By Brenda Evers
Grand Valley artist Vera Mulder has
been selected Champion of the Arts, Individual category, by the City of Grand
Junction Commission of Arts & Culture.
She will presented this honor at a reception in the City
Council Meeting Room at 7 p.m. on Wed., Jan. 15.
Vera
lives in Fruita but taught all levels of art at Palisade High School for 33
years. She retired, but continued to work as an art teacher at Mesa State
College (Colorado Mesa University), the Art Center, and continues to be a
professional artist displaying her work at The Blue Pig Gallery in downtown
Palisade and back to the Rose Hue gallery in Fruita, as well as from her studio
at home.
She
was nominated for Champion of the Arts by many people in the community for her “untiring
commitment to inspire students in the arts throughout her 30 years career as a
teacher” and “her lifelong passions for art and encouraging countless art
enthusiasts’ gallery owners, artists and students,” both school age and adult.
Vera
established “The Fruita Art Camp” sixteen years ago through the City Parks and Recreation
program, and it is still happening every summer, not at the City Hall, but at
another location.
She is passionate about keeping
“art in education.”
Her
plans after receiving this award on Jan. 15 are to “Keep on doing art and
educating people about the value of art.”
