Jean HironsJEAN HIRONS is an avid painter and teacher of pastel. She has worked in the medium since 1994 and has been teaching since 2004. From 2005-2012, Hirons taught at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, where she resides. She now provides classes and workshps in various locations in the Mid-Atlantic states and in New England. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, and the Maryland Pastel Society, of which she was president from 2007-2009. The Pastel Journal featured her work in June 2011, in an article in which she was dubbed the "Architect of Color." Hirons retired from the Library of Congress in 2003, after thirty years of librarianship in which her primary achievements related to documentation and training. She won several of the highest awards granted by the American Library Association. Her pastel paintings have also won many awards and can be seen at: www.jeanhirons.com. Read More Read Less