Meet the Fodder School 5 Teachers: Jane Chipp

Jane Chipp makes her art using found objects, old papers and photographs. "I’m fascinated by the lives of ‘ordinary’ people…how they lived day to day, the minutiae of everyday life. Found materials intrigue me but also bring a sense of sadness and poignancy that they were discarded." Jane works mainly with stitch, collage, assemblage, and encaustic wax. She like to create stories; to present forgotten materials in a way that makes them beautiful and profound.

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Meet the Fodder School 5 Teachers: Susan Rossiter

Susan Rossiter is mixed media artist inspired by the colors, shapes and patterns of the 50’s through the 70’s. In college, she studied fine art metals, printmaking, design, art history, painting, and drawing. "I incorporate all of it into making my own unique papers and collage elements. Texture, composition and color auditions play a big part in my process and I love my job- it gives me those good brain chemicals." Susan works and lives in Ohio between two studios and teaches all over the country. Her strengths are discipline, focus and an absurd sense of humor.

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Meet the Fodder School 5 Teachers: Roxanne Evans Stout

As she puts it herself, Roxanne Evans Stout is an "artist and teacher, wanderer and dreamer, garden dweller, river walker, child of the forest, daughter of the sea—Always grateful, always noticing, always growing." She lives and creates in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where the mountains and the river lands that surround her home provide her with constant inspiration.

Teaching enables her to share her passion. “As an artist I am constantly learning and growing. Art is my passion, my love, my soul.” Nothing makes Roxanne more happy than helping her students through their own process of renewal. Her goal is to help you find your own magic.

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Meet the Fodder School 5 Teachers: Wendy Shragg

Wendy Shragg is a contemporary mixed-media artist, designer, instructor, and the illustrator of a multi-award-winning family book, “Be Nice. The End. Simple Wisdom of the Playground Kids”. Her work blends painting, collage, photography, and digital art to create multi-layered compositions that explore the dynamic interplay of color, form, and texture.

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Meet the Fodder School 5 Teachers: Cheiron Brandon

Cheiron Brandon is a mixed media artist and card maker who lives in a tiny house, on a tiny farm in New Jersey not too far from the shore. She works in the financial district by day, but loves to play with stamps, ink, and paint at night in her studio—she aims to create something almost every evening.

She started making handmade cards over 15 years ago, and over the years she has fallen in love with mixed media techniques and loves incorporating those techniques into her card projects. Rainbow is her favorite color, and you will see that expressed throughout her work! "I love color, the brighter the better!" She has been a designer for many companies in the craft industry, including Tim Holtz, Ranger Ink, Simon Says Stamp and more.

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