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Chella is a graduate of Ball State University with a Bachelor of Science in Art
Education. She came to California in 1956, and over the past 40 years, while
teaching, also exhibited and won many awards with her own work in competitive
regional and national art shows. Her works are in many private collections.
This Indiana Hoosier is an accomplished artist in various media and styles
including non-representation and abstraction, but she
prefers "en plein aire" oil painting, working in ag-related subjects that is
part of the vanishing landscape. She also has
illustrated a cookbook, poetry book and is periodically an illustrator for an
international professional essay journal. With two
well-known local authors, she illustrated story books for Modesto's historic
McHenry Mansion.
Chella was two-term president of Central California Art Association/Mistlin
Gallery, Modesto. Served as president of both the Modesto Branch of the
National League of American Pen Women and Beta Sigma Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma. As an active aide in two youth art contests, she continues to work as a
strong art educational advocate in various other community agencies.
As an associate member of Oil Painters of America, Chella has
studied with nationallly known artists I Rice Pereira and Margo Hoff, as well as
California artists Art Sherwyn, Brian Blood, Bob Gerbracht, Stan Goldstein, E.
John Robinson, Gerald Brommer, Dan Petersen, Alexander Nepote, Peggy Knoll
Roberts, Robert Burridge and William Scott Jennings.
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