Sunny Parenteau is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator whose career spans more than six decades in the United States and Germany. Trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied under LeRoy Neiman, her work encompasses painting, murals, portraiture, decorative arts, interior design, fashion illustration, and costume making.
She was co-owner of Parenteau Studios in Chicago and served as an advisor to the Interior Design Department at Ray College. Her professional experience includes costume construction and painted embellishment at Candlelight Dinner Theatre in Illinois, as well as work as a costumier for English-language theatre productions in Berlin and Düsseldorf.
Sunny also volunteered as an art teacher in Chicago’s public elementary schools, and she founded and directed a seven-year youth arts exhibition and competition in the city’s 48th Ward. Through her teaching and community arts initiatives, she has encouraged generations of young people to explore their creativity.
Today, Sunny considers the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation her artistic home, cherishing the friendships, inspiration, and mutual support of its vibrant community of artists.