EVA MAIER
Painting Space Facilitator, Painter, and Founder of Creations Arts Space, LLC

Eva grew up in Switzerland where she earned a five-year degree in graphic design. She worked in the commercial arts for five years at which point she decided to combine her creative side with her love for children. For two years Eva worked as a Teaching Assistant at a school for mentally disabled children. After these fulfilling years, she moved to the United States to pursue a second degree in art therapy. In the process, she discovered oil painting and fell in love with painting and sculpture. After two years at the University of New Orleans, she transferred to the University of Colorado where she graduated with a painting degree.

Eva has lived and worked in Boulder for the past 12 years. She resides here with her daughter and husband. With the Creations art space, Eva is fulfilling a dream, more than a decade old, of having a space for the arts and crafts. She is thrilled for this to happen in Boulder.

Myrna is passionate about mask-making as a creative self-reflective process and has presented workshops at conferences, youth correctional facilities, Naropa Extended Studies, schools and private settings since 1987. She integrates mask-making with her experience in movement, meditation and Polarity Therapy.

JULIA LUNK, M.A.
Art instructor, Painter, Printmaker

Julia was born in Budapest , Hungary in 1975. Later her parents moved to a small village, which was an ideal place to spend her childhood, playing outside every afternoon, or reading and drawing inside on the rainy days.

After studying figure drawing in high school, she enrolled in art school and completed her Master's degree in printmaking at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. While studying, she also taught art lessons to children for three years at a Youth Center called Marczibanyi place, and two years in Theater Arc.

In 2001, Julia came to Boulder and volunteered at the Boulder Farmer's Market Art Stop in the summer. She lives in Boulder with her daughter and husband, practicing her art.

She is the author of The Pleasures of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters, 2/05, and her second book, Together or Separate: Knitting the New Twin Set, will be available 9/08. Her work is featured in the Knitty Gritty episode known as Delightful Details.

Ann has studied and practiced the Japanese hands-on modality and art, Jin Shin Jyutsu, since 1986 with a focus on balance and well being.

She continues to teach dance and movement and to be involved in the performing, creative and healing arts on many levels. She views it as a great gift and privilege to also add teaching knitting classes nationally and locally to her many interests.

LISA GLICKMAN MCDONOUGH
Mixed-media painter and bookmaker

Lisa has been making art since the third grade when she carved a linoleum block filled with lions, giraffe and zebra--all animals she had seen while living in East Africa as a small child. The small printed edition was all in turquoise!

She received her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art in 1983 and my MFA from CU, Boulder in 1988. She has taught children's classes privately and through the Fort Lupton Gifted Child Program.

She shows her paintings at Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery on the Pearl Street Mall, Rabbit Mountain Cottage Furnishings in Lyons, and Blue Horse Gallery.

JUNE MUNGER
Stamp carving instructor, bookmaker, writer, painter, calligrapher

June has always loved making and doing fun artsy things for as long as she can remember. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder followed by studies in Graphics, Painting, Calligraphy, Print making, Writing, and Book Arts.

The fun starts when she brings all of these skills together into creating something that makes her Spirit happy. For her, teaching is another way to share the joy of being creative.

Karina grew up on a bayou on Florida 's west coast and graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in Textiles and Clothing. One day she discovered that you could buy your own art supplies ("I misplaced the notion that art is a lifelong journey when I began my adult career life") and became intrigued with the idea of recycling old furniture by painting it bright, whimsical colors.

She also learned about hemp for textiles and paper and began designing soft-cloth art dolls made from this versatile fiber. Seeing potential in product packaging that is mindlessly tossed away, Karina delights in the process of making bags from bags, as much as the final creation itself.

Janine received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a California Clear Multiple Subject Teaching Credential with a Supplementary authorization in Art.

The study and interest of indigenous art and culture has been an influence in her paintings and art work throughout her life. Painting abstract forms and figures expresses what she loves about this world and what makes it special.

As an art educator, she finds it necessary to convey the process of problem solving as a way for students to express their ideas and concepts.