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Virginia Art and Soul Retreat Artists
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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.
- 1138 Silver PMC Byzantine Chain Bracelet- Friday
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.
Keely was an art director for over 11 years. Since then, she has designed and sold polymer clay jewelry and has runs her own fabric arts business, Fabric Frog Designs. She incorporates painting faux finishes and trompe l’oeil as a part of her fabric creations. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire, and Rubberstampmadness and she participated in the book “Art Doll Chronicles.” www.itsmysite.com/fabricfrogdesigns.
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
Zana Clark is Stamp Zia, a nationally known, award-winning multimedia artist whose current line of art rubber stamps is turning stampers across the country into artists. Her work has been featured in numerous rubber stamping periodicals, books and on HGTV’s Decorating with Style series. Her unique teaching style, paired with her original Zia stamps, continue to create quite a rubber flutter with fellow stamp lovers and artisans. Zana’s Art and Soul mission is to challenge you to discover through watercolor, a fresh passion for this exciting media and create larger, more spectacular pieces of stamp art, using her innovative techniques.
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.
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
Lisa Engelbrecht is a lettering and multi- media artist and instructor in calligraphy and taught for years at Cerritos College in California . Lisa teaches workshops and classes internationally specializing in lettering on fabric, experimental lettering and the creative process. Lisa has been on the faculty of six international lettering conferences and teaches at collage, quilting and alternative arts conferences nationwide. In 2006 Lisa introduced new multi- media classes at the International Quilt Show in Houston, Texas and will return in 2008. She is interested not only in classical letterforms but also alternative surfaces for lettering and current street influences on modern calligraphy. She is a frequent contributor to Somerset Studios and her work on fabric was featured on the covers of Legacies and Quilting Arts magazines. Lisa is also a freelance lettering artist for American Greetings. AND she is the author of the book from Rockport Publishing, Modern Mark Making, from Classic Calligraphy to Hip Lettering.( published this summer!) Lisa's work can be seen in the June 2008 issue of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion. Her classes are fast, fun and totally stress free!
http:///www.lisaengelbrecht.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
Born in Harbor City, California in 1961, Anne Grgich began making spontaneous art at the age of fifteen, mostly by clandestinely painting in her family’s books, or making junk constructions. She first introduced collage into her work around 1988, but took it to a higher level in 1997 during a period of illness. During her convalescence she worked in bed, making paintings on file cards and CD’s and organizing collages from material she had collected. When she had recovered, later that year she began to produce collage paintings — images of people encountered over time in the street and in mind journeys that manifest themselves and recombine, according to her mood, in the process of creation. Recently, she has described her faces and people as ‘manifestations of conglomerated persona, in a way acting out these characters’. In a way they are a displacement for action in the world out there; fragments of experience, thought and interaction brought together to produce new possibilities out of contemplation. As she puts it, ‘bundling images, separating them’, then looking for ‘interrelating pieces to build meaning and feeling’. Seen separately these faces are individually commanding, but seen together, they form not so much a series of portraits as a group of living presences. excerpted from " Life pulsating, troubled, exalting —work by Anne Marie Grgich" by Colin Rhodes from Museum Création Franche, March 2005, Issue #24by Colin Rhodes
Anne Grgich Contact:
Website: www.annegrgich.com
Email: angelicagrgich@gmail.com
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.
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
- 1142 Beachcomber Bracelet- Sunday Eve
I am a late blooming artist and have found that I also enjoy sharing my ideas and teaching to support this artistic passion I have discovered. I live and love that saying, “art is too much fun to be restricted to those who are good at it”. I especially like trying new products or using old products in a new way. My classes are always fun and include a lot of techniques with time to "play".
I teach rubber stamping in Maryland stores as well as "up north" and sell my crafts locally at http://www.rivergallery.org/ in Galesville.
