2008 Workshop Instructors
Abernathy, Charlotte
Gathering inspiration for studio work, Charlotte Abernathy travels extensively to paint. She exhibits with the prestigious Alla Prima International group of plein-air artists. Recently, she was awarded a month-long residency at the Montana Artists Refuge. Her paintings, glowing with light and color, have won many awards in regional and national exhibitions.
Anderson, M.J.
M.J. Anderson lives and works in her home sculpture studio in Nehalem
on the Oregon coast with frequent trips to carve marble in Carrara, Italy.
Figurative sculpture is her first love, but she also creates a variety
of sculpture for public art projects, liturgical commissions and gallery
exhibitions. She is represented by Davidson Contemporary in Seattle, Washington.
www.mjandersonsculpture.com
Archer, Diane
Diane Archer came to Sitka as an artist-in-residence in 1999. She fell in love with the Oregon Coast and has made it her home. Diane holds a B.F.A. in Metalsmithing from the University of Akron and an M.F.A. from Kent State University. In her work, which includes both jewelry and mixed media pieces, she explores emotional and physical concepts of Place. Diane sells her work through various galleries and art fairs and enjoys working on commissioned pieces for clients. Diane was recently interviewed on OPB TV’s Oregon Art Beat. www.dianearcher.com
Barrington, Judith
Judith Barrington’s Lifesaving: A Memoir was the 2000 winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art is a best selling guide to literary memoir. She is published widely and teaches across the U.S. and in Britain. www.judithbarrington.com
Blaker, Frances, Letitia Berlin, Cléa Galhano & Judith Linsenberg
Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, and Cléa Galhano are internationally renowned recorder players who conduct workshops throughout the United States. Frances also composes for recorder. Judith Linsenberg is the recorder artist-in-residence at Sitka during the spring of 2008.
Boyden, Frank and Bradley
Frank Boyden is co-founder of the Sitka Center with his wife, Jane. His love of nature can be witnessed in his artwork, which may be seen at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon, and at the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Bradley Boyden has been teaching biology to young people for over 20 years.
Braasch, Gary
Gary Braasch is an Oregon conservation and environmental photographer who has documented natural history and environmental issues since 1975. His coverage ranges from the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the ancient forests of the West Coast, to global climate change. He has produced photographic assignments for major magazines, including National Geographic, Life, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife. Mr. Braasch has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Assn. and is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. In 2006 he received the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography from the Sierra Club. This year University of California Press will publish his book, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World. www.braaschphotography.com
Braden, Skuja
Skuja Braden, is the pseudonym and combined names of the international collaborative team Inguna Skuja (Latvia) and Melissa Braden (U.S.A.). Working on every aspect of their designs and forms together, the process of their collaborative creating gives their work an extremely individualized character. Skuja Braden’s work can be found in private collections and museums around the world.
Brody, Mark
Mark Brody has been a working artist since graduating from Lewis & Clark College with degrees in art and education. His passion for tiles started when he built adobe homes in New Mexico. His illustration, construction, and teaching skills all come together in his mosaic classes. He teaches mosaics and creates installations for the Portland Public Schools.
Bund, Wayne
A teacher of adults and children, Wayne Bund has been teaching book arts for over three years. He received his B.A. in Theater and Fine Arts from the University of Oregon, where he studied Monastic Bookbinding in Italy. He also holds a M.A. in Teaching from Pace University.
Carus, Debra
Debra Carus is a metal and collage artist in Clackamas, Oregon. She specializes in ancient design motifs from the old Norse and Etruscan worlds and incorporates those motifs in her jewelry and miniature sculptures. She is a Senior Certified Art Clay instructor and teaches workshops in her Portland studio. Her work incorporates 'thinking outside the metalsmithing box' by exploring precious metal clays, making metal jewelry and sculpture using non-traditional methods, and combining the medium with fabrication and wire work. www.elentari-handverk.com
Chamberlin, Carl
Carl Chamberlin began designing and building small boats in the Virgin Islands during the 1960’s. After returning to Newport, Oregon he continued to take his passion along the coast, designing and lofting boats. Chamberlin settled in Port Townsend, Washington and currently teaches design at the NorthWest School of Wood Boat Building.
