Ms. Holman has had a number of careers in the art world ranging from Fine Art, Art Educator, and Commercial Artist.
Ms. Holman was awarded a full fellowship and teaching assistantship from Tulane University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in 1987. Her professional career includes experience as a fine artist and art educator. She holds a Louisiana State License in Art Education, grades K-12, a Talented and Visual Arts Auxiliary License, and is licensed as a State Evaluator for the Arts. Ms. Holman has taught in the Talented and Visual Arts program for Orleans parish for the past 30 years. As the Art Director for The Center for Development and Learning for six years, her program was chosen the past two years as one of the fifty exemplary arts programs in the United States for children at risk by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Presidents Committee on the Arts.
Her work as an art educator has gained both local and national recognition. To highlight a few of her accomplishments, she was one of six recipients nationally to receive the National Arts and Entertainment Television Network Teacher Awards in Art Education. The Holocaust Museum of Washington, D.C. chose her students’ work for The Wall of Remembrance. The Getty and Annenberg Foundation for the Arts awarded her school, Lusher, the prestigious honor as one of six schools in the Southeast and one of thirty-four in the country to lead the nation in art education. Finally, her students’ work has appeared at The Museum of Art in New Orleans, The Baton Rouge Art Museum, The Contemporary Arts Center, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Festival, The New Orleans Children’s Museum, and various other local and national sites.
Ms. Holman’s career as a Commercial Artist was diversified both in scope and content. She worked at the Smithsonian Museum of American History as a studio artist and exhibit specialist for exhibitions. She has served as an art director and make-up artist for feature films and theatrical venues. She honed her studio skills when she served under the renown Hub Acton (master of fabrications for Walt Disney at Kings Dominion).Her employment history includes
work as a graphic artist, sculptor for public art and art director for B’nai Brith in Washington, D.C.
As a fine artist, Ms. Holman’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally in museums, galleries, juried competitions, and private collections. Her work is broad in scope both in content and materials. The materials she has worked with both as a fine artist and a commercial artist, range from bronze (she has executed her own foundry work), clay, wood, plastics, etc., and all manner of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media. In terms of content, her work can range from narrative to abstract. Ms. Holman’s work expands many mediums to include assemblage , clay and cast bronze to a wide range of three-dimensional materials.
As a fine artist, Ms. Holman’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally in museums, galleries, juried competitions, and private collections. Her work is broad in scope both in content and materials. The materials she has worked with both as a fine artist and a commercial artist, range from bronze (she has executed her own foundry work), clay, wood, plastics, etc., and all manner of two-dimensional and three dimensional media. In terms of content, her work can range from narrative to high conceptualized. Ms. Holman’s work expands many mediums to include assemblage , clay and cast bronze to abide range of two dimensional materials
