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name: Bill Anderson
phone: 214.918.8922
description: video photographer

name: Harb Drake
phone: 509.526.6873
website: wallawallaartistsalliance.com/harbertdrake.html
description: Aersol art and Buckaroos' photography

name: L. A. Fairbanks
website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/lafairbanks.html
email: summerofdiscontent@gmail.com
description: The works of L. A. Fairbanks is recycled from other venues: metal scrap yards, forest floors, junk stores, digging in the yard. First law of thermodynamics, studying the flow of energy, suggests that energy can be transferred from one system to another in many forms. It is not created or destroyed.
I often bring home various treasures: shapes, colors, ideas, random items discovered in my path. These stew in the bell jar of my brain until the moment when I begin searching for order with intent. Then I simply pour, using the things around me, and the pieces create themselves.
Last year I worked extensively with aluminum, copper, brass, steel, wood and photography. Shaping and carving with an angle grinder, playing with various acids and bases in tinting, resurfacing abandoned treasures. Fall of 2007 I had a show of photographs taken mostly of rusted metal barrels from local scrap yards. The photos were inlaid within handmade frames that I carved or textured to bring a three dimensional aspect. The show in February of 2008, I carved aluminum and mounted a continuation of the abstracted photographs on top. My newest ventures, shown at Willow of Walla Walla Aug/Sept 2008, add wood to various metals to create visual representations of the "Human Form: Artists Interpretations." Delving into worlds within and without, the human figure is shown as metaphor and literal translations of the many realms that are human.

name: Mark Farr, Artist/Goldsmith
phone: 509.522.2576
website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/markfarr.html
email: marcusart13@yahoo.com
description: Artist/goldsmith Mark L. Farr was born in Spokane, Washington. A multi-media artist, Mark creates fine jewelry and is an accomplished potter and sculptor. His interest in art started at an early age. " I remember being about 10 years old digging in the clay-rich soil around our cabin and creating little creatures out of it, my great start at sculpting!" By high school he had become an accomplished potter. "I love to throw on the wheel. There is something about taking a piece of clay and shaping it into a beautiful work of art". That interest led to Mark taking a jewelry design class . As a senior he was awarded the "National Gold Key Award" in jewelry design. "I learned the fasinating art of 'lost wax' casting - carving rings out of wax to be cast." An art major in college he continued to excel in art, but at that time decided to pursue his passion for jewelry design. As an apprentice in Spokane he learned the trade of goldsmith /diamond setter. For the following 30 years, Mark practiced his trade of becoming a master-goldsmith. Presently Mark and his wife Mary Ellen own and operate "Finest Jewelry By Farr" doing custom design and repair. Their shop is located at Martin's Jewelers in Walla Walla, Wa. Mark manufactures a line of Christian jewelry for "Covenant Ring". " Covenant ring has been a wonderful business to be associated with,enabling me to glorify God through this wonderful gift He has given me."
Mark's experience as a potter, together with his ability to carve intricate waxes for jewelry, has enabled him to make the natural transition to larger bronze sculpting with excellent detail. Years spent at his favorite pastime of fishing and his love of the outdoors has given Mark his greatest inspiration. Mark accepts commissioned work and some of his work can be seen at the WSU alumni center and Walla Walla University's Teri Kuhlman Fitness Center.

name: Bonnie Zahn Griffith
phone: 509.301.1188
website: bonniegriffith.com
email: bzgriff@charter.net
description: Bonnie Griffith is artist who focuses primarily in regional landscapes of a representational to impressionistic nature. She works mostly in dry pastels with some use of oil pastels and acr ylics. "I say the work is all about color, but I want the viewer to be able to step into that painting and allow their senses to feel the temperature of the day, smell the grasses or impending rain and visually take a journey that allows them a time of pleasure experiencing t he landscape of the northwest."
Other work is collage and paper craft utilizing a variety of papers, inks, gourds and other objects to tell a story.
There is also a blog site: bgriffithatcrookedcreekarts.blogspot.com.

name: Martha Mason, Artist
phone: 509.520.9649
website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/marthamason.html and broderickgallery.com
description: Collage painting which is based in life drawing defines the work. Specifically lots of lines, in variety: these dance with paint, and necessarily vie for space. "Sharp" versus "soft" gives the desired tensions, which are played against both muted and saturated colors. One can always expect a certain unnaturalness (flourescent dabs) next to "mud"; these are robbed of vulgarity by singular calligraphic application, and together hopefully define a new nature.

