Faculty
International
painter
Daniel
Florea
has
had
an
extraordinary
career
in
the
arts.
He
created
the
Bionic
Buzzard
kite
which
sold
in
the
hundreds
of
thousands
in
the
1980’s,
and
has
painted
for
the
Catholic
church
both
in
America
and
abroad.
Dan
has
set
standards
for
special
effects,
safety
and
mural
painting
for
the
Painters
and
Decorators
Contractors
of
America
(PDCA).
Florea
has
decorated
hotel
lobbies
and
rooms
for
some
of
the
world’s
finest
hotels
such
as
Sheraton.
He
has
won
national
awards
and
lectured
all
over
the
world
starting
in
Bend,
Oregon.
Florea
has
shown
his
work
in
many
of
the
worlds
top
museums
including
the
Hermitage
and
the
Museum of Modern Art in New York city.
He
keeps
studios
in
Cuenca,
Ecuador
and
in
Mattole,
Israel
where
he
served
20
years
as
a
volunteer
on
the
Lebanon
and
Syrian
border
as
a
forward,
Dan
is
also
a
decorated
veteran
of
the
U.S.
arm
forces.
In
Cuenca,
he
is
working
on
a
national
show
for
next
year
expressing
his
love
of
South
America
and
Ecuador.
His
last
U.S.
show
was
a
forty-year
retrospective
of
his
paintings
at
the
Betty
Gray
in
Sunriver,
Oregon.
Dan
is
driving
force
and
one
of
the
founding
faculty
members
of
the
Willamette
Falls School of Art. (WFSOART.COM)
After
50
years
of
professional
art,
Dan
says,
I’ve
had
a
enough
time
to
know
something
about
how
to
teach
meaningful
art
and
best
practices.
One
of
his
subjects
he
likes
to
teach
is
safety
and
ethics
and
how
to
make
a
living
in
the
art.
He
welcomes
any
one
who
wants
a
honest
unvarnished
professional,
politically
incorrect, yet truthful assessment of a life in the arts.
The
school,
Willamette
Falls
School
of
Art
is
a
tuition
free
art
school
and
every
teacher
of
WFSOART
has
a
history
of
ten
years
or
more
in
the
arts
independent
of
schools
and
collages
.
He
/
we
believe
learning
about
how
to
make
art
is
critical
to
happiness.
After
a
life
time
of
work,
its
time
to
pass
on
the
tricks
of
the
profession.
Art
schools
have
a
important
place
in
our
world
knowing
how
to
make
art,
but
cost
of
art
school
and how to succeed at art is critically important to the students.
Dan Florea
503.572.8892 • www.wfsoart.com
wfsoart@gmail.com
Tim Satterfield
Photographer, Designer and Graphic Artist
Award
winning
portraitist,
Tim
Satterfield,
has
been
creating
enticing
images
for
more
than
30
years.
Making
beautiful
photographs
of
individuals
and
families,
and
landscapes
across
Oregon,
Arizona
and
other
parts
of
the
West.
Tim’s
one
man
show
was
a
breast
cancer
servivor
series
in
the
Arizona
State
captitol
rotunda.
Tim
also
serves
as
the Dean of Photography at the Willamette Falls School of Art.
Michael
David
Peterson
has
a
Bachelor
of
Visual
Arts
and
Sciences
from
Oregon
State
University.
He
has
received
numerous
national
awards
for
his
work
in
a
variety
of
mediums
ranging
from
watercolors
and
inks,
pastels
oil
and
chalk
and
inks.
Michael,
a
enthusiastic
traveler,
has
traveled
and
painted
throughout
the
Rocky
Mountains,
Hawaii,
Colorado,
California
and
Oregon,
capturing
the
varying
landscapes
and
its unique relationship to seasonal lighting.
Michael David Peterson
Born
in
Tillamook,
Oregon
Marylou
Wilhelm
has
been
drawing
and
painting
all
her
life.
Her
mother
equipped
Marylou’s
first
studio
with
a
desk
made
from
apple
crates
and
boards.
Her
early
supplies
included
house
paint.
Between
then
and
her
current
position
as
Dean
of
Watercolor
at
the
Willamette
Falls
School
of
Art,
Marylou
has
painted,
learned
more
about
painting,
and
taught
painting
all
the
way
through
her
life
and
through
the
Western
United
States
and
Mexico.
She
especially
enjoys painting
en plein air
.
Marylou
was
the
resident
artist
in
the
Port
of
Tillamook
Bay
and
has
supervised
the
Art
Department
of
the
Tillamook
County
Fair.
She
was
a
member
of
the
Tillamook
County
Art
Association
and
for
eight
years
was
a
member
of
the
Newport
Visual
Arts
Center.
She
is
a
current
member
of
the
Watercolor
Society
of
Oregon and is painting with a group of artists in La Pine, Oregon.
Since
2010,
Marylou
has
lived
in
Hines,
Oregon
located
in
Harney
County,
the
heart
of
Oregon’s
Rural
Frontier.
She
has
taught
3-day
en
plein
air
workshops
in
the
Steens
Mountains
as
well
as
one-day
outdoor
painting
workshops
at
other
locations
in
Harney
County
including
Divine
Canyon.
She
has
worked
with
the
Burns
Paiute
Tribe
on
art
projects.
She
is
a
founding
member
of
Gallery
15
in
Burns,
Oregon
and
has
led
drawing,
watercolor,
and
collage
workshops
at
Frontier
Art Center in Burns.
Marylou Wilhelm
Molly Carlson
Printmaking Artist
Molly is a Visual Artist, Massage Therapist, and native Oregonian. She
has called Portland her home since 1996.
Molly developed her love of printmaking under the instruction of Yuji
Hiratsuka at Oregon State University (BFA 1995). Her time spent in the
Emerging Printmakers Residency in 2023 (sponsored by Print Arts
Northwest and Atelier Meridian) has been inspirational to her printmaking
practice. She is a board member of Print Arts Northwest and a member of the
Northwest Letterpress Group, and participant in Partners in Print letterpress
events.
Molly met Dan Florea, Director of Willamette Falls School of Art in the
spring of 2022. They instantly found common ground in their love of art.
That August, she taught a letterpress workshop at the five-day Kids Art
Camp the school held at a campground in the Strawberry Mountains of Eastern Oregon. She taught another
children’s letterpress class in her studio over the 2022 Christmas break with Dans supervision and assistance.
Lithography is Molly’s favorite medium, and she has worked extensively with etching and letterpress.
She started a letterpress studio in May of 2023 and dreams of creating a Sacred Community Print Shop in the
countryside to serve the local community and her circle of friends.
In Molly’s exploration of the craft of letterpress, she is currently designing and printing broadsides and
ephemera to advocate for pelvic floor bodywork. The parts of us that poop, pee, and have sex are often
forbidden, hidden, ignored, shamed, and traumatized. She is passionate about making this knowledge more
mainstream. We ALL have a pelvic floor. She wants to get the word out about pelvic health. To illustrate its
sacredness. To normalize it.
Molly’s art practice is deeply informed by her massage work and her spiritual path. The “inner landscape
of beauty” calls her. Poet, priest, and spiritual philosopher John O’Donohue calls beauty “the invisible
embrace”. The Mystery (the intangible force that inspires) animates her and, with inky brayer to stone, she
navigates life artistically. As she traverses between her inner and outer worlds, she expresses her life on paper
through colors and textures, and the relationships between children, the female form, and flowers.
Check out moonsingerpress on Instagram for more information or write to her at
molly@moonsingerpress.com.
