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Aurore Chabot is Professor of Ceramic Art in the School of Art at
the University of Arizona. She was Publications Director on the Board of
Directors of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and
was awarded the title of Fellow of the Council of NCECA in 2005. She
completed two major national public art commissions, which resulted in murals
installed on the UA’s Marley Building and at Sky Harbor International Airport
in Phoenix. Her work has been included in over 100 exhibitions and reproduced
in influential art publications, including the Sculpture Reference Illustrated by
Arthur Williams, and Ceramics, Ways of Creation,
An Exploration of 36 Contemporary Ceramic Artists & Their Work by Richard Zakin. She was juror of (SEE MORE)
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Moira Geoffrion is Professor of Art, School of Art and Distinguished Faculty Fellow, University of Arizona. Her sculpture and mixed media installations have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States and in several cities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, and Africa. She has been a featured artist in art festivals in Bulgaria and is currently working on another of a series of public art installations for parks, neighborhoods, and public transit locations. She has served as artist in residence in Zurich, Switzerland; Perth, Australia and several U.S. locations and participated in art research tours in India, Sierra Leone and Malawi. Her work (SEE MORE) |
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Hoa Le was born and grew up
in Hanoi, Vietnam. She worked for many years
in Saigon as the General Manager of the Vietnamese operations of a
multinational pharmaceutical company before moving to the United States.
She obtained her MBA degree from Washington
State University
in 2003, and is a BFA candidate at the University of Arizona.
Painting has been her passion
since she was a little child. Her notebooks were usually filled with drawings.
To earn a living, she became a businessperson, but in her spare time, she
turned her heart and soul to art, her true passion. Painting helped her escape
the roughness and indifference of the business world. For her, painting
is a process of discovery and creation of a better world. Moving to America
rekindled her dream to be an artist. |
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Chris was born into an artistic environment having a junior high school art teacher as a father. From a young age she played with paint and clay, wood and colored pencils and anything else that she was inspired to make into something more. Even though creativity and artistic pursuits has been a constant companion throughout her life, it took her a while to realize that art was a central component as to how she defined herself. As a senior at the University of Arizona majoring in both studio art with an emphasis in 2-d and Art and Visual Culture Education with an emphasis in community and museum art education, she wishes to pursue a life that equally embraces the making and sharing of art in its many forms. |
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My work over the past year had taken place
inside of my family's house. I think of american homes and cities as
a dreamland, something we have thought up and created for ourselves, although
perhaps I have not fully articulated it yet in my work. Naure is out of
the question. who would go back after all we have accomplished in human society?
I contemplate this thought as i look out the window from between the blinds. |
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Elizabeth Nordstrom is
from Schaumburg, Illinois; a suburb of Chicago. She has been interested in art
ever since she was in grammar school, and is now pursuing her BFA degree in
photography at the University of Arizona. While photography is her main focus,
she also dabbles in drawing and painting. As of the Fall 2009 semester, she is
in her third (junior) year of study. |
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Chelsea
Cota was raised in Tucson, AZ, where she currently resides as a student in the
University of Arizona. Chelsea has had a profound love for art since she was a
child and began her interest in photography early in high school. She immersed
herself into the art world by entering competitions and applying as an intern
in a local art museum. Chelsea gained more professional experience as an
intern/PA for several photographers in Los Angeles during the summer of 2009.
She is currently working towards her degree in visual communications and is
secretary for The Female Art Club and Education organization at the university
of Arizona. |
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Susan
lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she
has studied drawing and painting at the Arts Students League in Manhattan,
Hofstra College N.Y., Community College of Denver, and Santa Fe Community
College. Susan has exhibited in numerous venues in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas,
California, New Jersey, and most recently in New York. Her work is in the
public collections: Art in Public Places in New Mexico, the Capital Art
Collection and the El Paso Museum of Art in EL Paso, Texas. |
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Born
February 20, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio,
Jane G. Cohen studied drawing and painting at Memphis College of
Art, University of Memphis, University
of Arizona (C.E.), Scottsdale Artists School ,and Ichiyo Japanese Art Center in
Atlanta,Georgia. Janie holds a B.S.
degree in psychology from The University of Memphis.
