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Art & Soul is quite honored to bring some nationally recognized instructors to Portland. These artists are among the most well respected and published in our artistic arena. We couldn’t be more thrilled!
Also featured will be skilled Northwest artists as instructors. Many teach classes locally and have tremendous talent.
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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! www.sallyjean.com
- CLOSED: 225 Vintage Vessel Pendant - Thursday - All Day
- CLOSED: 224 Shrine On: Petite Shadow Box Pendant - Sunday - All Day
- CLOSED: 224b Shrine On: Petite Shadow Box Pendant - Wednesday - All Day
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Doris is known for her whimsical style and is a national instructor with over 21 years experience as a freelance artist. Her work has been seen in numerous books and magazines, including Somerset Studio, The Studio, and The Rubber Stamper. She has also appeared on the Carol Duvall show. Doris approaches life, and her classes with smile and a song in her heart. thphantom@aol.com
- 148 Bohemian Bag - Thursday - All Day
- 147 Carnival Mask - 3hrs - Thursday - Evening
- 149 Whimsical Journal - Friday - Evening
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Thomas & Romona Ashman live and work in Bakersfield California. Tom was born in Utah and works in the public school as a music and drama teacher. Romona hails from Louisiana and works in the medical field. Romona began her art career as an art journalist and collage artist and her journal pages were included in Somerset’s art journal book, “Signatures” and twice in the Art Journal Calendar. Her soldered microscope slide jewelry has been featured in the Melange section of Somerset Studio Magazine. Tom is a working musician with the local band “Driver” and is an aspiring composer & writer. The projects and workshops they do together are inspired by the literature they both love and mixed media is the best way they have found to express their eclectic visions. Juxtaposing glass and metal has a strong appeal as they marvel at the fragility of reality vs. the longevity of fantasy. The fairy tale themes make the classes enjoyable to the artists as well as the students. Tom and Romona teach at Violet’s Rubber Stamp Inn in Ventura, Suzi Finer’s in Beverly Hills, Art Continuirm in Ohio, and at Artfest in Port Townsend. They love to travel all over and enjoy meeting other artists in their classes.
- 193 The Little Tin Ballerina - Monday - All Day
- CLOSED: 194 Journal Made of Glass - Tuesday - All Day
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Nina is a jewelry designer by trade and her work has been featured in Victoria, Somerset Studio, The Studio, Mary Englebreits Home Companion and countless other publications. With a degree in Journalism, she has turned her love of the written word into an artistic style that encompasses metal and paper assemblage. ninawitty@aol.com
- 223 Taste of Memory - Sunday (CLOSED) - All Day & Monday - All Day
- 222 Copper Booklace - Tuesday - All Day
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Keely was an art director for over 11 years. Since then, she has designed and sold polymer clay jewelry and has runs her own fabric arts business, Fabric Frog Designs. She incorporates painting faux finishes and trompe l’oeil as a part of her fabric creations. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire, and Rubberstampmadness and she participated in the book “Art Doll Chronicles.” www.itsmysite.com/fabricfrogdesigns
- 011 Fabric Gypsy Doll - Thursday - All Day
- 010 Faux Patchwork Purse - Friday - All Day
- CLOSED: 007 Fabric Memories Book - Sunday - All Day
- 008 Art Tag Charm Bracelet - Monday - All Day
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Traci is a California mixed media artist, art educator, and graphic designer. She believes that there is an “artist” in everyone and encourages creative exploration and play in all of her workshops. She inspires others to find their artistic voice and unique style by encouraging students to create art that has NO LIMITS! Traci is also an artist-in-resident at the Palo Alto Art Center where she teaches kid’s digital art and journal workshops. She also teaches a variety of mixed media collage and artist journal workshops at stamp and paper art stares in California. Traci is creative director and owner of treiC Designs, in which she designs an eclectic line of hand painted paper and art kits for art journaling and stamping. www.treicdesigns.com
- 078 The Book of Ruins - Thursday - All Day
- 082 Child’s Play: Playful Painted Papers - Friday - Evening
- 081 Collaged Art Canvas - Saturday - Morning
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Terry worked as a Registered Nurse until her love of photography took over. The portrait photo has evolved into hand tinting, manipulation, monoprinting, digital artwork, collage work and jewelry. Her portrait studio, Terry Berg Artography, is located in Seattle. tbartog@yahoo.com
- 057 Eclectic Polaroid Emulsion Transfers - Monday - Morning
- CLOSED: 058 Ethereal Polaroid Image Transfers - Monday - Afternoon
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Bev has been studying and making art for most of her adult life. She has sold her art in a variety of venues and is currently teaching altered books, bookmaking, and paper arts workshops around the country. She finds that her loves of art, teaching, and traveling combine into a lifestyle that suits her perfectly. She has recently had a book published by Northlight Books titled Altered Books Workshop. She currently lives on the central coast of California with her husband and two cats.
