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Seth Apter
I am a mixed media artist, instructor, designer, shopkeep, and author from New York City. I came to the world of art later in life, transitioning from a full-time career as a psychologist to being a full-time artist and maker. My artistic practice is based on the concepts of community and collaboration, and I believe in the power of art to bring people together. My work has been exhibited in multiple exhibitions and can be found in numerous books and national magazines. I have also published two books of my own, The Pulse of Mixed Media and The Mixed-Media Artist, with North Light Books. My love of the creative energy that occurs when artists are brought together has led me to spend a great deal of time teaching workshops - both online and in person across the world. As a designer, I have created collections with many companies over the years, including FreeSpirit Fabrics, Impression Obsession, StencilGirl Products, Spellbinders, Emerald Creek Craft Supplies, WOW, Aladine, and PaperArtsy. Art for me is everything and sharing the process in all these different forms makes it even better.
- Within the Layers- Tue/Wed July 20-21 9:00 - 4:30
- Collage Stories- Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
- Hanging By a Thread- Sat/Sat Eve July 24 9:00-4:30/6:30-9:30
- Journalography- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
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Vicki Assegued
Vicki's approach to the fiber arts is innovative and experimental, leading to a wide variety of projects and techniques she has developed, resulting in gorgeous and unique art. She freely shares all of her methods with her students, encouraging and supporting them to apply the techniques in their individual style and aesthetic, leading to their own special and exciting outcomes.
All of Vicki's workshops are completely different from each other, providing students with the opportunity to learn new approaches, and create different artworks, in each workshop.
Along with teaching nationally at locations such as Mendocino Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and North Country Studio Workshops, Vicki exhibits her artwork in galleries and museums. And, Vicki's students have exhibited and sold their amazing fiber art pieces, which they made during and after her workshops.
Testimonials from students:
"I really enjoyed meeting you and learning lots of new techniques. You are a wonderful teacher and I'm grateful that you've decided to share your gift with others."
"I so enjoyed our workshop and want to thank you for your inspirational teaching! I could go on and on but suffice it to say my work will always reflect our time together.""The workshop was inspiring & Vicki is a fantastic instructor."
"Vicki is everything you would want in a teacher. She explains things thoroughly, is encouraging, patient, and joyful."
"I totally enjoyed the workshop and appreciate you organizing and sharing this unique process!"
"You brought a joyous feeling to our day together, filled with possibilities."
- Mixed Media Weaving on a Frame Loom- Tuesday July 20 9:00 - 4:30
- Fibers Beyond the Frame- Wednesday July 21 9:00 - 4:30
- Vivacious Vessels: Fiber-Wrapped Coil Baskets- Thursday July 22 9:00 - 4:30
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Lisa Bebi
Lisa Bebi, since a small child, has loved two things: looking through snapshots in her family album and painting as expression. For over three decades, the San Diego native has married these two things together, and her work has received international awards and recognition for its content, style, and color. Lisa received her BA in fine arts from SDSU, where she developed as a colorist, straddling representation with abstraction. Daughter of a journalist, Lisa always finds ways to tell the untold story she sees in snapshots. “I love the authenticity of the snapshot. It’s a single moment in time but by painting it I can extend that moment, revel in it and bring to life characters and scenarios that I fancy. Working this way gives me enormous pleasure.” She extracts the “behind, the behind” using innovative techniques and finesse. Over the course of her life she has received awards, accolades, and endorsements. She has been a longtime contributor to many international mixed-media magazines and several books; has taught in artist residencies locally and internationally; is a Golden Paints educator; and is often a local juror.
- Paintover!- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
- Encaustics for All- Mon/Tue July 26-27 9:00 - 4:30
- Characters in Mixed Media- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30
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Lynn Blair
Lynn was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin full of nature, shapes and color which translates into her art. Her professional career in healthcare has taken her around the globe teaching healthcare traveling to many different countries embracing new cultures, colors and art forms. Lynn’s passion for all types of art blossomed into a career which is now her focus after retiring from healthcare after almost forty years of service to the community.
Lynn is a jewelry and mixed media art instructor with a love of paper, fiber, fabric, paint, lace, hand stitching, mark making, beads, and all things mixed media. She finds joy in taking found objects and recycled components turning them into beautiful pieces of art to display or wear. Through her years in healthcare, Lynn saw first-hand how art was healing to her patients of all ages. Her kindness and willingness to be patient and soft toward her clients has helped many people use art to heal and work through difficult life journeys.
It is important to breathe, so Lynn’s teaching style enables her students to be present and enjoy the process of being with each other, the process of learning, creating, and making glorious mistakes which enhance the outcome even more.
