Posts Tagged ‘speaker’

Meet Jaime Zollars

Thursday, April 30, 2009 21:39 No Comments

Jaime Zollars is an artist inspired by flea markets, fairy tales, and Flemish painters. She creates collage and acrylic paintings for children’s books, magazines, and gallery walls. She has been featured in many books and publications, including Communication Arts, DPI magazine, and Taschen’s Illustration Now. She also teaches illustration at the Maryland Institute [...]

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Meet Kasey and Kelly, Biggs and Featherbelle

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 22:50 No Comments

Biggs & Featherbelle began in January 2003. A magazine article inspired the pair to make ‘melt and pour’ glycerin soaps as Christmas presents. With backgrounds in the Fine Arts and Fashion, the two had fun creating unique recipes, packaging and clever names for each item. The gifts were a big hit.
Their family had always been [...]

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Meet Esti Gerson, GersonCurse

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:47 No Comments

Imagine a seven year old happily playing dress up with her miniature teddy bears. Then imagine that same little girl using big girl scissors and a sewing machine to create clay pastries and fabric furniture for a teddy bear tea party photoshoot! Looking back, I think that was about the time I heard the [...]

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Meet Jenny Hart, Sublime Stitching

Monday, March 30, 2009 9:30 No Comments

Jenny Hart is the founder and creative director of Texas-based embroidery design company, Sublime Stitching. Jenny is an internationally published artist and illustrator, and an award-winning author of multiple titles for Chronicle Books.
So, needless to say we are uber excited to announce that Jenny will be speaking at the Summit of Awesome on Saturday [...]

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