Juliana Coles, award winning artist and Creative Expression teacher, received her BFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco with a minor in English and Dance. Coles has studied at SMU in Dallas , Columbia College in Chicago , The American Academy of Art in Chicago , and California 's New College . She has studied with well known Illustrator Baron Storey who encouraged her Mixed Media Journals, and muralist Juana Alicia Montoya whose passion as an artist and activist 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, an Art Center for the homeless in 2000 and is the 2002 recipient of the Madonna Fund for Artists for her Mixed media works on Paper, Artist books, Visual Journals but also for her extensive community service work.

Based on her expression as an artist, Coles developed Extreme Visual Journaling as a creative tool for expression. Her Visual Journals and those of many of her students are featured in "Making Journals By Hand," by Jason Thompson and "Artist's Sketchbooks and Journals," by Lynne Perrella.