Featured Volunteer:
February 2010
Ted Pankowski

Ted dates his passion for painting to reading Churchill’s essay Painting as a Pastime. Twenty years later, he found time to pick up a brush, yielding to a long dormant yearning. Like many members, Ted always thinks like an artist, seeing endless possibilities to paint. With various inspiring teachers, he has worked in oil, acrylic and watercolor and maintains affiliation with a variety of art organizations.

Based on his broad working experience, EAFA’s Grant and Organization Liaisons officer is well qualified for that eclectic job. Ranging from Congressional staff assistant to owner/ operator of a seafood restaurant to founder of community theater group and merchant seaman with the heart and eye of an artist, he has worked in a broad spectrum of jobs. The quality of his art work, proven by the number of shows in which he has been a winner plus his present activities, confirm his stature. Past President of EAFA, he now teaches at Art Umbrella, has published in Northlight Books and demos at Daniel Smith.

With all that going on in his life, I asked Ted what he did for fun. Along with walking two West Highland Terriers daily and being a father to a blended family with twin grandsons, he enjoys reading, history, movies, TV documentaries, and, of course, painting. As with his various careers, his subjects are landscapes, portraits, figures, whatever catches his eye. Ted is truly a renaissance man.