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Portland Art and Soul Retreat Artists
Registration opens March 11, 2008To begin registration for the Portland retreat: click on the class that you're interested in and it will take you to the class description--scroll to the bottom and, if there's still space, it will say "Register for this class"--click on the link and it will put it in your shopping cart. Repeat the process until you have chosen all your classes and are ready to 'check out'. If a class is full, it will indicate that at the bottom of the description page, and it will not let you choose it.
All registration is Online ONLY!
Sherri Haab & Scott David Plumlee
Sherri Haab is a best selling craft author with over 20 published books to her credit, with several titles selling over a million copies. She is a certified metal clay instructor, leading numerous PMC craft and jewelry making workshops nationwide. She also develops new craft products including her patented "Image Transfer Solution". Sherri has recently released 2 DVD's (Metal Clay and Resin) and has appeared on several television programs (HGTV, DIY and PBS). She lives with her family in Utah.
Scott David Plumlee has been inspiring a new generation of chain jewelers over the past decade, leading 100+ workshops nationwide. Scott has recently published his first book Handcrafting Chain & Bead Jewelry to much acclaim, and is in progress of a five-book series. A world traveler and jack-of-all-trades, Plumlee has studied ancient cultures and their craft designs while trekking throughout 32 countries on four continents.
- 1257 Silver PMC Byzantine Chain Bracelet- Friday
This will be my 3rd year teaching with Art & Soul. I have sculpted in polymer and apoxie clays for the last ten years. I usually create doll-like forms and love to push the idea of the doll by combining figurative forms with unusual elements such as landscapes and building architecture. I enjoy sharing the techniques and materials I have come across with other creative minds.
Email: jessicalacosta@gmail.com
Website: www.dollproject.com
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.
Doris is known for her whimsical style and is a national instructor with over 21 years experience as a freelance artist. Her work has been seen in numerous books and magazines, including Somerset Studio, The Studio, and The Rubber Stamper. She has also appeared on the Carol Duvall show. Doris approaches life, and her classes with smile and a song in her heart. thphantom@aol.com.
Thomas is a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Salt Lake City Utah. Drawing inspiration from the world around him, his educational background in English literature and music, and a great love of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and adventure films, he creates unique glass & metal journals, altered dolls, eclectic mechanical sculptures, and other curious oddities in his home-based studio. His work has been published in Somerset Studio Magazine & Gallery collection, shown at several local gallery shows & traveling collaborations, and he has appeared twice on the DIY network's show, "Craft Lab" (season 2). Thomas very much enjoys teaching at various national art retreats as it affords him the great opportunity to meet, share ideas, and create with so many talented artists from all over the country. His future plans include the development of an Internet art gallery, as well as a "how-to" book.
Contact Thomas at: thomasashmanart@yahoo.com
Anne Bagby combines fine art with hand-cut rubber stamps and stencils. A long-time member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society, she has painted for more than 25 years in Tennessee and has had more than 40 one-person shows. Bagby has participated in residency programs, including Ucross in Wyoming, The Vermont Studio Center and two additional residencies sponsored by the Association of the Visual Arts in Chattanooga, TN. Anne teaches workshops teaching fine art to stampers and stamping to fine artists.
Nina is a jewelry designer by trade and her work has been featured in Victoria, Somerset Studio, The Studio, Mary Englebreit's Home Companion and countless other publications. With a degree in Journalism, she has turned her love of the written word into an artistic style that encompasses metal and paper assemblage. ninawitty@aol.com.
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
Susan is best described as a well established artist whose interests cut across many creative areas. Her passion, however, is Fabric Art. “Fabric Art offers an almost unlimited opportunity for creative expression. Also, it’s a lot of fun!”. Susan has developed her talents over many years, including teaching at the Adult Education Program for Santa Barbara City College, as a credentialed instructor. She has been teaching arts for the better part of 25 years, including featured classes at Peacemaker’s, Costa Mesa, California. She has been featured in Art Doll Quarterly and has appeared as a guest artist on the Carol Duvall Christmas Special. For her, the draw to teaching is sharing her Fabric Art techniques with her students. “I enjoy teaching because I love to share ideas with my students. We all learn together and the network we form to share future ideas is probably one of the most satisfying parts of teaching”. Susan’s classes are considered fun, because they are always tailored to the skill level of each student class. As students continue through the classes, they learn more and more advanced techniques. They also begin to develop their own styles. “Art is fun, but it is also a very rewarding outlet when you just feel that need to express yourself.” Susan Lives in Santa Barbara, with her husband and a small zoo. Join Susan in one of her classes.
