Studio UFO

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. Her piece Chrysalis can be viewed in the lobby of the Mt.