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Grinnell, IA
www.janetahrens.com
2018 booth #66
Handmade paper of flax and kozo created in Eastern and Western methods of papermaking incorporated with industrial materials to enhance tactile qualities, no two alike.
© Janet Ahrens
Adam Weiss
Fort Calhoun, NE
2018 booth #67C/D
Copper manipulated with different chemical reactions, heats to pull out colors naturally and grind strokes to bring back lustrous copper colors in painting form and 3-d outdoor sculpture as well.
© Adam Weiss
Peder Hegland
© Peter Heglund
Sharon Johnston
Dallas, TX
2023 Booth #104
I hand-fabricate my jewelry in sterling and 14k gold. Each piece is conceived, constructed and the metal treated in such a way that the gemstones are tension-set and exchangeable by the wearer.
© Sharon Johnston
Linda Banning
LB Originals
Minneapolis, MN
2020 Booth
© Linda Banning
www.lboriginalsstainedglass.com
I was raised in Wisconsin along the beautiful St. Croix River. At the University of Wisconsin, I studied art and earned my Bachelor’s degree. Because of my longing for creative expression, I started working in stained glass in 2000 while living in St. Paul, MN. I was drawn to this medium because of the play of light and color and the use of line and texture. I began creating one-of–a-kind abstract window pieces.
Each type of glass I use brings its own uniqueness and depth to the work. I use stained glass for variety in color and texture and started using bottle glass in 2007 after my local glass recycling program ended. I had a personal mission to save some bottles from the landfill. Plus, finding bottles with interesting enameled or embossed graphics is so much fun! So much fun that in 2016, I started incorporating aluminum cans and opened up a whole new world of possibilities!
I personally design and hand-craft each piece of jewelry. The glass is hand cut and ground smooth to shape and size. Stained glass is wrapped in copper foil and soldered. Bottles are ground smooth and drilled to affix findings. By cold-working the bottles, I’m able to retain the original graphics and natural curve. I hope you enjoy my work!
Phillip Troyer
ThunderSky Jewelry
Hillsboro, WI
2023 Booth #69
www.etsy.com/shop/thunderskyjewelry
Handmade, one of a kind, silver jewelry using self polished gem stones & original designs. I use piercing as my main technique. It's the process of cutting out a design in metal with a jewelers saw by hand. It is a lengthy process using a blade the size of a horse hair, but yields a cleaner, crisper image as apposed to etching or stamping. I learned this process in undergrad at the University of WI- Milwaukee where I got my Jewelry and Metalsmithing degree. I design in a style that is close to my heart. Inspired by the first people of this land and the spiritual elements that accompany that way of life. All of the work that features animalistic iconography has an ancient story behind it. A mythology that has been handed down for thousands of years. I accompany those images with polished gemstones. Connecting with a love that I have had since childhood. The first collection I ever had was a rock collection. Rocks and minerals have always fascinated and memorized me.
© Phillip Troyer
Jan Raven
Wausau, WI
2022 Booth #37
Argentium silver (a tarnish-resistant alloy of sterling) and 14 karat gold-fill wire: formed, hammered, fused, woven, and finished by hand.
© Jan Raven
Dawn Middleton
Greenville, IN
2020 Booth #
Hand Fabricated from precious metals, stones and found objects. The metal is manipulated with hammer, torch, and kiln. Working with the tools and flame I create a connection between the stone and metal. Spirit and Earth inspire me.
© Dawn Middleton
Berry Davis and Colette Fortin
Celina, OH
2018 booth #57
Solid glass sculpture with an ocean theme. Individual interior parts are sculpted on the punty,assembled,encased in clear glass, and hand shaped while hot.[no paints or molds used] The materials used are glass, glass powders [for color] glass frit, precious metals, and gemstones. We grind, coldwork, and hand facet our pieces using high speed diamond wheels.
© Berry Davis
Neng Yang
Columbia Heights, MN
2023 Booth #38
I am a homemaker with a passion making Purses, Quilts, Table Runners, and Pillow Cases. My focus is to bring a unique Hmong-American style to each and every one of my hand sewn products.
All products made from locally obtained cotton fabrics which Hmong-American style patterns are hand traced, cut, and sewn into beautiful appliqués. Depending on application, polyester batting used.
