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| NEXT MEETING January 24, 2024, 11:00 am PST Guest Speaker: Alaina Enslen
Alaina Enslen (1977 Oscoda, Michigan) holds a BFA from the University of Montevallo. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley, New York, and has been painting and teaching for over twenty years. Her work has been described as “part artifact, part event, [as] she emancipates a fixed past with a limitless present” (Art Spiel). Her work has been published by the Paul W. Bryant Museum and in Chiricu journal (Indiana University Press). Enslen is a Certified Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and a Freelance Educator at the Garrison Art Center and Storm King Art Center in New York. She has taught workshops and given presentations in the U.S., Portugal, and Brazil. Enslen is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York.
MOST RECENT PAST MEETING November 22, 2024, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Bernice Sokol Kramer  Bernice Sokol Kramer is a sculptor, painter and mixed media artist who has spent the last half century living and creating in New York City. Her career has been encouraged by numerous awards including the National Academy Museum Award for Graphics, the Curator’s Choice Artist Talk on Art Award, and winner of the George Condo Costume Contest from the New Museum. She has been selected for exhibitions with noted jurors, critics, and galleries, among them are: Rebecca Rabinow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Stacey C. Hollander, American Folk Art Museum; Curate NYC; David Cohen, critic; Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum; Ivan Karp, OK Harris Gallery; Tracey Bashkoff, Guggenheim Museum; Jim Kempner; Jack Shainman; Donald Kuspit, critic; and many more. 
PAST MEETINGS September 20, 2024, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Lindsay Fort 
Lindsay Fort’s work on paper and fabric combines a primary interest in material with figurative, floral, domestic object, line & gradient motifs from personal experience. Lindsay received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2006. She has focused on field work in natural fabric dyeing & printing. She was a Second State Press Fob Holder recipient in 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and shows work in various group shows in the Philadelphia area.
May 17, 2024, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Amy Boone McCreesh
March 22, 2024, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Skyler McGee
Skyler McGee is an indirect storyteller. She is ever combining images from her world: plants and animals, buttons and bones, maps and teacups, her children’s drawings. These disparate elements create new relationships and form a disjointed narrative, both familiar and decontextualized. Painterly expression and detailed drawings are placed next to abstract shapes, fields of color, and layered imagery. These images have roots in ecology, fashion, cartography, and anthropology. In other words, they are human: depicting diverse relationships with our earth, each other, our personal and collective history. Her work provides a visual space to explore the experienced complexity of place, its beauty and difficulty. It celebrates and excavates the stories, creatures, locations, homes, and objects through which we create meaning.
January 26, 2024, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Nancy Kay Turner
Nancy Kay Turner is a visual artist, art critic, and founder of the art collective Hana Kark. Bronx born, she fled New York for the sun and fun of California and has never looked back. A graduate of Queens College, the University of California at Berkeley, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, she studied painting with Elmer Bischoff, Peter Saul and R.B. KItaj. Turner has written critical reviews for ARTWEEK, ARTSCENE, Visions Magazine, Coagula Curatorial, Riot Material, Art and Cake, and Cultural Weekly. Her mixed-media work has been in local, national, international and traveling exhibits. Turner’s art is in private, public and corporate collections, including Warner Brothers Studios, ABC Studio and Chiat/Day Advertising Agency: and are seen in movies and television shows among them –Mom, Barry, Jane The Virgin, Transparent, How To Get Away With Murder, Lucifer and Hanging Up. ARTPIC gallery represents Turner. https://nancyturnerstudio.com/
November 17, 2023, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Roxane Hollosi
Roxane is an Atlanta based, multi-disciplinary artist. Originally from the midwest, she was influenced by the Native American spiritual sensibilities and respect for the Earth she encountered there. Roxane earned a BFA from ISU, in Ames Iowa, where she received the Janice Peterson Anderson top design award. She is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow and a Grant recipient of the 2020 Fulton County Virtual Arts Initiative. Roxane actively exhibits locally and nationally, some exhibits include: Artfields 2023, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC; National Association of Woman in the Arts NYC; ARC Gallery Chicago; MOCA GA; EYPGallery100, Atlanta; Gallery 72; MESA Cont. Arts Museum AZ; Hudgens Center for the Arts; Artfields SC; Abernathy Arts Center, Atlanta. Collections include: City of Atlanta; Atlanta Office of the Mayor; DuPont Beijing; Broadway Crowne Plaza NYC; and numerous private collections including Darla Moore and Don Roman. She is represented by Muse & Co. Fine Art. My Art is a visual document of the emotional, social and environmental energies I encounter in that moment of creating. I express myself in 2D and 3D works. The foundation of my work is an exploration of the nature around me; and the energies it emanates. I want to encourage others to see something; investigate something; be curious about something; in order to make visual discoveries and open doors to spiritual ones. It advocates for taking a good hard look and consider realities beyond your own truth; to the participation in something bigger, more universal. I often incorporate repurposed plastics into my work to push the boundary of recognizable waste. My Breathe collection became a way to transform my fears, angers, and uncertainties into visually spirited collection of work. It is a response to our suffocating oceans and the continual dump of waste, it speaks to the time of Covid and “I Can’t Breathe”. The worlds social, environmental and political crises crashed together in one word, “Breathe”.
