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| CONNIE ATHENS holds a BA in fine art with an emphasis in painting from George Washington University, Washington, DC, where her program was affiliated with the Corcoran School of Art. She later attended the Art Students League of New York. Connie has taught classes privately to both children and adults, emphasizing freedom of expression based on theories of balance and structure. She’s participated in solo as well as group and juried exhibitions, and her painting has been featured on the award-winning label of Meadow Glen Wine, Sonoma County, California. Connie’s artwork is collected both locally and nationally. She has taught at the Art Academy of San Diego since 1999. |
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| STUART BURTON www.stuartburtonart.com received his BA in painting and printmaking from San Diego State University in 1977. Since that time, he has had over 30 one-person shows and participated in over 60 group and juried exhibitions. From 1980 to 1992, Stuart owned Rogue Graphics and Stiff Springer Gallery in North Park. He is a founder and the Director of the Art Academy. Galleries in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and Florida represent him. Memberships include the CA Art Club, Oil Painters of America and the Impressionist Society of America. |
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| REED CARDWELL www.reedcardwell.com received his BFA from Cal State University, Long Beach with further studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Reed also studied drawing and painting with Los Angeles artist Harold Kramer and later studied painting with Nathan Oliveira in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Reed worked as an animation artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation. His work is exhibited locally and nationally and is part of many private collections. Reed has taught at the Athenaeum School of Fine Art and at UCSD Extension. |
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| MARY CARIN earned her MFA at SDSU in 1994 in sculpture. Her interest is in the human body and its language, especially when the gestures of that language imply protection of ones past or disclosure. Mary uses a multitude of materials in each sculpture and is as adept at using paper as she is at using clay, formed metals, wood, stone and a variety of cast materials. She often mixes the classic realistic figure with an abstracted form and believes that a strong classical training in figure study is important when using the figure in an abstracted way. Her familiarity with the human body and use in an abstracted form links her with ancient imagery and language to contemporary psychological situations. Mary has been teaching the craft of sculpture and mold making of the human figure since 1989. |
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| JACQUELINE GORE earned her BA from San Diego State University’s School of Art and Design, studying under the tutelage of world-renowned professor and author, Arline Fisch. She has also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Arts and USCD Craft Center. A native of California, Jacqueline finds ample inspiration in nature here. One can readily see the waves of the sea in her fluid shapes. In addition to creating jewelry, she also teaches art to children. |
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| DANIEL “POSE 2” HOPKINS www.posetwo.com Pose 2 is currently an international muralist and arts educator for non-profit organizations and advertising agencies within New York, Philadelphia, Mexico and California. This role includes the responsibility for mural development and execution, curriculum writing and workshop instructing, within schools, prisons and after school programs. Powerful images of color and stylishly formed letters flowing through New York City, synchronized with the movement of subway steel evoked in him a calling to claim this art form called “graffiti” as his own. He has a passion to introduce others to its beauty, depth and strength. |
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| DEANNA LEA JACOBSEN is a silversmith who has been designing and making jewelry since 1990. She attended Grossmont College to study jewelry design and fabrication. Born and raised in San Diego, and after several trips to Mexico, she became interested and influenced by vintage Mexican jewelry design and technique. This influence can be seen in her current work. Her one-of-a-kind and limited edition jewelry pieces can be found in galleries, shops and at art shows throughout Southern California. Deanna began as a stained glass artist in 1973 and made stained glass windows for 15 years. She studied glass blowing at Palomar College and eventually opened a hot glass studio in La Mesa where she produced blown pieces and flat glass, held seminars and taught classes in stained glass and glass blowing. Deanna lived in Amsterdam from 1984-1988 and worked with a well-known Dutch glass artist making windows and lampshades. All of her skills and experiences led to her passion of designing and making jewelry and the joys of teaching. |
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| LORETTA KRAMER received her MFA in Printmaking in 1994 from CA State University, Long Beach. She won a Printmaking Fellowship at the Kala Print Institute, Berkeley, in 1996. While earning her BA at UC, Davis, during the 1980s, Loretta studied printmaking with Roland Peterson and painting with Wayne Thiebaud. She taught printmaking at Palomar College for five years. Her recent work has focused on Monoprints. She has exhibited her work internationally and is included in many collections. She is currently a member of North County Printmakers of San Diego, Los Angeles Printmakers Society, San Diego Artists Guild and the San Diego Art Institute. |
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| LISA MAYWOOD www.verredesigns.com is a highly trained, classical stained glass artist. She is a diplomat of the Ecole de Vitrail et de Creation, Monthey, Switzerland. There, after a 3 year intensive program, she mastered all aspects of drawing, painting, design, and all aspects of the stained glass process. Her work has been in several European exhibitions including the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass. Lisa’s professional stained glass studio is called Verre Designs where her specialty is in-home designs. |
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| SARAH MEGHAN LEE www.sarahmeghanleephotography.com. Sarah Meghan Lee, B.A. from Stanford University, is a photojournalist whose work in Latin America appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other publications. Her career began in Africa, photographing refugee camps for relief organizations and spent eight years photographing Latin America while based in Mexico City. Sarah has taught workshops for the Santa Fe Workshops and National Geographic Expeditions, and is a master's candidate in Media Studies. |
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| ROBERT TREAT www.roberttreat.com is a California artist whose work is exhibited and collected nationally. He began working abstractly with primitive materials early in his career. Robert’s formal training is in Architecture and in Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After graduation, his interests expanded to include large format photography and film animation. Over the years, he has had the opportunity to study and teach with a variety of creative individuals including Robert Wolfe Jr., Ansel Adams and Chuck Jones. Along with his painting career, he has been involved in the Hollywood animation industry for over twenty years. |
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