Art Panel for our MMA Division (Mixed Media Arts)

Andrea Melione (AKA Eraserqueen) is a self-taught artist who has been spreading her love of art since she was very young. She holds a B.S. in Arts Management and is working on a Masters in Public Administration. She loves to create and share with others. This is probably why she enjoys giving online workshops and is such an active member of the mailart and her local art community. Her favorite artists are Michael Parkes, Daniel Merriam, Aubrey Beardsley and her buddies at IllustratedATCs.com where she is a Moderator. She mainly works in watercolor, colored pencil, acrylics, markers and gel pens, though not all at once. She lives in NY (cow country, not the city) and has difficulty writing biographies in the third person.

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Emma Hollerhead (Emma) has a degree in jewellery and making intricate pieces of art is still her passion. Her work is filled with whimsical, colourful landscapes, stripy trees, tiny houses, quirky teacups and vibrant blossoms- imaginary, magical wonderlands that she can imagine escaping to. Emma's favourite technique is papercutting. She finds great satisfaction in designing a piece and seeing it slowly and almost magically emerge as it is cut.

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Wendy Anderson (Dragonfly) is a mixed-media collage and assemblage artist who says she finds creating art to be almost as vital to her life as breathing. She has worked with a large variety of mediums and materials throughout her life. Wendy began regularly exchanging mailart in 1999, and through mailart, has found a wonderful network of inspirational friends. Mixed-media is her favorite path to creating scenarios and landscapes which she’s pretty sure exist only in her huge imagination. Cutting up images and rearranging them in new ways, assembling sculptural elements, or guiding the flow of paints and inks, is her way of building new worlds. Wendy enjoys taking workshops with some of her favorite artists, and creating things in her home studio whenever possible. Her work has been displayed in group shows, and is held in private collections located throughout the United States and in Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England.

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Cynthia Couch (Ashazart) has pursued her passion for art throughout her life and has worked in a variety of media, including oils, pastels, watercolors, colored pencils, graphite and mixed media collage. Cynthia studied art during her college years with an emphasis in drawing and painting, but she ultimately earned two degrees in other areas of study. While Cynthia's career path has been outside the arts, she has always maintained a studio in her home. Cynthia enjoys exploring both realistic and surrealistic themes in her work. Over the course of the years, Cynthia's work has been exhibited in group shows in Kansas, South Dakota and New Jersey. 

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Carolyn Brady (Vintagepix) had dabbled in drawing, painting, collage, needlework, and other traditional arts since childhood, before finally discovering that she could combine all these together through mixed-media altered art. Her current obsessions include art quilts, small assemblages and ATCs. She has taught classes in altered books, altered art and collage and is the organizer of the Milwaukee Artist Trading Card group.

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Cindy Jo Blair (cindyjob) is an Elementary Art Teacher who has been making art her entire life. She began drawing before she could walk, and she is now fairly good at both those things. Cindy studied Art Education and Art History(because that was a very practical subject to get a MFA in) and continues to take part in classes and workshops. Her aesthetic leans towards the quirky and her love of intense colors comes through in her drawings, paintings and mixed media pieces. In 2009, she learned about Mail Art and fell in love with the idea of connecting with artists from all over the world. Cindy is also a founding member of Wonderstrange Arts.

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Kati Barrett (katilady) rocks our mini art world.