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Roster of Visual Artists

Janice Veal: Janice is undoubtedly the "most valuable player" on this roster.
A visual artist of long experience, she has been an artist-in-residence for many years in the Local Artist in the Schools Program. She is able to work any grade level with materials and approaches that fit the age of the students. Most of her evaluations are superior.

In past years, Janice worked with:

• Anacortes Middle School Teacher Becky Motherwell and her 8th grade students on "Communicating the Power of the Written Word through the Visual Arts." The students created books of their best work.
• Anacortes High School Teacher Candace Vitale and her students on "Kinetic Sculpture for a Public Space with Calder Influence." This included studying the shapes and movements of birds, then creating an Alexander Calder-like mobile using strictly recycled materials. This piece is on display at the Public Library.
• Others: "Native American Masks/History", with a third grade class; "Northwest Coast Indian Design" with another third grade class.

There are others, too many to contain them here. Janice will work with practically any group, working with the classroom teacher to plan the workshop or activity. She is open to any new ideas a teacher may have.

June Gouran-Haddox: June is a superb teacher of the visual arts. A long time Local Artist in the Schools, she is extremely flexible, with skills in seemingly every area. Watercolor, clay work and art history are her favorites, but she also loves to bring art into academic subjects like chemistry, biology, anatomy and physiology.

In past years, June worked with:

• Anacortes High School Teacher Candice Vitale and her students to create "Architectural Clay Relief." It explored student's understanding of age, texture and design forms as they relate to architecture. And looking into designs of different periods. Then the students created clay pieces to reflect the new knowledge, completing the pieces in a raku kiln for reduction firing.
• Fidalgo Elementary Teacher Colleen Marinkov and her second graders on "A View of Trees Through Art and Poetry." Students had their first exposure to art critiques, learned to identify different trees and their design, learned art technique, and wrote a poem on the book "Everybody Needs a Rock."
• Mt. Erie Elementary Teacher Peter Donaldson and Tracy Catlin and 50 first and second graders on "Connecting Art to the History of Ancient Egypt." Students created Egyptian burial masks, developed study of kinesthetic learning with clay and paper mache'.

June also worked on a study of Mexican foods, helping young students learn the shape and design of food, their names and history and created a mural. June is very open to matching art activities with other disciplines and subjects.

Jane Hyde: Jane is a basket weaver of very high quality and reputation. She works well with many grades.

She has her own studio in Anacortes, and teaches throughout the region. In past years, she worked with:

• Kathy Ruckdaschel and Kris Roney's 50 first graders on creating a cylinder, studying 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes and paper flowers with pipe cleaner stems. Each child ended up with their own basket and flowers to take home.
• Judy Middleton and 23 second graders in creating baskets that helped students understand other culture's uses for baskets, how they in general solve problems with tool building, also enhancing student's understanding of mathematical patterns and dimension.

Bailey Cunningham: Bailey is a founder of the Mandala Project, and in a school context helps students create mandalas using color, shape, line and geometric patterns. There are also some possibilities of working with myth and legend. In past years, she worked with:

• Shirley Barrett and Connie Congleton and 44 second graders worked on creating mandalas. Student's work brought into play geometric knowledge, understanding the use of math in artistic expression, and its value. The also learned that art is an expression of cultural and individual beliefs and respect for themselves and others in the greater community.
• Teena Heeringa and her 35 ninth grade English students. Bailey and the group studied the archetypes of "hero's journey" in literature and film, students created a mandala with symbolic pictures of self. They also extended and applied knowledge of symbolism and metaphor.

Patty Detzer: Patty is a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.F.A. in ceramics and a B.A. in General Art. She also attended the San Francisco Art Institute with a focus in Sculpture. Some of Patty's honors include a book called, "Art of Mosaic Design," she one first place at a Mosaic Show at Pound Gallery in Seattle and is a Member of the King County Arts Commission.

Her teaching experience includes an Artist in residence for the Burlington, La Connor, Mt. Vernon, and Conway school districts.

Patty has worked with all ages and is very excited to join our 2004-05 LAIS Roster!

Michael Stark: Michael Stark has been a professional artist for over 40 years. As an internationally recognized pen and ink artist, Michael has traveled to China, Russia, Japan, Kenya, Ireland as well as many other countries. In recent years he has used these travels as subject matter for his artwork. He first learned his pen and ink drawing technique while a student of zoology at UCLA. Michael first put his drawing skills to use as a medical illustrator for Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Research Department.

Michael has shown his drawings at Seattle's Kirsten, Stonington and Penaca Galleries as well as the Frye Museum. His work has been described as unique story telling rather than just a visual expression. He loves to share the places and people he has experienced with the gallery viewer.