- 1218 Vintage Style Art Doll- Friday
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.
Traci travels across the country and internationally to offer workshops on handmade artist’s books and mixed media. She designs, [kōL LäJ], an eclectic line of hand painted paper aRt! kits. Her artwork has been featured in various magazines, books and on HGTV & DIY. Traci is the author of, Collage Unleashed, and writes a column called Creativity Unleashed in Somerset Studio Magazine. To learn more about her artwork, events and creative musings visit www.treicdesigns.com or her blog [creativityUNLEASHED] http://kollaj.typepad.com.
Traci Bunkers is a fiber artist with her fingers in many media including photography and book arts. Her current obsession is with non-traditional & alternative photography such as pinhole, polaroid and toy cameras. Aside from selling spinning fibers and yarns that she dyes and creates through her one-woman business Bonkers Handmade Originals, she also creates a quarterly artzine called Tub Legs, has a line of rubber stamps, designs knitwear for yarn companies and magazines and is a knitting, spinning and crochet technical editor. She has been teaching classes at various gatherings and conferences across the US for over 15 years. Her visual journal pages and artwork are featured in The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery by Karen Michel and The Decorated Journal by Gwen Diehn. She is also one of the featured artists in the knitting book on hand-dyers, Handpaint Country. Check out her website at www.bonkersfiber.com
Lisa Call is a jewelry designer who has been creating and crafting in an array of mediums all her life. She left the corporate tech world to raise her girls and find time for other interests. Wirework, metal, and beads are her main passions, and she has spent the last five years focusing on metalsmithing, wirework, beading, and Precious Metal Clay (as a PMC Certified Artisan). You can see her website at www.LisaMarieCall.com
Jennifer is an artist, interior designer, and a professional organizer. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design from Woodbury University in Southern California. Jennifer has owned her professional organizing business - The Art of Organizing for over 3 years in Portland, Oregon. Her art and design background of over 30 years ranges from manufacturing her own line of leather clothing to making the leather teepees for the movie “Dances With Wolves” and, more recently, creating murals and faux finishes in homes in the Portland area for over 10 years. One of Jennifer’s passions is assemblage art and she is creating a line of vintage tin assemblage pins and pendants.
Jennifer has been published in Somerset Studio Magazine, The Faux Finisher Magazine, and Paint Décor Magazine, among others. She is a member of the Portland Art Collective, Stencil Artisans League (Cascade Artisans Guild Chapter), and is the Treasurer of the Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers. She is currently at work on her book “Creating Your Dream Art Studio”.
Email: lfnclr@aol.com
Visit Jennifer’s websites at: www.TheArtofOrganizing.net and www.LifeinColour.net
Personal Mythology: I began my creative journey at an early age by keeping a sketchbook as soon as my tiny hand could hold a stylus. I have maintained a practice of writing my inner thoughts in a journal since the age of 11, and have combined the two, in some form or another since I was 14. I developed a solid foundation for my expression by receiving my BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. My path as an artist has brought me awards and grants. Based on my artistic expression, I developed Extreme Journaling as a tool for healing and self dialogue in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society, and I have taught and refined my unique and pioneering process that combines journal writing with art making in the safe container of a book ever since. I offer workshops and retreats internationally, including my recent Visual Journaling retreat in Greece ( www.echoesdesvoyages.com for info). Please view my work at www.meandpete.com.
Gail Crosman Moore is an artist, teacher, mother and small business owner. Her visual orientation precedes all things she beholds, often times calling for revision, or a manipulation in order to ‘line up with her sensibilities’. She divides her time between creating her work, showing her work and encouraging others to create their own work, reveling in the spark that travels between her interactions in these different and varied aspects of her life. Recognition of her abilities appears in print, both in trade publications and books in several different fields. Through the granting of awards she has been able to pursue new methods and master new materials.