- 198 The Amazing Book - Sunday - Evening
- 199 Discover the Art of Altering a Book - Monday - All Day
- 196 Collage on the Grid - Tuesday - All Day
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Traci Bunkers is a fiber artist with her fingers in many media including photography and book arts. Her current obsession is with non-traditional and alternative photography such as pinhole, Polaroid, and toy cameras. Aside from selling spinning fibers and yarns that she dyes and creates through her one-woman business Bonkers Handmade Originals, she also creates a quarterly artzine called Tub Legs, has a line of rubber stamps, designs knitwear for yarn companies and magazines and is a knitting, spinning and crochet technical editor. She has been teaching classes at various gatherings and conferences across the US for over 14 years. She is one of the featured artists in the knitting book on hand-dyers, Handpaint Country. Check out her website at www.bonkersfiber.com.
- 094 Board Books Extraordinare - Thursday - All Day
- 095 Needle Felting - Friday - All Day
- 098 Its All About Transfers - Friday - Evening
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Juliana is an award winning artist and creative expression teacher. She received her BFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco and has studied at SMU in Dallas, Columbia College in Chicago, The American Academy of Art in Chicago, and California's New College. She studied with well-known illustrator Barron Storey who encouraged her mixed media journals, and with muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activism convinced Juliana to define her own style of contemporary expressionism. She received the Wildine Fund grant for Artists for her Expressive Visual Journals Workshop at ArtStreet in 2000, and was 2002's recipient of the Madonna Fund for Artists. Using her expression as an artist, Juliana developed Expressive Visual Journaling as a creative process. Her visual journals are featured in "Making Journals By Hand," by Jason Thompson. Class photos and descriptions are located at www.meandpete.com.
- 301 Postcard World Tour: an Experimental Visual Journal - Sunday - All Day
- 300 Mixed Media Jam Session & Intro to Visual Journaling - Sunday - Evening
- 302 Gypsy's Farewell: Visual Journalism for Closure - Monday - Evening
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Christine Cox, metalsmith, book-artist, instructor, and writer, is the co-owner of Volcano Arts. She teaches nationally and in her California studio. Her work has appeared in several magazines and the Stamp Artist’s Project Book. She feels that constantly learning new skills fuels creative fire. Class photos and descriptions are located at www.volcanoarts.biz.
- 175 Copper Clock - Saturday - All Day & Sunday - All Day
- CLOSED: 173 Art Parts: Etched & Fabricated Metal - Monday - All Day & Tuesday - All Day
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Maggie moved here from England in 1995 when her husband’s job brought them to the United States. Rubber stamping has lead her into a love of paper arts and especially bookmaking. She has been teaching classes locally for over four years and she has taught in Canada. Maggie is currently collaborating on a card making book, which will be published in early 2005. crawfiem@yahoo.com
- 188A Adventures in Bookmaking - Star Book - Thursday - Evening
- 188B Adventures in Bookmaking - Codex Book - Friday - Evening
- 189 Rubber Stamping Basics - Saturday - Morning
- 188C Adventures in Bookmaking - Side Stitch - Sunday - Evening
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Donna is a fiber artist, specializing in basket weaving. She collects and processes a variety of natural materials, combining them with silk papermaking, metals, and more. Her work has recently been featured in Oregon Homes Magazine and Art Doll Quarterly.
- 116 Twined and Felted Pouch - Friday - All Day
- 114 Undulating Seagrass Basket - Saturday - All Day
- 112 Wild Melon Basket - Sunday - Evening
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Jackie began her adventure into paper arts nearly 20 yrs ago and has progressed into the multi media with gusto. She does not favor any one particular medium. As many as possible are usually incorporated into her works; many of which have been commissioned. Jackie has been instructing since 2001, belongs to two artist groups, participated in round robins, and an Art & Soul attendee since its conception.
- 208 Backgrounds - Sunday - All Day
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Diane Downs is a mixed-media artist who delights in watching people find their creative center during her classes. She loves collecting “stuff” for use in her creations and those of her students, and operates a business selling such items through her website, Instant Inspiration. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Somerset Studio, Artitude, Art Dollz Zine, RubberStampMadness, and she was recently chosen for the book, The ATC Project. Her studio, The Purple Door, is on the Oregon Coast. www.greatstuff4you.com.
