People at the Wyly

Founder
Deb founded the Wyly Community Art Center in 1996 at which time she became Executive Director of the organization. In 2008 Deb became Program Director of the Wyly to focus on designing and expanding the public registration classes, partnership and volunteer programs and community events. Deb moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1973 after co-founding and directing the Graphic Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. She designed and instructed the Aspen Community School art program for kindergarten through 8th grades from 1973-1993. She has served on the Aspen Education Research Foundation Board and the Aspen Snowmass Arts Education Committee.

Deb received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston where she was a co-founder and artist for the Graphic Workshop. She has lived and taught art in the valley for 38 years. Deborah’s mixed media art transforms found images integrated with painting and drawing into collage pieces that are a response to a variety of life themes; memory, contradiction, ambiguity, documentation, discovery, and wonder. Her work is as informed by her own personal narrative and history as it is by the tradition of graphic design, drawing, painting and visual journaling. Deborah’s art has been exhibited locally and nationally. She currently lives and works in Basalt, Colorado. www.deborahjonesart.com

Lars has been interning at the Wyly since the summer of 2009. Lars enjoys working with Wyly classes, helping Joan organize the vast materials of the Wyly and working on his own art when he has the chance. He looking forward to starting a curatorial internship with the Aspen Art Museum. Lars hopes to move to Sweden in the Spring of 2010.

Liam Egloff was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2009. He studied the Dr. Betty Edwards methods of drawing on the right side of the brain, cartooning, and figure drawing at Otis College in Los Angeles since the age of six. He also studied with Shahin a renowned artist from Iran. Liam has also taken writing and directing workshops at the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios. Liam is very pleased to be offered an internship at Wyly Art Center this summer; he looks forward to meeting new students in the area.

Anette, also sometimes known as Nettie, is a senior at Basalt High School. When she is not spending her time at the wonderful Wyly, Nettie enjoys baking, cross country skiing, and doodling. The ideas behind her own artwork usually stem from her interest in science, specifically biology; however, Nettie is continually learning and open to new ways of expressing herself through various forms of art.

Simone is seventeen and currently a senior at Aspen High School. She will be interning at the Wyly during this school year for National Honors Society (and for an excuse to do more art). She loved going to Waldorf from kindergarten to eighth grade and feels fortunate that I had the opportunity to do so. She is an art fanatic, and cannot survive school without having at least one art class all the time. She is looking forward to going to college and traveling abroad.

Wyly Artist and Volunteer
Hailing from the Big Island of Hawaii and now happily residing in Basalt, Maggie didn’t have much time for art until about 10 years ago. Luckily, she collided with Deb Jones and the Wyly, and there you can find her, if she’s not off visiting one or more of her 7 children or 12 grandchildren.