Nalyne Lunati holds a Master of Fine Arts from San José State University and a Bachelor of Arts from U.C. Berkeley in Political Economy with a minor in Business Administration. She has been studying fine arts since she was 12 years old. In addition to private lessons with master painter Vibul Wonprasat, she has taken many art and art history classes at U.C. Berkeley, California College of the Arts in Oakland, and at SJSU.
She was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Her mother taught drawing and painting at the fine arts college in Bangkok while her father was a professor of Pathology at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. The family moved the U.S. when she was 5 years old when her father received a fellowship to University of Connecticut school of dentistry.
She is married to a native Frenchman and has two Belgian Tervurens, who were rescued from the county shelter. She has traveled quite a bit around the world to exotic and remote locations. The Maldives, various islands in French Polynesia, Belize, France (7 times!), Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, Hawaii, Guadeloupe in the French Antilles Caribbean and Mexico are some of the places she has visited. She is intrigued by indigenous cultures and strive to learn their customs. She considers the world as a classroom where new lessons are being learned everyday.
She has many years of experience teaching art to all age groups, including at San José State University. She has been accepted into the Art in U.S. Embassy program in 2009. Her passion for teaching art to children and entrepreneurial spirit have led her to open Kids Love Art School of Fine Arts. She has done educational consulting and art workshops for the Pleasanton Unified School District. Montalvo Arts Center, in Saratoga, has employed her several times as an art educator and as an artist. She also taught painting and drawing for the Palo Alto Art Center. She really enjoys working with the children and parents from the Tri Valley.
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