Aurelle Sprout
February 2023 Featured Artist
As an art teacher now retired, Aurelle has resumed a painting career with much excitement. She retired seven years ago after teaching art at Montgomery Township Schools for twenty years, assorted other public and private schools for a career spanning thirty-five years. Steering back to the artist within, Aurelle expresses how grateful she is for a fellowship with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation as art educator with a grant to develop her artistic endeavors. Most of all, she was excited about developing the artistic endeavors of her students (and the entire school, in general) in 1998. The grant enabled Aurelle to participate in numerous travel excursions and mini-grants and to discover art resources and instructors in this area since she grew up in Pittsburgh, and spent time in California and Lancaster (PA). Eventually Aurelle settled in the Lambertville area in 1996.
Aurelle has been in numerous juried shows including Phillips' Mill, Ellarslie, D&R Greenway, New Hope Arts, West Windsor Arts and Artsbridge. She is honored to receive several art awards at juried exhibitions. Since retiring, she has had two solo exhibits, one at the Present Day Club, Princeton and the other at the Bank of Princeton, Lambertville. A two-month duo show in Lambertville began early spring of 2020 but was taken down abruptly due to COVID. Recently, Aurelle showed her work in a duo exhibition at the A-Space at New Hope Arts, October, 2022. A solo show is slated for April ’23 at The Present Day Club.
Go to Aurelle’s website to view more of her artwork and to find out where you can find her latest exhibitions: aurellepurdysprout.com
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