No web site yet but you can contact me at afoolishmaven@aol.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
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
Keith Lo Bue is a jeweler, sculptor and teacher who has work in many major collections, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. His work has been exhibited all around the US and in Germany, Australia, New Zealand, France, Ireland and England. Books featuring Lo Bue's work include One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today (US), 1000 Rings (Lark), The Art & Craft of Collage (UK), and Schmuck '98 (Germany), Metalsmith, American Craft and Ornament magazines (US), and the Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery CD-ROM (UK). His workshop entitled PRECIOUS LITTLE has been presented to enthusiastic reviews at Haystack, Penland and dozens of other art and craft institutions across the United States, Canada and Australia. Lo Bue lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
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 A. McGuire is a nationally acknowledged author
and artist whose diverse talents include works in
polymer clay, painting and jewelry design. She has
written 10 books on design and instruction and has
developed stamps, templates and molds for artists
working in polymer and metal clays. Barbara has
appeared as a regular guest of the popular Carol
Duvall show. Her work reflects a strong influence of
traditional design incorporating innovative materials
and collected artifacts. She lives in Buford, Georgia
and teaches throughout the country at shows, stores,
via internet and in her home studio.
barbara@barbaramcguire.com
www.barbaramcguire.com
Opie and Linda O'Brien are mixed-media artists, authors and teachers who enjoy pushing the envelope in myriad ways, using organic, recycled and found materials because they seem to have a voice that must be heard, a story that must be told, and a life that would otherwise be too soon forgotten. They consider themselves "caretakers of the mundane and the ordinary" and their unique offerings include jewelry, dada dolls & recyclabots, assemblage, books, collage, masks and more. They are project designers for several publishers, teach art workshops both nationally and internationally, and for several Museums and Guilds, based on many of the techniques in their book: Metal Craft Discovery Workshop. Their work has been featured in over 25 books including several of Lark's 500 Handmade Series and in magazines, including Belle Armoire, Art Doll Quarterly, Somerset Studio, Legacy, Handcrafted and the Craft Report, in addition to art galleries, museum gift shops and both group and solo shows. Opie, an artist and musician, attended SVA in N.Y.C., while Linda is self-taught. New York City transplants, they now live in Ohio on Lake Erie with their cat Angelus and his cat Angel. For more information about the artists, visit their website at www.burntofferings.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
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.
Although I presently own and operate Fandangle Bead Store in Richmond, Virginia, i started my artistic adventure 30 years ago as an artist who worked in a variety of mediums with clay winning out in the end. My clay exploration included sculpture, functional/decorative pottery and raku beads but since the year 2000, precious metal clay (PMC) has become my passion and it ultimately led me into jewelry design and (surprisingly) into opening a bead store though my first love will always be "making stuff" in my studio. The common thread in all of my designs, whether sculptural, functional, or jewelry is the simple organic nature of the pieces I make. Less is more. I strive to achieve an understated approach to any element I work with in order to maintain and honor the simplicity of the material itself. In the case of my found object and PMC jewelry designs, I employ combinations of earthly elements such as semi-precious stones, precious metal clay components, freshwater pearls, vintage beads, brass and oxidized sterling silver chains, and last but not least, found objects in partnership to create one-of-a-kind high mileage designs that can be worn with jeans or a "little black dress".
www.Fandangle-Beads.com
email: zukpers@aol.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
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
Cathy Taylor is an award winning water media artist and national workshop instructor. Her water media artwork is a celebration of the patterns, textures, and color found in the natural environment and reflects the essence and vitality of a subject. Cathy is known for her ability to interpret a subject in a variety of styles. From her colorful, detailed alphabetical designs including the Florida “shell-a-bet” to her whimsical collages and multi-dimensional abstracts, Cathy’s work is represented in museums, nature centers, corporate collections, and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Cathy is an exhibiting artist at Sanibel Art and Frame on Sanibel, FL. The Nature of Art Gallery in St Petersburg, FL., and Main Street Art Gallery in Blowing Rock, NC. She is a popular workshop instructor offering classes including, “No Mistakes Water Media”, “Monotype Printmaking”, “Mixed Media Collage”, and “Special Effects in Water Media”, and “Anthologies”…creating collages with “rescue” books.. She has studied with well known artists including Mary Todd Beam, Carole Barnes, and Frank Webb, and was the 2000 winner of the Robert Rauschenberg award.
