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charlie

CHARLIE BAKER is a Mineral Point studio artist. Having retired from a successful design career in Chicago, Charlie now enjoys pursuing many art media including drawing, painting and printmaking. His woodcut and linocut prints and etchings and engravings on copper showcase his considerable drawing skills and sense of graphic design.

see color woodcut class

dean

DEAN BAKOPOULOS first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2005 and received “Book of the Year” awards from the New York Public Library, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Library of Michigan, and the Friends of American Writers. Recipient of a 2006–07 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he is at work on a second novel to be published by Harcourt in 2008. Dean has taught at UW- Madison and has been a guest lecturer at a number of colleges and universities.

www.deanbakopoulos.com
see classes

jorjan

JORJAN BORLIN is fascinated with the idea of people living IN ART not just WITH ART. Her jewelry and garments help people say who they are and share the beauty, strength and energy within themselves. Over the past 25 years, JorJan’s art has been featured in numerous magazine articles and included in fine craft shows and galleries from Santa Fe NM to New York City. Her studio in SW Wisconsin is included in the annual Fall Art Tour.

www.schweistudios.com

kay

KAY BRATHOL-HOSTVET is a practicing artist and enthusiastic art instructor with a love of teaching. Her works are in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the Midwest. She is represented by the Artisan Gallery, Paoli (Madison) and BNOX Gold & Iron and Fine Art, Pepin, Wisconsin. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in Drawing and Painting and works from her home studio in Madison.

www.kaybratholhostvet.com


see pastel class
see acrylic class
see plein air pastel class
sandy

SANDY BULGRIN has been a basket weaver and gourd artist for over 15 years. She is co-owner of Basket Bits Magazine, a quarterly publication catering to the basketmaker. Sandy teaches extensively throughout the Midwest at private basketry shops, basketry associations and conventions, as well as at the Madison WI Garden Expo, Olbrich Gardens in Madison, at park districts and extension services in suburban Chicago, and at museums in Kenosha and Racine, WI.

www.basketbits.com
see paper basket class
see chair cane class

ann cabezas


Ann Alderson Cabezas is a Mineral Point glass artist. She loves working with glass for its magical balance of fragility and strength. She works with shapes from nature like leaves and fish because they best express the simple elegance of the world around us. She also does a series of more whimsical pieces, such as shoes and clothes on a clothesline. Ann studied glassblowing at UW-River Falls and has a BS degree in art. She has exhibited in shows and galleries around the nation since 1988 and is owner of the Spotted Dog Gallery in Mineral Point.

http://my.execpc.com/~malderso/kazine/kazine.htm

tom

TOM CABEZAS is a Mineral Point wood-worker and mixed media artist. He has been designing and building unique quality furniture since 1991. With a background in sculpture and a deep respect for craftsmanship and detail Tom strives to create work that does not attempt to place form over function or function over form. His work has been shown nation-wide and has won numerous awards. Tom earned an MFA in sculpture from UW-Madison and currently teaches design and ceramics at Madison Area Technical College.

www.cabezasstudios.com
see class

 

BARB CESAL Regarded as one of the finest gourd artists around, Barb teaches gourd chip carving at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago, and is well known for her delicate “inside out” carved sculptures.

LINDA DERRICKSON has taught high school home economics and adult classes in gardening, handspinning, nutrition and lefsemaking. She earned a teaching degree from UW-Madison, taught nutrition in the Peace Corps, started a neighborhood co-op grocery in Madison and operated a restaurant/bakery/art gallery/music/cafe. She founded the Blanchardville area fiber guild, YARNS (Yarn Artists & Rural Neighborhood Spinners) Ewenited, and now raises heritage Jacob and Tunis Sheep at Hillspring Eco-Farm, near Blanchardville, Wisconsin.

www.hillspring.org
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michael



MICHAEL DONOVAN Both artisan and artist, Michael divides his time between innovative carpentry and far out sculptural assemblages, often featuring detritus of old houses he has worked on. He also enjoys working in found object mosaic concrete sculpture.

see class

heidi

HEIDI DYAS-McBETH is a mixed media artist from Platteville, WI. Her work is an assemblage of various media using found images and objects. It ranges from small mosaic and collage pieces to a life-size concrete-over-armature Garden Goddess dressed in colorful mosaic overall-shorts, hands in the air, foot on a snake. Until recently she served as program coordinator for ArtsBuild, an arts-based economic development initiative in the Continuing Ed Dept of UW-Platteville. She is currently co-owner of The Driftless Market – Local Food, Deli and Art, a local and natural foods grocery in Platteville.

