Judy Grubaugh:  

I was born in Idaho Falls in 1948 and raised on a farm north of Blackfoot, Idaho. My parents were both life-long residents of Blackfoot. My maternal grand parents and great grandparents were Swedish pioneers who settled in the Lava Side area south of Firth. My grandparents made their home on the Snake River where they raised 11 kids and farmed. We could see their house from ours. In fact, four of the five houses I could see as a child belonged to relatives. I had a very happy childhood. I attended Elmwood Elementary school grades 1-6. Grades 7-9 were spent at Blackfoot Junior High and I graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1967. Art was always my passion. I attended The University of Utah and married in 1968. From there, we moved around following work and later on, graduate school. I had a daughter in 1971 and a son in 1976. After attending multiple schools and picking up credits along the way, I finally won an art scholarship and graduated in Commercial Art from Utah Technical College in Salt Lake City in 1985. I won Best of Show in the annual graduating class art show. I have worked as a free lance Illustrator, an illustrator/typesetter in the Embryology department at the University of Utah Medical School, a catalog layout artist for a computer company, an Illustrator/typesetter for a design company and a printing company, an advertising layout artist for a newspaper and a magazine, and finally as Chief Medical Illustrator for a teaching hospital. After moving around a lot, we settled in Arvada, Colorado for nine years. Tragically, I lost my 17 year old son in an auto accident in 1993. Eventually, I left the commercial art world and followed my husband overseas. I lived in Ghana, West...Expand for more