EVERYONE AN ARTIST

BLUE RAVEN ART STUDIO is a welcoming place for painting enthusiasts. We encourage artists of all skill abilities to enjoy the creative process in their chosen media. Resident artists and student guests support each other in exploring techniques and subject matter. Exchanging ideas among like-minded art friends promotes learning from each other.

Developing a personal visual voice in an atmosphere of acceptance for beginners and challenge for the experienced artist is our goal. Instructors offer suggestions and technical information in a kind manner, avoiding quality judgments to maximize each student’s opportunity to grow at their own rate.  

Come to a class!

Have fun, learn to use art materials and techniques, build your confidence.

Exhibit your finished art. Grow in your personal approach to art by expressing your human need to create. We believe there are no wrong ways to make art; there is only YOUR way! We are your cheerleaders.

Kathy Heiner bio  

I have always loved the creative process. I sometimes feel like a kid in a candy store when I see fun and wonderful artwork. I want to try it all.

I am self-taught and have explored handcrafts of all kinds: designing tee-shirts and tote bags, sewing doll clothes, tole painting, slab clay construction, bead-work jewelry and painting on glass, which I began about eight years ago. Now my hand-painted, themed stemware, cups and other glass items are available in galleries and gift shops. I also do commission work on wine glasses and coffee cups in seasonal designs, animal motifs and southwest subject matter.

I began painting acrylics on canvas five years ago, designing with the shamans, horses and cowboy images from my glass-painting themes. I’ve since expanded my subject matter to landscapes from the southwest and the aspen woods near my family’s cabin. I continually study art books, painting videos and participate in workshops to learn what would have been available to me in art school, if I had had such an opportunity as a busy mom. I have so much to learn from many wonderful artists.

Being co-owner—the initiating partner—and acrylic instructor at Blue Raven Art Studio gives me a full-time place to paint, away from my glass-painting studio at home. Sharing painting experiences with like-minded artists in Coyote Gulch is fun. Now I get to help other painting enthusiasts enjoy acrylic experiences they’ve always wanted to try.

Caroll Louise Shreeve bio

Caroll is an author, editor, illustrator, art and writing educator and a published scrapbook designer. A workshop leader for Asilomar Writer’s Conferences, Reader’s Digest, Writer’s Digest, University of Utah, Weber State University, and Eccles Art Center. She is a former in-house editor for Peregrine Smith Books, Karen Foster Scrapbook Co., Vice President of Publishing 1984–1994 for Meridian Intl. (magazines and books), and Editorial Director for Chapelle Sterling, packager. 

Caroll is the author of Sterling Publishing’s Victorian Details, interior and garden design, Life Is Good, a guided gratitude journal for Walking Stick Press; and co-author of Celebrate Your Stories for Watson-Guptill. Her “Tell Your Story” journaling columns have appeared in Memory Maker’s magazine. She has written and illustrated other interior design books for Sterling on a ghosting work-for-hire basis. She is president of St. George Heritage Writer’s chapter of League of Utah Writers.
She was keynote speaker (“The Sacred Art of Journaling”) for the 2009 St. Benedict’s Foundation (Ogden) spring tea honoring 300 women and raising funds for St. Benedict’s charity programs. 
Caroll is an artist participant and co-owner of Blue Raven Art Studio at Coyote Gulch in Kayenta. 

“I am eager to paint with our art enthusiasts at Blue Raven because the creative energy is the best form of power boost. Feeling the give of that canvas under my paintbrush is so satisfying. Sharing enthusiasms and skills with friends and students fills me with joy.”