Ginny Lancaster-Gerber

Ginny Lancaster has had many years of successful experience as a professional Sonoma County artist and art instructor, and she continues to take great pleasure in presenting creative art techniques to artist of all levels of experience in her classes, workshops and private lessons.

Ginny works in the following media:

• Watercolor
• Collage
• Enameled Wall Sculptures
• Pictorial Enamels
• Fabric Dyeing
• Hand-Spinning
• Sumi-e, Ink and Brush Paint
• Natural Dyeing of Wool
• Acrylics

Ginny has been interested in Japanese arts since the age of 14 and has studied almost continuously since that time. She was fortunate enough to visit with Japanese artist and author Ukiah Uchiami. She studied textile dyeing with friends at Mishinome and at the compound of Living National treasure, Keisuke Serizawa. She also spent much time studying at the Oji Paper Museum near Tokyo while visiting in Japan 1976, 1980 and 1995.

Based upon her excellence in the field, Ginny was awarded the California Community College teaching credential authorizing her to give instruction in the areas of "Fine and Applied Arts and Related Technologies". She studied at the Los Angeles School of Design, and did her teacher training through U.C. Berkeley and Sonoma State University.

She has taught at Sonoma State University, Napa Valley College and Santa Rosa Junior College. Some of the subjects she presented at the collegiate level are the following:

• Art Appreciation
• Art History
• Theory of Color and Design
• Watercolor Painting
• Acrylic Painting
• Sumi-e (Japanese Brush Painting)
• Textile Dyeing with Katagami (Stencils) and Katazome (Dyeing)
• Enameling on Copper

Ginny has had 27 one-woman shows, and her works are in private collections from coast to coast.

Contact Ginny:
638 Wright St.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 545-0408

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