Nola de Jong Sullivan

Nola de Jong Sullivan was raised in Provo, where, after sojourns elsewhere, she presently resides. Her art interests began in grade school with painter Flora Fisher and received further development in the art classes of B. F. Larson at the BYU summer campus at Aspen Grove. In junior high school she was encouraged by Virla Birrell and, during her college years, by Roman Andrus. She studied at the California School of Arts and Crafts and the New York School of Visual Arts. In addition, she benefited from an immersion in the arts of the United States and Europe in the company of her parents, Gerrit de Jong and Rosabelle Winegar de Jong and others as well. With her husband, Clyde E. Sullivan, she visited and painted in China, many European countries, the Caribbean, and Mexico. Watercolor expresses Nola’s personality, and she is a joyful teacher of children and adults. For many years she has used art therapy with hand￾icapped people in New York, California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. She has participated in many juried shows and one-person shows. Her painting Wet Boats is in the permanent collection of the National Mu￾seum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., the first all-woman’s art museum in the world. Some of her award-winning paintings are presently in the Utah Valley Art Guild exhibit. Among the art societies of which she has been a member are the Utah Watercolor Society, Utah County Art Board Pageant of the Arts, and the Art Section of the Provo Women’s Council. She has served as a docent at the Springville Museum of Art and the BYU Museum of Art.