© Neng Yang
Caitlin Dowling
© Caitlin Dowling
I work predominantly in stoneware, both white- and red-bodied clay, and fire in a mid-range (cone 5-6) oxidation atmosphere. I often alter the shape, surface and feel of a piece after throwing it on the wheel and use a variety of things to achieve color in my work: underglazes, colored slips, mason stains, and glazes. I also specialize in alternative firing techniques, particularly horse hair raku. First used by the Navajo Native Americans, this technique epitomizes to me the coalescing of function and artistic value while creating something lasting and cherishable. Due to the many uncontrollable variables inherent in the horsehair technique, exact replication is impossible. Thus, each piece is truly unique.
Gayle Hallin
Minnetonka, MN
2020 Booth
The nuno-felting process is used with fibers of fine mesh silk fabric and roving of merino wool and silk to create scarves in varied designs, colors and sizes with a sculpted-stained glass effect. Felted strips of wool and silk are hand stitched into buttons and flowers & attached to binders as an optional functional embellishment
Robin Meyer
© Robin Meyer
I hand paint my motifs most often using watercolor or india ink, although I have been known to experiment - whatever provides the desired result! From there I scan them into digital format. This is where I clean and engineer the artwork to my desire specifications. Once I am satisfied, I print onto fabric and create colorfast textile products both to be worn and decorate the home.
Ann Solyst
Minneapolis, MN
© Ann Solyst
2023 Booth #1
The imaginary animals Ann draws look quite natural. Her sensitive style and subdued palette suggest wildlife illustration, not fantasy drawing, and it takes a second look to notice the fantastic hidden among the regular. Inspired by bizarre descriptions of animals in medieval Bestiaries, Ann’s playful animal combinations are sometimes puns, such as the Sealion, sometimes ironic, as in the case of the Sloth-chita, and sometimes simply evocative, like the Ta-rat-ula. Her process begins with a charcoal sketch on toned paper to work out the basic structure of her drawing, after which she blocks in general areas of color in pastel. When she is satisfied with general shape and form, Ann continues to layer pastels, meticulously blending colors and adding details until she reaches the desired balance of whimsy and realism. Through these delicate and beautifully odd animals Ann celebrates the abnormal, the unusual, and the uncategorizable.
Steven Showalter
Eagan, MN
2023 Booth #70
Wheel thrown stoneware, ribbed slip design, multiple sprayed overlapping glazes
© Steven Showalter
Gregory Story
Chicago, IL
2022 Booth #15
Handbuilt, carved, and painstakingly glazed ceramic sculpture and wall sculpture. Drawing on architectural influences, fabric design & modern ceramics, these elements mix to create Modern Artifacts.
© Gregory Story
Robert Briscoe
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #109
My Pots are wheel/thrown,altered stoneware. Surfaces are layered crackle slips over wood/ash glazes.
©Robert Briscoe
Barbara Hamberg
Desert Snow Designs
Albert Lea, MN
2019 Booth #59
Color is what truly enlivens me and I use it gleefully in my art. I coil, bend, twist, flatten and form wire, which once began simply straight, along with hammering and texturing sterling silver. I also use semiprecious and precious stones, copper, anodized aluminum, crystal, and lampwork glass.
© Barbara Hamberg
Mary Jo Stockman
Hat Trix
Hampton, MN
2017 booth #.
As milliners, we have the privilege of working with a wide palette of luxurious materials. Fabrics like silk, lace and velvet are used to cover the forms created from buckram, wire and a variety of straws. The fascinators and small to medium hats are blocked in our studio over wooden blocks just as they were 500 years ago. The larger hats are blocked to our specifications by 2 milliners in the UK. They are then sent to our studio where the design is completed by hand. The flowers that we do not make we source around the world. We particularly like the handmade silk roses from France. We also use ribbons, beads and crystals to add to our work. The final touch is feathers and quills. We source our feathers as close to home as possible and the feathers that are not used in their natural colors, we hand dye.
©Mary Jo Stockman
Carter Cripe
Fired Up Studios
Shakopee, MN
http://carterraycripeart.weebly.com/
2017 booth # 13
My pottery is wheel thrown with techniques I've learned through my profession of production pottery.
My work consists of a White Clay Body called "B-Clay" along with multiple glazes, slips and stains to create multiple surface textures and visual aesthetics that create beautiful compositions in my functional pottery.
One of these is my use of Red Iron Stain on my pots. Applying this along side with the glazes creates great visual contrast and multiple textures. Not only does it look different, but it FEELS different too.
©Carter Cripe
Another example is my use of Black Slip that I use over my White Clay Body. I apply thick amounts of the Black Slip and wipe away with a sponge to create beautiful portraits of crows. Another technique I use for my pots is applying the Slip while the pot is still on the Wheel, which helps me create clean uniform patterns.
All of my work is Electric fired to either Cone 6 or Cone 10 Oxidation.