Her work can be seen at her website: www.gailcrosmanmoore.com
Robert Dancik holds a Masters degree in sculpture and a BA in fine art and has been an artist/teacher for more than 30 years. He is presently an adjunct professor of education at Pace University, and has taught people from kindergarten to graduate school while exhibiting his jewelry and sculpture in museums and galleries across the US and in Europe, Japan, and Australia. He teaches workshops at art centers in the US and abroad including Penland, NC; Arrowmont, TN; Metalwerx, MA; Touchstone Center for Crafts, PA; Victoria College of Art, Australia; Brookfield Craft Center, CT; and Mid Cornwall School of Jewelry (UK) to name a few. His work is in numerous collections including the Wustum Museum of Art, Boeringer- Ingleheim International, Schamberger International, Mitsubishi International, Japan and the Gregg Museum of Art and Design. He has artwork published in many books including “PMC Decade”, “Fine Art of the Tin Can”, “1000 Rings”, “The Art of Resin Jewelry,” and “Creative Metal Clay Jewelry”, and magazines including “Niche”, “Art Jewelry”, “Lapidary Journal” and “Perspectives”. Robert is the originator of Faux Bone™, a new, wonderful material for artists involved in jewelry, artist’s books, sculpture, and many other artistic disciplines. He lives in Oxford CT. where he is an avid cook (I didn’t say good) and collector of toys, maps, and compasses.
Robert may be contacted at:
www.robertdancik.com
www.fauxbone.com
Or at Email – playcik@yahoo.com
My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing. www.michaeldemeng.com
Diane Downs Lou is a collage artist/writer/teacher whose art and art-related articles have appeared in many publications including Somerset Studio, Artitude, Rubberstampmadness, Gallery III and VI, Altered Arts, Somerset's Wedding and ATC books, and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. Her business, Instant Inspiration (www.greatstuff4you.com) offers compelling components for artists to use in their work. When she's not creating her own art or scouring the beach for treasures, she teaches at art events and organizes international collaborative art projects. Diane resides on the Oregon coast. You can contact her at: inspiration@oregoncoast.com
I create art with things we throw away; wood, tools, stamps, paper, hardware, etc. My work is about color and universal themes. I create collages and “Guardians” which are figures made from recycled junk. I think we need to recycle and walk gently on the earth.
I don’t know how to measure. I’m not a perfectionist. My studio is full of teenage boys and a dog and a cat that get in everything. (Animal hair adds texture…) My frames are from recycled wood and aren’t perfect either. My husband, (Jeff) who knows how to measure, makes them for me. He is patient.
I believe that there are common threads that connect us; emotions, experiences, what we do for fun, how and where we live. I try to share those threads in my art. I want to help people pause and consider how we are all connected. I believe that if we find those connections then there is a hope for peace.
My website is: www.crowriverstudio.com. My work is shown nationally in Galleries and art shows. I also teach art to children in the public schools through funding from grants.
Email: crowriverstudiodavis@juno.com
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
Working with color takes center stage in Beverly’s work. In fact discussions of color and texture are woven throughout her classes, along with technique and jewelry design. Each class can accommodate a wide variety of experience levels and is designed to enhance the student’s own creative process. Beverly teaches in numerous venues across the country and many of her pieces have been juried into ‘Bead Dreams’ and ‘Absolutely Beads’. More of her work can be seen at: www.gilbertdesigns.net
Sherri Haab is a best selling craft author with over 20 published books to her credit, with several titles selling over a million copies each. Award winning titles include: The Incredible Clay Book, (Klutz ), The Art of Metal Clay, Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry, The Art of Resin Jewelry, Beaded Macramé Jewelry and Designer Style Jewelry (Watson Guptill). She is a certified metal clay instructor, leading numerous PMC craft and jewelry making workshops nationwide. She also develops new craft products including her patented "Image Transfer Solution". Sherri has recently released 2 DVD's (Metal Clay and Resin) and has appeared on several television programs (HGTV, DIY and PBS). She lives with her family in Springville, Utah.
