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Ty & Marcia Schultz

We went to 2 years of Art School and then 4 years of Emily Carr School of Art and Design. After Art School we started a business making props for the movie industry called Creative Props Inc. We have had  our business for 26 years, making molds, sculpting, painting, casting in metal, plastic and rubber among other techniques used in the movie industry. Our classes tend toward introducing new materials and techniques previously unavailable or unfamiliar to artists.  We believe that by expanding the vocabulary of these materials and language we can open up new vistas for the artist.
Our blog is:  www.queenofarts.blogspot.com email is artratz@telus.net or artratz60@gmail.com

• N130 Something to Crow About - Sunday
• N131 Anthropormorphic Critters - Monday

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Dan & Sherri Haab

Sherri is a best selling craft author with over 24 published books to her credit, with several titles selling over a million copies. She is a certified metal clay instructor, leading numerous craft and jewelry making workshops internationally. Sherri has recently released 2 DVD's and has appeared on several television programs (HGTV, DIY and PBS). Dan is an electrical engineer and photographer with several patents to his credit. He works with stained glass, lampworking and metal when time permits.   Dan and Sherri work together to develop new craft products and techniques.  They live in Springville, UT with their 3 children.

• N123 Image Transfer on Metal Clay CLOSED   - Wednesday
• N124 Etching on Copper, Silver and Brass-New methods for going green - Sunday

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Sally Jean Alexander

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.

• N101 Soldering for Virgins CLOSED   - Sunday
• N102 The Love Bird Necklace CLOSED   - Monday
• N103 Viva La Tiara! CLOSED   - Tuesday

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Thomas Ashman

Thomas Ashman is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Northern Utah. Drawing inspiration from his background in literature and experiences in the construction trades, Thomas developed his unique bookbinding technique to facilitate the use of unusual materials such as glass, sheet metal, and various types of hardware for the binding and covering of books. Thomas has appeared on DIY network's "Craft Lab" and has been published in Somerset Studio Magazine and Somerset Gallery. His work received the Curator's Pick and Viewer's Choice awards at the "Queen Mab's Picnic" exhibition at the18th Street Gallery in Bakersfield, California, and his all-copper journal was selected to be part of the "Second National San Diego Book Arts Juried Show" at the Geisel Library at UCSD. Thomas teaches classes at several studios around the country as well as national art retreats. Currently, in addition to always attempting new and varied applications of his book binding, Thomas is dabbling in doll making
and sculpture, and is working on an instructional book of techniques and projects.

Contact Thomas at:  thomasashmanart@yahoo.com

Website: www.blacksheepartist.com

• N104 Tiny Glass & Copper Journal - Monday
• N105 Glass & Copper Journal - Wednesday

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Robert Dancik

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

• N107 The Book IS the Cover CLOSED   - Sunday
• N108 Non-Solder Settings for Metal Clay, Polymer Clay, Glass & Found Objects CLOSED   - Monday
• N109 Concrete: It’s Not Just for Sidewalks Anymore CLOSED   - Tuesday

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Julie Haymaker Thompson

My artist professional background is in Illustration. I have 30 years experience in that field as a
freelance artist and in house artist for Hallmark Cards inc.  When not illustrating I have always been drawn to the arts and crafts field. I have shown my work in galleries and I also have professional training in fine metal smithing and hence I love the process of adding detail to my work. I love to take classes to learn new things and love to teach as the joy of seeing a person move out of the stress of daily living ,to spending several hours caught up in the relaxing moment of creating, is a rewarding experience . You also have an opportunity as a teacher to learn your self as everyone's creative approach is unique. My approach to my work has always been whimsical in design with the element of sophistication in finishing techniques.  Email with questions to: juliehaymaker@me.com    
Visit her website at: www.juliehaymaker.com 

• N133 Ship of Dreams - Monday
• N143 Life Is But A Dream CLOSED   - Tuesday
• N144 In Dreams - Wednesday

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Lisa Kaus

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/

• N110 Color My World CLOSED   - Sunday
• N111 Gridlocked CLOSED   - Monday
• N112 Winsome Treasures CLOSED   - Tuesday

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Katie Kendrick

Katie Kendrick lives along the banks of the Tahuya River in western Washington, surrounded by the Tahuya State Forest. The peaceful beauty of the nature that surrounds her is a constant source of inspiration and nourishment for her creative spirit. She finds art making to be one of the most powerful ways to connect with her innermost essence while at the same time discovering her authentic voice. She enjoys the experimental and intuitive layers of creating, where she can explore inner and outer worlds simultaneously and she has a passion for sharing her love of creating with others. Katie teaches mixed media workshops nationwide and has been featured in several books and magazines.

