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MaryAhls@comcast.net
Mary Whatley Ahls has 47 years of commercial and fine art experience.
She started her career as a screen print designer in high school in Georgia. A wonderful
friend of Mary’s father’s started selling her original printed fabric designs to clothing
manufacturers in New York, and she was hired to design, color separate, and sometimes print
fabric shirts for his business, GA Hand Prints.
She worked for him all through her high
school years. The money she made, paid for a commercial art and art history BFA and some
graduate work at the University of GA.
After graduation she had many careers with art: recreational art director for several cities,
freelance artist, TV set designer, biomedical photographer, medical illustrator and educational
artist, art teacher, commercial free lance advertising and designer, bead jewelry designer,
book illustrator and gallery owner. As a painter, here in Tucson, she has sold her work
locally, internationally and through out the US.
She worked as independent and corporate national sales person for several fortune 500
hundred companies, selling to fortune 500 companies, but always maintained her art as a
sideline. She retired from the corporate world at 54 to pursue her art at a full time level.
She works in all painting media: oil, acrylic, watercolor, color pencils, professional
crayons, and mixed. Her commercial art experience enables her to paint anything you
desire, on a commissioned basis.
Currently, she teaches private and group art classes, and shows her latest works in
Gallery 2402.
