Gina Casolaro Murray creates strong, sensuous figurative and non-representational works in stone, wood and fused glass

Metaphor, limestone
Venus, limestone

Celia Boland
Art has always been an important part of my life.  I want to be surrounded by it, whether I am collecting, making, or just enjoying it.  My mother was inspirational to me. She paints and does pen and ink.  I grew up watching and dabbling.  I chose fiber as my medium.  What started as a hobby  to provide baby quilts to my cousins has turned into a passion and a lifes work.  I use fabric as others use paint.  Color is an important aspect of all my work.  I began creating landscapes out of fabric to mimic photographs real or imagined.

Circles II Illogical progression
Skagit Vallley tulips

Michelle L. Carr
b.f.a. from Youngstown State University in 1997, major in ceramics with a dual minor in printmaking and art history.

m.f.a. from University of Idaho in 2000 in the area of sculpture, with a specification in installation.

I also work with digital collage, batik and rusted textiles, metal sculpture, cast jewelry and found objects.

Valerie Boydo
I bounce between mediums, enamel, silversmithing, and ceramics. In all my pieces I try to tell a story. My newest ceramic series is a herd of Night Mares, tails swishing, manes flying as they inhale the night.

Gone West, copper enamel, drift wood, wood and stone; 18”x12”
Star Pony, hand built slab construction ceramic, 14”x12”
Jennifer Rod
I grew up a middle child in the Midwest in the mid-sixties, so its no wonder that I am sensitive to balance and harmony. Whether I am drawing, painting or creating something in steel ("dogs that will never go away"), I am constantly playing with these - juggling the basics of line, shape and color.

Red Rocks become Hearts in a layered Wyoming Landscape
Winston, steel

Linda Puccio
I have lived in Moscow for about 15 years and in that 15 years I decided to go back to school.  I earned my BS in ED at the University of Idaho in 2000.  My primary interest as an artist is in the use of color across multiple media.  I participate in jewelry making, welding, sculpture, papermaking, painting, textiles, mixed media collage, and casting. 

Homemade paper with thread in it to form the lady.

Silk scarves with gutta resist/procion dye for the color
Carol Bradford
Minnesota native Carol Bradford moved to the Palouse in 1981 and earned her MFA in sculpture and drawing from the University of Idaho. Idaho's great emptiness and beauty inspire her life and work.

White Stone Woman, high fire clay, 33" x 17"
Picasso-face Lady, painted bisque clay, 39" x 24"

Anna Brewer is a cartoonist and printmaker. She has also worked as a muralist, freelance animation assistant and illustrator.

Red Rooster, Monoprint, 8" x 10", 2007
Good-Bye Silos, 3.16.07, Pen and ink, 81/2" x 11", 2007

Pam Overholtzer
I worked in Interior Design for 20 years until moving to Idaho in 1995. In 1982, my work restoring the historic Murphys Hotel in the Gold Rush town of Murphys, CA, was published in an international design magazine, DESIGNER'S WEST. Returning to college, I earned an AAS degree in Architectural Computer Drafting in 2001. From there I transferred to the University of Idaho to pursue a life long dream of studying Architecture, earning both a Bachelor of Science and Masters degree. I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in BioRegional Planning and Sustainable Design.
Melissa Rockwood
I am a graphic designer and illustrator with an office full of paper, pens, pencils, markers, cameras and computer equipment — a perfect art playground!

Lizette Fife
My art is inspired by the beauties in nature which I incorporate into my handspun yarn, pottery, jewelry, and hooked rugs.  I enjoy both teaching and learning new media.

Website:  http://lizettefife.org
Sally Graves Machlis
Exploration of family biography and memory has been the genesis of my recent mixed media collages. Many of the images are family photographs and the text is a combination of memory and imagination--family fables, traditions, words of wisdom, and whispered rumor.

I teach art and art education at the University of Idaho and am currently on sabbatical spending time painting in Italy and as a guest resident artist in Taiwan.

www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sallymac/

Two Heads are Better than One, mixed media
There are Plenty of Fish in the Sea, mixed media
Gerri Sayler is a mixed media and installation artist, who was awarded the Juror's First Prize for the 2007 Idaho Triennial at the Boise Art Museum. Her work is inspired by the cycles of nature and the nature of time. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Idaho and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Dakota.

Cellular Medley III (11' x 7' x 2")
Bamboo / unraveled sisal and manila rope

Potentia II (6' x 24' x 6")
Unraveled sisal and manila rope / cast acrylic rod
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