Cox, Allen
Allen Cox is a well-known Pacific Northwest abstract painter, a native Oregonian, now residing in Knoxville, Tennessee. Cox has been showing his work nationally since 1982 and held his first international exhibition in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2003. He holds an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Oregon, where he studied with the highly regarded Pacific Northwest abstract painter, Frank Okada. Allen Cox is represented by galleries in Portland, Oregon; Laguna Beach and Palm Desert, California; Christchurch, New Zealand and Knoxville. Cox has been featured in New American Paintings: Artists of the West Coast 1996 and was the subject of an Oregon Public Broadcasting profile for the television series Oregon Art Beat in 2001. Cox and his work are also featured in the book 100 Artists of the West Coast by Douglas Bullis, released in December 2003.
Crispin, Donna Sakamoto
Fiber artist, Donna Sakamoto Crispin, specializes in basketry woven with wild-crafted materials. Her work is influenced by traditional Japanese and N.W. Native American basketry techniques. She has been teaching basketweaving techniques for over 19 years. Donna encourages her students to re-connect and receive inspiration from nature.
Doyle, Jack
Jack Doyle is a retired mechanical engineer and Cascade Head resident. His images of the Cascade Head area are in many private collections. Jack’s submission to the 2007 Great Backyard Bird Count photo contest sponsored by Audubon and the Cornell Ornithology Lab was named runner-up among 4000 submissions in composition and best overall categories.
Doyle, Tallmadge
Tallmadge Doyle received her B.F.A. in Drawing from the Cleveland Art Institute and an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Oregon in Eugene where she taught as an Assistant Adjunct Professor from 1996-2004. She exhibits her work at the Davidson Gallery in Seattle and the Augen Gallery in Portland. www.tallmadgedoyle.com
Dubay, Inga
Inga Dubay is an adjunct professor at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is co-author of Italic Letters: Calligraphy & Handwriting, Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting, and The Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series. She and co-author Barbara Getty have presented over 155 handwriting seminars for medical professionals.
Eagan, Dennis
Dennis Eagan began his study of yoga in 1989 and has been teaching yoga since 1998. He teaches with an Iyengar-influenced style, combined with the breath awareness of vinyasa yoga. In addition to his public classes and workshops, he leads adventurous yoga retreats.
Freed, Rachael
Rachael Freed MSW, LMFT, author of Women’s Lives, Women’s Legacies and The Women’s Legacies Workbook for the Busy Woman, leads a national guild of legacy facilitators and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota. Her work is featured on Dr. Andrew Weil’s integrative health websites.
Glazer, Michele
Michele Glazer’s books are It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See and Aggregate of Disturbances. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. She teaches at Portland State University.
Gleason, Dan
Dan Gleason teaches Ornithology at the University of Oregon and in community classes, and is an invited speaker statewide. He writes Backyard Habitats for Eugene’s Register Guard, is the author of Birds! From the Inside Out, and a second book due soon. Nature and environmental education are life-long passions. www.bgleasondesign.com
Goodrich, Charles
Charles Goodrich is the author of a volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis and collections of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home. Twenty-five years a professional gardener, he is presently program director for the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University.
Greene, Sarah
Sarah Greene is the Forest Ecologist for the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Service. She manages the Cascade Head Experimental Forest and also serves on the Sitka Center’s Board of Trustees.
