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Carolyn Carleton Browe

Visual Arts: Textiles

I have been handweaving rugs and carpets for 41 years. Raised on my family’s 8th-generation farm in Connecticut, my sister and I taught ourselves spinning, dyeing and weaving with the wool from our father’s sheep. Studies in natural and chemical dyeing and weaving in the SF Bay Area broadened my knowledge and in 1980, my rug weaving studio, Carleton Designs, was launched in collaboration with my late husband, Vincent Carleton. In the last 12 years, I have also been exploring new rug designs with ikat dyeing and in pieced and stitched wool felt. Today my rugs are represented by interior design showrooms in San Francisco, Southern California, New York and Chicago. More information and images can be seen at www.carletondesigns.com or contact me directly at carleton@mcn.org.

Carolyn Carpenter

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Sunny Chancellor

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

Sunny has been experimenting with and around the digital arts realm for many years. With the digital realm comes a great vast expanse of possibility, and Sunny has enjoyed the expansive nature to it’s fullest. From digital photo-editing, to animation, to computer controlled routers, the endless possibilities reflect from his work. Color, shape, design; all interplay in this new, modern medium expression.

Kristin Coddington-Gordon

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

Kristin Coddington-Gordon of What Now Ceramics is a ceramic sculpture living on the Mendocino Coast. She is a fierce fighter for the environment, a mother of three creative half wild daughters and married to a guy who knows not to get in the way of her clay. With a back ground in natural history and scientific illustration and most importantly a love for the planet and the self taught, unobstructed time to create Kristin sculpts expressive pieces that seem to be asking for your help. Each sculpture is made by hand without the use of a mold making each piece unique and individual. The sculptures are raku fired and waxed with bees wax. The wood used in Kristin’s sculptures is in collaboration with her husband Bob Gordon who mills local, salvaged wood. By creating sculptures of struggling species, Kristin gives animals a voice. The message is left undefined but is clearly in reference to environmental collapse. She hopes her art stirs up an emotion prompting others to do what they can. The question is asked. What now? See more at WhatNowCeramics.com Also Kristin’s sculpture can be seen at the Lansing Street Gallery in Mendocino & Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg.

Mina Cohen

Visual Arts

Garry Colson

My creative work includes landscape paintings of what I see around me every day. To capture the experience and mood of the subject, I may choose either watercolor, pastels, acrylic, or ink to express what I see and feel.

Julia Conway

Laura Corben

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Now living in Mendocino County, Laura’s interest in the natural world is major focus of her work, both plein air and in the studio. She paints in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media as well as making numerous journals with ink and watercolor. She earned a BFA from San Jose State University, a masters from the University of Victoria, and taught high school art and art history for many years. Her home studio is in the hills outside of Willits and she is a member of the Artists’ Co-op of Mendocino. Her inspiration comes from a love of Nature, a delight in light and color, changing seasons and living things.

Meg Courtney

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

Rita Crane

Visual Arts: Photography

As the daughter of LIFE magazine staff photographer Ralph Crane (whose photos were published in LIFE from 1936 to 1972), I came to the arts in a natural way. My bio is available here: www.ritacranestudio.com/biography.html In Mendocino my Fine Art Portfolio of oceanscapes and landscapes, including an exclusive line of photos on metal, are represented by Prentice Gallery on Main Street. The Mendocino Art Center offers a selection of my Old World Europe Collection, monochrome images, and new tide pool series. These tide pool pieces printed on metal. As for local commercial projects, since 2003 I have been providing high quality photos of interiors, grounds, food, and people for many of our fine restaurants and inns, as well as other small businesses. I am delighted to announce that my photos are included in the Albion River Inn’s cookbook, released in 2016. In addition, many of my large framed prints have been purchased by the MacCallum House Inn to decorate their rooms. Photography is a wonderfully open-ended art form that allows one many opportunities for exploration and expression given the tools of the trade: exceptional cameras, lenses, filters, and plenty of brilliant software that, in the digital world, now replaces the darkroom. Plans for the future include photographing historic Italian, French, and English gardens, experimenting with urban night photography, and creating new images of the ocean in all its beautiful moods. To view my entire portfolio visit: RitaCraneStudio.com, which will take you to my work that is posted and updated regularly on the international photo sharing site Flickr. Rita Crane Photography P.O. Box 91 Albion, CA 95410 All photographs copyrighted by Rita Crane Photo

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