Cathi Ball graduated from Tarleton State University at the age of 46 and was named “Outstanding Student” for Fine Arts and Speech. In addition to teaching at Stephenville H.S. and Eastland H.S., she also has taught sign language at her local church where she interprets for the deaf.

Cathi has her pilot’s license and has become a graduate from The Greenbriar Cooking School. She is a welder, sculptor, and illustrative artist. Her exhibits include weaving, wood, and metals. She is a multifarious artist emerging in Texas today and continues to be creative in new ways.

If to look at her life………look at her sketchbooks…….favorite way of sharing her work.
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Education
University of North Texas, Masters of A.R.T.E.. minor in Metals 2005
Tarleton State University, BA – 1993-96
Tarrant County College – IFD Program 1992/3
Cisco Junior College – Associates Degree 1990/5
TCU – 1968/70
Eastern Hills High School – Ft. Worth, Texas 1968

Work Experience
Cathi's Corner in Townmaker Square - retail 2013 - present (owner)
Howard Payne University, 1000 Fisk Street, Brownwood, Texas 76801 -Fall 2005 - 2010
Eastland I.S.D. – 900 W. Plummer, Eastland, Texas 76448
Supt. Donald Hughes, 254 629-5000
Upstairs Gallery Arlington, Workshop 2001
Art Workshops – Eastland
Stephenville High School – student teaching
Frost Bank Tour Group Guide 06
Abilene – Sketchbook Workshop 06
Brownwood – Sketchbook Workshop 06
Sedan, Kansas – Drawing Workshop 07, Sketching 07

Home school workshops 2013-14 - Mosaic, drawing
Drawing - Tri County Tech - Pawhuska, Ok
Sketching - Pawhuska High

Eastland Outdoor Museum updates

Founder of The Eastland Outdoor Art Museum
–42 sites, May 02 – Nov 05
Eastland Chamber of Commerce – Golden Deeds Award, 2006
Curtis Fine Arts Plaza, Board of Directors 2006
Art Commissioner, Sedan, Kansas 2006-7
Eastland Art Center - Board 2010

Pawhuska Arts and Restoration Committee 2011 - present
2012 , 2013 Nominated State Artist of Texas

Lyric Theater Restoration Board 2013-14

strong>Pawhuska Christmas Parade Judge 2014

Memberships
Osage Cattlewomen
Oklahoma Cattlewomen
Preserving Arts in the Osage
TAEA
NAEA
TASA

Eastland County Arts Incubator - Board

Philbrook Museum

Bartlesville Art Association

Woolaroc

Former member
Amon Carter Museum Member
Old Jail Art Center – Albany
Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts
Brownwood Fine Arts Association

Judging – Speaking

NAEA Convention – March 2006 Eastland – The Texas Fort and Trails Historical Association – Speaker – Feb 06
Brownwood Fine Arts Association – Sketching – Jan 2006
TAEA Conference 2005 – UNT Project
TCC NW Fine Art Department Lecture – The Eastland Outdoor Art Museum
Grandbury Rio Brazos Art Festival 2002
US Congressman Stenholm Art Contest, Abilene 2003
Twelve-County Art Show, Ft Worth 2003
National Arts Education Association – Presenter, Implementing Technology in the Arts Classroom, March 2006
Texas Trails and Forts Board Meeting, Speaker, Eastland Outdoor
Art Museum February 2006
Brownwood Fine Arts Center – Sketching, Jan 06
Sedan, Kansas – Civic Arts Projects Presentations, August 2006
Abilene, Center for Contemporary Arts – Sketching, October 2006
KXOL – radio talk show 2006
Fort Worth Frost Bank – tour guide, guest speaker
Eastland Outdoor Art Museum 06
TAEA Conference November 2006, Ft. Worth – Put Your Art Program on the Map
Sketching – Sedan, Kansas, June 2007
Sketching – Coleman, Texas October 2007
TAEA Convention, November 2007, Galveston, Texas - The Eastland Outdoor Art Museum, TASA Convention, Austin, Community Art, The Easltand Outdoor Art Museum, April 2010, Abilene Intercollegiate Art Competition, Judge, May 2010

Eastland Art - Fall Fling Juror

Art Director - Camp Woolaroc 2011. 2012

Eastland Lion's Club - Guest Speaker

Publications

Cover and Author’s portrait
– On the Border by Cleatus Rattan, Poet Laurate of Texas 2005
Cover and insert – Lisa Bonclear CD, In His Presence
Cover and illustrations (submitted)– The Well Connected Child, Dr. Karen Purvis, 06
TCU Press

