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Nostalgic images and subjects serving as a ministry to the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ are what Deby Gilley focuses on for her linoleum and woodcut prints. Many of the people and places represented are very well known to the artist. Her roots are anchored in and around Salem, Missouri, where her parents, and several generations before them were raised. Deby's father encouraged her need to create art by providing studio space in a warehouse that also served as dock space for a family trucking company he helped to operate. Deby attended McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas and earned a BA degree in Art in 1978. Later she completed the requirements to teach art in Missouri from Missouri State University in Springfield, and began her teaching career in 1981. For 13 years she was a K - 12 art teacher at Norwood R-1 Schools, taught middle school art four years in Mountain Grove, and then taught middle school art in Willow Springs for eight years and retired in 2006. In 1994, she took a graduate-level relief printmaking course at SMSU. It was the influence of her instructor, Dr. Rodney Frew, that sparked Deby's enthusiasm for printmaking. She continued her graduate studies and in 1996, earned an MS degree in Education with an emphasis in Art from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar. Since 1997, she has taught art history and studio art courses as adjunct faculty for SBU in Mtn. View, MSU in Mountain Grove, and Drury University in Licking. She currently teaches on the main campus of SBU as Printmaking and Basic Design instructor. Deby's prints have been shown in many Missouri art galleries and museums. These include: Texas County Art and History Museum in Licking; Shannon's Palette in Eminence; Star Theatre Annex in Willow Springs; Chestnut Hill Gallery in Thayer; History and Arts Center in Mountain Grove; Juanita K. Hammons Center, Bellwether Gallery, The Art Station, Gilloz Theatre, and The Front Porch Coffee Shop in Springfield; and The Driskell Gallery on the SBU campus in Bolivar. She has won numerous awards and cash prizes in many area art shows. Top honors include first place awards in the annual Missouri Art Education Association Teachers Exhibit, first place award in printmaking from the Great St. Louis Art Association, jurors choice and honorable mention awards in the Springfield Visual Arts Alliance juried shows, and being selected to the biannual event of Prints USA 1999, 2003 and 2007 at the Springfield Art Museum. Her new studio called Turkey Creek Studio is located on the Turkey Creek arm of Stockton Lake near Aldrich. She is married to Danny Gilley, has one grown son, Levi Blanchette, and attends Eudora Baptist Church of Walnut Grove. Turkey Creek Studio
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