Art brings people together with a similar interest generating a type of passionate energy you can only find within people who love to use their eyes, intuition, hands and mind to create. For many years, Lynn taught a variety of jewelry and art classes in California where her work was displayed and sold at the Blackhawk Art Museum. Currently, she is a member of PaperWorks and the Sonoran Arts League where she teaches a variety of mixed-media classes and art classes focusing on recycling.
Related to art, if you ask Lynn to describe herself, she will likely reply: A lover of art, color and form of all types, someone who appreciates depth and texture, an educator, a creator, and a forever student since she believes in life-long learning. Lynn would like to acknowledge the many instructors she has had the privilege to spend time with over the years. Each one of them, in their own way, contributed to the artist she is today.
Lynn is also a Certified Art Therapy Practitioner.
For inquiries about workshops, commissions, or collaborations, please contact: Lynn Blair: lynnblair@aol.com
- Tea Bag Art- Saturday Eve July 24 6:30 - 9:30
- Eclectic Boho Beads- Sunday Eve July 25 6:30 - 9:30
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DeeDee Catron
DeeDee is the owner & creative director of UmWowStudio , a mixed media supply company.
She adores designing innovative products & sharing ideas on how to use them.She is a mixed media artist with a flair towards vintage ephemera collage, mark making & creative reuse. She can be recognized for her enthusiasm in all things black and white, with some neutrals thrown in for good measure. Whether it’s with paper, fibers or other, she is an avid teacher and instructor and loves a great live demo! DeeDee is always on board to showcase supplies from her online mixed media shop, UmWowStudio. She enjoys the challenge of product design work, creating unique items for other artists to use, as well as curating vintage items & creative kits. DeeDee also shares her knowledge & encourages a good discussion about art fundamentals, while dabbling in many forms and media. She has a gift for sharing her “raw art brain” as she works through her art pieces, either live or recorded, allowing her genuine creativity to show through.
She thinks of this space as an online studio for her to express herself brought by a rich background full of designing, laughing, witnessing, innovating, making, experiencing, breathing, playing, living every moment, and most of all loving.
DeeDee has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Industrial Design which she’s combined with her passions for paper crafting and fine arts into this whole little nutshell that makes up DeeDee Catron the Mixed Media Artist.
- The Marauder's Pocket - Wednesday July 21 9:00 - 4:30
- Tinned Stitches - Thursday July 22 9:00 - 4:30
- Rooted -Altered Chipboard Rolodex Box - Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
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Kecia Deveney
Kecia is a mixed media artist whose work lives somewhere between book, object, and quiet offering. She works with fabric scraps, paper, stitching, and found elements, allowing intuition and material memory to guide each piece. In her classes, Kecia encourages a slower way of making—one rooted in listening, touch, and letting go of perfection. Her teaching is soft, supportive, and process-driven, welcoming artists of all experience levels. www.keciadeveney.com
- Gelli-Printed Fabric Creatures- Tue/Wed July 20-21 9:00 - 4:30
- She Carries Her Story: A Roll-Up Story Figure- Fri/Sat July 23-24 9:00 - 4:30
- Worn & Woven: Stitched Story Necklaces- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
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Roxanne Evans Stout
Roxanne Evans Stout is a mixed media artist who lives and creates in the Pacific Northwest. She teaches art workshops throughout the United States and has had her work shown and been published nationally. Roxanne is constantly inspired by natural history, and the mountains and the river lands that surround her home...
this inspiration has always been an integral part of her art. Roxanne has taught workshops and retreats throughout the United States and abroad. She aslo teaches fabulous on line workshop, please see her website to find out more!
Roxanne has two best selling books available on Amazon:
Storytelling with Collage, and Dancing on Raindrops
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01CGZE7JG/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=27ace9ca-b05d-4afb-ad47-624374543d89&store_ref=ap_rdr&ref_=ap_rdr&ccs_id=afa283d9-afd0-4c6d-8441-4183ab3542ef
https://www.roxanneevansstout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/roxanneevansstout/- Revealing the Mysteries of Unique Book Structures- Sun/Mon/Tue July 25-27 9:00 - 4:30
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Tina Ferguson
Teena Maree is a Phoenix-based mixed-media artist, architect, educator and lifelong collector of things most people would probably throw away.
With a Master’s degree in Architecture from Arizona State University and 15 years working in residential architecture, Teena brings an unusual understanding of structure, balance, proportion and form to her artwork. Her artistic toolbox is just as broad: painting, drawing, wax, fiber, metal, ceramics, stained and fused glass, mosaics, sculpture and assemblage. She doesn’t see them as separate disciplines. They are simply different ways to solve a creative problem.
