Vickie is a multifaceted artist with a BA degree from Arizona State University in writing and multimedia design. For the past 14 years, she has been involved in computer graphics, logo development, document production, slideshow presentation design, training material development, and web publishing and development projects. A majority of her work is done using professional Adobe programs and long hand code. The websites in her portfolio are her own designs.
After working for a time in the semiconductor field, she studied another 2.5 years in fine arts, which included a scholarship grant from Scottsdale Artist's School and a grant from Arizona Commission on the Arts. With these grants, Vickie studied under living art masters, Igor Babailov and William Whitaker. She produces commissioned landscapes and people and pet portraits from life and from photos and has done her own framing for the past several years.
In addition to producing commissioned artwork, framing services, and multimedia web development for clients, Vickie also founded a 501c3 nonprofit, Bravery Project, in 2008. To date she has produced over thirty custom portraits of survivors of domestic violence/abuse. Bravery Project portrait series are exhibited in Arizona and beyond to raise awareness, education, community and hope about this important issue. Vickie has expanded the programs to include Bravery Project Scholars that assist survivors with college tuition and a comprehensive newsletter program that includes a variety of resources and articles for those involved in the movement.
| "Although art and science seem like polar opposites, they are not. Over the past fourteen years of producing artwork and web creations, I have found that science is intimately tied to art in the use of color theory, psychology, mathematics, anatomy just to name a few. Link all of that to the amazing internet via software programs and coding techniques, and you have integrated art and technology. In my creative world, I don't see or use one with out the other." |