Sally Armstrong • Scratchboard, Ink & Water Printing and Multimedia;
Facilitator, Friday Open Studio
Sally was born and raised in California; she has lived in Orland, Sacramento, Oakland, and Paradise. She attended the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and has a BA in Fine Arts from Sacramento College. Sally has worked as a nurse for thirty years and is now very grateful to have more time for art. The subjects she draws or paints have special meaning for her and she tries to show how wonderful, how colorful, how important they are. Sally feels that the world is full of inspiration. She has been able to see and photograph mountain lions, bears, badgers, wolves, foxes, tigers, and snow leopards, all of which she considers amazing and wonderful. Sally currently works primarily with scratchboard.

Kathy Dysert • Colored Pencil
Kathleen Dysert retired to Paradise from Mendocino County in 2010 after a career as a school teacher, counselor and administrator. Her first art lesson was after turning 50, at the insistence of two friends who thought she was working too hard and needed to develop another interest.··Kathy soon developed a love for acrylic, oil, watercolor and colored pencil painting. She became a member of Paradise Art Center in 2011 to further her interest in art and soon was elected to the Board of Directors. After losing her home in the Camp Fire, she was able to renovate an existing townhouse and was able to return to Paradise in July of 2019, where she continues to live. Kathy became President of the Art Center in 2019. She has been instrumental in finding ways to meet the challenges Paradise Art Center has endured in the last 5 years such as closures due to both the Camp Fire and Covid, financial loss, and needed health and safety repairs to the Art Center’s 100+ year old building. She is at the Art Center several times a week, either partaking in classes, enjoying the company of other artists and friends, or facilitating an Open Studio.

Lenn Goldmann • Intermediate/Advanced Watercolor
For most of his life, Lenn has been drawn to paint a version of this world with an array of landscapes and also sporting art paintings. At fourteen years of age, he attended the 1964 Sausalito Art Show. He remembers the paintings that the Beatnik painters of that time were producing and selling. It was cool and inspirational looking at this new direction in art. His transition to painting locally occurred when he was staying in Switzerland with his uncle Gustave Fassin. Lenn told him that he wanted to be a European surrealist painter and convert old barns into homes. Without hesitation he told Lenn, "No, you are not a Swiss nor a surrealist and you will never be accepted here—you must go home to the West Coast and become a California painter and designer." So he did. Good advice. Lenn relishes painting directly from nature. He travels light along Monterey Bay or the High Sierras with his brushes in one pocket of his old fishing vest and a small watercolor palette in another. He'll start free form doodling and gradually hints of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the fog will appear. "The range of landscapes in our state is amazing: from clouds touching the Sierra Nevadas to the chocolate soil of the coastal strawberry fields of the Pajaro Valley, and all the rivers and streams that flow into the Pacific. It has everything the rest of the world would like to have, and we get to paint it. This group of paintings reflects my first thoughts and memories, dreams and reflections, in the way I see California today.​​"

Joanne Graham • Beginning Pastel
Joanne has been a full time professional artist for over thirty-five years. She has sold her work at different shows and exhibitions in many different states throughout the U.S. Joanne says it has been a completely enjoyable opportunity for her to make a living selling the work she loves to create. During the past two decades, Joanne has held a private art class once a week in Chico. She also has held a number of workshops up and down the state of California, and in Oregon.Pastels are the only medium Joanne works with, and animals are the subject she knows best. She starts with three required lessons, using photos of animals to teach color, application, light, and texture. Her lessons combine demonstration, explanation, helpful hints, and a step-by-step process. What is learned in these first lessons can then be applied to any painting, as students discover and work with their own style and the subject matter that they love. Please see our class listings for more information on Joanne’s Pastel class.
Visit Joanne’s website to see her art work: www.joannegraham.com.

Cathryn Hudin • Pottery
Cathryn has been a professional artist and college educator for over forty years and a teacher at Paradise Art Center for over thirty-five years. Her artistic career began while she was still in college. After taking her first ceramics class the “clay bug” bit, and clay has been part of her life ever since. Cathryn began teaching in 1975 at Butte Community College and in1980 at Paradise Art Center. She teaches all levels of ceramics and enjoys showing her students the wonderful transformational nature of clay. She was a Butte County Artist-in-Schools for eleven years, working with hundreds of children from K-12. She loves to see children experience the joys of making their own piece of art work. From 1969 to the present Cathryn has exhibited, sold, and created thousands of clay pieces. She has traveled to many states to show her work at prestigious venues. Her work is in museums and private collections and has been widely exhibited in galleries and at art shows throughout the United States. She has three instructional videos on YouTube, has written a book on glaze making, and is published in many books about ceramics, including the prestigious “500” series. Cathryn has taught thousands of studnts; many have continued their education at four year colleges and art institutes and some have become full-time professional artists. Cathryn continues to create tile wall pieces and functional pottery for both private and public venues. She feels it is very important to keep the arts alive and active in the community and enjoys expanding art awareness using as many avenues as possible. As she says, “my longest relationship is with art, it has always been there.”

