ROGER
ARMSTRONG
Painter, Educator
EDUCATION
1934-1938 Pasadena City College
1939-1941 Chouinard Art Institute
1948-1950 Chouinard Art Institute
PROFESSIONAL
AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1963-1965 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Museum Director
Including but not limited to following course work:
Basic Painting, Drawing and Composition, Beginning and Advanced Watercolor,
Figure Drawing, Cartooning.
1967-1986 Laguna Beach School Of Art, CA
1974-1976 Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, CA
1974-1976 California State University at Fullerton, CA
1975-1977 Pasadena City College, CA
1978 Saddleback Community College, CA
1980-1990 Orange Coast College, CA
1987-present Irvine Fine Arts Center
1988-present Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
City of Santa Fe Springs
City of Pico Rivera
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Laguna Beach Museum of Art
Banking House of Rothschild, San Francisco
Over 200 private collections
GROUP SHOWS
National Watercolor Society 1963-1984
Masters of Watercolor,
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1968
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach 1961-1980
Orange County Annual, 1961 second prize
Pico Rivera Art Festival, 1963 first purchase prize
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA 1992
Stary-Sheets Gallery, Irvine CA 1992
ONE MAN SHOWS
Aguajita del Sol, Sedona AZ, 1992
AFSC Gallery, Pasadena, 1992
City Hall Gallery, Pasadena, 1992
Challis Galleries, Laguna Beach, 1983
Ettinger Gallery, Laguna Beach, 1979 and 1982
Dixi Hall Gallery, Laguna Beach, 1954
Griswold’s, Pomona CA
REPRESENTED
Stary-Sheets Gallery, Irvine, CA
LISTED
Who’s Who in the West, (1983-’84 edition)
Who’s Who in American Art (since 1950)
Transparent Watercolor, Jerry Brommer
Landscapes, Jerry Brommer
Experimental Watercolor, Al Porter
Artists Of Southern California, 1989
Artist Network, 1992
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
National Watercolor Society (President 1984-’85) (Life member)
Artists Equity, Inc.
Laguna Beach Art Association (Life Member)
Niguel Art Association (Life Member)
GROUP LEADER --
1984-to present
Overseas and Domestic Painting Workshops
Trips to: Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia,
Mexico, Belgium, Sedona AZ, and Santa Fe, NM.
AWARDS
1990 Honorary Ph. D. from Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach,
CA
1992 Golden Award, Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists
1976 Bicentennial Award from Cypress College, Meritorious Contribution to American
Culture