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Jeanne Ellen Dutton is a graduate of Purdue University where she majored in RHI. She joined the administrative staff at Purdue and retired in 1997 from the School of Agriculture. It was then that she began watercolor classes with Rena Brouwer in Lafayette. After moving to Indianapolis, she studied with Leah Traugott at the Indianapolis Art Center and served as class monitor and temporary editor of the ? IAC Student Newsletter.? Now a Bloomington resident, Jeanne is a patron member of the Brown County Art Gallery Foundation, the Indiana Watercolor Society, and the Brown County Art Guild. Jeanne also is a member and 2008 president of the Bloomington Watercolor Society (BWS). She is a member of the artist owned and operated Gallery North on the Square in downtown Bloomington where her work is exhibited, and teaches classes both privately and at the IVTC Center for Lifelong Learning. She has sold many commissioned works, including architectural landscapes, portraits and still life subjects, although florals remain her favorite.
Carolyn Rogers Richard Carolyn Rogers (Richard) has been painting in watercolor for the past ten years or more at her home studio (Brushfire Studios). She has studied with Shelley Frederick, Henry Bell, Jerry Smith, Karen Vernon, Gerald Brommer, Sandy Maudlin, and Joseph Fettingis. She is both a painter of representational art such as landscape vistas of the southwest or flowers and an experimental painter, enjoying creating colorful non-representational or impressionistic works. She also uses acrylics, caran d?ache, and fibers in many of her paintings. She paints on watercolor paper or board, Yupo (synthetic paper), and canvas. Carolyn is a member of The Experimental Artists of Brown County, the Watercolor Society of Indiana and the Bloomington Watercolor Society. Carolyn?s paintings are on exhibit at Gallery North on the Square, 116 W. 6th St. in Bloomington, where she also serves as President of the Gallery North cooperative.
Jacki Frey has been working in watercolors since the 1980's. She has her Master's degree in art education from Indiana University and has taught art in the public schools for several years.  She enjoys teaching private watercolor lessons in her studio in Bloomington.   Jacki is a member of Watercolor Society of Indiana, Hoosier Salon, and the South Side Art League of Indianapolis.  Jacki enjoys painting a wide range of subject matter. 
Tricia Wente is a fine arts graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a former docent on the staff of the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.Va. She studied drawing and painting in the graduate school of Marshall University, instructed classes in the Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio, the Campus Community Arts Center at Indiana University, and the John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN. Tricia is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, creating paintings in oils, acrylics, or pastels.
Jeanne Iler, a painter and graphic artist, began her career in Illinois. She obtained her B.F.A. degree at the University of Illinois and later studied at the Chicago Art Institute. For over 30 years, she worked as a graphic designer in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. For the past five years, teaching and painting have played a major role in her art career. Her custom paintings have been shown in many shows and galleries in the Midwest and California. Last year she was featured in Gallery North, Art Columbus and The Endwright Center. Teaching and demonstrating has led Jeanne to reach out to all ages. She taught at Michael's Arts & Crafts stores, art schools, and senior centers. Frequently, she demonstrates painting, crafts and jewelry making.
Carol Rhodes has taught graphic design and Photoshop classes to the Indiana University and surrounding community for the past 10 years. Carol is currently a computer graphic design instructor and training materials developer, as well as graphic designer for local businesses. Carol has studied watercolor with Shelley Frederick and Sally Steele. Her special painting interests are children, nature, and flowers.
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Sammye Dina Smith is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Waldron Art Center in Bloomington, and numerous workshops in ceramics, watercolor, pastel chalk, oil painting, and figure drawing. Sammye also completed a two year Master Art Course with the ICS Correspondence School. Sammye currently works in pastel chalk, and oils, watercolor and acrylic paint. As a southern Indiana artist, she has exhibited at Shawnee Theater in Bloomfield; the Enwright Center in Ellettsville; the Franklin Gallery of Fine Art in Franklin; Artworks of Martinsville; the Paint Box of Nashville; and the Brown County Art Guild. In Bloomington, she has exhibited at the Monroe Bank, Gallery North on the Square, tutto bène Wine Café, the John Waldron Art Center and is one of the artists included in the Bloomington Sketchbook. Sammye created the painting featured on the cover of the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, 2002 and published graphic art for the BPP. She is a member of the Brown County Art Guild, Bloomington Area Arts Council, and the Bloomington (Indiana) Watercolor Society.
