2008 SPRING ART CLASSES

PHYLLIS DeSIO
Phyllis is a fine artist in acrylic, oil, pastel and colored pencil. Works in corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Many time award winner in major art shows and exhibitions. Studied at Ray Vogue School of Design and College of DuPage. Member Colored Pencil Society. Her paintings are currently published in 3 art books of note. Juror of selection and awards for various exhibitions and art fairs.

MONA PARRY
mona received her BA in Art Education from St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin. She is active in the Lemont Artists Guild and is a Commissioner on the Art & Culture Commission of Lemont. She teaches art at St. Als-St. Pats School in Lemont and at the Lemont Part District. She participates in juried exhibits and has won several awards. She shows her watercolor and acrylic paintings at a variety of venues in Westmont, Lemont and Park Forest, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana

JACQUE FRANCE
Jacque graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BA in advertising and fine art. She has since taught oil painting in the classroom and privately. She has won several awards for her landscapes and her paintings hang in private collections. Jacque regularly attends painting workshops in France and Italy with her husband.

LOIS HREJSA
Lois holds a BFA Degree from the American Academy of Art and has been an instructor there for 18 years. She has also taught at Morton College. Her works are in public and private collections. She has conducted workshops and seminars in the Midwest and in the Virgin Islands.

ALLA JABLOKOW
Alla holds an MS Degree in Biology from the University of Chicago. Represented in three galleries in Wisconsin. Exhibits widely in Chicago area shows and is a Signature Member of the Illinois and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America.

LAURA LEIN-SVENCNER
Laura is an award winning international collage artist. Her work is exhibited in Chicago, New York, Oregon, Texas, North Carolina, Mexico, France, New Zealand and Germany.
She enjoys sharing her knowledge by demonstrating and teaching the many layering techniques and image transfers associated with collage and the art of hand papermaking.
Her background studies include: sculpture, lithography, life drawing, photography, papermaking and Native American Myths and Visions.

KAREN SNOW
Karen has studied various techniques of silk painting and fabric embellishment for many years, from the ancient art of arashi shibori to modern techniques of laser design transfer. Demonstrates silk painting for the Illinois Artisans Program throughout the state.

GARY WICK
Gary is an award-winning fine art pastel painter who “Paints what he sees” and will teach that technique. He exhibits in Midwest art fairs & is represented by the George Burr Gallery in Ephraim, Door County, WI., the Courtyard Gallery in New Buffalo, MI, and Mullaly’s 128 Gallery in Elk Rapids, MI. His work hangs in the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago and his paintings hang in private and corporate collections both here and in Canada, Europe and Australia.

K. AURENCZ (Aurey) ZETHMAYR
Aurey is a freelance artist/designer with strong interest in character portrayal and the dramatic nature of scenes (with or without people in them). Holds a BA Degree from Columbia College Chicago, with special emphasis on theatrical design. Has been doing portraiture, illustration and graphic design for many years, ever since first acquiring the reputation of being "a really good drawer."