Virginia 2012
March 1-6, 2012
Las Vegas 2012
June 14-18, 2012
Portland 2012
Oct 1/Oct 7, 2012
Virginia 2012 Registration is NOW OPEN
To begin registration for the Virginia 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.
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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
Cindy Yost French:
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Jen Crossley & Christine Adkins
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Sally Jean Alexander
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Kat Allison
A traditionally trained craftsman with a fiber focus, Kat has been sewing her whole life. She has taught fiber crafts everywhere her U.S Navy enlisted husband was stationed, and finally has been able to call Virginia her permanent home. She has taught a diverse collection of classes, mostly fiber based, for museums, galleries and retail shops all over Hampton Roads. She is very proud of her contributions to the Rawls Museum Arts Outreach program which provides intensive art classes taught by working artists to children from schools that lack funds for the arts. Her work has been shown in several galleries and museums, and she was honored to have served as curator for two shows on glass and functional fine craft. Her work has been shown in the Bead and Button Embellishment show, the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival and the Pacific International Quilt Show. Kat co-wrote and published Copper Loom—a New Approach to an Ancient Craft with Cindy Yost French. Her work has been included in several publications including Wire in Design—Modern Wire Art & Mixed Media by Barbara A. McGuire; Beaded Jewelry—The Complete Guide by Susan Ray; Beadworks Magazine and The Best of Beadwork, both from Interweave Press.
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Catherine Anderson
Catherine Anderson is the author of the book “The Creative Photographer” which combines her love of photography with mixed media projects as she believes that the photographs you create should be shared in meaningful ways. Catherine leads photography retreats and teaches visual art journaling, book making, SoulCollage® and creativity classes in her studio in Charlotte, NC. She also teaches in South Africa and at the John C. Campbell Folk School. In 2013 she will be teaching a photography retreat “Slow Photography” in Orvieto, Italy. Catherine believes in the healing power of art and sees photography as a meditative process which can teach you to be totally present and see the world more fully. Her website is www.catherineandersonstudio.com and her blog is www.catherineandersonstudio.blogspot.com. You can email Catherine at cathy@catherineandersonstudio.com
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Christine Atkins
Christine Atkins is a sculpture artist working in mixed media, metals and found objects. She lives in sunny Western Australia with one very spoilt dog and her partner. Her work is deeply influenced by her background in psychology, art therapy and her personal connection to the landscape and nature, with her art heavily interwoven with personal and collective symbolism and metaphors. Christine has artwork in both public and corporate collections within Australia, has been in several touring exhibitions and her work has been published in Australian and overseas magazines. Christine helps people push their personal boundaries, confidence and abilities to a new level with her mixed media and jewelry workshops.
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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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Leslie Brier
Leslie Brier is a mixed media artist and freelance graphic designer. She loves to hunt through thrift stores and salvage yards to find items that have been cast off because they are no longer considered beautiful or useful, and give them a new identity. She has a degree in fine arts, and exhibits extensively in Virginia. She has had articles published in Cloth Paper Scissors and Amy Powers’ Inspired Ideas magazine. Her work has also been shown in Somerset Studio’s popular Halloween Issue. Leslie lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia with her husband and two children. Visit her blog: www.brierdesignstudio.blogspot.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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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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Chad Alice Hagen
Chad Alice Hagen has been happily and intensively exploring resist dyeing and surface design of hand felted wool since 1979. Textiles, fiber, fabric, material, felt, cloth – these words are more exciting to her than “You have won the lottery!” Starting from a textile history background, she has supported herself through her BA and MS from University of Wisconsin and MFA from Cranbrook by weaving rag rugs from thousands of pairs of corduroy pants. Why? Because of the color!! When she discovered feltmaking and the way the wool felt absorbed color through dyeing in the late 1970’s, there was no turning back. Chad Alice has written extensively on art and feltmaking and her artwork has appeared in and on the covers of Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts and Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Magazine. She also is the author of three books; "The Fabulous Felt Scarf" (2007), "Fabulous Felt Hats" (2005), and "The Weekend Crafter: Feltmaking"(2002) all published by Lark Books. She has taught hundreds of classes and workshops since 1979 throughout the United States and Canada, England, Ireland, Holland and Germany - from the early felted boots through hats and scarves and artworks. Her large scale felt work can be found in major collections including the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC, The Knoxville Convention Center, TN, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. B.F. Goodrich Corporation Collection. Chad Alice maintains a full-time felt and book studio in Asheville, North Carolina.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Suzanne McNeill