At the center of Teena’s work is storytelling through found objects. Broken jewelry, discarded doll parts, photographs, hardware, old glass and peculiar little treasures arrive carrying histories of their own. She combines them in unexpected ways, allowing what an object was to become part of what it becomes next.
Her architectural background sneaks into even her strangest work. Teena teaches students to consider visual weight, proportion, negative space, center of gravity and structural integrity so an assemblage can look wonderfully improbable while remaining balanced, strong and beautifully constructed.
Teena founded Artsy Smartsy in 2009 and later founded Heartsy, a nonprofit dedicated to making creative experiences accessible to underserved communities. Her years of teaching have included seniors, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, community groups and artists of many different abilities.
Her public and fine-art work includes a 22-foot community mural at Phoenix City Hall, murals at the Minneapolis Veterans Home, and exhibitions at FOUND:RE Phoenix, The HIVE Gallery in Los Angeles, Arizona Latino Arts & Cultural Center and other galleries and juried exhibitions. Her honors include the 2019 Phoenix Mayor’s Arts Award, 2025 Phoenix MLK Jr. Inclusion Award, Mesa Maker Fest Social Impact Award, Minnesota Parkinson’s Center Service Award, and a Best of Show award for fused glass.
Teena teaches students how to look at materials differently, master the techniques needed to make their ideas work, and trust the wonderfully strange places their own imagination takes them.
The objects keep their history. We just give them a completely unexpected future.
- Assemblage- “La Rosa” - Thursday Eve July 22 6:30 - 9:30
- From the Ashes: Glass Fusion- Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
- Assemblage-Lady & The Lamp- Saturday July 24 9:00 - 4:30
- Outside the box; Or is it?: Glass Fusion- Saturday Eve July 24 6:30 - 9:30
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Micah Goguen
Micah Goguen grew up in Central Georgia and obtained his Bachelors in Art and Art History and his Masters in Art Therapy from Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. He focuses primarily on bringing art to the community and using art as a form of communication for those struggling to understand and cope with life situations.
Goguen produces work while teaching art to both adults and children. He also volunteers time at the local community center and works with adults in alcohol and substance recovery as well as uprooted and traumatized children. Using mural work, art for entertainment and art therapy for healing, Micah collaborates with school systems, local shops, and non-profits to help unify and most importantly “spread a message”. The overall vision is to focus and rededicate back to a buy local, shop local mentality that strengthens community through unity and purpose.
- Power of the Press (gel plate)- Tuesday July 20 9:00 - 4:30
- Expressions in Pastel- Tuesday Eve July 20 6:30 - 9:30
- Depth and Texture- Wednesday July 21 9:00 - 4:30
- It’s all about that Base: Micaceous Oxide- Wednesday Eve July 21 6:30 - 9:30
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Ruth Greening
Art is such an amazing gift. Whether we enjoy looking at it or participate in creating it. I have always had some form of artistic influence in my life in so many forms. Entertaining, cake decorating, wire wrapping, Precious Metal Clay and now Silversmith work.
I love learning from so many wonderful artists and creating works of wearable art, but the best is teaching someone else how to create their own artistic voice. Seeing that “AW HA!” moment when it all comes together
I look forward to working with you and seeing what inspiring pieces you have tucked inside your heart and challenging you to let it shine!
- What's The Catch?- Saturday July 24 9:00 - 4:30
- Jingle Bangles- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
- Bolos: Not Just for Cowboys- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- Viking Knit, Oh the possibilities!- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
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Pamela Sue Johnson
Pamela Sue Johnson is a self-taught mixed-media artist known for her expressive, layered work and her engaging teaching style. With a passion for helping others access their own creativity, Pamela designs and leads creative experiences that inspire, empower, and encourage joyful self-expression.
Pamela has been a core instructor with the Art & Soul community since 2022 and has taught at events throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond for the last decade. She has also worked as a guest teaching artist in local schools and has served as an artist-in-residence in Southern Nevada, near the desert landscapes of her childhood.
Pamela is the creator of Art Zine, a publication dedicated to creative inspiration and the intuitive artist’s journey. Based in a rural forest community near Vancouver, Washington, she now spends part of the winter season snowbirding in the deserts of Nevada.
