Join artist and FIU graduate Wendy Ordonez Hurtado and David Chang, Graduate Director and Professor of Painting, Drawing and Visual Arts Education for an introduction to landscape painting and an outdoors art activity.
This event is free and open to the public.
Artist Bio
Wendy Ordóñez is a classically trained artist working primarily with oil, soft pastels, and digital media. Her focus lies on technique and color. She is a double alumna from Florida International University and an MFA candidate at the Academy of Portrait and Figurative Art. Mrs. Ordóñez has traveled extensively through drawing inspiration from every place she visits. Her creations are in private collections in Miami, Texas, Florida, New York, and Colombia. She currently resides in Miami, Florida together with her husband, daughters, and two dogs.
Bio
David Y. Chang, MFA, is Frost Professor of Art, a renowned artist and award-winning professor. Classically trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition, his education includes the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, the University of Cambridge, England, the Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, and Florida International University. Since joining FIU in 1986, Professor Chang has been teaching visual arts education theories and practices, classical drawing and painting, as well as visual analysis for over three decades. He is the Founding Director of the Academy of Portrait and Figurative Art. His artworks have been collected internationally. He is the Chair of the Florida Artists Group (FLAG-Area1) – Florida’s oldest and most prestigious professional artists association which requires a juried membership. Professor Chang has been awarded the Florida Higher Education Art Educator Prize as well as the Florida Art Education Distinguished Service Award.