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Recently Joined Authors (Art)
| A trip to China in 1975 and purchase of an antique Chinese robe one night with nothing to do I visited the Friendship Store led to a major collection of Chinese robes and shoes for bound feet. Researching these for international lectures led to writing my first book in 1998 SPLENDID SLIPPERS - A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN E....[more] |
| "Outsider Art of the South" is an intimate glimpse into the lives and work of thirty-four self-taught artists, two folk art environments, and one museum which tells the tale of a region's fast-disappearing way of life. Kathy Moses' thoughtful, insightful portraits introduce us to these men and women, some of whom are w....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| Dr. Ashok Malhotra was born in Pune, India in 1950. After completing his education in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi he went on to Canada for futher studies. He received a doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Bitish Cloumbia in 1978.
Dr. Malhotra has published several scientific artices in Inte....[more] |
| Katherine has been a full time artist since 1996, and moved from Minneapolis to Oregon in 2002 where she met her landscaper husband. They soon moved to their farm where they raise sheep and grow lavender. Apifera Farm has become her stage, where sheep, old goats, and donkeys are her muses, and end up in her short stori....[more] |
| Lois V. Harris, author of Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter, and the new Charlie Russell: Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist, writes to inspire children to follow their dreams. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in children’s magazines and the L.A. Times. Harris belongs to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Ill....[more] |
| Giovanni Maria Pala is a writer and musician.
His first approach to music was not until he was 18-years-old, but he quickly exhibited a gifted ear and technical talent with almost any instrument. While playing drums in various bands and teaching drums in private schools, he studied different musical genre: jazz, fu....[more] |
| Ellen G. K. Rubin discovered pop-up and movable books when she began reading them to her sons over 20 years ago. Today, she has more than 6800 books and thousands of un-catalogued ephemera.
Leaving her roots in science and medicine (Yale Medical-Physican Associate ’89), Ellen now writes about her books, lectures to c....[more] |
| KIRK SHEPPARD is an internationally published tattoo artist and an accomplished fine artist, working in watercolour, ink, acrylics, coloured pencils & chalk. His fine art is heavily influenced by traditional tattoo imagery (both western and eastern), as well as lowbrow and pin-up art from the 1940s onward. He is also t....[more] |
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