Judy Pezdir, artist, teacher, freedom-fighter, and matriarch, aims to live a progressively more rebellious life in the suburbs of Cleveland. Called to the ocean and to submerge herself wholly in painting, she has recently ended a thirty year career with Wickliffe City Schools. In fits of inspiration, she's been known to paint her kitchen hot pink and belt out the song "I'm a Woman" to cheering crowds.

Judy's work has been three times accepted to the Butler Institute of American Art's National Mid-Year Show and is a member of the Artist's Archives of the Western Reserve. She is represented by The Copper Moon Gallery in Richfield, Ohio and The Blue Heron Gallery in Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Among the numerous art festivals she has participated in, are the festivals at Boston Mills, Lakewood, and Willoughby, where she has won first place and purchase awards. Judy is included in many private collections, including Case Western Reserve University and a permanent installation at the Wickliffe Public Library in Ohio.

In 1996, she started Dajil Fine Art and published her first limited edition print. With a master's degree in art education, Judy continues her study of painting at The Cleveland Institute of Art and in private workshops. Although she jokes of her future being full of painting driftwood on the beach, we know this active artist is only beginning to come of age.