Janie Cohen was a successful insurance consultant
by profession and became an award
winning artist by avocation. She now paints on a full-time basis. Her
illustrations have appeared in “Project Calendar 1995,” the 1994 issue of
“Lifetimes,” and Crafts for the Very Disabled and Handicapped, a
full-length book in rehabilitation therapy.
She recently illustrated Expressive Arts for the Very Disabled and Handicapped, Second
Edition.
Janie
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I live in the small town of Oracle, Arizona, north of Tucson. I have a wonderful studio space a few steps from my home. I’ve lived in Arizona for most of my adult life.
I love to paint. I enjoy printmaking and bookmaking as well. My paintings have ranged from landscape to figurative. I am currently working on a series of paintings of inconspicuous spaces in public places.
I have taught art at all levels from first grade through college. Other experiences include working as a graphic designer, arts administrator and as a full time artist. I have a BFA and Masters degree in Fine Art.
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A native of
southern Arizona,
Danielle Embry received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Metals from Arizona State University
in 2004. Danielle’s work is included in many private collections and has been
exhibited widely in juried exhibitions throughout the United States.
Recent publications include Metalsmith Magazine 2009 Exhibition in Print and
500 Enameled Objects from Lark Books. Danielle currently resides and maintains
a studio in Tucson, Arizona. |
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Devyn Friedman has loved creating art ever since she was able to pick up a pencil. She grew up in Southern California with two brothers. She never imagined herself living in any other state, but now she is in Arizona going to the U of A and she loves it. Once she graduates, she plans on joining the Peace Corps for two years. After that, if she were to live her fantasy life she would make art while traveling the world. |
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Tracy Rose Guajardo is a Michigander through and
through. Born and raised in its rural
country landscapes, the foreign qualities of this Tucson desert still leave her
with a tearful night on occasion, even eight months later. She eagerly awaits the day when she and her
husband, Brady, as well as their mischievous cat, Totter, can strike it out on
their own, to learn their own lessons and make their own mistakes. Until then, they are rooming with Brady’s
parents and everyday hope that the opportunity will arise for them to put their
college degrees to work, whether in the Michigan seasons, the Arizona heat or
some other fabulous state. And getting
their worldly possessions out of storage in Michigan would be an added victory
for Tracy Rose.
This has been a very hard time in Guajardo’s
life. Since graduating from college
nearly a year ago, she has put her art making on hold, due to lack of space and
materials and creative inspiration. But
recently she realized that this was doing her no good! Perhaps her body and mind had gotten enough
rest from the rigors of a lifetime filled with academia. Perhaps her soul was crying out for an escape
from mindless television and inactive fingers.
But slowly she is beginning to rediscover her calling. Because Tracy did not set out to be an
artist, but rather began her college career with the idea in her head that she
would not only be the first in her family to graduate from college, but that
afterward she would be a great chemist.
Well,
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Often the yesterday I remember is not rooted in the actual events of the past. I find myself infatuated with a memory of things that never were – good ol’ days gone by that I haven’t actually experienced. It often leads to longing, nostalgia, even regret. Struggling with the unrelenting edge of maturity and the awareness of the tumultuous world we live in, memory, even false memory, can serve as a true solace. It serves a reminder of light hearted childhood days, dreams, play. I reference the musings of childhood in my work through the use of fabrics, yarn and trinkets. All the lovely things waiting for my young fingers to manipulate in my mother’s sewing room as a young child, and that still comfort me as I work with them to this day. I then put them into a context that identifies them and then rips them out of their comfortability. Just as the real world has no room for child’s play, the forms of pleasure as a child now have the tainted harshness of adulthood: responsibility, death, cruelty, a loss of innocence. My (SEE MORE) |
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Kate Long Hodges received her Masters of Fine Arts in
sculpture at the University of Arizona in 2006. She has shown her work in
Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, and Alaska. She worked for artist Judy Pfaff for a
year as an assistant in New York, helping with large-scale installations, then
returned to Arizona to pursue her own artwork and art teaching. Presently she
helps to financially support the Land With No Name, Sanctuary For Homeless
Sculpture, a twenty-acre plot of wild desert. Kate can be contacted at:
katelonghodges@gmail.com |
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I am an established artist working in various
media including water media, acrylic, collage, miniature art, portrait and pet
commissions, and photographs, I have been working in the arts for many years.
