Contact Information
Email: clarissaelove@gmail.com
About Clarissa
Clarissa Love is a Nebraska artist and author who discovered her artistic ability in 1990. Realizing her talent led her to experiment mix media and she enrolled in art class at Omaha Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. The first subjects for her work were African and Native American portraits and wildlife.
She wanted more the quest for drawing and the knowledge of the subjects became so overwhelming that traveling through printed pages of written history and images, she developed her own style using colored pen and ink capturing beauty of the images. To further her artistic interest held art exhibits with well-known artists and sculptors, and illustrated an Award-Winning Children Book, “Rainbows and Sunflowers for Tia”. Clarissa was given a great opportunity to express her profound joy in art and counseling to open and operate a senior residential center.
Love is a two-time breast cancer survivor, after the first diagnosis of cancer, she enrolled in college at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and graduated at the age of 75. Realizing, while attending college art is the ability to express not only beauty, the journeys, and contributions but is also a way of giving voices to Black Americans.
She understands two things; “First, creating keeps her going she lives for learning and sharing the value “joy of art”. Second, time is not forever, so my time is limited to create art.” And you must know where you have been to know where you are going.
Mother of three children, two sons, one daughter, six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.