AWLC - The American Women's Literary Club 

Joni studied oil painting informally prior to moving to Peru. She has had individual expositions in Galería Trapecio in Miraflores and the Museo de Arte in San Juan Puerto Rico. She has participated in over 15 Noche de Arte expositions at the U.S. embassy. For this exposition Joni shared some watercolors showing scenes of New York, Lima, and Peru.

Juan Pablo Weisse Rebagliati was the meeting's featured artist. He paints with acrylics, inspired from his time spent teaching in the Amazon.

Juana Pinzas, artist and psychologist, with a doctorate in education, exhibited beautiful paintings around topics that are dear to us, women, and roses.  Juana is an extremely interesting professional and  author of "Leer Pensando", Juana worked at the Franklin D. Roosevelt school for thirty years.

MACIE McNEISE

Macie, a British artist, grew up in Botswana and studied in Pucallpa.

For the past 8 months, while in Pucalpa, she has been exploring and working with natural materials which she has incorporated in her art work. 

Maria Laura studied visual arts and art history in Lima and Buenos Aires. Her art comes from dreams, idyllic landscapes and dreamlike references, while keeping a colorful naive style and psychedelic mix.  She mixes references, experiences, dreams and emotions and landscapes from trips made as a backpacker.

Alicia Yrigoyen is an Editorial Graphic Designer, with more than thirty years of experience. She studied in the Montemar Institute (Peru) and had advanced courses in Gewerbeshule von Basel (Switzerland). She is a professor of Visual Fundamentals and Editorial Design in the Toulouse Lautrec Institute.

Valentín Quesada was born in 1962 in Ottawa, Canada. He completed his studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.  As a surfer, he began shaping and painting his own surfboards.   

While living in Chulucanas, he learned pottery with the finest artists of Peru such as Max Inga and Gerasimo Sosa among others.  Valentín has also published two  short novels ("Dadas las circunstancias. Lima, 2001" and "Conversaciones alrededor de una cama, desnuda"), Wako Editores. 

Claudia studied photography at the Pan American school of Art in Argentina in the years 1986 -1988.  She won the Geomundo Award and lived in Washington DC for 9 years where she studied portrait techniques and fine arts. 

Milton studied Art art at PUCP. He won the Adolfo Winternitz Award several times and finished first in his
class. He has exhibited in galleries in Lima, Europe and the US. 

He displayed a group of paintings from a series called “Playing in High Definition”. Milton's work takes the city as a stage in a role-playing game.  He juxtapositions the conflict of the 80s with familiar icons.

"His art emerges from a primordial impulse:  to create a symbolic universe that invites us to see and think things we are familiar with from a different perspective, by turning our reality upside down...A world where the actors are plants and animals."

An engraving artist graduated from Perú's National School of Fine Arts, Rocio has presented solo exhibitions and participated in collective exhibitions in Perú, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Spain.

She has received numerous awards and first prizes in various competitions, including first Prize in XXVII ICPNA's Engraving Hall. 

Marité was born in San José, Costa Rica, where she graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Costa Rica. For over 25 years, Marité has exhibited throughout United States,

Costa Rica, and Germany. Her work reflects a passion for symbols and colors.

Veronica shared her latest illustrations, a break from her traditional work.  She is an experienced artist and has exhibited extensively and participated in four residencies as Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, in New Smyrna, and the Deering Estate in Miami, Florida. She was studio artist at the Art Center, Lincoln Road; and the Bakehouse in Miami.  She is Curator and Registrar to S. Florida Museums & Private Collectors.

Daniel was born in Lima, where he studied Art, at the National School of Fine Arts.  He worked and studied at Galeria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy and the Gabinetto dei Disegni, Uffizi Gallery.

We were privileged to present Dr. Alfonso Montagne, Orthopedic Surgeon and M.D., who exhibited his private collection of photographs and books on Miraflores, including his recently published "Lugares y Costumbres del Bello Miraflores".

Carmen is a graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Lima. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries in Lima, in Quito, Ecuador, Geneva, Switzerland and Linz, Austria, where Carmen was an artist-in- residence, and presented her series of Red Roses (THANATOS) in 2012.

She has developed art projects with social involvement and her work is integrated with several disciplines. 

We kicked off the 2014 Artist Showcase Artist series, introducing the April Rising Artist and welcoming 

Violeta Jost.

Violeta's paintings of orchids represent her special interest in the more than 2800 species of orchids in Peru.