Email:
alliumdesigns@gmail.com
Amanda Horton
Amanda Horton’s creative drive began early – at age seven, she was caught tracing her own body with hopes of creating her own couture clothing. Today, twenty years later, Amanda has created a line of jewelry, assorted accessories and housewares that channel her old-world, vintage sensibility with modern simplicity. Her business, Allium Designs has flourished into a diverse line of jewelry with pieces as easy to wear as they are glamorous.
Amanda Horton is an Oregon native who grew up in a small town in the Willamette Valley. She started her business, Allium Designs in 2006 while living in New York. Since moving back to Portland, her main focus has been growing her business. She currently sells her handmade jewelry online and in a few great boutiques around Portland. She started making jewelry in high school after taking a metalsmithing class and after many years in hiatus, started metalsmithing again just last year. Currently, Amanda works at Oregon Health & Science University and helps investigators find funding for their research. She received her degrees in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Amanda Horton teaches the following classes:
Email:
freya24@earthlink.net
Amy Stoner
Amy Stoner is a fine artist who swoons at the sight of the bright colors, beautiful lines, and patterned images in art! She believes that everyone (and all art) is just waiting for the right opportunity to shine!
She has worked in a variety of media including acrylics, relief printmaking, and encaustic painting. However, she adores just about every type of craft there is, and likes to weave materials from them into her current encaustic work.
She has shown in group and solo shows regionally, was a featured artist on HGTV's "That's Clever", is a member of the International Encaustic Artists Organization and sells her art at regional art sales seasonally. When she's not doing that, you can find her in the "craft cave" studio whipping up a new concoction - and mess!
Amy Stoner teaches the following classes:
Bridget Benton
Bridget holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and a Master’s Degree in Creativity. She has worked and taught in a variety of media over the past 17 years including fiber, photography, jewelry, collage, and paint. She has also traveled extensively across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and brings this eclectic vision and sense of adventure to her teaching. Her passion is supporting people as they rediscover their own creative spark, and her workshops tend to focus on nurturing this intuitive process. For more information about Bridget and her work, visit her blog at
Bridget's Blog
Bridget Benton teaches the following classes:
Candi Cane Canncel
A native of Miami Beach, clothing designer and costumer Candi Cane Canncel is a definite craft maven. Whether painting, drawing, sewing, knitting, or doing mosaics, she loves art and beauty and making things fabulous.
While attending art school, Candi began creating costumes for her night job as a go-go dancer in South Beach nightclubs. After graduating from both school and dancing, she continued to sew and created her line Candiland, sold in local boutiques. Her one-of-a kind dresses feature bright mix and match fabrics, hand painted detailing and murals, and innovative silkscreens. Candi’s clothing can be found in boutiques in Los Angeles and online and her costumes have been featured in The Kit Kat Follies burlesque shows, the Los Angeles stage production of Grease 2 and the B-Movie Out Kold with Ice-T. She has been featured on craft television shows on HGTV, The DIY Network as well as TLC's "Faking It". In her spare time she can be found adorning something with glitter or knitting up a storm.
Candi Cane Canncel teaches the following classes:
Candice Schutter
Candice Schutter is the founder of SHiNE. She has been facilitating the brilliance in others since 2001. She currently offers motivational classes and events in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas. As a Nia Black Belt, she is wellness educator and somatic consultant who travels internationally to co-facilitate transformational seminars. She is also the founder of HoopShine, Portland’s fastest growing hoopdance educational network
Candice Schutter teaches the following classes:
Cathy Pitters
Cathy Pitters is a mom, artist, and seamstress who lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, eight year-old son, and two cats. She runs Bossanovababy.com, which features cool clothing for young and old as well as assorted fabulous art and oddities.
Cathy is also a proud member of the group Portland Super Crafty, a collective consisting of four crafty girls who run their own handmade businesses. They banded together to swap advice and ideas and to save the world from mass production! They recently wrote a book entitled “Super Crafty: Over 75 Amazing How-To Projects!” which is coming November 2005 from Sasquatch Books.
Cathy’s favorite things to do are playing with her son on the Slip-N-Slide, going to estate sales, and drinking coffee.
