through her abstractions of reality Seibert is trying to measure the distances between want,
loss, consumption, debt, beginnings, ends, progression, and decline.
Mayra Ozturk - Bachelor of Art in Psychology/Human Development and Early Childhood Disorders, M.S. - Power of Play
Still waiting for her bio info/only have her resume
