The Healing Power of Art -Featured Artists

Nancy Bellen, photographer, documentary film producer and gallery owner. Please visit Nancy's website for details about her work and life. www.nancybellen.com

Dana Gluckstein has photographed iconic figures including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Muhammad Ali, and produced award-winning advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple and Toyota.   Her portraits are held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Her first book, DIGNITY: In Honor of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the associated international exhibition, DIGNITY: TRIBES IN TRANSITION, now touring Europe have received international acclaim.
Gluckstein graduated from Stanford University, where she studied psychology, painting, and photography, and realized the power of images to shape consciousness.  She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. www.danagluckstein.com

Artist, photographer, creative facilitator and muse... Marianne Hale Designs creates art from the heart of nature producing our line of greeting cards, photographic prints, gifts and custom design products to align, inspire and beautify.
www.mariannehaledesigns.com

My paintings begin with an idea or memory of an event that has personal meaning, for example, my mother's funeral, a canoe trip with her or a tribute to an individual. http://www.art.net/~kklein/

Beverly Prevost creates lo-tech, artful and useful ceramics with a wiggle. The forms are well-balanced, comfortable and unexpected with a little added playfulness.

Beverly graduated from the University of Georgia with an MFA in Ceramics and immediately moved to California. In 1970 she chose Sonoma Valley as her home. Five years later, after years of teaching ceramics, she began her business and has been self-employed since then. She is a founding member of the Arts Guild of Sonoma and the Sonoma Valley Jazz Society. In 1998, she was chosen the Artist Treasure of the City of Sonoma, an honor given to one local clay artist each year.Beverly is a member of the Baulines Craft Guild aka California Contemporary Craft Association and the Association of Clay & Glass Artists of California.

Every piece, functional or sculptural, is individually handmade, the original form often being altered so it will develop its own character. She enjoys the challenge of combining form, surface and function into a satisfying object that is a pleasure to use. www.beverlyprevostpottery.com

My subject matter derives from my desire to capture humanity's need to connect with nature .  I equate my paintings with “ being in the moment”,  an intentional and active mindfulness that allows the the past and future to slip away, due to the application of paint, layers of glowing colors and tactile tendencies. Many types of mediums are used to create the texture from clay to high gloss molding material.  Viewers talk of wanting to “touch the paintings”  because of the variety of surfaces and fresh look of the paint. http://www.jenniferbec.com/