Mary Whatley Ahls
Mary Whatley Ahls
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Creative Medium: and cards., Ceramics, Drawing, Furniture, Glass, Home/Decor, Jewelry, large paintings, Leather, Mary Ahl's work consists of small window sill art, Metal, Mixed Media 2D & 3D, Other, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Wood
About the Artist
Mary Whatley Ahls has 60 years of commercial and fine art experience.She started her career as a screen print designer in high school in Georgia. She started selling her original printed fabric designs to clothing manufacturers in New York, and was hired to design, color separate, and sometimes print fabric shirts for business. The money she made, paid for a double major, BFA and graduate work at UGA.
After graduation she had many careers with art: recreational art director for several cities, freelance artist, TV set designer, biomedical photographer, medical illustrator and educational artist, art teacher, commercial free lance advertising and designer, bead jewelry designer, book illustrator and gallery owner. As a painter, here in Tucson, she has sold her work locally, in the US and internationally.
She worked as a national sales person for several fortune 500 hundred companies, selling to fortune 500 companies, but always maintained her art as a sideline. At 54 she retired and pursued her art.
She does all painting medias; oil, acrylic, watercolor, color pencils, professional crayons, and mixed.
Currently, she teaches private and group art classes, and works and sells out of her own studio at 3830 N Pantano Drive, Tucson.
