| By soar, 592 contributed posts About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world. By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  Charu Colorado announces an Open Studio Sale and Fundraiser ~ Light up your Love of Art ~ contribute to art education in the Ashland schools and Charu’s medical copays! Come to Charu’s art studio at 1026 Henry St #6 in Ashland on December 3rd and 4th from 2:00 to 6:00 PM to partake in her OPEN STUDIO FUNDRAISER, featuring paintings, drawings and other one of a kind special-created-pretty-crazy-wonderful things. For this sale only, less than half price, many pieces under $25 and $50. PHONE: 541-482-6319 Continue reading Browse and Buy at Charu’s Open Studio Fund Raiser By soar, 592 contributed posts About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.  You are invited to see and participate in 2 FREE demonstrations of Right Brain magic with Charu Colorado as she demonstrates on Sunday, Oct. 30th and Sunday, Nov. 6th from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM each day how the universe of our creative process is very like the changes we observe in nature Continue reading FREE Creating Our Life Right Brain Demonstration by Charu Colorado By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  More details about Charu Colorado’s Class One: The Right Brain Drawing Experience. Register Now! Continue reading Charu Colorado Class One: The Right Brain Drawing Experience – MONDAYS By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  More details about Charu Colorado’s upcoming class, Right Brain Mixed Media Drawing & Still Life. Register Now! Continue reading Charu Colorado Class Two: Right Brain Mixed Media Drawing & Still Life – TUESDAYS By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  More details on Charu Colorado’s upcoming class, Right Brain Dreams: Mixing Metaphor and Mixed Media Art, beginning Sept 30. Register Now! Continue reading Charu Colorado Class Three: Right Brain Dreams Mixing Metaphor and Mixed Media Art – FRIDAYS By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections . She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles, where she began this work, and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Continue reading Charu Colorado Announces 3 Right Brain Art Classes beginning Sept 19 – Register Now! By soar, 592 contributed posts About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.  We are honored to welcome Charu Colorado to the Visual Artists directory! This accomplished woman has seen many high points in her career, from the art scholarship that began her education at Colorado Women’s College, Denver, CO in 1937 – 38 to such a vast array of awards and prestigious juried exhibitions that she was written into the Who’s Who in American Art, 1966-1980. Continue reading SOAR Welcomes Artist Charu Colorado! By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR  Inspiration, A Love Story
There are a variety of pathways to creativity: interest in certain subjects and ideas, role models in fields that we develop interest in, or the necessity for finding solutions to certain problems. However, the most important precursor of a passionate all… Continue reading Inspiration, A love Story By Charu Colorado, 10 contributed posts About the author: Charu Colorado is a professional artist who has won many awards and whose art has been shown internationally and is in many private collections. She is a published poet and art/dream coach. Here in Ashland she has been teaching drawing in her private studio and at SOU Extended campus. Her central interest in art teaching over the past 20 years has been with emphasis on the development of right brain seeing abilities. Her work with children and adults in expanding their cognition and other discerning abilities has received recognition in the teaching community in Los Angeles where she began this work and in Ashland in her drawing classes at SOU. Learn more or make contact with the information in her listing at SOAR 
Legacy Thoughts my father left me Held like a davening tallit Warm me as I look across the driveway Enclosed in Sunday morning fog Final consequences warned about Appear like ghosts of crushed sleeping bags In a deserted… Continue reading Legacy by Charu Colorado |  DISCLOSURE: SOAR/Art Matters! has affiliate relationships with the providers of great products and services below. If you make a purchase from one of the sites below, it helps defray the cost of promoting Southern Oregon Artists, so please use our links!   Utrecht's online discounts have been updated, though the graphics remain the same. The link above saves 40% off your highest priced item (coupon code AP1), the one below gets you 15% off any order of $100 or more AND Free Shipping! (coupon code AP3)    Ashland artist Pegi Smith sells her art on Yessy.com - View her Yessy gallery hereNow thru April 30: 
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