- 156 Creating a Journal of My Own - Thursday - All Day
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Louise has worked in various types of art media through out her life. Her current focus is on jewelry design. She is a certified teacher of Precious metal clay and is also an experienced teacher of wire art jewelry and various beading techniques. She teaches workshops at a variety of national jewelry and mixed media conventions. Her work can be found in ‘Somerset Studio’ magazine and she has written numerous articles for the art-to-wear magazine, “Belle Armoire.” You can see samples of her work on her website at www.louiseduhamel.com
- 185 Art Clay Keum Boo Pendant - Friday - All Day
- 184 Art Clay Charm Bracelet - Saturday - All Day
- 186 Bangle Bracelet - Monday - All Day
- 187 Art Clay Book Pendants - Tuesday - All Day
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Lisa is a lettering artist and instructor at Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA. Her work is frequently featured in Somerset Studio and she was named one of the “Women of Somerset” in the spring 2002 issue. Lisa teaches workshops around the country specializing in lettering in the spring 2002 issue. Lisa teaches workshops around the country specializing in lettering on fabric, experimental lettering and the creative process. lengelbrecht@earthlink.net
- 089 Colorful Symbology - Thursday - All Day
- 090 Magical Gypsy Scarves - Friday - All Day
- 091 Fabric/Letters/Collage - Saturday - All Day
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Monica has loved creating things since she can remember. She took a 4-H knitting class when she was ten years old and won first place at the county fair knitting contest. That was when she realized that she could learn anything. Painting, rubber stamping, beads, wirework, sewing, and gardening are just a few of her creative outlets. When she took her first polymer clay class (so she could understand the product and help customers in the store), she didn’t know she would fall so deeply in love with it. The possibilities are endless and the end product is amazingly beautiful. She has mainly taken classes from Barbara McGuire (a master polymer clay artist) whose expanded knowledge keeps Monica excited about teaching polymer clay classes. She loves helping students discover the creativity within and allowing it to flow through them; calling in the muses, she likes to say. Creating a safe place to relax, play, go outside the box, and enjoy learning new and wonderful things is always Monica’s purpose when teaching.
- 229 Leaf Fossil Polymer Clay - Monday - Evening
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Marilee has been sharing her love of paper arts and color with others as a teacher for over 5 years. She is a popular teacher at area stamp stores and was the guest instructor for a series of paper arts classes in Arkansas. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, Dog Eared Magazine and others. She owns and teaches from Frog Pond Studio. www.frogpondpaperarts.com
- 133 Vintage Artist Trading Cards (ATC) - Thursday - Evening
- 136 So You Think You'd Like to Teach - Friday - Evening
- 135 Victorian Scrapboard - Saturday - Morning
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Lenna is a published mixed-media artist and instructor. She has been creating things ever since she was a child, and just never stopped! You will find her work in many publications including RubberStampMadness, Expression, Vamp Stamp News, The Rubber Stamper, ARTitude Zine, Belle Armoire, Somerset Studio, Stamper’s Sampler, and Stamping Arts & Crafts, as well as ARIChIX Studios on-line gallery, and her own website. Lenna has been published in two books; The Stamp Artists Project Book (2001), and Altered Books 101 (2002). She also has two submissions; accepted for part of a new book about Altered Clothing, written by Rice Freeman-Zachery and scheduled for publication in 2004. Crafter’s Choice will be publishing a book on Altered Books in 2004, and two of Lenna’s sample books are under consideration for this. Teaching classes is what Lenna really enjoys doing best of all, but creating in Altered Books and making mixed media art is next on her list. Working creatively is something she can go too long without doing or she gets crabby! Making collages, working on Altered Books, stamping fabric pieces, making jewelry, decorative boxes, creating handmade books, pillows, stamping scarves, and experimenting with transfers onto fabric are what you’ll find Lenna doing in and out of the classroom these days. She has been involved in Altered Books for over 2 years now, and she has hosted and participated in many exchanges. She has her own Yahoo Group, lennastamp, where she shares her art and hosts many art swaps. You Can view her current teaching schedule and see lots of her artwork on her web site www.lennastamp.com or PictureTrail (www.picturetrail.com/lennastamp)
- CANCELED: 004 Brass Frame Necklace & Velvet Pouch - Monday - Evening
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Nancy is a multi-media artist with a degree in ceramics and glass. As a member of a fiber arts guild, she created wearable art and fiber sculptures. In 1984, she co-founded A.N.T. Transfer Rubber Stamp Co. Currently she is working with recycled and found objects exploring the art of assemblage.
- 228 Inner Vision Shrine - Friday - All Day
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Sherri writes and illustrates best-selling, award winning how-to books and magazine articles. The books have won awards such as Publisher’s Weekly Cuffie award, Oppenheim’s Toy Portfolio Gold Award, Parent’s Choice, Family Fun’s Toy Awards, and many others. She also teaches craft and jewelry making classes. She is a certified metal clay instructor and has been working with metal clay since it was first introduced in the US. Her recent book titled, The Art of Metal Clay, includes projects and information on gold and silver metal clay. Two new books will be released in the Fall of 2004, Designer Style Jewelry and Hip Handbags. Sherri grew up in Seattle, WA. Many rainy days were spent with her sister making arts and crafts. She is married to Dan, an electrical engineer and has three children. They live in Springville, Utah.
