Jacqueline Anderson works at the intersections of art, food, ecological regeneration, and prayerful action. She teaches and develops programming for intergenerational audiences that focuses on deepening and building healthy relationships with the Great Lakes bioregion. She holds a Masters of Arts of Public Ministry from Garrett Seminary focused in ecological regeneration, is a board member at the Adler Art Center, and is currently apprenticing at a school of herbalism. She loves taking her dog to the dog park, cooking and foraging with her family, sharing food with friends, and swimming in Lake Michigan, building cultural relationships with the land through food, restoration, and spiritual practice. She is an award-winning coffee roaster, loves food, foraging, being outside, writing, and swimming in Lake Michigan with her family. 

Heather enjoys working in gouache and watercolor when she paints.  She generally focuses on animals and pastries.  She additionally works with fiber, knits, crochets, and renovates her clothing.  She often plays with depth and implied texture and movement.

Heather was classically trained in painting, sculpture, and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was a high school art teacher for over 16 years.  She lives and makes things in Libertyville.

Phil is a color pencil artist that paints with the pencil. His botanical renderings are not drawings of plant specimens as seen in scientific books, rather, they are renderings of plants as seen through the eye of an artist. 

In his drawings, he focuses on achieving realism and tries to put in as much detail as possible, wanting the viewer to look and then get lost in the scene as if they were standing in it.

He attended Eastern Illinois University with an Art Scholarship, and received his Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Graphic Design and 2D Studio Art 1984. Since that time he has worked for printing companies and, since 1993, has been a self employed Graphic Artist. 

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Roberta is a working artist who’s media is usually clay, but recently has been welding metal to support, display, and complement ceramic objects. Her path to making has been constant, although circuitous, with professional time being applied as a potter, graphic designer, and art educator.  Her hope is to create work inspired by subconscious and intuitive leanings with triggers from gestures, memories, and patterns.

“Why do I make objects? It is a way for me to express feeling and thought about my experience as a human; it connects me to the earth, her inhabitants, and my own shadowed light.”

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