Living Your Dreams as an Artist

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Carolyn Quan is a visionary, entrepreneur and successful fine artist whose artwork has been collected by art collectors worldwide from Australia to Japan to Germany. She has been a successful, self-employed artist for the past 22 years in Toronto, New York City, Maui and Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the owner of The Quan Gallery - her signature art gallery - in the heart of Waikiki, Hawaii. She is an inspiration and mentor to many artists and has decades of hands-on experience and accumulated knowledge in business, marketing and promotion in both the commercial and fine art worlds. She is passionate about sharing her experiences and knowledge with you, through the products and services offered on this website.

Carolyn was born in Toronto, Canada, lived in New York City for 11 years and now resides in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her accomplishments in life began at an early age and include several awards for leadership, scholarship, athletics and art, beginning in highschool. In art college, Carolyn was the recipient of the CityTV - MuchMusic Scholarship which included full tuition for her fourth year of studies and a summer internship at the MuchMusic television station which is Canada's version of MTV. After working as a graphic designer in television for 3 years in Toronto, Carolyn headed to New York City to pursue her dream of designing album covers in the music industry. Shortly after moving to NYC, she was offered a job as an Art Director at Arista Records where she went on to become the recipient of four gold records for her creative contributions to recording projects by Barry Manilow, Carly Simon, Yes and the Grateful Dead. After 3 years at Arista Records, Carolyn started her own graphic design company which specialized in the music and entertainment industry. Clients included PolyGram Records, Warner Music Int'l, Sony Music, TriStar, CBS Radio, and Black Entertainment Television, just to name a few. In 1997, Carolyn created and launched a full-color glossy multicultural magazine, Urban Mozaik, which promotes cross cultural understanding and celebrates diversity and was distributed throughout Canada and the United States at major bookstores such as Barnes and Noble and Borders. It continues to be published today on the internet as an online magazine.

In 2000, Carolyn moved to Maui Hawaii, and after 9-11 launched her career in fine art. Carolyn and her art have been featured in magazines, newspapers, television and radio and two of her nudes are included in the permanent collection of art at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana, which was founded by the world renowned sex researcher, Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Carolyn has progressed through her fine art career at an accelerated speed and now enjoys a life filled with creativity, travel, family, friends, adventure, teaching/mentoring and doing art shows around the world.

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