name: Jeanne McMenemy
phone: 509.525.3785
website: mcmenemy.myexpose.com
description: I am a calligrapher and graphic designer. I do commissioned calligraphy work: poetry, certificates, broadsides, etc., for those who want something special written out in a personal and beautiful way. I design brochures, business cards, logos, etc., for a wide variety of clients. I also create mixed media drawings, and design and produce a small line of giclée prints and greeting cards from my calligraphy and photos, as well as from my husband, sculptor Wayne Chabre's drawings. The cards and prints are available at Willow, in Walla Walla.

name: Museum of Un-Natural History
contact person: Gerald Matthews
phone: 509.529.9399
website: wallawalladada.com
email: info@wallawalladada.com
description: Surreal and dadist constructions with a critical slant on society and all its foibles. Very amusing and instructive from a different point of view.

name: Sherry Orchard
phone: 509-200-9090
website: sherryorchardart.com
email: sherry.orchard@gmail.com
description: Sherry Orchard is a lifelong resident of the Walla Walla Valley. Her primary focus is on the wildlife and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Although she does create paintings on canvas, her preferred choice of painting surface is feathers. She has created pieces on small individual feathers to much larger paintings on multiple peacock feathers. Her work has been sold to clients across the United States and to countries such as France, England and Australia.

name: Katy Rizzuti
website: www.rizzutistudio.com
email: rizzutistudio@gmail.com
description: Oil Paintings (landscapes, impressionistic) and Sketchbooks (moments, words).

name: Colleen Sargen, Artist
website: colleensargen.com
email: colleen@colleensargen.com
description: Colleen Sargen is a multi-media artist; a sculptor working with metal, reclaimed objects and furniture, and natural stone which is often backlit. Also a painter and printmaker, her style is abstract with bold color fields and deeply textural layers constructed of both geometric and organic shapes and embossing. Contact for appointment.

name: Diana Schmidt
phone: 509 529-1448
website: wallawallaartistalliance.com
email: dianas43@q.com
description: I do a lot of illustration work and commissions for individuals and companies. Cards, posters and other printed items feature life in Walla Walla. Watercolor and acrylics, oil and chalk pastels, as well as colored pencil are used in my studio. See my resume on the WWAA website.

name: Jane and Al Roberts aka Windward Studio
contact person: Jane Roberts
phone: 509.529.4713
website: wallawallaartistalliance.com
email: windward@charter.net
description: functional and decorative pottery