PAST MEETINGS September 22, 2023, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Barbara Tabachnick Encaustics: Playing with Fire & Mixed Media
At heart I’m an experimental artist—“What will happen if…?” I work in acrylic, watercolor, encaustic, mixed media and digital photography at all levels of (occasional) realism and abstraction. Content, if any, usually relates to architecture and landscapes, particularly trees. I love to explore phone and computer apps – digital creation and manipulation of iimages provides hours of joy playing with my many thousands of images. I make art because the process feels good and the anticipation of the outcome is exhilarating. My favorite works include a bit of whimsy, a touch of the incongruous, some ambiguity and, with a little luck, a measure of beauty.
May 19, 2023, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Andrea Burgay
Andrea Burgay is a visual artist from Syracuse, NY, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work combines collage, sculpture and found materials to elevate the overlooked and the mundane via transformative physical processes. Through a process of adding and removing layers of handmade and collected materials she presents a physical manifestation of the passage of time, destruction and decay, with a sense of potential renewal. She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Her most recent one-person show was Everything Coming Together and Falling Apart, Roxbury Arts Group, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY Burgay is also founder and editor of Cut Me Up, a participatory collage magazine and curatorial project. Each issue presents a curated selection of original mixed-media artworks, intended for readers to deconstruct, and transform into new artworks.
Our 2023 Scholarship Recipient Angineh Ayvasian
March 24, 2023, 11:00 am PST Guest Speaker: Adam P. Faust
Adam P. (AP) Faust is an Atlanta based Creative, the Gallery Manager at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, creativity facilitator and freelancing jack of all trades. After earning a BFA with a Sculpture focus from Guilford College in 2014, Faust turned to collage as a primary modality of art making. These days, his creative practice is vast, anti-formulaic, impulsive, experimental, and heavily influenced by Dadaist and Gestalt principles.
January 27, 2023, 11:00 am PST
"I incorporate collaged ephemera in paintings and assemblages. I like the random nature of found “surprises,” especially the discarded, old and damaged, including fragments and scraps. These compel me to go in directions I might otherwise not follow. By allowing for lapsed time I relinquish control. Returning to revisit and re-work a surface, I achieve a salient “skew” that could not be created in one sitting."
November 18, 2022, 11:00 am PST Guest Speaker: Jane Dunnewold
Everything I teach and do is filtered through a deep connection to the energetic, spiritual aspects of human experience. I believe each of us has an inherent . Making things – whether it's cooking, painting a room, or dyeing cloth – is supremely satisfying. In the process of creating we are linking to every generation of makers before us and reaching for the Divine at the same time. It's a gift and a pleasure everyone should experience. And can. https://www.janedunnewold.com/
September 23, 2022, 11:00 am PST Guest Speaker: Jim Morphesis
May 20, 2022, 11:00 am PST Guest Speaker: Suzanne Stryk
Suzanne Stryk is an artist who finds equal fascination in the natural world and the visual arts. Her conceptual nature paintings and assemblages have appeared in solo exhibitions throughout the United States, and her portfolios and related writings have been featured in Terrain.org, Orion, Ecotone, and the Kenyon Review. She is the recipient of a George Sugarman Foundation grant and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship. Between 2011-13, she logged hundreds of hours by car, foot, and waterway to create “Notes on the State of Virginia,” a series of mixed media assemblages that revel in the beauty and history of Virginia’s diverse natural and culturally rich regions. While the artwork toured the state in museums and galleries, Stryk got to work describing he experience, which became the book The Middle of Somewhere: An Artist Explores the Nature of Virginia (Trinity University Press , 2022).
Elizabeth showed and talked about her work at the May 20 meeting
World Collage Day
On May 14 we had a wonderful Zoom meeting with many participating artists sharing their work and tips for collage. Check out the Video and Chat.
January 28, 2022, 11 am PST Guest Speaker: Todd Bartel
Bartel’s work assumes the forms of painting, drawing, and sculpture in a collage and assemblage format. His work investigates the interconnected histories of collage and landscape and the roles of nature and natural resources in Western culture. His work has been exhibited nationally in venues that include Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA), Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY), Brockton Art Museum (Brockton, MA), The Rhode Island Foundation (Providence, RI), Zieher Smith (New York, NY), Mills Gallery (Boston, MA), Iona College (New Rochelle, NY). https://toddbartel.com
November 19, 2021, 11:00 am PDT Guest Speaker: Nick Deford
Friday, September 24, 2021 Guest artist: Trudy Sissons
Trudi Sissons is a Canadian artist living in Lethbridge, AB She primarily creates digital collages. Her artwork and tutorials have been published in several magazines and books over the past 20 years. Her artwork is an expression of her imagination, well fed and developed in her childhood as well as subconscious thoughts that make their voices known through her creations.
