meet your instructors:
Deb Drager (VENUE owner) is a professional graphic designer and illustrator, Master Faux Effects Artisan and GOLDEN Artist Educator with 40 years experience of providing art services and creative inspiration!
Cat Lamb
(Apprentice)
With a lifetime of creating in many mediums; print and paper-making, watercolors, silk-painting, along with developing Children's Art programs, Cat brings her creative energy and ART to The VENUE marketplace.
Mary Lou Christie
(Silversmith)
Owner of Wearable Art, Mary Lou not only creates one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces and sells at The VENUE & beyond in fine art fairs across the country...she takes time to share her craft with a "Jewelry Making Series" classes, offering: Mixed Metals, Engraving and Enameling
Gaye Grant
(Textile Artisan)
Owner of 3 Penny Studio; a mixed media & fiber artist. Gaye calls Monticello, Illinois home but makes several trips to Oklahoma to share her talents with us! Formerly from Santa Fe, Gaye has been involved with art services in many genres; from acting to visual arts to providing basic paint and decorative designs. Enjoy her collaboration of fabric, paints and plasters!
