As a person who requires solitude, Felicia often struggles with the intrusions of modern life. There seems little time for quiet reflection in our lives today. Felicia’s art returns her to peaceful walks through the woods and along riverbanks, allowing the progression of the natural year to transcend day-to-day intrusions. As she watches nature find ways to renew and impose itself, she is struck and inspired by its power, beauty, and simplicity. Felicia received a BFA from Central Michigan University and an MFA from Arizona State University ), Her work is represented by the River Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan.

Pictured:  Clouds and Cattails, Soft pastel on paper, 24” X 31”

Hannah O. Malyn - Oil, Watercolor, Charcoal
   Email:  hannah.o.malyn@gmail.com

Shel Markel - Acrylic, Charcoal
   Email:  shelmarkel@hotmail.com

As he neared retirement from the practice of medicine, Shel considered returning to school to study art history; however, he soon realized that he wanted more of an outlet for self-expression and creativity, so he took up where he left off some fifty years before, making art. Shel works mostly in acrylics and he usually emphasizes vivid colors. His subject matter has been primarily still life, but his more recent work includes figurative drawing and painting, both human and horses. 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 has had several commissions, and he is represented by Pierre-Paul Gallery in Ann Arbor.

Pictured:  Pears on Black, Acrylic on Canvas, 20 X 16

Marilyn Marsh - Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
   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 - Painting
   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:  Fall Collage, Acrylic assemblage, 60” x 88”

Edith Maynard - Watercolor
   Email:  maynardallen@aol.com

   Visit:  edithmaynardwatercolors.com

Edith’s paintings reflect a lifelong fascination with the shapes and patterns inherent in our world: in components of machinery, in entire industrial and agricultural sites, and in plant forms and natural landscapes. In order to express her strong emotional responses to this subject matter, her passion for shapes, patterns, and geometric relationships is often translated into paintings through the use of altered or exaggerated colors or by emphasis on selected features. The “real world” is thus interpreted so as to lead viewers toward their own fresh responses to the material. Edith’s interest in expression through painting became dominant following a career in University teaching and research in neurobiology. Her work has won awards in national juried exhibitions and is presented locally in the Chelsea Gallery.

Pictured:  Hope, watercolor, 28” X 20”

Gwyn McKay - Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media/Collage
   Email:  gwynmckay@gmail.com

   Visit:  gwynmckay.wordpress.com

Making art is a mesmerizing, delightful, challenging and 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.

Pictured:  Tall Trees, Mixed Media, 28 x 12

Eathel Mendenhall - Mixed Media Paintings
   Email:  gmendy@umich.edu

Cathy Mercer - Oil, Photography
   Email:  mercer12@aol.com

Angie Nagle Miller - Acrylic, 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:  Hiking the Clear Creek Trail, Acrylic, 28” X 22”

Joan Miller - Charcoal, Mixed Media/Collage
   Email:  joanmill@tds.net

Sandi Miller - Pastel
   Email:  desamiller@aol.com

Carol Morris
   Email:  SilkRhino@aol.com

Mary Mortensen

John Murrel - Acrylic, Oil
   Email:  john_murrel@malloy.com

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Susan G. Nordlinger - Painting
   Email:  graynordlinger@yahoo.com

Carolyn O’Neill - Digital, Photography
   Email:  coneill@emich.edu

Terry Odell - Photography
   Email:  taobear14@comcast.net

Terry is a photographer in Ann Arbor. She ”discovered” her artistic side while taking a drawing class, ”Learning to Draw Using the Right Side of the Brain”, just a few years ago! The class helped her see the world from a different perspective. Nature’s beauty is a particular favorite for Terry to photograph. She also enjoys photographing people and pets. ”My camera goes with me everywhere, I never know when a great opportunity for a beautiful photo will come along. Photography is my passion!”

Pictured:  At The Front, Photography

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Dee Overly - Colored Pencil, Pencil and Graphite, Ink
   Email:  deeoverly@yahoo.com

   Visit:  http://DeeOverly.com

Dee is primarily a pencil pusher, with colored pencils being the tools of main choice. Dee exhibits her work regularly in both juried and non-juried shows and has won awards for her colored pencil paintings. Her work has appeared in the American Artist Magazine, the Drawing Magazine and three books. Dee holds a degree in Architecture Design and is a member of the Ann Arbor Women Artists, Chelsea Painters, Colored Pencil Society of America, and the Detroit Colored Pencil Chapter 104.

Pictured:  Peaches, Colored pencil, 7” X 8.5”

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Marge Pacer - Acrylic
   Email:  paint4id@yahoo.com

Joan Painter Jones - Mixed Media Paintings, Sculpture
   Email:  dcjpjones@aol.com

Joan has been a member of the AAWA for over thirty years now, 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:  burnt offering, mixed media, 11 1/2” X 16” X 9&

Kathy Pellikkla - Watercolor

Marin Perusek - Painting, Mixed Media/Collage
   Email:  marin@mellona.com

Gabrielle Pescador - Acrylic, Mixed Media Paintings, Fiber
   Email:  pescadorarte@gmail.com

   Visit:  www.pescadorarte.com

Gabrielle Pescador is a painter and mixed media artist who is fueled by her deep attraction to the shape-shifting power of the sacred in our lives and the creative impulse that drives us. Through her love of color, texture and visual story-telling, she expresses her most intimate feelings and imaginations about the transformative power of nature, tradition and culture. Gabrielle was born in Canada and lives in Ann Arbor. She has presented her work in the US, Canada and Singapore.

