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Subhaga Crystal Bacon

Subhaga Crystal Bacon — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:48:17 +0000

Subhaga Crystal Bacon (they/them) is the author of five collections of poetry including A Brief History of My Sex Life, forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books in January of 2026, and Transitory (2023), from BOA Editions, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry in 2024. Their chapbook, Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, meditations on the Methow and Wenatchee Rivers, won the Red Flag Poetry Chapbook Prize in 2023 and was reissued in an expanded edition in 2024. They are an AWP Writer to Writer mentor and teaching artist in schools and libraries as well as working with private students individually and in groups. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Terrain, Smartish Pace, Solstice Literary Review, Diode Poetry Journal, and many others. A Queer elder, they live in rural northcentral Washington on unceded Methow land.

Website:
http://www.subhagacrystalbacon.com

Contact:
subhaga.crystal.bacon@gmail.com
(509) 557-5778

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Polymath

fatherambrosepress@gmail.com — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:12:52 +0000

I began illustrating, sketching and painting covers for recording company labels and concert halls, churches and corporate report covers in the 70s. My more notable sketches adorned gallery backdrops at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston for my late-70s concert series featuring Pulitzer and other award-winning composers in hallowed spaces. Twenty-five years later, when my literary, film and music clients at Colossal Concepts Management – www.colossalconcepts.org – began needing conceptual works for their monographs, special presentations and publications, I applied my painting and graphic arts skills to help set their works apart from commercial renderings. I am blessed, humbled to say, nearly all of my originals are, to date, sold or licensed, leased or assigned for use in documentary films or collections in eleven countries.
To put the fineart america gallery works in perspective, my varied career has always included venture philanthropy – using most of the profits from sales, leases, usage rights, etc., to give back to causes, charities, or experimental initiatives in the arts, health care, pet aid and assistance — whether it involves inventing an interdisciplinary arts centre in PA or directing an arts council, founding a music clearinghouse or co-founding charitable arts organizations and donor forum incubators in 7 states, heading up a small press or two, managing a modeling agency, running a management firm specializing in services to polymaths in the 7 arts, or inventing an operating foundation to study and help communities with arts-centered neighborhood and business district developments, touring and recording with music ensembles – including the Celebrity Chamber Players – a group I founded to support dozens of chamber music and sacred arts composers who need help developing festivals, and some Hal Leonard publishing subsidiaries, limited edition recordings and exhibition series. I get to write and edit books, compose music exclusively for SRI’s documentary division and for Giftbox Productions, and I get to help a dozen or so artists and philanthropists each year as a mentor, underwriter, co-sponsor, and/or as a contributor/organizer to their aid or relief funds – primarily through the sale or lease of artwork and prints. Fortunately, venture philanthropy works worldwide and makes a difference on many levels for nearly everyone’s benefit. And, as a venture philanthropy advocate, I have made lasting international connections, associations and friendships that would have been nearly impossible in strictly commercial environments. I especially thank Gran Prix du Disque winner and multiple Grammy nominee Fred Hersch, the Grammy nominated The New Black Eagle Jazz Band, Metropolitan Opera and Hollywood Walk of Fame’s Eleanor Steber, Grammy winner Gunther Schuller, MIT’s John Buttrick, Leonard Bernstein’s old assistant Peter Homans and a host of additional icons and celebrities for their help and encouragement.
With thousands of original works of art in print form and attached to many of my music compositions, with links to products and causes, my manager – Marilyn – has opted to sell a limited number of prints out of Thos. Illustration Studios solely through fineartamerica.com to benefit charities and to help artists and visionaries in all the 7 arts who are in need of aid or assistance. My venture philanthropy music, fine art and literary studios get to help worthy and edifying people and causes, institutions and families I have come to know and respect. It is honorable, humbling work, and I am grateful the studios, production company and management firm get to help where they can.

Website: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/marshall-thomas

Contact:
fatherambrosepress@gmail.com
(309) 621-3590

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Amber Zimmerman

Amber Zimmerman — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:30:29 +0000

Amber Zimmerman is a fourth-generation artist who works primarily in mixed media to create symbolic art that honors the sacred cycles of nature. She earned her B.A. in Environmental Art from The Evergreen State College in 2000 and her M.A. in Teaching Art from Central Washington University in 2023.

