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“Artist Brenda Man-Fletcher Showcased in November 2026at Village Gallery of Local Artists”

The Village Gallery of Local Artists gladly presents abstract artist and jewelry maker Brenda Man-Fletcher as their Featured Artist for the month of November. Her multi-media artwork is depth-oriented and experimental, created by connecting to the subliminal. A reception will be held on Friday, November 6^th from 5-8pm.

Man-Fletcher works with traditional mixed media including paint, inks, graphite, pastels, photography and some very non-traditional materials, such as herbal teas and even food, on a variety of surfaces including paper, ceramics, glass and steel. Man-Fletcher also uses some digital tools but not Artificial Intelligence. Man-Fletcher repurposes draft and experimental prints of her own work to create sustainable art and jewelry.

Man-Fletcher recognizes herself as a “process artist,” which is a creator whose focus is the act, materials, and experience of making work, rather than the finished result.

Through independent study and coursework in Jungian psychology, Man-Fletcher has developed an interdisciplinary process rooted in symbolism and evolving images from the subconscious. For almost 25 years, she has made a daily practice of interaction with dreams and meditation using a practice called active imagination. It is after this exercise Man-Fletcher begins to take up her materials to create art.

When Man-Fletcher is in her artistic process, she looks closely within a piece, often greatly magnified, selecting features to develop. Man-Fletcher explains, “It’s a visual dialogue; I seek a balance with awkward beauty. My work asks: What’s left behind? What might we usually discount, that deserves more examination?”

Man-Fletcher feels complimented when people have an experience of her work and then go out and try to have their own experience. When people say, “I could do that,” her response is always, “You totally can. And you should.”

This year, Man-Fletcher received a Sedona Entrepreneurial Artist Development (SEAD) Grant from the Sedona Arts Center, where she studied metalsmithing and relief printmaking. This has helped deepen her technical foundation for jewelry making, mixed media sculpture, and other 3D work.

Man-Fletcher has been a working artist for four years. She started her full-time art business, Manscribe Media, just as her mother was coming to the end of a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s. She and her father shared duties in her full-time care.

Before then, Man-Fletcher had careers as an attorney, a teacher, and a media consultant. She moved to the Verde Valley in 2007 to serve as the Jerome town manager for a few years until she became a parent.

The public is invited to meet Brenda Man-Fletcher at the gallery, experience her work, and discus your reactions with her on Friday, November 6 from 5-8pm. Light refreshments will be offered.

The Village Gallery is always accepting applications for unique art and is located at 6512 State Route 179 in the Village of Oak Creek. For more information, go to sedonalocalartists.com or phone (928) 284-1416.