Get To Know GoggleWorks' Studio Artists

GoggleWorks Artists of the Month: February 2012

• Courtney Papola| Studio 206
  
• Amy Stevens| Studio 221
  
• Suzanne Fellows| Studio 307
  
• Cynthia Thomasset| Studio 304

  
  GoggleWorks Artists of the Month: March 2012
  

• Mary Lou Creyts| Studio 204
  
• Judy Lupas| Studio 217
  
• Janna Carrozza| Studio 321
  
• Mary Stoudt| Studio 314

Artist-of-the-month artwork is on exhibit in the studio lounges on the 2nd & 3rd floors.

Kevin Brett | Studio 308

Please click here to view a video interview with Kevin Brett.

Kevin finds it very challenging to take everyday, overlooked objects or subject matter and capture them in ways that the viewer can extract feelings from personal experiences of their own. As when he worked in other mediums of visual art such as drawing, painting and sculpture, great effort is made to have everything within the compositions become valuable characters in the motionless plays captured through a lens. The use of unusual and dramatic angles gives the photographs views intended to make seemingly insignificant
items a bit more powerful and emotional. Kevin´s style of photography is very pure and traditional but there are always conceptual intentions behind all the fine art images created. While rarely including people in his
photographs, Kevin attempts to capture what it is to be human in every image. Each photograph is titled with only one word. The ambiguity of a one word
title only opens the door for the viewer with freedom to roam through their own thoughts rather than defining the images with a complicated heading trapping
the viewer on the surface and not allowing the unrestricted journey beyond the scene.

Website: www.soul-imagery.com
Email: kbrett@soul-imagery.com

W. Eugene Burkhart, Jr. | Studio 215

W. Eugene Burkhart, Jr. is an international lecturer, exhibitor, floral designer, judge, pressed flower artist, teacher, and author. Eugene has been an exhibitor since the age of 6. He enjoys creating his unique designs with pressed plant material. As an exhibitor he has won over 1500 prizes, ribbons, trophies, and certificates including numerous Best of Show awards and 11 Artistic Sweepstakes Awards at the prestigious Philadelphia International Flower Show.

Gene´s designs were selected for the 1st International Pressed Flower Exhibition in Nagano, Japan in 1997. Gene also lectured at the exhibition held in the White Ring in Nagano, Japan and he has been a keynote speaker several times at the Philadelphia Flower Show. His work has been chosen on numerous occasions for the Directory of Traditional American Crafts in Early American Life Magazine. In 2000, Eugene was inducted into the Muhlenberg High School Hall of Fame for his international achievements as a pressed flower artist and floral designer.Gene received the 2005 Pagoda Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts given by the Berks Arts Council. He is the author of Pressed Flower Art published by Stackpole Books.
Finally, Gene is the producer/host of Lively Arts at the GoggleWorks.
GeneBurkhart.com

JL Carothers | Building 4

Platemark Studio

Artist´s Statement
I am driven to portray my love for nature and organic forms. My focus is to explore related elements inherent in defining my subject beyond visual discription. My passion for printmaking lies in the endless variety of techniques for manipulating materials to express my ideas. My varied subjects may be handled as traditional tightly drawn etchings or abstract landscapes and figures in painterly monoprints. I explore textures, color layers, and design elements; incorporating hand-made papers and collagraph plates to add dimension. Most of the processes in the studio are "GREEN"(ecologically and artist friendly!). I paint in oil on canvas primarily plein aire paintings of landscapes, gardens, and historic architecture. I always carry a camera to capture interesting subjects often abstracted in macro formatting, a celebration of "the little things in life." My artwork is displayed in National and International juried exhibitions and in several private and corporate collections.


Background
B.A. in Art with three years post-graduate study in Printmaking . Independant studies in numerous studios including Union Printmakers Atelier, George Washington Univ. Washington, DC , the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, and the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA.

Professional Associations
American Print Alliance, Philadelphia Print Center, Southern Graphics Society, Philadelphia Water Color Society Signature Member, CPF certified by the Professional Picture Framers Association, Biltmore´s Who´s Who Business Association

Website www.jlcarothers.artspan.com

E-mail
platemarkstudio@msn.com or jlcarothers@msn.com

Janna Carrozza | Studio 321

"Weaving with respect for the environment has been a passion for many years.” Janna Carrozza weaves eco fabric created and developed into works of art. The weavings consist of organic cotton, tencel, soy silk, banana silk and corn silk. Most of the fiber is dyed with natural plants and flowers.
Janna attend Philadelphia University, where she studied Fashion Design. She later transferred to Kutztown University where she received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and Art Education. Janna also completed a Masters degree in Education.
Janna is involved with community mural projects in the city of Reading. She works full time as an art teacher as well as an artist.

