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We are pleased to announce the following list of teachers and their classes that will be taught at Artiology 2005, May 20 – May 22. As you will see, I have assembled some of the finest artist from across the country to teach at our Artist Retreat in Atlantic City, NJ.  The hardest thing will be deciding which class to take with so many great choices!

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Roben-Marie Smith

Roben-Marie is a mixed media, collage and book artist. She has been teaching classes in these different types of media for several years. She shares her talents with students through teaching at stores around the country as well as at art gatherings including Art & Soul, Artful Journey, Altered Jubilee and Art Unraveled. Her work has been published in Vintage Collage for Scrapbooking, Artists Creating With Photos, Creating Vintage Cards, Somerset Studio, Legacy, Stamper's Sampler, PLAY Zine, ARTitude Zine, Altered Books 101 by Design Originals, and the 2004 Somerset Studio Art Journal Calendar. She is the owner of PaperbagStudios which offers a full line of mounted and unmounted rubber stamps and collage sheets. Visit her web site at www.paperbagstudios.com.
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Karen Michel

Karen Michel is a mixed media book artist, painter and art journaler. She lives on Long Island, New York where she runs a non-profit art center for kids and adults with her Artist husband Carlo Thertus called The Creative Art Space for Kids Foundation  (www.caskfoundation.org). Karen attended the School of Visual Arts in NYC and The Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM studying the fine arts.

Her books, paintings and collages have been exhibited internationally and can also be seen in many published books and magazines. Keep your eyes open for Karen's upcoming book "The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery" scheduled to be published in November 2005 by Rockport Publishers.

To view more of her work visit www.karenmichel.com.
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Linda & Opie O'Brien

Opie and Linda O' Brien are mixed-media artists, authors and teachers, pushing the envelope  in a myriad of ways, using organic, recycled and found materials.Their unique offerings include books,  jewelry, dolls, assemblage and more. They teach workshops nationally, for two museums and in Mexico.  Their work has been featured in several books, magazines, galleries, museum gift shops and solo shows.  Opie, an artist an musician, attended SVA in N.Y. C., while Linda is completely self-taught. Their book, Metal Craft Discovery Workshop should be out in time for the holidays. They live in Ohio on Lake Erie with their cat Angelus and his cat Angel. Visit them at www.burntofferings.com
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Dayle Doroshow

Dayle Doroshow is a mixed media/polymer clay artist and owner of design studio Zingaro, stamp of distinction. She trained in traditional ceramics at Riverside Bell Tower Pottery program and the Columbia University Extension program in New York City and sold her pottery in Greenwich Village shops. Her jewelry, home decor, ethnic spirit dolls and handcrafted books can be seen at over twenty art shows and galleries on the West Coast. Dayle enjoys teaching and sharing her techniques in workshops across the United States. Her work can be seen at www.dayledoroshow.com.
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Pamela Allen

Pamela Allen has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1982) from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Since graduating, she has been lucky to maintain a studio and a full time vocation making art. She began as a painter and has evolved over the years to explore many other media all with the intention of exploring the theme of the child in all of us.  Trips to Europe, the desert southwest, and Mexico have all nurtured her penchant for bright colour and "folky" imagery. Another great influence has been her contact with school children and their aesthetic as she participates almost yearly in an Artist in the Schools program funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

Pamela has had group and solo exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal and Kingston as well as in the US.  She has visited elementary schools all over Ontario as a visiting artist.  Pamela has also taught painting and drawing at Queens University both in the Fine Art department and for the Aboriginal Teachers Education program at MacArthur College.  The latter have taken her through some amazing adventures on remote First Nations Reserves in the far North.
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Jacqueline Sullivan

Jacqueline Sullivan has been a mixed media artist since first introduced to collage in a high school art class. Jacqueline has a degree in graphic design and does advertising design by day and works evenings in her studio creating art with multiple mediums. Jacqueline's work has been shown in galleries and the top juried art fairs nationwide. Her calligraphic work has been published in many Calligraphy Journals and she has been on the faculty of 4 International Calligraphy Conferences. In her classes, Jacqueline emphasizes experimentation. She is known for venturing into the unknown and creating new techniques that she shares with her students. Students are always encouraged to "play" and to "push" materials to find their own unique style and techniques. These techniques are then refined, documented and utilized within the context of sound composition. The challenge is always to create and refine. She has taught many classes at Art Centers and Colleges in her home state of Michigan and has been teaching throughout the U.S. and Canada for the last 4 years. In her mission to provide her students with lasting information, Jacqueline provides them with complete instructions bound in a spiral book with many tipped-in samples of the techniques from the class.
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Theano Nikitas

Theano Nikitas is a full-time freelance writer, photographer, artist and teacher specializing in alternative art and digital imaging. For the past 20 years her images, product reviews and "how to" articles have been regularly published in photography and digital imaging magazines/Websites such as Digital Photographer, Digital Imaging Magazine, digitalFOTO, macHOME, Photo Electronic Imaging, Shutterbug, ZDNet and CNET.com.  She has taught digital photography workshops for Shutterbug magazine and writes a monthly Photoshop/Elements tips and tricks column for macHOME magazine.
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Mindy Carpenter

Mindy Carpenter is a self-taught mixed media artist whose love of paper is a perfect match for her love of Cavallini & Co., her paper employer. Her work has been featured in many issues of Somerset Studio, Signatures, 2003 and 2004 Somerset Engagement Calendar and soon featured in the upcoming book Making Memory Boxes. She has taught at the San Francisco Center for the Book and the New York Public Library.  She lives, works and plays in Marin County, CA with her sweetheart husband, Giovanni and irresistible cat, Sasha.  For more information, please visit www.mindycarpenter.com
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Janette Schuster

Janette Schuster is a freelance writer, artist, and incurable treasure hunter. Formally trained as a geologist and archaeologist, she has been digging up artifacts all her life. She now indulges her love of relics old and ancient by using them in jewelry, collage, assemblage, and mosaics. She has been trained and influenced by found object artists including Keith Lo Bue and Thomas Mann. Her art has appeared in publications including Somerset Studio, The Studio Zine, ARTitude Zine, Somerset Studio Gallery, and Return to Asia.
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Caroline McFarlane

Caroline McFarlane is a mixed media artist, specializing in polymer clay and jewelry making -- but she does not stop there. Caroline is alwas looking for different techniques and mediums to incorporate into her work. She has more than 10 years of experience and has been teaching classes in the NJ and PA area. Her art has been so well loved by family and friends that she has decided to start her own business. Caroline lives in a log house out in the woods of northeast Pennsylvania with her supportive husband, five cats and a guinea pig.
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Nancy Gall

Nancy Gall owner of Queen of Stamps has been teaching at conventions, stores and workshops around the country for more than 10 years. She has written for paper arts publications and her products and work have been featured in many periodicals and books. In her classes she tries to provide a foundation with a technique or project that can be adapted to individual creative endeavors. An avid collector, she incorporates unusual elements into her work.
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