Bio
Education
Gini graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from San Jose State University under Maynard Stewart, with a concentration on life drawing and painting.
Continuing Education and Workshops Completed
Believing that there is no alternative to good training and hard work, she studied intensively with George Strickland and the late Wellington Smith.
- Master Portrait Workshop – Harley Brown
- Portrait Workshop – Daniel Greene
- Portrait Workshop – Bob Gerbracht
Experience
- Owner of Campbell Art Studio where she hold classes in oil painting and drawing as well as creates commissioned paintings
- Oil Painting Instructor – Truckee Meadows Community College main campus and community services division
- Oil Painting Instructor – Namaste Art Center (1992 – 1995)
- Oil Painting Instructor – Reno Senior Citizen’s Center (1992-1994)
- Oil Painting Instructor – Physician’s Hospital (1993)
Commissioned Work Highlights
- Portrait of Federal Court Judge Howard McKibben to hang in the Federal Court Building in Reno, Nevada
- Portrait of Reverend James Jeffries to hang in Trinity Episcopal Church in Reno, Nevada
Shows and Displays
- Gini is the first and only artist to have been invited for a one-man show at the National Automobile Museum the Harrah’s Collection, where they opened the entire venue to Gini’s guests and personally escorted them throughout the museum
- One-Man Show – Faces of Nevada, People of Value (1996)
- One-Man Show – The Unknown Rose (1998)
- The Magic of Realism – National Automobile Museum the Harrah’s Collection (2003)
- Featured Artist – Stein Gallery (September 2013)
- Member – The Nevada Museum of Art (2001 – as part of Artouring Show)
- Member – Artouring Show
- Member – Reno Open Studios Tour
- Participant – California Avenue’s “Amblin’ on the Avenue”
- Participant – Arts on the Green (1995-96)
- Participant – Starving Artist Show (2001-4)
Guest Demonstrations
- Oil Painting Techniques – Northern Nevada Artists Association
- Oil Painting Techniques – Latimer Club Meeting
- Still Life and Portraiture – El Dorado Casino Artown Celebration (July 1997)
- Oil Painting – Artown multiple years
- Oil Painting – Evelyn Mount
Volunteer Work
- Angel Kiss
- Artouring (2000- Present)
- Board Member, Distribution Chair and Active Member – Reno Open Studios
- Contributed knowledge and skill in creating display, “Cartones,” for Harrah’s National Automobile Museum
- Houses for Habitat
- Mathewson IGT Knowledge Center Building
- Nevada Speech Language Hearing Association
- Past President – Artist’s Co-op of Reno
- Past Secretary – Nevada Artist’s Association
- Portrait Workshop of Nevada
- Riverwalk
- Rotary
- Scenic Nevada – Quick Draw
- Special Congressional Recognition 2008 – Sierra Artists Guild
- Susan B. Komen
- University of Nevada, Reno Library (Chair-it-y Adopt a Chair Auction)
- Very Special Arts