My work has won several awards and has been
shown in exhibits all over the United States in one person shows, area art
association competitions, and galleries.
My paintings are in collections in many parts of the United States,
Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, etc.
Three pieces are on display under the U. S. Department of State Embassy
program.
Within the past several years, my miniature
paintings have been juried into over 30 international miniature exhibitions,
have won several awards, and have been
featured in several galleries. I am a
designated “Copley” Artist having had over 10 paintings juried into the Copley
Society of Boston, at its famous historic Newbury Street gallery. After recently moving to the Southwest, my
watercolors, acrylic and mixed media/collage paintings have been in galleries
and exhibits in Tucson, Tubac, Green Valley, and Oro Valley, Arizona.
I belong to several art associations as a
juried artist member including National League of American Pen Women (past
president of local chapter), The Copley Society of Boston (life member and past
board member), The Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers (SEE MORE) |
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The Sonoran Desert has long been Ciri’s home. When she was a child she played in it’s washes and rode horses through it’s hills. As an adult she has quietly observed the wildlife around her and come to understand the delicate balance of it’s ecosystem. Rattlesnakes, desert tortoises, gila monsters, frogs - these are just a few of the diverse species which she recognizes are a vital part of our environment. Yet habitat encroachment due to unsustainable development threatens the survival of our native species. Her art speaks to the deep concern she has for the creatures of the Sonoran Desert, as well as plants and animals of the larger ecosystem.The Sonoran Desert has long been Ciri’s home. When she was a child she played in it’s washes and rode horses through it’s hills. As an adult she has quietly observed the wildlife around her and come to understand (SEE MORE) |
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Born
in Québec (Canada) in 1978, Stéphanie Juneau followed a path oscillating
between her various interests in art and science. Combining what might seem two extremes
requires more work but provides more reward.
After
moving to Tucson in 2005 to pursue an astronomy PhD, she enrolled in advanced
art classes at the University of Arizona School of Art. Group exhibitions: 2009 - “Pollos del
Pueblo”, Dinnerware Artspace, Tucson AZ t 2008 - School of Art 2D show curated by Dimitri Kozyrev,
University of Arizona; “Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres”, Raices Taller 222, Tucson
AZ t 2007 - “Mujeres, Mujeres,
Mujeres”, Raices Taller 222 One-person
exhibition: 2008 - “Astronomer and Curlicues”, Parker Library, University
of Arizona. |
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Carolyn King is an art-maker in mid-life. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she has called Tucson ‘home’ for the past decade. If you were to ask her if there was a word
or phrase that aptly describes her life, Carolyn would most likely flash a wry smile and
and respond, “Decade Dancer fueled by Creative Spirit”.
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WHAT HAPPENED
WHERE
0-10 years Growing up in suburban Chicago area
United States
10-17 years Family struggles while growing next phases United States
17-27 years Extensive world travel and life as ‘Art Student’ Europe & Mexico
(B.F.A. School of the Chicago Art Institute 1978)
27-37 years Life, work and study in the San Fransisco Bay Area United States
(M.A. Arts & Consciousness – JFK University)
37- 45 years Birthed daughter and a small, private art center in Mexico
Mexico. (Corazon del Artista Art Center – 1992-1999)
45 – present Working as a freelance teaching-artist in Tucson while United States
continuing to explore (SEE MORE) |
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An experimenter of mixed media, Diane had spent many years oil painting in a storytelling style. Her images depicted a life as an evolving woman/artist, stories told and retold by other historical and contemporary peers. At the University of Minnesota/Duluth her work became more 3D and textural as a result of hand built and figurative ceramic classes. Her techniques got tested and expanded over the years as a K-12 and private art teacher.
