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2008 Event Sponsors

Children's Art Stage Sponsor

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Electricity Work donated by

MalnarElectric

Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce

Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission

 Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold

Printed Materials Provided By    Premier Printing & Norman Falk

The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank  Deborah Anderson  and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event!

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

           Kim Howes Zabbia      

211 North Seventh Street,  Ponchatoula, LA 70454

985-386-9892           kimzabbia@huntbrothers.com

 

1974—BA—SLU—English and Journalism

1992—MFA—LSU—Studio Art

 

AuthorPainted Diaries: A Mother and Daughter’s Experience Through Alzheimer’s

          Fairview Press, 1996

 

·        Guest Lecturer—1990-2000—forty lectures around the country including the Byron D. Griffith Memorial Lecture at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, l993

 

·        Louisiana Governor’s Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease—l997-98

 

Teacher—Ponchatoula High School—33 years—1974-2007 (Retire May 30)

          Art I, II, III, & IV—average 150 students a day; Have a waiting list to get into Art I & II

 

Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year for the State of Louisiana—2006

 

Director—The Art Station, Art Classes for Adults

www.theartstationllc.com and 146 West Oak Street, Ponchatoula, LA

          Opens: June 1, 2007 with 13 teachers and 30 summer classes

         

Instructor—Assertive Discipline to all new teachers in Tangipahoa Parish each semester

as part of the F.I.R.S.T. program—1998-2007

 

Ponchatoula Public Arts Commission—1998-2006—Chair since 2000

          With the commission, raised over $160,000 in funds in six years. 

          Commissioned and unveiled two life-size bronze sculptures in downtown Ponchatoula as well as the Ponchatoula Strawberry Farmers’ Wall of Honor unveiled Aug., 2006

 

Ponchatoula’s Volunteer of the Year—2000

 

Hammond Arts Award for Art Education—1998 and 2004

 

Hammond Regional Arts Center Board of Directors—1999-2000

 

Percent for Art Committee—SLU—2003-04

 

Juror—Student Art Exhibits at LSU, SLU, and Slidell Cultural Center

 

Artist—12 Solo exhibitions since 1990

          Currently represented by Charlotte’s Webb Gallery, Ponchatoula, LA

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