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Angela Mikula is an artist and art educator working primarily in painting and ceramics. Her work has been featured in magazines and exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. Art has always been essential to her well-being, and that conviction led to a career teaching art in the United States and abroad. She uses art-making as a bond between nature and self and as a means of a deeper communication with others.

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Angela's extensive teaching career both in the United States and Greece have greatly influenced her artistic path. As a US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Award recipient, she completed a fellowship at University College London's Institute of Education, where she developed resources bridging art education and art therapy, including an illustrated children's book on mindfulness through art-making. Alongside her husband and son, she resides in Guanacaste Costa Rica and Lambertville, New Jersey.  She currently teaches art appreciation at Rutgers University and works with a nonprofit in Costa Rica to bring art education to children who lack access to it in public schools.

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Angela’s current work in watercolors are inspired by the beauty of the Costa Rican landscape and its rich biodiversity. The large scale watercolors aim to envelop the viewer in the density of color, shapes and light of the tropical forest. Seed pods represent the nature of fertility.

 

Her current sculptural works in clay aim to capture the spirit of her family and the community in which she lives. Designed as portraits in clay, Angela creates torsos with concave features to act as alters in which meaningful tokens emulate the values of the individual and celebrate what makes them unique.