Alan Cernak | Studio 306

Norakuro -- or Black Stray -- is a 3-D adaptation of a 1934 japanese manga of the the same name.
It is part of a series we have begun using historical manga as the basis for similar constructions.

Mary Lou Creyts | Studio 204

Mary lou is an award-winning artist with a specialty in commissioned portraiture and caricatures. She also features colorful and energetic pastels, water color and oil paintings.
Juried Exhibits: “The Natural World” GoggleWorks; “Art of the State” Harrisburg; “Philadelphia Sketch Club- Pastel Exibit- Honorable Mention´ Berks Art Alliance Juried Exhibition, Court Room Artist.
“I particularly enjoy commissions, be they portraits (People or pets) or other requests. I have a great deal of teaching experience in a wide variety of mediums.”

April D'Angelo | Studio 201

Please click here to view a video interview with April D´Angelo.

April D´Angelo has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Moore College in
Philadelphia. She has been painting watercolors, acrylics and portraits since 1989.
April also enjoys illustrating childrens´ books and teaching art lessons.
April has exhibited in several shows in Chester and Berks counties. She
belongs to The Artists Circle group and is a founding member of
Flying Colors Fine Artists group. Both have annual shows in Chester County.

e-mail April D´Angelo at

april@artbyapril.com

Miles DeCoster | Studio 323

Miles DeCoster is a painter, printmaker, photographer and book artist. His work has been shown throughout many exhibitions in the United States and Europe and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Photography and others. He has
received grants from the Chicago Council for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Washington Post and the Headlands Institute for the Arts.
Mr. DeCoster has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
MilesDeCoster.com

Raylene DeVine | Studio 208

I am a doctor of pediatrics by day and fill my soul as a painter by night. My passion for painting started in 1993, when I was traveling extensively abroad and walking in the steps of the old masters. With each painting I observed, I learned to paint. I paint of the past, and of the now, and of the future. I paint because I have to.

Tara Espinoza | Studio 201

Tara Espinoza is a freelance illustrator, a fine artist, and silkscreen-printing nut. Tara works in many different mediums ranging from printing, painting to sculpture. Her work tends to be cartoonish & childlike. She expands on hidden meaning and sarcastic humor through cute and whimsical characters she creates. Miss Espinoza is fascinated with animals as well as food taking on human qualities using her artistic style and humor.

Miss Espinoza received her Masters degree from The Ohio State University and a Bachelors degree from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH.

She has shown her work locally & nationally. She is actively pursuing ways to show, promote , and expand her artwork.

Email: tara.espinoza21@gmail.com
Blog: http://taraespinoza.blogspot.com
Web: www.taraespinoza.com

Roger Evans | Studio 212

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Roger J. Evans, BA Elementary/Secondary Art Ed, (Special Talent Scholarship from McKenderee University).
“I have worked with both graphic and fine arts throughout my career. I have had a working studio at The ArtWorks at Donecker´s and now at GoggleWorks. My original watercolors and lithographs have sold both regionally and nationally.”
Roger believes that painting is the by-product of true art: the art of perceptions.

Watercolors lessons available.

Email: rjeh2oclrs@yahoo.com
Phone: 610.898.0553

Suzanne Fellows | Studio 307

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Suzanne, who describes herself as a feminist, activist and mixed media artist, says, “My favorite part of a project is the idea stage: that moment where I´ve begun to wrap my mind around a problem, allowing fermentation to take place. Often two or more ideas collide in the next stage - the ah-ha! And I can then move to selecting materials appropriate to the manifestation of the idea. The excitement and energy released in solving the puzzle is the reward.

Suzanne recently received her MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts where her work ranged from large oil paintings and giant puppets to small pastel drawings, Flash animations and mixed media artist books. She teaches classes and workshops at the Goggleworks and has been involved in education in the arts for over twenty years. And, she also ghostwrites a blog for her role model Eudora Clutey, at: eudoraclutey.weebly.com

“It´s my hope that when people look at my work they can see both the heart and the humor involved in sending an old woman paper doll out on the Internet to gather an army - an army of crones that will attempt to solve mysteries of the human psyche, specifically: ageism and all forms of oppression.”

