LARA MICHELE BUNN

WORKS ON PAPER

Galleries:

Quad City Arts - a fine arts organization in the Quad Cities

Midcoast Fine Arts - another fine arts organization in the Quad Cities whose main focus is art in public places

Muscatine Art Center - includes the Stanley Art Gallery and Laura Musser Museum

Lemon Street Gallery - a gallery we visited a few years ago when we were starting up an art collective in Muscatine

Art Related Sites:

Dick Blick Art Supply - art supplies

Daniel Smith - art supplies

University of Iowa School of Art and Art History - my alma mater

Iowa Arts Council - good resource for Iowa artists

The Art Institute of Chicago - the number one reason to visit Chicago

Artists:

Brandy Gale - multi-talented artist and graphic designer (and a fellow meezer lover) based in Canada

Helen Scanlon - equine artist who interprets horses much like I do cats (and a cat lover herself)

Sharon's Art-Rageous Webpage - an artist, high school art teacher, animal lover, avid gardener, digital photography enthusiast, contra dancer and amateur genealogist in central Virginia (be sure to check out the art lesson plans with her students' work - amazing!)

Susan R. Wilson - Native Iowa artist based in the Chicago area who does vibrant oil stick landscapes

Mo Orkiszewski's Blue Cat Heaven - Australian-based artist with a fanciful style, much inspired by her Abyssinian, Ariel

Bekah Ash - Iowa-based artist who does vibrant paintings of characters from her imagination.

Other:

Siamese Internet Cat Club - if you love meezers

Siamese Rescue - an excellent group of rescues devoted to placing Siamese and related breeds - where we adopted two of our babies

Planet Meezer - another great place for meezer fans

River Cities Reader - alternative weekly based in the Quad Cities, always includes arts stories that other mainstream papers don't cover

Susanne Klebba's Website -  A fellow member of the Siamese Internet Cat Club with a page devoted to Siamese and Oriental Breed. (Page is in German, but can be easily translated using AltaVista's Babelfish)

My Cats:

Photo album of my cats at Care2

Soon to be added - a page devoted to my inspirations