JJ Jucick

Minneapolis, MN

2020 Booth

© JJ Jucick

© JJ Jucick

I create both decorative and functional stoneware pottery. My work is primarily wheel thrown, but can include slab construction and/or extruded elements as well. My process involves a variety of glaze, image transfer techniques, and masking, to create strong graphics that are inspired by my love for modern art and design. In my work, I seek to create pieces that are visually bold, and pieces that bring a fresh, contemporary aesthetic to an ancient art form. Specific techniques may include: Silkscreen with underglaze, underglaze brushwork, wax or latex resist masking, glaze application by brush, dipping, sponging, or a combination.

Morgan Whitson

St. Louis, MO

MEOW Lady

https://www.meowlady.com/

© Morgan Whitson

2023 Booth #18

I create functional ceramic pieces that bring a little joy to the daily grind. My colorful gradients add a touch of modern to the traditional medium. Each piece is thrown on the wheel and therefore unique. My surface treatment is playful and bright, yet sophisticated. I’m driven by the challenge of ceramics and the endless possibility of the medium. Much of my personality shows through my work. The gradients imply a painterly spontaneity, and my patterns a deliberate discipline to a plan. My hope is to evoke a feeling of delight from the viewer, much like I experience when I see a piece finally complete. Each piece is thrown on the wheel, hand altered, hand painted with slip in colorful combinations, glazed & fired multiple times. Many are detailed w/ gold luster and fired a third time!

Kelsey Wilson

© Kelsey Wilson

2023 Booth #21

I use a variety of watercolor techniques to create highly detailed paintings on archival papers. These natural subjects are both realistic and artful in nature. Through these images, I strive to elevate and preserve the beauty of our natural world as well as infuse joy into our daily lives.

Subjects are chosen in the spirit of environmental stewardship.

Julie Beal

Excelsior, MN

2019 Booth #

http://earthwickandfirecandles.com

© Julie Beal

© Julie Beal

Earth, Wick & Fire is a small, family based business located in Excelsior, Minnesota. Our hand crafted stone oil candles are made out of natural slate that varies in beautiful mineral colors and textures. During the creation of each candle the characteristics and design are controlled by the composition of the slate and the artist. With the use of a small rock hammer and the controlled pressure of the strike to the slate, the design simply starts with that first strike to see how it will fracture. The break inspires us to continue to move around the piece, in a fashion of interest and inspiration, allowing the slate to come alive. There are never two candles exactly alike.
Earth, Wick & Fire has created a maintenance free, low profile candle that you will enjoy for years, just add oil. Our fiberglass wicks do not burn away and each copper wick holder is hand crafted. The reservoir holds 1 oz. of lamp oil and will burn for approximately 4 to 5 hours before putting itself out.

Tricia Bagstad

Ramsey, MN

2019 Booth #

http://2wiredsisters.com

© Tricia Bagstad

© Tricia Bagstad

I use Sterling Silver, Copper, Antique Brass & Colored wire from 16 gauge to 28 gauge with Furnace Glass, Swarovski Crystal, Stones, Czech Glass,Lampwork or polymer clay. To achieve a design a number of assorted pliers, mandrels, files, jigs(to coil wire)cutters & hammers are used. In my
colored Crayon Collection I use 1 1/2" balled head pin,add pewter daisy spacer,
cut & add coiled wire, add another daisy spacer & place on sterling silver chain & loop wire and wind around top twice, cut & tuck wire. When making mirror image wires for Earrings I hold 2 wires together and form design so wire is exactly the same on each earring.When Texturing wire I make short chopping motions using different hammers & when feathering wire I make long strokes. I paint some of my Antique Charms and wipe off so most of the color is darker in the crevices in my Antique Brass collection.I love copper wire as it is so workable,can be left the copper color or can patina for a different effect.

Lily Kavanaugh

ilo studio
http://ilompls.com

Minneapolis, MN

© Lily Kavanaugh

© Lily Kavanaugh

2019 Booth #73

Offering both a core collection and one of a kind modern hand fabricated jewelry in brass, silver gold and stone. ILO strikes a balance between staple and statement jewelry, toeing the line between modern art pieces and ancient artifacts. With striking, timeless design, each ILO piece gives its wearer a feeling of power and elegance.