Website: suzannefellows.com
Email: suzanne@suzannefellows.com

Sandi DeFranco Giannini | Studio 303

I¹ve been a professional artist since graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1986. Although I¹m known for my large-scale paintings, I also paint portraits and still-life. I try not only
to portray the landscape but the tensions, light and space that nature exhibits.My work has been exhibited regionally and nationally in juried and solo
exhibitions. My paintings have won many awards including the 1st place from the Lehigh Art Alliance, 2009 for ³Before Sunset² shown above. My work has
also been featured in many reviews, including American Artist Magazine,2001. Most recently, I began creating in the ceramics studio at GoggleWorks,teaching myself how to throw on the wheel. This work will be shown at the Reading Berks Pennsylvania Crafters Guild Holiday Show.

Dan Gorman | Studio 214

I paint a variety of subjects in a realistic style with a focus on landscapes. I look for dramatic light that captures a moment in time and space. Good design is important to me, probably coming from my 25 years in
the commercial art field. I also do found object assemblages, sometimes political, mostly just fun.
I participate in many regional shows throughout the year. I was accepted into the 2008 Paint the Parks competition, my first national exposure. I was
lead artist on 2009 summer mural project through GoggleWorks Community Art Program.
Primarily oil on canvas. Have done numerous commissions including portraits. Accepting commissions, with a six month lead.
I teach landscape painting in oils at GoggleWorks.

Mary Styer Holton | Studio 205

My artistry reflects a quiet rebellion against literal reality while remaining grounded in an appreciation for the beauty contained in our everyday environment. I strive to capture light in its various phases, to present subjects and detail with a looseness and freedom that do not violate the integrity of those elements.

For most of my work I choose the forcefulness of a knife rather than a brush stroke to apply my palette, to create a tactile, textural painting that the viewer is free to touch, enter and be part of.
I paint to share a vision with the viewer of the uncommon in the common, eliminating the unnecessary elements that distract, a wabi-sabi approach to art: "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."
-Leonard Koren

I am a self taught artist inspired by the impressionistic techniques of The Cape Cod Artists. My photographer husband, Tom and I travel to Provincetown, Cape Cod several times a year where my paintings have been represented by Thanassi Gallery since 2005.

My work is in private homes and collections internationally,Thanassi Gallery, Maureens Gallery, and home studio, Eagle, PA. You can also visit my work at www.styerholtongallery.com and on Facebook: Mary Holton Art.

email - maryholton@yahoo.com
website- www.styerholtongallery.com
phone- 484.744.3039

Rich Houck | Studio 312

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My paintings contain images of natural beauty: blossoms, trees, leaves, clouds, with enhanced silhouettes of those same subjects. The results are colorful, textural, and dramatic compositions representing familiar shapes, moments, seasons, and experiences. I use a simplified natural visual language of contrasts, unity, chaos, and progression to represent perception, recognition and knowledge. Each of my works stands alone and can be appreciated on several levels, while also considering it part of a larger idea, as a word can have several meanings and is part of a language.”
Rich attended The University of the Arts, Philadelphia and Temple University, Rome.
“Large” works, commissions and prints available.
On-site preview, event décor; installation available.
richhouck.com

Annalie Hudson | Studio 216

Annalie´s life journey has taken her from a childhood in Philadelphia with summers spent in Germany, to an adulthood exploring the globe - across the Americas, to Asia, through Europe - adopting her daughter from China, hiking the Camino Trail across northern Spain, sipping wine with friends in Tuscany. These experiences have brought Annalie to a time and place where she can translate her images into paintings using evocative colors and shapes. Self taught, working mostly with acrylics, she uses palette knives and brushes to drag and sweep rich tones onto varying surfaces.

By far her favorite place and the greatest influence on her art is the American Southwest. She feels more at home in Arizona than anywhere else. The endless blue skies and solace of the desert serve as her muse. She is challenged and guided by an inner voice, which is expressed through her painting.

Currently enrolled at Rosemont College, Annalie is pursuing another dream. That is an MFA with a concentration in Creative Writing. She hopes to graduate in three years with her Masters Degree at the same time her daughter graduates from High School.

