 | After graduation from Baldwin-Wallace University with an art major my career began as a junior high school art teacher. After a couple years I segued to other occupations, including a stint as a union carpenter, Local 509 of Cleveland Ohio and selling shoes at Dillard’s. More recently I returned to art, taking classes from western artist James Coulter (oils), Ellen Wagener (pastels), and at ABTL and PV Artists. Read more on her page... |
 | Kaj Lofgreen (Kai) is a Sun City resident who currently is a caregiver for a family member and a part-time ministry student. He holds bachelor's degrees in fine art and art education from the University of Nebraska and a master’s degree in art education from the University of Missouri. He has taught art at the secondary level and workshops through an art league in Missouri. For the past few years his focus has been primarily on landscape painting and particularly en plain air painting with oil, and additionally studio paintings in oil and acrylic. Read more on his page... |
 | Born and raised in Northwestern, Nebraska, in farm country with little exposure to art or artists, opportunities for art classes were nonexistent. As a result, I am self-taught. I resided outside the Continental United States from 1979-2001 in Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Guam, Hawaii and Yap, Micronesia, and taught watercolor and drawing. My focus on my work was influenced by the cultures around me. I worked as a creative animation director in Indonesia and Australia. I developed and conducted drawing and portfolio presentations for a Youth Adult Bureau in Melbourne. Life in Guam confirmed my work as an art instructor teaching DOE a Gifted and Talented Program. Read more on her page... |
 | I am a Minnesota native, moving to Arizona in 1982. I am a self-taught artist and work in all mediums. I have taught classes for the Palo Verde Art club for almost 19 years. Currently, I have been teaching Acrylic painting. I have earned degrees in CADD drafting and Graphic Design and taught classes in the Graphic design program for 11 years before moving to Sun City. I don't have one favorite medium; I love working in all of them. Read more on her page... |
 | My life and love of art started with my birth. I cannot remember when I was not fascinated with creating what I envisioned in my mind. So when I was the age of 19, I made it my goal to become proficient enough in painting to reproduce the image of a person and make it look like them. Along the way, I learned how to paint still life and landscapes, so when I painted my first portrait, I realized my goal. Read more on her page... |
 | My art journey has been a long wandering path through various artistic areas. First, I became a potter and then moved into watercolor. I had no intention of painting, then something unexpected happened. As I threw pots on the wheel, watercolorists from another class would walk by with their creations gripped in their hands. Looking at the colors and subjects lit a fire in me to learn to paint! Art has been a great love of mine since second grade. My passion is abstract watercolors with deep, brilliant colors, although I paint many different subjects. Read more on her page... |
 | Jennie (J. A.) Bergerson has been in Arizona since 1988. She taught music education or technology education in the Peoria Unified School District from 1988-2016. Jen grew up in and around Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a young teen, Jennie loved taking visual art classes in school as well as at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. In 1993 Jen learned to paint Norwegian Rogaland style of Rosemaling, which is oil painting symmetrical designs of mainly flowers and scrolls. Read more on her page... |
 | Lee’s primary interest is capturing the essence of people, whether portrait or full figure, with various drawing and water mixed media and special emphasis on tonality and the play of light on the human body. She also has a long time love of dance, fantasy and storytelling, graduating with a major in illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Fine and Applied Arts in upstate NY. Read more about Lee Hill here |
 | Paula Artac, D.Min, ATR-BC, is a professional watercolor artist, board certified art therapist with the American Art Therapy Association, member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, university instructor, liturgical art designer, illuminator and author. For 40 years, she owned her own business as an archival artwork framer. Her watercolor paintings have won local and national recognition. “Wolf Eyes,” her award-winning watercolor, was published in Best of Watercolor II, Rockport Publishers, 1997. Read more about Paula here |
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