Rita has loved to draw for as long as she can remember. In college the art classes she took for an elementary education degree were her favorite ones.

In the years that followed, oil was her choice of medium. Though she laid her art aside while marrying and raising two daughters, her passion for art was again renewed when they went to college. She has taken watercolor workshops and classes from well-known artists such as Mel Stabin, Tony Van Hasselt and Greta Schelke. Currently, her teachers are renown oil artists, Jim Schelle and Marc Chatov.

Rita serves in the Creative Arts Ministry at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in East Cobb by entering paintings in their themed gallery, "Glimpses of Glory", which changes quarterly. Rita was selected to have a solo show there called "Instruments for His Glory."

Teaching art to elementary students with the Timothy Ministry, an enrichment program for home school students, in Marietta and Woodstock keeps her busy. She also teaches art at The Art Place with Cobb County. 

Rita's paintings have been selected for juried shows at the Atlanta Artists Center in Buckhead, the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art (The Metro Montage), the Roswell Visual Arts Center, Mt Bethel United Methodist Church, JFBC juried exhibit (Seasons) and the Abernathy Arts Center.

Rita was  featured, along with the JFBC Glimpses of Glory gallery, in the Marietta Daily Journal. Click here to read the article:
http://www.mdjonline.com/articles/2004/12/10/93/10165647.txt