Christine Claringbold
Christine Claringbold is an artist, an art teacher, a mom, and a backup singer in a punk rock band. She has been teaching art classes to kids since 2001. She has taught art for programs at several elementary schools in Portland, including Duniway, Kelly, Whitman, and Lynch Wood, and also at Sellwood Middle School and Sellwood Community Center. She recently traveled to New York where she worked as an artist-in-residence at a Manhattan middle school. Christine has been in business as Eye Pop Art eyepopart since 2003. She is currently making clocks, bowls, mirrors, wall mandalas, and wrist cuffs from recycled vinyl records and marketing them at indie craft shows and through Trillium Artisans trilliumartisans and Etsy.com eyepopart.etsy . Visit Christine's blog eyepopart.blogspot to learn more about the artist. Christine's mandala-filled master bedroom/art studio will be featured on HGTV's "Look What I Did!" Tune in to HGTV, the Home and Garden Network, on September 19 at 6:00 pm for Christine's segment, called "Psychedelic in Portland." "Look What I Did!" is a show about homeowners who have done amazing, creative things to their homes all by themselves. Look What I Did! Christine's episode
Christine Claringbold teaches the following classes:
Dawn Sorem
Dawn Sorem has a dual master's degree from Portland State University in General and Special Education, which gives her the unique ability to teach people of all ages and skill levels at the same time. She has volunteered and taught in Portland and Evergreen public elementary schools working with various populations of students. Dawn is also the owner and designer of Envelop Cards - a handmade greeting cards company that specializes in invitations. She currently has her greeting cards in several stores and has been teaching card making classes around the Portland area. Dawn is an energetic person whose classes are always fun for everyone, whether you are just beginning or are looking to broaden your skills with new ideas.
Dawn is a creative yet organized crafter and is always interested in finding new ways to keep her creative space organized. In her pursuit of new ways to be more efficient with her time and materials she has found more time for being creative and she wants to share her techniques with you!
In addition to card making and teaching, Dawn has also designed and sold backpacks while living in New York City and Phoenix Arizona. She also enjoys making quilts, curtains, and makes the occasional item of clothing when inspired.
Dawn Sorem teaches the following classes:
- A-Muse-A-Palooza: Christmas in July Cards
- A-Muse-A-Palooza: Free Make and Take
- A-Muse-A-Palooza: Free Make and Take
- A-Muse-A-Palooza: Winter Themed Cards
- A-Muse-A-Palooza: Winter Wonderland Cards
- Card Making Techniques (Folds and Cuts)
- Card of the Month Club (Masculine Cards)
- Card of the Month Club (Mother's Day/Feminine Cards)
- Card of the Month Club (Summer Cards)
- Cards Over Coffee
- Cards Over Coffee*
- Kid's craft night/parent's date night!
- Kids Card Making Class (Birthday Cards)
- Kids Card Making Class (Cards for the Boys and Men in Our Lives)
- Kids Card Making Class (Cards for Those We Love)
- Technique Tuesday (Alcohol Inks)
- Technique Tuesday (Chalks)
- Technique Tuesday (Clear Acrylic Stamps)
- Technique Tuesday (Embellishments)
- Technique Tuesday (Sewing on Cards):
- Technique Tuesday (Vellum)
- Technique Tuesday - Card Making (Embossing and Watermarking):
Dayna J. Collins
Dayna loves color and her mantra is “Be Bold,” the way she strives to live her life. From her crazy red hair to her bold use of color in everything from her clothes to her decorating, Dayna enjoys living a creative life. She describes herself as a workshop junkie, taking as many art workshops as she can cram into a month (and fit into her budget!). She loves collage, mixed media, art journals, and anything involving paint. One of her passions is visiting junk stores, finding bits she didn’t even know she needed! Dayna loves teaching art classes, encouraging, and inspiring others. Dayna is a certified counselor, an Artist’s Way facilitator, and a teacher of art-related workshops. For a full list of Dayna’s past creative endeavors, visit her website: www.alleyartstudio.com and click on her “creative resume,” and for an on-going view of what’s she up to, visit her blog: www.alleyartstudio.blogspot.com.
Dayna J. Collins teaches the following classes:
Diane Gilleland
Diane Gilleland is a self-described, "big craft geek." She organizes the Portland chapter of Church of Craft, and produces CraftyPod, a podcast about Making Stuff. She also runs DIY Alert (www.diyalert.com), a big online calendar of crafty things happening in Portland.
Diane Gilleland teaches the following classes:
Email:
ivyrossintheland@gmail.com
Ivy Ross
Ivy is a local musician and youth development professional. She earned her BA in New York City in 1996 in Creative Writing and Education at The New School University in Manhattan. She also has a partial MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation. She has spent the last 10 years traveling internationally, playing music, and working with youth in a number of different settings including schools, shelters, detention centers and Boys and Girls Clubs.
