Gwenn Zaberer is an artist and an art educator.She has been teaching art to children from ages 4-18 for 15 years. She believes that art and creativity are essential to a child’s education. As an art teacher, she receives a sense of accomplishment bringing art into children’s lives.
Not only does she teach and inspire children to create, she is an artist herself. As a printmaker, painter and papermaker, she creates collages of handmade paper and prints. She paints female figures within the collages, adding natural and found objects. She makes her own paper from Western and Japanese fibers. Her art encompasses the beauty of the paper itself.
The female figure is a theme through out her artwork celebrating its elegance through line, shape, and movement.
Her paintings represent female icons throughout history. Her style is decorative with gold leaf and bright colors. She is inspired by artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Scheile, and Matisse.

Traditionally, portrait art has been an intimate process.
One artist working with one model. Not any more. 4Traits
take the idea of portraiture to a totally different place.
We’re a team of artists working together on a group of
portraits, blending our separate styles, talents, and
insights into a cohesive whole.
Four people sit across the table from our four artists. Each
artist works on the portrait of the person seated across
from them for about 5 minutes. When the 5 minutes are
up, the person and their portrait move on to the next artist,
assembly line style. The next artist picks up where the last
one left off, continuing to build on their work, adding lines,
shapes, shadows, texture, and color. This process continues
until all four artists have worked on all four portraits.

My sculptures and installations are inspired by finding a moment of beauty in the detritus of daily life, and they come into being through the transformation of familiar trash items into abstracted objects filled with emotional resonance.

The Bulgarian Folk Dance Ensemble "Zharava" will perform several dances from different ethnographic regions in Bulgaria. One suite of dances is from the Western part of Bulgaria,the "shope ethnographic region" characterized by highly complicated uneven rhythms and elaborate footwork. The dance is called "Na Megdana" and represents the dancing around the village square, which is historically characterized as the entertainment venue for Bulgarians. The villagers and their guests usually have gathered in the village square to meet, greet, celebrate and dance. The composition includes several unique dances with different uneven and syncopated rhythms in rythms 7/8, 9/8 and 2/4.

The second dance is from the Dobrujan Etnographic region of Bulgaria, (North East) and is characterized by an intricate dance moves and footwork characteristic of the region. Each move has been influenced from the traditional work and labor related operations in the field of the Bread basket of Bulgaria. The moves are either associated with the sowing of the grain seeds or with harvesting the crops. The dance’s name is “shinitsi” (wooden cut cylinder shaped box), which is the name of the props used to carry the seeds in the field when the season for sowing is underway.