Michael has lived in Anacortes for the last 33 years. He was on the Anacortes School Board for 12 years plus 14 years on the board for the Anacortes Youth Arts and Fidalgo Artists for Youth; after school arts programs for children. Michael has been named Anacortes' Patron of the Arts for his years of support of art education for children.

Roselyn Payne: Roselyn is a retired Home Economics and elementary school teacher available to help teach students crafts of all kinds, knitting, crocheting, embroidery and cross stitch. She has taught for FAFY and is now an instructor for the Anacortes After School Arts Program.

Gus Gosanko: Throughout his life, Art has been a passion for Gus. He has a rather extensive and wide-ranging background in art, with perhaps the heaviest emphasis on sculpture. He's sculpted in most malleable materials, which include water and oil-based clay, wax, high density foam, paper, plaster and concrete. Gus has also created sculpture in materials like marble, slate, glass, soapstone and alabaster. He co-founded the first Digital Graphics Studio in Seattle back in the eighties called Artonics, now called Digital Post and Graphics. He has created bronze sculptures that were eventually made into chocolate pieces at his own chocolate company called Gosanko Chocolate Art, which he founded in 1987, and which is on-going. His formal education ended just shy of four years of Art Education at the University of Washington, but his plans to teach were never realized. It is his hope that he might be able to share his love and enthusiasm for Art with the students of Anacortes.

Susan Russell: As an Artist in Residence for the Washington State Arts Commission, Susan has completed residencies in both elementary and high schools, and Special Ed programs. Residencies have included: Recycle-Recreate-Science; The Art of Color and Language Arts; Botany and Botanical Illustrations, and The History of Our Letters and Writing. Her goal is to help classroom teachers infuse visual art concepts and creativity into other academic subjects. Many students who struggle to learn concepts in science and language arts can succeed when they learn with art. Susan especially likes to customize art units with a particular classroom teacher's needs. More information about her curriculum objectives can be accessed on the artist roster section of the WSAC website: www.arts.wa.gov*. You may see her art and learn about her by visiting her web site: www.susanrussellart.com*.

Kelly Maloney: Kelly received her degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA.

• Collage Artist: Kelly works with images from discarded books and magazines. Choose a theme in the course of study and find images that attract the eye and that relates to the theme.
• Artist in Clay-Hand building and Sculpting: Starting with a thoughtful design on paper, students work with an idea to bring it to form. Hand-building methods explored include slab making, hollowing a round, coil and pinch formations. Decorations will be simple using slips and scrafitto. The methods of sculpting and hand-building are those the ancient Etruscan and Greek Western civilizations. Elementary and Intermediate levels.

Margot Myers: Margot grew up in Central Washington and graduated from Walla Walla College in 2002 with two BAs: Art and Spanish. She taught Spanish and Art programs for a private school in Eastsound, Washington and has worked with 1st through 12th graders. She often integrates the two subjects, especially for the younger grades. In 2004, she began working on her graduate degree in Las Cruces, NM. She finished her MFA in printmaking in 2006. She has just recently moved back to her home state. She spends her days working in her studio and continues to show and promote her work wherever she can. She also spends time teaching printmaking to children and adults alike. She currently works for our ASAP program!
Classroom ideas:

• Margot likes to introduce children to new techniques that they may not have heard of or tried before. She believes that introducing young people to a vast array of tools for creating visual artwork is a great way to encourage individuals artistic expression, as well as to inspire a future in the arts.
• Techniques that would be fun to include in a classroom might include projects in textiles, non-silver photography, printmaking or integrated foreign language and arts projects.
• Here are a few preliminary ideas:
  • pinhole photography
  • printmaking on paper or textiles
  • printmaking group projects (such as an artist book-each student could have a copy of)
  • batik on textiles or paper

Jean Crookes: Jean Crookes has been creating with Glass for 25 years. She started with leaded glass windows. Then moved to acid etching mirror and now that she has more time at home she enjoys Kiln formed glass. Her studio is in her garage so that she can be close to her work.

She has taught classes for the Anacortes Home School Partnership off and on for 5 years and for the ASAP Middle School Art Club. She offers stained glass, kiln formed glass, clay and other varieties of arts and crafts for all ages.

Jean is interested in taking the glass art that she loves to do and bring it into the classroom to share with students. She enjoys working with the kids and loves to see what they can create! Artist prefers to work with grades 4th thru 12th.

Bob Abrams: Bob Abrams comes to us with a wealth of knowledge! He was in Animation at Disney, Warner Brothers and Senior Art Director for several agencies. He has taught and lectured in many schools and colleges across the country.

Bob is a painter/Artist with work in collections all over the world. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with screen credits both in film and TV.

Bob has been working for the ASAP program this past year teaching 2 D Animation and Cartooning to our elementary students.