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California Art Retreat Artists and Instructors
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Sally Jean is a self-taught mixed media artist/jewelry designer who has been creating art all her life...from hand-painted sneakers to Raku pottery. After leaving a career in real estate, she began creating her vintage art collage charms in 1998 using her signature antique papers, vintage photographs, and found objects. Her jewelry and artwork can be found at boutiques and galleries across the country and online. She has been featured in Oregon Home Magazine, Quilting Arts magazine, Mary Englebreit’s Home Companion, and the West Linn Tidings. Her philosophy, do what you love; she does! www.sallyjean.com.
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Thomas & Romona Ashman live and work in Bakersfield California. Tom was born in Utah and works in the public school as a music and drama teacher. Romona hails from Louisiana and works in the medical field. Romona began her art career as an art journalist and collage artist and her journal pages were included in Somerset’s art journal book, “Signatures” and twice in the Art Journal Calendar. Her soldered microscope slide jewelry has been featured in the Melange section of Somerset Studio Magazine. Tom is a working musician with the local band “Driver” and is an aspiring composer & writer. The projects and workshops they do together are inspired by the literature they both love and mixed media is the best way they have found to express their eclectic visions. Juxtaposing glass and metal has a strong appeal as they marvel at the fragility of reality vs. the longevity of fantasy. The fairy tale themes make the classes enjoyable to the artists as well as the students. Tom and Romona teach at Violet’s Rubber Stamp Inn in Ventura, Suzi Finer’s in Beverly Hills, Art Continuum in Ohio, and at Artfest in Port Townsend. They love to travel all over and enjoy meeting other artists in their classes. Visit their website at: www.4andtwentyblackbirds.com
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Ann Baldwin's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows across America. Her larger works appear regularly on the sets of primetime Hollywood shows and movies. Between workshops in collage, abstract painting, and art marketing across the U.S.A. and Canada, she maintains studios in England and California. She is represented by six galleries in California and Texas. Ann has an instructional DVD by Creative Catalyst Inc.--for more info, click on "DVD Recommendations" on this website. Visit Ann's website at annbaldwin.com
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Traci is creative director of treiC Designs, a mixed media artist, designer and author. She creates vibrantly colored handmade journals, REVAMPED clothing, custom handbags and collage paintings that are layered with rich textures of stained papers, painted sewn fabric, “girlie glam” ink drawings and free style lettering.
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Angela’s work is a fusion of photography, painting and altered art, interpreting her unique photographic art with the use of oil paints, acrylics, inks, written word and ephemera. She co-authored a book with Sarah Fishburn titled “In This House – A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques” (Quarry Books) which was released in 2007. A second book which Angela wrote, and which includes a plethora of her hand painted images, “Mixed Emulsions - Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery”, investigates using photographs and texture in art, and will be released in November 2007 (Quarry Books). Her art and articles have appeared in numerous books and magazines. Stampington & Company released three “Angela Cartwright Collections” of her images as artist papers, vellums and transparencies on the heels of “Transparent Art”, a book she created and contributed to on how to use transparencies in art. Angela is the curator of an exclusively black & white photography gallery, A Studio Gallery, in Studio City, California. She is also a founding member of the 4260 Black and White Photographers Guild for lovers of black and white photography. Known for her career in acting, she has also been a photographer and artist for most of her life. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. Check out her websites: www.acartwrightstudio.com
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Daniel Essig creates wooden-covered art books and book-based sculptures. Using a fourth-century binding style known as Ethiopian style Coptic, he creates mixed-media book structures that incorporate unusual woods, handmade paper, found objects, fossils, and mica. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he has a studio at the Grovewood Gallery. For more information on Daniel, visit his website: www.danielessig.com
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I consider myself a modern day expeditioner practicing my own version of archeology, scanning the terrain for intriguing bits and pieces that present themselves. I am most inspired by nature and its melodic effects on the human spirit with my intention being to offer a simple, yet organic, approach to viewers in my work. Passionate about repurposing everyday objects, I am committed to reinventing normal into something eclectic, expressive, lighthearted and potentially spiritually stimulating all at once.
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Susan Lenart Kazmer is a mixed media, found object and metals artist and award winning jewelry designer. Her work has been included in museum exhibits throughout the country such as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., Art Institute in New York, and the Huntington Museum of Art to name a few. Post Picasso Gallery includes Susan's work in, The Best of 2004. Lapidary Journal states, "Kazmer is a pioneer in the field of patination" www.susanlenartkazmer.net
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LK Ludwig, an artist from Western Pennsylvania, makes use of her BFA with a dual emphasis in photography and painting in her work in mixed media artist books. LK’s book, Mixed Media Nature Journals, is due to be released from Rockport Publishing in January 2008. Her work has been seen in a number of other publications, including the following books: Making Journals by Hand by Jason Thompson; Artful Paper Dolls and The Altered Object , both by Terry Taylor; Altered Books, Collaborative Journals & Other Adventures in Bookmaking by Holly Harrison; and Plush-O-Rama by Linda Kopp. LK’s work will also be seen in two upcoming books, one on needlefelting by Terry Taylor, and a new one on collage by Holly Harrison. Magazine publications include Somerset Studio, where LK was the featured artist in Artist Profile of the November/December 2003 issue, Cloth Paper Scissors, Art & Life, and The Studio. She has various teaching experiences, including teaching the past five years at Artfest in Port Townsend, Washington. Visit her blog at gryphonsfeather.typepad.com.
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Misty Mawn is a mixed media collage artist. She has been an artist her entire life, as she feels compelled to be busy creating at all times. When she is not covered in paint and singing out loud in her studio, she most likely can be found amusing her two young children, creating in the kitchen, or looking for treasures at the beach. She studied studio art at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA with a focus on ceramics. She entertained herself as a potter for over seven years, but for the past few years she has focused on collage and mixed media to quench her creative thirst. Her work has been published in several publications including the summer 2006 issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors.
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It was at a week long painting workshop with The Painting Experience in San Francisco in 1989 that I met a friend who encouraged me to take a paper making class. I did and we both became obsessed with playing in the pulp. The passion for papermaking along with my painting led me to explore surface design on paper and the making of books. I have taken many classes, tried to follow instructions in books and experimented endlessly to find the forms I love and that offer a format for the papers I love to enhance with color and pattern. I enjoy facilitating others in their own expression using the tools and materials I have come to know and love. I teach workshops in my studio in Southern Oregon and have taught at Art Fest and Art & Soul for many years.
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