Her work was represented by a licensing agent in N.Y. City who secured rights for a fine art print of a collage to be distributed nationwide, and designs by Cathy are currently represented by Window of the Eye for use on garments and gift items. She has written a column “Art Directions” for local newspapers and her work has been featured in publications such as “Avmor Celebrates the New Millenium”.
She is a member of The High Country Watercolor Society, The National Watercolor Society, The International Society of Experimental Artists, and The National Collage Society.Ctaylorart@hotmail.com
www.ctaylorart.citymax.com
Diana Trout studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of the Arts, where she majored in Painting. Diana shows her whimsical mixed media paintings and watercolors and her bookarts throughout the Philadelphia area. Her writing and art has been published in the following magazines: Dog Eared Magazine, Play Zine, Art on the Loose, Bound and Lettered and Art and Life
along with her own self-published magazines, Springfed and Something I Forgot.
She has been teaching children and adults from her studio, art centers and public libraries for 15 years. She has taught workshops and classes in book and paper arts as well as general art classes in painting, drawing and 3D. Diana can be contacted through her website www.DianaTrout.com
Joyce Vance is a mixed media artist in Birmingham, Alabama who creates with just about anything she can get her hands on, but focuses on works in paper and fabric. She has more than ten years of experience with dyeing fibers and fabric. Her work has been featured in Somerset and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines, as well as in Somerset Gallery and Bernie Berlin’s book, Artists’ Trading Cards. Joyce exhibited at the 2006 juried Artwalk in Birmingham, Alabama and is featured in an upcoming episode of HGTV’s “That’s Clever,” where she demonstrates her fabric portrait collages and makes an artist’s trading card.
Joyce’s studio is the heart of her home, allowing her to make art in the company of her four children and husband of almost twenty years, Bob. The little Vance’s creativity provides lots of playful inspiration. Harry & Hermione, Joyce’s two spoiled Maine Coon cats, are artists in their own right. They enjoy scattering pieces of paper and ribbon around the studio and are particularly interested in watching their mom wind skeins of yarn and other fibers.
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Kathy is a mixed-media artist who has enjoyed dabbling in artwork since a young girl. Her passion for the paper arts led her to creating handmade books, collage art and assemblage, each with a unique blend of vintage memories and ancient cultures in a soft and elegant style.
Kathy is a member of the International Society of Altered Book Artists (ISABA) and is well-known for her past publication of the THE BOOK ARTIST, a quarterly megazine which introduced new tips and techniques to the altered book and collage enthusiast. For the past 2 years, she has served on the Design Team for Altered Arts Magazine and as the Altered Book Editor and writer for Correspondence Arts Magazine. Her collage work has also been featured in Somerset Studios, and her assemblage work can be found in the Human Artefakts exhibition exhibiting throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Kathy resides in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Bill, and 2 pet beagles. More of her work can be viewed through her website at www.alteredantiquity.com.
Jane Wynn was born in Baltimore, Maryland on a cold day in December, 1969. She grew up making art as her focus and passion. As a graduate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1995, with a Bachelors of Fine Art,she continued on with her education and received her Masters of Fine Art at Towson University in 1997 with a degree in Interrelated Media. In 2000 having just completed her degree, she began to teach art at Towson University and theCommunity Colleges of Baltimore County. Teaching has been a passion, and in 2002 both she and Thomas began to venture off to teach at workshops all over the country. Since this time, they have traveled quite a bit and have met many wonderful students and fellow teachers along the way.
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