Elantu B. Veovode

Elanut's education in the arts has come by way of my her ferocious curiosity and wide variety of life experiences. In 1972, she was fortunate to meet Aggeak Quakjuk, a prominent Inuit artist, and studied the Inuit perspective in art with him for two years. Russian was her focus of study in college, and in 1986, she conveyed that to her advantage and won a grant to study a Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. The focus of her work there was "Pre-Christian Elements in Eastern European Folk Art." Although she is not a native to New England, she lived in Vermont and in the Greater Boston area for nine years, and her work there attracted the attention of the New England Arts Council. She was one of twenty-six artists invited to show at the Helen Day Museum show of New England artists. Recent shows include the North Texas Irish Festival where one of her pieces was selected as the best in the traditional category. After earning her Bachelor of Arts from Valdosta State University in 2018, Elantu immediately started working on her MFA at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where she is set to receive her MFA in May 2020. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, PA founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Its archives house important materials for the study of American art history, museums, and art training. She has multiple manuscripts in various stages of development in addition to her expansive body of fine artwork.