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Mary Agarwal - Pastel
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arch.illustration@comcast.netKaren Alberti - Painting, Oil, Pastel, Drawing, Colored Pencil, Pencil and Graphite, Ink, Mixed Media/Collage
Email:
roykar@sbcglobal.net 
Karen Alberti does drawings in pencil, ink and pastel; paintings in oils and acrylics; as well as mixed media work. She has a BA from the University of Michigan and has taken graduate level art classes at Eastern Michigan University. Her art draws upon themes from nature and the animal world as it seeks to express a range of emotions. Art movements such as Impressionism, Expressionism, and Fauvism continue to inspire her work. Pictured: Lemon Still Life, Oil,
16” x 24"
Barb Anderson - Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
barband@sbcglobal.net
After retiring from teaching, Barb pursued her latent interest in art with vigor. She now views the world through rose-colored glasses and plays with the hues that they create. Art can describe joy, sorrow, pain, the state of the world - many things. Barb’s paintings are a product of mood. Sometimes she starts a painting on a somber note and it ends up full of joy, or vice versa. They all come from life experiences, memories stored in her brain. Often they are skewed in her presentation as a dream is - a bit muddled in recall. She never likes to tell the whole story. It is for you, the viewer to fill in the blanks. Barb has exhibited at various juried exhibitions and was the Palette & Brush Artist of the Year for Detroit in 1999. Pictured: Voices from the Past, Oil, 16” x 12”
Barbara S. Anderson - Watercolor, Drawing, Pencil and Graphite
Email:
bsa328@earthlink.net
As a child, Barbara dreamed of being an artist. Her parents, however, encouraged her to focus on something more practical. With a college degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, she went on to a thirty-year career in public school teaching.
Only after retiring from teaching in 1997 was she finally able to return to her childhood dream. She took art classes and became fascinated with watercolor and the possibilities it offered for structure and transparency in natural settings. Her work has been accepted in several juried shows and exhibited at Daisy Lake Gallery in Dexter. She is also a member of the Westside Artists’ Studio. Pictured: Agave, Watercolor, 20 3/4 x 25 3/4
Elaine Ang - Oil, Pastel, Colored Pencil, Pencil and Graphite, Digital
Email:
elaineang@comcast.net
Nancy Arndt - Acrylic, Oil, Photography
Email:
narndt@umich.edu
Emily Asbury - Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
emilyasbury@hotmail.com
Emily graduated in 2008 with an MFA in Visual Arts from Florida Atlantic University. Her work merges an intuitive art-making process with a rational investigation of the natural environment. Each piece references elemental forces of nature in the cyclical process of creation and decay. Through the superimposition of the three realms of visual perception: the microscopic, the macroscopic, and the normative (that which can be experienced directly by our senses), Emily’s work explores a notion of unity and the intangible reality that life’s incessant cycling is occurring throughout all of the intricate layers of our universe. Her process promotes exploration of both the construction and the deconstruction of imagery, in order to create dimensional exaggerations and sensational visual situations that have connotations of reality and other-worldliness. Pictured: Emergent Systems: I, Mixed-media on panel, 24” x 24”
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Mary Bachman - Oil, Pastel, Watercolor, Colored Pencil, Photography
Email:
bachman1@comcast.net
Ruthanne Baker - Painting, Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media/Collage
Email:
rbakermb@ameritech.net
Carolyn Reed Barritt - Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Charcoal, Pencil and Graphite
Email:
carolyn@carolynreedbarritt.com
Marlene Piasecki Beck - Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
marpia2@aol.com
Betsy Jane Beckerman - Painting, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Assemblage, Mixed Media/Collage, Mosaics
Eileen Behmer - Pastel, Watercolor
Lisa Belanger - Mixed Media Paintings, Fiber, Jewelry, Mixed Media/Collage, Everything Else
Email:
sbelanger@juno.com
Judith Bemis - Oil, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
jgbemis@charter.net
Barbara L. Bergman - Digital, Photography
Email:
barbarabergman@sbcglobal.net
Corry c. Berkooz - Painting, Oil, Drawing
Karen Berrie
Email:
kdberrie@comcast.net
Suzanne A. Beutler - Painting, Acrylic, Oil, Pastel, Mixed Media Paintings, Mixed Media/Collage, Photography
Email:
sbeutler@umich.edu
Visit: www.SuzanneBeutler.com
Sue has been actively participating in local artist organizations and has exhibited her work in several museum shows, gallery exhibitions, invitational group exhibitions, public art in Ann Arbor and Cincinnati, and juried art fair booths in Michigan and Indiana.