Friday, May 21, 2021 Guest artist: Alvaro Sanchez
We also had a brief presentation by our 2021 Scholarship Winner, SIERRA MARSHALL
Friday, March 26, 2021 Guest artist: Della Wells Della Wells is a self-taught artist who began drawing and painting in earnest at the age of 42 and her creative process stems primarily from her personal experiences embellished through the art of storytelling into visual work. Wells' work has been written about and has appeared in several publications. In 2011, an award winning play that was inspired by her life '' Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly'', debuted in Milwaukee and has been performed in many venues. She illustrated a children's book "The Electric Train" by Nanci Mortimer. She also has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums. Her work is in over 100 private, corporate and museum collections including North Western Mutual Insurance, Milwaukee Bucks and The Wright Museum of Art. Her dolls, cards and collages are currently sold at The Smithsonian”s National African Museum of History and Culture in Washington DC. Click here for more details about her many accomplishments. Click here for transcript for General Meeting Chat
Friday, January 22, 2021 Guest artist: Trey Miles (Sotalentedmiles) 
Friday, November 19, 2020 Guest artist: Meikel Church
Meikel S Church is a North Little Rock, Arkansas based collage/mixed-media artist who challenges concepts of perception through his artwork. Meikel started creating collage in 2013 and quickly became addicted to the absurdity of taking found images, mostly from old books and magazines, and re-thinking the pre-existing image in another context. Friday, September 25, 2020 Guest Artist: Susie Gesundheit
Susie is an artist in monotype, watercolor, acrylic, collage and encaustic. She likes to work in layers, textures, and expressive color. She graduated from UCLA in Painting/Sculpture/Design/Graphic Art in 1974. She is a member of Artist Co-op 7 and was invited to join the Art Panel and teach classes. She partner-teaches Watercolor in Winter Session and Figure Drawing in Fall Session online: www.sfvacc.org. She maintains a print studio in Ventura in addition to her home studio. Today she continues at all her involvements: Artist Co-op 7, Art Panel and Instructor; Collage Artists of America; Women Painters West; Valley Watercolor Society; USC Hillel Art Gallery, Chair; Jewish Artists Initiative; Los Angeles Printmaking Society; California Art League; Frayed Edges; Women's Caucus; USC Roski School of Art and Design, Board of Councilors. Check out her website at https://www.susangesundheit.com/
Friday, January 24, 2020 Guest artist: Linda Lyke
My direction and voice as an artist is focused on meaning by analyzing the conditions of the natural world and the human interventions with both saving and destroying it. Using printmaking strategies and mixed media, I draw inspiration from my passion for nature through the articulation of ink and solvent to reveal my deep commitment to saving habitat and the diverse animals on the planet. My recent exhibition at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Field Notes: When Taxonomy becomes Iconography, captures the spontaneous and immediate sense of discovery that stems from close observation of avian and megafauna in Amboseli National Park and the Maasai Mari in Kenya.
Friday, November 22, 2019 Guest artist: Sydney A. Cross
Friday, September 27, 2019 Guest artist: Georgia Freedman-Harvey
Friday, May 17, 2019 Guest artist: Kathi Flood
Friday, March 22, 2019 Guest artist: Mary Sherwood
Friday, January 25, 2019
Friday, November 30, 2018 Guest artist: Laurie Raskin
Friday, September 28, 2018 Guest artist: Sandy Bleifer
Websites: https://www.sandybleifer.com/ https://www.sandybleifer.com/installations-videos/
Friday, May 18, 2018n Guest artist: Melinda Smith Altshuler http://www.melindasmithaltshuler.com/  
Friday, March 23, 2018 Guest artist: Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Friday, January 26, 2018 Guest artist: Malka Nedivi
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John R Miles III is a collage /mixmedia artist, born March 2nd 1975 to John R Miles Jr. and Arie G. Miles. John Miles better known as Trey attended Western Carolina University located just a few hundred miles west of his home town of Charlotte NC. While attending Western Carolina, Trey began to gain a deeper love and understanding for the arts, graduating with a BFA in art, concentration in graphic design. After graduating Mr. Miles accepted a job with Mecklenburg Counties school system as a high school art teacher. Trey's earlier pieces focused on the aesthic relationships between shape form and color. Currently his works are heavily influenced by the political struggles set forth by society towards blacks both past and present
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