Addie Boswell
Addie Boswell likes to think of herself as a Professional Creative. Her mission is to empower creativity in children and adults: when not painting or writing/illustrating children's books, she teaches recycled art residencies and directs community art projects. She has collaborated with multiple organizations in Portland, including SCRAP, the Mudeye Puppet Company, Multnomah County Libraries, The Children’s Cancer Association, Legacy Emmanuel Hospital, Future Problem Solving Program, the Society of Children's Writers & Illustrators, SUN Schools, Boys and Girls Clubs, and multiple school districts. She believes the hardest part of making a living as an artist is the constant self-direction, and her classes focus on the “business side of art” and lessons gleaned from local business women and various business support groups. Find more at www.addiekay.com
Addie Boswell teaches the following classes:
Alisa Timmerman
I started my Imaginary Friends and Mermaid lines 5 years ago after an unusual phone call from my then 4 year old niece.
She wanted me to make a plushie that looked like her imaginary friend Iggy.
She wanted her mom and dad to see Iggy she was tired of telling them what he looked like.
After
several tries and a lot of fur later we finally came up with Iggy. The
whole experience started me thinking about my childhood imaginary
friend Mona.
She was a magical mermaid that could change from her tail to roller skates in the blink of an eye.
I decided to make a Mona doll for myself, minus the roller skates.
Other useless trivia about me:
I am a hopeless crafter and avid reader. I love living in the Pacific Northwest because rainy days are my days to work in the studio! This is where I create my line of art dolls and Imaginary Friends. My chessie Luna is usually nearby waiting calmly for me to take her for a walk, poor dog.
Alisa Timmerman teaches the following classes:
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:
amymstoner@gmail.com
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:
Email:
giantjewels@yahoo.com
Angela Muldoon
Angela Muldoon is a local metalsmith and mixed media artist currently working in recycled acrylic and reclaimed industrial materials. A majority of her time is spent mining the many thrift and antique shops throughout the Portland metro area for tiny treasures to mold, cast or use whole in her work. Portland is home to numerous junk shops that can be a staple to an artist like Angela. Relatively inexpensive resources can be found at the “Bins,” where cast-offs from local Goodwill Industries retail locations can be found- one can spend hours dodging germ bullets while reaping the goldmine of stuff that is invaluable to a creative junk-collector like Angela!
Angela was enrolled as a metalsmithing major at Oregon College of Art & Craft with a minor in drawing. She had a background in goldsmithing before her move to Oregon in 2000 from New York , but her real education in metal working began at OCAC where her responsibilities included metal shop tech, a student job where she cleaned and maintained the studio equipment, replenished supplies and helped students with trouble-shooting there.
In addition, Angela was assistant teacher to Marcia Bruno for her workshop at OCAC. Marcia is an expert sheet acrylic artist and jeweler. Her innovative and imaginative work inspired Angela to pursue the work she does now. Her many art shows include participation in group exhibits at places like Reading Frenzy, Ristretto Roasters and Gallery 500. She is also a regular vendor at Crafty Wonderland, where she sells her line of jewelry called "Giant Jewels."
Angela Muldoon teaches the following classes:
Email:
Pickles2nd@aol.com
Angie Toops
Head of Camp Registrations and Co-Coordinator for Buckman Elementary School Camps
Angie was born in Los Angeles, then moved to Portland 12 years ago. She was a nanny for 10 years before having her daughter. She decided to stay home with her daughter but needed to work, so she started her own in-home daycare 7 years ago. Angie loves children and art; she always has. She grew up around "the arts" with her artistic mother, who instilled in her a love of the creativity. Angie wants to continue this tradition of sharing art and creativity with children. She believes that making art and crafts brings joy and that self-confidence grow as children learn that small hands can create big wonderful things!
Angie Toops 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:
Email:
Cari@motokitty.net
Cari Carter
Cari has been sewing for over 20 years, and still uses the same machine she learned on. It's one sweet specimen of Swedish metal. She has been sewing on vinyl for over 10 years, working on upholstery projects, costumes, and accessories. She is constantly creating full-time, as both designer and proprietress of Motokitty.
