Biography
Terrece Crawford
Terrece Clarke-Crawford is an artist, mother of 2 teenage sons and a Kindergarten teacher at Pleasant Prairie Elementary School with the Kenosha Unified School District No. 1. She has accumulatively taught 14 years of Kindergarten and First Grades, as well as an Art Teacher for two years for grades 1-12 at a private school in Kenosha, Wisconsin where she resides.
In the spring of 2007 Terrece graduated from Carthage College in Kenosha with a Masters Degree in Creative Arts. Terrece has always been an artist inside, but it was not until she pursued her Masters Degree that she discovered her God-given artistic talent. Upon accomplishing her graduate degree, she was hired at Carthage College as an Adjunct Professor in the Education Department teaching Creative Arts. However, an unsuspected battle with breast cancer put her life on hold.
During Terrece's battle with a breast cancer diagnosis in August 2007-2008, she used her artistic ability to express her journey with cancer and proved to be a prolific artist, using her gift to not only help herself, but to encourage and inspire other cancer patients, family and friends with hope throughout their journeys as well.
Terrece's goal is to bring hope and inspiration to people with her artwork.
Carthage College has one of Terrece's self-portraits in their permanent art collection. She has also had artwork published, currently has artwork touring with the 2008 Lilly Oncology on Canvas International art competition as well as a self-portrait currently entered in the National Portrait Competition sponsored by the Smithsonian. Terrece has two commissioned pieces, one already completed and another piece she is currently working on.
Several areas of interest for Terrece in art mediums are drawing, charcoal, painting with pastels, acrylics and acrylic/mixed-media collage, ceramics and fused glass. As an artist, Terrece is also interested in pursuing new ideas and expanding her talent beyond her current abilities into encausitc with oil paint as well as watercolor.
Besides her art exhibition for her graduate program Terrece was honored by the world-class Cancer Treatment Centers of America where she received her breast cancer treatment as they sponsored an art exhibition of all of her artwork that she accomplished during her breast cancer journey, including a huge 4-piece acrylic/mixed media collage that she made for the CTCA of her journey, including pictures of other patients, caregivers, Doctors, Nurses and other staff from the CTCA.