Virginia 2012
March 1-6, 2012
Las Vegas 2012
June 14-18, 2012
Portland 2012
Oct 1/Oct 7, 2012
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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
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Cindy Yost French & Kat Allison
Kat Allison
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Jessica Acosta
This is my sixth year teaching with Art & Soul. I have sculpted in polymer and epoxy clays for the last decade. I create doll-like forms and love to push the idea of the doll by hybridizing the human figure with unusual elements such as teapots, gazebos or road cones. I have taught classes throughout the Pacific Northwest at retreats, guilds and private conferences. I live in Lacey, Washington with my husband and our two dogs.
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Sally Jean Alexander
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Serena Barton
Visual art was Serena’s first love as a child. Eventually this gave way to theater, then to her work as a counselor and raising children. Serena rediscovered her desire to make art after her first trip to Italy. She taught herself to paint and create mixed media work in her forties, earning her right to insist that it is never too late to delve into what inspires you! Serena's business, The Art of Your Life, offers creativity and art workshops, groups and individual art coaching. Serena also teaches classes on women and creativity at Portland State University as she continues her own visual art career. She exhibits and sells her work through several galleries and shops, as well as online and teaches at national art retreats. Serena's work has been licensed for fine art prints, hardback journal covers, and dinnerware. Her work has appeared in the art books Renascence, The Diptych Project and Oregon Public Broadcasting's Book for Cooks. Serena has published A Joyful Frenzy, a book of her artwork with text on the stories and processes behind the work. Serena’s magazine articles have appeared in issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine and Studios magazine. Serena’s great joy is to provide an atmosphere where you can discover or rekindle your own creative abilities. Serena is writing a book on Wabi-Sabi painting to be published by North Light Press.
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Susan Bates-Bezek
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.
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Melissa Cable
Melissa Cable has been creating jewelry for over 10 years. Seven of those years, she owned beadclub bead store in Woodinville, WA where she quickly recognized her passion for creating and teaching projects that allow her students to learn sound skills while walking away with a fun, finished project. Having satisfied her sense of taste and smell by working in the restaurant and wine industries, she found that creating jewelry satisfies her sense of sight and touch. Combined with the sound of happy students, jewelry making leaves her complete.
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Lisa Call
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 seven years focusing on metalsmithing, wirework, beading, and Precious Metal Clay (as a PMC Certified Artisan). You can see her website at www.LisaMarieCall.com
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Dan Carrel
For the last 33 years I have been an art teacher and professional artist. I am presently the art department chair at
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Jen Crossley
Jen Crossley is a generous and vibrant self-taught mixed media artist who has a passion for working with found objects, combining them in her work, to produce unique jewerly. In my workshop, we will unlock the secrets of found objects and journey through the world of mixed media to create unique and personal works of wearable art I have been teaching for many years throughout Australia I have taught in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and also taught for a week at the Fibre Forum in Geelong, which was a great honor last year. I have been published in several US Magazines, which include Somerset Studio, and Belle Armoire Jewelry. I also have been published in several Australian magazines. The passion for what I do comes out in my workshops. They are usually packed full of laughs with beautiful projects finished at the end.
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Jane Davies
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Ingrid Dijkers
Ingrid has developed a unique and sometimes quirky and playful form of journaling that is uniquely her own. Her award winning Journals have been shown in Galleries throughout the country and her work is held in private collections around the world. Ingrid's wearable collage was shown in Belle Armoire Jewelry and the premiere issue of Jewelry Affaire. Her journal work has been featured in several issues of "Art Journaling" and “Somerset Studios” published by Stampington. Her work is also in the book "1,000 Artist Journals Pages" by Dawn DeVries Sokol. She has taught classes at “JournalFest” in Washington for 2 consecutive years, “Ginny's Small Studio Productions” in Ohio, ”CHA” demo and Workshop representing Faber-Castell in California, “Whispering Woodlands” Wisconsin and many workshops in the state of Michigan, where she resides.
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Cathy Dorris
Cathy Dorris is a mixed media artist who has a passion for using a wide variety of mediums and materials, including raw elements from the earth, recycled material, and those fabulous junkyard treasures. She delights in taking mundane objects and turning them into gallery worthy pieces of art. Traveling to different countries has inspired her to study the arts of those respective regions and as a result, greatly influenced her art. For 25 years, Cathy has been teaching in schools, art as therapy, holding workshops in mixed media painting, Japanese sumi-e, collage, sculpture, assemblage, and fiber arts, out of her studio/gallery in Southern Oregon. Her work has been published in magazines an newspapers, and shown in galleries in Seattle, Portland, and Southern Oregon. Cathy lives with her husband in the beautiful foothills of Talent, Oregon.
