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Vicki Dodge is a multitalented multimedia artist who works in clay, oil paint, and fibers. Mark Dodge is a road-tested multi-instrumentalist, writer, graphic designer, and photographer. Besides being married, they are a working creative team in both their individual and joint artistic endeavors. In 1980, Mark and Vicki created and organized an Everett, Washington arts and crafts festival called Everyman's Fair, which later grew up to become the Equinox Arts Festival. In the mid-80s they created and later sold a still-successful Seattle-area baking and catering company, Great Cakes and Edible Monuments. In 1999, Mark and Vicki spearheaded the effort to create the Alpaca Association of Western Washington's first festival, Alpacapalooza, which is now an annual event held in Monroe, WA. Together they generate a considerable flux of right-brain activity ...
Vicki was born in the South and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and holds a Master of Arts from Central Washington University. Vicki has been creating and selling her creations in stoneware, fiber arts, and oil paints for more than 30 years. She made a living as a full-time professional potter at Barncat Pottery in Roslyn, WA; taught art in the Artist-In-Residence program in a number of Eastern Washington schools; and taught pottery as economic development for the Peace Corps in the islands of the Palau group in Micronesia. Vicki owned the Riverside Gallery in Everett, Washington, helped establish the Snohomish County Crafts Guild, and helped create Everett's first major arts and crafts fair. She has served in many volunteer arts organizations, and her extensive knowledge and love of plants led to her two years serving as a volunteer docent and trainer for the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.
Mark was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he began piano lessons at age 8, guitar at 12, drums (and in his first band) at 13. Mark moved to Washington state in 1975, where he began a 10-year professional music career that included rock, country, and pop bands, as well as many hyphenated forms of rock (i.e. blues-, southern-, country-, classic-, and progressive-). He now records and produces rock, folk, country, and jazz on his own label, Big Quack Records. His photographic interests started in college, and in 1980, he began working as a graphic designer, creating advertising and promotional materials, including his own studio photography. Mark has created ad campaigns and a half-dozen Web sites for both commercial and non-profit organizations, served as a director on the board of the Alpaca Association of Western Washington, the Stanwood-Camano Music Festival, and currently sits on the board of the Stanwood-Camano Arts Guild, for which he is also webmaster. Mark is also designs advertising and serves as the publicity coordinator for the Guild's annual Art by the Bay event. Mark also takes "seasonal" work writing software books and documentation.
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