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Cindy: 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. Kat: 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
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Juliana: Personal Mythology: I began my creative journey at an early age by keeping a sketchbook as soon as my tiny hand could hold a stylus. I have maintained a practice of writing my inner thoughts in a journal since the age of 11, and have combined the two, in some form or another since I was 14. I developed a solid foundation for my expression by receiving my BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. My path as an artist has brought me awards and grants. Based on my artistic expression, I developed Extreme Journaling as a tool for healing and self dialogue in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society, and I have taught and refined my unique and pioneering process that combines journal writing with art making in the safe container of a book ever since. I offer workshops and retreats internationally, including my recent Visual Journaling retreat in Greece ( http://destinyvoyages.com/ for info). Please view my work at http://www.captainsblog.typepad.com/ Traci: I'm a passionate & quirky self-employed mixed-media/fiber artist who makes all kinds of cool stuff. I love rusty things, glitter glue, old books to cut up and cheap cameras. I'm smiling when my hands are dirty with paint or when I've MacGyvered a camera. It means I'm doing what I love--making art and doing things with my hands. Lucky for me, I do what I love for a living. Check out my website at www.TraciBunkers.com
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Sandy Steen Bartholomew is a Certified Zentangle Teacher, an illustrator, and a mixed-media artist. She also designs rubber stamps, paints furniture, and teaches classes in her studio, The Belfry, above her creativity store, Wingdoodle. Website: www.beezinkstudio.com
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Traci is creative director of treiC Designs, a mixed media artist, designer and author. She creates vibrantly colored handmade journals, REVAMPED clothing, custom handbags and collage paintings that are layered with rich textures of stained papers, painted sewn fabric, “girlie glam” ink drawings and free style lettering.
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Jill is a mixed-media artist, teacher, and mom in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains who makes lots of books, painting,s and other story-telling structures. Born and raised in California, she also 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. It can be seen in Letter Arts Review, Somerset Studio, In Flight, Cloth, Paper Scissors, Interactive Workshop: Mixed Media in Motion by Kim Rae Nugent, and the upcoming issue of Art Journaling. Her handmade books are in the permanent collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Denver Public Library. Her paintings and artist's books have been shown in national invitational and juried shows and can be found in public and private collections across the country. She has taught at three universities in Colorado and various other institutions nationally and feels that art is necessary and accessible to everyone. Jills blog: http://jillberrydesign.com/blog/
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My first art award was at the age of 6 from the Oregon State Fair and I have been hooked ever since. As a self taught artist I have no rules to slow me down, I love trying everything. I worked with watercolors and art quilts for 15 years. For the past 8 years I have been concentrating on assemblage art and most recently wire work and sculptures.
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I'm a passionate & quirky self-employed mixed-media/fiber artist who makes all kinds of cool stuff. I love rusty things, glitter glue, old books to cut up and cheap cameras. I'm smiling when my hands are dirty with paint or when I've MacGyvered a camera. It means I'm doing what I love--making art and doing things with my hands. Lucky for me, I do what I love for a living. Check out my website at www.TraciBunkers.com
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Personal Mythology: I began my creative journey at an early age by keeping a sketchbook as soon as my tiny hand could hold a stylus. I have maintained a practice of writing my inner thoughts in a journal since the age of 11, and have combined the two, in some form or another since I was 14. I developed a solid foundation for my expression by receiving my BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. My path as an artist has brought me awards and grants. Based on my artistic expression, I developed Extreme Journaling as a tool for healing and self dialogue in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society, and I have taught and refined my unique and pioneering process that combines journal writing with art making in the safe container of a book ever since. I offer workshops and retreats internationally, including my recent Visual Journaling retreat in Greece ( http://destinyvoyages.com/ for info). Please view my work at http://www.captainsblog.typepad.com/
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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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My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing. www.michaeldemeng.com
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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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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 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 Chad Alice maintains a full-time felt and book studio in
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Jan's blog: http://purplebirdart.blogspot.com Email:purplebirdart@q.com
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My artist professional background is in Illustration. I have 30 years experience in that field as a
