Muncie Artists Guild
Chicqiela Elbert-Velazco
Chicqiela Elbert-Velazco is a retired teacher who taught art at Anderson Community School Corporation from 1976 to 2006. She also worked as a substitute art teacher for 10 years and two years as an adjunct art professor at Anderson University. She continues to teach art classes for nonprofit organizations on occasion. She is currently devoting more time to creating her own art in her home studio located in Alexandria, IN. She is influenced by her rural surroundings and animals and prefers drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and lampwork glass beads to create her images.

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Chicqiela graduated from Wes-Del High School in Gaston, IN in 1969. She went to Ball State University in 1969 to study art and earned her BS degree in Art Education in 1973 and her MS degree in 1977. She has shown her art in numerous shows and galleries in Indiana and received awards. She received two Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Grants to study how cultures influence arts in 1995 and for purchasing printmaking supplies and an etching press in 2005. chicvelazco@yahoo.com.
“Art should be unique and reflect an artist’s personal eccentricities and cultural influences.”
2022 MAG Annual Show Award Recipient

Woodland Totem, Photography
1st Place and Merchant Award

Frog Baby, Mixed Media
2nd Place

Ball Jars and Glass Beads, Photography
Honorable Mention
Frottage Collage of Masks, Drawing
3rd Place - Photo Pending
2021 MAG Annual Show Award Recipient

Zzzzz, Photography
1st Place


Canoeing on the White River, Photography
Honorable mention