see classes

tor

TOR FAEGRE has been making furniture since his childhood in the New Hampshire wood. He worked for many years as a carpenter in Chicago and now combines his love of the natural world with the skills he learned in construction. He forages for pieces of the natural world and combines them with lumber and steel to make furniture and sculpture pieces. His “floating” tables grace a number of galleries and museums. Tor lives and works in Evanston IL and teaches Twig Furniture workshops in the Midwest in the spring and fall.

www.torfaegre.com
see class

cecilia farran


CECILIA FARRAN is a writer, dramatist and storyteller in the Bardic Tradition. She has studied ancient Irish spirituality in Ireland and finds solitude and inspiration at her home, “Taralir”, in SW Wisconsin. She has served on the board of directors and as entertainment coordinator for Milwaukee’s Irish Fest. She also founded, and directed for four years, the Irish Fest Summer School held at UW-Milwaukee. She is currently owner of 43/90 North Earth Gifts in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

www.northearth.com

samar fitzgerald

SAMAR FITZGERALD received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has recently appeared in The Southern Review, and she was a finalist for the Axton Fellowship at the University of Louisville. She is working on a collection of stories and a novella titled You're a Big Success. She was born in Athens, Greece (but has only hazy memories of the city) and grew up in New Jersey.

see class

cynthia

CYNTHIA GALLAHER is a Chicago-based poet and writer, author of three books, and a writing workshop leader for more than 15 years. She is listed on the Chicago Public Library’s “Top Ten Most Requested Chicago Poets” and was named one of “100 Women Making a Difference” by Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine. She writes the online blog “Journal Writing Tips with a Twist.”

www.geocities.com/swimmer53
see classes


DENNIS GIESE is a professional fine rustic artisan working in the Adiron- dack style, Dennis makes exquisite, inlaid and embellished furniture, shelves, frames, and mirrors. He also is adept with classic fly tying and other wilderness arts.

see frame class
see table class

suzanne

SUZANNE HAMER has been hooking rugs since 1973 and is a certified McGown teacher. She has taught in national workshops as well as from her home studio. Although she teaches a wide range of techniques, her love is use of color in geometric, animal and landscape rugs. her work has won many awards and has been featured in national publications. Rug hooking has been a major part of each day and one of her greatest joys.

see class

jan harris

JAN KETZA-HARRIS is a painter, self-proclaimed “Bead Diva” and co-owner of Galena Beads in Galena IL. For 20 years she had a successful wearable art clothing company. She experimented in jewelry making when her customers wanted jewelry to go with the outfits. She now specializes in wire crochet, taking a traditional craft long used to create adornments in fiber, and instead using it as a wire jewelry making technique. Jan brings all the principles of art from her experience as a painter to her unique jewelry designs. Her “Love Gives Wings” necklace was featured on the Fall 2006 cover of Stringing Magazine.

www.galenabeads.com
www.janketzaharris.com
see class

keith huie


KEITH HUIE began writing poetry for his daughter in 1988. Since 2000, he has published 5 books of those poems and drawings. Every year, he visits schools all over Wisconsin to read, draw and answer questions with kids. These visits are always unique, always fun and always inspiring for both himself and the audience. On the side he manages The Art Store in Madison.

see class

JAMES JOHNSON began his artistic career as a poet and switched to painting in 2000 while finishing an M.A. in Theology and the Arts. His primary concerns are balance, line, space, color, and simplicity of statement. He has taught Chinese martial arts for many years and likes to think that because he has repeated so many Taoist-based movements, he is, in fact, painting the Tao.

www.chestnuthillstudio.com
see classes

jan

JAN JOHNSON is a Mineral Point artist who creates colorful watercolor prints and cards, botanical drawings and paper sculpture. Withe an early education in botany and horticulture, Jan's primary interest is in the unexpected details of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Capturing an "up close and personal" experience with plants is what Jan's work is about. Her original watercolor paintings, prints and notecards are brilliantly colored, bold designs suitable for cheerful occasions and contemporary settings. Jan works at Chestnut Hill Studio in Mineral Point. Her work may be seen at the Howdle Gallery in Mineral Point.