The Keepers of Wonder is a program founded by Ivy Ross. It originated in Prescott, Arizona when Ivy organized a town meeting for pre-teen and teenage girls to discuss what they would like to see in the way of after school resources. As many of us do, Ivy recognized then and continues to believe that girls are our future leaders who are consistently bombarded with messages from the media that are confusing and disruptive to their development as creative, self-respecting, powerful individuals. All girls deserve to have access to creative and stimulating after school programming!
Together, Ivy and the girls developed a program in which they designed creative projects ranging in scope from street theater to the creation of a treasure map to the co-composition of music!
Jennifer Neitzel
Jen is the founder of the DIY Lounge. She created the DIY Lounge to share her love of doing-it-yourself with others. The DIY Lounge is intended to help local artists and craftspeople share their knowledge by creating revenue channels for artist as well as connecting people to their creativity with new and unusual classes.
Jen also has another business called Knot Ugly Designs. She creates knit, crochet and reconstructed pieces, which she sells in boutiques and at arts and craft markets. Jen loves mixing unusual colors together and likes to think about two-dimensional things in three-dimensions.
In addition to knit and crochet, she loves to sew, basket weave, nuno felt, and a hodge podge of other crafts too. She is something of a craft Macgyver. She feels that anyone can do anything they set their mind to with enough patience and creative thinking. When the world goes to hell in a hand basket, this is the girl you want to share a cave with. She can make curtains rods from old pipes or ornate twigs, reupholster old furniture, she can make stylish and flattering tops from weird old sweaters, and she can undo any knot, no matter how big or scary.
On a more serious note, Jen wants to help people connect with the art of making things. She feels that people are getting more and more disconnected from how things are made. The more knowledge you have about how to make things the more choices you can make about what you choose to buy. Jen says, "If you know how to draft your own t-shirt pattern and it is one that is becoming on you, you don't need to buy it from businesses whose practices you may or may not support. Don't be a consumed by consumerism, buy into DIY!"
Jenny Wells
Jenny is a down to earth Southern gal from Virginia, who loves helping others become inspired. She’s been making art since she was a young thang when she spent countless hours drawing blades of grass and backyard landscapes. Although at age 5, she was sure that her clumps of plush turf were some of the best drawings in the world, Jenny’s life adventures have led her to dapple in a wide variety of all things crafty and community based.
As a certified Oregon teacher, her experiences include teaching special education for 5 years, starting a community glass studio and camp called Arts for Peace at Grace Institute, a local non-profit where she worked for 7 years, and most recently starting her own community glass studio, Jennifer Wells Design, on Alberta Street. Her favorite art mediums include glass fusing and mosaics, silver-smithing and soldering. She loves teaching and working with all ages and abilities but is most content when she’s leading others through their own creative journey.
Jenny believes that we all have an artful spirit that must be fed. Her hope as an art teacher is to tap into the inherent creative drive that is within each and every one of us; to inspire and to be inspired.
Jenny Wells teaches the following classes:
Jodie Cord
Jodie Cord is a mom, a fine artist and an avid crafter. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
PSU where she majored in Oil Painting and double minored in Sculpture and Art History. Though
she most often works in oils, her medium for any particular project depends on her inspiration. She
loves to share her knowledge and is a firm believer that there is an artist in all of us.
Jodie Cord teaches the following classes:
Email:
kstate1@comcast.net
Kim State
Kim State, owner of KKGirlie Designs, longtime collaborator with Jen Neitzel of Knot Ugly Designs, Fiber Arts designer, educator, and entrepreneur has spent the last 2 decades "on the hook". A three-year veteran of the Milwaukee Public Market, her work can also be found at Scatter Creek Junction in Aurora, as well as Pollywog in Portland. Kim's patterns can be found in print, one of which was included in Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. Kim is well known in her community of Gladstone as a tireless supporter of the arts in the local schools and youth groups. Someone who is always willing to lend a helping hand, a word of encouragement for the budding artists in her classes or workshops, and someone who has opened her home and "hooked up" those in search of a new means of expression.
Texas roots with stops in Germany and the Pacific Northwest, liberal doses of "Trash To Treasure", Knitty Gritty, a dash of Tudor Romance, a pinch Fantasy and Star Trek, backed by a soundtrack from the Monkee's informs Kim's Honky Tonk to Pop Tart style. Those who know and love her have described Kim as Carol Duval on LSD. Ever re-inventing herself she is constantly stretching and pushing the envelope of what crochet can be, turning the mundane into the profane and coming up with new twists on old patterns.
