Painting

Los Angeles

Jane M McCabe was born in Billings, Montana and attended grade school, junior high and high school there. In 1959 she was the valedictorian of her high school class. After attending Eastern Montana College for two years, majoring in pre-med, she transferred to and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a BA in Art and a minor in English. She got her master’s degree in fine art in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1967. Following that, she attended Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota for three years. She has taught her entire life all the while continuing to work as a writer and painter. For five years she worked for the San Francisco Unified School District as a Children’s Center teacher. For three years she taught in the Art Department at Eastern Montana College. During the 24 years she lived in New York City she taught computer software programs—Word, Excel, PageMaker, CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator, and English in numerous adult training facilities and colleges in the NYC area. She taught art appreciation and drawing at Taft College in Taft, California. Most recently she taught ESL at the University of South Los Angeles. In 1996 Jane had a one-man show in New York City at Trinity Lutheran Church. Jane had a one-man show at the Rock Rose Gallery in Los Angeles, called “Los Angeles on my Mind,” in January of 2016. In October of 2023 she had a retrospective painting exhibit at The Avance Learning Center in Los Angeles.