- 131 Vintage Photo Charms - Tuesday - All Day
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Claudine is a nationally known collage and mixed media artist. Her work has been chosen as fine art poster designs, featured in numerous magazines, used as book cover artwork, published as rubber stamps, drink coasters and more! Many of Claudine’s products can be found across the country in stores, such as Target, JoAnn’s and The Bombay Co. Claudine teaches mixed media collage workshops in the US& Canada and she has published a book titled “Collage Discovery Workshop”. She has a BFA in fine art from the Corcoran College of Art. To learn more about her, visit her website at: www.collageartist.com
- 039 Adventures in Color - Thursday - All Day
- 040 Minding Your Own Business - Thursday - Evening
- CLOSED: 041 Solving the Composition Conundrum - Friday - All Day
- CLOSED: 042 Collage Discovery Workshop - Saturday - All Day
- 043 Xerography Printmaking - Sunday - All Day
- CLOSED: 044 Waxing Poetic - Monday - All Day
- 045 Poppet Puppet - Tuesday - Half Day
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Chrissy
is a mixed-media artist living on the Fond Du Lac Indian Reservation,
in Northern Minnesota, with her husband and two children. She is the creator
and publisher of a quarterly mixed-media art zine, Artista Zine. A passion
for collecting all things unwanted has led to creating much of her art
from found and recycled elements. The experience and process of breathing
new life into usually discarded items is pure happiness. www.itsmysite.com/twoartdollz/
- CANCELED: 220 Journal Purse - Thursday - All Day
- 221A Fabric ATCs, Tags, & Pockets to Go - Sunday - Evening
- 221B New Again: Recycled Materials Purse - Monday - Evening
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Dory earner her Master’s degree from Reed College, and is a noted Northwest artist. A member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon since 1985, she is the recipient of many awards and juried honors. Her book, Art Escapes: Creative Excercises to Enrich Your Life Through Art, was released in 2003 by North Light Books. Her work is found in private and corporate collections throughout the US and overseas. She has illustrated three creative educational CD-ROMS and a children’s book, The Bear and the Blackberry. She teaches painting and journaling workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest. Visit her website at www.dorykanter.com.
- 205 Watercolor Techniques for Artists - Sunday - All Day
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Susan Lenart Kazmer is a professional jewelry designer of 15 years. Her work is sold through galleries, museums and catalogs such as Nordstrom, Barneys N.Y, Banana Republic, and Ann Taylor. She is most recently involved in a juried exhibition at the Art Institute in New York. Her work was featured in Bead and Button and Beadwork magazine in Nov/Dec. 2002.
- CLOSED: 213 Exploration of Resins - Saturday - All Day
- CLOSED: 211 Filling the Hollow Form - Sunday - All Day
- CLOSED: 212 Elements & Objects - Monday - All Day
- 210 Talisman Bracelet - Tuesday - All Day
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Maggie Kearns was born and raised here in Portland Oregon. She has a bachelor of fine arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Illustration, but she discovered a love of all things tiny and glittery and has been making jewelry and found object shrines ever since. To see some of the things she makes please check out papaverjewelry.com.
- 230 Bottle Cap Embellishments - Thursday - Evening
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Adrienne is the author of two children’s book published by Tricycle Press, Fairies From A to Z and Fairies: Celebrations from Season to Season. She is a recipient of the Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers’ Literature from the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts/Portland Arts & Lectures. She was a first place winner in the annual Willamette Week fiction contest, Portland, Oregon. Her play, Mosquitoes & Fish, was a winner of the Firehouse Theatre script-reading contest, Portland, Oregon. Adrienne has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Brown University and she has taught creative writing at Brown University, Lewis & Clark College, and for the Portland and Scappoose school districts. She lives with her husband and daughter in Oregon.
- 003 Discover the Writer Within - Saturday - Morning
Denise is a nationally known artist. She has been a full time studio artist for 18 years and has been teaching Monoprinting for 15 years. She is the owner and distributor of Drawing on the Dream note cards, established 1992. www.drawingonthedream.com
- 077 Monoprint Possibilities - Friday - All Day
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Kelly T.M. Kilmer is a mixed media book artist living in Southern California. A New England native who studied on her own and at Mass College of Art, she believes that there is an artist in each and every one of us. Kelly’s classes are designed specifically to bring that artist out. Her work has appeared in the “Signatures” book, Somerset Studio, The Studio, Dogeared Magazine, and Artitude. Kelly’s art has also been sold in card galleries in Beverly Hills. She teaches workshops all over the country. Her current passions are her family, reading, journaling and using found art in her work. Kelly is always exploring new ways to create and how to better herself as an artist and a person. www.KellyKilmer.com
- 064 Precious You - Thursday - All Day
- 066 Multiple Layers - Thursday - Evening
- 063 Excavations: Multi Media Techniques - Friday - All Day
- 067 Altered Canvas - Friday - Evening
- 068 Triptych Book - Sunday - Evening
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- CLOSED: 215 FAB Book - Thursday - All Day & Friday - All Day
- 217 Soldered Poly Clay Pendants - Friday - Evening & Saturday - Morning
- 216 Cositas – Soldered Glass - Sunday - All Day
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Julie is a member of the Columbia Gorge Polymer Clay Guild, and teaches polymer clay classes regularly. She loves introducing new artists to the clay and showing the versatility of the medium. juliekrull@yahoo.com
- 202 Faux Precious Stones - Sunday - Evening
- 201 Fake Found Objects - Monday - Evening
- 204 A Variety of Vessels - Tuesday - All Day
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Leighanna is a mixed-media artist known for her whimsical style and unique use of found objects. She has been teaching art for the past sever years and also works as a licensed massage therapist. Leighanna is represented by galleries and museums across the country and her art has been published in numerous books and magazines, including The Studio and Art Doll Quarterly. “I love to create and to share my creativity with others, it’s what I live for…it’s my oxygen!” according to Leighanna. Leighanna grew up in a small town in upstate New York where she studied fine art and photography and now resides in New Mexico with her best friend, Sam.
