Lil' Bit Buddha by Carole L.  Olson


OLD FRIENDS

5th Annual Benefit Art Show
at
Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary
Saturday, July 28, 2007
10a.m.- 4 p.m.


The 5th annual art show to benefit the work of Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary: Eldercare and Hospice for Dogs, Horses, and Poultry featured Old Friends:  pastel paintings by renowned artist Carole L. Olson.  Carole has done wonderful portraits of many of the KSAS residents.  Carole donated a percentage of the event's sales to the sanctuary.  This was Kindred sprits most successful art benefit ever.  Thank you Carole!  Special thanks to our wonderful volunteers.  We could not hold such great events without your help.
About the Artist

Carole L. Olson showed talent at an early age, winning her first art competition at six.   As an Air Force dependent, she was exposed to many different locales and people.  Carole enrolled as a Fine Arts major at the University of New Mexico where she discovered her passion for painting.  She also produced a series of American Indian portraits after visiting several Indian Pueblos with  photographer  John Candelario.  Carole moved to California where she had an opportunity to work as a comedy writer. With her writing partner,  she created episodes for “The Jeffersons”, “Susan Slept Here” and “What’s Happening Now?”  Her studies included extensive animation course work  at the Animation Union School.  During this period, Carole also studied figure drawing in California and Italy with noted artist Glenn Vilppu.

     Carole worked as a paralegal in immigration law, her “day” job, to support her continuing art development. Realizing it was time to return to her true passion, painting, she sold her home in California and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She studied at Andreeva Portrait Academy, Valdes Art Center and the Santa Fe Community College with such notable artists as Tony Ryder, Linda Kyser Smith, James Roybal, Jane Shoenfeld and Kevin Gorges.  Today, Carole is actively pursuing her dream.  In addition to the Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary event, her work can be found at Santa Fe’s Back Street Bistro through August and at the Mark Zoeller Gallery on Canyon Road  from August 10-16th.   E-mail:  carole_olson@hotmail.com.   Website:  http://www.caroleolson.com/