Juliana Coles is an award winning artist and creative expression teacher. She received her BFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco and has studied at SMU in Dallas, Columbia College in Chicago, The American Academy of Art in Chicago, and California's New College. She studied with well known illustrator Barron Storey who encouraged her mixed media journals, and with muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activism convinced Coles to define her own style of contemporary expressionism.

Coles received the Wildine Fund grant for Artists for her Expressive Visual Journals Workshop at ArtStreet in 2000, and was 2002's recipient of the Madonna Fund for Artists.

Coles, based on her expression as an artist, developed Expressive Visual Journaling as a creative process. Her visual journals are featured in "Making Journals By Hand," by Jason Thompson.

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