(Back Row) Joren Traveller, Cheri Harris, Cameron Kaseberg, Norman Frater, Pam Jersey Bird, Helen Brown; (Front Row) Jacqueline Newbold, Vivian Olsen, Cindy Briggs, Barbara Slater, Vern Bartley, and Richard Frederick

The High Desert Art League was formed in 2000 as a professional artists' group working to support the advancement of its member artists through exhibitions, education and related outreach. Each artist contributes their experience and talents to benefit the group, sharing knowledge, information, opportunities, challenges and successes.

The members of this group are all accomplished artists who exhibit a wide range of talents in various media. Luminous watercolors, vibrant oils, and pastel paintings are specialties of several members - Vivian Olsen and Cindy Briggs create art in all three media and their subjects range from birds and European scenes to regional landscapes. There is more in the watercolor realm, with the graphic figures and dramatic landscapes by Helen Brown and Jacqueline Newbold (who also creates fine art jewelry). Working in oils, artist Barbara Slater paints large, vivid florals on canvas, and Pam Jersey Bird creates colorful experiences of nature in her semi-abstract mixed media paintings. Both Vern Bartley and Richard Frederick are fine art photographers. Their work differs in that Vern’s are graphic mixed media color images on canvas and Richard Frederick’s are traditional black and white images. Cameron Kaseberg uses a solvent transfer process to combine subject matter from various printed media as well as his own photos and graphics, chemically dissolving them and transferring the images onto a new surface. Of our 3-dimensional artists, Joren Traveller is a bronze sculptor of horses and birds, Norman Frater is a traditional figurative sculptor in ceramics, and Cheri Harris produces colorful glazed and textured wall pieces in ceramics.

All members (maximum 12) of the High Desert Art League are professional artists, most with considerable experience and awards in their field. Their work can be found in galleries throughout the West and in private collections.