Juliana Coles
Juliana Coles, award winning artist, Creative Expression teacher and pioneering Extreme Journalist, received her BFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco . Coles has studied at SMU in Dallas , Columbia College in Chicago , The American Academy of Art in Chicago , and California’s New College . She has studied with well known Illustrator Barron Storey who encouraged her Mixed Media Journals and muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activist convinced Coles to define her own style of Contemporary Expressionism. Coles, based on her expression as an artist, developed Expressive Visual Journaling as a workshop in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society of San Francisco and has taught and refined her unique creative process that combines journal writing assignments with art making explorations in the safe container of a book since that time. Her Visual Journals are featured in “Making Journals By Hand,” by Jason Thompson and appear in “The Altered Image,” by Karen Michel. Juliana has been keeping journals since she was eleven and has been creating Visual Journals since she was fourteen.