How can anyone teach for 38 years? They have to love what they do. With Janealla Killebrew, making art is her first love, and teaching it a close second.
That’s why when she quit going to school every day, Janealla kept right on teaching. She opened the Gaslight Gallery Art Studio and taught anyone who wanted to try to draw, paint, make scratch art, do collage, try their hand at book arts and various crafts, including mobiles and needle felting.
But that’s not all. Janealla also gives private art lessons in her home. Her students range from age 5 through 92. She has helped several of them produce college entrance portfolios and earn scholarships and awards.
Watercolor is Janealla’s medium of choice. Her detailed paintings bring the subjects to life creatively and realistically. In Studio #4 of the historic Jones Building in downtown Findlay, Ohio, Janealla’s paintings happen. There she does commissioned portraits, animal portraits, and paintings of homes, and has illustrated two children’s picture books and an adult short story.
An active member of the Findlay Art League, Janealla has served as President, Treasurer, Education Director, Gallery Chair, and has been a board member, and chaired many shows. She has won many awards for both her painting and her teaching. She is married to Jim Killebrew and has four grown children and seven grandchildren.