Asilomar Art Retreat Artists and Instructors

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.

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 has 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 and abstract painting across the U.S.A., she maintains studios in England and California. She is represented by galleries in California and Texas. Her instructional DVD, ‘Telling Stories in Collage & Paint’, was released by Creative Catalyst, Inc in 2006 and her new one 'Text & Texture in Collage' is due for release in Spring 2009. Her book, Creative Painting Workshop for Mixed Media Artists, will be published by Quarry Books in March 2009.

Email Address: waxart@sbcglobal.net

Website: www.annbaldwin.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 

A modern day expeditioner, I practice 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. Having traveled all over the United States and internationally to offer creative instruction, I find respite in my home studio in the valleys of Southern Oregon where I work from 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 titled "Semiprecious Salvage" arrived in bookstores February 2008.

Blog: www.stephanielee.typepad.com
Website: www.stephanieleestudios.com

Misty Mawn is a down to earth mixed media artist living amongst the blue ridge mountains of rural Virginia.  She has had a strong passion to create art since she can remember, a passion that continues to bless her life with purposeful work and fulfilling adventures. When not in the studio she can be found amusing (rather being amused by) her two ever growing children, cooking up come creative concoction in the kitchen, or strolling the back trails with camera in hand. She studied studio art at Moravian college, started a pottery business, and has since retired from clay to focus on painting and teaching mixed media art. You can find out more about her on her blog   http://www.mistymawn.typepad.com/

I have recently retired from teaching in public schools to devote more time to my art and teaching workshops around the country. I consider myself not so much a jeweler but rather a ‘maker of stuff’. My interests include digital art, mixed media collage/assemblage, sculpture and jewelry. I prefer to work with alternative materials and non-traditional techniques when creating art. My work has been featured in ‘Belle Armoire Jewelry’ and ‘Jewelry Artist’ magazines, Susan Lenart-Kazmer’s book ‘Making Connections’, ‘Collage, Assemblage and Altered Art’ by D. Maurer-Mathison,, 'Exhibition 36' by Susan Tuttle and 'Contemporary Copper Jewelry' by Sharilyn Miller.

My work can be viewed at www.rsalley.com. Contact me with questions at art@rsalley.com

 

albiepapersmith@gmail.com

http://albie-smith.blogspot.com/

Judy Wise is a painter, printmaker and mixed media artist who teaches creativity workshops across the United States and abroad. In addition to product licensing and book illustration her work has been published in a variety of mixed-media books including Taking Flight, Creative Time and Space, Embracing Encaustic, 1000 Journal Pages, and Interactive Art Workshop. She is a passionate lover of all things artful and of helping others find joy in the process of self-expression. Visit her blog at www.judywise.blogspot.com.

e-mail: judywise@canby.com
Website: www.judywise.com