Melissa has been keeping sketchbooks for as long as she can remember. With a background in graphic design, writing and sketching out ideas was how she worked out her thoughts on a project. Several sketchbooks later she began to make them herself and fill them with lists, bits of found paper, images, drawings, directions, observations of daily life, and travel. She hasn’t put her book down yet, finding that they’re filled with endless ideas for her artwork. She is an Adjunct Faculty in the Fine Art and Graphic Design department at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. With a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, she has continued her studies at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Penland School and Crafts. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Maryland, New York, Virginia and Washington DC. www.MPHackmann.com.
Jan Harris is a metal and jewelry artist currently living in Vancouver, Wa. She cannot remember a time art was not part of her life and has pursued her art education at various universites in Montana, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as participating in numerous workshops. Jan has been instructing art classes for the past 10 years in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Her work has been featured in galleries and shows in several Western states, as well as Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire and Outside magazine. Jan is a member of the Mosaic Art Alliance and Portland Metal Arts Guild. Visit her website at www.purplebirdart.com and her blog at purplebirdart.blogspot.com. Jan can be reached at janharris@purplebirdart.com
Tracie Lyn and Marylin Huskamp
This mother and daughter-in-law team have been close friends for over fifteen years. They not only share a love for Marylin's oldest son, but are both passionate about art.
Tracie Lyn Huskamp holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design with an emphasis in Fine Art. She works as a freelance Product Designer/Illustrator creating mass-market products. A number of her designs have sold in retail stores such as Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, Michaels Crafts, Lowe’s Hardware, and Walgreen Drugs. One of her products was even featured on the television show, Extreme Home Makeover. But, it is her passion for mixed media and collage that fuels the fires of her creative spirit, and continues to lead her on a wondrous journey of artistic and self-discovery. Always striving for the perfect balance and integration of elements and processes in every piece, Tracie enjoys making art that is thoughtful, intricate, and beautiful.
Tracie’s mixed media work has received both regional and national recognition. Her art has appeared on the cover of Somerset Studios, along with feature articles in Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine, Stampington’s Premier Issue of Artful Blogger, Stampington’s Premier Issue of Life Images, and the Premier Issue of Quilting Arts Gifts Special Publication.
Visit her blog at:
http://TheRedDoor-Studio.blogspot.com/ or contact her at TheRedDoorStudio@yahoo.com
Marylin Huskamp is a self-taught artist, who has a love of mixed media and fibers. She has worked with these mediums in various ways for over 40 years. Her passion began when she started making dolls. It has since evolved into composing beautiful works of fiber art. She carefully blends ribbons, lace, yarns, fabrics, buttons, and other ephemera to capture the viewer through her use of vibrant colors and interesting textures. She is constantly experimenting to find new and interesting ways to
achieve greater depth in her pieces.
Marylin’s work has been featured in Somerset Belle Amore September ‘07 issue, Somerset Altered Couture Winter ‘07, Cloth Paper Scissors May/June and July/August ‘07 issues, and a feature article in Fibre&Stitch Web Zine Issue 3.
Visit her blog at:
http://MarylinsNouvelle.blogspot.com/ or contact her at MarylinsNouvelle@yahoo.com
Lisa Kaus has been a mixed media artist for close to 20 years. Within the past several years she has rediscovered collage and loving it. She has been a paperaholic since she was a child and it only
seemed natural to pursue it in a big way. Incorporating a variety of mediums into each piece adds a wonderful spontaneous element to Lisa’s work. She has a special fondness for old time-worn elements with some historical purpose. Using these elements in her assemblage work, she creates a special and unique interaction between vintage found objects and contemporary painting. Layers upon layers evoke depth and textual interest.
