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Michael Dean Hahn
  
Email:  mdhahnart@comcast.net

Maryellen Hains
  
Email:  mhains@charter.net

Shan Renton Hale - watercolor
   Email: shanhale@gov.com

Katie Halton - photography; acrylic
   Email:
katiehalton@gmail.com

   Visit:  www.KatieHalton.com

Katie is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, with a major in Photography. In 2007 she opened Katie Halton Photography, a business specializing in artistic portrait and wedding/event photography. Besides photography, she also enjoys painting. A common thread in her work, whether photography or painting, is composition; the interaction of shape and color is significant. She exhibits her photographs, as well as paintings, in the Ann Arbor area.

Pictured:  Lamp and Plant, Acrylic on Wood,
24 x 18

Carol A. Hanna - air-brushed acrylic
   Email:
c.a@hannastudio.net

   Visit:  www.CarolHanna.com

The Songs of the Birds. Inspiration for these paintings comes from listening to birds sing. Bird species have distinct calls or songs and Carol’s desire is to recreate their sound in color, rhythm, and time through stripe compositions. Each bird’s color is matched with an actual bird specimen and the painting composed while listening to its recorded song. The paintings are then airbrushed because of the shimmering effect of color when sprayed compared to color when applied by brush. Carol exhibits in various galleries in the area and recently Eastern Michigan University purchased her painting Song of the Blue Vireo for their permanent collection, along with giving her their Award for Excellence. She received her BFA in 2003.

Pictured:  Song of the Birds: Olive Warbler, Male, Air-Brushed Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 40

Julia A. Hardy, M.D. - watermedia; pastel
  
Email: 
juliahardy@att.net

Julia Hardy produces her award winning paintings in watermedia and pastel. Her art celebrates life's visual pleasures through color, composition, and light.

She blends her experience of a place or a moment with her painting mediums - so that her images convey moods through meditative landscapes, sunflower "portraits", and sunbaked buildings. The largest corporate collection of her work is at the Riverside Hospital in Toledo.

Pictured: Tossed by the Wind, Watercolor, 22 x 30

Nina Elizabeth Hauser - photography
   Email: 
nehauser@aol.com

     Visit:  www.NinaEHauser.com

Until five years ago, Nina captured images of landscapes and people in black and white photographs, processed in her darkroom. Then a digital camera appeared in her life and color was integrated into her work. An abiding interest in natural light infuses her portrait work and also fuels investigations into the environment and all it contains. She strives to project the pleasure that the observation of a flower, an animal or a particular sense of place gives to her. A shared moment between the viewer and the photographer that can give pause and transmit delight is what motivates her.

Pictured:  Farmhouse by the Wayside, Digital Photograph, 6.5 x 4.5

Elaine Headly-Mouradian - painting; drawing
  
Email: 
headlye@comcast.net

Susan Robinson Heaslip - figurative clay sculpture; collage; life drawing
  
Email:  srobheaslip@att.net

Michelle A. Hegyi - encaustic; digital; acrylic
  
Email: 
mhegyi@umich.edu

Michelle's abstractions of color and light have been described by one reviewer as "landscapes of the soul". An award-winning artist who has exhibited in numerous juried shows, she is a co-owner of the artist-owned Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor and is a member of AAWA, Ann Arbor's Art and Design Junto, and a founding member of the digital artists' collective The Art Alchemists of Southeast Michigan. She has also served on the jury of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. One of her solo shows Spaces of Encounter was selected by Dialogue, a Midwestern visual arts magazine, as "Best of the Midwest". A painter and colorist, she uses the computer extensively in her studio, alone and in combination with a variety of other media, currently enjoying the luminous qualities of encaustic.