“The joy of creating Art is for everybody.” Suzanne McNeill, CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) is dedicated to creativity. Her class will include the Zentangle® ritual, how to draw basic tangle patterns, and how to add shading and color with paints and pencils. Suzanne loves to use expressive tangles in art journals, graphic designs and paintings. Her Zentangle® students have gone on to use tangles in polymer clay, copper etching, metal clay, rubber stamps, on gourds, with doodles, in fabric arts, and for quilting. Her award-winning designs are known for Zentangle® details, happy colors, and imaginative accents. Her classes are popular for creative inspiration. Suzanne was voted ‘Designer of the Year’ by the Craft & Hobby association, and has a degree in art from SMU. She has authored over 20 books and has been published in Family Circle, Woman’s Day and numerous design magazines. Suzanne teaches classes and workshops across the US. Be inspired! Along with Facebook and Twitter, a weekly blog keeps me in touch with artistic friends. Each week the blog includes a short YouTube video as well as information on the artsy/craftsy world. You can view my blog at blog.suzannemcneill.com.
National teaching venues include the following:
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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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Lesley Riley
Best known for her Fragment series of small fabric collages, Lesley is also a nationally known collage artist, art quilter, and doll maker with a passion for color and the written word. She teaches an array of mixed-media workshops from coast-to-coast. Her art and articles have appeared in numerous books and magazines and she has just published her first book, Quilted Memories. (Sterling/Spring 2005). Lesley is the Features Editor of the new mixed media magazine, Cloth Paper Scissors. With her art, writing, and teaching, Lesley aspires to inspire others to find their own voice and create their art. LesleyRiley.com and also ArtistSuccess.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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Cheryl Strait
I was born creative and I have been making Art ever since I can remember.
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Lynne Suprock
I began Simply Pretty Stuff in 2007, after a Master's Degree and 28 years of critical care nursing practice. More than a dozen of those years were also spent teaching RN's, LPN's and Nursing Assistants at various schools of nursing. In between, I was a writer for the local newspaper, The York Sunday News, where I wrote health and human interest features with accompanying photos. This photojournalism inspired me. By 2007, I needed a new direction in my life,and wanted to unleash the creative little girl who had been screaming to be loose after all these years! In 2008, I was lucky enough to capture the attention of StoryPeople artist, Brian Andreas who hired me to design his pewter charms and glass Christmas ornaments. (ornaments and charms on www.storypeople.com)
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Lynne Sward
For more than 45 years, I have balanced being a wife, mother, and grandmother with teaching and a full-time art career. Originally from Chicago, I now reside in the largest resort city in the country - Virginia Beach, Virginia (land-wise)
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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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Elin Waterston
Elin Waterston is an award-winning textile and mixed-media artist. She has a BA and an MFA in design. Her art quilts are in many public and private collections and have been exhibited in numerous art galleries. She is the co-author of The Art Quilt Workbook and Art Quilts at Play and is a frequent contributor to Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines and Quilter's Choice Network. Elin is also an art instructor and artists' model. She lives in South Salem, New York.
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Cindy Yost French
A traditionally trained Appalachian craftsman in almost any fiber technique you can name, although she has resisted learning to crochet, Cindy has been perfecting her craft since early childhood. She has logged more than 20 years teaching college mathematics and statistics. She has almost as many years teaching traditional fiber classes that include quilting, weaving, appliqué, beadwork and other jewelry techniques. Since retiring from her big-girl job of teaching math, Cindy has become a popular teacher in retail shops and local museums. She has recently begun showing her amazing quilts and felted bags and vessels in local galleries. She co-wrote and self-published Copper Loom—A New Approach to an Ancient Craft and her work was recently included in Beaded Jewelry—The Complete Guide by Susan Ray. Cindy is also a classical guitarist, as if all her other accomplishments weren’t enough, and sometimes, when Kat is very lucky, she gets to listen to Cindy play the hammer dulcimer.
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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! 