Lisa has had her own business under the name of Lisa Kaus Art Studios for over 10 years which features mixed media artwork and more. Her work has appeared in numerous magazine publications and is sold nationally. To learn more about Lisa please visit www.lisakaus.com or visit her blog at http://lisakaus.blogspot.com/
Katie Kendrick lives with her husband, 2 dogs, and cat, on 7 acres along the banks of the Tahuya River in western Washington, surrounded by the Tahuya State Forest. The peaceful beauty of her environment is a constant source of inspiration and nourishment for her creative spirit. Her work has been featured in Cloth Paper Scissors, on the cover of Art and Life, and in several books and magazines. She travels nationwide, teaching classes and workshops on her style of mixed media collage, fabric art, and intuitive painting. She finds art-making to be one of the most powerful ways to connect with her innermost nature while at the same time discovering her authentic voice. She enjoys the experimental and intuitive layers of creating, exploring inner and outer worlds simultaneously.
Contact Katie at: joyouslybecoming@earthlink.net
Website: www.katiekendrick.com
Blog: www.joyouslybecoming.typepad.com
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.
From the valleys of Southern Oregon, I work from my home - continually influenced by the view out my studio windows, witty comments from my young daughters, and the ebb and flow of creative energy. My own book featuring my found object jewelry arrived in bookstores February 2008.
Blog: www.stephanielee.typepad.com
Website: www.stephanieleestudios.com
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
Leighanna is a mixed-media artist known for her whimsical style and unique use of found objects. She has been teaching art for the past sever years and also works as a licensed massage therapist. Leighanna is represented by galleries and museums across the country and her art has been published in numerous books and magazines, including The Studio and Art Doll Quarterly. “I love to create and to share my creativity with others--it’s what I live for…it’s my oxygen!” according to Leighanna. Leighanna grew up in a small town in upstate New York where she studied fine art and photography and now resides in New Mexico with her best friend, Sam. Visit Leighanna at: http://lklight.blogspot.com
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.
Barbara is a multimedia artist who enjoys the unexpected. She designs for publication, teaches and does product development. Writing and designing as a BEAD UNIQUE columnist and author of ALTERED BOOK COLLAGE and COLLAGE CREATIONS have kept her out of trouble recently.
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.
http://www.mistymawn.typepad.com/
Paula McNamee is a mixed media artist from Portland, OR. She’s self-taught with experience teaching at local art retreats and meetings. She belongs to the Portland Art Collective, the Portland Artist Group and the Columbia Gorge Polymer Clay Guild. Visit her blog at www.dreamciclejourneys.blogspot.com or contact her at ppmcnamee@msn.com.
- 1289 Mermaid Amulet Bag- Thursday Eve
Cynthia Mooney is a mixed media artist who has shown her work in the Portland area for the past several years. She is currently working in collage and encaustics. She also has a keen interest in watercolor journaling and has been teaching journal-making and journal jump-start classes at various studios for the past three years.
She is now teaching at MoonSea Studio, her creative workspace co-owned with Nim Xuto, located at 1123 SE Market St. in Portland.
Contact her at csmooney@hotmail.com
- 1290 Keeping the Artful Journal- Wednesday
From Poppies, Pears to Provence, Jacqueline Newbold’s watercolor paintings are filled with an expressive palette of light and texture. Her vibrant, lively use of color and pockets of detail add up to dramatic vistas that draw the eye of the viewer. Her paintings take you to fields of lavender, sun-soaked beaches, and tranquil villages nestled among surrounding cliffs. Jacqueline shares her fascination with luminescence and reflections of light in both her award-winning art and her popular jewelry designs. A long-time resident of Bend, Oregon, she finds that her love of art and travel is a never-ending source of inspiration for her paintings.
Jacqueline is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, Northwest Watercolor Society and the High Desert Art League. She is also a member, instructor and volunteer with the Central Oregon Art Association in Bend as well as workshop assistant with Art in the Mountains. Her award winning work has been accepted in numerous juried shows and she teaches privately in her Art in my Heart Studio.
“My watercolor journal is my constant companion. I take it everywhere when I travel combining fine art with mixed media in order to capture a moment in time with old weathered words, a French café scene, or the shape of a sunlit umbrella. What better way to savor a moment than to sketch, paint and portray a feeling of a charming place that will bring back a flood of enchanting memories for years to come!”