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Sandra Duran Wilson
Sandra Duran Wilson is a studio artist, instructor and co-author of Image Transfer Workshop and recently released Surface Treatment Workshop. Her work is represented in galleries in the US and AU. She has taught at the local college in her home of Santa Fe, NM as well as in her studio, also around the US, France, Italy and Australia.
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Lana Guerra
I have been making dolls for about 9 years, any thing from small dolls about 6 inches to large life sized friends. I have exhibited my dolls in art shows from NYC to Portland, Canada, France and my large 6 foot tall dolls have performed onstage many times in circus events. My dolls always have a carnival feel to them & i won most expressive artist award in Bezu France's Outsider Art Festival 2010.
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Peg Gyldenege
Peg has been teaching and creating with PMC & Art Clay for over12 years. She has taught the wonders and magic of this delightful material to over 800 students and started the Seattle/Tacoma local chapter of the National PMC Guild. Peg is a Silversmith, creates fused glass, works in resin, and as well as an award winning seed bead artist. Her work since 1999 has been featured in The Dairy Barn, Rags wearable arts, &Absolutely Beads and currently in Bead Unique Magazine.
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Sherri Haab
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.
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Sondra Holtzman
Sondra Holtzman is a record keeper of an evolving life. A professional artist and founder of The Traveling Studio, her journals, sketchbooks and images reflect memories of travels far away and close to home, reminiscent of a time gone by. She conducts creativity explorations and workshops in watercolor and mixed media, with a special focus on the travel journal and faux mail. Sondra has taught mixed media collage and watercolor for the past seven years at Arts Central Station and Atelier 6000 in Bend, Oregon as well as in private homes and resorts. Her work has been published in 1000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries Sokol and Signatures: The Art Journal Collection by Somerset Studio.
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Jenni Horne
I am an artist, art educator, Mother and Wife living an amazing creative life in the suburbs of Atlanta. Since childhood being creative has always played an important role. From sneaking time on Mother’s yellow sewing machine, writing poetry and scrapbooking to doodles on the church bulletin, imagination has played as a stepping stone to a life brimming with joy.
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Carol Jones
I am a self-taught artist and have taken art workshops at the Sitka Center of Art & Ecology; Mendocino Art Center, Newport Paper Arts Festival, together with various workshops from local artists. I have been teaching students how to make a kelp "vessel" for about 3 yrs.
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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.
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Liz Kettle
Liz Kettle is a fabric and mixed media artist with a passion for teaching others the joy of making art and enjoying the creative process. Liz began her explorations in fabric by following a traditional approach to quilting. After filling her tool box with the skills needed for success in the traditional arena she began to delve into the world of art quilting and discovered a world of freedom and fun in mixed media. Liz’s eclectic work is influenced by her beautiful surroundings in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, her love of vintage textiles and history. She incorporates layers and found objects to tell stories of the land and people. When she isn’t creating visual art, Liz writes about creativity and the creative process. Her articles appeared regularly in Quilter’s Home Magazine. Liz is co-author of Fabric Embellishing: The Basics and Beyond and Threads: The Basics and Beyond. Liz lives in Colorado with her very supportive husband and is the mother of three amazing sons who are just beginning their own journeys.
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Peggy Krzyzewski
As a mixed media artist, motivational speaker, and teacher with over twenty years of experience, Peggy’s goal is to provide a safe and non-judgmental place to practice the four E’s: Enjoyment, Empowerment, Exploration and self-Expression. Her classes focus on having fun as well as learning techniques. She earned her Master’s Degree in Life Coaching with an emphasis on Creativity, and leads workshops devoted to claiming one’s Creative Spirit through art; her business name, ARTandSOULtoo, reflects that combination. She currently teaches fused glass and mixed media jewelry, polymer clay, paper making, metal working, gourd art, WishCrafting, and assemblage. Her book Making Mixed Media ArtCharms and Jewelry was released in Spring of 2010. Peggy's Blog http://artandsoultoo.blogspot.com
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Jane LaFazio
Jane LaFazio, a full-time artist since 1998, truly believes she is living the life she was meant to live! In that time, she has cultivated a wide range of skills as a painter, mixed media, quilt artist and art teacher. She’s known for her fun-loving, creative teaching style, and providing a relaxed supportive environment in the classroom. She teaches workshops online and at art retreats internationally. Jane’s artwork has been featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors and Quilting Arts magazines many times, and in Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life, and in numerous books. Jane has made 7 appearances on Quilting Arts TV, in season 300 and 800.