Cari Carter teaches the following classes:
Email:
caroljwoods@comcast.net
Carol Woods
Carol is a mom of two grown daughters, and a grandmother of a beautiful 9 ½ month old girl. She has lived all over the USA, as one of four daughters of a Navy father and mother. Carol lived in Japan for 3 ½ years going to middle and high school in converted Army Barracks. She began to craft about 20 years ago, and loved experimenting with differing mediums. She has experimented and created items with polymer clay, tole painting, jewelry-making with silver clay, and making her own stamps. She loves stamping, scrap booking, and has found her ultimate joy in creating with felt.
Carol Woods 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, a teacher, a mom, and a backup singer for local rock & roll spectacle Dartgun & the Vignettes. She launched Eye Pop Art in 2003, featuring mandala art, home decor items, and accessories made from recycled vinyl records and other repurposed materials. Christine sells her work at boutiques, art walks, craft shows, and online at eyepopart.etsy.com. She is also a blogger and you can read about her adventures at eyepopart.blogspot.com.
Always inspired by children's art, Christine volunteered for eight years for the PTA's parent-led art program at Duniway Elementary School, including three years as program chair. She has taught art, ceramics, and literacy for several local SUN Schools, and she has led arts residencies and taught mandala workshops for Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland Public Schools, the Centennial School District, Campfire USA, RACC, Tucker-Maxon Oral School, Art Adventures at OCAC, and the Henry Street School for International Studies in New York City. See photos here.
Christine has been painting murals since 1997, and the interior of her home, adorned with psychedelic mandalas on walls and ceilings, has been featured on HGTV's "Look What I Did." She has also appeared on an episode of HGTV's "That's Clever!"
In addition to teaching classes, making art, raising her two awesome kids, and rocking out with the band, Christine also works as the program coordinator for the nonprofit organization Trillium Artisans, helping to provide small-business support to Portland artisans who create with recycled and reclaimed materials.
Christine Claringbold teaches the following classes:
Email:
dana.trocker@gmail.com
Dana Trocker
Dana Trocker began her quest for authorship at age three, when she
"read" a storybook that captivated a group of children on the magic
carpet of the New York Public Library. Since then she has learned to
read (for real), and write for pleasure as well as a means of
therapeutic release. Dana graduated form UC Santa Cruz with a
bachelor's degree in literature and creative writing. She learned the
art of bookbinding while compiling and self-publishing Coffee and
other Clichés, a collection of short stories and prose poems. She
loves reading books, writing books, making books, and talking about
books. Among other side projects, Dana has co-edited several literary
periodicals and is currently working as a private book writing coach.
Dana would like to invite you to explore the lovely realm of art-book
making- where you can judge a book by its cover!
Dana Trocker 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:
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:
Email:
dbauermill@aol.com
Donna Bauermiller
Donna Bauermiller is a school librarian and artist who began keeping diaries as a girl. Several years ago she was introduced to Visual Journaling and found the combination of personal image with personal text to be the perfect medium for her self-expression. She currently journals in Braille books. Here work has been featured in Somerset Studio and INDIE Arts DVD magazine. She facilitates a monthly Visual Journaling group at Collage and belongs to the Portland Art Collective.
Donna Bauermiller teaches the following classes:
Email:
emmelinefriedman@gmail.com
Emmeline Friedman
Emmeline is an anthropology student at Reed College in Portland, studying human rights of indigenous peoples and the relationship between people and the environment. She has been interested in art since childhood and first became interested in anthropology through studying folk art and studying traditional artistic expressions of indigenous peoples. In addition to printmaking projects of her own, she loves to create art with kids. She has been a camp counselor at arts and science camps in Florida and loves creating projects that are engaging for kids and that foster a real connection with the material.
Email:
ivyrossintheland@gmail.com
Ivy Ross
Ivy is a local musician and youth development professional who 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. 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 currently teaches voice and guitar in the PDX Metropolitan Area, and performs original Rock Music of the Country/Punk/Lounge Variety with her band The Doorway Dwellers and there have also been sightings of her folk duo The Blue Flowers in the not so distant past...