www.chestnuthillstudio.com
see classes

donna


DONNA KALLNER is a fiber artist, teacher and writer from rural northern Wisconsin known for the contemporary ways she uses looping and other ancient fiber techniques to tell timeless stories. Her work is included in Fiberarts Design Book 7 and exhibited nationally, most recently in Art Cloth, an exhibit traveling to eight U.S. cities with the 2007-2008 Original Sewing and Quilt Expo and at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee. A popular speaker, Donna shares her excitement and energy teaching workshops across the country including at Seivers School of Fiber Art, the Minneapolis Textile Center, and the Milwaukee Bead and Button Show.

www.donnakallner.com
see class

tatiana

TATIANA KATARA creates charming faerie houses, furniture, pirate ships, and more using the detritus of nature and found objects. Her work has been exhibited at the Chalk Farm Gallery, a showcase for visionary art in Santa Fe, NM and has been demonstrated on Wisconsin Public TV. For the last two years she has created entire Faerie villages for the Holiday Express show at Olbrich Gardens in Madison, including a replica of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, all made of natural materials. Tatiana lives in SW Wisconsin and teaches workshops to adults and children at various venues, including at Olbrich Gardens.

www.faeriefactory.com
see class

tom k

TOM KELLY is a Mineral Point woodworker and painter whose work has gained national and international recognition. Tom carves and paints using subjects common in traditional folk art such as birds, animals, fruit, vegetables, and hearts. His style was born after years of working in antique restoration where he had close contact with old folk art pieces. Attempting to capture the "spirit" of the old pieces, yet with his own style, Tom stacks and balances components, uses brighter colors, and explores new subject matter. Whimsical is a word often used to describe the "Kelly" style. His work has appeared on the cover of six Lands End catalogs, in the 2006 Madison “Cow Parade” and may be seen at Longbranch Gallery in Mineral Point.

www.artstop.com/tkFolkArt.html

jesse

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction including the memoir Space, the writing text Building Fiction, and the poetry collection Dog Angel. Her most recent book is The Alice Stories, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in the fall. She was the founding director of the University of Wisconsin MFA Program in Creative Writing. Currently, she is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband, two wonderful children and one very bad dog.

www.mywebspace.wisc.edu/jlkerche/web
see class

bob

BOB KLEBBA is co-owner of Morningwood Farm Nursery, a full service nursery and garden center in Mount Horeb, WI. He has been gardening for over 30 years and has been involved in many gardening activities in Dane County, as well as having been a lecturer at Garden Expo in Madison and at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway.

www.morningwoodfarm.com
see class

bonnie



BONNIE LAVERTY is a Mineral Point native, with 31 years experience as an art teacher including 18 years at the Mineral Point High School where she taught a very diverse art curriculum. She has been doing batik dyeing since her college years.

see class

ina lukas

INA LUKAS is co-owner with husband Doug, of Blooming Valley Nursery near Avoca WI, where the art of growing is their passion, and bringing beauty into an ecologically respected world is their vision. They have both been working in the horticultural field for 18 years. Ina is a landscape designer, garden coach, nursery manager…and enthusiastic teacher. She teaches at her nursery and has been a lecturer at Garden Expo in Madison and at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway.


www.bloomingvalley.com
see garden clinic

an mack

DANIEL MACK has worked with natural materials for 30 years as an artist, furniture maker and architectural consultant. His work is in many private and museum collections. In the 1970s, he was a network television and radio producer and taught college. Currently, he runs Rustic Furnishings, Inc., which provides rustic architectural services. His seventh and eighth books will be published in June, 2008.  He regularly teaches workshops on rustic work and has recently started teaching and writing in the area of "ordinary creativity". Since 1997, he has been on the Faculty of The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY. He lives and works in Warwick, NY.

www.danielmack.com
see classes

kriss marion


KRISS MARION is a farmer, fiber artist and writer from rural Blanchardville WI. She and her family own and operate Circle M Farm, a small family homestead where they raise farm animals, and sell seasonal homestead meats, raw and dyed wool, mohair fleeces and handspun yarns. Kriss also recycles sweaters into felted purses which she sells through Maidmarion Cottage Industries. A bundle of fiber energy, Kriss teaches both children and adults at the farm and at Dodgeville’s Folklore Village and Blanchardville’s River Valley Trading Company. She has demonstrated spinning at bookstores, yarn shops, churches and county fairs.

