About
the Artists
In this issue, we are featuring the artwork
of two Santa Monica College Professors. English
Professor Janice Yudell and Mathematics Professor
Stephanie Maiman share their art and their inspiration
below. Please view more of Janice Yudell's art in
the following articles: Counting,
in True to My Body and Time
Frames, in The Problem That Has no Name. View
Stephanie Maiman's painting, Protecting
My Heart, in The Many Flowers, and read Stephanie
Maiman's poem Pain
in the Stories and Poems section of this issue.
 Janice
Yudell
When I was a little girl, I greatly admired my
big brother's maps for his history projects, and
I copied his simplified shapes and shading techniques
to make images come alive. Now I make my own maps,
combining different representational schemes in
each: spatial, verbal, mathematical and surreal.
Sometimes the map tells me something I didn't
know I knew, and sometimes it tells me a whole
new story about stages in wisdom or levels of
order. The picture "Chin Up," which
I first made for my kid in New York City, is a
map I need to keep looking at--mental steps to
be strong to face violence. Read the steps on
top from the right to the left, and then presto,
maybe you're strong enough for the rest of the
picture...
I have prints for sale of these ink pictures and
also make acrylic works (two series lately are
Parts-of-Speech and Rubber Snake Charming). My
video "Democracy Poem" is available
from me or can be checked at from the Media Center
here at Santa Monica College.
 Stephanie
Maiman
I started painting about 15 years ago while living
in Charlottesville, Virginia. I was tutoring and
teaching so much that I took refuge in art to
balance my mind. At the time, I did not consider
myself an artist and had never taken an art class.
But I started to see things differently, becoming
aware of the visual world in terms of light and
shadow. I began
compulsively drawing with pencil on old computer
paper, and then graduated to charcoals and pastels
and now work primarily with oils.
The following are some of the places where my
art has been shown:
Marina Del Rey Yacht Club, Marina Del Rey, California
Westside Art Forum, Los Angeles, California
Mahogany Art Gallery, West Hollywood, California
Van Gogh's Ear, Venice, California
Lake Oswego Art Festival, Lake Oswego, Oregon
The Phoenix Bookstore, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Upper Room, Charlottesville, Virginia
While showing at Van Gogh's
Ear, one of my oil paintings, "Child in the
Grass" was purchased as a gift for Oprah
Winfrey. A print of my painting, "A Garden
in Charlottesville", was given as a gift
to Michael Jackson by his ex-wife, Deborah Rowe
Jackson, who was a math student of mine at Antioch
University.
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