Cover -- Ronnie Allman CD 2015

Heart of a Finisher
Cooking with WOW, Cathi Ball, July 2006, A Lick of Sense with Paul Howie 2009, A Lick of Sense.2, 2010, Cooking withMimi, 2010, "Parfleche.....what is it?" Accepted for publication, SchoolArts Magazine, Working Ranch Magazine, photography, May 2010, Psalms 91, Peggy Joyce Ruth, "Taylor's Story",Sept 2010. A Lick of Sense 3 - 2014

Media Coverage
Abilene Reporter News, Paint The Town, February 22, 2004
The Messenger, Summer 2004
The Collegian, Tarrant County College, February 16, 2005
WFAA News, John Pronk, 2006
Abilene Reporter News August 06
Howard Payne University – September 06
Eastland Telegram – October 06
Brownwood Bulletin, Cathi Ball to be guest presenter for Art Association January 8, 2006
Sedan Times – Fall 06
Eastland Telegram
Texas Highways Magazine

Tulsa Tourism Magazine

Bartlesville Magazine 2011

Exhibits
Langdon Cultural Center, Granbury, One Woman Show, July 1997
Women of Worth Show, UNT Health Science, Ft. Worth, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002
Tarleton Gallery Senior Show 1996
Cisco Junior College – Art and Photo 1994-5
Eastland Majestic Theater – 10 year anniversary, l997
Eastland, project watercolor, Main Street Center
Albany Watt Matthews Days, Old Jail Art Center
Albany First National Bank – Jan 1998
NRH Gallery – Ft. Worth
Abilene Center for Contemporary Arts “No Bull It’s Buffalo” herd 2000
Miniatures – 12/01, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center – May 2002
“Wall-to-Wall Cathi Ball”, One Woman Show May 2002
Sculpture – Sept 2002
Dallas – Craig Michael
Tarleton Homecoming Ex Show 2002
Eastland Outdoor Art Museum – Civic Project , 41 sites, May 2001 – Nov 05
Sedan Kansas, Art Walk, Creator, Curtis Fine Arts Plaza, August 06-07
Emmett Kelly Clown Museum – Circus Poster Paintings (2), October 06
Blue Grass Festival, Sedan, Kansas, Art Exhibit – June 2007
Leon River Cowboy Church, design exterior (in progress), Olden, Texas Eastland Art Center, Art Herstory.......Howard Payne University Students Exhibit, Sept 2010

Sweet P's, Bartlesville, Oklahoma2011

Townmaker Square, Pawhuska, Oklahoma 2011- present

Eastland Fine Art Center - Ongoing Exhibit Mosaics 2011
Pawhuska, Oklahoma - Fall Show 2011

Osage County Fair 2015

Lyric Theater - Guitar Exhibit with Hollis 2012

Bartlesville Art Show 2013

St. John's School

Osage County Fair 2015

I am and older teacher with a new education. I believe that this makes me more prepared for the job of dealing with children. I have raised three children; all have completed master’s level degrees. I graduated between my two oldest children. It certainly made them realize the importance of finishing college at a young age.

I love to work and love to teach. It has surprised me that the students respond so well to me, but, I have a great rapport with students. Student-teaching at Stephenville High School was the inspiration for me to take a local teaching job. The students encouraged me to teach and so did my supervising teacher. It was a wonderful experience where I learned not only to educate, but, to make it fun.

I am active in many art organizations and have even created an entire outdoor art museum in my town. Working on the project, I involved 144 people from Eastland in art projects. I like to include civic art projects in my class and try to inspire the love of art in all of my students. I have also presented at 3 state and a national art convention. I have a proposal submitted for the fall for the Texas Art Education Association convention in San Antonio. Currently presentations on sketching have been requested and I have taught “Sketchbooks” in several different Texas towns, and Sedan, Kansas. Last year I was Commissioner of the Arts for Sedan and we remodeled an old lumber yard into a Fine Arts Center for children.

I believe that art and creativity are the core of human pleasure and enjoyment. I strive to instill a life-long love of the arts in my students. It is especially important in the climate of today, where art may be eliminated from schools, that we teach art with careful instruction. If we do not make art important, there may not be art in the future. I believe that we all have a creative style and as an art teacher, my job is to help students develop their taste and ability. I am committed to educating each child to their full potential. This semester my first two art educators will graduate and two more with art degrees from classes I taught in high school. The last semester I taught high school, we had 17 are majors from 54 graduates.

It is my future plan to complete my doctorate in Online Instruction.