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	name: Bill Anderson phone: 214.918.8922 description: video photographer name: Harb Drake phone: 509.526.6873 website: wallawallaartistsalliance.com/harbertdrake.html description: Aersol art and Buckaroos' photography name: L. A. Fairbanks website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/lafairbanks.html email: summerofdiscontent@gmail.com description: The works of L. A. Fairbanks is recycled from other venues: metal scrap yards, forest floors, junk stores, digging in the yard. First law of thermodynamics, studying the flow of energy, suggests that energy can be transferred from one system to another in many forms. It is not created or destroyed. I often bring home various treasures: shapes, colors, ideas, random items discovered in my path. These stew in the bell jar of my brain until the moment when I begin searching for order with intent. Then I simply pour, using the things around me, and the pieces create themselves. Last year I worked extensively with aluminum, copper, brass, steel, wood and photography. Shaping and carving with an angle grinder, playing with various acids and bases in tinting, resurfacing abandoned treasures. Fall of 2007 I had a show of photographs taken mostly of rusted metal barrels from local scrap yards. The photos were inlaid within handmade frames that I carved or textured to bring a three dimensional aspect. The show in February of 2008, I carved aluminum and mounted a continuation of the abstracted photographs on top. My newest ventures, shown at Willow of Walla Walla Aug/Sept 2008, add wood to various metals to create visual representations of the "Human Form: Artists Interpretations." Delving into worlds within and without, the human figure is shown as metaphor and literal translations of the many realms that are human. name: Mark Farr, Artist/Goldsmith phone: 509.522.2576 website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/markfarr.html email: marcusart13@yahoo.com description: Artist/goldsmith Mark L. Farr was born in Spokane, Washington. A multi-media artist, Mark creates fine jewelry and is an accomplished potter and sculptor. His interest in art started at an early age. " I remember being about 10 years old digging in the clay-rich soil around our cabin and creating little creatures out of it, my great start at sculpting!" By high school he had become an accomplished potter. "I love to throw on the wheel. There is something about taking a piece of clay and shaping it into a beautiful work of art". That interest led to Mark taking a jewelry design class . As a senior he was awarded the "National Gold Key Award" in jewelry design. "I learned the fasinating art of 'lost wax' casting - carving rings out of wax to be cast." An art major in college he continued to excel in art, but at that time decided to pursue his passion for jewelry design. As an apprentice in Spokane he learned the trade of goldsmith /diamond setter. For the following 30 years, Mark practiced his trade of becoming a master-goldsmith. Presently Mark and his wife Mary Ellen own and operate "Finest Jewelry By Farr" doing custom design and repair. Their shop is located at Martin's Jewelers in Walla Walla, Wa. Mark manufactures a line of Christian jewelry for "Covenant Ring". " Covenant ring has been a wonderful business to be associated with,enabling me to glorify God through this wonderful gift He has given me." Mark's experience as a potter, together with his ability to carve intricate waxes for jewelry, has enabled him to make the natural transition to larger bronze sculpting with excellent detail. Years spent at his favorite pastime of fishing and his love of the outdoors has given Mark his greatest inspiration. Mark accepts commissioned work and some of his work can be seen at the WSU alumni center and Walla Walla University's Teri Kuhlman Fitness Center. name: Bonnie Zahn Griffith phone: 509.301.1188 website: bonniegriffith.com email: bzgriff@charter.net description: Bonnie Griffith is artist who focuses primarily in regional landscapes of a representational to impressionistic nature. She works mostly in dry pastels with some use of oil pastels and acr ylics. "I say the work is all about color, but I want the viewer to be able to step into that painting and allow their senses to feel the temperature of the day, smell the grasses or impending rain and visually take a journey that allows them a time of pleasure experiencing t he landscape of the northwest." Other work is collage and paper craft utilizing a variety of papers, inks, gourds and other objects to tell a story. There is also a blog site: bgriffithatcrookedcreekarts.blogspot.com. name: Martha Mason, Artist phone: 509.520.9649 website: wallawallaartistalliance.com/marthamason.html and broderickgallery.com description: Collage painting which is based in life drawing defines the work. Specifically lots of lines, in variety: these dance with paint, and necessarily vie for space. "Sharp" versus "soft" gives the desired tensions, which are played against both muted and saturated colors. One can always expect a certain unnaturalness (flourescent dabs) next to "mud"; these are robbed of vulgarity by singular calligraphic application, and together hopefully define a new nature. name: Jeanne McMenemy phone: 509.525.3785 website: mcmenemy.myexpose.com description: I am a calligrapher and graphic designer. I do commissioned calligraphy work: poetry, certificates, broadsides, etc., for those who want something special written out in a personal and beautiful way. I design brochures, business cards, logos, etc., for a wide variety of clients. I also create mixed media drawings, and design and produce a small line of giclée prints and greeting cards from my calligraphy and photos, as well as from my husband, sculptor Wayne Chabre's drawings. The cards and prints are available at Willow, in Walla Walla. name: Museum of Un-Natural History contact person: Gerald Matthews phone: 509.529.9399 website: wallawalladada.com email: info@wallawalladada.com description: Surreal and dadist constructions with a critical slant on society and all its foibles. Very amusing and instructive from a different point of view. name: Sherry Orchard phone: 509-200-9090 website: sherryorchardart.com email: sherry.orchard@gmail.com description: Sherry Orchard is a lifelong resident of the Walla Walla Valley. Her primary focus is on the wildlife and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Although she does create paintings on canvas, her preferred choice of painting surface is feathers. She has created pieces on small individual feathers to much larger paintings on multiple peacock feathers. Her work has been sold to clients across the United States and to countries such as France, England and Australia. name: Katy Rizzuti website: www.rizzutistudio.com email: rizzutistudio@gmail.com description: Oil Paintings (landscapes, impressionistic) and Sketchbooks (moments, words). name: Colleen Sargen, Artist website: colleensargen.com email: colleen@colleensargen.com description: Colleen Sargen is a multi-media artist; a sculptor working with metal, reclaimed objects and furniture, and natural stone which is often backlit. Also a painter and printmaker, her style is abstract with bold color fields and deeply textural layers constructed of both geometric and organic shapes and embossing. Contact for appointment. name: Diana Schmidt phone: 509 529-1448 website: wallawallaartistalliance.com email: dianas43@q.com description: I do a lot of illustration work and commissions for individuals and companies. Cards, posters and other printed items feature life in Walla Walla. Watercolor and acrylics, oil and chalk pastels, as well as colored pencil are used in my studio. See my resume on the WWAA website. name: Jane and Al Roberts aka Windward Studio contact person: Jane Roberts phone: 509.529.4713 website: wallawallaartistalliance.com email: windward@charter.net description: functional and decorative pottery Would you like to be added to the list? Please use the form below to submit your information.


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