Haavik, Jay
Jay Haavik is a full-time professional artist and woodworker. He is particularly
interested in traditional art forms, especially that of the native peoples
of the Pacific NW Coast and the Vikings. In 2007, he designed and installed
a large outdoor installation for the Leif Erikson International Foundation
of Seattle. His private and public commissions include sculptures for
REI in Seattle and Japan, an 88-foot long sculpture for the Muckleshoot
White River Amphitheater entrance in Auburn, Washington, and a totem pole
for Christchurch, New Zealand. In the summer of 2006 he carved a large
wall sculpture at the Borgund Stave Church Visitor's Center, Borgund,
Norway. He has been teaching at Sitka Center for many years, one
of his class projects was the Sitka "Trickster" pole.
www.jayhaavik.com
Haga, Lee
Lee Haga is a professional metalsmith who resided on the Oregon coast for 14 years and now carries the spirit of the Pacific Ocean with her wherever she goes. Experimenting with metal in all of its applications and permutations is one of the purest pleasures of Lee's life. Now residing in Portland, she runs the Metalsmithing program at Mt. Hood Community College. Her artwork often explores Japanese alloys and aesthetics and has been published and exhibited nationally. Lee's jewelry is represented locally by Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery in Portland.
Hall, Nora
Nora Hall is a third generation Dutch Master woodcarver. Her work includes commissions for stage and movie sets, churches, synagogues, private and corporate clients, and wineries. Nora has taught numerous workshops at various organizations, including Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado and Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon. www.norahall.com
Hashimoto, Molly
Molly Hashimoto, a Seattle artist and illustrator, has taught watercolor landscape for the North Cascades Institute, North Seattle Community College, and for Daniel Smith Artist Materials in Seattle. Her work has been published by Pomegranate Communications in California for the past 15 years. Her journal watercolors appear in the Sierra Club gift books, The Natural World, and Wildflowers and Butterflies. www.mollyhashimoto.com
Hayes, Stephen
Stephen Hayesis a painter and printmaker currently working in Portland, Oregon. He earned his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is currently on the faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Stephen is represented in Portland by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Stephen is represented in Portland by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. His collectors include The New York Public Library, The Hallie Ford Museum, Microsoft Corporation, and the Portland Art Museum. www.elizabethleach.com
Heckeroth, Kurt W.
Kurt Heckeroth is a botanist who has spent 27 years working with plant material for reforestation and restoration at the Bureau of Land Management in Tillamook. Kurt has also worked extensively with coastal native plants, especially riparian, acting as a technical advisor for seven watershed councils, four Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership.
Hiratsuka, Yuji
Originally from Japan, Yuji Hiratsuka is currently a Professor of Art/Printmaking at Oregon State University. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Equal Prize at the Majdanek 2000 VI International Art Triennialin in Lubin, Poland. His work is included in collections at The British Museum, Tokyo Central Museum, Panstwowe Museum in Poland, The House of Humor and Satire in Bulgaria, Cincinnati Art Museum, Jundt Art Museum in Washington, the Portland Art Museum, and Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Ho, Wuon Gean
Wuon Gean Ho has worked in various print workshops in London, Kyoto, and Oregon, all places that she holds close to her heart. Taking the traditional Japanese woodcut and relief print as a starting point, she makes prints and artists books which often depict a strong narrative about the human animal bond. http://www.wuongean.com
Wuon Gean's work will be on display in Portland's Vorpal Space from July 3-31, 2008. http://www.vorpalspace.com
Hopps, Annamieka
Annamieka Hopps received her BFA in fibers from the University of Oregon, and specializes in natural dyes and silk painting. She was an intern at Sitka Center in summer 2007. Her great joy in teaching about natural dyes is to see people's enthusiasm for the rich colors on their beautiful projects!
Kail, Andrew
Andrew Kail, an artist and musician, has always sought to bring these two elements of his life together. He acquired his B.F.A. from Northern Michigan University in Pottery. Andrew teaches workshops, sells work at local art fairs, and plays music around Portland.
Laitinen, Dale
Dale Laitinen is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West. He graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Art. He has traveled extensively across the West which figures prominently in his highly designed landscapes. Laitinen has been a workshop instructor for over two decades. http://dalelaitinen.com
Latham, Lori
Lori Latham has been painting since 1989. She began her painting
career as a decorative painter specializing in faux finishes. The techniques
from that field are still present in her current abstract landscape paintings.