Ivy Ross teaches the following classes:
Jacqueline Sullivan
Jacqueline Sullivan has been a mixed media artist since first introduced to collage in a high school art class. Jacqueline has a degree in graphic design and owns a custom framing business Jacqueline’s work has been shown in galleries and the top juried art fairs nationwide.
Jacqueline teaches Internationally and has been on the faculty of many of the major Art Retreats. Her work has been published in Somerset Studio and Cloth, Paper and Scissors Magazines.
In her classes, Jacqueline emphasizes experimentation. She is known for venturing into the unknown and creating new techniques that she shares with her students. Students are always encouraged to “play” and to “push” materials to find their own unique style and techniques. These techniques are then refined, documented and utilized within the context of sound composition. The challenge is always to create and refine.
Jacqueline Sullivan teaches the following classes:
Email:
jenn@trixiedesigns.com
Jennifer Coomes
Jennifer Coomes lives and works in Portland, OR. After graduating with an art degree in applied design from San Diego State University, she made several career and geographical changes that eventually led to teaching art and photography in both California and Oregon. Through teaching she was able to experiment with several types of media that is reflected in her designs. She currently is an Art teacher at Harriett Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women as well as an independent artisan building a new business, trixie designs . Jennifer works primarily with precious metal clay and fused glass.
Jennifer Coomes teaches the following classes:
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!"
Jennifer Neitzel teaches the following classes:
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:
irishaggie05@gmail.com
Josh Guerra
Josh is a practicing architect with one of the largest architecture firms in Portland. He holds a Master of Architecture Degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame. A native of Texas, Josh moved to Portland with his wife in 2007. He has over 8 years of professional experience in product, graphic, and architectural design. Josh has also taught architectural drawing at the high school level as well as at the college level as a teaching assistant. In his spare time Josh enjoys designing and building home projects, playing soccer, and spending time with his wife and their beagle.
Josh Guerra 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:
Email:
leethalkoala@yahoo.com
Lee Meredith
Lee has been making things her whole life, and has been doing it for a living full time since mid-2008 – blogging for various craft websites, contributing to books and magazines, and running her own website and DIY blog at leethal.net. A lover of fiber, Lee designs knit accessories and spins/dyes yarn, but she also jumps all over the crafting world into projects involving sewing, printing, beading, and beyond. With a degree in photography and visual arts, Lee brings an artistic eye to all her creative endeavors and is always trying to find new and exciting ways to create!
Lee Meredith teaches the following classes:
Lisa Kagan
Lisa Kagan is an artist, writer, educator and personal historian. Her business, Lisa Kagan Designs, focuses on celebrating the human spirit through the transformative nature of the artistic process. She specializes in working with families and individuals to create Family Heirloom Art including; illustrated family history books, custom paintings, and photography montages. She believes preserving family history is essential to honoring our ancestors, understanding our relationship to our own lives, and sharing the wisdom and experiences of the past with future generations. Lisa offers classes and workshops in family heirloom art, book arts, painting, drawing, and creative writing for adults and children at her studio in Southeast Portland and at various locations throughout the community.
Lisa Kagan 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 and Fetherston Gallery in Seattle, WA. 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. Recently, she received a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant and an Oregon Arts Commission Opportunity Grant to support her artistic endeavours. Currently she is preparing for a solo show in July 2009 at Beppu Wiarda Gallery.
Lorna Nakell teaches the following classes:
Email:
collageonalberta@earthlink.net
Maria Raleigh
"Owner of collage and generally amazing in almost every way!" says Jen Neitzel, owner of DIY Lounge.
Maria Raleigh teaches the following classes:
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:
Monica Kaul
One of Monica’s earliest childhood memories is sitting at the family dinner
table making items to sell at an upcoming art show. She’s part of a long line
of artists and creating things is just in her blood.
Professionally educated in the field of Graphic Design, Monica worked
for years with companies such as Nordstrom, Microsoft, U.S. Bank, Eddie Bauer,
and Ninetendo producing award winning direct mail and marketing pieces.
