Lian Sawires has been making art all her life, in one form or another, focusing on jewelry, painting, fiber and paper-making. Creativity itself has also been a major theme, she is the developer of Creativity Toolbox for Seniors, an online art-making tool (www.creativitytoolbox.org) and Excited!About Aging (www.facebook.com/excitedaboutaging). Lian attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, The Brooklyn Museum Art School, as well as Temple University's Tyler School of Art.With a classical musician father and a weaver mother, art is also in her heritage. She travels widely to explore design and art internationally and buy materials.
Lian is teaching Silk Painting and Shibori Spring 2012 at Montgomery County College, Northampton Community College and the Abington Arts Center. Email for details.
Email me: Liansawires@gmail.com
"Art is a product of the flow of life, the inner movement of the Tao, expressed in form, like nature, only it's new form. Ideas that are the product of what an artist is sensing, pulled through the unique matrix of their very fabric--that's art"
