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Juliana Coles, award winning artist and pioneering Extreme Visual Journalist, recieved her BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. Coles further studied at SMU in Dallas, Columbia College in Chicago, The American Academy of Art in Chicago, and California's New College. She has studied with well known Illustrator Barron Storey who encouraged her Mixed Media Journals, and muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activist convinced Coles to define her own style of Contemporary Expressionism.
Coles received the Wildine Fund grant for Artists for her Expressive Visual Journals Workshop at ArtStreet, an Art Center for the homeless, in 2000 and is 2002's recipient of the Madonna Fund for Artists. Coles, based on her expression as an artist, developed Extreme Journaling as a workshop in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society of San Francisco, and has taught and refined her unique creative process that combines journal writing assignments with art making explorations in the safe container of a book ever since. Her Visual Journals are featured in Making Journals By Hand, by Jason Thompson, and The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery, by Karen Michel, and many others. She has written articles for the prestigious American craft magazine, Cloth, Paper, Scissors, and has compiled numerous Booklets on her process which can be purchased at www.julianacoles.etsy.com.
Coles has been keeping journals for 34 years.
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