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Teresa Ascone, lifelong Alaskan, portrays her impressions of her beloved homeland in a distinctive, romanticized style that captures the rugged beauty of the northern landscape and the colorful wonder of its flowers. Ascone images have appeared on the covers of Alaska Horizons, Arctic Horizons and Marine Highway News, Alaska Wellness Magazine, Alaska Women Speak Magazine, and UAA's 1997 Summer Sessions Course Catalog. Corporate clients include Caverly Senior Center, KTUU Channel 2, KAKM Channel 7, Alaska Women's Resource Center, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, the Northway Mall, the Mall at Sears, The Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, and the Anchorage Sister Cities Commission. Original paintings have been sent to Korea, England, and Russia as official gifts from the Municipality of Anchorage. In 1995 Teresa illustrated Things in the Sky, a textbook portraying various elements of nature as seen in the Arctic. She also designed holiday note cards for the Anchorage Police Department 2001 through 2005. An award-winning PBS-produced video, Landscapes of the Imagination-The Art of Teresa Ascone, honored her in 1988.
Teresa taught art techniques for more than twenty-five years, traveling throughout Alaska for the University of Alaska. Her teaching led to a step-by-step learning method using her book, We're All Artists: Watercolor for Everyone, and The Ultimate Palette, for which she holds a design patent. A second book of watercolor lessons, Painting Pleasure: Adventures in Watercolor, was published later. In 1998, Teresa created UAA's Ultimate Watercolor Academy for adults who wanted to learn watercolor in a safe, non-threatening atmosphere - a hallmark of her teaching style. The success of the academy and its student art show resulted in her nomination for the UAA 2000 Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. Teresa's memberships include the prestigious Athena Society and she is profiled in Who's Who in American Women.
Lately, Teresa's artwork work has taken a whimsical turn with her book, The Berry Fairies of Alaska. Her second berry fairy tale, Alaska Berry Fairies ~ Lizzie Scarlet, was released in 2010 and received the December 2010 Reviewer's Choice Award at Children's Bookwatch. She currently maintains her studio in the Matanuska Valley, where she is hard at work on stories about the Alaska Berry Fairies and practicing her newest passion, wheelthrown pottery. Contact Teresa at teresaascone@yahoo.com or visit her website at www.alaskaberryfairies.com. |