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Terri Meyer, Owner and founder of the Creative Chateau lives up to her business card reputation as a Creative Muse. She established her business in Ashland in August of 1999. Originally from Ashland, she left the area after high school pursue a career in the Air Force to serve her country, travel and experience life outside of the rural boundaries of Ashland, and obtain a college degree. While serving 10 years in the Air Force she became a certified meteorologist then a weather broadcaster for the Armed Forces Radio Television Station while living in Japan, and completed a B.S. in Business/Management/Meteorology. In 1989 she left the Air Force and settled in Las Vegas to make a career change to Human Resources. Although the human resource field was challenging, it did not fulfill her inner desire to be an artist. In April of 1999, with a moment of bold passion, Terri packed up her household goods and returned to the country to pursue her lifelong dream as an artist.
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Since making the bold change, Terri’s life has taken on new meaning and experiences. She re-met Dan Meyer, a high school classmate at their 20 year high school reunion in 1999. After 3 years of dating, they married in June 2002. Although Terri continued to create art, her life began to take on many other roles. Not only was she creating art but helping her husband grow his masonry business. At the same time they were in the process of renovating an 1882 farm house. This was very exciting because it allowed Terri to challenge her artistic skills in interior design, ceiling murals, and faux finishing techniques. The interior of the house was completed March 2002. That same year the Creative Chateau was opened as an artist studio on premise of their renovated home, a quaint facility located in the barn. Although it started as a single room, it has increased to four rooms with plans for expansion into the upper barn. The Creative Chateau is a working studio and local artist gallery, which offers custom services from framing to natural bath products. In 2009, Terri’s husband, Dan, expanded the studio adding 800 square feet as an office and gallery space at which time she invited other artist to sell their work in the gallery.
Terri’s skills are diverse. She paints in watercolor, acrylic, and oils, creates bust sculptures and bas reliefs, designs a line of nostalgia clocks from antique postcards, makes custom jewelry and is in the process of expanding into a full line of natural bath products. In addition Terri is an advocate of holistic healing through living a life in tune with nature. She teaches yoga and chi gung and is currently studying hypnotherapy and acupressure as a means of healing and plans to incorporate the healing aspects into her established art business. Her intention is to bring the community awareness to the healing qualities of the arts and the realization that we all have something special within us. As Terri continues to grow as an artist she realizes that creativity is only one aspect of her life that has evolved. “As I seek to find out who I am, there is a realization that I am just an instrument of art in a much larger picture of human kind. We are all connected and each has a gift to share with each other. My goal is to reach into the depth of the soul to uncover the gifts of the spirit. To me creativity makes my soul sing. It is my intent to reach your inner voice and allow your soul to sing by sharing my inner passion.”
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