www.circlemfarm.com/about/
see nuno felting class
see spinning class
see blogging class

lance

LANCE McNAUGHTON is an attorney with a small practice in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, where, from 2004 to 2008, he served as the City’s mayor. His practice consists mainly of small business assistance, real estate transactions, and estate planning and administration. Lance graduated from the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where he also instructed first-year students in the field of legal research and writing. He received his undergraduate degree from Carthage College, and also has a Masters in Public Policy from Duke University. In addition to his official capacities, he has been active regionally in a variety of economic development efforts.
see class

dan soman


BOB MCNEELY has been building twig furniture for 12 years, first as a hobby, then after his retirement in 1998 as a business selling twig furniture, twig garden structures and twig furniture kits. He teaches near his home in Minnesota and through Community Education organizations across the state. Bob was named Community Education teacher of the year by the Maple Grove/Osseo Community Education organization.He particularly enjoys teaching students who have never used tools to build anything, let alone twig furniture, and takes great pride in his students’ finished work and the smiles on their faces.

www.twigsrus.com
see class

kathleen

KATHLEEN MULHOLLAND has mastered many art mediums including oil and batik, but it is in watercolor that she finds her passion. Kathleen has taught art at the high school and college level and to adults for over 15 years. She has recently returned to Wisconsin after a successful painting career in Florida where she earned a B.F.A and M.A degree. She teaches at the Plymouth Art Center, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the Rahr-West Art Museum and at her Manitowoc County studio. Her work has appeared in juried exhibits in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, California and Florida and can currently be seen at Brewery Pottery Gallery in Mineral Point.

www.virtualartgalleryofsheboygan.com
see classes


RHONDA NASS has been making a living as an artist for 30 years. Her drawings and paintings are exhibited in gallery, private and corporate collections, and are internationally reproduced in museum, advertising, editorial and book publications. Her work is admired for its life-like detail and finely lit natural subjects. She holds a degree in art education from UW-Madison and is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists. A popular instructor, she has taught at Sievers School of Fiber Arts, Olbrich Botanical Gardens (Madison), Morton Arboretum (Chicago) and the New York Botanical Gardens. She works from Ampersand, her home/studio outside Madison WI.

www.rnass.com

alan pape


ALAN PAPE Landscape architect and historical preservationist, Alan Pape hasmoved and restored more than 100 pioneer structures. He wrote The Restoration and Maintenance Guide for Log Home Guide magazine. He was one of the original developers of Old World Wisconsin. A talented oil painter, he specializes in paintings of historical structures.

see classes

michael perry

MICHAEL PERRY is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoir Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, and the essay collection Off Main Street.  Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health.  His essays have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and he has performed and produced two live audience recordings (I Got It From the Cows and Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow).  Perry lives in rural Wisconsin , where he remains active as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder. 

www.sneezingcow.com

jane


JANE POTOCKI A “llama mama” with a nuzzling herd on a farm just west of Mineral Point, Jane enjoys all aspects of fiber from fleecing her llamas to spinning, dyeing, and weaving. With a background in education, she teaches math and German at the Shake Rag Youth Program and assists Diane Sterba with many classes.

see salish loom class
see inkle loom class

kay

KAY RASHKA started metalsmithing over 16 years ago to satisfy her craving for silver jewelry! She has attended technical college metals workshops and supplemental classes including blacksmithing and ornamental garden welding. Kay has been teaching metals classes for over 7 years at various venues including Peninsula Art School and in the UW- Madison Continuing Education department. Her work is available at Firefly Trading in Cable, WI and at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (mMOCA) museum store in Madison, WI.

www.kayrashka.com
see classes

  ROGER REYNOLDS is an organic farmer, a Master Gardener, an enthusiastic environmentalist and a frequent lecturer at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway. He has been involved in numerous environmental projects in SW Wisconsin. Especially knowledgeable about rain gardens, Roger spearheaded efforts to solve water run-off problems by installing a community rain garden at Harris Park in Dodgeville, WI.
see class
moriah


MORIAH RHAME-BROCK is a medium and has conducted many spirit readings for individuals and groups from Chicago to Denver. She is the author of How to Be a Happy Medium, and enjoys teaching.