Pictured:  The Shape of the Sky, No. 9, Variation 1, Encaustic and Pigment Ink on Rag Paper Mounted on Plywood, 23 x 23 x 2.75

Catherine Hetzner - collage and mixed media
  
Email: 
aahetz@yahoo.com

Jane Higgins - watercolor

Catherine Hightower - mixed media (collage and assemblage)
  
Email: 
artist@hightower.org

Elizabeth Hodge - watercolor; oil
  
Email: 
lizzie@umich.edu

Theresa Hood - oil
  
Email: 
jonesedith@hotmail.com

Christine Hutchins
  
Email: 
cgh1211@yahoo.com


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Sue Iott - fabric; paper
  
Email: 
sueiott@hotmail.com

Abbigail Knowlton Isrealsen - drawing; painting; video; sound; 3D; photography
   Email:  abbiisrealsen@yahoo.com


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Judith Jacobs - digital pigment ink prints
  
Email: 
jejacobs@comcast.net

   Visit:  www.JudithJacobs.com

Judith earned a B.S. in Design from the University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design in 1964, majoring in painting and
printmaking (primarily lithography).  She has exhibited her work for 40 years in regional and national shows and in arts publications. She
comes to digital printmaking as a former paper-and-paste collagist. Instead of composing with disparate papers, she now scans these
materials – photos of graffiti and popular culture images and her own past collages - places them in layers in Photoshop, then combines, manipulates and recombines the layers on the screen, using the many different techniques possible in the software. She will be a Visiting
Artist at Ann Arbor's Washington Street Gallery for six months
beginning in November, 2008.

Pictured:  Eddie, Pigment Ink Print, 33 x 24

Donna Johnston - watercolor; oil
  
Email: 
dj848@aol.com

Donna has lived most of her life in Saline, Michigan, which gave her a love for small towns and rural landscapes.  She studied drawing, painting and art history at Washtenaw Community College and Eastern Michigan University.  Additionally, she has studied watercolor and painting with Taylor Jacobsen for several years.  Several paintings have been put into limited edition prints whose editions sold out.  Donna has sold her work at Audree Levy Invitational Art Fairs, the Ann Arbor Art Center Corporate Art Program, Elaine’s Gallery and Saline Picture Frame Company.  She is a member of the Michigan Watercolor Society.

Pictured:  Evening At Solowczuk's, Watercolor, 11 x 30


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Lidia Kaku - oil, mixed media
  
Email: 
lidiardK@yahoo.com

The affinity people find in objects, art, and music of cultures other than their own has always fascinated Lidia. "We are always in search of that which completes us or that let us express our selves." Her works are representational compositions of objects and patterns on a combination of flat and deep surfaces where the blending of cultural motifs, our heritage images and new impressions, all come together to create a kaleidoscopic view of our own. The use of space and cropped objects are reminiscent of Asian artwork, a favorite of the artist.

Lidia also does commissioned portraits.

Pictured:  Favorite Objects, Oil, 18 x 24

Adrienne Kaplan - acrylic; pastels; watercolor; graphic design
  
Email: 
agkap@umich.edu

Kathleen Kazmierski - watercolor; acrylic
  
Email: 
Kathleenkaz@charter.net

Maureen Cassidy Keast - watercolor; acrylic; bas relief ceramic tiles; sculpture; fused glass; home portraiture

  
Email: 
MKeast1@aol.com

Maureen began enjoying painting within the last 5 years while attending Leslie Masters' classes at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (she's now fortunate to attend Leslie's Ann Arbor classes, as well as sculpture and ceramics classes at Wayne County Community College). The creative process is fascinating to Maureen as she watches her paintings evolve into an expression of her story. Overwhelming feelings of urgency to depict what is happening in our fast paced world - to stop and record an event or feeling from life - is a new experience for Maureen, and her newest direction is exploring visual effects through acrylic mediums. Maureen is interested in the various moods that these acrylic mediums produce, and recent works show the importance of telling a story from her life through painting. In addition to active membership with the Ann Arbor Women Artists, she is a board member of the Downriver Arts & Crafts Guild and an active member of Acanthus Art Society (originators of the Wyandotte Street Fair in Michigan).