She uses many bright, joyous colors in an intense way when painting the people and places in her life. When she paints landscapes and garden scenes that she’s visited or knows very well, she feels a need to express the beauty she sees and enjoys, express what’s compelling to her, where she’s been in the world, and what she really cares about at a particular time.
Currently, she’s working on narrative paintings that depict major religions of the world, ordered along the road according to time: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Sue believes that we are all on the same road seeking God, that there is not a separate road for each belief, but the same for all peoples of all beliefs.
Sue has also been working on themes centered around the problems of military soldiers returning home - how does one come home from a war and adjust to home, family and work? Where do the memories of war scenes and experiences go? Are they locked up with previous memories, or floating, waiting to be acknowledged or remembered? Will the mind do reinventing to better assimilate the memories? Pictured: In My Garden, Oil on canvas,
48” x 36”
Suzanne Bilek - Pastel
Email:
suzanne@tri-ped.com
Deborah Bilinski - Painting, Acrylic, Drawing, Charcoal
Marlene Blum - Painting, Acrylic, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
mblum5305@aol.com
Marlene is a storyteller, and her paintings go beyond a wish to provide an aesthetic experience, even though beauty of color, symbols and textures are an essential aspect of her work. Her intention is to evoke in the viewer the sense that something ”other” than the visual inhabits the work. This sense moves toward The Mystery and invokes a feeling, a phrase, a connection, allowing the viewer to see their images and stories within. Marlene works in acrylics and experiments with gels and glosses, stamps that she’s designed, and stencils. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions and in juried shows. Marlene served as President of Ann Arbor Women Artists from 2004-2006. Pictured: After the Storm
Ina E. Bodnar - Painting, Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing, Pencil and Graphite, Mixed Media/Collage, Photography
Email:
inabdr@aol.com
Sabine Bossert - Acrylic, Oil, Pastel, Watercolor
Email:
sabine.bossert@gmx.de
Janice Stevens Botsford - Painting, Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing, Ink, Mixed Media/Collage, Photography
Email:
jsbotsford@hotmail.com
Born and raised in England, Janice came to Michigan to complete a Masters degree in Social Work at the University of Michigan and now works part-time as a Psychotherapist while pursuing life as an artist. Over the years, she has studied with prominent artists such as Gerald Brommer, Don Andrews and Polly Hammett, and she herself has taught a number of art workshops and is professionally associated with the Chelsea Painters and the Ann Arbor Women Artists.
Janice says that time stands still as she gets lost in the adventure of creating. She feels that art is an essential part of her own self-expression. Although she still loves watercolor, mixed media collage is exciting and appealing to her with its potential for the use of so many complex shapes, colors and textures. Janice enjoys experimenting with different media as she develops as an artist, working to find her own unique ”voice”. Her subject matter reveals her love of the natural world via her landscapes. She also enjoys figurative work. Janice tends to be an optimist and says: “life and what it presents cannot be more inspiring. It is intriguing to discover that there is always something challenging and new around the corner.”
Janice has won awards from the Michigan Watercolor Society and the Ann Arbor Women Artists. In 1994 she was commissioned by the United Nations Association to do a collage commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the UN. She has worked on several Chelsea community arts projects including the mosaic sculpture ”Pathway to Renewal” (2003). Her work has been accepted into juried shows locally and state wide, and can be found in private and international collections. Pictured: Autumn, Mixed media collage, 17” x 17”
Sandra L. Bozer - Oil
Email:
forartistsandra@aol.com
Visit: www.SandraBozerFineArt.com
Sandra is primarily an oil painter who paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes. She favors the painterly approach to her artwork, while capturing the “feeling” of her subjects, as taught to her by the artists Everett Raymond Kinstler and Michael Shane Neal in their workshops. Currently she’s exploring the limited palette, a palette of red, yellow, blue and white for her paint colors, as taught to her by the artist Dawn Whitelaw in her workshops. Sandra’s portrait Leyla was chosen as a finalist in the Richeson 75 International Figure and Portrait Competition 2007. Pictured: Leyla, Oil, 24” x 20”
Rose Bradley - Painting, Pastel, Watercolor, Drawing, Charcoal, Pencil and Graphite
Email:
rose@rosebradley.com
Visit: www.rosebradley.com
Rose began exploring watercolor 12 years ago and soon rediscovered a love of art and skill in drawing and painting. She has pursued this passion through instruction, reading and painting constantly. Some years ago, Rose quit half her job to paint more and perfect her portrait technique. The mystery of watercolor makes it the most exciting medium for Rose. It is her choice for sharing the beauty of every created thing including Michigan’s varied landscapes and its seasons. In her portraits, the luminous quality of the paint allows for delicateness in skin tone and the light she strives for in rendering a likeness. She has completed numerous commissioned portraits as well as earned entry in many juried shows. Rose teaches portrait painting in watercolor for the Chelsea Center for the Arts. Pictured: The Baker Children, Watercolor, 18” x 24”
Anne Breiholz - Painting, Acrylic, Pastel, Mixed Media Paintings
Peggy N. Brewer - Pastel, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing
Email:
PNBrewer@aol.com
Visit: www.artistpeggynbrewer.com
Peggy’s work expresses her love of the human face and form, and nature. Her pastels shimmer with vibrant color and her watercolors similarly explode with freshness. Decades of drawing practice in open studios as well as various workshops and classes have yielded exceptional skills. Branching into 3-D, her art books and altered books mix a variety of media often with social statements and humor.