After her years growing up on an Iowa farm and the Northern Woods of Minnesota, her interest in the environment began to take a more dominant role. In 1994 she moved to Arizona and this new found intriguing landscape piqued her interest. The organic weathered pods and seeds got her involved in a series based on the efforts of the World Seed Banks saving the native seeds from extinction. This rekindled her childhood memories on the family farm; the seasonal seed planting ritual in the rich black earth; her (SEE MORE) |
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Sarah Kriehn is a printmaker whose approach to art lies between the fields of printmaking and painting. Her original abstract, monotypes, monoprints and collagraphs chronicle encounters and experiences in life.
Sarah was born and raised in Winslow, Arizona and currently lives in Phoenix. She is the recipient of an Artist Grant award from the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She has a degree from Arizona State University. Prior to her career as an artist, she was an art specialist in the Washington School District in Phoenix. More of Sarah’s art work can be seen at www.sarahkriehn.com. |
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Karon is fluent in a variety of mediums – often choosing to
work in one or more at a given time as their inherent sensibilities reflect and
embody her intent. Expressionist painter and printmaker, Karon Leigh is clearly
and powerfully influenced by place, light and time. The landscapes of her
surroundings are evidenced as transitory thoughts, feelings or memories that
speak, through her layered and textural encaustics. Drenched in the colors and
almost ethereal qualities of light and depth that are so unique to the
encaustic method.
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Ann Tracy-Lopez has been a practicing artist for more than 20 years. She received
her bfa at the Minneapolis college of art and design and attended graduate
school at the san Francisco art institute. She is currently completing a
post-baccalaureate secondary arts education certificate at pima community
college.
Ann
is currently represented by crussell fine arts, los Angeles. Her work is included
in private and public collections across the u.s.; and in mexico, Canada, and
Europe. |
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I
was born on the south side of Tucson, Arizona in 1986 to a mentally ill mother
and a stress laden father. My parents intended to foster an artistic
environment for me, but their efforts fell short. During the last two years of
high school, I moved away from my difficult family life into the home of a
concerned and compassionate art teacher. In my senior year, I earned a full
tuition waiver and the competitive scholarships to attend the University of
Arizona. During my undergraduate studies, I had many wonderful instructors
cultivate and direct my creativity. I earned my Bachelor of Fine Art degree in
December of 2008, but the whole process flashed by too fast. I immediately
sought an art-related job near the university. In that same month I applied and
obtained a job as a graphic artist for the university’s Climate Assessment for
the Southwest. I have remained in that job and intend to carefully strengthen
my portfolio until I decide it is fit for graduate school review. |
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Lucia Grossberger Morales was born in Catavi, Bolivia, during the Revolution of 1952. In 1955, her family fled to New York City, fearing for its safety. On her fifth birthday, Lucia heard a voice that told her she must tell her story.
In 1979, Lucia found the tool she would use to tell her stories, the first personal computer, the Apple II. Lucia spent seven years learning about computers. She is one of the pioneers of interactive digital art and one of the first Latina computer artists. She spent the 80’s and early 90’s participating in the vibrant and supportive atmosphere of the Silicon Valley. She coauthored several software packages including The Designers Toolkit, published by Apple Computer in 1982, and the book AppleVisions: A Unique Approach To Assembly Language Programming, published by Addison-Wesley in 1987 and reprinted in 1988. Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple II computer, wrote the Foreword.
Finally, in 1987, Lucia had the knowledge and powerful new computer tools to begin telling her stories. Lucia’s (SEE MORE) |
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Dlyn Fairfax
Parra cultivates an explorer’s stance, knowing the discovery arises from each
moment. Awaiting. Allowing. Appreciating.
Celebrating
the uplift and down swell of word, color, paint, people, Parra joyously merges
with whatever medium at hand to behold the emergence of what is becoming.
