Check out the artist's listings! Fireweed is fortunate to welcome these nationally and internationally known instructors as guides on your creative adventure! More artists to be added soon and workshops to come in April! In the meantime check out the links to instructors' websites and enjoy their work!
Jeni Calkins - Jeni Calkins is a mix media artist who feels everything and anything makes a great canvas for artwork. She feels creating art is a form of mediation, an act of play which can keep one sane. She believes everyone has an artist inside and enjoys teach people the techniques to let that artist out. Her classes encourage individual express in a low stress environment. She study studio art at the University of California, San Diego, and is currently senior designer for Altered Arts Magazine in which she has published many articles.
Link(s): www.studiojeni.com
Cory Celaya - Cory Celaya is an artist and instructor from Arizona. Cory teaches nationally and internationally in watercolor, mixed media, collage, encaustic, and art to wear jewelry. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections. Cory's Art Studio is in Glendale, AZ.
Link(s): www.artwithmoxie.com
Anne Grgich - Anne Grgich is one of the most original and innovative of the group of American artists known as Outsiders. Completely self-taught, and on the cover story of Raw Vision Magazine (#22), she became known for her one-of-a-kind books filled with page after page of impassioned, expressionistic faces and figures. Grgich often employs collage and vigorously applies layer after layer of over-painting, covering found texts and images, yet allowing some of the underneath to remain visible. This layering suggests generations of mystery and mystique to her exotic characters.-Phil Demise-Smith, Gallery A Studio
Link(s): www.internalguidancesystems.com | www.annegrgich.com | www.flickr.com/people/annegrgich/
Cindy Kovack - Cindy is a mixed media artist residing in Phoenix, Arizona. She's had a passion to create from a very early age. Lacking funds for her projects she took to salvaging recycled pieces for her work in elementary school. She found it to be wonderfully creative and continues to use recycled products in her art projects today. She's a realistic artist that bored of the normal paint and brush venue. Shortly after her husband's death in 2002, she found she was able to channel her grief into her art. To this day she uses it as a form of meditation. Her present art is based on salvaged and recycled pieces that invoke a realization in the viewer of the waste and excess that takes place in the world. She also attempts to have a basic theme to each piece such as kinship, material excess and spirituality. She presently shows her work at Red Dog Gallery in the funky historic First Friday district of downtown Phoenix. She has taught painting, drawing and varied mixed media techniques throughout her career at seminars, art retreats, local shops, city facilities, colleges, art centers and for individual fulfillment. Special effects make-up is also a diverse area of her art and she is known as the Halloween Diva to her friends.
Link(s): www.cindykovack.com | www.myspace.com/cindyheartart
Sylvia Luna - Sylvia Luna aka Silver Moon has been focusing and developing her art since the death of her only child Steve who passed away in his sleep from a Sudden Arrhythmia Death in 1997 without any previous signs of medical problems. She is best known for her Silver Moon Grunge, an avant garde style which becomes her alter ego. Sylvia transforms various found objects using a wide array of mediums to appear aged and imperfect. Sylvia has sold her art and taught workshops at various alternative art conventions on the west coast, as well as locally. Sylvia has recently collaborated a group of 26 artists to participate in The Gorey DeTales. This traveling exhibit featured art and poetry inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey. Sylvia signs all of her artwork with her special signature, "PS. I love Steve!" Sylvia Luna/Silver Moon is a native of Arizona, currently residing in Gilbert.
Link(s): www.silvermoonstudios.com | www.art-smiths.com
Michele Parlee - Michele is a mixed media artist residing in Silver City, New Mexico. She has created for as long as she can remember. Her first artistic endeavors began over ten years ago with brightly decorated wooden crosses embellished with embossed tinwork and has evolved today to include elaborate polymer clay mosaics, shrines and jewelry, and traditional Mexican tinwork. Growing up in San Antonio, Texas, her style has a Latin flair. Most pieces celebrate popular Latin American icons and celebrations, including Frida Kahlo, our lady of Guadalupe, and Dia de Los Muertos. Her choice of bright colors and embellishments are also indicative of that region. She has participated in juried art shows in the Southwest for the past ten years. She also shows her work in galleries and shops throughout Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
Link(s): mlparlee@gmail.com
Stacia Robin - Stacia Robin is the owner of Purple Rose Artworks. Stacia is a mixed media artist whose passion is mixed media jewelry, art dolls, and collage. She has exhibited in various Albuquerque locations and in the surrounding areas, as well as in California. Stacia has been involved in artistic workshops teaching beading, mixed media collage and stained glass for the last 25 years. Originally from New Hampshire, Stacia has lived in Australia, California, and New Mexico before moving to Arizona with her husband and two of their six children.
Claudia Roulier - I graduated from college with my BFA in drawing and ceramics my minor in Zoology and Anthropology. I have pursued my passion for art by taking many art classes since then and continue to do so. For the last 3 years I have come full circle back to art and have been actively proceeding ahead where I left off. I recently joined two cooperative outsider galleries where I finished, May 2007, my second one person show, with another on May 11 2007. I have also been a regular seller of art on Ebay for 4 years. I studied under Roger Lang (ceramics), and Craig Smith (drawing). I have been in numerous publications. the most recent being The Artists Cafe 1st edition for Somerset Studios, in the Melange section. I have been in a gallery show every month in 2007, ending with my own wall in the Arvada Art Center Holiday Show and Sale.