Website: http://www.newboldart.com/
Email: newbold0505@bendbroadband.com
- 1291 Watercolor Journeys, Inspirations from Travel- Monday
With a love of teaching and sharing, as well as a passion for color and texture, DJ Pettitt delights in experimenting with multi media, using unconventional art methods and creating new techniques to incorporate in her art and teaching. A southern Oregon artist, DJ combines a background in fine art with photography, whimsical fabric painting, and recycled textiles, creating new works in the form of art books, wearable art, and giftables.
Contact DJ at jndpettitt@charter.net and visit her website at www.djpettitt.com
Scott David Plumlee has been inspiring a new generation of chain jewelers over the past decade, leading 100+ workshops nationwide. Scott has recently published his first book Handcrafting Chain & Bead Jewelry to much acclaims and is in progress of a five-book series. A world traveler and jack-of-all-trades, Plumlee has studied ancient cultures and their craft designs while trekking throughout 32 countries on four continents.
Author Statement:
Handcrafting chain jewelry allows me to explore my curiosity of the natural world in the study of geometry and geology to combine metal and mineral. I have been making chain jewelry for the past thirteen years and progressively energized because it is a continuous scenario of problems to be solved. Employing creativity to turn the intangible images in my mind from sketchbook into sterling silver wire creations that are comfortable to wear and stunning to behold. I challenge myself to create innovative chain designs by utilizing curiosity as a guide and creativity as a catalyst to find new solutions to the age-old question of how to combine silver and gemstones. Over the past decade, I have found that the path of least resistance in creating new designs is simply to be aware of the possibilities within the happy accident and explore my imagination with reckless abandonment. Handcrafting chain jewelry is not merely a lifelong passion; to me it is a vehicle to teach a new generation of artists and a platform to publish a series of tutorial books.
Email: sdp@davidchain.com Website: www.davidchain.com
Barbara Roth studied painting at U.C.L.A. and has a degree in Fine Art and a teaching credential in Art Education. She enjoys helping people develop their artistic and creative abilities. After college, she studied at Art Student's League in NYC, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Otis Parsons in L.A. She worked in an animation studio, for a dancewear manufacturer and as an English As A Second Language teacher during the days and as a children's book writer and illustrator in the evenings before she quit her jobs to stay home with her first baby. Ms. Roth currently teaches painting and drawing to adults and children for Sierra College Community Ed., Michael's Art supplies, and the Learning Exchange. She believes in finding time to paint in the middle of busy lives, and works with students to find ways they can too. Combining traveling and painting are what inspires her personal watercolor paintings. This year she will be taking students to Tuscany and the Dordogne region of France to sketch, paint, tour and shop.. She resides in Sacramento, CA with her husband and teenage daughter, and her hobbies include tending beagles, kayaking, yoga and cooking soup.
See more of Barbara's work at www.barbararothart.com and visit her blog at http://www.barbararoth.blogspot.com/
I graduated from college with my BFA in drawing and ceramics, and minors in Zoology and Anthropology. I have pursued my passion for art by taking many art classes since then and continue to do so. For the last 3 years I have come full circle back to art and have been actively proceeding ahead where I left off. I recently joined two cooperative outsider galleries where I finished, May 2007, my second one person show, with another on May 11 2007. I have also been a regular seller of art on Ebay for 4 years. I studied under Roger Lang (ceramics), and Craig Smith (drawing). I have been in numerous publications, the most recent being The Artists Cafe 1st edition for Somerset Studios, in the Melange section. I have been in a gallery show every month in 2007, ending with a wall in the Arvada Art Center Holiday Show and Sale.
Contact me at: abobthecat@aol.com
http://croulier.typepad.com/
Stephanie Jones Rubiano earned a bachelors of science degree in marine biology and worked as an environmental scientist for 5 years in Houston, TX for a major oil company. So, it stands to reason that she is now an almost full-time artist who revels in the creative process. Her work has been seen on the outside and inside of such publications as Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire, Bead and Button, The Art of Polymer Clay Jewelry, The Adventurous Scrapbooker and various booklets by Design Originals. She has taught classes and been a vendor at national art gatherings for the last five years and her work has been carried in galleries and boutiques across the United States. She lives and creates in Austin, TX with her 3 year-old daughter, 2 cats and assorted marine fish and invertebrates. She can be contacted at www.stephanierubiano.com.