Annalie´s paintings have been in various juried art shows, galleries, museums and exhibitions; as well as Philadelphia Stories Magazine and the Arizona Collectors Guide. Other works currently hang in private homes and area corporations.

AZ Humane Society - Wizard of Pawz Artist Equity Annual Exhibits
Chester County Art Assoc. Exhibit Phoenix Village Art Center
Starbucks Art Exhibition The Berman Museum of Art
Wine Styles Art Exhibition Barnstone Gallery
Nestology Gallery Widener University Art Gallery
Fountain Hills Artists´ Gallery Manayunk Arts Festival

Judy Lupas | Studio 217

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I love color and movement in painting. A moment in nature catches my eye and the transformation with paint begins. My work can be found in the archives of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in private homes and corporate centers. I primarily use acrylic paint. I find most freedom in it´s fast drying quality. Commissions for home and office are my specialty. The right piece of art for the right space.
judylupas.com

Sharon McGinley | Studio 310

My paintings are narratives, full of bright color, flying fish, sleeping cats and hovering angels. The subject matter may be serious or light - it depends on the story that needs telling - and there´s always a story that needs telling.
I have exhibited nationally. I have illustrated thirteen childrens books which have been reviewed in the NY Times Book Review, Horn Book, Kirkus Review and Publishers Weekly. I have received many awards.
I use acrylic inks on paper or board. My brother Patrick builds most of my painted frames.
I accept commissions, paint small murals and give presentations to schools on illustrating children´s books. Recently I´ve started doing assemblages out of recycled materials, mostly decorative crosses, altars and masks.
SharonMcGinley.com

Courtney Papola | Studio 206

Artist Statement
Art has always been the one constant in my life no matter what else is happening around me. I believe in the power of art and how it can affect the way people perceive the world, the people around them, and often put them at ease once they find the beauty in a certain work of art. That´s why I chose to be an artist; I feel most confident when I have a paintbrush in hand. It´s an escape from reality, a time to relax, and create a work of art that will have a positive, emotional effect on people.
If there´s anything as humans we can learn from nature, it´s a reason to live and a reason to grow. My connection with nature comes from the production of works of the environment, wild life, and drawings of the human figure with charcoal and pastel. My work directly expresses my personality through the variety of colors on my palette as a painter and printmaker. I mainly use acrylic paints on my canvases and often will produce a watercolor study first of a larger acrylic painting to help plan color choices. I have experimented with a wide variety of different subject matter through painting, drawing, and printmaking because I believe an artist should utilize as many subjects and mediums to be able to find their true concentration. Overall I do mainly concentrate on nature, animals, and the human figure. The world offers so many beautiful things around us and I strongly believe in taking full advantage of them by capturing them through works of art. I would paint every breathtaking sunrise and sunset if it were possible because of the happiness and tranquility a burst of color across the sky can bring to someone. I am a young growing artist and still have experimenting to do but I do know I enjoy the nature around me which directly reflects in my work.
In the future I plan to continue with my paintings of the environment and producing more figure studies to enhance my drawing abilities. I plan on using my knowledge and experiences to educate other growing aspiring artists and our youth because it´s important that we help each other as artists to understand all aspects and theories in the art world and collaborate together to show the world how important art is to live.

Artist Bio
I am a local artist who was born and raised in Reading, Pa. I graduated from Muhlenberg High School in 2007 and recently graduated in May of 2011 from California University of Pa with an art degree.

Fran Parzanese | Studio 203

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Watercolor has been my passion ever since I applied my first brush stroke. I love the spontaneity of a loaded brush of pigment mixed with water to create luminous colors. I was taught by a Chinese master to paint koi fish by looking for them in a sea of paint. “Look and ye shall find” is the concept and it works. I love creating beauty, so florals and nature subjects are what I mostly paint. My love affair with painting has changed my life. I am currently retired from public school teaching and feel blessed to be able to pursue my passion. Painting changes the way you see the world and I love sharing my vision.
I work in watercolor, acrylics and oils. I do commissions for house portraits, or special subjects. I teach watercolor workshops for the Goggleworks.

