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. She has taken many art, art history, and art criticism classes at U.C. Berkeley, California College of the Arts in Oakland, and at SJSU. She is truly fortunate to have studied under a many renown artist/professor in college and in private lessons.
She has been accepted into the Art in U.S. Embassy program in 2009. She has taught art at many prestigious art venues, like San José State University, Montalvo Arts, and Palo Alto Art Center. She has done educational consulting and art workshops for the Pleasanton and Dublin Unified School Districts.
Nalyne Lunati is Thai-American. The family moved to the U.S. when she was 5 years old after her father received a fellowship to University of Connecticut school of dentistry.
She is married to a native Frenchman. She speaks French, German, and Thai. 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.
She is also passionate about Samba and Afro Samba. She has performed in SF Carnival in 2007 with Ginga Brazil dance group.
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