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Our purpose is:
to facilitate a rewarding experience for participants,
to promote the arts and,
to engage people in the creative process
in an environment of sharing, exploring, experimenting with artists and people of like mind.
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Laura Cole - Laura's glass mosaics can be seen in private homes, shops, shows and galleries throughout PEI. Her "glass on glass" mosaic technique is used for unique one of a kind windows, glass panels, doorways etc. as well as framed pictures. She particularly likes to add creative new touches to older furniture, house features and old windows. Laura shares her talents as an excellent teacher and runs her business "Random Pieces" from her studio in south eastern PEI. We are fortunate to have her join us and offer a course this summer. |
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Suzanne Hastings-James – Suzanne is a career educator with experience teaching and administering in elementary and secondary school, college and university. She is currently teaching in the Faculty of Education, UPEI and is the director of PEI School of the Arts. |
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Betty Jenkins – Betty recently returned to PEI from British Columbia, where she painted with a local group and studied with various B.C. watercolour artists including Alex Fong and Tove Sorenson. She has taken workshops with well-know author and artist Zolton Zabo. She works primarily in watercolour and tissue collage and paints on various papers. “Light and shadow intrigue me and form the basis of my paintings. This is evident in my PEI landscapes and florals. Watercolour is a wonderful medium. It lends itself beautifully to simplicity of shape and contrast. The liquidity and unpredictability of the medium demand constant adjusting and adapting. In watercolour the process leads the artist."
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Leslie Kwiatkowski – Leslie has done extremely well with “PEI Smoke Fired Pottery” and was awarded “Best New Product” for 2005, by the PEI Craft and Giftware Buyers Market. Her functional, non-functional pottery pieces and clay sculpture, using smoke-fired and horsehair-firing techniques, can be seen in galleries and gift shops throughout the island. After attending NBCCD Studio Potter course, she began her own very successful business: “PEI Smoke Fired Pottery”. Her work is unique and very popular, so we are fortunate to have her share her love of pottery and skills with us. Leslie is assisted by Josh Dyment. Josh's creative abilities and considerable experience with Raku firing/kiln operation compliment Leslie's teaching and enables optimal firing opportunities for participants.
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Marg Millard - Marg lives in the quiet seaside community of White Point, Nova Scotia where she paints, quilts, gardens and engages in many creative pursuits. The natural environment, changing seasons, wildlife and seashore inspire her work. Her artistic endeavours include cartography, graphics, needlework, woodworking, pysanky, painting and painting on floorcloths. She has given workshops on pysanky and floor cloth painting in Atlantic Canada and her works are shown throughout Canada.
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Dianne Hicks Morrow -Since the publication of her poetry collection, "Long Reach Home"(Acorn Press, 2002), Dianne has given readings and writing workshops in the three maritime provinces and in Labrador, Edmonton and Vancouver. She was director of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI (1999-02). She is past president of the PEI Writer's Guild and now writes and teaches full time. Her own life writing is in the form of award-winning poetry and humorous personal essays aired on CBC radio. Her non-fiction book, Kindred Spirits: Relationships the Spark the Soul, contains interviews with 27 Atlantic Canadians about the kindred spirit "elationships" in their lives.
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