A rock solid foundation in fundamentals, a proven ability to demonstrate complex patterns in straightforward, transparent manner allows Kim to teach the beginner while providing challenges for the more experienced fiber artist. Apart from her technical proficiency, her years of experience has generated a wealth of tips, shortcuts and sources for those hard to find and unique fiber resources and, for those with a yen to grow their crafting to a livelihood, Kim can offer unique and seasoned insights gleaned from years in the marketplace.
Kim State teaches the following classes:
Kirby & Pam Harris
Kirby and Pam are professional wedding photographers, who have been working in the field for over 25 years. They are well-known for taking a very caring and stress-free approach to documenting their clients' big days, and for capturing the many candid moments of a wedding as well as the more traditional portraits.
When they aren’t photographing a wedding, you'll often find them capturing waterfalls, hillsides, and wildflowers all over the Northwest.
Kirby & Pam Harris teaches the following classes:
Lacye Lee (HoopShine Agent)
Lacye has been hooping for 2 years. She is a Licensed HoopStar Workout instructor with the international HoopGirl™ network. She performs locally and teaches classes in the Portland metro area.
She is a passionate and enthusiastic individual that loves to share the joy that hooping has brought into her life. She invites creativity and uniqueness from all her students, and effectively embodies the 'Yes I Can' attitude both in and outside of her hoop practice. She loves the joy and self amazement she feels while hooping, and contagiously shares that with others. To hoop with Lacye is to discover your own personal hooping joy!
Lacye Lee (HoopShine Agent) teaches the following classes:
Email:
lillinder322@yahoo.com
Linda Daily
I have been painting with watercolors for about eighteen years. I began the journey in San Francisco where I lived with my family for over 20 years. I attended credit classes at SF Community College and have participated in workshops and classes in both Seattle and Portland. As five year resident of Portland, I have taught classes for four years at PCC and Multnomah Art Center in basic, botanical, and travel journal watercolor. My passion is keeping and making journals which I fill with travel sketches and scenes from everyday life using watercolor, ink, collage and stamps. I live with my husband who works for a specialty food importer. We have two sons, Alex, a bike messenger in NYC and Andrew, a PhD candidate at Rutgers.
Linda Daily teaches the following classes:
Lorna Nakell
Lorna Nakell is a professional painter with a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She has been exhibiting regionally and nationally for 13 years. Currently she is represented by Beppu Wiarda Gallery in Portland, OR. Lorna has taught demonstrations and workshops at Daniel Smith Art Store and the Wonder School in Seattle, WA. She is well versed in many materials including acrylic, oil, pastel, charcoal, pencil, gouache and collage. Currently she is working on creating a series of abstract, mixed media works that were inspired by her toddler son.
Lorna Nakell teaches the following classes:
Matt Ellis
He is a totally rad drawing teacher. It just so happens that he teaches kids. Matt's gentle and kind nature are only exceeded by his teaching talent.
Email:
mklepp@yahoo.com
Megan Klepp
Megan Klepp is an artist and stay at home mom to two boys. She graduated from Edgewood College in Madison, WI with an Art Therapy degree. She has been volunteering and teaching art classes for the past 8 years. She and her family moved from Minnesota to NE Portland three years ago. She spends her kid-free time working on her family’s fixer house, hunting thrift stores and estate sales for treasures, and running her re-used craft business Ta-Dah.
Megan Klepp teaches the following classes:
Email:
nicole@ciprianodesigns.com
Nicole Cipriano
Nicole Cipriano has a BA from the University of Oregon and an extensive background in Fine Arts. She is a fine artist and wholehearted crafter who enjoys interlacing the two. She is a graphic designer, seamstress, and a creator of original textile designs. Currently, she manages her own Printmaking studio, Studio Ex Machina.
In her Artist Statement, Nicole says,” I am an artist because I have a deep innate desire to explore the fibers of my environment. I am a Printmaker because it allows me to be an artist of all categories. My eyes constantly examine symmetry within my environment for inspiration. I am a draftsman who creates inventions with illustrative plans. I am a sculptor who carefully carves and cuts ideas in relief. I am a painter who prepares the next pallet of colors for application. I am also a seamstress who measures, cuts and sews all the elements of pattern for a finished product.”
Nicole loves to share her passion for printmaking! She currently teaches beginning workshops in Woodblock Printing, Linoleum Printing and Monotype. She also teaches Basic Collage and a Hand-Carved Stamping and Stationary workshop.
