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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.

Chris Broduer

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.

Danielle Neibling

Devyn Friedman

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.

Diane Aldrich Kleiss

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)

Elizabeth Nordstrom

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 2010 semester, she is in her fourth (senior) year of study.

Jessica Lumley

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.

Kashka Stitt

Through various news media, there is growing awareness of natural and man-made disasters everywhere. At times, global events become so oppressive in my mind that I feel compelled to share my insight by producing paintings that evince current issues and express my feelings. Recently, those concerns have been global warming and the ability of humanity to rise above any hardship by working to help each other. At other times, in the observation of a subject, its energy captures my attention. I am inspired to depict the humor and oddity that I see in the natural interactions between animals, plants, and people in human civilization or in the wild. This art is my expression of the subject’s essence.

Marti White

My work has evolved over the years from oil and watercolor, mostly representational, to mixed media and acrylic, mostly abstract. Living in the desert Southwest has encouraged me to explore stronger colors, vivid and exciting combinations and a much looser approach to my work. I like to work without a lot of planning – I just start and see where I will end up and it is often not where I thought I was going when I began. Many of my paintings are many layered, several paintings exist under the final one. All of my work comes from a spiritual connection between myself and the materials. One of my greatest pleasures is hearing what other people see in my work, how it affects them on an emotional level. I am always exploring new materials and fresh approaches to my work. It is a mysterious journey that I travel one day at a time.

Mimi Daniel

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.

Rachel M Castillo

Rachel Castillo is an artist currently earning a BFA at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Shirley Wagner

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 theArizona 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.