2006 Participants - Artist Participants
Participating Chefs : Cocoa Couture : Cocoa Sutra : Entertainment : Artist Participants : Event Sponsors : Special Thanks : Volunteers
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ARTIST Laurel Delaney • Artist |
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Dena Jackson • Artist
Dena Jackson comes to us from Houston, Texas . She proceeded to Washington, D.C.’s historic Howard University, where she studied Architecture for two years, and then switched to the School of Fine Arts to study Graphic Design. One painting class was part of the curriculum, so she did what was required and graduated and headed to Atlanta, Georgia where she attended the Portfolio Center. She studied Art Direction, which lead her to where she is today pushing products for Fortune Five Hundred companies. So painting has become her release from the grind, along with her greeting card company, www.laughlinescards.com. denajac@yahoo.com |
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Holly Jackson • Artist |
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Jessie Smith-Larson • Artist
Born in Panama and raised in Miami, Jessie has been an artist as long as she has been able to hold a pencil. In 1992, she lost her entire body of work to Hurricane Andrew. Forced to start fresh, she took the opportunity to work with new materials and use new techniques. Jessie creates using acrylics, oils, found objects and encaustics, a method of painting with melted wax. While she finds inspiration when wandering the streets of Chicago, her hometown of the moment, Jessie’s art is a unique manifestation of her imagination. sailorj@corecomm.net |
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Denise Milito • Artist
Tortoise Play is the brainchild of artist Denise Milito, and is the culmination of the best of her creative ventures. Rather than retreat to make her masterpieces, Denise takes her process public to interact and feed off of people’s unique personalities and features. Denise makes you the art! www.tortoiseplay.com • 773.456.1134 |
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Mary Jo O’Hearn • Artist
I am a self taught artist and have been doing murals, decorative painting and trompe l’oeil for about 15 years. Some of my work is a chapter of the book “Sophisticated Surfaces”, by Karen Aude, and has appeared in several home decorating magazines. For the last few years I have been focusing more on my personal art which includes acrylic paintings, both figural and abstract, assemblages, encaustic and water color. Some of these pieces can be viewed in the online gallery of www.opal-art.com. mjohearn@hotmail.com |
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Esther Roby • Painting
She paints with great enthusiasm. Her versatility allows her to paint a wide variety of subjects. Using oil on canvas, she captures the mood of the painting and not just the fine detail. Through the use of research, photographs, observation and imagination, Esther forms the basis for her paintings. Each portrait is custom designed and painted to suit the needs of each individual client and pricing varies according to size and complexity of the piece. Her style is straight forward and realistic, creating portraits of great strenght. www.esther-roby.com |
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Alain Roby • Sugar Sculpting
Alain Roby is currently the Executive Pastry Chef of the Hyatt Corporations flagship hotel, the “Hyatt Regency Chicago”. He has won over 18 prestigious culinary awards including: The Grand Prize Gold Medal of Paris offered by the French First Minister (Medaille Des nautes) and the Best of Show by the National Restaurant Association Culinary Salon 1988, here in Chicago. Bronze medal Beever Creek Championship. Alain Roby has also been named as a permanent committee of the exclusive Societe D’Escofier Chicago. He has traveled all over the world and in touring he became the private pastry chef to the shah of Iran, and worked in London, Tokyo, New York and finally Chicago. Alain studied and learned his culinary art from the world famous pastry chef “Lenotre” in Paris. Alain is Certified Master Chef of Pastry & Sugar Artistry and is the founder of the school “Sugar Artistry” here in Chicago, where he teaches his trade to other chefs of the city and the surrounding states. www.chicagoregency.hyatt.com • 312.565.1234 |
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PHOTOGRAPHY Wayne Wodrich • Photography |
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Heather Zinger • Photography
Photography at the event is donated by Heather Zinger. Please contact her at hashleyaddams@hotmail.com for more information about her photography services. |
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MASKS Tony Zagone • Zagone Studios |
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DEMONSTRATIONS Nicholas Lodge • International Sugar Art Collection |
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Jacquy Pfeiffer & Sebastien Canonne • The French Pastry School
The French Pastry School, at the City Colleges of Chicago, is a Chicago-based culinary institute dedicated only to the art of pastry was co-founded by internationally acclaimed Master Chefs Jacquy Pfeiffer and Sebastien Canonne M.O.F., in 1995. The French Pastry School offers the finest pastry training in the United States producing the best-prepared chefs entering the profession. The foundation of instruction is the artist-apprentice relationship model, which employs constant exposure to master chefs, hands-on training and the use of the finest tools and ingredients. www.frenchpastryschool.com • 312.726.2419 |
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Ewald Notter • The Notter School of Pastry Arts, LLC
Ewald Notter, owner and founder of the world renowned International School of Confectionary Arts, has partnered with Beverly Karshner, President of Chefs Games Inc., to bring you The Notter School of Pastry Arts, L.L.C. Notter School has brought together an array of the finest pastry instructors from around the world. Having this esteemed faculty has contributed to the school’s reputation for being one of the world’s best continuing educational pastry programs www.notterschool.com • 407.240.9057 |
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