- 061 Antique Ledger Journal - Monday - All Day
- CLOSED: 060 Vintage Metal Treasure Deck - Tuesday - All Day
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- 214 Glass Jewelry - Tuesday - All Day
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Thomas has been an active participant in the contemporary craft scene in America for over twenty seven years. His work has been featured in American Craft Magazine, Ornament, Metalsmith, the British magazine, CRAFTS, and the New York Times. His work also appears in several books on contemporary jewerly, ONE OF A KIND American Jewelry Today by Susan Levin, The Art of Jewelry Design by Deborah Krupenia, and Hand and Home by Tommy Simpson. Most recently Tom’s work and career has been beautifually documented in an artist monograph book entitled Thomas Mann: Metal Artist by Guild Publishing. Tom’s style of jewelry objects know as “techno romantic” combines high-tech materials and romantic imagery. He currently exhibits his jewelry and sculpture in more than 200 galleries nationwide and internationally in Canada, Japan, and Australia. He has built a career as an artist entrepreneur by adapting his original one-of-a-kind design vocabulary for limited studio production. Living and working in New Orleans, Tom operated and oversees a jewelry studio, sculpture studio, and Thomas Mann Gallery I/O, with a staff of 12 – 25 employees. tom@thomasmann.com
- CLOSED: 117 Found Object Sandwich Brooch - Thursday - All Day
- CLOSED: 118 Earring Balancing Act - Friday - All Day
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Barbara has a specialized degree from an interior design school and worked for a design firm before entering the industry as a full-time, freelance designer. She has written 43 booklets, contributed to 19 multi-artist books and has done countless designs for magazines. While continuing to design for publication, she also works for manufacturers, developing kits, projects sheets, and sales models. She had been very active in SCD, working on various committees, as acting chairperson of the Mentor program for two years, Chairman of the 2002 Seminar, and is on the Board of Directors.
- 020 Layered Collage Bag - Thursday - All Day
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Mickie comes from a printmaking background, and taught photo silk screen for many years. Her degrees are in studio art and pre-Columbian fabrics. She works in mixed media, mostly on fabric, but also in papier mâché – puppets, art dolls, masks – and teaches in Ashland, Oregon at the local university extension and in her studio, as well as doing commission works (image transfer pieces on fabric with family photographs). Gallerie Karon in Ashland carries Mickie’s art dolls made of recycled cloth. She is a member of the International Society of Altered Book Artists, and is the Oregon representative for the Surface Design Association. Mickie has published a book about how to use photo transfers in altered books, and her Web site is www.mickiemccormic.com.
- 124 Photos onto Fabric - Friday - All Day
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Kirsten Peters McGrath has been designing jewelry with fashion and trend in mind for nearly 15 years. Her current work includes beads she has made herself with many layers of glass in the flame of a specialized torch. For the last 5 years her life has been devoted to the study of color and the effect that it has on our emotions. Trends in weather, news, and economy play important rolls in how color is used in the market place. Kirsten follows these closely and is always adjusting to work within these ranges of color. Kirsten has a degree of Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and her exposure to many 24 hour design problems has given her a the ability to solve any problem creatively and quickly. Currently, Kirsten works as a jewelry designer and an illustrator for the gift industry. You can find her artwork on greeting cards, tee shirts, Rubber stamps, and rub on transfers.
- CLOSED: 150A Glass Bead Making 101-Part I - Thursday - Evening
- CLOSED: 150B Glass Bead Making 101- Part II - Friday - Evening
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MaryJo is a nationally known rubber stamp artist and author. Innovative techniques and creative teaching methods have made her a much sought after instructor at conventions, retreats, cruises and stores for over 15 years. She has made several television appearances including many on the Carol Duvall Show and in 2003 PageSage released her first technique DVD. Her first book, Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps, created a long lasting relationship with Northlight books. Northlight has published seven of her books including Creative Techniques with Rubber Stamps, Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps, Making Greeting Cards with Creative Materials, Vintage Greeting Cards (released Oct 2003), Stamp your Stuff (released fall 2003), and Greeting Cards for Every Occasion. MaryJo recently moved near beautiful Coeur d’Alene Idaho with fabulous daughter Chelsea, Tapas (the crazed Jack Russell terrier), and KiKi the cat who now lives in the basement.
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Denise is a self taught rubber stamp artist. The first stamp she purchased was an acorn because that was the insignia of the PTA. She helped with the PTA’s monthly newsletter. Her interest in stamping grew from there. Now she works and teaches classes at First Impression; pergamano & lettering her specialties. When she isn’t creating and stamping she enjoys outdoor activities with her family.
- 228B Funky Button Bracelet - Monday - Evening
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Karen Michel is a mixed media book artist/painter. She lives on Long Island, New York where she runs a non-profit art center for kids with her husband Carlo Thertus, the Creative Art Space for Kids Foundation www.caskfoundation.org. Karen attended the School of Visual Arts in NYC and The Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM studying the fine arts. Her books, paintings, and collages have been exhibited internationally and can also be seen in the books Collage for the Soul, The Decorated Page. True Colors, Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking, Artist’s Journals & Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages, Somerset Studio Magazine and Crafts Report Magazine. To view more of her work visit www.karenmichel.com.