She has been widely exhibited in solo, regional and local exhibitions, and actively participates in numerous organizations. She coordinates the Whitmore Lake Portrait Group and is a member of the Great Lakes Pastel Society, Brighton Art Guild, and others. Pictured: The Fisherman, Pastel, 13”
x 9"
Ruth Brooks - Watercolor
Email:
rutiav@hotmail.com
Barbara Brown - Mixed Media/Collage, Everything Else
Email:
barbarab@omnimediagrp.com
Visit: www.barbarabrownbooks.com
Barbara Brown has been a book artist for around 15 years. She is mostly self-taught, but attended the prestigious American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Co. for six years where she learned how to make French leather bindings. She has taught book arts extensively, is an enthusiastic faculty member of Hollander’s School of Book and Paper Art and a yearly participant in Kerrytown Bookfest. She is also an artist member of WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor and exhibits widely. Her artist books may be found in the rare books collections of the University of Michigan Harlan Hatcher Library, the State of Michigan Library in Lansing and the Library at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design.
Each year she curates a book show to be presented at WSG titled, ”Beyond Words: A Celebration of Book Arts.” Pictured: Water and the Spirit, handmade book/mixed media, 10 H” X 10 W” X 12” D
Raya Brown - Painting, Acrylic, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
rsbrown@umich.edu
Ilona M. Brustad - Acrylic, Mixed Media/Collage, Mosaics
Email:
imbrustad@aol.com
Visit: www.IlonaBrustad.com
Paint has always been Ilona’s medium. Since receiving a BFA degree, she has chosen acrylic paint as most useful for her technique. Several years ago she became fascinated with mosaics and began to incorporate pieces of colored glass, bits of mirror, and pottery pieces into her paintings. Ilona’s goal is to create a physical as well as visual depth and to weave the paint and glass together without a noticeable break in the flow of the image. She enjoys the brilliance of the glass and the tactile elements of the ceramic tesserae.
Ilona is represented by the Chelsea Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan, and the River Street Gallery in Manistee, Michigan. In addition to AAWA she is a member of Chelsea Painters, MosaicArtists.org, and the Society of American Mosaic Artists. Pictured: Three Junes, Mixed Media Mosaic, 14” x 16”
Yuling Bruya - Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Ink, Assemblage, Fiber, Mixed Media/Collage
Email:
ycbruya@gmail.com
Miriam Brysk - Digital
Email:
miriamstudio@comcast.net
Science and art have been Miriam’s life’s passions. Most of her professional life has been spent as a scientist in academia. She is a self taught artist. Since retiring, the computer has become vital to her art. She creates original images on the computer: either painted directly on the computer, or derived through the manipulation of algorithmic equations, or derived from digital photography. Her art has been strongly influenced by her childhood experiences in the Nazi Holocaust. Most of Miriam’s recent work has sought to portray the suffering and death of those who perished in the Holocaust. Her art has been exhibited in numerous solo shows at Holocaust museums and art centers. Pictured: Ala, Pigment Print on Rag Paper, 24” x 31”
Anne Marie Buckman - Painting, Mixed Media Paintings, Digital, Photography
Lea Bult - Acrylic, Mixed Media Paintings, Mixed Media/Collage, Photography, Printmaking
Email:
leabult@gmail.com
Mary L. Byers - Ceramics/Pottery
Email:
m.l.byers@att.net
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Mary Cambruzzi
Email:
mary@foundgallery.com
Jean Canavan - Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
canavan11@comcast.net
Barbara Melnik Carson - Assemblage, Ceramics/Pottery, Mixed Media/Collage, Sculpture
Email:
bacarson@gmail.com
Visit: www.BeyondBarbie.net
Barbara’s passion for creating began in childhood growing up in Southwest Detroit. With limited art resources, in her early work she improvised using objects found in her neighborhood. Working with intuitive and outsider artists during her career in mental health provided a creative surge. Yet, something was always missing. Traveling to Italy, France, Costa Rica, Russia, Ukraine, Slovenia helped her to understand themes of her youth. Today, her sculptural clay and mixed media works grow from personal insights linked to broader issues. Juried exhibitions include: Ann Arbor Art Center, Scarab Club, Lansing Art Center, U-M Duderstadt Gallery, Michigan Guild, and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. She is an active member of AAWA and Women’s Caucus for Art. She was formerly the Executive Director of Art Oasis Gallery and Studio. Pictured: Untitled, Mixed Media Clay Sculpture
