Visiting Artists

Jamie Bates

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Jamie Bates, originally from Cameron, Missouri, is a ceramic artist celebrated for their exploration of identity and mental landscapes through figurative sculpture. Holding an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Central Missouri, Bates skillfully employs scale, composition, and…

Mary Garrish

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Mary Garrish is a landscape painter known mostly for her seascapes and coastal scenes in oils. She also travels extensively and teacher in France and Italy. She started out in a career as an ENT surgeon and become enthralled with landscape painting through a number of Plein Air workshops with…

Rafael Lima

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Rafael Lima is a Miami novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist. Based on his experience as a stringer reporter during the civil war in El Salvador, Rafael Lima’s first full-length play, “El Salvador,” was developed and staged at the Circle Repertory Theater in New York and published by Samuel French and…

Carl Bretzke

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Carl Bretzke is a contemporary realist oil painter who is known for his original compositional choices, realistic light effects, and diversity in subject matter, ranging from plein air landscapes to more complex city scenes, often after dark.  The Washington Post once described his work as “simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist’s…

Jamie Rodriguez

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Rodriguez’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally at university/college galleries and art venues such as: The Education Centre Grass Hill at Europos Parkas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Europos Parkas Outdoor Sculpture Park (Lithuania); Tapier Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Kemijarvi Sculpture and Cultural Foundation, (Kemijarvi, Finland); Michigan…

Penny Burdick

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Penny Burdick, a recently retired RN, boasts a career spanning over 15 years in the realm of stained glass artistry. Over the last 5 years, she has delved into the realm of glass fusing. Employing a variety of firing techniques, Penny crafts intricate plates adorned with captivating images, along with…

Maia Leppo

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Maia Leppo graduated from Tufts University in 2008 with a degree in Biology and Community Health. She received training in jewelry and metals from various craft schools, including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pocosin Arts, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and her Masters of…

Umut Demirgüç Thurman

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Umut Demirgüç Thurman is an enamelist, jeweler, and metalsmith. She received her BFA from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Textile and Fashion Design. She received her MFA from the University of North Texas in Metalsmithing and Jewelry. Umut has taught for years at the University of North Texas, Mimar…

Suzanne Connors

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Introduction to Katazome Japanese Paste Resist Supply List

Sandra Donabed

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May 18 @ 11:17 pm

Sandra has an MS in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA, a BFA from Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., and AS Design Major From Endicott College, Beverly, MA in Interior Design. Sandra has always sewn, a legacy from her mom, the home ec teacher. In addition, she has…