Jane Kalmbach is a wildlife artist who lives in North Dakota- where she finds beauty and inspiration all around her. She specializes in dog portraits, often with her own black lab at her feet offering poses! Her pastel works have earned numerous awards, and are popular with hunters and animal lovers. Her faith and love of music is a theme repeated in her mixed media works. She loves to capture portraits in charcoal drawings- and has done many generational family portraits as commissioned work. She is an artist-in-residence for the North Dakota Council of Arts, has taught in schools for 8 years through the NDCA teacher incentive grants. This is her 4th year of instructing youth with the Junior Duck Stamp Contest, working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, and is co-founder and instructor of the Kenmare Summer arts program. Her work has sold around the country, has been donated to numerous private and public charities. She has shown her work in the Govenor's Office, N.D. capitol, private gallery shows, juried art shows, and numerous art and vendor shows around the state. You can contact her at [email protected] her web www.dakotablessings.com and her blog www.dakotablessings.wordpress.com