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Felicia Macheske -
pastel; oil
Email:
fmacheske@comcast.net
Visit:
www.ChelseaRiverGallery.com
As a person
who requires solitude, Felicia often struggles with the
intrusions of modern life, observing that there seems to be
little
time for quiet reflection in today's lives. Her art returns
her to
peaceful walks through the woods and along riverbanks, the progression
of the natural year transcending day-to-day intrusions. As
she
watches nature find ways to renew and impose itself, she is
struck by
its power, beauty, and simplicity. Felicia received a BFA
from Central Michigan University and an MFA from
Arizona State University
(but it really all began with a purple crayon on the closet
wall -
sorry, Mom), and her work is represented by the River
Gallery in
Chelsea, Michigan.
Pictured: Autumn Sumac, Oil, 20
x 20
Shel Markel -
acrylic; charcoal
Email:
shelmarkel@hotmail.com
As he approached retirement from the practice of
medicine, Shel considered a post-retirement career in art
history, but soon realized that wouldn’t provide the outlet for
expression and creativity that he needed, so he took up where he
left off some fifty years before, making art.
Shel works mostly in acrylic paint and he
usually emphasizes vivid colors. His subject matter is primarily
still life because he believes that still life offers an opportunity to
breathe life and importance into otherwise inanimate and mundane
objects, and he seeks to make artistic sense and evoke emotions
by selection and arrangement of the objects and the interplay of
shapes, colors, lines, and textures. Shel has exhibited in solo,
group, and juried exhibitions. He is represented by Pierre-Paul Gallery in Ann Arbor.
Pictured: Red, White and Green I,
Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20
Marilyn Marsh
-
watercolor;
acrylic; oil
Email:
egmarsh@umich.edu
In the fall of 2002 Marilyn began taking drawing
classes at the Ann Arbor Art Center. Her previous
experience with art was making paper dolls as a child. After a
year she took beginning watercolor at the Ann Arbor Art
Center. She began group classes (May 2004) with watercolor
artist Barbara Starner (except July and August) until mid
December when she moved to Texas. March 2005 she began classes
with Leslie Masters at her studio where she continues to work.
She moved into the use of acrylics and, most recently (Fall
2006), the use of water-soluble oil paints. Her watercolor
painting Tribute to Hiroshige was accepted in the Summer 2006 Ann Arbor Women Artist’s Juried Exhibit.
Pictured: Porches in Arles, Water
Soluble Oils, 12 x 16
Avonne K. Mason -
pastel; colored
pencil
Email:
avonnemason@comcast.net
Leslie Masters -
acrylic
Email:
thepinkpainter@comcast.net
Leslie loves color. Her goal as an artist is to
capture the feeling of light as it surrounds us. Her acrylic
paintings explore abstract color glow from the landscape around
her Ann Arbor studio as well as the mountains and canyons of
Europe and the American West. She has spent years developing her
knowledge of color theory and has written a book on that subject
called How to Paint a Rainbow. Leslie has a BA degree in
Art from Indiana University and an MA degree from the University of Michigan. She is well known in the Detroit,
Michigan area as both a color painter and a teacher of painting
and color theory. Leslie has had numerous one-person exhibitions
in Michigan and in Ohio and has participated in many
invitational and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest.
Recent awards include, First Prize, Ann Arbor Women Artists,
2007, and Best of Show award, Invitational, Lawrence
Street Gallery, 2004, Royal Oak, MI.
Pictured: Pink Cloud, Acrylic, 48 x
56
Edith Maynard -
watercolor
Email:
maynardallen@aol.com
Visit:
www.EdithMaynardWatercolors.com
Following a career in University teaching and
research in neurobiology, Edith Maynard turned to painting as a
way of creatively expressing a life-long fascination with visual
imagery, especially with shape, color and the effects of light.
Her watercolors are inspired by forms in the natural world,
including humans, and by shapes of man-made objects,
particularly by large industrial and agricultural complexes and
the components of heavy machinery. She often uses unreal or
exaggerated color to portray her strong emotional reactions to
this subject matter. Her work has won awards in national juried
exhibitions and is presented locally in the Chelsea Gallery.
Pictured: Steel Mill No.2, Watercolor,
27 x 21
Maria Rosa McCabe
- oil; acrylic; watercolor; charcoal; color pencil
Email:
maromccabe@aol.com
Dolores McDole
- fused glass, enamaled glass, stained glass
Email: DiamondD71@hotmail.com
Gwyn McKay
- acrylic, mixed media
Email:
gwynmckay@gmail.com
Making art is a mesmerizing, delightful,
challenging and a continuous journey. Gwyn doesn't feel a
need to make art that expresses her political views or shows
the evils of the world but she does feel a need to make the
best art she can. A few of the many artists who have had an
influence on her include Will Barnet (for simplicity and
composition), Robert Arneson (for humor and energy), and
Antonello de Messina (for his riveting Renaissance-era
portraits).
