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 Biography - ​Wendell Graham,  Artist


Unique, colorful, and creative are just a few words used to describe Wendell’s work. Her extraordinary use of texture and color are constants in each of her pieces.   She plays with oil, acrylic and watercolor paints, dyes, inks, colored pencils, and crayons often adding flora, feathers, wax, wood or other sources to create her unique textured style in her paintings and sculptures. 

Wendell began her art career as a graphic illustrator in the Army in 1978.  Shortly thereafter, she became a photojournalist and went on to work in public affairs, training and operations, education and professional development.  She  retired as a Command Sergeant Major from the Rhode Island Army National Guard after 28.5 years and finished an 18-year career at Boston University in Employment and Training.  Wendell with her husband, Tom McLaughlin relocated to Bradenton, Florida where she creates her art and also volunteers as a Guardian ad Litem with Manatee County's 12th Circuit Court and also volunteers as an "Adult Buddy" with the Early Learning Coalition Literacy Buddy Program in Sarasota County.   
 
She believes in helping others through volunteer work and "painting/passing it forward" to those in need whether it be by assisting in community service, donating her time, or through some daily act of kindness.  Wendell carries this passion over into her artwork by donating a portion of her art sales and/or monetary awards to various charities.*


A supporter and promoter of the arts, she is a member of ArtCenter Sarasota(Sarasota, Florida); Past President of the Artists' Guild
 of Anna Maria Island (Holmes Beach, Florida); Signature Member of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society; Signature Member of the Florida Watercolor Society; Light Chasers: Plein Air Painters of the Suncoast (Sarasota, Florida); Signature Member of the Southern Watercolor Society and a WEDU Arts Plus Partner.

She is represented by the Artists' Guild of Anna Maria Island Gallery at 5414 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach, Florida.  
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*Organizations Who Have Received Charitible Donations (Funds, Goods, or Services) from FineArtbyWendell

Anna Maria Island Chalk Festival (Florida)
Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce (Florida)
Anna Maria Island Concert Chorus and Orchestra (Florida)
​Anna Maria Island Elementary School (Holmes Beach, FL)
Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch & Shorebird Monitoring (Florida)
ArtCenter Manatee (Bradenton, FL)
ArtCenter Sarasota (Sarasota, FL)
Artists' Guild of Anna Maria Island (Holmes Beach, FL)

 Boston Bruins Foundation PMC Team (Boston, MA)
​Brunch for the Bay (Sarasota, FL)
Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown, MA)

Children's Guardian Fund (Sarasota, FL)
Community Center of Anna Maria Island (City of Anna Maria, FL)
Cultural Connections of Anna Maria Island (Florida)

Early Learning Coalition Literacy Buddy Program (Sarasota, FL)
Florida Maritime Musem (Cortez, FL)
Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society (Florida)
​Florida Watercolor Society (Florida)
Just for Girls (Manatee County Girls Club, Inc.) (Bradenton, FL)
Longboat Key Turtle Watch (Longboat Key, FL) 
Manatee County Audubon Society (Bradenton, FL)
Manatee Library Foundation (Bradenton, FL)

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, FL)
Moonracer No Kill Animal Rescue (Holmes Beach, FL)
Mote Marine (Sarasota, FL) 
National 
Big Horn Sheep Interpretive Center (Dubois, WY)
Fashioned Florida Christmas in the Park (Palmetto, FL)
Sarasota Bay Watch (Sarasota, FL)
Save Our Seabirds (Sarasota, FL)

Sergeants Major Association of Rhode Island (Rhode Island)
Service Club of Manatee County (Bradenton, FL)
Southeastern Guide Dogs (Palmetto, FL)
WEDU Arts Plus (Tampa, FL)
Wildlife Center of Venice (Venice, FL)
Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation of Anna Maria Island (Bradenton Beach, FL)


 
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