Donna has been a basketry instructor for 19 years, working mostly in natural materials. She has exhibited her baskets and woven figures all over the U.S., and has been featured in several magazine and newspaper articles. Donna encourages her students to expand from tradition and develop their own styles. Check out this recent article about Donna in Natural Home magazine: http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/2008-03-01/Good-to-Know-Lead.aspx
Visit her website at: http://www.donnasakamotocrispin.com/
I have been a public school teacher in Southern California for the past 31 years. I have taught grades k-12, incorporating art into as many lessons as possible. Most recently I taught Photography at the high school level.
I began working with metal as an assistant to Carmel metal sculptor Malcom Moran in 1969. My interest in metal work has recently turned toward jewelry. Keith Lo Bue, Susan Lenart-Kazmer and Robert Dancik have been major influences and all have helped point me in the direction of ‘found object’ jewelry and a love for cold connections. My work has been recently featured in ‘Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry’ and ‘Jewelry Artist’ magazines. My work will also be included in Susan Lenart-Kazmer’s book ‘Making Connections’ and in ‘Collage, Assemblage and Altered Art’ by D. Maurer-Mathison.
My work can be viewed at www.rsalley.com. Contact me with questions at art@rsalley.com
Lorri Scott considers herself a self-taught fiber artist. She has been a weaver for over 20 years, hand dyeing her yarns that go on the loom and creating one-of-a-kind garments and accessories from the cloth she has made. Lorri loves working with color using dye as the medium to transform silks fabrics and ribbons to use in her creations. She has expanded to making cloth books and designing “wayward threads” stoles and scarves. Her work has been shown in Shuttle Spindle Dyepot, Belle Armoire, and in Somerset Studio Wedding 3. She has shown her award winning work in many galleries including AVA at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, the Mountain Art Guild, and Local Color in Big Sur, Ca. as well as showing in San Francisco, L.A., Austin, Tx. and St. Louis, Mo. See examples of Lorri’s work at her website www.lasfibers.com
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.
papersmith@starband.net
Carla Sonheim is a Colorado artist with her "Girls" in more than a
dozen galleries. She spent eight years in magazine publishing as a graphic designer/art director before pursuing art and illustration full-time. A popular teacher for both children and adults, Carla is inspired by kids’ art, Outsider Art, and grass-roots creative efforts of all kinds. www.carlasonheim.com
For 10+ years, Martha created and taught a variety of popular papercraft classes (as well as produced a nationally distributed store newsletter) for First Impression Rubber Stamp Arts in Portland, Oregon. After leaving First Impression (when the store closed), Martha turned to the “fiber side” and started creating in the fun world of fabric. She loves COLOR and working with color harmonies. Providing her students with a colorfully displayed bounty of materials, is a hallmark of her classes.
Contact Martha at: marthasparks@qwest.net or visit her blog for more class details at: www.marthasparks.blogspot.com
- 1318 No-Sew Sudoku Art Quilt- Monday
Helga Strauss grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and now resides in beautiful Victoria, Canada, with her wonderful husband and darling pets. She holds a BA degree in Art History from the University of Oregon. She strives to live an artistic life…dabbling in everything creative and fun. You can find her fabulous, inspiring products that she has designed and scoured the world for at her incredible online shop: ARTchix Studio. You can also see some of her past artwork and fun ideas in ARTitude Zine (a magazine that she co-published for over 4 years with her friend, Suz Simanaitis). She has previously taught fun art classes at Art and Soul and Artwerx.
