* Multi-Disciplinary Arts * Character Work * Visual
Arts * Improv
* Creative Writing * Curating * Poetry Reading
* Working with Children
* Whistling * Creative Performance Art * Murals and Other
Public Art
Multi-Discipline Arts
Multifaceted arts combined in a variety of formats including performances,
visual displays, teaching, published works, video and audio tapes, technical
works, and experimental works; Listed with Shreveport Regional Arts Council's
Multi-Discipline Arts Panel's Multi-Disciplined Arts Registry
Visual includes murals,
graphics and illustrations, kinetic art, mixed media, paintings, jewelry,
set design, costume design, prop design, sculpture, ceramics, and landscape
design; One Woman Shows: Recurring Themes; Light
and Shadow: the yin and yang of art, Artwork by Elf: a Phantom
Gallery, and a 40 year retrospective; Curator: Femme
Divine: a visual exploration of womanly spirituality; Participating
artist in various local, regional and national shows and competitions since
1959
Performance includes
drama, comedy, musicals, commercials, performance art, poetry reading,
whistling, interviews, and storytelling for stage, television, film and
streets; performing since 1956
Literary includes plays,
screenplays, novels, poetry, essays, short stories, interviews, and journalistic
work including arts reviews; Books: Fancy That!, The
Lovely Witch and the Terrible Ogre, Elfworks Sampler,
Nostalgia, Time Again, From the Depths,
Pieces of Mind, and Diary of a Dream Worker;
Plays: LOVING/LEAVING, Terror in the Dimension
of Doom, Mary and the Magic Dream (chief scriptwriter),
Shadow Street (chief scriptwriter), Room to Cry,
and Point of Love; Listed with Shreveport Regional Arts Council's
Literary Panel's Writers Registry in poetry, fiction and scriptwriting
and the Louisiana Artists Roster in Theater (Scriptwriting); published
writer since 1964
Technicals includes
design work, as well as crew work in sets, costumes, props, special effects,
promotions, and lighting; design & technicals since 1968
Experimental includes
organic art (incorporating live animals and/or plants as part of my visual
art); Shamanistic art (using incantations and magical actions in conjunction
with visual, performance and sound art); computer graphics; and dream work
Education
1991 Louisiana State University -- Shreveport Graduate -- BA in General
Studies Major in the Liberal Arts, Minor in Sciences
1989 Bossier Parish Community College Graduate -- Associate's Degree General
Studies in the Liberal Arts
1968 Honor Graduate - Ouachita Parish High School
Honors and Awards
1993 -- selected for listing in The World's Who's Who of Women
1993 -- selected for listing in Dictionary of International
Biography
1992 -- present -- listing in Who's Who in the South and Southwest
1992 -- listing in Who's Who in Colleges and Universities in
America