To view her current paintings and read student reviews from Sitka workshops
please visit her website. www.lorilatham.com
Lovell, Ron
Ron Lovell was a journalism professor at Oregon State University for 24 years. Before that he was a magazine writer with Business Week, Medical World News, and later McGraw-Hill News Service. He is the author of 14 textbooks on journalism and hundreds of articles. He now writes mystery novels about a college professor who solves crimes.
Mantecón, Lauren
Lauren Mantecón is an experienced teacher and studio artist known for facilitating ways of expanding the active imagination. She received a M.F.A. at Portland State University and was a professor of painting for eight years at the University of Portland in Oregon. Her studio art has been shown nationally and internationally. Lauren has taught diverse populations in the Pacific Northwest through the Sun Valley Art Center, Young Audiences program and the Regional Art and Culture Council and Program Education Art Recreation (P:ear) in Portland Oregon. www.laurenmantecon.com
Maslen, John
This year will mark John Maslen’s 11th year teaching watercolor at Sitka. John is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and the American Society of Marine Artists. He holds both B.F.A. and B.S. degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Masthem, Kicki
Kicki Masthem is a sculptural clay artist in Portland, Oregon. She has been an artist-in-residence at Clay Studio of Missoula, Montana; Watershed Ceramic Center, Maine; and at Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Oregon. Kicki has an M.F.A. in Ceramics from James Madison University, Virginia and teaches at Oregon College of Art & Craft, and Portland Community College. www.kickimasthem.com
Morris, Judy
Judy Morris is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Her book, Watercolor Basics: Light, published by North Light Books, is now available on CD. Her work has been featured in dozens of recent watercolor publications, including International Artist and in Splash. www.judymorris-art.com
Mulcahy, Joanne
Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches and directs the Writing Culture Summer Institute at the Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island, a biography of an Alaska Native healer. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West and These United States. She recently completed a book about Mexican healer, Eva Castellanoz. www.lclark.edu/dept/nwi
O'Connell, Ken
Kenneth O’Connell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and President of Imagination International, Inc. He has taught sketchbook workshops in Oregon, Tennessee, and Italy. He is on sketchbook number 67. His sketchbooks have recently been exhibited at the University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, Oregon.
Park, William
William Park has been drawing and
painting since 1986, choosing a non-traditional course of study.
He has been exhibiting since 1995 and his work is in many public and private
collections nationally. His work can be seen in Portland at Mark Woolley
Gallery. www.williampark.net
Pobanz, Nancy
Nancy Pobanz is a full-time studio artist and adjunct professor at the University of Oregon. She has an M.F.A. in Mixed Media Fibers and Bookarts from the University of Oregon. Raised in Oregon’s desert, her work is inspired by desert spaces and the raw materials that can be found within them. www.nancypobanz.com
Rabkin, Sarah
Sarah Rabkin recently retired from a university teaching career in writing and environmental studies to focus on other creative work. A Sitka resident in 2007-08, she finds inspiration in landscapes, places, and the natural world, and enjoys helping others cultivate the power in their own voices and visions.
Riley, Carol
Sitka instructor since 1982, Carol Riley has a B.A. in painting from Scripps College and a M.A.T. from Reed College. She has exhibited for 30 years in respected northwest galleries and her work is included in private, corporate, and public collections, including the State of Oregon and the Portland “Visual Chronicle.” www.carolriley.com
Ross-Paul, Laura
Laura Ross-Paul teaches figure painting at Portland State University and has taught college level classes for over 20 years. Her expressionistic figurative paintings are in the collections of the Portland, Tacoma, and the Hallie Ford Museums in the Northwest and the Arnot Museum in New York. She has had recent exhibits at the Froelick gallery in Portland and the Pacini Lubel gallery in Seattle as well as at COCA in Seattle.www.froelickgallery.com
Rudloff, Frank
Frank Rudloff works as an architect in Portland, Oregon. His work has ranged from small garden structures, play environments, houses, community centers, airplane hangars, and mixed-use residential buildings. He has worked with a leading green design firm, and now continues to do work that integrates concepts of sustainability and art. Frank has used design simulation gaming techniques to develop projects with community groups.