Learn more about Pamela here:
Website: https://www.pamelasuejohnson.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pamelasuejohnson11/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pamelasuejohnson/- Loose & Free Floras with Watercolor- Saturday July 24 9:00 - 4:30
- Expressive Landscapes with Watercolor and Acrylics- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
- ORACLE COLLAGE CARDS with Mixed-Media- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- Expressive Weirdo Faces with Watercolor- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30
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Amy Keever
Amy Keever is an award-winning sculptor, painter, metal artist and mosaic artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary expression. She is passionate about sharing the beauty of Italian micro mosaics through approachable, hands-on instruction - and most of all, making it fun!
- The Art of Italian Fine Micro Mosaics- Tue/Wed July 20-21 9:00 - 4:30
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Crystal Marie
Crystal Marie considers herself to be “a material girl” when it comes to her art practice, which is rooted in collage. Evolving to include three-dimensional sculptures and assemblages, Crystal’s work speaks to both physical location and identity. Her process begins with an experimental approach, allowing what she’s brought to the table to inform her decisions as she builds layers of texture and meaning.
A Chicago based mid-career artist, Crystal Marie has one book published on the art of collage and is writing a second book about overcoming the blocks commonly encountered in the studio. Crystal has exhibited her work in many fine art exhibitions and solo shows, earning her gallery representation and the coveted 2018 Racine Art Museum Artist Fellowship.
Website: https://crystalneubauer.com/home.html
Blog: https://crystalmarie.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalmarie_artist/
- Rust & Alchemy- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- Workshop 2- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
- Workshop 3- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30
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Robyn McClendon
A renowned mixed-media artist and educator, celebrated for a transformative approach to line and creative teaching across more than three decades.
Robyn’s work resonates deeply with the philosophy of embracing the ordinary and transforming it into something extraordinary — blending elements of the everyday into poignant artistic expressions that inspire and heal. Her work has been shown in prestigious galleries worldwide, with commissions for Essence Communications, IKEA, Target, and UNICEF.
- Workshop 1- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- Workshop 2- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
- Workshop 3- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30
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Roxanne Padgett
Roxanne Padgett has been creating “stuff” and making “messes” since she was 4 or 5 years old using whatever materials she could find. She does the same thing today, but now it is called mixed media art “I enjoy experiencing the creative process with others and I believe that everyone is creative and not just a special few. My personal motto is “Fear No Color”.
Roxanne teaches a variety art classes for adults throughout the Bay Area and at art retreats around the country. In addition, Roxanne is the Creative Director at the Museum of Children’s Art . Roxanne’s art work has been featured in a variety of publications such as, Somerset studio, Sew Somerset, Stuffed and Green Craft. Roxanne is also the author of “Acrylics techniques in Mixed Media” Layer, Scribble, Stencil, Stamp published by North Light Books.padgettroxanne3@gmail.com
- Cabinet of Curosities- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
- Reclaimed & Rebound- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30
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Kristin Peterson
Kristin Peterson is a third generation artist, originally from South Dakota. Kristin’s creative passion is inspired and supported by her husband and kids, all who encourage, critique, and promote her work. Kristin is always exploring and expanding the creative depths of being an artist. She very much enjoys vintage collage work and mixed media. Kristin loves color and things that have a love-worn comfortable feeling-like an old favorite pair of jeans-coffee stained, patched, painted and well loved. She wants her art to project feeling and make people feel good while looking at it. Her style contains vibrance mixed with a little funk, which is sprinkled with discreet sensibility.
- The Art of a Custom Tea Towel- Wednesday July 21 9:00 - 4:30
- Patina & Patchwork Bag - Thursday July 22 9:00 - 4:30
- Loop & Lore, Personal Symbols with Punchneedle- Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
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Debbie Rijns
An independent studio artist, Debbie was born in New York. Arriving in this country at an early age (8), South Africa quickly became her home.
A porcelain restorer by profession, Debbie has been creating from a really early age. A photo of her at age 3 painting the wall of the house with mud testifies to that talent.
Debbie offers courses and workshops in various media all over South Africa and other exotic places on an ongoing basis.
“I have been given a wonderful gift, of being able to see, design and create in a multitude of mediums. This gift gives me great personal satisfaction, and to be able to share this with others is just awesome”.
Debbie gives credit to her father for her creative streak, he once told her “Just because a tin can is a tin can, doesn`t mean it`s only a tin can….”.
- African Ostrich Egg Shell Bowl- Saturday July 24 9:00 - 4:30
- Africa Animal Assemblage- Sunday July 25 9:00 - 4:30
- Shwe Shwe Bangle- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- No Sew Shwe Shwe Pouch- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
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Carol Spohn
Carol’s painting journey started when she learned to paint with acrylics during her lunch hour at the office where she worked. If not for the step-by-step process of decorative painting, she would not have been introduced to the world of painting. In 2000, Carol started painting primarily in transparent watercolor and her teaching career was launched. Carol paints primarily with watercolor accented with multimedia.