Amanpreet Kaur • Watercolor and Henna
Amywas born and raised in India. She completed her Masters in Fine Art degree from India in 2011. Amy was an art teacher in India. She is a professional artist who has exhibited art and won many art awards. Amy came to America in 2013. She was out of touch with art, but liked to do some small sketches while working.· In 2021 Amy joined the Art center and became a teacher here. Her specialty is in watercolors, oils, acrylics, pastels, and pencil shading. Amy is also very skilled in Henna Body Art. She has done workshops at the Art center which were very popular. Amy has demonstrated her art at the Chocolate Festival, and has done Henna Art at the high school graduation night.· Amy feels very satisfied while practicing Art; doing art feeds her soul and mind and makes her feel complete. Amy is very passionate about Art. She like to always brings something different and unique to her class. She feels that the little tips and tricks that she shares in her class can help any good artist, in any painting. Amy would like to see every person in our community support art and artists.·

Patti Lloyd • Workshops; Facilitator, Pottery Studio
Patti holds a two year degree in Fine Art from Jamestown Community College in her hometown of·Olean, New York, and has also studied ceramics at Consumnes River College and Butte Community College in Northern California. Prior to the Camp Fire she created functional and sculptural ceramics in a home studio in Paradise. After taking a workshop at the Mendocino Art Center with Rogene Manas, she became interested in the sculptural techniques of air dry Paperclay. She has sold pieces she created at Chico Open Studios, and was awarded Best of Show at the Kennedy Gallery in Sacramento after creating twenty-four 8x8 Paperclay pieces. Patti looks forward to sharing her knowledge in Paperclay workshops. Patti is happy to make available a pottery open lab for other clay artists at Paradise Art Center.

Christine MacShane • Acrylics, Watercolor
Christine MacShane has been painting in one way or another for over 50 years.· She has created many murals and decorative finishes throughout homes and businesses in the North State for the last 30 years. Fifteen years ago, deciding to inspire the joy she feels when she paints, Christine has been teaching throughout the North State and internationally. She started in oils and transferred to acrylics after the birth of her children and has been painting in acrylic and mixed media ever since. She also teaches beginner and intermediate watercolor. Her teaching style reflects her belief that all artists are individual, have a different vision and a different approach. While some basic concepts remain constant, how each painter absorbs that information is quite individual. In this way Christine has created art classes for a broad range of students from autism spectrum, at-risk youth, through to retired corporate personnel.

Greg Sanchez • Drawing
Greg is retired after 32 years of teaching art and coaching at Live Oak High School in Live Oak, CA. He has
a Bachelor of Arts degree in art with an emphasis in watercolor and drawing from California State
University, Chico, where he studied under local art icons Sal Casa, Tom Griffith, Richard Hornaday and
Janet Turner. His first art mentor was Lynne Mills, art teacher at Paradise High School, where he was the
Outstanding Art student in 1977. Greg recently returned “home” to Paradise after 5 years on the road in
a RV and would like to contribute to Paradise’s recovery by teaching Art Center students the basics of
drawing from the ideas of Betty Edwards and her book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Greg
believes, as Edwards does, that drawing is not a “talent”, but a teachable and learnable by all skill.

Sheri Schwarzweller • Polymer Clay
Sheri’s exposure to art and ceramics began early in childhood. Formal education came later in her life through graphic design, color theory and creative writing. Polymer clay is her favored medium. It lends itself to her love of color and the playful attitude she likes to bring to the art table. Sheri offers her students the techniques gained through twenty-some years of claying. 

Lori Tennant • Watercolor
Since graduating from college, I have been an entrepreneur! I opened a private K-12; The Progressive Schoolhouse, in 1985. During the summer semesters, I provided an art program; children and adult evening classes. I've been an educator and administrator for almost 40 years. I'm also a studio artist with a passion for watercolor painting. After 27 years; "The Artists' Playground" was a summer tradition for many families in our greater community. I look forward to bringing a version of the summer program to the Paradise Community. The four week session this summer I will offer Ceramics, Painting, Drawing and Sculpture activity for ages 7-14.

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