Denise M Cassidy - Painting, Acrylic
Email:
dc@internalbloom.com
Visit: www.internalbloom.com
Denise grew up in Wyandotte, MI and currently resides in Plymouth, MI with her daughter, Courtney. She has spent many years of her life experimenting in various forms of art, such as drawing, painting and photography. She was a hairdresser and make up artist for fifteen years and still does freelance make up work for special occasions and formal events. She has taken several college level drawing and design courses, as well as some computer art.
She began her journey into acrylic painting in 2008 when she took a class at Schoolcraft College. It was there that she rediscovered her affection for painting.
Denise has found great passion in painting bold, vibrant flowers. For her, flowers have always induced feelings of joy, peace and warmth. These feelings are what she tries to convey in her paintings. In painting these flowers, she feels as though she has bloomed internally as a person, a mother, a friend and an artist. Pictured: Pink Daisy, acrylic on canvas, 18” X 24”
Kay Cassill - Painting, Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing, Charcoal, Pencil and Graphite, Ink, Mixed Media/Collage, Printmaking
Email:
kay@cassill.com
Visit: www.kaycassill.com
After graduating from the University of Iowa Kay studied art in New York and Paris before returning there for postgraduate work with famed printmaker Mauricio Lasansky and painter James Lechay. Her “Self Portrait”, a color intaglio, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her intaglio on copper, “All Around the Centaur”, received a top award in Mid-States Exhibit, Evansville, IN. She’s been in many juried shows and received many awards. Her work is in numerous museums, corporate and private collections. Of her many one woman shows the most recent was in Saline (2009). She is listed in Who’s Who and Who’s Who of American Women.
Kay recently moved to Michigan from Rhode Island. At the same time she added watercolors to her repertoire along with prints, drawings and oil paintings. She keeps her home and studio on Cape Cod where she spends several months each year.
About painting, she says, “In the beginning is the thought. Then the “mind’s eye” takes over - the more intense the thought, the more intense the act of painting.” And, “the more one recognizes that light and color and form connect with one’s psyche and one’s past, the quicker one’s unique images appear. Aids to my “mind’s eye” include old photographs of people I didn’t know, stories I’ve heard long ago, bits of music I barely remember, a foreign landscape seen from a train window, a collapsing barn. All of these – and more - “jump start” my work.” Pictured: Bandol-Backyard, Watercolor, 12” X 13.4”
Patti Casteel - Painting, Oil, Watercolor
Email:
patticasteel@gmail.com
Visit: www.PattiCasteel.com
Patti has been a working artist for over 20 years. She studied art at the college level, receiving an art minor early in her career from Eastern Michigan University, and an art major from Siena Heights University (Michigan) in 1990. Although she has worked in many media including ceramics, printing, and photography, her natural bent has always been drawing and most particularly painting. For years she worked in watercolor, but in the past eight years has worked in oils.
As an award winning artist, Patti’s work has appeared in galleries and shows across the country. People own her art from California to the Chicago, IL area, to Florida and along the East Coast. Her subject matter ranges from figurative to landscape, from still life to abstract. Her work is characterized by bold color, and, in the case of oils, noticeable texture. She is a member of the Brighton Art Guild and the Ann Arbor Women Artists. Pictured: Variation On the Square #7, Oil on canvas, 12” x 12”
Wendy Chaiken - Mixed Media Paintings, Photography
Email:
schaiken@umich.edu
Meghna Chauhan - Painting, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media Paintings
Email:
meghna_chauhan@hotmail.com
Young Cho - Watercolor
Email:
momcho24@yahoo.com
Marilyn E. Churchill - Painting, Pastel, Watercolor, Drawing, Pencil and Graphite, Ink
Email:
mechurchill@live.com
James C. Clark - Watercolor, Ceramics/Pottery
Email:
artclarks43@yahoo.com
Jim Clark arrived in Michigan in the mid-sixties to study zoology at the University of Michigan, and a decade later, he had become a potter and a member of the Ann Arbor Potters Guild. Half a decade after that, following a personal challenge, he had evolved into a miniature potter – a maker of wheel-thrown porcelain miniatures.
