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INSTRUCTORS website: www.bernieberlin.blogspot.com website: jillberrydesign.com Michael deMeng Laurie Mika's mixed-media mosaics have been included in many group shows and galleries and has commissioned pieces in private collections. Her work has also been published in magazines, Expressions, Somerset Studio, Haute Handbags, Altered Couture, Somerset Gallery 5, Somerset Wedding and Somerset Home and in books, 400 Polymer Clay Designs, Mosaic Art and Style , New Techniques for Wearable Art and Beyond Paper Dolls. She was featured on both HGTV’s, Crafter’s Coast to Coast and on DIY networks, Craft Lab. Laurie also has her own book, Mixed Media Mosaics, which was published by North Light Books in 2007.
Judy Wise
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Bernadette Berlin is a Mixed Media artist, specializing in Faberge Style Eggs. A well seasoned teacher, she has taught nationally, as well as internationally for the past 15 years. Her publication contributions include, Somerset Studio, Cloth Paper Scissors, Rubber Stamp Madness, Inspirations and Stampington's "An Anthology of Artist Trading Cards”. Bernie is the author of “Artist Trading Cards Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap” and is currently at work on her second book. Her love of teaching, learning, and the creative process has brought her to the Alternative Arts and has inspired her to focus on the creative process and empowering the artist within, traveling and teaching workshops at various art conventions nation wide. Owner of "The Cre8tive Eye Studio", "Eggsquisite Creations" and "A Place To Bark Dog Rescue", she is also involved with the Wisconsin Burn Camp for Burn Injured Youth. She currently resides in Portland Tennessee.
Jill is an artist, teacher, and mom in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains who makes lots of books and paintings and anything else that strikes her fancy. Born and raised in California, she also spent a year studying art in Italy, where she learned to see a bigger picture of both art and the world in general. She focuses her work on content and color, and it often involves maps, symbols, houses, housewives, and the mystique of charisma. It can be seen in Letter Arts Review, Somerset Studio and various other publications including the forthcoming book by Kim Rae Nugent: Interactive Workshop: Mixed Media in Motion. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the USA and on her web site.
The work of artist Michael deMeng is about transformation – the common into the sacred. His assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from construction to destruction to reconstruction, an examination of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing. The everyday object and the mundane can be readjusted and become seemingly sacred. deMeng’s work can be seen in galleries across the country and he teaches his process in workshops worldwide. His recent book, “Secrets of Rusty Things” explores his process and philosophies and is published by Northlight Books. Michael deMeng resides in
Karyn Gartel is a self-taught mixed media artist from northern Canada. Although she has no formal training, her classes are known for projects that “real people” can achieve with out too much stress. You won’t find any high-tech terminology or complex techniques here; in fact, you might hear a lot of words like smoosh, slather, and glob…along with frequent use of the Canadian “eh”. Students of all levels are encouraged to take time to explore and discover the artist that is waiting to come out and play. The end result is a comfortable, relaxed, and playful atmosphere aimed at letting YOU discover your creative potential.
Laurie Mika is a mixed-media artist with a passion for combining and overlapping a variety of mediums creating an original style of mixed-media mosaics and assemblage using handmade tile. Laurie's love of travel to far off places and experiences of living abroad (East Africa) have shaped the way her art looks today….especially since her work is embellished with the many little treasures found during travels. Laurie recently started teaching at nationally recognized art retreats and has loved sharing all of the discoveries she has learned along the way in a journey that is still evolving.
Opie and Linda O’Brien are mixed-media artists, authors and teachers, who enjoy pushing the envelope in myriad ways, using organic, recycled and found materials because they seem to have a voice that must be heard, a story that must be told, and a life that would otherwise be too soon forgotten. They consider themselves “caretakers of the mundane and the ordinary” and their unique offerings include jewelry, dada dolls & recyclabots, assemblage, books, collage, masks and more. They are project designers for several publishers, teach art workshops Nationally, Internationally and for several Museums and Guilds, based on many of the techniques in their book: Metal Craft Discovery Workshop. Their work has been featured in over 25 books including several of Larks 500 Handmade Series and in magazines including Belle Armoire, Art Doll Quarterly, Somerset Studio, Legacy, Handcrafted and the Craft Report, in addition to art galleries, museum gift shops and both group and solo shows. Opie, an artist an musician, attended SVA in N.Y.C., while Linda is self-taught. New York City transplants, they now live in Ohio on Lake Erie with their cat Angelus and his cat Angel. 
Judy Wise is an Oregon artist who has worked as a printmaker and painter for nearly three decades and has kept daily journals of her writing and art since before she was 10 years old. Her work has been featured on greeting cards, published in books, calendars, educational materials and on tapestries. She is a passionate lover of all things artful and of helping others find joy in the process of self-expression. She believes art connects the hand to the mind to the heart.