Jana Epstein

Atlanta, GA

© Jana Epstein

© Jana Epstein

2021 Booth

www.janaepstein.com

With black&white film, I create Gelatin Silver Photographs by hand printing the image in a traditional wet darkroom. Then on my work table, I hand paint each individually with a liquid solution, colored pencils & spooled cotton. Next my images are framed in salvaged materials reworked & enhanced making a one of a kind piece.



Mary Ellen Kutz

Mimi's Fiber Art

Plymouth, MN

2019 Booth #67B

@ Mary Ellen Kutz

@ Mary Ellen Kutz

I offer a selection of handwoven, handspun, handknit, & handsewn items. Shawls, scarves, ponchos, vests, bags, purses, table runners, hand dyed women's shirts & shawls, cell phone bags made from upcycled women's blue jeans. I sometimes offer pillows from my handwoven and hand dyed fabric. All products are of my own design and seldom are there two alike. I pride myself on making one-of-a-kind fiber art pieces in my own eclectic style. My handwoven items often have some or all of the yarn dyed and spun by my hand. I often dye all my own fiber and/or cloth for a project. I especially like working with Indigo dye.

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.



Gina Nicolae Johnson

St. Louis Park, MN

www.sublimepaintings.com

2023 Booth # 99A

© Gina Nicolae Johnson

Romanian-american writer, journalist, novelist, poet and artist-painter and author of several books. I am in love with the canvas and creating with beautiful colors. It is so easy for me to 'write a poem’, but instead with a brush, colors. It makes me feel good about being able to share the gift of art with others. Inspiration is abundant, from love the flowers, delight at a beautiful sunset, or the ocean, a bird chirping and the sky. I enjoy being able to paint from images dreamt at night, from what I see with my mind, it makes me want more and to share with everyone the joy I have when a painting is finished. I mostly paint with acrylic, 2 D and 3D.

Samuel Hitchman

Cincinnati, OH

www.SamHCeramics.com

2019 Booth #120A

© Samuel Hitchman

© Samuel Hitchman

Handmade, primarily wheel thrown & altered, utilitarian & decorative ceramics.Numerous, made in house, glazes and slips are dipped and sprayed to enhance the sculptural-traditional forms. All work is gas fired to either cone 10 reduction, or cone 12 oxidation depending on the finish. Prices range from $6 to over $850

Sky Kahmann

Harpstone

Brooklyn Center, MN

2021 Booth #1

www.harpstone.com

© Sky Kahmann

© Sky Kahmann

My art is free-form wirework jewelry, composed of sterling silver or 14K gold-filled wire and adorned with semi-precious stones and/or Swarovski crystals. The most popular items are earrings, but I’ve recently started selling matching necklaces that have been in high demand. I make spoon rings as well. The market for those is more saturated, so I usually wait until I can get a set of unique spoons to better stand out from the other artists. My bestsellers were a “presidential” set - each had a president’s face engraved on one, along with a fun fact and years served. 
Whatever I have in my booth, I aim to give all the pieces a modern contemporary style, and they are all original designs. They are handmade, using a variety of pliers, cutters, hammers, and mandrels to give them one-of-a-kind textures and shapes. I bring my tools and materials to art fairs to have demonstrations and to make customizations for patrons.

Chris Cumbie

© Chris Cumbie

© Chris Cumbie

2021 Booth

Broken tape measures. Animal bones. Rusted metal and tin. Piano keys. Spindles from broken chairs. Any and all old wood I can get my hands on. I turn these discarded objects into art. My mixed-media art is created using the techniques of hand carving, painting, welding, assemblage, sculpting and pyrography. I attempt to bring different genres and mediums into one piece, by recycling, recreating, refinishing and redesigning ordinary objects and old materials to give them new life as art. By rescuing other people’s “junk,” I try not to just make art, but also to preserve little pieces of history.
Detailed sketching gives me the structure and motion I need to get started.
I find inspiration in objects and build ideas from shape, design, form and color. I study art history, anatomy and the historical treatment of the materials that I use. Always experimenting with better ways to enhance definition and texture, I try to give personality and purpose to anything I work with.

Saturday and Sunday
July 26 and July 27, 2025

Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. -- Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.