Trish Harding has discovered that through teaching and sharing her

knowledge of art she also reaps the benefits. Teaching provides a

support community that she found lacking in her life after moving back to

Bellingham from San Francisco where she studied fine art and illustration

at the Academy of Art College. Creating lesson plans and demos has not

only helped hundreds of other artists understand and see their work with

more clarity, but it has also helped her more deeply internalize the

information herself. Everything from facilitating art discussions to hiring

models for the figure-based classes has allowed her to bring more

richness and dimension to her own art, which she actively pursues in

addition to teaching at Whatcom Community College and her own Studio

UFO at 301 West Holly Street, Bellingham.

Trish is an award-winning artist and works in such disciplines as

watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastel, ceramic, and printmaking. Trish shows and

competes regularly and has been affiliated with many benefits through

the years such as Heartworks, Evergreen Aids Foundation, Reaching for

the Light, Boys & Girls Club, Arthritis Foundation and the Mt. Baker

Theatre Renovation to name a few. Her piece Chrysalis can be viewed in

the lobby of the Mt. Baker Theatre.