FACULTY
Diane
Keeler
Luck, WI. 54852
Email: dianekeelerart@gmail.com website: www.dianekeeler.com
In 1986 I discovered polymer clay and there was no turning back. All my life I had been searching for the art medium that would fill my soul. I spent years mastering and becoming bored with a multitude of different mediums. When I discovered doll sculpting everything I had experienced came together to create this art form. Realism has been my goal, to look at one of my pieces and almost see it breathe. All my pieces are original and one of a kind. I create every aspect of the piece, from designing and making all the clothing to all the accessories.
My philosophy about my art is to keep searching and learning and help promote the “doll” as a respectable art form by doing the best job I can and by sharing my knowledge, and what a better way to do this then teach.
Adele Sciortino
Email: adele@adelesciortions.com website: www.adelesciortino.com
Born and raised in 
I run two
companies: Art Illusions Etc and PCA Calendars and Diaries. Art Illusions Tec is founded on 10 Years of
one-of-a-kind, figurative sculpting, where I brought together a background in
painting[Gouache], photography [including underwater], crochet, quilting,
macramé, sewing, basket weaving, clay sculpting, mosaics, embroidery beading,
origami, along with my aesthetic sensibilities from being a Feng
Shui Institute of America certifies Feng Shui consultant. I am a graduate of Fine Arts and Graphics
from the
Judy Skeel
Email: skeelhaven1@yahoo.com website: www.skeelhaven.com
Judy is a self-taught artist who continues to learn, adapt and grow
with her art. 
Her award winning work has been displayed in
galleries and international expositions. An international teacher, Judy teaches
cross the country at clubs, shops and conventions as well as in her Westerville
studio as an instructor; Judy has published articles on doll making
skills, was a contributing doll artist to Patti Culea's
book Creative Cloth Doll Faces sells more than a dozen patterns of her
own design and is the owner/editor of the Association for People Who Play
With Dolls, an international doll maker's newsletter.
"When I create I begin with an idea and let the process and the
work itself take me where it wants to go while it pulls from deep within me.
Each piece holds the ecstasy of completion and enchants me. I see my figures as
my children often finding it difficult to let them go off into the world and speak for themselves, knowing art should evoke
emotion in the viewer and wondering if others will make the same connection.
Every new creation connects me to God as I begin to understand what joy He must
savor in creating His works."
Gloria J. "Mimi" Winer
Email: Firebird-Mimi@comcast.net
Gloria J. "Mimi" Winer has been an original cloth doll artist since 1983. She has studied fine arts at the National Academy of Arts and Design, the School of Visual Arts, the New School/Parson's School of Design, and with Pe Ling Liang of NYUS she studied silk painting and batik with French and Indian artists while living in Manhattan, She studied sculpture at Monmouth College. She has studied dollmaking with NIADA artists Lisa Lichtenfels, Bob McKinley, Martha Armstrong Hand, Mr. George Stuart, Antonette Cely and many others.
Gloria is or was a member of the Society of Creative Designers, The Original Doll Artists Council of America (ODACA), The Canadian Doll Artists Association, a Patron member of the National Institute of American Doll Artists (NIADA), and is Past President of the National Doll and Toy Collector's Club of New York City (UFDC). Her business is a member of the Craft Industries Association. She is or has been a member of the Board of Directors for several art organizations.
Her work as a doll artist represents the leading edge of what can be done with her medium. She is constantly seeking out and testing new materials, and has developed many new techniques and invented some exclusive tools. Gloria shares her information with the doll and craft world through her (retired) quarterly magazine, Let's Talk About Dollmaking, articles and frequent columns in many of the dollmaking and craft magazines, her web site at www.mimidolls.com, and through the books and patterns she writes with Jim, her husband and partner of more than 30 years. They have written many books, among which are a 92 page reference book, Mimi's Dollmakers Source-Book, Out of print and out of date.. The New Clays for Dollmaking, and many instructional patterns for her realistic figures.
Gloria's doll patterns include lengthy step-by-step instructions so that even beginning dollmakers can successfully complete a doll, and learn new techniques to further her dollmaking ambitions. Effectively they are instructional books that allow many variations over and above the specific doll. These books encourage dollmakers to use imagination to create their own dolls using her bodies and well tailored generic period costumes..
Her latest series, are of nude male and female and Youth bodies that can be children, fairies or elves. They can be dressed or painted and/or embellished to become wall or shelf art or can, They are blank canvases to display any form of needlework.
Anyone can make the doll of their dreams using Mimi's patterns and excellent easy to understand directions. They typify her outstanding ability as a teacher. She loves sharing her techniques and it shows in all her work.