Heidi Reuter | Studio 219

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Heidi Reuter has a MA with Merit in Photographic Journalism from the University of Westminster, London, a BA in Art and Communication from Muhlenberg College and has also studied Fine Art and Communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She now teaches photography at Alvernia University and Penn State Berks. Reuter is also a freelance photographer and graphic designer for magazines and companies based in Berks County, Philadelphia, Susquehanna Valley, Lehigh Valley, NYC, London and China. Highlights of her photography career include photographing Prince Charles, Jay-Z, Russell Simmons, and Fall Out Boy. She is available for portraits, weddings and commercial work.
Medium, specialties, commissions, classes, etc: Photography - Commercial, Editorial and Weddings
HeidiReuter.com

Elaine Soltis | Studio 211

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Elaine Soltis brings a vivid imagination, intuition and unconventional use of material to her paintings and collages. She invents her own visual art techniques and demonstrates interpretive possibilities. She feels that one moment in time is enough to change an entire life¹s passage, so she believes in being present, listening to even the silences, and being grateful for the chance to comfort the soul with art. ³Focused efforts of expression are an essential combination of taking a chance and trying,² she says.

Elaine works in water media, digital photography of nature and a subtext of a work rather than just decorative reflection.
While creating her own artistic style, she is influenced by her father who was also an artist, and she shares his passion for color.

Credentials: Acror¹s Equity; American
Federation of Radio and TV Artists;
Regional and State Exhibitions; Past
Promotional Colorist and Artist for YSL, Chanel, Dior and Givenchy; Reiki Master
She is currently accepting commissioned work.

Kelley Stanford| Studio 201

Art was always something I liked to do in school and although I did well I never saw it as a pursuit of mine. I was more interested in the performing arts: theater, dance, flag twirling…etc. I always wanted to be on the move.

My mother and my sister both are artists and I love what they do but I never thought I had the patience to be an artist. Then about 15 years ago I was diagnosed with kidney disease. Basically my kidneys were on a slow decline that would eventually lead to having a kidney transplant in 2002.

During the time between being diagnosed and the transplant I was very tired and could do very little. It was my mom who suggested I try to draw or paint. I was able to work on something a little bit at a time and I found that not only did I enjoy it very much but I liked what I had done and so did my family and friends. I continued to paint for a few years under the tutelage of my mother learning various techniques used in water colors.

My mother and sister belonged to an art group called Flying Colors, a group of all women artists that meet once a week to work on their craft and once a year have an art show. It was suggested that I jury to be a part of this group and was accepted. So, now I have been painting and doing an art show with this group for about 8 years.

Along with Flying Colors my work has been displayed and sold at a local restaurant, a small gift shop and a local arts and crafts show.

Amy Stevens | Studio 221

Amy Stevens (b. 1975) grew up in the Arizona and New Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and a certificate in Women´s Studies from Arizona State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

Stevens has participated in both group and solo shows in Seattle, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto and Ireland. Stevens has notably shown in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Photo LA, Photographic Center Northwest, Philadelphia International Airport, Maryland Art Place, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Jen Bekman Gallery in New York. Amy´s work is part of the permanent photography collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

In the summer of 2010, Stevens completed an artist residency program in Roscommon, Ireland where she worked in a bakery, resulting in a new series of work, a group show and a publication. In Fall of 2010, Amy had a solo show in Philadelphia at Fleisher Art Memorial as part of the Fleisher Wind Challenge 2010 and was announced a winner of the Hey, Hot Shot! Photography competition. In November 2011, Amy will be traveling to China as an honored guest to exhibit in the Lishui International Photography Festival. Stevens was just awarded a travel grant from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists for an exhibition she is curating in Dublin in the summer of 2012.

email: amy@amystevensart.com
website: www.amystevensart.com

Mary Stoudt | Studio 314

Intuition and improvisation both play a role in my process in creating my studio quilts. Such is the case with ³Lightning Strikes,² one of a series of quilts based on a village theme. Lightning Strikes is based on an experience that happened several years ago,when lightning struck my home as I stood inside near a phone. My entire second floor was filled with an amber glow, followed by a horrific cracking sound. The phone, inches away from where I was standing, was hit, along with a thousand dollars worth of miscellaneous damage to the rest of my home. The long yellow line dividing the composition represents the lightning. The
colorful houses are reminiscent of the village where I presently live.
MaryStoudt-artquilts.com