Pictured:  Everywhere He Ever walked, acrylic on canvas, 24” X 30”

Vickie Peterson-Michalak - Digital, Mixed Media/Collage
   Email:  prints2001@aol.com

Vicki received her BFA in 1977 from EMU with a major in printmaking. She is now incorporating 30 years of graphic and commercial screen printing experience as owner/operator of Imagecrafters, Inc. in Ann Arbor in her work, creating digital and mixed media compositions of spacial planes and illusions that have design roots in traditional pieced quilt designs and patterns found in nature and our surroundings. Work has been displayed in several shows in Ann Arbor including: AAWA’s 2006 -09 juried shows, Ann Arbors Art Center’s juried “The Print” in 2007-09, winning Best of Show 07, “All Media 08” show and other juried shows in galleries at UM.

Pictured:  Pieced Landscape- Gathering at Sunset, mixed media, 16” X 20”

Joan Plohr - Watercolor, Ink
   Email:  jpplohr@comcast.net

Jeanne M. Pohl - Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media/Collage
   Email:  jeannepohl@comcast.net

Joanne Porter - Watercolor
   Email:  jporter@emich.edu

Linda Preece
   Email:  lpreece@ameritech.net

   Visit:  www.michiganpleinair.com

Painting for nearly 25 years in several different mediums Linda has found her passion painting in pastel. Most recently she has been painting en plein air, and finds the immediacy of pastel works well in capturing the constantly moving light and shadows of the landscape. She is a member of the Brighton Art Guild, Great Lakes Pastel Society, Michigan Plein Air Painters and Ann Arbor Women Artists.

Pictured:  One Magical Evening, pastel, 14” X 18”

Gloria Pritschet - Assemblage, Photography
   Email:  gloria1212@aol.com

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Anita Rabideau - Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings, Photography
   Email:  rabidoodles@gmail.com

Ann G. Rea - Mixed Media Paintings
   Email:  appleannie35@yahoo.com

Dian Rentschler - Oil, Watercolor, Pencil and Graphite, Ink
   Email:  dhaguere@aol.com

Colleen Retherford - Photography
   Email:  bettylousimages@gmail.com

Maureen Adams Riley - Pastel, Watercolor, Ink
   Email:  madamsriley@comcast.net

Theresa Rojas - Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed Media Paintings
   Email:  theresa@theresarojas.com

Self-taught freelance artist, Theresa Rojas, is a San Francisco Latina transplanted to Ann Arbor. She grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District, surrounded by colorful murals, music, and amazing food. Theresa came to the practice of art just a few years ago, encouraged by a good friend who set her up with her first easel. Her use of vibrant color, particularly inspired both by her culture and by living in Michigan, has begun to attract a following of collectors from across the country. She works primarily in acrylics and watercolor, with a heavy tendency toward work on treescapes and sunscapes. While her trees are inspired by Ann Arbor, the suns are a nod to the Aztec idea “del Quinto Sol” or the legend of the Fifth Sun.

Pictured:  Molten, acrylic on masonite, 18” X 24”

Pamela Roselle - Acrylic, Watercolor, Ink
   Email:  pam.roselle@gmail.com

   Visit:  www.pamroselle.com

Pam’s intention is to create art that expresses the essence of nature and its inherent rhythm. Using layer upon layer of pigment on remarkable textures, Pam paints the feelings she sees in the world and attempts to draw the viewer into her bliss. Most of Pam’s paintings are created on canvas, board or paper using acrylics. However, she loves to experiment on alternate substrates and with other water-based media. It is the unforeseen discoveries, the zen of flowing paint, and the emotions evoked by different color combinations that keep her painting with passion. Her hope is that viewers of her work enjoy the end result as much as she enjoys the creative process.

Pictured:  Blue Bamboo, mixed media, 36” X 30”

Joan Rosenblum - Oil, Pastel
   Email:  jrosenblum@comcast.net

Joan, a BFA graduate of Eastern Michigan University, is an abstract expressionist whose works have been exhibited in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, Ann Arbor and other juried shows throughout Michigan. As a student, she won First Prize at the EMU Annual Show at the Sill Gallery in 1977. A winner of numerous awards, including the “Art Times Award” at the Pastel Society of America’s Annual Juried Exhibition held at the National Arts Gallery, in New York City. Her work was published in The Pastel Journal’s 100 Exceptional Paintings issue in April, 2008 and she was recognized as a finalist in The Artist Magazine’s “The Years Best Art” issue in December, 2007. Local art critic, John Carlos Cantu in reviewing her work noted that “Upon entering the T’Marra Gallery, the viewer will be struck by the diaphanous of Rosenblum’s paintings as these work disarm the eye with ethereal pastels.” He further observed “Rosenblum’s pastels combine space and infinity through her sensuous color fields that toy with various combinations of soft- focus patterns blurring into opaque mists.” Her works, both pastels and oils, are included in numerous corporate and private collections nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Ann Arbor Women Artists and the Great Lakes Pastel Society and is represented by ARTSearch in Ann Arbor.

Pictured:  Through The Red, Oil painting, 5’ X 5'

Jan Rudisill - Watercolor
   Email:  jan@rudisill.ws

 

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