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Alicia Maye Art

Alicia Clifford — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:24:48 +0000

For me, art is a rebellious act.
I've never wondered if I'm an artist… I was born knowing.
I work across canvas, skin, clay, and screen: painting, drawing, tattooing, ceramics, photography, and digital art. Not because I can't choose a lane, but because I don't speak in specific mediums. I speak in feeling. Everything I encounter to create with is just the tool.

My work lives at the threshold, the space between what shows and what doesn't. My subjects return again and again to emergence: women rising from roots, faces surfacing from smoke, figures caught mid transformation between what they were and what they're becoming. There's a duality running through all of my work that is not meant to resolve into easy harmony. Control vs freedom… Roots vs wings… Aflame but never burnt.

To me, art is how we hand each other our own private way of seeing the world. It's how I take whatever's been hardest to carry and alchemize it into something that doesn't just sit inside me anymore, something I can hold up and say this is what it's been like to be me, does anyone else know this feeling too? My hope is that someone someday stands in front of a piece of mine and feels less alone in whatever they're carrying or transforming into.
I'm based in Cashmere, where I run Inklinations, a private tattoo studio. I'm also co-founder of Make Your Mark, a Washington nonprofit dedicated to radical art accessibility.

Updates on my work can be found at @aliciamayeart on instagram

Website:
https://www.aliciamayeart.com/

Contact:
alicia@makeyourmarkpnw.org

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Tiffa Theden

Tiffa Theden — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:36:19 +0000

Website:
https://www.deviantart.com/thrasherbird

Contact:
the.myco.den@gmail.com
(310) 245-0067

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Kealani Yamamoto

Kealani Yamamoto — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:22:23 +0000

My name is Kealani Yamamoto.
I am Hapa, half Filipino/half Caucasian.
My Hawaiian name comes from my mom and her family immigrating from the Philippines to Kauai, Hawaii.
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 1 when I was 17 years old. My creativity and artistic talents took off after my diagnosis, and I have learned to lean into the chaos, beauty, and power of my own mind.
My dad and grandpa instilled my love for the outdoors. I grew up chasing them around the wilderness, and find the simple joys in continuing these traditions with my husband and two kids!

Website:

Contact:
keayama95@gmail.com
(509) 881-7510

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Jason Campbell

Jason Campbell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:26:37 +0000

I love to paint. I mostly work in acrylics but sometimes oils.
I do everything from realism to surrealism to abstract.
I had a piece feature at the The Grünewald Guild show at Mela cafe.
I also do graphic design and digital art.
I have an A. A. in Art New Media.
Feel free to contact me for art to display or for art projects.

Website:
https://jtc-art.com

Contact:
jtcampbellart@gmail.com
(916) 715-8252

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Rusty & Amanda Gibbs

Rusty & Amanda Gibbs — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:45:14 +0000

For over two decades, Rusty and Amanda Gibbs have been foundational figures in the Wenatchee Valley art scene. As the creative forces behind Gibbs Graphics, they specialize in transforming public spaces through large-scale murals, intricate sculptures, and custom 3D signage.

While both are accomplished individual artists, their most "magical" work often emerges from collaboration. This partnership is literal: even when working on canvas, the duo frequently paints together on the same piece, blending their unique styles into a singular vision. From the streets of Leavenworth to the heart of Wenatchee, their work stands as a testament to twenty years of shared creativity and community impact.

Website:
https://gibbs-graphics.com/

Contact:
rusty@gibbs-graphics.com
(509) 421-1018

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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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Linda Lyons

Linda Lyons — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:07:37 +0000

Linda Lyons (she/her) is a passionate and dedicated artist, educator and facilitator of community. She loves capturing light and time with the magical world of photography. She especially enjoys the slow practice of film-based and antique photographic processes. Linda additionally uses printmaking, installation and pottery as means of creative expression. She is drawn to labor-intensive, tactile methods, and her work explores ideas of identity, place and connection.

She has published her art and exhibited it in galleries / museums nationally and internationally. Linda received her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and is an art instructor at Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee River Institute and Indiana University South Bend. Linda is committed to creating welcoming, inclusive learning spaces and is a LGBTQ+ advocate.

Linda currently lives locally in the sunny valley of Wenatchee, Washington. She is a nature enthusiast who feels most at home while exploring outside. When not making or teaching art, Linda can be found hiking, cold-plunging and training for ultra-marathons.

Website:
https://lindalunamarielyon.wixsite.com/linda-lyons

Contact:
lindalunamarielyons@gmail.com

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The Art-O-Mat

Art-O-Mat — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:35:09 +0000

Website: Instagram

Contact:
theartomat@gmail.com

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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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Quill Hyde

Quill Hyde — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:16:51 +0000

I'm a sculptor / public artist in North Okanogan County. I've built many metal sculptures of animals – my latest piece (the Council of Animals) was in Washington DC last summer, is my most 'high profile' piece to date. I seek to inspire, to educate, to make a difference in this world through artistic expression, public involvement, and meaningful work.

Website:
https://www.quillhyde.com

Contact:
quillhyde@gmail.com
(509) 560-9520

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