Loretta Pruett Donna, born and raised in Southern California, moved to Arizona in 2003. She has always enjoyed creating something special from items that others might just toss away. During her teaching career, she designed many special gifts and decor for each of the holidays. She taught students from infancy to college age and directed early…
Tag: Artist of the Month
Clubs & Classes, December 2020
Artist of the Month: Monica Rozwadowski
Emily Grotta The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to award Monica Rozwadowski our Artist of the Month for December. When Monica was in her twenties, she received a Christmas gift of beginners oils paints from her sister Joyce. She took an art course at the time, but never pursued painting until retiring in 1998. That year, Monica and her…
Features, November 2020
Artist of the Month: Carol J. Jones
Loretta Pruett, AOTM Co-Chair Carol was born and raised in a small Northern Vermont town where cows clearly out-numbered people. She is from a family of three siblings who were 13, 15, and 16 years older than herself. As a child, she spent much time entertaining herself. Luckily, she had a vivid imagination, so she…
Features, April 2020
Artist of the Month: Hilary Fiscus
The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to award Hilary Fiscus its April Artist of the Month. Hilary was born and raised outside Liverpool, England in the United Kingdom. As a teenager, The Cavern, made famous by the Beatles in their early days, was a familiar haunt of hers; no one at the time realized the fame…
Features, February 2020
Artist of the Month: Curtis Patchin
Loretta Pruett The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to award Curtis Patchin our Artist of the Month for February. Curtis was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. Since retiring four years ago, he and his wife, Joan, spend six months a year in PebbleCreek and reside in Calgary, Alberta the other six months. Finding a home in…
Features, January 2020
Artist of the Month!
Linda Strauss-Lewis Marilyn Price, muralist, illustrator, interior designer, entrepreneur, and much more, is our January Artist of the Month. She comes from a very creative family, proudly saying, “my father (a writer and illustrator for Reader’s Digest), all of my uncles, brothers, sisters, and me, are in the arts. We like to say that we…
Features, November 2019
Artist of the Month: Diana Horton-Smith is the November Artist of the Month
Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club takes great pleasure in awarding Diana Horton-Smith as the November Artist of the Month. Diana was born and raised in sunny Southern California but moved to Arizona in August of 2016 after retiring from her job handling personal injury claims. She is married to Walt Smith, also a California native,…
Features, October 2019
Artist of the Month – Jane Myers
Loretta Pruett The PebbleCreek Art Club is proud to present Jane Myers with the October 2019 “Artist of the Month” award. Jane, her husband, Dan, and their little malti-poo dog Teddy, moved from Long Island, NY to PebbleCreek in 2017 with nothing more than two suitcases, a carry-on bag, and three cowboy hats! Jane’s decision…
Features, May 2019
Artist of the Month: Candis Kloverstrom
Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club is very pleased to award Candis Kloverstrom May Artist of the Month. Candis has Scandinavian family roots which instilled in her an appreciation for culture. As a teen, she migrated with her family to Denver, Colorado and there eventually met her husband, Mark, started a family in 1974, and…
Features, April 2019
Artist of the month: Debby Bolton
The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to award Debby Bolton our April Artist of the Month. She has in her short time here become an important part of the arts community. Debby retired from Kia Motors as a Government Relations Specialist. Since then she and her husband, Gene, have lived in California, Prescott, Coeur d’Alene,…