Pictured:  Soduko Blue, Mixed Media, 22 x 30

Kathleen M. Kelley - colored pencil
  
Email: 
kmk3065@aol.com

Kathleen is a retired accountant who almost forgot that she once wanted to be an artist.  She was in her 60th year when a course in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way inspired her to take out paper and pencils once again. Since then, drawing has been her passion and joy.  Kathleen’s primary medium is colored pencil, which she finds easy to work with, clean and very portable.  More importantly, her pencils provide rich colors and yet allow for meticulous detail in the finished piece.  (Remember that she was once an accountant!)  In addition to the AAWA, Kathleen is also a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America and the Detroit chapter of the CPSA.

Pictured:  Plenta Boats, Lake Bled, Colored Pencil, 9 x 12

Christy Kelly-Bentgen - mixed media
  
Email: 
christykel@hotmail.com

Christy Kelly-Bentgen received a BFA in Painting from St. Mary’s Notre Dame followed by graduate work at the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Art Education from University of Detroit.  Having traveled and studied in Mexico, Italy and Egypt, she brings a unique cross-cultural perspective to her work.  Over the years she has worked as an artist and educator in schools and museums in New England and the Midwest.  She has also worked as an art director, production potter and gallery manager.  Always open to experimenting with new materials, Christy now describes herself as a “re-emerging” mixed media artist.  In 2001, She received a grant to produce a body of work documenting the experience of Living with Breast Cancer which has been touring venues throughout the Midwest.  Other interests include acting, writing, cooking, and enjoying the outdoors.

Pictured:  Outwitting Aphrodite, Acrylic/Mixed Media, 27 x 35.5

Barbara Kerekes-Blair - oil; acrylic; photography
  
Email: 
borikerekes@yahoo.com

Esther Kirshenbaum - prints; oil pastels; metalworking; mixed media
  
Email:  estherkirschenbaum@gmail.com

Esther is a self taught artist born in Benton Harbor, Michigan. She received a B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan in 1972. She taught high school in Australia and traveled extensively throughout the Far East drawing as a way to chronicle her travels. Since then she has been a fulltime artist. In the early 90’s Esther worked as an artist in New York City. Returning to Ann Arbor she was the director of the Michigan Guild Gallery for five years. Since then she exhibits her own prints, oil pastels and metalworking at art fairs, galleries and shops. Esther owns Fun and Functional Art, a line of stainless steel functional sculpture.  She teaches printmaking, and is the director of art installations for the annual Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her most recent work is in printmaking and oil pastels and is based upon travels to Argentina and walks along the Huron River.

Pictured:  Autumn Heat, Monoprint, 15 x 18

Anne Kirvan
  
Email:  akirvan@comcast.net

Victoria Klein - acrylic; mixed media; collage
  
Email: 
artsyone0614@comcast.net

Linda Kortesoja Klenczar - pastel; watercolor; pencil; ink; acrylic
  
Email:  dlsklenczar@verizon.net

Bill Knudstrup - oil
  
Email: 
bknudstrup@aol.com

Bill is an oil painter who uses bright colors, abstract forms and dynamic compositions to elicit a strong reaction to his representational subject matter. Each of his paintings is created to work on emotional, intellectual and instinctual levels, challenging and rewarding the viewer.

Bill earned a BFA degree from the University of Michigan in 1973. From 1996 through 2004 he worked at Foto1 where he was a Photoshop expert, prepping and printing digital photographs. It was during that period,
although he had no time for painting, that he developed his ideas of what qualities were necessary for a good image.

Bill has had numerous solo exhibits in the Ann Arbor area, is a member of the Chelsea Painters and is represented by the Chelsea Gallery.

Pictured:  Big Sandbox II, Oil, 30 x 40

Janet Kohler - pastel; charcoal
  
Email: 
Jskohler@sbcglobal.net

Janet received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI and her MFA from Eastern Michigan University. She teaches figure and portrait drawing, color mixing with pastels, and landscape painting en Plein-Air at the Ann Arbor Art Center. Janet’s pastels and oils have been exhibited nationally and internationally and hang throughout many corporate and private collections. She has received many honors and awards and recently received 1st place in the pastel category in the Kennedy Promotions “BEST OF” book series, Best Of Michigan Artists & Artisans 2006. You can see more of Janet’s work at www.michiganpleinair.com or by appointment with her representative at ArtSearch in Ann Arbor, MI.

