{"id":9,"date":"2021-04-24T04:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T20:22:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Early life:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladd Bjorneby was born and raised in Kalispell, Montana. Kalispell has been an art-oriented community for decades. &nbsp;His mother, a teacher, was a portrait artist and weaver and his father was a jeweler. A neighbor, June Isaacs, taught oil painting in her home. &nbsp;His godmother, Charlotte Ebeltoft, took him to her cabin often, where he learned to know forest plants and animals.&nbsp;Ladd studied watercolor under Karen Leigh at Flathead Valley Community College in 1976-77.&nbsp; At Pacific Lutheran University, he studied drawing under Dennis Cox, Walt Tomsic and Ernst Schwidder; and landscape painting under Jens Knudsen, graduating with a B.A. in Biology in 1980.&nbsp; After two quarters of graduate work at the University of Washington, he withdrew to enter seminary.&nbsp; In 1983, Ladd&#8217;s design was chosen in competition to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.&nbsp; He designed subsequent logos for the fiftieth anniversary of the Going-to-the-Sun Road and for Glacier&#8217;s seventy-fifth anniversary.&nbsp; &nbsp;His work has been shown in several Montana galleries from 1976 until 1986.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beartrackart.com\/yahoo_site_admin\/assets\/images\/WGIPP_Logo.256175612_std.jpg\" alt=\"Peace Park Logo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Retirement and a New Studio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On retirement from his work as a Lutheran pastor serving congregations, Ladd joined the artists&#8217; co-op Avenue West Gallery.  He moved to Liberty Lake, Washington, where he lives in a community on the Spokane River, and has a spacious studio upstairs.  Painting is now a part of daily life and his work may be seen at Avenue West, as well as other venues and shows from time to time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early life: Ladd Bjorneby was born and raised in Kalispell, Montana. Kalispell has been an art-oriented community for decades. &nbsp;His mother, a teacher, was a portrait artist and weaver and his father was a jeweler. A neighbor, June Isaacs, taught oil painting in her home. &nbsp;His godmother, Charlotte Ebeltoft, took him to her cabin often, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beartrackart.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}