Carol’s workshop is a perfect opportunity for the beginner as well as the experienced painter to learn techniques enabling them to complete successful paintings. Carol shares her step-by-step approach to painting with students of all levels. All projects include written instructions, a line drawing and a color photo. Drawing ability is not necessary, allowing the student to focus on the mechanics of painting.
The creative backgrounds in Carol’s paintings set her artwork apart from other artists. Her use of color and textures invite you into her joyful paintings. Each lesson is designed to introduce the student to a new technique or way of looking at art. Students paintings are successful when they “trust the process” of Carol’s methodical instructions. No two paintings are alike, and that is a good thing!
Carol recently retired to be a full time artist and instructor. Painting is her joy and often times, her therapy. As much as she enjoys painting, Carol’s first love is teaching painting to others. Carol is a popular instructor at community education classes in St. Paul, MN, decorative painting conventions and travel workshops throughout America, France, Italy and Canada.
A lifetime resident of Minnesota, Carol lives in a 125+ year old house in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband Coz and their two cats, Mickey and Bailey.
- Button Up - Fabric Painting and Stitching- Tuesday July 20 9:00 - 4:30
- Not So Still Life- Thursday July 22 9:00 - 4:30
- Watercolor Batik- Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
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Becky Springer
Becky Joan Springer is an “accidental” and intuitive abstract painter, largely self-taught and still (un)learning. She studied art in undergrad, but didn’t pick up a paintbrush again until her mid 30s. She was a longtime college educator and counseling instructor working with marginalized communities, burnt out, and far removed from creative spaces.
When she followed the whispers and invited art back into her life as a daily practice, everything changed. Her colorful and bold art tells her story as a recovering perfectionist, with learned vulnerability, and untethered joy. ?Creating became a salve for the soul and has evolved from a hobby to a thriving daily practice, with the creation of a studio where she teaches in-person painting workshops and retreats.
She believes that we’re all artists, that art is healing, and that creating in community can be transformative. Her classes integrate a mind, body, and soul approach to intuitive painting. She strives for welcoming spaces where students are encouraged to be brave, to let their stories inform their art, and to play in paint together.
Becky is represented by the Artistic Portland Art Gallery and her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Helzer Gallery, Cambium Gallery, Radius Gallery, Om Base Gallery, as well as Quartz, a multimedia arts
magazine. Her paintings have been purchased for the City of Portland Public Art Collection. Additionally, she has a licensing partnership with the online platform iCanvas.She lives and creates in Portland, Oregon.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beckyjoanspringer/
Website: https://www.beckyjoanspringer.com/- Brave Blooms- Friday July 23 9:00 - 4:30
- Color Outside The Lines — An Intuitive Mixed Media Painting Experience- Saturday July 24 9:00 - 4:30
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Kate Thompson
Kate's experience as a fiber artist was working with fabric and fiber to create abstract 3-dimensional forms. In 2009 she started painting and hasn't stopped since. Her current work is the combination of the two disciplines. Using watercolors, acrylics, inks and pastels she paints on substrates such as layered vintage linens, fabrics, laces, plaster, paper and wood. The portrait or figure is the focal point and she works at creating images that parallel her spiritual and personal life.
She teaches art online and on location. She is as passionate about teaching as she is creating. The creative process is where all the energy is and she loves and gets energized by sharing her artistic journey.
To learn more about Kate visit her at:
www.fracturedangelics.blogspot.com
fracturedangelics.com
facebook.com/katethompsonartist
- Narrative Fabric Collage- Tue/Wed July 20-21 9:00 - 4:30
- Cascading Books - Thur/Fri July 22-23 9:00 - 4:30
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Dina Wakley
Dina’s colorful, expressive style is anchored by her design hallmark, the creative use of white space. Her personal, organic design aesthetic strikes a balance between “artsy” and “classic”.
Dina is a mixed-media artist and teacher. She loves everything about art: creating it, thinking about it, looking at it, and teaching it. She has been scrapbooking since 1995, stamping since 1996, and art journaling since 2004. She believes in writing yourself down, expressing yourself, and making your mark on the world. As a Ranger Signature Designer, Dina designs a line of mixed-media art supplies that includes acrylic paints, mediums, brushes, rubber stamps, stencils, and more.
- In Your Image- Monday July 26 9:00 - 4:30
- Find Your Wild- Tuesday July 27 9:00 - 4:30
- Grungy Cardboard Journal- Wednesday July 28 9:00 - 4:30