Juanita Niemeyer Juanita Niemeyer is a contemporary artist working in textured sculptured acrylic, oil, watercolor, and ceramic, and glass mediums. She enjoys interpreting nature's landscapes and floral imagery in unique techniques of her own creation, which allows total freedom of expression. As a result, many private and corporate collectors in the United States, Denmark, Norway, Africa, Australia, England, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines have acquired her work. Juanita combines a variety of techniques to achieve unusual textural effects. Whether working on glass, ceramic, paper or canvas, texture and individuality are foremost in her thoughts. Many of her creations are "one-of-a-kind" and have found their way into the homes and businesses of discriminating art enthusiasts. Her last "One Woman Show" was at Paramount Motion Pictures Studio, Hollywood, California. And, she is a member of both the prestigious Pasadena Fine Arts Society, Pasadena, California; and The Tehachapi Valley Arts Association, Tehachapi, California. In addition to her art, Juanita has authored several instructional books and manuals for various art trades. Her book, "Hobby Ceramist's Guide to Finishing Products", she discusses how to correctly use ceramic decorating products and repairing media. In her book, "The Elegant World of Sculptured Decorative Painting", she discusses techniques and projects using her dimensional and textural decorative painting skills. She wrote a monthly technical column and numerous "how-to" articles for eleven years for "Popular Ceramics Magazine" published by Jones Publishing out of Iola, Michigan. Juanita taught educational seminars in art related subjects worldwide. Her art seminar programs have taken her to Central America, Africa, Europe, England and Indonesia. She teaches fine art programs through out the United States and has been a guest teacher at many trade shows over the past years. At Los Angeles City Mission College, she taught framing, kiln fired glass and oil painting, and, fired glass, watercolor, acrylic and oil painting at Every Woman's Village, Van Nuys, California. She has written and taught Product Certification Seminars for Ceramichrome, Inc., Stanford, Kentucky; Olivia Colors, Glenburnie, Maryland; Duncan Enterprises, Fresno, California and Unique Glass Colors, Logansport, Louisiana. She presently authored and teaches an on-line fired glass certification program for Unique Glass Colors at www.firedartsclassroom.com. This year, 2006, Juanita has authored and is teaching an art program for Cummings Valley Middle School, Tehachapi, California. The program introduces the master's of fine arts to the 5th grade class of Mrs. Sherwood. It is designed to not only encourage them to explore and discover the wonderful world of art, but to actually work "hands-on" in the style of the "artist of the month" we are studying. We will round out our year of study with a field trip to the Getty Art Museum in the spring of 2007. Juanita will be teaching adult and children's oil painting classes in Tehachapi, California at Gallery and Gifts; and at the Art Center also in Tehachapi. She is a certified teacher of William Alexander's wet on wet style of oil painting. Juanita Niemeyer attended the Wichita Art Institute, Southwestern College, and was awarded a scholarship to the Hallmark School of Design, in Kansas City, Kansas. While attending Southwestern College, she was awarded an art scholarship to the University of Oslo, Norway to study Scandinavian painting and design. Her works have been represented by such prestigious galleries as the Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; East Park Gallery, Valencia, California (with subsidiary galleries in Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; and High Point, North Carolina); Copenhagen Fine Art Fair, Denmark; Earl's Court Gallery, Ipswich, England; CS Wo and Sons, Ltd., Honolulu, Hawaii; and Kay Jay, Copenhagen, Denmark.