Joseph Szimhart | Studio 207

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Wherever that urge to produce art comes from it has been with me since I was very young. Perhaps it came from my Hungarian grandfather who was an amateur artist. That urge was strong enough to change my major from engineering in my third year at the University of Dayton to fine arts. I advanced my studio training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts that awarded me a certificate in painting and printmaking. My next move was to live in Santa Fe, NM for nearly 18 years where I taught art at New Mexico State Penitentiary and life-drawing at St. John´s College while exhibiting in galleries. I also executed a series of murals for a hospital. I was a summertime fixture on Santa Fe´s Plaza for 14 of those years where I sketched portraits, completing maybe 7,000 "heads." My last large commission:14 iconic canvases representing the Stations of the Cross for St Columbkill Church in Boyertown, PA. My work includes drawings, monotypes, and oils that range in imagery from figurative to landscape to abstract, often with symbolic features. For the past fifteen years I have been exhibiting with the Perkiomen Valley Artists Center.

Website for art career under construction soon.
610-582-7666
http://jszimhart.com represents my long career as a "cult" information consultant and author.

Cynthia Thomasset | Studio 304

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A dream of being in a gallery filled with collages is what led me to being a studio artist at the GoggleWorks. Having collected letters and stamps my whole life; I dreamed that I saw paintings filled with stamps, words, vibrant color. I woke the day after this dream and did my first "love stamp collage". This led me to join Berks Art Alliance and get 2 pieces accepted at a juried show at Goggleworks in the summer of 2010, which then led me to apply for studio space. It was a very natural process and I am thrilled to be part of such a vibrant community.

I am a self taught artist, combining watercolor, stamps, pen and ink, my photography and old post cards in my work. For years I was a social worker and incorporated the arts into my therapy with clients. Having secured a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts enabled me to do a huge mosaic tile mural project with victims of domestic violence in Wilmington, Delaware where I worked for the YWCA.
I am also an adjunct professor at Albright College where I teach 5 subjects in psychology to non-traditional students in their accelerated degree program. I enjoy employing non-linguistic learning tools in the classroom; this brings an element of the arts to my academic life and students.

I do commissions and my work is available as prints.
www.cjthomasset.com

Barbara Thun | Studio 301

I continue to explore the human connection to the natural world - our
vulnerability to its power, our mirroring of its cycles and the fact
that today we exist in a precarious relationship with nature. The
unstable balance between man and nature could threaten the existence of
both. While my work expresses the essence of nature´s finite existence
and the strong structural reality of it, it is important that we
recognize and protect it´s vulnerability.
BarbaraThun.com

Adrienne Trafford | Studio 317

Adrienne Trafford´s whimsical, award-winning art is influenced by artists who were inspired by color such as Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt, and also by manga, anime and steampunk artists. Her work consists of figurative and landscape subject matter taken from current and past cinema, literature and art. Currently she is working in watercolor and ink on illustrations for an Oracle card deck, coinciding coloring book and childrens book for Schiffer Publishing. She also continues to work with acrylic on canvas and is the “unofficial artist laureate and creator of the official mascots - Spike and Tilly” for the Humane Society of Berks County. She has a BFA from Kutztown University and continues to exhibit and sell in juried shows and galleries in the community. Adrienne takes commissions on a regular basis.
AdrienneTrafford.blogspot.com

Lauralynn White | Studio 305

Lauralynn White is an artist pursuing her own vision of the world. She expresses her core belief in the necessity of living in harmony with nature through her sublime, yet powerful fusions of the human body with the earth. She believes there is an inherent oneness of all things and she pursues that as a reality in her work.

Lauralynn was educated at Savannah College of Art and Design. She holds a BFA in Illustration and Art History. She is a member of NAWA, VACI and the Allied Arts Association of America. She has published Chautauqua Sketchbook 2009 and exhibited in NYC and nationally juried shows.

Find her at www.ashgarstudios.com

Birdie Zoltan | Studio 315

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In my art, I am drawn to those everyday objects that strike me as eager to assume new roles and realities. Working primarily with found objects and castoffs, I create sculptural personalities of unrepentant whimsy. To fabricate each piece usually employs several techniques, which could include welding, casting, weaving, sewing, woodworking and carving. The mood of each piece, and frequently its form, tends to arise organically from the materials at hand. I acquire the raw materials I use during my daily walks, from excursions to thrift shops, garage sales and junkyards, and by gratefully accepting the countless donations offered by friends and acquaintances familiar with my eccentricities.
bertazoltan@ymail.com

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