Jodi Estell has been painting for over a decade. She has taken classes in watercolor, collage, and graphic arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis Art Center, and privately. She has studied with Jerry Smith, Leah Traugott and extensively with JoAnn Cardwell and Henry Bell. Her award winning work has appeared in many juried and non-juried shows around Indiana.
Shelley Cannon Frederick studied art at Kilgore College in Texas and at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. She has displayed her work at both national and local juried shows and art exhibitions, receiving awards in the Hoosier Salon and the NSDAR's 1998 national art competition. Her paintings have been exhibited in Constitution Hall (Washington, DC), permanently hung in the National Art Museum of Sport, and purchased by the Allentown Art Committee in Buffalo, New York. She currently exhibits her work at Hoosier Salon in Indianapolis, at New Harmony, IN, in the Brown County Art Gallery and in the L & L Gallery, Longview, TX. Shelley is the resident watercolorist at Southern IN Center of the Arts in Seymour IN, and teaches at the Brown County Art Gallery as well as other workshops in the Southern Indiana area. Her studio is located in Southern Brown County.
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Sara McQueen?s art takes many directions: papermaking, printmaking, painting, photography and collage. She creates ?inner landscapes,? working abstractly with handmade papers from her studio and around the world. She also designs personal mandalas for clients using symbols of various traditions. She graduated from the Indiana University School of Fine Arts and completed a Master of Arts for Teachers.  She has taught art in the MCCSC schools for the past twenty-one years. She serves on the board of directors of the Bellevue Gallery. Her art is also represented in Bloomington?s By Hand Gallery and Wandering Turtle, and at New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, Indiana.  Her work has been shown at exhibits locally and in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Georgia. In 1985, she received a Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship.

Connie Brorson graduated from Ball State University with a degree in business and a minor in art. At the time in the 50's, art minors appreciated art, but generally did not produce it. She started painting again in 1998 when she took a watercolor class at the John Waldren Art Center. Her water color paintings have been described as happy, using bright colors and a whimsical mode. She has displayed work at Tuttobene Gallery (Bloomington), Concetta's Fine Art Gallery (Marble Head, MA), Forsyth Park Inn (Savannah, GA), Chandler Vision Gallery (Chandler, AZ), the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD), and the highly prestigious St. James Episcopal Church Art Auction (Washington, DC).
Alice Sharp is a professional graphic designer with Paul Sharp.com. A graduate of Indiana University?s Herron School of Art, she is a party goods designer and Creative Director; see her website, Designs that Pop, at http://www.designsthatpop.com. An author/illustrator, Alice collaborates with Paul Sharp, below, illustrating over a dozen children?s books. The challenge of working in this medium outdoors makes plein-aire watercolor the activity she enjoys most.
Paul Sharp's characters appear on brand name packaging, paper products, children's books, editorial pieces, ads, and interactive media. Paul is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and is a former Art Director of Children's Products for Random House. He has been a professional freelance illustrator since 1990. Paul and Alice have enjoyed taking watercolor classes in Indiana, Arizona, and Florida, including an outdoor workshop by Tony Van Hasselt. You can see Paul's work here and at Paulsharp.com.
Sandy Taylor currently is working with acrylics on canvas; she also has spent several years as a watercolorist as well as a jeweler. She has studied painting with Benjamin Abramowitz, Patricia Cobb, Carole Barnes, Pat Dews, Mary Ann Beckwith, Gerald Brommer, Karlyn Holman and Jerry Seagle, as well as collage with Carrie Burns Brown. She works in abstracts with sometimes a hint of symbol or realism.
Robert Burris is a charter member of the Bloomington Watercolor Society. He studied watercolor at the University of Cincinnati while earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Design. Current works are primarily landscapes, seascapes and life figure drawing and paintings. He has shown in numerous shows and exhibits, earning a first place in watercolor at the T. C. Steele paint out in 2004 and 2009. Robert retired from Lear Siegler, Inc. in Seymour, Indiana, as Director of Creative Marketing Services.