Link(s): abobthecat@aol.com | http://croulier.typepad.com/rouliers_rusty_relique
Cindy Lewton - By career, Cindy is an interior designer specializing in interior architecture and space planning in her own business, AZ Design Group. By passion, Cindy is a mixed media artist who brings together her multidisciplinary background of acrylic artist, muralist, mosaics artist, jeweler, doll maker, textile fabricator, journal maker, and recycled objects collection into new expressions of art.
Cindy has shared her love of art through her background as an elementary school teacher and as an instructor at the community college level. Currently residing in Phoenix, AZ, Cindy is strongly influenced by the Southwest, Mexican culture and her former home turf of the rainy Northwest. Her work reflects her love of Dia De Los Muertos/Halloween and Cindy enjoys juxtaposing endings/beginnings with truly celebrating the seasons of life with a good dose of whimsy thrown in!
Link(s): Cindy.azdesigngroup@gmail.com
Beth Taylor - Repurposing found and recycled objects into quirky yet wearable jewelry is Beth's passion. She strives to push the boundaries of what are considered "acceptable" jewelry materials and finds creative magic in giving new life to mundane, cast-off and forgotten objects.
Beth's jewelry is a combination of the old and new, of contrasting textures and colors. Also drawn to the power of the written word, she incorporates text into many of her pieces, whether it's her own poetry or words selected from antique and vintage ephemera. Additionally, many pieces also feature prints of her own digitally produced and/or hand-created mixed media collages.
A metalsmith and jewelry artist for more than 6 years, her background includes a mix of college-level metalsmithing and art courses, workshops and self-taught methods. She has also had the privilege of being instructed by several talented and well-respected jewelry artists including Tim McCreight, Thomas Mann, Christopher Darway and Susan Lenart Kazmer. She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths.
Beth currently teaches out of her studio in Bethlehem, PA and also teaches jewelry workshops at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA.
Link(s): www.AQuirkofArt.com | beth@aquirkofart.com
Stephanie Harris - Stephenie Harris was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska. She took several of Alice Tersteeg's Batik courses at University of Alaska Southeast and was hooked. Batik is an art form that uses resist and dye to decorate fabric. Stephenie taught Batik as an Artist in Residence at local elementary schools and she is currently a kindergarten teacher by day and artist by night. She looks forward to teaching people her own age in a relaxed atmosphere!
Sue Dixon - Together, Tamyra Freeman and Sue Dixon have more than fifty years of experience leading groups through interactive learning experiences. Tamyra is a free lance facilitator whose work ranges from developing learning sessions for more than 6500 Starbucks managers to designing and guiding retreats for teachers in Singapore to supporting national and local nonprofit boards with their strategic/developmental planning. Sue is an early childhood speech language pathologist and a university-based writer and trainer for Indiana University's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. Okay, those are the day jobs. Perhaps you have one of those too? In addition to using their creativity to help others "find their voice," these two passionate women also create art for their own pleasure through knitting, jewelry-making, glass-fusing, sewing, and gardening.
Tamyra Freeman - Together, Tamyra Freeman and Sue Dixon have more than fifty years of experience leading groups through interactive learning experiences. Tamyra is a free lance facilitator whose work ranges from developing learning sessions for more than 6500 Starbucks managers to designing and guiding retreats for teachers in Singapore to supporting national and local nonprofit boards with their strategic/developmental planning. Sue is an early childhood speech language pathologist and a university-based writer and trainer for Indiana University's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. Okay, those are the day jobs. Perhaps you have one of those too? In addition to using their creativity to help others "find their voice," these two passionate women also create art for their own pleasure through knitting, jewelry-making, glass-fusing, sewing, and gardening.
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Alaska Airlines Discount Available for Fireweed 2008!
Fly into Juneau, Alaska from the lower 48 or any Alaskan city on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and take 10% off any published fare! (excluding Hot Deal fares which may be substantially lower.) Just book your travel between October 10 and October 22, 2008 and use discount code ECCMA0940 at http://www.alaskaair.com. You can also call the Alaska Airline's Group & Meeting Desk at 1-800-445-4435 but a $10.00 ticketing fee will apply.
Discount Hotel Rate at The Baranoff!
$99 per night for the entire event, double occupancy for the Fireweed 2008 Art Retreat! Call the toll free reservation number or registeri online, and use the Group Code - "FIAR101308 Fireweed 2008 Art Retreat". This special deeply discounted rate is good two days pre- and post-conference based on space availability. Space is limited at this rate so be sure to reserve early!
Vendor information is Available at the end of February!. If you are interested, please request a vendor packet at fireweed.art@gmail.com
Saturday, October 18 - Sales opportunities for teachers, students and other vendors of art and art supplies (including ephemera)
Fireweed is a symbol of rebirth and regrowth; as it is the first plant to grow after the ground has been disturbed...most commonly, the earth is disturbed by wildfires caused by lightening. Hence the name "fireweed". The brilliant magenta/purple flowers cover entire meadows in Alaska and throughout the North Country and is a bittersweet reminder of the beauty born of disturbance. Fireweed blooms all summer long from the bottom to top, so you can tell how much summer is left by how high the blooms are on the stalk.