- 190 The Gypsy's Notebook - Saturday - All Day & Tuesday - All Day
- 191 Altered Photos-A Photo Resurrection Wall Hanging - Sunday - All Day
- 192 Book of Personal Imagery - Monday - All Day
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Sharilyn is the creator and founding editor of Belle Armoire and Art Doll Quarterly magazines, and consulting editor to Somerset Studio magazine. She has published four craft books (including Rubber Stamped Jewelry) and is featured on the instructional DVD, ‘WireWorks.’ Her web site is www.sharilynmiller.com.
- CLOSED: 177 Ten Trippy Tricks - Sunday - All Day
- 178 Rings I - Monday - All Day
- 179 Ethnic Coin Necklace - Tuesday - All Day
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Sara is a paper addict. From rubber stamping to collage, scrapbooking to card-making, altered books to handmade journals, Sara has a passion for paper. She is the co-author of Making Altered Books and More Altered Books from Hot Off the Press and the creator of the sarabook (trademark) line of book-making supplies from HOTP. Sara’s work has been published in Sommerset Studio, Paper Crafts, Memory Makers, and Paperworks as well as international paper crafting magazines. She lives happily among piles of paper in Portland, Oregon.
- 226 Handmade Creativity Book - Monday - Evening
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Leslie has been a working artist for over 30 years. In the early 90’s, she became a pioneer in the field of digital collage on computer, exhibiting and selling throughout Michigan. The computer collages let to collage as down art and the on to journals, artists books, and acrylic collage, not to mention a sincere love of backgrounds. Her recent work has been published in Sommerset Studio, RubberStampMadness, Artitude, and an article in The Gallery edition of Sommerset. She has taught classes in Michigan, Texas, and Arizona as well as at Art Unraveled and Art Continuum. Visit her web site at www.parsons-studios.com.
- 170 Monoprint & Other Unusual Backgrounds - Monday - All Day
- CLOSED: 171 PhotoShop: from the Basics to a Collage - Sunday - All Day
- 172 Observations in the Life & Times of an Alternative Imager - Tuesday - All Day
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Adriene is a mixed media artist living in Central Florida with her husband, two children and their puppy, Chipper! She travels throughout the United States teaching at stamping stores, national art retreats and conventions held for paper-arts retailers. Adriene’s interests include making artist books, journals, altered books, canvas pieces, purses, and she has been known to alter anything that doesn’t move! Adriene also represents over 20 popular scrap booking, rubber stamping and paper companies while keeping the Florida retail stores up-to-date on all the latest art treasures! It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it!
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Ellen is the owner of Laughing Moon Stamps and HER RUBBER – Stamps for Wild Women. She designs and manufactures art stamps in rubber and creates specialty custom stamps in photopolymer. She believes that creativity is our natural state and that rubber stamps open doors to the world of creativity and art for everyone. When she’s not playing with stamp imagery, she likes to read, write, travel, and cook. She shares her Portland home with a grouchy cat.
- 233 Everything New Is Old Again - Monday - Evening
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Carmen has been in working with glass for over 20 years. Her work is on the cover of The Fused Glass Handbook, she has written articles for Glass Patterns Quarterly, had work featured in Glass Art Magazine, the Professional Stained Glass magazine, and has been on the cover of the Orton Firing Line. Carmen has taught many glass classes on the west coast and in 1994 taught for the Art Glass Suppliers Assoc. national trade show. She also helped design and develop many fused glass products that are now industry standards. She is very familiar with many kiln-working techniques related to glass. Along with her husband, she organizes and hosts a seminar event called “Hot Glass Horizons.” They have held 20 seminars in Corning, NY and Portland, OR. Over the years, Carmen has developed many of the classes currently taught by other teachers for this series.
- 214 Glass Jewelry - Tuesday - All Day
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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 is awaiting publication of her first book, Collage Quilts (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.
- 107 Navigation: Charting a Course to Your Soul - Sunday - All Day
- 106 Gypsy Cloth - Monday - All Day & Tuesday - All Day
- 108 Gypsy Travels – A Fabric Altered Book - Friday - All Day
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A mixed media artist and crafter living in Northern California, Steph loves anything antique or eclectic and is especially drawn to the Victorian Era, but that could change at any minute since she is always seeking different areas of inspiration. The past ten years, art has been an integral part of Steph’s world, rounding out her life and adding dimension to the woman who is a wife and a “non-soccer mom.” Steph enjoys participating in collaborative art projects and exchanges and you can see her work in Sommerset Studio, on the ArtChix Studio web site, in the two recent issues of Museology, and on the Art-e-Zine web site.
