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JO ANN L. KELLER

WATERCOLOR AND PAPER MACHE’ ARTIST

After an accomplished 30-plus year career in the field of finance, Jo Ann Keller has taken her life-long love of art and her artistic talents to create beautiful watercolors! While working full time and raising her family, Jo Ann found relaxation in art, creating quilts, pillows, table toppers and curtains for her home! Her love and expertise for quilting became widely known and turned into commissioned work, where she has created hundreds of quilts!

A talented, skillful, and commissioned quilter and sewer, Jo Ann also creates cross stitch, knitting, crochet, and floral arrangements for family and friends! Additionally, Jo Ann paints and restores outside concrete garden statues. Once completed the statues are stunning life-like creations! Jo Ann loves color, and painting provides her an outlet to demonstrate her love of color in an art form known as paper mache’. She paints the paper mache’ in vibrant colors and decorates them with tasteful embellishments to fitevery season!

Once she retired, Jo Ann shifted her focus to watercolor and the beauty this medium offers! As with everything art-related, Jo Ann is self-taught and has natural talent! She enjoys sharing her love of watercolor in the form of greeting cards and small wall art. Jo Ann has been a participating artist/maker with “Uniquely Made for You,” in Wadsworth, Ohio since their inception! Each watercolor card and paper mache’ item is a one-of-a-kind piece!

Jo Ann is married to her loving husband Larry and she has five children and three grandchildren!