Bernita Dodge was a student of Harlequin House Art Center, Stockton, California, for 3-1/2 years, where experimental painting classes were a favorite along with oil painting and batik.
Bernita attended workshops in Taos, New Mexico; Scottsdale, Arizona; Mendocino and the Bay Area while a thirty four year resident of Campbell, California. She also studied silk painting at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with Ed Lambert. Her latest class was for one month in New York City at the Art Student League, in Fall 2007.
Bernita was president of the Saratoga Contemporary Artists group, 1979-80. She is a long time member of the Surface Design Association, has had numerous art shows in Half Moon Bay, Stockton, Los Gatos, Saratoga (Villa Montalvo), and Amador City. Six years ago she moved to Penn Valley, Californa, where she currently lives and continues to create new works on silk and canvas.