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A modern day expeditioner, I practice my own version of archeology, scanning the terrain for intriguing bits and pieces that present themselves. I am most inspired by nature and its melodic effects on the human spirit with my intention being to offer a simple, yet organic, approach to viewers in my work. Passionate about repurposing everyday objects, I am committed to reinventing normal into something eclectic, expressive, lighthearted and potentially spiritually stimulating all at once. Having traveled all over the United States and internationally to offer creative instruction, I find respite in my home studio in the valleys of Southern Oregon where I work from home -continually influenced by the view out my studio windows, witty comments from my young daughters, and the ebb and flow of creative energy. My own book featuring my found object jewelry titled "Semiprecious Salvage" arrived in bookstores February 2008. Blog: www.stephanielee.typepad.com
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Trained conceptually at the Art Institute of Chicago, I create elaborate one of a kind pieces for adornment, deep with spiritual and historical meaning. I consider myself a contemporary builder of Talismans jewelry. My work is drawn from my own personal real life experiences. My work is about real life and real people. In the past, I have explored as many different styles in designing as in marketing. I moved freely from retail to wholesale, mass-production to creating pieces to exhibit in museums and at the American Craft Council. I have embraced and learned from it all, however joyful or painful. I consider all of these experiences enriching and a vital contribution to my present body of work. As an educator, I consider myself a teacher of creativity. To me, creativity is the process of stretching the mind to create a solution when all the doors are shut. It is the creative process that leads the artist to the solution. Being an artist is about solving problems by coming up with solutions. I like to pull individuality from my students and give others permission to build or work with anything, in combination with metals. In my retreats students learn a lot of technique, build personal Talismans and relics from whatever culture we are among ….be it Mexico, Turkey or Oregon. My recent accomplishment was to compile 20 years of my own research on cold joining and attaching metals in my book called, Making Connections- A Handbook for Jewelers and Mixed Media Artists. I am also co-founder of an on line jewelry supply and education site www.objectsandelements.com
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Leighanna Light is an art instructor & a figurative assemblage artist known for her whimsical style & unique use of found objects.
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Visit her blog at gryphonsfeather.typepad.com.
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Thomas Mann has been an active participant in the contemporary American craft scene for over 30 years. Tom’s jewelry designs called “Techno.Romantic” were among the first to focus not on the intrinsic value of precious metals and gemstones, but rather on idea and content. Each element used in his jewelry has a unique and personal meaning to Tom. His wearable art has been included in national and international art exhibitions; in numerous Museum collections including the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Tom lives and works in
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Misty Mawn is a down to earth mixed media artist living amongst the blue ridge mountains of rural Virginia. She has had a strong passion to create art since she can remember, a passion that continues to bless her life with purposeful work and fulfilling adventures. When not in the studio she can be found amusing (rather being amused by) her two ever growing children, cooking up come creative concoction in the kitchen, or strolling the back trails with camera in hand. She studied studio art at Moravian college, started a pottery business, and has since retired from clay to focus on painting and teaching mixed media art. You can find out more about her on her blog http://www.mistymawn.typepad.com/
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Opie and Linda O'Brien are mixed-media artists, authors and workshop instructors, who enjoy pushing the envelope in myriad ways, using organic, recycled and found materials because they seem to have a voice that must be heard, a story that must be told, and a life that would otherwise be too soon forgotten. They consider themselves "caretakers of the mundane and the ordinary" and their unique offerings include jewelry, dada dolls & recyclabots, assemblage, books, collage, masks and more. They teach art workshops nationally and internationally based on techniques in their books: Who’s Your Dada-Redefining the Doll through Mixed Media and Metal Craft Discovery Workshop. They like to fan the flames of creativity and believe there’s an artist inside everyone and that sometimes all you need is a place to begin. Their work has been featured in over 27 books including Larks 500 Handmade Dolls and 500 Handmade Books and in magazines including Cloth Paper Scissors, Studios, Art Doll Quarterly, Belle Armoire, Somerset Studio, Legacy, Handcrafted and The Craft Report, in addition to art galleries, museum gift shops and both group and solo shows. Opie, an artist and musician, attended SVA in N.Y.C., while Linda is self-taught. For more information about the artists, visit their website and blog at:
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After nearly 20 years of travelling the world and working as a Health Care Professional Marie found herself in the USA and unable to work. For a while she contented herself with the role of “Stay At Home Mother” but soon turned to Crafty pursuits to pass the time. This interest quickly morphed into a more serious interest in the world of Collage and Mixed Media and has transitioned over the last few years into a dedicated interest in the world of Digital Art, Photography. She has been exploring the the use of Photoshop, Painter and other digital software for over 7 years. Her work has been featured in numerous art and crafting publications including Somerset Studios, Artful Blogging and Cloth Paper Scissors. She is also published in a number of books including Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernie Berlin, Exhibition 36 by Susan Tuttle, Artist Trading Cards by Stampington, In This Garden by Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn and a variety of other zines and indie publications. Marie’s work is held in Private Collections throughout the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
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Stephanie Jones Rubiano is a native Austinite who graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M at She can be contacted at www.stephanierubiano.com.