Savonen, Carol
Carol Savonen is a field naturalist and science and garden writer at Oregon State University. She has conducted plant research at Cascade Head and other areas around the state. She has been learning to keep an illustrated field journal for about ten years, thanks to inspiration from Andie Thrams and others.
Schlicting, Judith
Judith Schlicting is a painter, ceramic muralist, and teacher. She began her work with ceramic tile in 1973 at the University of Oregon and has developed her skills through studio work and commissions. Her tile furniture, tile murals, and individual tiles appear in private homes and businesses across the country.
Schmidt, Patricia
Patricia Schmidt has been painting and teaching for over 20 years. She authored an article about her painting techniques in the 2005 winter issue of Watercolor magazine. A signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and the Colored Pencil Society of America, she teaches watercolor and colored pencil classes at Clark College in Vancouver, WA and workshops in the Portland area. Her work can be seen at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery and the Freed Gallery by Siletz Bay on the Oregon Coast.
Swanson, Fred
Fred Swanson is a Research Geologist for the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the Forest Service. He has worked on many aspects of earth science and ecology at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest near Eugene, Oregon.
Schütte, Peter
Peter Schütte, M.S., M.F.A., was born in the Netherlands. He worked with Ansel Adams and Minor White. His work and interests in photography have transitioned through landscapes, abstractions, and a fascination with photographing the human face and body. His interest lately has been with the possibilities and limitations of digital work. www.schuttephoto.com
Seggebruch, Patricia
Patricia Seggebruch has taught art workshops for several years through her studio in Snohomish, Washington and Daniel Smith Art Supply in Seattle, and through assorted venues on the west coast. Patricia paints abstractly in watermedia, encaustic, and collage and enjoys sharing her knowledge of these mediums with anyone interested in taking it in. www.pbsartist.com
Sorg, Eileen
Eileen F. Sorg is a Seattle-area based artist who specializes in colored pencil painting done in a photo-realistic style. Eileen’s work is collected internationally and is known for its complexity and vibrancy. Her students appreciate her “full disclosure” method of teaching, where no information is held back. An accomplished painter and juror, Eileen has exhibited in numerous group, solo, and juried exhibitions. She has been published in The Artists's Magazine and American Artist - Drawing Edition. Sorg is a Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of American (CPSA) and currently serves on the Board of the CPSA Seattle District Chapter. Her work is represented by the Verksted Gallery in Poulsbo, Washington. www.twodogstudio.com
Stafford, Kim
Kim Staffordis the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and William Stafford Center at Lewis and Clark College, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. In addition to Sitka, he has taught writing workshops at the annual Fishtrap Writers Gathering, and colleges and literary centers in Oregon and abroad. His recent books include Early Morning: Remembering my Father, William Stafford (2002); The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft (2003); and A Thousand Friends of Rain (2005). www.lclark.edu/dept/nwi
Starbuck, Scott
Scott T. Starbuck is a Professor of English at San Diego Mesa College where he teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. He has also taught creative writing at Eastern Washington University, Lake Land College in Illinois, and Glendale Community College in Arizona where students voted him “Teacher of the Year.”
Stoddard-Hayes, Marlana
Marlana Stoddard Hayes, M.A., M.F.A, was a Sitka Center resident in 1990 and has taught art workshops for thirty years. Her work has been shown in worldwide exhibitions, such as Musee Granet: Aix-En-Provence, France and the Art-In-Embassies Program: Mali, Africa as well as nationally at the University of Michigan, the Nelson Atkins Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the University of Iowa. She is represented locally by Beppuwiarda Gallery.