see class

 

harriet



HARRIET RIDNOUR is an accomplished rug hooker, Harriet has taught a number of rug hooking classes as well as hosting a rug hooking school at Shake Rag Alley, which she and her husband owned prior to the current nonprofit school.

see dye class
see hooking class

bobbette

BOBBETTE ROSE works in mixed media and painting. She widely exhibits and sells her work. She earned her MFA from UW-Madison and works professionally as a designer for print and web media. She teaches classes and workshops through both university and community arts programs in design and fine art and has spoken at national and international conferences. She lives in Madison, WI and is locally represented by Grace Chosey Gallery in Madison. She is a member of the arts TRIBE collective, the International Encaustic Artists association (IEA), the Chicago Arts Coalition (CAC) and the Madison Artists Alliance (MAA).

www.bobbetterose.com
see class

shelley


SHELLEY RYAN is the good-humored creator and producer/host of Wisconsin Public Televisions’s "The Wisconsin Gardener" series, which provides gardeners and homeowners with tips and practical information on gardening and landscape-related topics specific to Wisconsin. Each year at WPT's Garden Expo event, Shelley presents seminars related to "The Wisconsin Gardener" series and is a popular attraction at the WPT booth.  She is a Master Gardener and an enthusiastic hand-crafter, utilizing natural ingredients from the garden and nature to dye silk scarves and create home-made beauty products.

www.wpt.org/garden/details/index.cfm?content=host

see class

johm


JOHN SCHAKEL is from Spring Green is one of Wisconsin’s finest rustic furniture makers, specializing in traditional bent willow style. He won Best of Show at the 2004 Madison “Art on the Square” for his bent willow rocking horse sculpture.

see classes

 


NICK SCHEUER has been carving birds since he was a Boy Scout 40 years ago. He has developed a coloring system as popular as his rustic, whittled, carving
style.

see class

terri


TERRI SCHMIT is a musician and gourd artist from Blue Mounds WI. Although her formal education is in music, Terri considers it all “right brain”, and has been told that her art looks much like her music sounds. She often uses gourds to make musical instruments such as drums, balafons and rainsticks. Terri started teaching gourd art in 2004 and in 2005 founded and serves as president of the Wisconsin Gourd Society. She is often a guest speaker for Wisconsin Master Gardeners,teaches at local Gourd Society functions and participates in teaching and learning sessions through the national organization, The American Gourd Society

see gourd dyeing class

cheryl

CHERYL SMEJA is a Mineral Point leather artist, nationally known for her pioneering work in wet-formed leather sculpture. She has appeared on the Carol Duvall show, teaches at national leather conventions and has had articles published in “The Leather Crafters and Saddlers” journal.  For over 25 years she sold her formed leather masks, wall hangings, jewelry, pots and more at art fairs and from her Mineral Point gallery/shop.  Now semi-retired, Cheryl enjoys pursuing other interests such as needle felting, wire jewelry, polymer clay, paper making, and Photoshop image manipulation.  A versatile artisan and dedicated teacher, Cheryl is ever ready for a new challenge.

www.csmeja.com

see leather classes
see jewelry classes
see computer classes
see paper classes
carole

CAROLE SPELIC creates elegant globe and vessel forms in papier mache with reverse patterning derived from Tibetan Tiber rugs, Gregg shorthand and map imagery of invented worlds. Originally from the east coast, she earned an MFA and then spent 17 years as a working artist in Manhattan. She now lives and works in Mineral Point. Carole and her artist partner, Richard Moninski, operate the Green Lantern Studios where they make and show their own work as well as offering changing exhibits of work by national and regional artists.

www.greenlanternstudios.com
see paper mache' class
see carved hypertufa class

sharon

SHARON STAUFFER is a Mineral Point mixed media artist. She enjoys doing representational graphite pencil drawings, not-so-representational collage and assemblages, and dabbling in some of the “alternative” art forms such as altered books and mixed media works incorporating non-traditional art materials. She is on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Regional Artists Association and organizes the annual Mineral Point Wisconsin Regional Art Association (WRAP) workshop and exhibit. She has also demonstrated fountain building on Wisconsin Public TV’s “Wisconsin Gardener” show. Her work can be seen during the regional Fall Art Tour at her home studio.

