Press Release

ESCONDIDO – For a recent art class project, Jane LaFazio asked her students to create “super hero puppets.” There was one rule: She did not want characters from television or movies. More...

Saturday, September 8, 2007 11:30am - 12:30pm
"Marketing for Artists"
ART CONNECTION is pleased to welcome noted artist Jane LaFazio, who will discuss marketing for artists. Jane will provide helpful tips on how artists can get there name out there! More...

What is Mundo Lindo?

A year long program, funded by The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation, of free weekly 2-hour creative classes for fourth and fifth grade children in the underserved population of Escondido [San Diego North]. The classes are taught by Jane LaFazio, a professional artist, and take place at the Escondido Children’s Museum. Jane guides the kids in discovering the joy and power of creativity through hands-on projects. Each session, the children will be learning art skills and problem solving while learning about the world we live in through natural sciences and international culture.

Follow along on Jane’s blog http://mundolindobeautifulworld.blogspot.com/

You can even purchase merchandise with the lovely Mundo Lindo artwork! Here at http://www.cafepress.com/janeville

I was featured in the June 2007 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. A paper quilt on page 62, an article I wrote on pages 24-26, a letter to the editor on page 9 and a short bio on page 13!

Woohoo! I’m a cover girl. That’s my sketchbook page on the cover of the upcoming March/April Cloth Paper Scissor magazine! There’s also an article, by me, about my sketching inside. The cover was a wonderful surprise! The magazine will be available in stores after March 1.

Jane is featured in the January/February 2007 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine with a 5-page interview about her recent artwork “Ralph’s Letters.” The article tells the story of the rediscovered 35-year-old love letters, written by Ralph to Jane, and how she turned the letters into a work of art, using silk organza and needle and thread.

Monday, January 15, 2007 San Diego Union Tribune Business Section front page BioBytes feature.

Medium with a message
Palomar College exhibit to feature quilted love letters, symbolic shadow boxes
By Pat Sherman
Today's Local News

One day while cleaning her storage shed, artist Jane LaFazio came across a dusty bundle of letters, long-ago expressions of passion and wanderlust, tied neatly with a ribbon. More...

Grant brings art to elementary students
By Pat Sherman
UNION-TRIBUNE COMMUNITY NEWS WRITER

Some people find themselves in the rhythm of the day-to-day. Others discover their strengths only in extreme circumstances, as Jane LaFazio of San Diego did in 1998. More...

Jane LaFazio's art quilts have been featured in several books, and now she's willing to share the secrets of how to make them. More...

Jane was one of 32 artists chosen for the new book entitled “Fabric Art Gallery” published by Leisure Arts. They chose two of Jane’s wool felt quilts to be include: “Kitties at the Tree of Life” and “Birdies at the Tree of Life.”

Fabric Art Gallery
Retail Price: $15.95
80 pages
Published by Leisure Arts
www.leisurearts.com/

NEW RELEASE! 2005
Features a gallery of 43 art quilts by 32 award-winning designers. Also includes instructions for the following techniques: • Dyeing fabric • Computer fabric printing • Free-motion stitching • Adding embellishments • How to make a beginner art quilt

A new book, "Material Visions" (a Gallery of Miniature Art Quilts) with me as a featured artist! Order a copy here.

It took awhile, but the artists of 10 North have their first exhibition at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, and they are pretty happy about it. More..

Arts classes are becoming a large draw in Oceanside

The first class meeting at the Oceanside Museum of Art's School of Art was just getting under way in a tiny storefront next door to the California Surf Museum on North Coast Highway. The roomful of students was finding out where to park, where to pick up supplies, and most important, where to find coffee. More...

Quilting is an art that conjures images of a slower and more sedate time. But the art form is very much alive today, as shown by the spectacular quilts on display in "Quilt Visions 2004" an exhibit that runs through Jan 16 at the Oceanside Museum of Art. More...

By CATHY LUBENSKI
San Diego Union-Tribune
Sunday, August 1, 2004
Homescape Almanac

A few years ago, Jane LaFazio of Rancho Bernardo read a magazine story about art quilts. The idea intrigued her.

She’d been sewing on paper already – “I’d painted a watercolor landscape of Poway and stitched the outline of the mountains on my sewing machine,” she said – and wondered if she could transfer those talents to art quilts. More...

OCEANSIDE - For weeks, students collected old cottage cheese containers. They waited for the day when they would make them into works of art. That day came when mixed media artist Jane LaFazio arrived at the school. More...

10 NORTH: 10 Years 10 Women 10 Words

Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of 10 North, an artist's group with an art exhibition of 10 original paintings, created specially for this occasion.

June 1-August 1, 2003 inside Artisan’s Gallery, 224 E. Grand Ave, Escondido, 760.432.8995
open mon-thurs 9-5, Fridays 9-8:30pm and weekends 10-3pm

10 North, an artists’ group is celebrating their 10 year Anniversary. More...

Little Miracles `Las Dos Amigas Artistas' a tribute to Mexican culture
The San Diego Union - Tribune; San Diego, Calif.; Nov 1, 2001; Marcia Manna

Sugar skulls with wild frosting hair, lacy paper banners washed with the colors of Mexico and flickering red votive candles have transformed Gallery 451 into a celebration of Dia de Los Muertos. More.....

September 2000

Artist and North County resident, Jane LaFazio, has been elected President of the San Diego Watercolor Society, a non-profit organization of approximately 600 members. San Diego Watercolor Society, founded in 1965, is one of the largest and most active organizations of its kind in the nation. More...

Chula Vista library Literacy Team volunteer was his angel after injury
by Leslie Wolf Branscomb is reprinted from the San Diego Union Tribute, August 20, 1999.

The story describes SDBIF volunteer President, Don Strom's perseverance to regain his language abilities, after a brain aneurysm caused aphasia and how his wife's art helps them both. More.....

Travel Portrait

As an artist, I'm beginning to realize that I'm inspired by travel. More....

Press & Press Releases

Class nurtures low-income, high-talent artists

Arts classes are becoming a large draw in Oceanside

Artists nurture Oceanside students’ creative sparks

OCEANSIDE - For weeks, students collected old cottage cheese containers. They waited for the day when they would make them into works of art. That day came when mixed media artist Jane LaFazio arrived at the school. More...

10 NORTH: 10 Years 10 Women 10 Words

September 2000

Travel Portrait