Rockford Art Guild

Barbara Berney is an artist and arts advocate. By day, she is a graphic designer, art and creative director, writer, editor, copy editor, consultant and a bunch of other things. In her spare time, she creates digital art on her iMac, makes one-of-a-kind jewelry, directs and promotes art events, serves as VP to the Rockford Art Guild, consults to The Element Rockford (www.theelementrockford.com) and others, and runs a nonprofit patient advocacy organization for people with complications from LASIK and other refractive surgery. She gets a lot done in a day, but she doesn't sleep much.

My names is Bob Silletti. I am a semi-retired pastel and watercolor artist. I paint pet portraits from photos, paint wild life and paint landscapes. Each piece is painted by me and not created by computer manipulation. I have always had a flare for art and have been drawing since I was a young boy. I have always been a stickler for paying attention to the smallest detail in my work. I learned how to do animal and pet portraits by studying comparative anatomy at the University of Illinois as an undergraduated student. I aslo studied landscape architecture at the public library to each myself how to paint landscape scenes in pastel and watercolor. Working from my home studio, my "Precious Memories" project has given me the time to paint portraits of animals in soft pastels as well as paint landscapes in soft pastels and watercolors. I double matte and frame my work. I try to use colors and subjects to please the art enthusiast. I hope that you enjoy my work as mush as I enjoy creating it. You can check out my website: preciousmemoriesbyrjsilletti.com.

Local born and raised, coming back of sorts after 23 years in Las Vegas... A master craftsman in many ways now producing various forms of metal art and sculptures...Plus designing and fabricating highend contemporary  metal stair and railing package using various materials, stone, steel, stainless, copper, bronze, woods and glass....

I have been a fiber artist most of my life.

I have been involved in software, web design, photography, digital photography, and desktop publishing for over 20 years. I have created superior Web Sites, Email Marketing, Printed Brochures, Signage, Direct Mail, Newspaper Ads, Business Cards, and E-brochures. The proof is in the sales, not the hype.
My portfolio site is located at www.mike-cartwright.com.

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For graphics work, I use Adobe Creative Suite CS3 on a PC Platform (Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks and InDesign primarily). For web work I use Dreamweaver and Flash. I use PHP and MySql for ecommerce sites (Built on OSCommerce).

I am extremely proficient at the entire Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, FrontPage) but much prefer Adobe products. I am reasonably comfortable with databases and am very good at Access. I will frequently use Access as a front end tool to query and report from other databases.

I have done programming in Visual Basic, C+, PHP, ActionScript, JavaScript, and assembly language.

I particularly enjoy photography and literally grew up in a darkroom. From Macro photography to landscapes, I consistently produce quality results. I utilize professional equipment and 8 megapixel resolution. I shoot all images in raw format and process in Photoshop.

MBA, Financial Emphasis, Keller Graduate School of Management (in process). Core work completed. 3 classes remaining to complete. Studies focused on current issues such as Internet business opportunities, Procurement management and Control of project costs.
Bachelor of Science in Productivity and Quality Management from Marian College, GPA: 3.8, Fon du Lac WI (1996)

Studies focused on current manufacturing and management, quality and process control. Emphasis was in systems, ISO 9000, Taguchi, DOE, Deming, benchmarking, customer satisfaction. Graduated Cum Laude.

A.A.S. Electronics in Electronics and RF Theory from Keesler Applied School of Aerospace Science, GPA: 4.0, Biloxi MS

Intensive coursework to provide engineering level electronics in minimal time. Part of Air Force advanced training.

My passion is pencil, graphite, charcoal.....I am enjoying learning more about oil. Acrylic dries too fast for me.

I work a full time job and work many hours with the Rockford Art Guild. I have very little time to actually do art; so when the Art Guild conducts a Saturday workshop you will almost always see me there. Sometimes months go by when that is the only opportunity I have to do art. There area lot of opportunities coming up this year for exhibiting art, although I will have only one or two pieces to show this year - I am hoping that next year it will be a different story. I'm really excited about the Artist of the Month opportunities for our artists, plus other exhibit opportunities coming up. With the purchase of our new exhibit panels, we can have a show anywhere, anytime!!

A crazy new age art nerd hippie love lunatic. I do any kind of art and expression that speaks to me right then. Primarily I'm a cartoonist, writer and doll-maker.