-Member International Porcelain Artists and Teachers, World Organization of China Painters, Alabama Porcelain Painters Guild, Quad-Cities Porcelain Artist Guild

-Studied portrait painting with Jane Marcks, Celeste McCall, and Mariela Villasmil

-Studied portrait painting at Louisiana Porcelain Art School, Porcelain Art School South, Southwest Porcelain Artist PowWow, and Virginia Douglas School of Art on Porcelain. 

-Began teaching portrait classes in 2004

-Although Elaine paints other subjects, her first love is painting portraits, endeavoring to capture the likenesses on porcelain and excitedly watching them come to life.