Artist Steve Songer resides in Huntsville, Utah, where he and his wife, Pat, raised their six children. The area surrounding his home in this mountain valley has inspired many of his paintings through the years.
Steve
graduated from Weber State University in 1971 with a B.S. Degree in
Commercial Art and again in 1973 with a B.S. Degree in Art Education.
Returning to school in 1983, he received his M.F.A. in Painting from
Utah State University. In 1989, Steve had the opportunity to study at
the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Steve began his art career as a designer for Marveon Sign Company. He
later went into teaching art on the high school level and found it to
be both challenging and satisfying. He has received numerous awards for
his dedication to the students. Among those awards were: Utah State
University 'Art Teacher of the Year' (four state area) in 1985,
'Teacher of the Year' for Weber School District in 1988, first
runner-up to 'Utah Teacher of the Year' in 1988, and USWEST's
'Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the state of Utah' in 1991. In
1997, after 25 years of teaching, Steve retired from the classroom to
devote himself full-time to painting.
Steve
is a very accomplished painter. In the past twenty-five years, he has
been featured in many invitational art exhibitions, receiving numerous
awards such as: 1st Place in the Eccles Statewide Competition, 1st
place in the St. George Art Festival and Award of Merit from Utah
Watercolor Society. More recently he won the purchase award at both the
Springville Salon and the Dixie Invitational. This year, Steve had a
painting selected for the permanent collection of the Utah State
Division of Fine Arts. His paintings can be found in private
collections throughout the world.