www.artchixstudio.com
Beryl Taylor arrived in the USA in 2002 from England, having graduated in City and Guilds Creative Embroidery. Whilst in Britain she had spent many years exhibiting her work with a textile group called "Threadmill”. She also taught many workshops in mixed media collage. Since arriving in the USA, Beryl has continued to teach workshops, has had her work published in many national and international magazines, and has continued to exhibit her work both in the USA and throughout the world. She has recently had her first book published with Quilting Arts Publications, titled "Mixed Media Explorations”. Beryl can be contacted at berylptaylor@aol.com
A resident of Cody, Wyoming, and a North Carolina native, Deb Trotter is a mixed media artist specializing in painted collage, paper arts, and assemblage. Deb’s western-themed art has been featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors; Somerset Studio; Belle Armoire Magazine; Art E Tude Zine; and Pasticcio, as well as in Lynne Perrella’s book, Beyond Paper Dolls. Most recently, Deb’s work was published in both Beading With Charms and Altered Art Projects. Her award-winning artwork has been exhibited in various galleries and art shows both nationally and internationally. You can view Deb’s work at www.cowboyssweetheart.net and www.cowboyssweetheart.typepad.com
Contact her at debtrotter1@gmail.com
- 1323 Riding the Paper Trail- Sunday
After years of exploring different art media, melted wax captured me. For five years I have been exploring the many different ways to paint with wax. I am not a traditionalist, but rather a European style wax painter mentored by Michael Bossom from Wales. I soon began to teach this method, give demos and talks on the subject. I am a member of the artist owned Gallery North in Edmonds, WA. with my studio and classroom at the gallery. My paintings have been in juried shows, and I have had many one man shows
My classes are held in the surrounding metropolitan area as well as during my annual journey south to California, Arizona and Texas for winter sun. Check out my web site at www.Fun-easy-art.com to explore the many different looks that wax can produce. Melted wax painting is relaxing and releasing, allowing you to explore its intuitive magical process. I will offer this wax painting class twice, on Friday and Sunday evenings. If you are looking for something new and exciting I will meet you there.
Darlene Veltman is an artist living in Portland OR. She has been sewing since she was 12 years old and has made a career in the fashion industry for over 20 years working as a designer, technical fashion illustrator, patternmaker and trainer, traveling to Japan, China and Europe. She and her daughter, Cora, have been making Sock Creatures since 2005 when they made their first traveling buddys. Since then they have made over 200 Silly Sock Creatures, teaching locally and at various artist retreats in the Pacific NW. Darlene’s other interests include quilting, fabric and paper collage, marbleizing, and photography.
www.travelswithmarty.com
darlene@travelswithmarty.com
www.darlenesstudio.blogspot.com
- 1326 Silly Sock Creatures- Wednesday
Judy Wilkenfeld is a mixed media artist from Sydney Australia who works mainly on commission-based work. Her artwork has been published in the three leading paper arts magazines in Australia. Judy has been a contributor to an art-zine, and a number of articles related to her artworks have been published both in Australia and the USA, and more recently was the "Artist In Profile" in Cloth Paper Scissors. She has taught in Australia, but this will be her first teaching engagement in the USA.
Judy’s produces Visual Anthologies™, documenting the lives of her clients through a mix of photos using mixed media artwork and found objects. Judy’s use of symbolism is tantamount to her art pieces. Through the use of textures, found objects and mixed media techniques, Judy conveys the stories behind her client’s lives. Each and every object, colour and texture have symbolic meanings. Bringing history to life in either wall art or book forms is part of her raison d’etre, “everyone has a story to tell”.
Contact Judy at judy@redvelvet.net.au
Judy Wise is an Oregon artist who has worked as a printmaker and painter for nearly three decades and has kept daily journals of her writing and art since before she was 10 years old. Her work has been featured on greeting cards, published in books and magazines, calendars, educational materials and on tapestries. She is a passionate lover of all things artful and of helping others find joy in the process of self-expression. She believes making art is an innately human trait and that everyone is creative.
E-mail: judywise@canby.com
Website: www.judywise.com
Suzie, a native of Portland Oregon, has worked as a psychotherapist for many years in private practice and now at a local hospital. She also enjoys her work as an artist using calligraphy, collage, rubber stamps, and watercolor. She founded Northwest Pencraft where she worked as a designer and calligrapher; and Earth School Institute where she teaches the Intuitive Arts, Meditation, Emotional Intelligence and SoulCollage®. She also teaches classes at First Impression in Portland Oregon. She has had many years training in the intuitive arts in a Christian setting. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, VampStamp, The Gleaner, and Somerset Sampler.
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