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- Betsy Mott
- 8907 East Alki
- Spokane, WA 99212
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- (509) 924-0964 (home)
- (509) 921-9253 (work)
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- Betsy Mott started oil painting at a YWCA workshop when she was 12 years old. But long before that she
- can remember spending hours dreaming up and sketching wild fantasy subjects and intense, precise,
- cherished media portraits.
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- A compulsive reader and researcher, Betsy avidly studied her way through high school (valedictorian,
- class of 1976) and then college, using an occasional oil painting to bribe a friend or teacher for extra
- brownie points. Betsy has a BA in theater/literature (Summa Cum Laude, Whitworth College, 1980), an
- MA in English Literature (Gonzaga University, 1983), and an MAT in Theater Arts (Gonzaga, 1985).
- (The theater department at Gonzaga had some very interesting and well-painted sets during those years.)
- During all this time, she kept painting, sketching, and dreaming... on weekends, during vacations, on
- summer holidays, and every other rare spare moment. After nine years of college, none of it in art (but all
- of it, she will argue, useful to the creation of art), Betsy decided she loved painting more than anything
- else she could do with her life.
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- For the past ten years, her media portrait and fantasy paintings and prints have been seen at science
- fiction conventions all over the country, and in fanzines (amateur magazines) and private collections
- around the world. Her awards include: People's Choice and First Place at Britannicon (1995); Best of
- Show, Best Color, and Best Science Fiction at Tachycon (1995); Best Science Fiction at Incon (1993);
- Best Pro Artist at Incon (1992); People's Choice Awards at Orycon 9 and Orycon 11; and many others.
- She is listed in the Directory of American Artists and is a member of the Association of Science Fiction
- and Fantasy Artists (ASFA).
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- With her brother and sister, Betsy currently owns and manages The Corner Store Fountain and Books in
- Spokane, Washington, where she can show her paintings, talk with fans and run downstairs to her art
- studio on a regular basis. She is a fourth generation Spokanite, a MENSAn, and a lifetime Mayflower
- Society member. Her hobbies include role-playing games, kayaking, researching obscure topics, and
- playing trumpet in local pit orchestras and bands.
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