Years later, Monica has stepped away from the fast paced world of advertising
and design to enjoy being mother of two, community volunteer, Etsy Seller
and mixed media Artist.
Monica has taught classes to students of all ages for the past 4 years.
Crafting is a passion she loves to share and invites you to come “play” with her
in an upcoming class!
Favorite things (in no particular order).
Chocolate chip cookies, Monk, sunshine, car seats with warmers, documentaries,
the color red, tulips, non fiction, Meryl Streep, greek food, HDTV, snorkeling,
coffee, polite people, Rascal Flatts, new tools, Martha Stewart Living,
haircuts, and when a magazine subscription arrives in the mail.
Monica Kaul 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
Ivy 'MacGuyver' Ross 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.
Email:
pv@pdxsa.com
Peter Vaughan Shaver
Peter Vaughan Shaver is a Portland-based arts & entertainment attorney with ten years of practice experience. His primary areas of expertise include intellectual property and general business law with an emphasis on copyrights, trademarks, licensing, music and art law, computer and Internet law, real estate and non-profit organizations.
Attorney Shaver’s company, Sound Advice, LLC, works extensively with artists and creative professionals of all types and regularly presents educational lectures and workshops at local colleges and arts-related organizations, including, Portland State University, The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Marylhurst University, The Art Institute of Portland, the Graphic Artists' Guild, the 100th Monkey Studio, and the Women's Art Caucus.
Peter Vaughan Shaver teaches the following classes:
Email:
richard@sinisterconcept.com
Richard Fox
Originally from Oregon, Richard has lived all over the country including Seattle, San Francisco, New York and of course Portland. A college background in theater and multimedia coupled with this wanderlust has helped him acquire and hone creative skills that he is eager to share with willing individuals. An equal love of natural beauty and the macabre have influenced his esthetic and you can find these subjects in his art pieces he sells at events such as Crafty Wonderland and First Thursday. He has also begun working on the beginning stages of his own art supply line so keep your eyes peeled.
You can also find Richard working as a staff member at Collage so please feel free to come by and say hi.
Richard Fox teaches the following classes:
Scott Plumlee
Scott David Plumlee has been inspiring a new generation of chain jewelers over the past decade, leading over 150 workshops nationwide. He is the author of Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry and Chain and Bead Jewelry Creative Connections. A world traveler and jack-of-all-trades, Scott has studied ancient cultures and craft designs all over the globe and currently resides in sunny Taos, New Mexico.
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!
Suzie Wolfer LCSW
Suzie, a 5th generation Oregon native, has worked as a psychotherapist for many years in private practice and now at Providence St. Vincent's, where she offers SoulCollage and group therapy. She also enjoys her work as a mixed media artist and calligrapher. She is an instructor at Art and Soul Retreat, PCC, New Renaissance and Breitenbush Hot Springs. Cloth Paper Scissors wrote a feature article about her Pop-Up Fold-Out Shrine in the Spring 2008 issue. Visit her web site at www.suziewolfer.com or email her at suzie@suziewolfer.com. See the recent cover story about SoulCollage in the July New Connexion magazine at http://newconnexion.net/articles/index.cfm/2008/07/SoulCollage_Letting_Your_Soul_Speak_Through_Art.html
Suzie Wolfer LCSW teaches the following classes:
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, most anything) which is why creating makes her heart sing. Her work has been published many times in Somerset Studio publications, and has been shown in galleries nationally and internationally.
Tammy Gilley teaches the following classes:
Tanis Alexis Laird
Raised and educated in creative environments, Tanis Alexis Laird is an inspirational artist, teacher and collaborator. Finding no interesting distinction between "art" and "craft," she embraces the term "artisan" -meaning a person who is vested in the creative realm.
Tanis is improvisational when sitting down to create. Her work is a culmination of her interests and thought processes and ideas and magical things, an exploration of hope and her dedication to the life-long creative journey.
Tanis’ work has been shown locally in Vancouver, Canada and has been sold to patrons throughout the U.S, Europe and Asia. See her etsy store and her website listed at left.
Tanis Alexis Laird 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: