I’m proud to have a show with my first painting teacher, Kelvin Seabolt. He was my drawing teacher in private classes when I was eleven years old. While in 8th grade, I was allowed to register for college credit painting classes with Kelvin. In the years to come, he would take me to countless museums to see the work of the Masters. We would go to libraries to research color theory. I will always be thankful for his early guidance and continual friendship.
The show runs from November 2nd through December 7th in the Ellen Von Dehsen Elmes Gallery on the campus of Southwest Virginia Community College.
Here’s a description from the show’s press release:
This union of art teacher, Kelvin Seabolt, and art student, Perry Johnson, has spanned over thirty years, and is being celebrated in this exhibition of their recent works. As a mentor for young Johnson in community children’s art classes in Tazewell County, Virginia, and later, as his teacher of oil painting at Southwest Virginia Community College, Seabolt sparked the fire of their life-long shared passion for art. Today, both are highly-acclaimed professional artists, and both are teachers – Perry Johnson as an Assistant Professor of Painting at Tennessee Technological University, and Kelvin Seabolt as the Elementary Art Instructor for the eastern region of Tazewell County Schools.
