Collaborators

Amelia Bierly collaborates with:

Sherill Roberts, cellist and poet
Sherill Roberts is principal cellist of the Portland Opera orchestra and cello teacher at Linfield College. She has Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Cello Performance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Before happily settling in Oregon thirty years ago, she lived on the East Coast and had an international performing career in Europe. Her most fun job so far has been as the original cellist for the musical, “Annie”. Her most satisfying achievement has been the release of her CD, “Mello Cello,” on which her daughter, Amelia Bierly, also performs.
www.mello-cello.com
Rosemary Roberts, Celtic harp

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Bonnie Miksch collaborates with:

Zayra Yves
Zayra Yves’ creative writing is published in numerous print journals, anthologies, on-line e-zines and magazines: The Zimbabwe Situation, Panhandler Quarterly, Voices for Africa, Eyes of the Poet, Kreativ, Reflections IIT Madras (India), Edge Life Magazine, Poetry Life & Times, Astropoetica, Alehouse Press, 34th Parallel, Feeling is First, Memoir (and), Aquillrelle and The Enchanting Verses International Journal.

 She has appeared as a featured artist at: New Sun Celebration; CIIS California Institute of Integral Studies; on Ken Wilber’s Integral Naked; OneMindVillage; West Marin Community Radio; SW Radio Africa; Northwestern University; Zimvibes; Coolfire (UK); Women’s Radio Network; Perfectly Said; Mazungue Studio One; TWiN (UK); Big
Heart/Big Mind seminar in LA; UltraFeel TV; UniVerse of Poetry; BlogTalk Radio and the Awareness Network. 

Zayra has four audio collections of her work:  Crowned Compassion, Sleep in the Sea Tonight with Me, Retrograde Motion, and Lanterns.

 In addition, she is the author of four books: 
Empty as Nirvana, Ordinary Substance, Color Me Pomegranate, and Leaving You Unpainted. She is the winning poet from the “An African Legend: White Lions and Leopards” contest.  Her short story “Exit Ashes, Exit Blues, Exit This Life” won an honorable mention in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story contest.

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Cynthia Gerdes collaborates with:

Portland artist Bonnie Meltzer makes very mixed media figurative and abstract sculptures which transform everyday objects, crocheted wire, digital photographs and painted wood into layers of tactile surfaces filled with personal reflection, social commentary and humor. Over the years she has had many one-person exhibitions and been in many group shows locally and across the country. For 10 years she opened her studio to the public during Portland Open Studios.  Her crocheted works and found object sculpture have appeared in many publications and books —  Oregon Home, The Oregonian, American Style, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and Crocheted Wire Jewelry, to name just a few. Articles featuring her art made from computer parts appeared in Macworld and the Wall Street Journal.

This project is an opportunity to visually show the girlhood dreams and influences that shape the woman to be by using a variety of materials and layers of images.

See her work on www.bonniemeltzer.com

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Lisa Marsh collaborates with:

Marilyn Maricle
Music, dance and symbolic images from many cultures have influenced my paintings and prints. I invite the viewer into a space of light, color and energy where I try to speak about the human experience.
1964- graduated Sacred heart School of Nursing
1983-graduated Pacific Northwest College of Art-B.F.A.-major-Printmaking
1984-2012- member -Print Arts Northwest
website-www.marilynmaricle.com

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Renée Favand-See collaborates with:

Michelle Fujii creates contemporary work as a 4th generation Japanese-American through the art form of taiko, Japanese drums, and Japanese folk dance placing “traditional” ethnic art within the present – not as a preservation – but as an active force that can continue to inspire and evolve.  Her work has been performed and celebrated by taiko groups within Japan and the United States.
Known for her innovative fusion of taiko and Japanese folk dance, she started her taiko training as a performing member of San Jose Taiko. After graduating with a degree in Ethnomusicology at UCLA, Fujii rejoined San Jose Taiko as artistic staff. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Bunka-cho fellowship from the Japanese government to study with Japan’s foremost traditional folk dance troupe, Warabiza, where she studied under the tutelage of master dancer/choreographer Shohei Kikuchi.  Fujii has played with numerous groups including TAIKOPROJECT, On Ensemble, Shasta Taiko, and was a member of the North American Taiko Conference Advisory Board.  She is currently the Artistic Director of Portland Taiko.

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Susan Alexander collaborates with:

Lavinia Magliocco has devoted her life to exploring expression and possibility in the human form, first as a classical ballet dancer, later through Pilates, Yoga, QiGong, Tai Qi, Alexander technique, Feldenkreis, Psychophysical Therapy, and more. After dancing for six years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, she moved to Portland in 1998 and never looked back. In Portland she first taught ballet at Oregon Ballet Theater and Pilates at Nike. Currently she teaches and choreographs for Portland Festival Ballet. Her Pilates studio, Equipoise ~ enlightened exercise, is her laboratory and playground.

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Sydney Stevens collaborates with:

Suzy Kitman: After receiving my B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, I moved to New York City. There I furthered my studies in art. While I worked as a patina artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and in various commercial art related jobs, I began to study figure drawing at the New York Academy of Art. My study of realism led me to the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, where I began to use oils. A merit scholarship from the Art Students League enabled me to continue to study for one year. After 13 years in New York, I headed west, and received my M.F.A. in Painting from The University of Montana in May 1997. My fruit, portrait, landscape, and still life series have been shown in invitational shows and gallery settings across the country, and have received numerous awards. My work has appeared on the cover of the book, The Baby Can Sing, by Judith Slater, and the periodicals ArtCalendar Magazine and Menninger Perspective. I have also had editorial illustrations published in Menninger Perspective, Calyx and Cutbank. Generous residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, New York Mills Art Retreat and Blue Mountain Center have greatly aided in the development of my painting.
My landscape paintings are represented by the Freed Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon. Currently, my work may also be seen at the Cerulean Skies Tasting Room in Hood River, Oregon. Commissions are encouraged, and giclees on canvas and paper are available of all images. My studio in Portland is open by appointment to visitors and for private tutoring. A list of classes I teach is available upon request. www.suzykitman.com; facebook.com/suzykitman; twitter@suzypaints

 

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Jan Mittelstaedt collaborates with:
Courtney Allen is a recent graduate of PSU with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater arts and a minor in Dance. She has studied ballet for most of her life, as well as been involved in musical theater. Most recently she has branched out into the East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop scene here in Portland. Currently she is involved in a 1920’s dance group called, The Portland Rhythm Shakers. She is overjoyed to be collaborating with many wonderful artists and thanks both her parents and many dance teachers for all their guidance and constant joy.

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Elizabeth Blachly-Dyson collaborates with:

Claire Sykes of Portland has been writing poems since she was ten years old. Her work appears in a few literary journals; and in her chapbooks, The Listening Bell and Blind Light. The “Poetry in Motion” project she created in Bellingham, Washington in the early 80s was the first to put poetry on its city buses, and those in Tacoma then included one of her poems; and for three years she was Associate Editor of the nationally esteemed Poetry Northwest magazine. She’s done dozens of public readings, including those as part of Seattle’s Red Sky Poetry Theater, and Portland’s annual William Stafford Celebration and March Music Moderne. Most recently, a rock-music/Native American dance production by Steven Alvarez in Alaska features her lengthy poetic narrative; and she is at work on a third chapbook. Since 1990, Claire has been a freelance writer of articles covering the arts, health/wellness and other topics, mostly for national magazines.