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art to be featured
Marlene O’Neill will have her artwork featured at the Grangeville Bicentennial Museum on Border Days Weekend, July 2-3-4 from 1 to 5 p.m. each day. Her work will be in the Lower Level Gallery at the Museum, located at 305 North College St. O’Neill works primarily in oil; and also works in acrylic, watercolor, papier mache, pencil, and charcoal. She has been an active participant in art most of her life, but more so, since her retirement. She is an active member of Central Idaho Art Association and of the Salmon River Art Guild; she was an active member of the Pacifica Art Guild in California. She is a graduate of Art Instruction Schools with emphasis in Illustration; she has taken workshops from Ladd Arnoti, Stan Miller, Gloria Teats, Kay York, Valeria Yost, Charlotte Schacker, and Larry Ferguson. Her favorite artists are the Impressionists, especially Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissaro, and Claude Monet. Her quote about art is: “Feast your souls! We are surrounded by art. It is a timeless expression/communication that transcends all that divides humankind.” She is presently President of the Central Idaho Art Association. Besides creativity in artwork, she enjoyed singing in a San Francisco Gilbert and Sullivan theatre group—The Lamplighters. However, her most proud creative endeavor is her family. Marlene grew up on a dairy farm near Cottonwood, Idaho. She was the oldest of five, born to Delmer and Ethel Rad. She spent five holy years as a nun at the Monastery of St. Gertrude and was a teacher. While earning her B.A. at San Francisco State University in Anthropology, she met her future husband, Tom O’Neill, a police Captain with San Francisco PD and they have a son, Patrick who is still living and working in California. Marlene recently retired from a busy life in the San Francisco Bay Area where she spent the majority of her energy making a living. The living included being a secretary, a school teacher, a bank teller (yes, she was held up), a police officer then a deputy sheriff for Alameda County, an intelligence analyst in the USAR (she was one of the first in her Battalion to achieve Special Forces certification), she retired as Master Sergeant in the working position of First Sergeant; she held a private investigator license; she retired her civilian life from a management position at the San Francisco International Airport where she was the regulatory liaison between the Airport and the TSA.  |
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