Virginia 2012
March 1-6, 2012
Las Vegas 2012
June 14-18, 2012
Portland 2012
Oct 1/Oct 7, 2012
Las Vegas 2012 Registration is NOW OPEN
To begin registration for the Las Vegas 2012 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!
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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Sally Jean Alexander
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Doris Arndt
Known for her whimsical style, Doris Arndt has shared her love of books and other media throughout the country, teaching workshops for over 15 years. Her non-traditional approach and innovative bindings have earned her loyal student followings. Her work has been seen in the Studio, Somerset Studio, The Rubber Stamper, Rubberstampmadness and in several books as well as on the Carol Duvall show and at shows nationwide. She attended the University of Louisville and has been a freelance artist for over 30 years. She shares her home with her patient husband, three cats and a dog. Life is good.
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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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Jill Berry
Jill is a mixed-media artist in the Rocky Mountains who makes lots of books, paintings and other story-telling structures. After graduating with a degree in Design, she spent a year of graduate studies in Italy, where she learned to see a bigger picture of both art and the world in general. She focuses her work on text, color and social issues, and it often involves maps, symbols, houses, housewives, and the mystique of charisma, and you can see it in Somerset Studio, Letter Arts Review and Cloth, Paper Scissors, Art Journaling magazine. Drawing Lab (by Carla Sonheim) , Interactive Art Workshop: Set Your Mixed Media in Motion (Kim Rae Nugent) The Elemental Journal (Tammy Kushnir) and four other upcoming publications by Quarry and North Light Books. Her first book: "Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking" will released November 2011.
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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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Jen Cushman
Jen Cushman is a natural storyteller who found mixed media art a decade ago and never looked back. She is drawn to the imperfect, the funky, the quirky, the artsy and the authentic: be it people or objects or art. Her mixed media jewelry has been featured in Belle Armoire Jewelry and Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazines. She is also the Director of Education and Marketing for ObjectsandElements.com, an online jewelry supply store and more, coordinator of the Objects and Elements Design Team and editor of the O&E-Zine (www.objectsandelements.typepad.com).
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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.
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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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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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Julie Haymaker Thompson
Jill is a mixed-media artist in the Rocky Mountains who makes lots of books, paintings and other story-telling structures. After graduating with a degree in Design, she spent a year of graduate studies in Italy, where she learned to see a bigger picture of both art and the world in general. She focuses her work on text, color and social issues, and it often involves maps, symbols, houses, housewives, and the mystique of charisma, and you can see it in Somerset Studio, Letter Arts Review and Cloth, Paper Scissors, Art Journaling magazine. Drawing Lab (by Carla Sonheim) , Interactive Art Workshop: Set Your Mixed Media in Motion (Kim Rae Nugent) The Elemental Journal (Tammy Kushnir) and four other upcoming publications by Quarry and North Light Books. Her first book: Personal Geographies: Mapping Your Stories in Mixed Media will released November 2011.
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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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Erin Keck
An Assemblage Artist residing in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Erin Keck's artwork results from re purposing found discarded objects. She loves to breathe new life into castaways from yesteryear. Erin's artwork is shown and sold in three prestigious art galleries in Pa. The 2nd Floor in Mechanicsburg, Pa, Village Artisans Gallery in Boiling Springs, Pa, and Perry County Council Of The Arts in Newport, Pa. She has been a Featured Artist in two of the galleries with Private Showings. Recently Erin's work has been published in the book, “1000 Steampunk Creations” by Grymm. Seven of her pieces were chosen for this book. She has taught community craft classes on a monthly basis from 2007 – 2010, and has taught classes at the Charmed I'm Sure Studio owned by friend and colleague and fellow Art & Soul instructor, Jean Van Brederode. Erin has lectured at the Central Pa. Bead and Jewelry Society, and has also taught private classes in her home studio. She has attended Art & Soul retreats for the past three years, and values the inspiration and knowledge that she has received from the Art & Soul instructors.You can see more of Erin's artwork at www.EKCreations.etsy.com. (be sure to view her sold items.)
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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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Shelly Massey
Shelly Massey is a doodler and designer who has been teaching in one way or another for most of her life. She loves all things clever, colorful and amusing. `Shelly attended the University of Kansas School of Design and earned a BFA in Design. She has spent the last 15 years unlearning most of those design principles and relearning how to make art just for fun.
Shelly currently resides in Middletown, Ohio but has also called Kansas, South Carolina and Washington her home. Time not spent doodling is filled up with loving life along with her handy, hard-working husband and super-sweet, smarty-pants daughter.
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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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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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Ty Schultz
One half of the Ty & Marcia Schultz team, Ty went to 2 years of Art School and then 4 years of Emily Carr School of Art and Design. After Art School he & Marcia started a business making props for the movie industry called Creative Props Inc. They have had the business for 26 years, making molds, sculpting, painting, casting in metal, plastic and rubber among other techniques used in the movie industry. Their classes tend toward introducing new materials and techniques previously unavailable or unfamiliar to artists. They believe that by expanding the vocabulary of these materials and language they can open up new vistas for the artist. Their blog is: www.queenofarts.blogspot.com email is artratz@telus.net or artratz60@gmail.com
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Cathy Taylor
Cathy Taylor is an award winning mixed media artist and popular workshop instructor. Her water media artwork is a celebration of the patterns, textures, and color found in the the natural environment. 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 and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. Some of Cathy's work is licensed for use on clothing, textiles, and gift items. Her work was represented by a licensing agent in New York City who secured rights for a fine art print of a collage which was distributed nationwide. Cathy's collages were juried into the National Collage Society's annual exhibition in 2005 and 2007. Her articles, "Anthologies", "The Nature of Art", and "Creative Spirits" were featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors art magazine.
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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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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! 
