Betty Louise Kubalak

A well-known artist, she was a founding member of the Printmakers Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia's Torpedo Factory Art Center. She created more than 600 original images for silkscreen print editions and she has been recognized with awards from the Art League and the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association. As part of the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities “Party Animals” project in 2001, Kubalak's elephant “Blue Sky” was displayed outside the Washington Post headquarters before being sold at auction.