Discipline: Visual Art

Alice Asmar

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Burbank, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1959, 1960
At age 19, Alice Asmar received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. She taught French, art, and piano at St. Helen‘s Hall, for one year. She graduated from the University of Washington with an M.F.A. Her thesis was an innovative visual opera, Pelleas and Melisande. She was promoted to assistant professor in art at Lewis and Clark and she won a Woolley fellowship to study at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1959-60. During this same period, she worked for Boeing aircraft doing top-secret engineering drawings in aerodynamics. In the early 1960’s Asmar traveled to many countries in Europe and the Middle East. With a studio in southern California, she divided her time between teaching, illustrating for the Los Angeles Times, engraving for Nambe Mills in New Mexico, creating lithographic editions for publishers in New York, serving 16 years on the Burbank “Art In Public Places” committee, and participated in hundreds of group and solo exhibits in parks, fairs, department stores, libraries, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world.