Charleston resident Alice Ann Dobbin has been drawing and painting since she was old enough to hold a pencil.  Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was selected to attend special classes for the artistically gifted while still in elementary school.  The classes were held at what later became Carnegie Mellon University, an incubator of talent, producing many nationally prominent artists.   

   A gifted writer as well, she graduated with a degree in  from Pennsylvania State University and  won numerous graphic awards in the field of communications.   She later obtained her art degree, graduating magna cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College where she was honored with the prestigious Beta Scholar designation  by the president of the college.

    Dobbin was an adjunct professor at Washington and Jefferson College for two years, and also taught art at high school and elementary  levels. She has also worked as a private consultant in art and graphic design.  During her years as a teacher, she pioneered the integration of art history into the practical arts curriculum at all educational levels (K-12).  She has written extensively about the value of art to the learning process of youngsters.  For more than twenty years, she has focused on her profession as an oil painter.

       Although she currently works exclusively with oil paint, her extensive body of work includes etchings, mezzotints, watercolors and pastels. She is a VIP member of the Cambridge Who's Who, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society,  and a Signature Member of Artists for Conservation. 

        Her work appears in numerous private, public, and corporate collections throughout the United States, Europe and Australia and is included in the collection of a former US president.

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