Julia Connor

Noah's Wife	Persimmon	Rumi Bird
White Cat	White Hat	White Horses

Julia Connor
Julia Connor began study at the Poetics Program of New College of California in San Francisco at the age of forty. There, from 1981 to 1987, she studied with poets Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and David Meltzer. It was a formative experience.
Since 1988, she has taught poetry in a wide variety of situations from Graduate MFA Programs such as Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she was on the faculty, to State Prisons. She teaches poetry workshops for all levels of experience, which she has presented at places as diverse as Nathan Mayhew Seminars, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Emerson College, Sussex, England. In addition, since 1992, she teaches private on-going workshops in Sacramento.
She holds a certificate in ceramics from Chouinard Institute, Los Angeles (1968), where she studied under master potter Ralph Baccera. She began painting in 1985 and continues to work in both media. A life-long protégée of renowned potter, poet, and educator, M.C. Richards, author of Centering in Poetry, Pottery and Person, she now serves as Ms Richards literary executor.
She was named Poet Laureate of Sacramento in April of 2005.

Dottie Moore is the author of Lives in Process
The Second Fifty Years

Dottie Moore is a studio quilt artist living in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Since 1980 her award-winning works have been exhibited, collected, and published throughout the world, and commissioned by many individuals, corporations, and hospitals.
Dottie has been featured in numerous publications including Threads, American Quilter (front cover in addition to article), Art Quilt Magazine, Quilter’s Newsletter, and Traditional Home by Better Homes and Gardens. She is author of the CD book, Lives in Process: Creativity in the Second Fifty Years by Ladybug Press and one of the chapter authors of Midlife Clarity: Epiphanies from Grown-Up Girls by Beyond Words Publishing Company.
She is passionate about the power of the creative process for transforming lives and is founder of “Piecing a Quilt of Life,” an international project dedicated to empowering senior women by recognizing their creative abilities. Students and audiences for her classes and lectures include visual artists, musicians, writers, storytellers, women’s groups, college students, and quilters.
You can email Dottie

You can find out more about Dottie Moore

at her web site
http://www.dottiemoore.com/

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