VIP Biography for
Elma Troutman Connolly
 | Elma Troutman Connolly |
| Industry | Art |
| Title | Owner/Artist/Designer/Contractor |
| Expertise | Portraits, murals, fine arts, designing, building construction, accurate in portraying the past for museums, teaching, art restoration |
| Current Organization | Arts Etc Co. |
| Type of Organization | Construction and art design/manufacturing |
| Major Product | Natural history museum art, design, interior construction, sculpture, murals |
| Area of Distribution | International |
| University/Degree | Attended Lockhaven State Teachers College, Pennsylvania and Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania |
| Born | May 10, 1931, Middleburg, Pennsylvania |
| Affiliations | Susquehanna Art League; Economic Development Committee, Susquehanna Valley, Chamber of Commerce |
| Hobbies & Sports | Piano, sculpting, painting, gardening, writing, real estate |
| Career Accomplishments | Professional dancer, 1947-56 |
| Work History | From 1956 to 1974-painted portraits, paintings and taught art class; After marrying in 1973-formed Arts Etc Co.; 1974-Carriage Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, elk diorama; 1975-Nature Center, Winston-Salem, NC, passenger pigeon; 1976-Smithsonian Natural History Museum, South American Hall, 7 areas of South America; 1976-Harrisburg, PA State Museum, mastodon exhibit; 1977-George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles, CA, sculpture, murals, designing jewelry and costumes for La Brea Woman, entire museum and restoration of mural (antique) and statuary; 1978-Started art gallery in Idaho and taught art; 1979-Makah Cultural and Research Center, Neah Bay, WA, all artwork in museum; 1979-Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C., Canada, Fraser River background and foreground sculpture and wooly mammoth; designed dinosaur hall model for Los Angeles Museum of Natural History; 1980-Opened art gallery in Sunbury, PA, teaching; Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, MA dinosaur mural; 1981-African Hall murals and foreground sculpture for Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, MA; 1982-Big Cypress Nature Center, Everglades diorama, Naples, FL, built case, painted mural, made plants, sculpture foreground; 1983-Springfield Illinois State Museum, Indian Hall backgrounds, mound builders and Kickapoo Indians; 1985-Teaching art class, doing restoration for fix it factory and painting murals for decorator in condos, Nokomis, FL; 1987-Renovate commercial building in PA; Painting murals for education center in Taipei Zoo, Taipei, Taiwan; 1989-Renovate second building in PA; Opened art gallery; 1991-Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, African Hall, water hole background, Kudu exhibit background; 1994-Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Alaskan brown bear diorama background; 1997-Painting portraits, teaching art class and doing restoration; 1999-circus mural painting for restaurant |
| Children | Linda, 53; Kenneth, 51; Robert, 48; Terri (deceased) |
| Spouse | Kenneth Troutman, Jerome Connolly |
| Married | 1950, 1973 |
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