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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dori Patrick feels very fortunate to live this creative life as an artist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is a mother of two grown kids, and is married to a sweet, loving hubby who cheers her on daily. They have two Labrador rescues who hang out with Dori in her studio, and she loves spoiling them. Dori takes the term "mixed media" literally: You name it, she'll try it! She works mostly with acrylic paints, but mixes them with a variety of materials. She utilizes many unique mark making techniques, often reaching for unusual tools.

Arlyna Blanchard is a lifelong artist who has always been into painting and anything art-related since she was young. She went to study Chinese painting and calligraphy in Tianjin when China was just starting to open its doors to the outside world, and later followed her passion into her career as a graphic designer and entrepreneur. Arlyna fell in love with her country’s history and culture, which inspires her personal artworks to this day.

You can find Cathy Nichols’s studio in Asheville, NC, where she paints her colorful “stories in wax.” Cathy first fell in love with symbol and story while completing her MA in Literature, and she adores teaching others to use these tools in her workshops. In her own art practice, Cathy specializes in colorful, narrative paintings created with melted, pigmented beeswax or acrylics and mixed media. Her signature folksy style includes highly detailed etchings combined with broader strokes of color that celebrate stories of love, hope and resilience. She is known for her delicately etched encaustic paintings

Kate McCurrach is a self-taught mixed media artist residing in Kamloops, BC, Canada. Kate has dived into a few different careers over her lifetime: starting in sciences, she quickly discovered that she could not stop her creativity from seeping into her everyday life. As with many passions in Kate's life, she dove headfirst into her love affair with mixed media—after taking some online art courses, she found her stride as a student in Fodder School.

Carrie Smith specializes in hand-painting each and every piece in her collages, using vibrant colors, patterns, and floral aspects to create one-of-a-kind statement pieces for any living space. Before diving into collage art, she spent many years traveling the world and then teaching around-the-world art classes to children in her community, a lifelong passion that fuels her artistic journey.

Willa Wanders presents the second collaboration with the ArtFoamies foam stamp brand! Artist Yetunde Rodriguez designed this new collection inspired by (and for use in!) her Fodder School 3 class. Check out these incredible geometric tribal ArtFoamies stamps today!

Willa Wanders presents a first-ever collaboration with the ArtFoamies foam stamp brand! Artist Susanne Randers designed this premiere collection inspired by (and for use in!) her Fodder School 3 class. Check out these insanely adorable floral ArtFoamies stamps today!

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Part 11 in my series of how a lifelong passion for arts and crafts became multiple successful businesses.

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Part 5 in my series of how a lifelong passion for arts and crafts became multiple successful businesses.