Pictured: Tall Trees, Mixed
Media, 28 x 12
Eathel Mendenhall -
mixed media
Email:
gmendy@umich.edu
Cathy Mercer -
photography
Email:
mercer12@aol.com
Angie Nagle Miller
- acrylic; casein; oil
Email:
NagleMiller@yahoo.com
Visit:
www.AngieNagleMiller.com
Angie is a Michigan born and raised artist. She
has been painting and exhibiting since 1979 when she received a
BFA from Eastern Michigan University. She worked on her
degree while raising daughters as a stay at home mom and wife.
She has exhibited in many locations in Michigan, nationally and
in Germany. She has been in many juried shows and have won numerous awards.
Angie was chairwoman of the Michigan Water
Color Society from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Ann
Arbor Women Artists from 1982-84. She has primarily worked
as a painter. She has several motifs over the years. Angie
is known for her landscape paintings and her Egyptian series.
However, recently she has a new series based on Angels, Saints
and Martyrs.
Pictured:
Havasu Falls, Acrylic
on Paper, 22 x 30
Joan Miller
- charcoal
drawing; collage
Email:
joanmill@tds.net
Sandi Miller
- pastel
Email: desamiller@aol.com
Mary Morgan
- mixed media assemblage
Email:
m.j.morgan@comcast.net
Carol Morris
Email: SilkRhino@aol.com
John Murrel
- oil; acrylic
Email:
john_murrel@malloy.com
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Susan Nicosia
Email:
susnici@yahoo.com
Susan G. Nordlinger -
posterpaint
Email:
graynordlinger@yahoo.com
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Carolyn O'Neill
-
digital
photography
Email:
coneill@emich.edu
Brenda Oelbaum
- oil; acrylic; latch hook; pâpiér mache; mixed media
Email:
boelbaum@yahoo.com
Elizabeth Ong
Email:
elisong@comcast.net
Dee Overly -
colored pencil;
graphite; pen and ink
Email:
deeoverly@yahoo.com
Visit:
www.DeeOverly.com
Pencils! Pencils! Pencils! Dee loves them.
Although she has worked and experimented with many mediums,
she'll never abandon the faithful pencil. And with the
advancements of pigments, her arsenal now includes colored
pencils. Dee exhibits her work regularly in both juried and
non-juried shows and has won awards for her colored pencil
paintings. She is also one of the featured artists in the
art book, Art Models Life Nudes. Dee holds a degree
in Architecture Design and is a member of the Ann Arbor
Women Artists, Colored Pencil Society of America,
and the Detroit Colored Pencil Chapter 104.
Pictured: Golden Lake, Colored
Pencil, 8.5 x 11
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Marge Pacer
- acrylic
Email:
paint4id@yahoo.com
Joan Painter Jones
-
acrylic; sculpture; mixed media
Email:
dcjpjones@aol.com
Joan has
been a member of the AAWA for going on thirty years, and has
been honored to receive many awards in the group exhibitions, as
well as in state and nationwide exhibits. She graduated from
Eastern Michigan University and took post-grad classes in
watercolor from Kingsley Calkins, who was a great friend and
encourager, especially in the use of color. Joan moved into
acrylics, wood and mixed media in the 1990's independent of any
instruction beyond her intuition (except for her husband's
beginning guidance on the best way to adhere one found object to
another). So, in this art form Joan considers herself self
taught. She is a kind of a hybrid. Joan began adding clay to
some of her works, mostly heads, and then added found objects
when the clay had been fired. She then painted the work. These
have mostly been angels, saints and martyrs. Her latest love is
basically black and white abstract sculpture and sculptural wall
work of wood and metal, but she does whatever she feels inspired
by in the long run. These may resemble machines that could, or
once did, work.
Pictured: Mechanical Dance, Wood,
Metal, Electronics, Antique Ceiling Tile, Paint, 25 x 10
x 13
Kimiko Petersen
Vickie Peterson-Michalak -
digital; printmaking; mixed media
Email:
prints2001@aol.com
Vickie received her BFA from Eastern
Michigan University in 1977
with a major in printmaking, and now incorporates her 28
years of
graphic and commercial screen printing experience as
owner/operator of
Imagecrafters, Inc (Ann Arbor) in her work. She creates
digital
collages and mixed media compositions of spatial planes and
illusion that have roots in traditional pieced quilt designs
and patterns found in nature and our surroundings. Her work
has been displayed in several Ann Arbor Women Artists'
juried shows (winning several awards) and she has showed in
several Ann Arbor Art Center juried shows, including
The Print (earning "Best of Show" in 2007), the All Media
Shows; and A Place at the Table. She has also
exhibited is several local Ann Arbor and University of
Michigan shows.