Parra’s abstract compositions are of a
bold organic fluidity-- the themes are beyond language, complex, mythic, and
multi-layered they offer a shift of view - in dark, rich paint. These
abstracts spur surprise journeys into the psyche, communicating a wild world, a
universal moment, a metaphor;
Parra has
studied prolifically with Master Artists at the Tucson Museum of Art, Pima Community College,
Naropa University,
University of Arizona,
and the Drawing Studio in Tucson
and continues to create as we speak
Parra has
entered two juried competitions and chosen for both:
Drawing
Studio Abstract Expressionism winner show 2008
Tucson
Public Libraries all types winner will show Oct 2011 |
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Krissy Pasaret is a
recent graduate from the University of Arizona’s School of Art. Her main sources of inspiration include the
birth of her young nephew and the cultural traditions of her close-knit
family. She currently resides in her
hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.
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After many careers: artist, graphic designer, mother, and industrial advertising sales; I've resumed my first love art.
Drawing was my first expression. Because of my early and natural abilities in art, I spent a good portion of my early years decorating nuns' classrooms of the grammar school I attended in Chicago. One nun recommended my parents send me to the Junior School of The Art Institute. There, my eyes opened to the variety & impact of fine art. I studied art in an independent program at Wright Junior College, which I transferred to The School of the Art Institute's BFA program, but wasn't sure how to utilize fine art to support myself. In the 60's I designed direct mail for a major insurance firm in Chicago. Although I was the token female of the firm and industry, I garnered industry awards as well as a Chicago Graphics Award. Once a full time mom, I furthered my art education in watercolor, collage and fiber and paper sculpture.
In the early 80's I underwent a series of carpel tunnel surgeries to relieve numbness & pain in my hands. The failed result was worse then the original symptoms and a severely diminished feeling & mobility in my right hand. I avoided situations where (SEE MORE)
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Brenda Semanick has been a
professional artist for over twenty years. She is most known for her watercolors of the Tucson Barrio and large
floral canvases: cactus, night-blooming cereus, iris and amaryllis. Collections
include the Tucson Airport Authority, Sky Harbor Airport, the Tucson Museum of
Art, Northwest Medical Center, National Bank of Tucson, and Sonoma State
College. For the last seventeen years, she has been the designated artist for
the Tucson Winter Chamber Orchestra Festival’s annual poster.
While maintaining a disciplined painting schedule to provide work for
two galleries, she also pursued a career as an art educator. Recognition of her
devotion to her vocation and students has been recognized with several significant
awards: 2004 Top Ten Finalist, Arizona Teacher of the Year; Tucson Pima Arts
Council 2006 Art Educator of the Year and induction to the Sunnyside School
District Hall of Fame in 2005.
Three years ago Brenda completed her first public art project and is
now working on her fourth as the commissioned artist for the new Cushing Street
Bridge.
Brenda retired from teaching in 2008 and maintains a studio surrounded
with other artists. She lives in Tucson with her husband, artist David Johnson
Vandenberg, where they passionately make art the central part of their life. |
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Elizabeth grew up in the Midwest and enjoyed expressing herself through a variety of fine arts throughout her school years – she is an accomplished pianist, thespian, and vocalist. She also enjoyed experimenting with a variety of art mediums – pen & ink, pencil sketching, oil painting, woodcarving and metalworking.
Approaching her university years, Elizabeth chose to find a more “practical” outlet for her creative energies and enrolled in a drafting course her senior year of high school. She excelled, winning a regional drafting competition that encouraged her to pursue an engineering career. As a (SEE MORE) |
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Alisa Wilhelm is concerned with the female presence. After strug-gling to mimic a male perspective, she realized that as a woman, she has a perspective that is inherently different from a male, and she should exaggerate that. Her current work explores sexual undertones between men and women, shows relational interactions between men and women, and shows the presence of a female.
Alisa grew up in rural Illinois, and she moved to southern Arizona when she was in middle school. Her family hosted exchange students from Brazil, Germany, Japan, Finland, and Ghana, her younger sister is adopted from India, and she has lived in China. These strong multi-cultural influences give her a unique world-view that adds another layer of dialogue to her work. |
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Born in
Mönchengladbach/Germany (near Düsseldorf and Cologne) in 1950. 1971 – 77 she studied Art and Philosophy in
the “Staatliche Kunstakademie” and University Düsseldorf with W.J. Seesselberg
and Prof. Rolf Crummenauer. She got the masters degree Class Prof. Crummenauer
in 1977.