see mixed media classes
see altered book class

see fountain class
see tyvek jewelry class
see journal class

joni

JONI STEIN graduated with a degree in graphic art and was the first full time graphic artist for the WI Dept of Public Instruction. Since then she has ventured into wood carving, quilting, Japanese watercolor and needle felting which has brought her acknowledgements from various shows and contests. Her passion for using needle felting as a means to embellish clothing as well as to create 3 dimensional sculptures led to sharing this art form with others at the 2007 Quilt Expo in Madison. Joni currently teaches at local and regional needleart stores and accepts private orders for commissioned works. She is an energetic and vibrant teacher who enjoys teaching and watching her students succeed.

see class

diane


DIANE STERBA is Youth Program Director at Shake Rag Alley where she organizes and teaches classes for kids, teaches adult classes, facilitates art retreats and runs a weekly Women’s Art Party in which women come together to play with art “as a process, not for the product”.  With a Masters in Education and over 30 years teaching experience from preschool through graduate levels, Diane loves inspiring others to access their creative self.  As an artist she explores her creativity through a wide variety of media and is influenced by folk art, nature and the children and adults she works with.

www.dianeangelasterba.com  



see nature assemblage classes
see Women's Art Club
see Children's Program
judy

JUDY SUTCLIFFE is a multi-faceted artist who enjoys creating and teaching in a variety of media, including dollmaking, primitive weaving, printmaking, forged jewelry, tile, concrete, carving and poetry. A native of Iowa, Judy spent 17 years as a tile muralist in Santa Barbara CA before returning to the Midwest in 1996. Her tile paintings grace many Santa Barbara public buildings and private homes. In addition to tile work, Judy, as The Electric Typographer, has designed over 30 typefaces, including calligraphic and image fonts. Judy is currently co-owner of the Longbranch Gallery in Mineral Point. 

see cement-mosaic classes
see jewelry classes

heather

HEATHER SWAN ROSENTHAL is a poet and a teacher of writing and literature who has been a Martha Meier Renk Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a recipient of the August Derleth Award and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Award. Her poems have appeared in The Cream City Review, Iris, Mothering Magazine, Forward, The Comstock Review, and The Wisconsin Poets Calendar. Her chapbook, The Edge of Damage, is forthcoming from Parallel Press. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Wisconsin Center for the Book's Bookmark Prize.

see class

Robert Tarrell

ROBERT TARRELL is Professor of Art (Drawing and Painting) at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. where he has also served as Director of the Painted Forest, a folk art site in Valton, WI and was instrumental in developing the DeRicci Gallery, a venue for professional and emerging artists to showcase their work. He received his MFA from UW-Madison in 1994 and has earned numerous awards for teaching including being named Wisconsin Art Educator of the Year in 2003 by the Wisconsin Art Educators Association.

art.edgewood.edu/pages/art_faculty_bob.html
see class

 

CHRISTINE THARNSTROM is a fiber and especially quilting enthusiast with a specialty in handerchief quilts. She and her husband own Red Shutters Inn in Mineral Point, and she relishes all things Victoriana.

 

PETER ROBERT THOMPSON presents workshops for colleges and art centers on a variety of topics related to the advancement of personal expression with photography. He has studied with some of the great figures in modern photography including Al Weber and Ansel Adams and has taught at the Evanston Art Center, Kendall College, University of California Extension, the Victor School in Colorado and other venues nationwide. He was a visiting artist at Edgewood College in 2006/2007. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in the permanent collections of the Polaroid Corporation and the George Eastman House.

see class

nonda

NONDA VAN GULDEN Adept at sewing and knitting, Nonda has taught herself the felting craft and has devised interesting teaching methods and materials to bring the full fun of wet felting to each student. Her sweater felted purses are unique as well.


sherry

SHERRY VIKTORA is a Senior Instructor in Precious Metal Clay for PMC Connection. She brings a love of nature and gardening to her art and an enthusiasm for sharing to her teaching. She combines metal clay with glass and organic materials to create unique work. After receiving PMCC Certifications and Art Clay Instructor Certification, Sherry retired to become a full time Senior Instructor. She now works from her home studio in Rockton IL and teaches at her studio and at other locations throughout the country. Sherry’s work has been published in national art and jewelry magazines.

www.out-ona-limb.com
see jewelryclass
see glass/metal class