ARTWORK BY ANDREW RAESIDE

ARTIST STATEMENT

It hit me in an instant to become an artist at the age of 12. I remember the moment like yesterday. A sudden spiritual rebirth and everything had changed. I have been working on that project ever since.
I attended the University of Northern Iowa and received a Bachelor of fine arts degree in 1980. Then I began teaching art in 1995 at a school for children with mental, emotional and behavioral disabilities. I worked in a classroom setting with children between the ages of 5 & 20 and coordinated a visiting artist program that brought in professional artists to work with the students. After 27 years in that position I retired and moved to Dubuque IA to work on my own art career and to participate as a productive member of the Dubuque area arts community. Throughout that time my focus has been the Expressionist and Abstract Expressionist styles of painting and music as well. Please take time to view some of the works I have posted here.