Milady Carol
MiLady Carol is an artist living in the verdant valleys of Oregon. She is a professional jeweler, has a great love of tea, and enjoys garden and kitchen experimentation.
MiLady Carol is a professionally trained jeweler and silversmith. She has been in the jewelry industry since 1987 and has been playing with shiny beads and metal since she was a very little girl. She hand selects each gem, creates each design, and makes each piece herself. If there is anything she enjoys more than making jewelry, it’s seeing people wear her art.
MiLady Carol loves hearth and home. She takes great pleasure in gardening, cooking, reading, knitting, and creating art. She is a trained jeweler and sculptor, yet she enjoys all flavors of fine arts. She has even painted a four wall and ceiling mural in a room of her home.
She is also a connoisseur of tea, especially green tea, and enjoys educating people on green tea’s many benefits. She has written an eBook on the topic that is available on her blog.
Katie Zaffrann
Katie Zaffrann is an actress, singer, teaching artist and arts administrator in New York City.
In addition to theatrical credits including A Christmas Carol and a national tour of Alice in Wonderland, Katie is the Founding President of Choral Chameleon, a professional chamber choir dedicated to breaking down musical barriers by transitioning seamlessly between styles and genres within concert sets and seasons. She also sings with indie rock/electronica group Little Grey Girlfriend.
Katie holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University, where she was the recipient of the Edward Greer Award for Classic Acting for her performance as Olivia in Twelfth Night. She studies with Ruth Williams Hennessy and VP Boyle in New York City and has also trained classically at Shakespeare & Co. and at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England.
As a teaching artist, she has taught and directed at the elementary and high school levels, creating curriculum designed to help students discover and own their voice, both onstage and off.
Jason Parker
Jason Parker
Seattle-based trumpet/flugelhorn player and composer Jason Parker has been quietly making a name for himself as a first-call jazz, funk, R&B and rock musician.
Parker played in jazz and rock bands all throughout high-school and college, but put down the horn after graduation to focus on a career in radio. After working in LA, Eugene, Denver and Seattle, he walked away from his promising career to turn his attention back to the horn. Jason currently leads the Jason Parker Quartet, one of Seattle’s busiest jazz bands. He also plays with the improv-funk group Water Babies, the Jason Parker/Josh Rawlings duo, and occasionally sits in with Crooked Fingers, DeVotchKa, and many others.
Jason is also an avid educator, teaching private trumpet lessons, classes in recording, performance and music theory, and is an instructor for Paul Allen’s Experience Music Project and The Right Brain Center for the Arts.
Amber Jean
Amber Jean
Born in Wyoming and raised in Montana, Amber created a life-size figurative sculpture in steel when she was 16 and taught herself to carve with a chainsaw while in her early 20’s. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on a full scholarship, and then graduated with honors and a Degree of Distinction from Montana State University while fighting wild fires to fund her education.
She is an artist and adventurer who creates large contemporary sculptures and colorful 2D works. She writes and performs by telling stories to audiences. Her art (whichever media) is raw yet refined, honest, intimate and memorable…meant to captivate, touch, inspire and connect with audiences. Her life and art have been featured in several books and articles along with a few radio and TV appearances. The DIY network filmed a half hour show about her work for their woodcarving series. Numerous awards, exhibitions, and commissions have garnished her career like candy sprinkles on a frosted cupcake. She continues to find solace and inspiration by living in the woods, at the end of the road near the top of a mountain in Paradise Valley.
Eleatta Driver
Eleatta Driver paints messages of hope and inspiration. They are parables in color and texture. Like a story teller gathers tales, she has collected human emotion over her lifetime of creating. She says it all began with precariously balancing a sleeping cat and sketchbook. Her five year old fingers discovered the world of imagination. Immersing herself in scratchy lines and stubby crayons, she found her breath and her voice.
Life’s connecting dots began for Eleatta in Orangeburg, S.C., in 1957 where her talent was richly nurtured. Columbia’s University of South Carolina enriched her with a B.A. in Art Education. Marriage and five children wove together Seoul Korea and Boston Massachusetts. Durham, N.C. is currently the place where she, her husband, two children and dog, “Buddy” happily reside.
Although changes of life’s seasons have dictated a variety of expression, creativity has been the ever present undertow. Eleatta’s work is strewn along the East Coast both in private and public settings, including the University of South Carolina. The Center for the Performing Arts and G.S.K. Pharmaceuticals in N. C. also display her work. Over the years she has worked in batik, oil, paper mache, watercolor, dyes and has currently settled joyfully into acrylic.