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I have been making art on and off for most of my life. Teaching art at a local high school for 25 years has taken most of my energy and time. The last six years I have concentrated on making time for my own art. We have lived in Florida for the last 40 years from Miami to Longwood. Married to Chuck for 46 years and together we raised two daughters. Graduated from the College of Art and Design at the University of Cincinnati in 1965. My childhood was spent in New Jersey and I have a love for New York City. My collage pieces have been accepted in local museum shows in Deland and the Terrace Gallery in Orlando city hall. Also on display at Oval Gallery and DMG Gallery in Orlando. Had a one woman show at Metro Espresso. Recently my work was on display at Eustis City Hall, Casselberry City Hall and the South Daytona Art Guild. My work has been published in many issues of Somerset Studio, A Somerset Wedding, and the following books, Beyond Paper Dolls, Artist Trading Cards Workshop and Kaleidoscope. I have taught workshops at FAEA. NEA, Rollins College and for different county art teachers in the state of Florida. Also at Art Unraveled in Phoenix, and The Creative Palette in St. Marys, GA. and stamp stores.
For more information please contact me at my web site: http://www.gailrussakov.com/
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I have recently retired from teaching in public schools to devote more time to my art and teaching workshops around the country. I consider myself not so much a jeweler but rather a ‘maker of stuff’. My interests include digital art, mixed media collage/assemblage, sculpture and jewelry. I prefer to work with alternative materials and non-traditional techniques when creating art. My work has been featured in ‘Belle Armoire Jewelry’ and ‘Jewelry Artist’ magazines, Susan Lenart-Kazmer’s book ‘Making Connections’, ‘Collage, Assemblage and Altered Art’ by D. Maurer-Mathison,, 'Exhibition 36' by My work can be viewed at www.rsalley.com. Contact me with questions at art@rsalley.com
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I live in the beautiful historic town of I have taught at Art Fest and Art & Soul for many years and am available to teach workshops in artist’s studios and at other venues. http://albie-smith.blogspot.com/
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Carla Sonheim is a "painter of girls, mother of boys" and keeps busy with galleries, shows, an online store and workshop teaching. One of her students writes, "Carla just shines and is so gentle and generous that you will work hard all day and come out energised and inspired. Most importantly though, [her] class was a touchstone in my artistic journey, giving me the courage to stop resisting, and open myself to my creative voice." Carla has taught at Artfest, Art & Soul, The Art Nest and ArtUnraveled. Email: carla@carlasonheim.com
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Cathy Taylor is an award winning mixed media artist and international workshop instructor. Her mixed media artwork is a celebration of the patterns, textures, and color found in the natural environment and reflects the essence and vitality of a subject. 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, corporate collections, and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. Ctaylorart@hotmail.com
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Melanie Testa is both a quilt artist and textile designer and life long journaler living in melly@melanietesta.com
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Diana Trout studied at
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I am a self taught mixed media, collage, assemblage artist that lives in
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Jane Wynn was born in Baltimore, Maryland on a cold day in December, 1969. She grew up making art as her focus and passion. As a graduate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1995, with a Bachelors of Fine Art,she continued on with her education and received her Masters of Fine Art at Towson University in 1997 with a degree in Interrelated Media. In 2000 having just completed her degree, she began to teach art at Towson University and theCommunity Colleges of Baltimore County. Teaching has been a passion, and in 2002 both she and Thomas began to venture off to teach at workshops all over the country. Since this time, they have traveled quite a bit and have met many wonderful students and fellow teachers along the way.
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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! 
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