Contact Katie at: joyouslybecoming@earthlink.net
Website: www.katiekendrick.com
Blog: www.joyouslybecoming.typepad.com

• N116 Exploring the Feminine Icon - Tuesday
• N117 For the Love of Cardboard - Wednesday

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Stephanie Lee

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

• N118 Plaster Architecture - Monday
• N119 Junk Drawer Metalsmithing CLOSED   - Tuesday
• N120 Selective Seeing:Painting the Mind's Eye View CLOSED   - Wednesday

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Susan Lenart-Kazmer

Trained conceptually at the Art Institute of Chicago, I create elaborate one of a kind pieces for adornment, deep with spiritual and historical meaning. I consider myself a contemporary builder of Talismans jewelry. My work is drawn from my own personal real life experiences. My work is about real life and real people.  In the past, I have explored as many different styles in designing as in marketing. I moved freely from retail to wholesale, mass-production to creating pieces to exhibit in museums and at the American Craft Council.  I have embraced and learned from it all, however joyful or painful. I consider all of these experiences enriching and a vital contribution to my present body of work. As an educator, I consider myself a teacher of creativity. To me, creativity is the process of stretching the mind to create a solution when all the doors are shut. It is the creative process that leads the artist to the solution. Being an artist is about solving problems by coming up with solutions. I like to pull individuality from my students and give others permission to build or work with anything, in combination with metals. In my retreats students learn a lot of technique, build personal Talismans and relics from whatever culture we are among ….be it Mexico, Turkey or Oregon. My recent accomplishment was to compile 20 years of my own research on cold joining and attaching metals in my book called, Making Connections- A Handbook for Jewelers and Mixed Media Artists. I am also co-founder of an on line jewelry supply and education site www.objectsandelements.com  

• N113 Transparent Text-New Works Done in Jewelry - Sunday
• N114 Creating Hollow Forms in Color-Metal Jewelry CLOSED   - Monday
• N115 Altered Surface Charms-Jewerly CLOSED   - Wednesday

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Leighanna Light

Leighanna Light is an art instructor &  a figurative assemblage artist known for her whimsical style & unique use of found objects.  
Her background is in fine arts & photography, but she considers herself self taught when it comes to the assemblage work that she now creates.  She has been instructing art workshops  for the past 10 years, teaching  workshops locally & internationally.
Leighanna is represented by galleries & museums across the country & work has  been published in numerous books & magazines including The Studio, Art Doll Quarterly & Somerset Studio.
“I love to create, to hunt for things to create with & to share my creativity with others.  It’s what I live for,  it’s my oxygen.”
Leighanna grew up in a small town in upstate New York.
She has spent most of the past 18 years in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her best friend Sam.   Visit Leighanna at:  http://lklight.blogspot.com

• N121 Beyond the Vintage Metal Deck - Sun/Mon
• N122 Resurrecting Charlotte: Discovering Your Inner Creep - Tuesday

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Deryn Mentock

Deryn Mentock has been creating art all her life and currently enjoys working in collage and mixed media with a passion for jewelry design. She’s typically drawn to vintage, unusual and found objects and intuitively melds these elements into her work.  Color, texture and composition are integral to each piece and much of her artwork reflects her passion for faith and spiritual matters. 

Her artwork has been featured in several books including “Mixed Emulsions” by Angela Cartwright and, most recently, “Exhibition 36” by Susan Tuttle. You can also find her work in numerous articles and publications including Step by Step Wire Jewelry, Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire, Belle Armoire Jewelry, Art Doll Quarterly, Stampington’s Gallery, Somerset’s book Artist Trading Cards and Correspondence Art.  You can contact her at mocknet@sbcglobal.net and see more of her work at http://somethingsublime.typepad.com

• N146 Crowned Jems - Sunday

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Stephanie Rubiano

Stephanie Jones Rubiano is a native Austinite who graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M at Galveston with a Bachelors of Science in Marine Biology.  She worked as an environmental scientist for a major drilling company in Houston, TX for five years after that.  Therefore, it stands to reason that she has now chosen art as her career path.  She is a mixed-media artist who creates dimensional works within shadow boxes using a variety of uncommon objects.  Her love of nature and fascination with Victorian photography is apparent through her combination of antique photographs and real butterfly or moth wings.  Bits of text illustrate her irreverence for straight-laced Victorian society and lend a whimsical air to her pieces.  Stephanie’s inner science geek is assuaged by her writing the scientific name of each butterfly or moth specimen on the back of the box next to her signature.  Stephanie teaches sold-out workshops at national art retreats and has had work in past mediums shown in galleries and boutiques across the United States.  She is an emerging artist on the art festival scene.  In October of 2008 she participated in her first nationally-ranked art festival, the Bayou City Art Festival in Houston, TX and placed 2^nd overall out of 300 national artists.  Her work has graced the covers of magazines and books, as well as been the subject of articles and how-to projects.

She can be contacted at www.stephanierubiano.com.

• N125 Perching Pixies - Sunday
• N126 Magnetic Personality - Wednesday
• N145 Butterfly Boxes - Monday

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Richard Salley

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

• N127 No Solder Bezels CLOSED   - Sunday
• N128 Enameling 101 CLOSED   - Tuesday
• N129 Hinged Copper Locket - Wednesday

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Carla Sonheim

Carla Sonheim is a "painter of girls, mother of boys" and keeps busy with galleries, shows, an online store and workshop teaching.  One of her students writes, "Carla just shines and is so gentle and  generous that you will work hard all day and come out energised and inspired.  Most importantly though, [her] class was a touchstone in my artistic journey, giving me the courage to stop resisting, and open  myself to my creative voice."  Carla has taught at Artfest, Art & Soul, The Art Nest and ArtUnraveled.

Email: carla@carlasonheim.com

• N136 Las Vegas Drawing Extravaganza - Tuesday
• N137 Junk Mail Artist Book - Wednesday

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Judy Wise

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

• N138 Learning from the Journal - Sunday
• N139 Dreams in Wax - Tuesday
• N140 Dolls for Big Girls - Wednesday

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Jane Wynn

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.

• N141 Science Under Glass- Insect Wing Pendant - Sunday
• N142 Demolition Pendant! Break out of the box! CLOSED   - Monday

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