B. Zarm lives and works in Mönchengladbach.
Lots of works are in public and private collections,
numerous commissions in public spaces. |
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Carol Ann has been a full-time artist since 2000, following a twenty-five year sales and marketing career. During the first years of her painting career, Carol was best known for her colorful interpretations of Mexico, Europe, and the American Southwest. She has since broadened to include abstract and non-objective acrylic and collage paintings in her work. Carol also teaches watercolor pouring and watermedia design classes. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Carol has studied with Frank Webb, Alvaro Castagnet, Diane Maxey, Catherine Gill, Evelyne Boren, Jean Grastorf, Judi Betts, Betsy Dillard Stroud, Virginia Cobb, Gerald Brommer, and Katherine Chang Liu. |
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Currently
attending University
of Arizona pursuing a BFA
in Studio Art 3-D emphasis. I’ve been
teaching Visual Art for the past seven years and look forward to teaching
again, once my studies are complete.
After graduation I plan on attending graduate school to pursue an MFA in
Ceramics. |
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Eudene and her
lifelong partner moved to Tucson from St. Paul, Minnesota, after ending careers
in education to build a rammed earth house, be stewards of and volunteer toward
the preservation of the Sonoran Desert, and to create art. Eudene creates with
her grandchildren and with writing, food, fiber, and drawing and painting,
though she has taken up the latter in the last four years she has lived in
Tucson. Her life story can be summed up in six words: Timid too early;
courageous too late. |
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Eve Whitaker has lived near Austin, Texas
since 2003. Over the last twenty years she has been represented by Gruen
Galleries, Chicago; Joyce Petter Gallery, Michigan; and SOHO20/Chelsea Gallery,
NY. She received her BFA from Michigan State University and an MFA from Indiana
University – Bloomington in Printmaking. In addition to her studio work she has
worked for the Indiana University Art Museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
in Michigan, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibiting
her work early in regional and national competitions and invitational
exhibitions, as well as solo shows in Michigan and Chicago, Whitaker received
regional attention from the media, museum curators, and commercial galleries
immediately out of graduate school. A few years later she moved to Chicago and
was again immediately invited to have a solo show of new work at the
Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago; and was also sponsored by Joy Horwich in
a national traveling invitational “17th Annual Art & The Law”.
Whitaker
lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 to 2003, during which time she developed
“Women in the City”, a series of paintings observing the Chicago city scape.
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Jessica Lumley is currently a freshman attending the University of
Arizona as a Studio Art, 2-D Emphasis major. She has always loved making art
and is and is definitely considered an imaginative daydreamer. Scratchboard,
watercolor, and acrylic are mediums she most enjoys using. Her work is diverse,
but her main goal in most of her works is to portray the beauty and pureness of
things and life itself. Jessica is not entirely sure where she wants to go in
the future, but she hopes to be a designer some day. |
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In my work I have a tendency toward geometric abstraction. Simplicity & order is an overriding
concern: order through geometry & design.
The resulting works are often based on grids and lattices that occur in
the natural world. My goal in my current work is to perturb/transform the
underlying constraining abstract grid by using simple concrete objects of
everyday experience and transforming them into balanced designs. They are about life and structure. They are
about the real world in relation to the abstract world. They are about the
universal in the everyday. Politically
they are about a struggle against hegemony/domination.
I am very fond
of collagraphs. I find the actual
tactile experience of building the plates, is as interesting as the finished
print. It also allows me to indulge in
my passion for found objects. In my
designs I have recombined torn pieces of paper & stitching which results in
the interplay of vertical & horizontal lines: I find the results of this
practice analogous to those of a painted line.