Tepfer, Gary
Gary Tepfer is a professional photographer working primarily in color. Besides exhibiting and selling his work, he organizes and teaches workshops each year in the American Southwest. His photographic interests are primarily landscape, portraiture, architecture, archeology, and ethnography. www.wlotus.com
Thomas, Larry
Larry Thomas is the former Dean of Academic Affairs and Interim President of the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited widely regionally and nationally and is in the permanent collections of the S.F. Museum of Modern Art; the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts of the Fine Arts Museums of S.F.; the Oakland Museum; the San Jose Museum of Art; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Artists Books Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Library of Congress; Stanford University Museum; the New York Public Library; the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, CA as well as numerous private and corporate collections. www.larrythomas.info
Thompson, Margot Voorhies
Margot Voorhies Thompson is a calligrapher, painter, printmaker, and the designer of the Sitka Center logo. Margot is represented by the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Margot and Kim Stafford have been collaborative partners for public art installations in Oregon.
Thrams, Andie
Andie Thrams, has a B.A. in Art Practice from UC Berkeley, and is a visual artist whose work reveals a lifelong meditation on the natural world, especially in wild forests of the west. She has been painting and creating illuminated journals since childhood. Her work is published and exhibited widely, and is held in both public and private collections nationwide. She was a blissful Artist-in-Residence at Sitka in 2004. www.andiethrams.net
Trowbridge, Phyllis
Phyllis Trowbridge ddraws and paints the landscape outdoors year-round. Her teaching style strives to encourage students’ interests and innate talents as they open to new ideas and ways of working. She received her M.F.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. and is represented by Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland. www.phyllistrowbridge.com
Valentine, Cathy and Anne Kinkade
Instructors Anne Kinkade and Cathy Valentine are working studio artists in the county of Siskiyou, Northern California. They have been close friends for thirty-five years, and love to team-teach. Anne and Cathy have been working with encaustic for six years: each in their own styles. They have previously taught encaustic painting at the Sitka Center.
Vogland, Judy
Judy Vogland is an Oregon native who earned her M.F.A. from Portland State University. Judy has taught Sand Painting at the Oregon beaches for the past 28 years and has been teaching art over the past 37 years at Portland State University, Haystack, Hillsboro High School, and the Sitka Center. Vogland creates public space artwork, corporate commissions, and work in collage/assemblage for gallery exhibitions. Her work can be seen at the Beppu Wiarda Gallery in Portland, OR. www.beppugallery.com
Weber, Nancy & Carol Ann Bassett
Nancy Webers’s involvement with mushrooms is life-long. Her professional research centers on morels and related fungi while her avocation is studying the diversity and biology of mushrooms in her yard in Corvallis. She has extensive experience presenting lectures and workshops on mushrooms and writing about them. Carol Ann Bassett has written for The Nation, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, Condé Nast Traveler and numerous other national publications. Bassett teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon, and directs an on-going summer program, Environmental Writing in the Galápagos.
Wheeler, Patricia
Patricia Wheeler lives and works in Deer Isle, Maine, with her husband, metalsmith and sculptor, J. Fred woell, She holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and has exhibited her work nationally in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Kentucky, and Maine, and internationally in Turkey. She teaches painting workshops around the country and lectures on political art to include: Vermont College (MFA program), Peninsula Art School, Wisconsin, University of Maine, Presque Isle & Orono, Haystack Mountain School, Maine, etc. In Oregon she teaches at Oregon College of arts & Crafts and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
Wild, Rebecca
Rebecca Wild is an artist and calligrapher in Portland. Her work often pairs her love of letterforms with the luminous characteristics of drawing materials. She has a B.F.A. in Studio Art/Graphic Design and has taught locally at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Creative Arts Community, and currently at Portland Community College and Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, Oregon.
Woell, J. Fred
J. Fred Woell received his B.F.A. at the University of Illinois, Urbana, an M.F.A. in Metalwork at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Boston University, SUNY-Paltz, New Paltz, New York, and has served as assistant director at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, for two terms. His metalwork and sculpture have been exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 40+ years.
Zwinger, Susan
Susan Zwinger, illustrated journaler, worked as a fine artist, museum curator, and art critic in Santa Fe, New Mexico before moving to the Northwest to become a natural history writer. Zwinger has written five books of natural history, including Still Wild, Always Wild, and Stalking the Ice Dragon, winner of the governor’s author award.