- 203 - Victorian Transformations Staurday - All Day
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Tracy is a Multimedia Artist from Portland Oregon. As a child, she loved art and inspired to be an artist when she grew up. After college at Texas A&M University, she married and had two daughters and spent her time chasing kids and going to Chuck E. Cheese. Now, with her daughters in their teens (almost), she picked up an old paintbrush and rediscovered her childhood dream in 2001. She has been actively creating and loving every minute of it ever since. Tracy’s artwork has been included in the book, Altered Art Techniques for Creating Altered Books, Boxes, Cards & More by Terry Taylor that will be released in the Fall of 2004. She is also one of 12 artists included in Amber-Lotus Artplay 2006 Collage Art Calendar. Her Artist Playing Card Deck is to be featured in Somerset Studio August 2004 issue. She is currently working in her project, “Art 4 a Cure” with other artists to honor women who have battled breast cancer. She lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband, two daughters, west highland terrier, fluffy cat, a tabby kitten, three hermit crabs, and a hamster named Tubby.
- CLOSED: 218 Polaroid Magic Using Ink Jet Transfers - Saturday - All Day
- 219 3-D Beeswax for Assemblage and Collage - Sunday - All Day
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Belinda is a German mixed-media art hobbyist. She loves books and works primarily with paper, but also enjoys working with fabric, wire, and beads.
- 002 Felting 101 - Tuesday - Full Day
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Albie, whose real and preferred name Alberta Zajack is slowly being reclaimed, lives part way up a mountain in Southern Oregon in a home hand built by the love of her life, Norton. When not off adventuring on the rivers and in the wilderness, she is happiest when making handmade paper, experimenting with surface design techniques, making books, painting and teaching. She also shares her creative time with her dear and talented daughter and a few incredibly inspiring friends.
- CLOSED: 103 Wallowing in Color/The Book of Plenty - Thursday - All Day & Friday - All Day
- CLOSED: 104 Painted Luscious Book - Sunday - All Day
- 105 Coptic Stitch Book - Monday - Evening
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Roben-Marie is a mixed media, collage and book artist. She has been teaching classes in these different types of medial for several years. She especially loves creating altered books and other book arts and is quite inspired by anything ’vintage’ and the Renaissance. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio, Stamper’s Sampler, Legacy, PLAY Zine, Artitude Zine and Altered Books 101. www.paperbagstudios.com
- 013 Imagined Lives-A Journal in Black - Thursday - All Day
- 115 Reflections Journal - Friday - Evening
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Teresa is a nationally known, award-winning artist with over 20+ years of teaching experience. Multi-talented, her artwork ranges from beadwork to figurative art, with paper arts, stamping arts, and multi-media in-between! You have seen her artwork in Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire, Art Doll Quarterly, and Bead Unique. Teresa’s classroom atmosphere inspires, stimulates, and motivates, as she encourages and nurtures her student’s artistic self-confidence. Her goal is for a student to leave, not only with newly acquired skills, a piece of artwork, and a sense of accomplishment; but to leave realizing their artwork is not the destination, rather a stepping stone reflecting the creative inner self in their life’s journey. Teresa offers private instruction at her ranch studio located in New Mexico’s Zuni Mts. In addition to teaching, custom artwork, and her own art, Teresa also makes and markets her own line of unique, highly colorful, and fabulously textured embellishing art fibers. Teresa is also shepherdess to her flock of rare and endangered Jacob sheep – plus a few llamas! Some of her hand dyed Jacob yarns are included in her art fibers! www.earthechoes.biz
- 033 Cascading Wire Necklace - Saturday - Morning
- 025 Dream Art Wall Hanging - Sunday - All Day
- 028 Gates of Nine Necklace - Monday - All Day
- 027 Wacky Willies Bracelet - Monday - Evening
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Helga resides is beautiful Victoria, BC, Canada, with her wonderful fiancée, James, and darling cat, Pablo. She owns and operates an online shop called ARTchix Studio, which specializes in vintage images and artsy embellishments for the mixed media artist. She also co-publishes a fun magazine called ARTitude Zine, which focuses on honoring the creative side in all of us. She holds a BA degree in Art History from the University of Oregon. She works in all kinds of art media: oils, acrylics, paper, found objects, and pretty much anything she can get her hands on. www.artchixstudio.com
- 084 Artist Trading Cards Gone Wild - NEWLY ADDED - Thursday - Evening
- CLOSED: 084 Artist Trading Cards Gone Wild - Friday - Evening
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Jacqueline Sullivan has been a mixed media artist since first introduced to collage in a high school art class. She won her first art award at age 12 for a photo montage done from the covers of Time Magazine. Jacqueline has a degree in graphic design and does advertising design by day and works evenings in her studio creating art with multiple mediums. Jacqueline’s work has been shown in galleries and the top, juried art fairs nationwide. Her calligraphic work has been published in many calligraphy journals and she has been on the faculty of four International Calligraphy Conferences. Jacqueline has also been on the faculty of Artiology, Art Unraveled, and Artiscape. Recently her work and some techniques were published in the May/June 2004 Somerset Magazine. In her classes, Jacqueline emphasizes experimentation. She is known for venturing into the unknown and creating new techniques that she shares with her students. Students are always encouraged to “play” and to “push” materials to find their own unique style and techniques. These techniques are then refined, documented, and utilized within the context of sound composition. The challenge is always to create and refine.