Nicole Cipriano teaches the following classes:
Email:
jen@diylounge.com
No School Art School Instructors
No School Art School is a collaborative project between Art Up, Jennifer Wells Designs and DIY Lounge at collage.
Kathe Swaback will be teaching at the Art Up studio
Art Up website
Jenny wells will be teaching at the Jennifer Wells studio
Jennifer's website
Dawn Sorem will be teaching at the DIY Lounge at collage classroom
Please check classes and events to received a detailed description of this program or click on the No School Art School Link below.
No School Art School Instructors teaches the following classes:
Scott Sutton
Born in Corvalis in the mid-seventies, Scott has studied, taught, and exhibited his artwork in a number of different settings. He founded Arterialist in 2007 in hope to create an organization that embraces the art of all cultures. Arterialist’s focus is on understanding the roots of the creative process where culture, history, and the natural environment are at the center. Arterialist hopes to bridge the gap between knowledge that has been lost over time because of a combination of technological advancement and cultural assimilation.
Scott has been working as an artist professionally since 1999 with an emphasis in oil paints and more recently have begun working in the realm of public art. Over the course of the last three years he has been gathering different minerals from around the Northwest for use in his own art, but also as means of education.
He has worked with the City Repair Project’s Village Building Convergence, the Native American Youth Association (NAYA), Marysville Elementary School, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and OSU to name a few.
He is currently an art instructor for the “Life Ways of the Lower Columbia River” classes that are offered to tribal members at the satellite offices in Portland, Grand Ronde, and Eugene. I have been working closely with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde to help preserve and create traditional art of the different tribes that live upon their ceded lands within Oregon and Washington.
www.scottsuttonart.com / www.marysvillepictographproject.com
Scott Sutton teaches the following classes:
Email:
staceandjay@comcast.net
Stacey Birst-Yates
Yates is a fine artist, art therapist and art instructor who passionately promotes the therapeutic benefits of all creative endeavors, especially art-making. She has a BA in Painting and Drawing, with a concentration in Illustration from Moorhead State University in Moorhead, MN; as well an MA in Art Therapy in Counseling from Marylhurst University. Her personal work is reflective of life’s experiences often executed on paper using oil pastel and pencil; however she recently began constructing acrylic boxes which are filled with resin and various mixed materials. Her passion for the arts and her belief in the therapeutic benefits of the art-making process promotes a stimulating, challenging and explorative atmosphere for self expression and creative execution.
Stacey and her husband reside in Happy Valley, Oregon with their two sons Zachary (5) and Caden (2). The boys keep her crazed and the arts keep her sane!
Tammy Gilley
Tammy was born with a tube of glue and a sprinkling of glitter in her hands. She comes from a long line of artists: quilters, painters, writers, woodworkers, and cut-and-paste-ers like herself. She’s not afraid to try anything (well, almost anything) which is why creating makes her heart sing. There are endless possibilities, and they’re out there for everyone to grab. So, get yourself a tube of glue and a handful of glitter and join her for some crafty fun.
Tammy Gilley teaches the following classes:
Email:
info@teresasullivanstudio.com
Teresa Sullivan
Teresa Sullivan is a glass beadwork artist who has been photographing her own and other artists’ art and jewelry for ten years. Her images have been published in Lark Books’ 500 Beaded Objects and 1000 Glass Beads, and have gained her and others’ work entry into numerous local and national juried exhibits and shows.
Teresa Sullivan teaches the following classes:
Torie Nguyen
Torie Nguyen is the owner and designer of Totinette Accessories. She
started out making and selling handbags in March of 2003 and has since
switched over to another passion...jewelry!
Along with Cathy Pitters, Torie organizes Crafty Wonderland: Portland's
monthly art + craft extravaganza, a sale featuring a rotating lineup of 40
fabulous artists at Doug Fir Lounge: Crafty Wonderland
Torie is a founding member of PDX Super Crafty, a collective of four women
who run handmade businesses. The group authored the book Super Crafty:
Over 75 Amazing How-To Projects! They were also guests on four episodes of
Uncommon Threads on the DIY Network.
A graduate of the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business,
Torie concentrated in Marketing and minored in Art History. She spent her
junior year in Lyon, France, where she met her husband, Quentin, of
Monsieur T. When she's not crafting, she spends her time as an active
Realtor i love PDX homes.
Torie Nguyen teaches the following classes: