Shoray Wolfe The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to name Shoray Wolfe as our Artist of the Month for April. In the formal setting of my upbringing, school and education played a significant role in children’s lives. So, when I doodled birds, bees, and flowers, if it looked like my biology homework, it was encouraged.…
The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for March to Susan Gleason. Susan was born in New York and raised in Arlington, Va., where she met Brian Gleason, her husband of more than 50 years. She studied fashion design at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and spent several years coordinating…
The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for February to Duane Langston. Since childhood, Duane’s interests in life have been art and music. His answer to, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always, “An artist.” As a child, he constantly sketched with pencil and paper, drawing…
The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to announce the selection of Thula Edwards as Artist of the Month for January 2022. Thula’s autobiography follows: Born and raised in Oregon, my childhood was somewhat unusual, in that my father was a psychiatrist and worked for the state mental hospital. We lived in the doctors’ quarters on…
Emily Grotta The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for December to Gary Kotula. Gary was born in Michigan and exhibited a tremendous talent for art at an early age. Detroit is where Gary began creating technical illustrations for Fisher Body and Chrysler Defense. Several years later, he transferred to logo…
Glass Artist Club Karla Heinz Barbara was born and raised in the Chicago area, where she attended school, grew up, got married, and had three beautiful children. She has one son who remains in Chicago and two daughters who live in Wisconsin. She also has eight grandchildren and one great-grandson. Barbara and her husband, Ross,…
Mary Dohmeier Artist of the month is an important recognition, and it gives me a sense of pride in the opportunity to exhibit my work. I am a painter and have worked in watercolor for the past six years. My husband, Tom, and I both grew up in small towns in southern Wisconsin and have…
Karla Heinz For as long as I can remember, art has been part of my life with early memories of finding happiness in paint by number canvases. I have enjoyed exploring many mediums including oil painting, tole painting, cake decorating, ceramics, cross-stitch, and embroidery. While living in Alaska, I fell in love with paper arts…
Jeff Wilson The PebbleCreek Pottery Sculpture Club featured artist for May is Nan Osterholt. Nan came to PebbleCreek from Sacramento where she retired from nursing. Nan went back to school after retiring and earned a degree in art. She then spent 12 years making pottery and volunteering in the art department at Sacramento City College.…
Loretta Pruett, AOTM co-chair The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to recognize Diane Greeneich as our Artist of the Month for May 2021. Known for her innovative work in pastel and watercolor, the inspiration for Diane’s many paintings comes from her world travels and her professional life. A native Californian, she grew up near the beach…