aws Studios.art
Boosting Mental Health Skills + Sharing Art
aws Studios.art is where I am a multi-passionate creative as an artist and mental health and social emotional learning/SEL educator.
Mental Health Educator
As a mental health educator, I help parents, teachers, mental health and other health professionals by providing award-winning classroom and home tested social emotional learning (SEL) resources that boost mental health skill building and wellness in kids, teens, and adults. My experience includes training adults living and working with kids and teens using my classroom tested curriculum. These lessons and activities served both grade-school students and pre-service Health Educators I taught at the State University of Cortland, NY’s School of Graduate Studies.
In 2000, the NYS Dept. of Education selected my peer-reviewed communication skills learning experience, Final Episode for inclusion in their Academy for Teaching and Learning.
My other Mental Health Educator experience includes:
- Serving on the board of the National Parenting Education Network,
- Becoming a Fellow of the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York Health Leaders Program,
- Membership in the Fellows Action Network, and
- Training for the NYS Office and Children and Family Services Adolescent Services and Resources Network
Artist and Writer
As an artist, I help art buyers, collectors, interior designers, and others decorate their homes and offices with my abstract landscape collages. These collages, created with recycled paper and vintage fabric, calm and comfort any room.
My art speaks to art buyers who want to add brightness, color, and a little whimsy to their home or office.
Originals and prints are available from $40 – $900.
An artist my whole life, I learned to appreciate the beauty of landscapes around my home from my mom, an oil and acrylic painter.
Through the years, I have received honors and awards for my art including a spot in the “On My Own Time” Art Show at the Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY).
I taught art both in my home studio and for the NYS Board of Cooperative Education’s Continuing Education program.
See a gallery of my recycled paper and vintage fabric coastal and pastoral landscape collages here.
Collage is also the medium used in my illustrated picture books.
More of my creations including “The Whimsicals” can be viewed in my Etsy Shop.
As a Writer
I covered the local art scene for the Syracuse New Times, an arts and entertainment newspaper, reviewing local art shows and galleries.
My illustrated picture books include:
Phoebe and phearnik! Fight BIG Fears,
Apples for Cider, a pastiche of “Blueberries for Sal,” and
Lucy’s Pocket, an endearing little black and white book, connecting long-separated generations with a special family heirloom.
Personal Life
I live with my husband Jim on Sodus Bay in New York. In the winter, we live on the Florida Gulf. We are the proud parents of two adult children, Laine, a Pediatric Otolaryngology Nurse Practitioner and, Peyton, an Inclusive Recreation and Community Mobility Consultant for Rochester Accessible Adventures. Peyton is also a power soccer athlete and has played for the US Power Soccer Association’s Team USA. We are fortunate grandparents to Fia and Ernie.
Contact me here
Please note that all works of art and media on this site are copyrighted works of Alis Wintle Sefick and aws Studios.art
What People Say
Alis…presents her…ideas well, … with creativity and perception, meets her deadlines and never complains… . What more could an editor ask for?
Mike Greenstein, past Editor, Syracuse New Times
[Alis’s] … multi-media works are unique, stylistic, interesting and always delightful. [She] continually evolves as a multi dimensional.. artist, incorporating drawing, painting, photography and beautiful fabric designs.
Laura Jacobsen, retired Nurse Practitioner and art collector
Mommy, I love this book!
Granddaughter Fia, 4 years old, to her mom, on Alis’s picture book, “Lucy’s Pocket”