Pictured: Caladesi Island,
Digital on Archival Paper, 9 x 14
Greta Picklesimer - photography;
oil; acrylic; watercolor
Email:
greta242@sbcglobal.net
Visit:
www.GretaPhotos.com
Greta is
a self-taught artist who works in oil, acrylic, and
watercolor, as well as the occasional oil monotytpe. She
also is a professional portrait photographer, trained as a
photojournalist at Eastern Michigan University through an
independent, interdisciplinary program.
Greta has been interested in art all her life. She bought
paints and brushes and papers and then put them on a shelf
waiting for inspiration to hit, waiting for that big "ta da"
moment when she would be worthy to pick them up and begin.
That moment never came. Finally, she decided to try
something - even if she failed - and began with a watercolor
still life. She arranged an apple, clear glass and knife on
a cutting board. She was surprised that she had painted them
very close to real life - what they actually looked like.
Painting something so close to the actual thing was
disconcerting and she put the paints away for several years,
thinking "what if I can’t paint anything else like this
again?" She didn't want to fail, so she allowed the fear of
failure to prevail...for a time.
Now she tries to paint every day. "I am amazed at how
beautiful these meditative paintings are as I create various
views of Lake Michigan on canvas using layers of paint and
simple lines".
Pictured:
View of Lake Michigan I,
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24
Joan Plohr -
watercolor; sumie ink
Email:
jpplohr@comcast.net
Jeanne M. Pohl -
watercolor;
collage; oil
Email:
jeannepohl@comcast.net
Diane Pons - mixed media
Email:
dpons@sbcglobal.net
Joanne Porter -
watercolor
Email:
jporter@emich.edu
Gloria Pritschet -
unaltered
photography; assemblage
Email:
gloria1212@aol.com
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Ann G. Rea - mixed media
Email:
appleannie35@yahoo.com
Paulette Reeves
Dian Rentschler -
oil; watercolor; pencil; pen and ink
Email:
dhaguere@aol.com
Visit:
www.DianRentschler.com
Karen A. L. Richardson
Email:
karenanna1@sbcglobal.net
Kate Roesch -
painting; collage
Email:
kroesch@comcast.net
Theresa Rojas
- acrylic; watercolor; charcoal
Email: theresa@theresarojas.com

Visit:
www.TheresaRojas.com
Freelance
artist, Theresa Rojas, is a San Francisco Latina
transplanted to Ann Arbor 10 years ago. Her use of vibrant
color, particularly inspired by living in Michigan, has
begun to attract a following of collectors from across the
country. She works primarily in acrylics, watercolor, and
charcoal. Launching her website represents her first foray
into sharing her art with the general public. Theresa is a
graduate of UC Berkeley and Eastern Michigan
University and loves to "get messy".
Pictured:
Adobe Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20
Pamela
Roselle - acrylic; oil; watercolor
Email:
pam.roselle@gmail.com

Visit:
www.PamRoselle.com
Pam recently launched her art career by exhibiting her
acrylic paintings of Trees in the 2008 Ann Arbor's
South University Art Fair Emerging Artist Program. Her
intention as a contemporary painter is to create bodies of
work that express the essence of nature and its inherent
rhythm. Using layer upon layer of color, strong lines and
textures she aims to paint the feelings she sees in the
world and to draw the viewer into her bliss. The unforeseen
discoveries, the zen of flowing paint and the emotions
evoked by vibrant color combinations keep her painting with
passion, exploring new watermedia techniques and eager to
create abundantly. Her hope is that viewers of her paintings
enjoy the end result as much as she enjoys the creative
process.
Pictured: Maple Grove,
Acrylic, 12 x 36
Joan Rosenblum
-
pastel; oil
Email:
jrosenblum@comcast.net
Adele M. Roy -
watercolor
Email:
adeleroy@sbcglobal.net
Visit:
web.mac.com/adeleroy
Adele grew
up on the East Coast surrounded by paintings created by
relatives on both sides of her family. She studied graphic
design in college and worked in magazine and book publishing
for many years. It is only recently that she has pursued her
own artistic interests - including photography, painting,
quilting and fiber arts, doll making, and beadwork - through
both self-guided study and formal classes. In all media, a
fascination with texture and color variation inspires her
selection of subject matter and her resulting
interpretation.
Pictured: Pears on a Plate, Watercolor, 8.5 x 10.5
Jan Rudisill - watercolor
Email: jan@rudisill.ws
Meredith Russell-Fay -
oil; ceramics
Email:
meredifay@gmail.com
Meredith lives
in the woods and teaches Psychology to college students. For
her, the impulse to paint rises from a desire to express
aspects of psychological truth that are not efficiently
communicated in words. In Meredith's accidentally
neo-impressionistic portraits she strives to reveal the
essential nature of her subject, while also creating an oil
painting that can be appreciated as a thing of beauty in and
of itself.
Pictured:
Lief and His Dragon, Oil,
36 X 36
Irene
Ruzicka - watercolor; oil
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