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Barbara Lewis
Barbara Lewis has a unique understanding of the effects of the flame on torch-fired enamels because of her degree in ceramics from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Her exploration of the impact of oxygenated and reduced flames on enamel color parallels her experience with glazes and her award-winning ceramics work.
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Annie Lockhart
Annie Lockhart is a mixed media assemblage artist that has been gathering and collecting her ‘words’ since she was a little girl in Texas. She loves exploring the stories and recording memories from her life’s layers of experiences, or from those who came before. Always longing to express herself in some form or fashion, Annie enjoys writing, photography, painting, good music, dancing, and hanging out with her friends and family…especially close to the ocean. Her first book was released Febuary 2010 with Northlight, titled Objects of Reflection…a soulful journey through assemblage. Annie has had the pleasure of teaching at artist retreats across the country, has had her work and writing featured in several national magazines, and has been honored to sell her work at top juried art shows.
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Rogene Manas
With her unique, primitive art style and inventive techniques, this successful Oregon artist makes what she calls “modern day folk art.” Combining plant, bird, and insect imagery with figurative elements in a slightly surrealistic fashion, Rogene Mañas explores and illuminates what she calls “the essence within.” Drawing from her imagination, her organic and often haunting compositions reflect both her Mediterranean heritage and her passion for Mexican folk art. Using paper maché clay, collage materials and acrylic paint, she creates sculptural relief forms and textural paintings.
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Brenda Mattson
Brenda Mattson is an artist living in the Skagit Valley of Washington state who has been doing found object art for many years. She now takes her enjoyment for taking things apart to see how they work and incorporates it into her current work of assémblage. The creation of stylish Steampunk jewelry is the latest artistic endeavor of Brenda’s. She holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary art from Arizona State University and has shown at galleries throughout the United States. She enjoys working with vintage watch and clock parts to create fine repurposed art pieces for people to wear. Brenda sells her line of up-cycled jewelry to stores in Washington, Texas, and New York and to people from around the world. She has been teaching her Steampunk specialty in classes throughout Arizona and Washington and has been a visiting artist teacher for high school students where she loves to show students the fun they can have is creating art with found objects. She thoroughly enjoys taking the most unusual things and making them new and fascinating.
Email: Artistbrenda@hotmail.com
Website: Http://www.steampunkjunq.etsy.com
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Misty Mawn
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/
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Kari McKnight
Kari McKnight Holbrook (aka The Backporch Artessa,) is an award winning Artist, Illustrator, and Author whose passion is Eclectic Mixed Media Art. Creative since childhood, she has steadily focused on her education as an Artist resulting in 3 college degrees and an Ohio teaching license. Kari enjoys teaching art workshops at Mixed Media retreats around the country, including Art & Soul, Artiscape, CREATE, Artful Texas/Shady Ladies. Her expressive art has been featured in dozens of publications and hung in many galleries. Kari’s art, articles and studio have been featured in Cloth Paper Scissors, Cloth Paper Scissors Studios, Art Journaling by Somerset Studio Magazine, the Stampington 2010 AJ Art Calendar and Faber Castells instructional materials in their Art Journaling and ATC Kits. Kari is a devoted instructor and she delights in sharing her love for art with students. Her engaging, popular classes are light-hearted and designed with student’s pleasure and success in mind, enthusiastically guiding projects and techniques while allowing for artistic self discovery and individualization. Kari lives with her creative and patient husband Mike. For a view from the Back porch please visit http://backporchartessa.blogspot.com.