Pictured:  Spring '08, Pastel, 11.5 x 17

Kristen Kovak - oil; acrylic; drawing; mixed media; 3D installation; photography
  
Email:  klkovak@hotmail.com

Ashley N. Krieger - pen & ink; painting; mixed media; fiber art; book art; printmaking
  
Email:  ankriege@umich.edu

Helen Krysan - oil; oil and sand

Ruth Hogan Krzyzowski - oil; gouache; pastel and ink
   Email: 
rkrzyz@ic.net

Ruth's paintings are inspired by a love of the beautiful landscapes she's been fortunate to spend time in - mountains and canyons, oceans, lakes and rivers. She paints to remind us all of all the beauty in our natural world. In order to support the preservation of natural lands in northern Michigan, she sells note cards of her paintings, donating the proceeds to the Little Traverse Conservancy. Ruth enjoys the puzzle of trying to capture the essence of a landscape in a painting, aiming for a blend of rich, Impressionist texture in simple, Zen-like compositions. She admires artists who walk the line between disciplined depth and playful looseness, and strives for that balance in her work.

Pictured: Shoreline, Oil, 26 x 36

Laila Kujala
  
Email:  laila@pinklotusstudio.com

   Visit:  www.PinkLotusStudio.com

Jane Kulpinski - oil; pastel


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Alma Lach - photography
  
Email:  alma@almalach.com

   Visit:  www.AlmaLach.com

Alma Lach, one of the great chefs, cookbook writers and television personalities of the 20th century, is also an inveterate photographer. In addition to her traditional photography methods, she has created an exhibit of scanned flowers - as opposed to scanned images of photographs of flowers - in which the scanner captures the image using a line of light (instead of a point of light as does a camera), allowing us to see a flower more as the binocular vision of our eyes see it. During this 6-hour process (per image), she arranges the flowers on the scanner, mindful of thinking upside down and remembering that left is right and right is left on the monitor. The scanned image is then saved in Adobe PhotoShop, where it's magnified at "500" and inspected for dirt, dust and tiny holes (where insects may have dined on the flowers), and finally, all imperfections caused by the environment are corrected in the same-size pixels (dots) and color as the existing flower (a 1/16-inch hole might take 40 pixels to correct).

Pictured:  Bee Rosey, Photography, 6" x 6"

 

Jean Lau - etching; pastel; pencil
  
Email: 
elauaa@aol.com

"Drawing has always been my first love. The ability to put strokes on paper and express my feelings is a continuous thrill. Working quickly and intuitively, I allow them to skim across the surface, using moving, searching lines to define and sharpen. Whether in etchings or crayons, pencil or pastels it is a way for me to capture and share what I see with the viewer."

Pictured:  Superior View, Pastel, 24 x 18

Linda C. Lemke - pastel
  
Email:  lindalemke@sbcglobal.net

Cynthia Lempert - oil; acrylic
  
Email: 
clempert@umich.edu

Pam Lindberg - photography
  
Email: 
pjlindberg@comcast.net

Sandi Lopez
  
Email:  sandiclopez@comcast.net

   Visit:  www.SandiLopezArt.com

Lois Lovejoy - watercolor; collage
  
Email: 
loislovejoy@yahoo.com

In her art, Lois explores the seasonal changes of color and texture in landscape. She is drawn to images that are repeated through yearly cycles, which take on new meaning as they are transformed by the passage of time. She works with water media, sometimes using photo transfers and rice paper collage to integrate form and texture. Her work has evolved from her experience as a graphic designer and book illustrator, and her interest in the natural sciences.

Lois has received awards from the Ann Arbor Women Artists and Garden Writers of America and was a Delaware Duck Stamp Winner. She is also a member of the Chelsea Painters.

Pictured: Around the Bend, Watercolor, 12 x 21

Meg Lynch - watercolor; oil; sculpture
  
Email: 
mgt15s@earthlink.net

 

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