Marisa Ray

Louisville, TN

https://www.marisarayart.com

© Marisa Ray

2023 Booth #17

I have been painting for 15 years, and enjoy creating whimsical work that makes people laugh and smile. I live in Knoxville, TN with my husband, son and 7 pets. I love to travel around the country doing art shows and meeting new people. 

I work in acrylics and use multiple, thick layers of paint to create a 3 dimensional look for my bird feathers and animal fur. Hand painted patterns for background or clothing detail. Painterly approach for fluid or transparent subject matter.

© Marisa Ray

Most of my paintings are done as a series, usually with accompanying stories to bring life and laughter to the artwork. 

Brenna Klassen-Glanzer

Minneapolis, MN

https://www.jewelrybybrenna.com

2023 Booth #20

Brenna is a second generation silversmith, born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She's an avid traveler, adventurer and outdoor enthusiast. Her love of nature inspires much of her jewelry -  drawing elements from interesting natural forms such as seeds, pods, coral and shells.

 Her work incorporates a variety of textures, combined metals and the use of fold forming and hollow-form construction techniques. It is a mixture of organic natural forms and modern design, which gives the pieces an untamed yet elegant quality. She strives to make voluminous, lightweight and contemporary jewelry.

Silver and copper jewelry fabricated by using texture, fold forming and hollow form construction.

© Brenna Klassen-Glanzer

© Brenna Klassen-Glanzer

Sandi Garris

State College, PA

https://www.sandigarris.com

2023 Booth # 125

© Sandi Garris

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  After graduating from Penn State University and starting a family, I settled in the State College area and began working with a local art co-op. My passion for color and design began to emerge which started a lifetime career as an artist, first as a quilt maker, then fabric dyer and eventually a painter. I feels lucky to be able to do what I do for a living and find myself most at peace in the woods, garden or studio.

© Sandi Garris

I share my joy of nature through my work. While drawing, I work to capture my emotional memory of an experience, simplifying lines and emphasizing shapes. I find no need to adhere strictly to reality in my color palette, using bold colors and contrasts. I choose a silk canvas because it is translucent and absorbs pigment with a subtle iridescence. My organic textures visible through the silk are an integral part of my work. I create these textures using organic plant material and a deconstructive printing process using thickened dyes and silk screens.

© Sandi Garris

Brian Wagner

Minneapolis, MN

hedgebitch.com

© Brian Wagner

2023 Booth #66

Brian received their B.F.A. in Printmaking and Drawing and Art History in 2019. In 2020 they attended the world-renowned Tamarind Institute of Fine Art Lithography in Albuquerque, NM and are a trained Collaborative Printer and Lithographer. They are currently working and living in Minneapolis, MN.

They primarily work in Lithography, a printmaking process utilizing ancient bavarian limestone as a planographic method of printing based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The image is hand drawn, affixed by means of a chemical reaction, and then printed from the stone.

© Brian Wagner

Wagner's work currently focuses on queer existence and memory and their interest in queer domesticity and what it’s like living in and occupying these spaces. Their work serves as a selection of thoughts, imagery, and personal experience and often incorporates text and snippets of writing as connection to lived, day-to-day life as a queer person. Immersing the spaces we inhabit as no different than any other. They are meant to be reclaimed and lived in and are spaces of transition and are often temporary, ever-changing, and ever-growing, something that they find cohesive with their own sexuality, queerness, and identity.

Andy Hall

Sweetlight Photographic Images

Climax, MN

www.sweetlightphoto.com

2023 Booth 29/30

My name is Andy Hall and I am the owner of Sweetlight Gallery/Andy Hall Photography in Crookston, MN. I’ve been a full time photographer for the past 25 years and I feel very fortunate to be able to make a living doing what I love! I grew up in SE Minnesota, lived in Mpls. 26 years and moved to NW Minnesota 8 years ago. I currently live in the metropolis of Climax, MN (pop. +/- 200) with my beautiful spouse Kris. We recently became grandparents, and we are over the moon with love!

© Andy Hall

My photographs are created using a variety of basic equipment including a digital camera, various lenses and always a tripod. However, my latest body of botanical images has been created in studio using a full quite of strobe lighting and a precision screw driven macro rail for focus stacking. Images created this way allow for extreme detail and focus control and involve shooting and stitching together up to 200 individual captures. Software is used to assist with the final stacking.

 Nature and still life photographs offered on paper and canvas. I perform all steps of the process!

© Andy Hall

Jon Offutt

House of Mulciber

Fargo, ND

2023 Booth #140

© Jon Offutt

Free Blown Glass with hot applied colors.
All of my work is created from clear furnace glass with applied glass frits and powders.
No paints or cold processes are used in my work.

 Jon Offutt has been practicing the craft of glass blowing and building his own glass blowing equipment for more than 40 years. His backyard studio in a riverside Fargo, North Dakota, neighborhood is a favorite destination for schoolchildren who learn about the physics of glass as the only art medium that fights back, arts enthusiasts who stop by to watch Jon make art from molten glass, and art advocates who meet to plan educational and fundraising events.  

The colors Jon Offutt applies to his glass vessels are composed of various metallic oxides, and they react to each other in different ways. Some are “slippery” and some are “sticky.” Jon uses the natural properties of the oxides in different combinations—and intense heat—to create his textures and patterns. Some colors in Jon’s pieces come alive when lit from within—and from those pieces Jon creates lamps and lighted sculptures.  

 “My work is informed by plumb bobs, fishing bobbers, anchors, bubbles in beer, kites, and icicles.” 

© Paula Geroy photo

“As a glassblower, I take great joy in fighting against gravity, but I have a deep respect for it. Even a seed can feel gravity. No matter the orientation when planted, roots reach down as the stem sprouts up.” 

© Jon Offutt