Toward the end of the last millennium, he became interested in watercolor and now pursues two careers. Still a member of the Potters Guild, he joined the Chelsea Painters in 2000, later becoming one of the ”few good men” of the Ann Arbor Women Artists. Jim has exhibited within all three groups and has won awards for both his painting and pottery in Ann Arbor Women Artists’ juried shows. His watercolor scenes of the Ann Arbor area occasionally appear as covers for the Ann Arbor Observer. Pictured: Three Water Koi, Watercolor, 21” x 29”
Laurie Clark - Fiber, Mixed Media/Collage, Mosaics
Email:
jigadijig@gmail.com
Visit: www.laurieclarkstudio.com
Laurie’s work has emerged from experiments in texture study as well as the idea of the “Feather Hammer” – a common object made from unexpected materials that reference an aspect of the subject. In her work with wire screen, she is both coaxing beauty from the ordinary and investigating what is kept hidden behind that beauty. “The word ‘screen’ can imply a sense of being kept out, disguise, or filtering. I enjoy manipulating the material to evoke a sense of mystery and curiosity in the viewer.”
Since joining last fall, Laurie has had work in AAWA’s juried exhibits, as well as the Riverside Arts Center and the Women’s Caucus for Art “Balance” exhibit. Pictured: Vestido (detail), Fiber, 50x32
Barbara Clifford - Pastel, Watercolor, Colored Pencil
Email:
jdcmd@umich.edu
Susan Clinthorne - Pastel, Watercolor
Email:
sclint55@email.com
Since receiving a BFA from EMU, Susan has enjoyed painting in her studio and at ”plein air” outings. She works in watercolor, gouache, and pastels - switching from one to the other or combining. Her subject matter includes flowers, landscape, figures and still life subjects. She is compelled to try too capture the beauty she sees and preserve the essence. Susan says, ””I always feel I am one of the luckiest people in the world because I look at things from an artist’s point of view. I may see colors in the trees that no one else sees or I may see a huge drama played out in the simple form of a flower.” Pictured: Pike Street Flowers, Pastel, 11” x 17”
Jane L. Coates - Painting, Oil, Glass
Email:
jacoart@sbcglobal.net
Elizabeth Coe - Watercolor, Mixed Media/Collage, Sculpture
Email:
LizzyandDon@comcast.net
Beth Colaner-Kenney - Painting, Pastel, Drawing, Charcoal
Email:
bcolaner@comcast.net
Lynda Cole - Encaustic, Digital, Sculpture
Email:
lynda@lcole.com
Cheryl Conrad - Oil, Drawing
Email:
tomncherry@sbcglobal.net
Missy Cowan
Email:
miscowan@comcast.net
Chrisa Craig - Painting, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing, Assemblage
Email:
chrisacraig@directv.net
Susan Craig - Painting, Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Drawing, Pencil and Graphite, Ink
Email:
Craigsrcraig@yahoo.com
Susan Crawley - Painting
Email:
susienaugle@msn.com
Connie Cronenwett - Oil, Pastel, Mixed Media/Collage
Email:
conniecro@charter.net
Visit: www.conniecronenwett.com
Nature is Connie’s subject. Capturing the endless, ever-changing array of Michigan’s environment, her work ranges from the detailed, intimate close-up characteristic of inland ecology, to the open, expansive, atmosphere of the Great Lakes’ shorelines. Abstract work, particularly with poured acrylic, draws heavily on the more dramatic facets of nature: Galaxies, volcanic activity, an approaching storm.
Connie spent her career years teaching high school art, where she taught multiple media in the fine arts- drawing, printmaking, painting, jewelry and sculpture. This diverse background is reflected by her work in a range of media – oil paint, pastel, collage, and poured acrylic. In addition to showing with AAWA, she has had two partnered and two solo exhibits. Pictured: Long Lake, Twilight, Oil, 38” x 48”
Valinka Cucuz - Acrylic, Mixed Media Paintings, Mixed Media/Collage
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