- 130 Experimental Watermedia Collage - Thursday - Evening
- 127 Patina Papers - Friday - Evening
- CLOSED: 129 Simple Metal Etching - Sunday - Evening
- 128 Puttin' on the Glitz - Monday - All Day
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A mixed-media artist with a gypsy spirit (and the Hungarian/Romanian heritage to match), Christine has lived all over the US. A web designer by trade, she is always looking for new creative outlets, and began her current creative adventures in 1997 while living Florida! Christine is active in several Yahoo groups including A.R.T. (ArtFest Reunion Therapy), Art & Soul, and Leigh Snaith-Brunton’s DominoArt group, in which she serves as the mentor coordinator matching “newbies” (those having little or no “game-piece” alteration experience) with experienced mentors. Living in Seattle for the past three years, Christine enjoys being “at the heart of art.” You can see Christine’s work in Legacy, RubberStampMadness, The Rubber Stamper, ArtChix Studio website, Vamp Stamp News, and online at DominoArt.
- 203 Victorian Transformations - Saturday - All Day
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Diana of Rudyard, Montana has worked primarily with batik for the past 20 years. Recently she has been creating mixed media collages that combine her interest in color and texture. A graduate of Montana State University-Bozeman, Diana earned a B.A. in Art Education and recently concluded 15 years in public schools teaching visual arts to kindergarten through twelfth grade students. Diana now devotes her energy to personal artistic growth and works with paper in a wide range of applications, from one-of-a-kind jewelry and collages to embellishing furniture. She is inspired by her experiences as a teacher, and credits her students with helping her appreciate the serendipity of art-making and the joy of creating. According to Diana, “Art is a hopeful process. There is so much optimism involved in creating from simple materials that hold infinite possibilities.” The peace and freedom of rural life has been the perfect setting for Diana’s creative endeavors. She resides on the family farm with her husband, Russ, and has two grown children. Diana exhibits her work with art associations in the area, in several Montana galleries, is a frequent contributor to Somerset Studio, Legacy, Art Doll Quarterly, Stampington & Company special publications, and has projects featured in two books.
- 022 Serendipity Pins - Monday - Evening & Sunday - Evening
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Denise Marie has been creating her unique whimsically designed art dolls since 1990. Her work has been featured in leading art and craft galleries across the country. As a member of the American Craft Council from 1994-1999, she participated in numerous wholesale and retail shows organized by the ACC. She was a regular tenured exhibitor in the Rosen Group’s Philadelphia Buyers Mart of American Craft from 1994-2000. Many fine craft galleries have carried her work including Craft Company #6 – New York, NY, Freehand – Dallas, TX, Artisans – Lahoska, PA, Seldom Seen – Florida, Clay n’ Fiber – Taos, NM, Mariposa – Albuquerque, NM, and The Mirage Hotel & Casino Gift Shop – Las Vegas, NV. Over the last 5 years, Denise Marie has taken so time away from her production studio to spend time with her ever expanding family and to explore the wonderful world of hand-dyeing fibers. Currently she resides along the pastoral Rio Grande River Valley, in south central New Mexico with her four children, husband, two llamas, four goats, and two cats. She is a regular contributor to Art Doll Quarterly. Look for her most recent contribution in the spring issue of ADQ, Experience Storytime through the Storybook Doll Exhibit, and the summer issue of ADQ, Pixie’s in the Garden, and the Colors of Summer.
- 037 Pixie or Copernicus Cat - Friday - All Day
- 038 Lace & Silk Velvet Painting - Friday - Evening
- 035 Fairy Goddess-Mother - Saturday - All Day
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Randi is a Southern California mixed media artist who travels nationally teaching workshops across the United States and Canada. She studied art at Pitzer College, has had her work published in various books and magazines and has won numerous awards and grants for her work including being chosen as the Milton Avery Arts Scholar for 2002-01. In addition to traveling, Randi spends her time working with cancer patients taking them on a journey of healing and discovery through the art of Visual Journaling. She has recently designed a deck of Visual Journaling Technique cards that incorporate her work with numerous journaling exercises, designed to encourage the student to continue fearless creating. During the Southern California wild fires, she lost 20 years of journals along with much of her life and has since learned to carry a lot of her art supplies in the trunk of her car.
- 152 Woven Purse with Bamboo Handles - Thursday - All Day
- 154 Photo Art I - Thursday - Evening
- 153 Salvador Dahli Journal - Friday - All Day
- CLOSED: 155 Photo Art II - Friday - Evening
- 151 Romance Novel Shoulder Bag - Sunday - Evening
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Sara is a mixed-media artist living and teaching in Seattle, Washington. She recently said “bye-bye” to her long career as a human resources professional in corporate America to make art, and to teach art and artistic processes that help feed and heal the soul. She is a certified Expressive Arts Practitioner and SoulCollage™ (www.soulcollage.com) facilitator. She wants participants to have fun while making art and to use art for self-discovery. E-mail Sara at: kaleidoscopeartworks@comcast.net
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