In the last
year I have added mixed media to my printmaking explorations. The use of new materials and the adoption of
a new attitude toward printmaking practices has inspired me to revisit earlier
work and to approach my new work with renewed/revitalized ways of seeing and
expression. |
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Mary is an emerging artist and accomplished quilter. Her work has been exhibited at many local, regional, and national shows from coast to co ast, from world Quilt Show in New Hampshire to the Studio Art Quilt Associates Points of View exhibition in Longbeach, CA.
A graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Arizona, Mary was a professional fundraiser when she began her first quilting project: a round-robin Seminole quilt started by her sister Nanci. That project is still in pieces, but Mary caught the quilting bug and opened her own business, El Sol Quilting Studio, five years later. She has quilted over 900 quilts and her clients have won numerous awards at national, regional and local quilt shows.
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My name is
Melinda Curtin and my work is here to beautify, amuse and inspire.
My singular,
mixed-media creations combine whimsy, color and imagination. With each piece, I
aspire to provide smiles and warmth. Much of my collection becomes a highly
functional alternative to mundane household items and the entire collection
encourages a sense of adventure, by enhancing one’s environment.
Although I was
born in the Midwest, my family moved to Tucson
at an early enough age for me to consider myself a native Arizonan. I took a
short break in a different kind of heat, when I received my undergraduate
degree from the University of Florida, before earning my master’s from the University of Arizona. I have been living in Tucson ever since, where
I have raised my two children, as well as owning and operating an art gallery
for ten years.
My current body
of work is quite eclectic. The hand-painted floormats display vivid colors and
original designs. I transform vintage windows and frames into palettes for my
reverse glass painting, which can run the gamut from realistic to cartoonish.
Whenever possible, I incorporate various recyclables into my work. I believe
that reusing unusual components adds history and at the same time gives life to
objects once forgotten.
I am totally
enamored with the culture and stark beauty of both Tucson and greater the Sonoran region. As a
result, my usual choices include Mexican and southwestern colors with a (SEE MORE) |
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To me hands are very sensual, and are a symbol of both
physical strength, and mystical power.
My hand sculptures are expressive, with a language that speaks to people
in differing ways. Some people see my
hand sculptures as ‘creepy’, others see them as ‘whimsical’, and many other
people are moved with feeling. The
differing reactions are always entertaining and enlightening, as well as
indicative of our varied life experiences.
I’ve had a fascination with hands through a large portion of
my art, including a hand series in wood.
I’ve now moved to ceramic sculptures, which
allows a much more expressive
representation of my work. Each
hand I produce is connected to an object/symbolism. Some hands only hold objects, while others
are part of the object, or stem from the object. To me, this is representative and symbolic of
our connection to the world, and leads back to a mystical power that I feel in
hands. My hands also represent age, and
wisdom” |
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Mimi Daniel is a single-parent, an art teacher at a local
elementary school, as well as a full-time BFA 3D student at the University of
Arizona. As a Christian artist, she attempts to envelop her faith, her love of
her children, and her interest in whimsy, literature, and her Irish heritage into
her art. |
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Shirley
Wagner was born in Youngstown, Ohio. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts
Degree from Youngstown State University. She lived in New York City before
moving to Tucson, Arizona in 1983. She resides with her husband and three sons
in the Tucson desert, a place of fragile beauty that provides light, space and
inspiration for her work.
She
was a Visual Arts Specialist in the public school system in Tucson before
dedicating herself full time to her wood assemblage work. While teaching, her
school received nation honors and was selected from hundreds of US schools as a
model for arts integration into the curriculum. The findings were published in
2005 in Third Spaces: When Learning Matters, released by the National
Education Association.
In
2oo6 she was nominated for the Arizona Governor’s Art Award, recognizing her
contribution to the arts. She has been featured in various local publications
including the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Lifestyle. In
January 2010, she will be the featured as "Style Maker" in LUXE Magazine,
a luxury home magazine that features architects and designers.
Shirley is currently owner/member of Flux Gallery (www.fluxartists.com), an artist’s
collective of contemporary work in Tucson, Arizona. She is one of nine artists
who operate the business. Each artist rotates time working between the gallery
and their studio. |
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