Oglivie, MN
2021 Booth #69
I make hand welded designs on thin gauge stainless steel sheet. Every piece is cut, polished, prepared, drawn, and welded by hand, by me. I use very precise welding techniques and heat control to allow oxidation to create a variety of colors as a result of the welding process. Although this material is as unforgiving as it is challenging, the result is worth the effort, and my knowledge and skills continuously evolve and improve through every piece that I make.
® Rita Morris
We create functional, handmade stoneware and porcelain pieces decorated with imagery from the natural world. Each piece is thrown on the wheel and hand painted with the native flora and fauna of this region. We strive to bring beauty into the simple every day experience through form, function and detail.
Sue Rowe Studios
Stillwater, MN
2023 Booth #134
© Sue Rowe
I use soft pastels or other drawing materials on a wide variety of surfaces to create fanciful creatures. Often text is used as well. Surfaces range from fine rice papers to Masonite board prepped with gesso, pumice, and acrylic paint.
Roseville, MN
2022 Booth #68
I use watercolor on paper, building multiple layers to create realistic landscapes and still lifes.
© Christina Hankins
Each piece is created using a combinaton of acrylic paint and pastel on sanded paper.
Cedar, MN
2020 Booth
© Isaac Theobald
I use both hard and soft glass to create utilitarian and sculptural work. I try to meld traditional techniques in torch and furnace working with more modern designs. I work extensively with color and pattern using many ancient Venetian techniques such as encalmos, canework, and murrini, renewing them with modern forms and uses in mind. I also do some glass fusing, mostly fusing metal foils between sheets of glass, and sometimes including these elements in blown work.
Minneapolis, MN
© Pat Parnow
I am the Director of the Loring Park Art Festival and one of the original founders.
I'm not exhibiting this year but my photos are still available for sale - contact me through my website - www.patparnow.com
My color photographs include subjects from intimate flower portraits to the old world charm of European scenes. The photographs are printed with a conventional RA-4 process-- although the way I print is far from conventional using many self-devised darkroom techniques.
© Pat Parnow
© Hironobu Nishitateno
I create Japanese-style functional pottery from stoneware on the potter’s wheel. My shapes and designs reflect Japanese simplicity as well as elegant functionality. My glazes are all handmade and tested, the main ingredient being hand-processed natural ash, which complete my pieces with an organic look. I enjoy including rare details in pieces, such as the time-consuming mishima stamping process and hand-built fine-holed ceramic strainers in the spouts of my teapots to catch tea leaves.
Decatur, IL
© Darren Miller
2020 Booth
My work engages contemplations of the dance. The interconnected and spacial working together to form a symbiotic whole. Juxtaposing intractable metal with fluidity of motion.
© Mark Kuhn
Travel photography with an emphasis on shape, line, texture, and in particular color; I use digital techniques to capture the world as I see it and then print on Aluminum, Canvas, and Archival Paper.
Avon, MN
Gourd-geous Arts
© Tanya Allen
2020 Booth
My typical process for creating my art pieces is as follows. I get my gourds from Georgia. Once I have a basic design I do a rough sketch of the overall design. The image starts on the gourd in pencil that then goes onto the gourd with a wood burner. I then make what ever cut necessary to open up the inside. I clean out & sand the inside, then paint the inside if the design warrants it. The carving is what comes next, mostly I make luminaries. I then take it into my finishing studio to dye or paint & embellish it. I use a special gourd dye for my pieces & I love to incorporate stones and gold leaf where ever it enhances the design. Finishing is a coat of poly and if it's to become a luminary it will get attached to a base. Working with gourds is a very unique process that is a combination of drawing, woodworking and other processes similar to working with clay. In fact my work gets most commonly confused as being ceramic, people are genuinely shocked when they find out it is a gourd.