Active in the Washington arts community, Amber has exhibited her work in both group and solo shows across the state. In addition to her studio practice, Amber teaches art at Alpine Lakes Elementary and Peshastin-Dryden Elementary, where she fosters creativity and connection among her students.

She is passionate about guiding others to create intentional connections through art-making practices with individual clients and in retreat settings. She offers touch drawing experiences that blend creative, psychological, and spiritual integration.

For Amber, art is a sacred current that unites all things—a form of meditation and transformation that brings growth, renewal, and deeper connection.

Website:
https://www.amberzimmermanart.com/

Contact:
AmberZimmermanArt@gmail.com
(509) 679-2762

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Ellen Bruex

Ellen Bruex — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:08:05 +0000

Ellen Bruex is an interdisciplinary visual artist, muralist, and poet in Wenatchee, Washington. She is an instructor of Drawing, Figure Drawing, Illustration, and Art History at Wenatchee Valley College. She has her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Wilson College. Ellen is particularly interested in art as a tool to understand the world and build community. She available for mural projects, creative collaborations, and leading a variety of art workshops.

Website:
https://linktr.ee/ellenbruex/

Contact:
ellen.bruex@gmail.com

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Kmbris Bond

Kmbris Bond — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:13:23 +0000

Let’s create and do art!

I was born in Sacramento California in 1973 and grew up in Wenatchee, graduated from Wenatchee High in 1991. I studied speech, communications and music in Eugene Oregon graduating in 1995. I dedicated attention to my art, and art teaching, in 2016 under the tutelage of Jan Cook Mack, and completed the Teaching Artist Training Lab TAT in Seattle in 2019. I’ve taught locally, globally, and online; at studios, schools, galleries, wineries, clubs, restaurants, plein air locations, retreats, and in the Wenatchee Museum and Cultural Center’s MakerSpace. In 2019, I was thrilled to be selected as the Pybus Poster contest winner, and one of my dahlia paintings was included in the Pybus Foundation’s portfolio. I was selected to create educational videos for Arts-WA Washington State Arts commission through the Creative Start studio. I led the steering committee for the new NCW Arts Alliance, a nonprofit that supports and promotes all artistic endeavors throughout the region. I believe that the arts are vital to the creative expression of all of us, and our overall health. The arts are a pillar of education that provides creativity for entrepreneurial dreams, community’s diverse and inclusive expression, and every individual’s unique power.

Contact me directly to schedule a commission, purchase originals, prints, or classes.

Website:
https://www.facebook.com/KmbrisFineArt?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Contact:
kmbris.bond@gmail.com
(541) 953-4442

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Scott Bailey

Scott Bailey — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:39:48 +0000

Scott Bailey is an exhibiting artist who serves as the head of the Art Department at Wenatchee Valley College and teaches painting, drawing, and art history-based courses. At WVC, he is also the Director of the MAC Gallery, which presents high quality and thought-provoking contemporary art exhibitions by outstanding faculty, alumni, and invited artists from the region and beyond.

In his desire to make his community a better place for artists, he started and is the founding Board President of the NCW Arts Alliance.

Throughout his career, he has continually produced and shown his creative work, holding dozens of exhibitions (including 20 solo shows) in the US, Japan, Italy, Egypt, and South Africa. His artwork, most often in the form of painting, draws implicitly on his experiences of living in Italy, Japan, and Egypt, and his having traveled to more than 50 countries before settling into Central Washington in 2003.

The nonobjective Accretions paintings are simultaneously beautiful and terrifying to me, reflecting the Sublime and my apprehensions about things exponentially proliferating in the world. Accumulations of millions of tiny bits of color, they may be monotonous and ambivalent fields of grey from afar, but closer inspection reveals variation, depth, and complexity as the surfaces break into thousands of compositions, one nested inside another.

There were over 7 million (~7,164,366) spots of color visible on the surfaces of the paintings in the Accretions exhibition, with many times more buried underneath those top layers. They are the products of a few simple variables repeated and slightly altered from section to section, panel to panel. As in life, amid the cacophony, these pieces struggle to find—between rational and organic; signal and noise; order and chaos—balance.

Website:
https://www.sbailey.us

Contact:
scott.j.bailey@hotmail.com

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