Michael Bland
Michael Bland is a glass blower that has focused on creating optic blown vases, bowls and crackleware, one of the oldest glass decorating technique. Most of the bowls incorporate glass frit, and in particular, frit that glows when exposed to ultraviolet light.
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Emily Chin
Emily Chin retired after working several years as a molecular geneticist and started doing something she loves doing – working with flowers. Emily often decides to use transparent media rather than paper. She considers every flower is beautiful, and when dried, the back is just as interesting as the front.
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Carol Faber-Peake
Carol Faber-Peake lives and works in Alameda, California. Painting, sculpting, collage, mask making and storytelling arts are her creative mediums. She uses her creative process to enable others to use this as a healing tool and to discover their inner consciousness.
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Karen Fleschler
Karen Fleschler is a watercolor artist who enjoys painting in a variety of styles: realistic, impressionistic and abstract. She enjoys manipulating the fluidity, saturation and layering of colors that watercolor enables me to achieve. Karen has been painting for 25 years and has sold many paintings locally, nationally and internationally. She is a native of California and the Bay Area and continues to reside here.
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Nancy Hoover
Nancy Hoover is a jewelry artist. She aspires to create unique designs to show balance and beauty but not always be symmetrical. She often designs in all silver yet some pieces are created with gemstones, showcasing their energy and unique color as an integral part of the design.
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James Kervin
Jim Kervin has immersed himself in the world of glass, working techniques such as fusing, pate de verre, kiln casting, glassblowing, stained glass, sandblasting, cold working, and flame-working. He is internationally known for his 15 books he has written on working with glass.
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Peggy Kervin
Peggy Kervin is a lampwork glass artist who creates beads in varying shapes and colors using soft glass. Her favorite shapes are flying pigs and cowboy boots. She then fashions the beads into wearable necklaces and earrings.
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Maryann Kot
Maryann Kot is a drawing and color pencil artist along with crafting and designing fiber and textile art. She is a member of LAA and the LAA Gallery.
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Judy Rice
Judy Rice has a Commercial Art degree and studied Mass Communications at Cal State, Hayward. She has taken numerous college painting classes, and workshops with well-known local artists. Some of her watercolor and acrylic paintings are in private collections in Redding, CA., Bremerton, WA., and Livermore, CA. Judy also is an author and illustrator of three books for children: Randi’s Pesky Picnic and Angel the Beddy-bye Cat (both rhyming ABC stories), and The Counting Fair, a rhyming counting story. Another project involved illustrating a book called Nature's Wonders, Poems for Young People, written by Alan Kasparian.
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Gail Ruvalcaba
Gail Ruvalcaba is an artist who delves into the 3-dimensional side of it. She finds it a delightful challenge to work in clay or in seaweed, as long as it is interesting from every angle.
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Charlene Stark
Charlene Stark is a jewelry artist who loves working with wire and color. Jewelry making has been therapeutic not only for the stiff hands, but helping develop the mind in the play of new techniques, patterns, use of color, and endless challenges. She enjoys passing it on to the younger generation.
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Janet Watling
Jan Watling loves playing with paper. The Art of Quilling means rolling, twisting, folding, bending, looping, husking, and coiling thin strips of paper, which are then manipulated to create shapes. She turns her visions of colorful environments from a pile of paper strips into impressionistic, whimsical paintings or usable, wearable art.
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Norma Webb
Norma Webb is a native California, 50 years in San Ramon, and loves the local East Bay Hills. There are lots of subjects to paint here - Oak Trees, Mt. Diablo, Golden Grass.
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