© Michael Lamers
Medium format camera with traditional photographic techniques are used to create unique fine art imagery with only minor adjustments made outside the moment. Photos are printed by the artist using archival ink on transparent paper & face mounted onto acrylic. The transparent quality of the paper allows the texture & luminosity of the print to glow under different lighting. All artwork is signed and numbered.
© Tara Locklear
I am inspired by industrial and social culture materials but driven by my love affair with color. My material choices have unique graphic and color qualities in which exploring and forming them are the heart of my studio practice. All of my material choices have inherent beauty and strength beyond their functioning identity. Pushing boundaries of color and pattern with the existing worn, street patinas of the broken, recycled skateboards that I use paired with handmade sterling silver designs, creates playful but powerful jewelry. These dual factors are the reasons why the jewelry resonates memory, time, and place to anyone who encounters it. Harnessing every day with a unique sense of self is what my work strives to aide. My focus is to create fine hand crafted jewelry that empowers individuality and brings a refreshing point of view to contemporary jewelry. This is my idea of what everyday jewelry should be.
Salt Lake City, UT
© Adam Hoffman
2023 Booth #37
Using a specialized software, I create fractal geometry which I layer, color, and texture to create complex organic feeling scenes. My work almost looks as if it could be a photograph, but it is created from scratch all based off the mathematics. All work is printed in limited editions.
Woodstock, GA
© Victoria Jackson
https://hwww.victoriajacksonart.com
2020 Booth
Using acrylic on gallery wrapped canvases keeps my transitional landscapes more contemporary in feeling. I love to incorporate metal paint and hand made paper into the design of the landscapes.
© Barbara Poole
I create one of a kind and limited production felted art to wear. The work begins with wool that is sustainably harvested from organically and ethically raised sheep. Other textiles, are used, mostly silks. About 60% of the silks are from deconstructed garments with the other 40% being new silks that have sometimes been dyed or hand printed or commercially printed. The work is created seamlessly; there is no sewing except as a means to tack and stabilize the garment before the felting process begins. The garments are created mathematically. Through experimentation and noting the variable shrink rates for the combination of wool and various textiles, I can create garments that are beautiful and well fitted. Multiple felting techniques are used in the making of the garments, these include: wet, seamless, needle felting, variable shrink, 3-D resists and laminate methods. In the dye work the techniques that are employed are immersion, painting, Shibori and clamp resist printing.
© Megan Murrell
Hello! I am an illustrator and painter, and I live in Minneapolis Minnesota, with my husband, Luke, and our dog, Nana. I have been creating art for as long as I can remember and I am so lucky that I am able to share my passion with others. I love the outdoors and being in nature, and my art is reflective of that.
My work is significantly inspired by nature and the fluid line, pattern and design found within the natural world, if you only look close enough. I work with watercolors and gouache and am enchanted by the loose and unpredictable nature of the medium. I work on cold pressed paper and use flat washes, as well as wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet methods to create beautiful watercolor washes and perfectly unexpected blooms. I love the fact that I only have so much control over what the water and pigment will do once my brush hits the paper, watercolor blooms are my favorite surprise when I paint.
© Jeannie Trelles
Hand fabricated sterling silver, 14k gold, and semi-precious stone jewelry. Techniques used include sawing, hammering, rolling and stamping textures, soldering, bezel setting, stone-on-stone setting, and lapidary. The settings are designed to showcase the natural shapes and patterns of the stones used.
St. Louis, MO
2023 Booth #90
© Bill Lepak
I use green wood from the area surrounding my shop to create bowls. The bowls are turned using the once turned technique, I turn the wood while green to final size and shape then put aside to dry. While drying it moves and distorts. Once dry I embellish the bowl and then apply finish.
Bloomington MN
2023 Booth #64
© Deanne Nash
I create wheel-thrown stoneware or porcelain pottery. The pieces are functional and oxidation fire to cone 6-8. Pieces are meant for everyday enjoyment; the joy of the piece comes from use for display, cooking, or entertaining. The pieces are food and oven safe.