Deanna Askins
- Artist
I like to be creative and share my art work with the world. I enjoy using color pencils and drawing things that I remember from my past. I do art at home because it gives me a feeling of happiness.
Ramona Cheatwood
I started drawing when I was a child and have enjoyed making things ever since. For me doing art makes me feel happy and hopeful about the world. I love to draw animals and fish.
Tawny Espy
- Artist
- Creative Writer
Tawny is 30 years old and lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her two service dogs: Paco and Dakota. She has been writing poetry for the last three years, and creating artwork since she was a child. She says the best part of being creative is how it helps her express herself.
Deidre Gordon
- Artist
- Writer
From an early age, Deidre has enjoyed writing, drawing, and painting. She loves capturing images of people, candles, flowers, airplanes and other fascinating objects. Deidre’s imagination is sparked by such things as books, movies, greeting cards, and wall-paper.
Becker J. Gutsch
- Visual and Tactile Artist
Becker J. Gutsch works with fused glass and found objects, creating intimate pieces that explore the connection between mind and body. In her Artwalk 2009 exhibit in Moscow, Idaho, titled “Inside My Head,” she captured the turmoil of living with a traumatic brain injury. Using layers of glass, color and symbolic imagery, Gutsch expresses the abstract colliding with beauty. She developed her interest in fused glass when she enrolled in an art therapy program after suffering a head injury in 2007. Her intentions were to express her frustrations in giving up the person she had once been and finding a new path with her new brain functions.
In the past year, Gutsch has expanded her work to include recycled glass. Because of coefficient differences in previously used glass, this form is often unpredictable and more difficult to produce an end-art piece.
Her work can be seen at www.becker-j-gutsch.com.
Andy Hagen
- Artist
Andy Hagen from Moscow, Idaho, works in several mediums, including photography, metal sculpture, and drawing. He likes to explore his subjects from different angles, and often presents them from unexpected points of view.
His favorite subjects include: vacuum cleaners, school buses, towers, trucks, cars, lawnmowers, and the Seattle Space Needle.
Laura Hart
- Artist
- Writer
I enjoy making art because it is fun
to use colors pencils on white paper and see what comes out. In my free time, I also enjoy playing basketball in Special Olympics, doing word puzzles, working on the computer, listening to music, and visiting my family.
Leslie Hovey
- Photographer
I enjoy art and photography because it allows me to feel good about doing something creative on my own. I like bright colors, and having the opportunity to exhibit or show my work to others. Art is fun! It makes me happy!
Tammie Jones
- Color Pencil Artist
- Creative Writer
Tammi is 43-years-old, lives in Moscow, Idaho, and loves life and people. She says, “It is fun to take the things I create in my mind, and put them down on paper. It’s also very relaxing for me.”
Bobbie Lucker
Bobbie, 43, has lived in Idaho since 1975. Her creative abilities were evident from an early age, and she has had a prolific writing career since grade school.
Bobbie began creating artwork in Moscow High School and was accepted to participate the Very Special Arts Exhibit in Washington, DC, in 1988. Her favorite subjects include carousels , computers, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and animals.
Gail Miller
Gail Miller is an Adjunct Communication instructor at WSU and has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of Texas-Austin. She continues to hone her skills as a creative writer and actress. She is currently playing the role of Mother Superior.
Skip Phillips
- Artist
- Writer
I enjoy making engravings, including a process that I developed myself using silk screen and wood block printing. I paint with a variety of mediums including oil, watercolor and acrylic. Over the past four years, I have enjoyed graphite drawing.
Toby Schultz
- Artist
Doing artwork is relaxing for me. It is also very gratifying when other people appreciate the hard work I have done. I enjoy painting and making jewelry. It provides an opportunity to meet other people who enjoy creating beautiful works of art.
Tom Schultz
- Writer
Tom, 41, says he enjoys writing because it helps him release his energy in a positive way. His hometown is Cottonwood, but he has lived in Moscow for the last 12 years.
Shahna Sprecher
- Artist
Shahna has been drawing and painting since grade school. She especially enjoys watercolors, and more recently colored pencils, as seen in her stylized valentine drawing. “When I do a painting, I trace a design and then fill it in with colors that move me. It is one of my favorite activities,” she said.
Katie Staab
- Creative Writer
- Artist
In sixth grade, Katie, 26, wrote a story that won second place in a creative writing contest. Since then, she has written many other stories, and also created a comic strip called RC, which is about a Rubber Chicken that lives with a human family.
Katie lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her husband of two years who is also into writing. They hope, one day, to write a book together.
Ken Sun
I’ve been interested in electronics, chemistry, and photography for over 30 years, having received my first chemistry set at five while living with my parents in
Berkeley. I am mostly self-taught, but owe thanks to a handful of chemistry professors, electrical engineers, and other engineer hobbyists who volunteered to tutor me. They generously supplied much inspiration and support, of which I am very grateful.
In 1980, at the age of 20, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, an organic brain disorder. After several hospitalizations in state institutions, the doctors and psychiatrists finally found the right combination of medications to ease my symptoms. Today, I live a satisfying creative life.
In my work center, which takes up half of my studio apartment, I create circuits, circuit boards, and theoretical electronics using amplifiers and oscillators, to create gadgets (i.e. timers, counters, memory circuits, and LED flashers).
I often have moments of what I call Silicon Inspiration, in which I produce schematics for levitation, including an air car circuit, and research on the illusive graviton, which is a basic particle of the gravitational force.
At other times, I create visual projects. One benefit of my avocation is that it provides balance in my life. It is also a way to use my time productively, and keep a mindful focus on reality while having fun!
Missy Ward
- Fiction Writer
- Color Pencil Artist
- Cook
Missy is 31 years-old and has lived in northern Idaho for as long as she can remember. She loves to bake cookies, see her friends, and take long walks. Her favorite color is baby blue, and her cell phone, a red Rant Samsung by Sprint, is always close by. On recent count, she had 109 family and friends in her contact list.
I like to be creative and share my art work with the world. I enjoy using color pencils and drawing things that I remember from my past. I do art at home because it gives me a feeling of happiness