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Magdalena Muldoon
I was born in Mexico City in 1963. My mom opened her Crafts Business “Mercart” in Mexico City in 1970 so I grew up surrounded by fine crafts. In 1990, Mercart Mexico introduced the metals and tools for traditional metal embossing in Mexico and later in Latin America. I had the opportunity to learn the traditional “Repujado” (metal embossing) techniques from 5 of the best teachers in Mexico. In 2002 I moved to the US with my husband and 3 daughters and brought my mom’s metal embossing part of the business: “Mercart USA”. Since then, I have been teaching all over the US and participating either as exhibitor or teacher in shows like CHA, SDP, Art & Soul, Stampaway USA, Artiscape, Rubber Stamps and Scrapbook Shows, Artist’s retreats, etc. In May 2009 I was invited to teach certification workshops in 4 cities in Japan. I was also part of the jury in Japan’s 1st Metal Embossing Competition. I was asked to participate in a series of demos in Argentina in May 2010. I published the book “Metal Embossing Workshop” in 2006 (Sterling) and I was also part of Page Sage’s “Art Unscripted” DVD hosted by Carol Duval. I have participated in articles in multiple magazines in the US and Mexico. When I’m not teaching or running the business, I enjoy being with my family, going to the movies, reading or just having friends over. Contact: www.mercartusa.com
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Sara Naumann
Mixed-media artist Sara Naumann has always loved words—and words, text and journaling play a key role in her everyday life as well as in her artwork.
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Jesse Reno
Jesse Reno is a self-taught mixed media painter. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil, and painting and exhibiting his works since 2000.
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Janne Robberstad
I am an artist and costume-designer, trained as an arts´n crafts teacher trained in Norway. I´ve worked for 14 years as a teacher in creative classes in folk high schools. The past 3 years I´ve been working fulltime as an artist, doing everything from making artwork for offhore-ships to dressing up Les Miserables.
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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 collected from sustainable sources. Bits of vintage 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 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 also 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 2nd 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.
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Donna Sakamoto Crispin
Receiving inspiration and weaving materials from the natural world, Donna has been creating baskets since 1986. She has lived in some of the most beautiful places of the western U.S., where she has seen and experienced the lessons of the earth. Although she is now living in an urban area, her pieces often reveal the spiritual and physical connection she has developed.
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Susan Schenk
Collage is a wonderful way to wake up the sleeping artist within. Collages are unique individual expressions, just like the artists are. I am exploring a range of subjects without a political agenda, welcoming the technical challenge of making realistic renderings from recycled materials. I enjoy making something attractive from discards, appropriating images and putting them together in intriguing ways. Like any artist, I am especially thrilled when my work calls to a viewer to come closer and spend some time engaged in the piece. While my pictorial collages are best viewed from a distance, a close up inspection can reveal a very different piece of art.
"My goal as an artist is to let my work bring joy to the viewer."
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Patricia Seggebruch
I am an avid painter, baker, caregiver, life liver. I am constantly seeking new things, creative outlets and positive connections. I believe giving of myself is my purpose in this life. I also believe that giving to myself first makes me a better person when I give to others. To share what I know, what I’ve learned and what I care about in this world lends to my creative foundation as much as painting, baking or experimenting and I continue to thrive in sharing with others.
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Helen Shafer Garcia
Helen Shafer Garcia is a painter, mixed media artist and award winning illustrator. Her whimsical style shows a love for living creatively with a studio filled to the brim with found objects! She’s currently working with watercolor, pastel and mixed media creating contemporary images on paper along with a series of Icon folklore triptychs with wood, watermedia and found object construction. email: henstudio@cox.net | Website: www.helenshafergarcia.com | blog: www.agavelatte.blogspot.com
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Sharyn Sowell
Sharyn Sowell specializes in mixed media art because she can’t decide whether she prefers cut paper, letterpress printing, photography, watercolor, or calligraphy. Her studio is awash with snips and scraps of paper, pots of ink and glue, clattering old printing presses, several Nikons and far too many scissors.
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Martha Sparks
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.
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Jean VanBrederode
As an artist, I have found copper and enamels to be the most thrilling media I have ever used, allowing me endless variety in color, form, & texture. To experience the results of combining glass powders on copper or steel and transforming them in a 1500 degree kiln is an incredibly satisfying adventure! No two pieces are ever exactly alike and each creation has a special gleaming personality of its own!
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Deb Warnat
Whenever possible you'll find Deb combining her love of watercolor and calligraphy into something striking. A professional calligrapher for over 12 years, Deb's work is seen in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles celebrity circles. Some of her commercial clients include Tiger Woods, Ronald Blue, Hoffman Media
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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
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Sally Jean is a self-taught mixed media artist/jewelry designer who has been creating art all her life...from hand-painted sneakers to Raku pottery. After leaving a career in real estate, she began creating her vintage art collage charms in 1998 using her signature antique papers, vintage photographs, and found objects. Her jewelry and artwork can be found at boutiques and galleries across the country and online. She has been featured in Oregon Home Magazine, Quilting Arts magazine, Mary Englebreit’s Home Companion, and the West Linn Tidings. Her philosophy, do what you love; she does! 
