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Bonnie Ahrens
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The inspiration for Bonnie’s wool felting comes from past memories and moments in life. Some pieces are planned and others seem to take on a life of their own through the creative process....
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Bob & Jan Anderson
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The Andersons have been working in stained glass for more than 15 years. Their artistic and engineering backgrounds help them create unique designs in glass.
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Beverly Baker
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Michael Baxley
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Michael Baxley started as a ceramics sculptor ten years ago. His work has evolved into functional pieces with a sculptural edge. Michael’s work transforms his work daily ritual into a special...
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Mary Benjamin
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As an original partner in Bluestem, Mary works primarily with porcelain, making both jewelry and functional hand-built vessels. Using colored clay bodies & different methods of stacking & cutting...
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Sonya Bird
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Sonya holds the BFA degree from Columbia College. A year abroad at Sofia University, Tokyo, accounts for her interest in things Japanese. Before moving home to Columbia, Missouri, from Kansas...
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Les Borowsky
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Linda Bowman
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Laura Bullion
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Following the example of a mother and two grandmothers whose hands were never still, Laura sews a little, has been known to weave, and makes an occasional "pretty" for the simple pleasure of...
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Page Candler
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Page's clay figurative vessels are all made individually, using skillfull handbuilding techniques. Her work explores the relationship of family across time and place using series of figurative...
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Nancy Clark
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Nancy began her weaving career doing tapestries while living on a Greek island in the 1970s. Upon returning to Missouri, she discovered the rhythmic lure of the hand loom. Preferring the manual...
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Tony Cray
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Tony discovered glass at Southern Illinois University. His fascination with the hot molten material continued with his apprenticeship to Sam Stang in Augusta, Missouri. He has developed a...
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Morris Critchlow
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Gail Crozier
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Always captivated by colorful, smooth and shiny glass things, Gail determined to acquire the ability to work with hot, molten glass. That fascination has developed into obsession and to feed it...
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Steve & Miky Cunningham
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This talented couple has been creating bold, graphic, and contemporary pieces of utilitarian stoneware for over twenty years. Their techniques are original, whether wheel thrown or hand built....
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Christiane Danna
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Christiane studied metalwork and goldsmithing in her native Germany. Her technical skills plus a fine sense of design guarantees a beautiful and well make piece of jewelry meant to be worn and...
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Tara Dawley
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Tara Dawley is an accomplished potter working out of Red Star Studios in Kansas City. She produces high-fired functional ceramics. Wheel-thrown, altered, and carved, her work speaks with an...
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Christine Dee
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Christine has a degree in Graphic Arts and has been designing jewelry for over 20 years. She is a self-taught jeweler who incorporates wire work, lampworking and metalsmithing into her designs....
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Garden Deva
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Webster defines "garden" as a place for enjoyment; "deva" is Sanskrit for happy. Lisa Regan is GARDEN DEVA. Her intention is that your beautiful places will be filled with happy spirit. She...
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Patricia Edmonds
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Patricia Edmonds creates whimsical clay pins of all kinds, but she specializes in depicting the silly, outrateous nature of cats. Her tiger series is a hit with local sports enthusiasts. Wearing...
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Sheryl Ellinwood
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Sheryl uses age-old methods to create her hand-blown glass. Her fused pieces employ more contemporary methods. Because she personally designs and creates each piece, only a limited number can be...
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Terry Evans
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Nathan Falter
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Each piece of Nathan's work is handbuilt of stoneware and exteriors are enhanced with slips, stains and oxides. Some are glazed inside. All pieces are water tight and each can be used either as...
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Joseph Farmer
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As an artist-blacksmith, Joseph combines his metalworking skills with junkyard and farmyard objects to create unusual iron sculptures in the shapes of birds, insects, and other creatures....
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Jeff Ferguson
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Jill Flinn
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After decades as a student, art teacher, painter, sculptor and designer, Jill has developed her current work. Her tiles are made from a combination of sculpting compounds, textured and layered...
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Theresa Gallup
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Theresa designs and sews one-of-a-kind purses using fabrics from old Japanese silk kimonos.
She spent seven years in Japan as a college administrator. A lifetime interest in textiles led to large...
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Pat Glover
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Pat Glover is a woman who knows how to sew! Combing her needlework skills, artistic sensibilities and a wonderful sense of humor, she has created a line of soft sculptures she calls “Women of...
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Adria Gutierrez
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Each fused glass piece is designed by this talented artist in a distinct, special way- the silver bezel around the glass brings added reflections. Her travels around the world have taken Adria to...
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Mark Haden
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Anita Hejtmanek
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Following her mother’s path, Anita earned her BFA from Indiana University. She discovered stained glass by finishing one of her sister's projects. Enchanted by the medium, she went on to create...
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Steve Hess
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Steve is an art educator, passionate gardener and sculptor living in the Kansas City area. He works in both cement and handmade paper. His art and gardens have appeared in Better Homes and...
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Bill Hudson
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DUSTING CAN BE DELIGHTFUL! This finely handcrafted brush is ideal for removing even the finest dust wherever it accumulates ...figurines, office equipment, keyboards, carved furniture, audio...
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Peggy Jacobsmeyer
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A full time studio artist, Peggy works primarily with glass to create one-or-a-kind contemporary jewelry. Her multi-award winning designs combine richly textured iridized and dichroic glasses with...
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David James
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The designer and publisher of these cards, David James, is a graduate of MU (Ph.D’94) and a former professor of Hotel and Restaurant Management in the College of Agriculture, Foods and Natural...
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Rolin Karg
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Rolin Karg shows his beautiful glass paperwieghts and perfume bottles in our "neighboring states gallery". It's hard to imagine that they begin as sand, lime and water.
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Jerry Kent
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Artist Jerry Kent creates finely crafted hand turned pens of Missouri woods and exotic woods of the world. Unique and intricate inlay patterns and the highest quality hardware make his work stand...
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Jill Kernodle
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Jill is constantly on the lookout for ceramic tiles, intact or broken, bits of pottery and glass. When she decides what her next project will be, her husband cuts out the wood base to her...
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Bob King
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Bob King, a Missouri artist, has designed several boxes that are extremely useful. His craftsmanship is exquisite and his work is clearly meant to be used and cherished.
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Caroline Koons
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Caroline's porcelain forms, both wheel thrown and hand built, are enhanced by images of her travels and inner visions. Her intricate and thoughtful patterns enliven each unique shape.
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Cecilia Labora-Meiner
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David Lakish
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This talented artist was university trained as a sculptor. Among the things he creates are wonderful flocks of birds! Made of paper and bits of wire, each bird is different and has its own...
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East Laurel Woodcrafts
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A school teacher from London, Kentucky, Delmar Eby has been making simple, sturdy and functional toys in his spare time for many years. His family of six children are involved with the toy...
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Heinrich Leonhard
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Heinrich carries on the family tradition of porcelain casting and painting. Ida, his mother was well known around the area for the skills she brought with her from Bavaria. She taught her sons...
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Sandy Litecky
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Sandy Litecky is a founding member of Bluestem Missouri Crafts. She weaves beautiful chenille scarves and shawls.
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Sue Luger
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Sue Luger’s interest in ceramics began on a visit to the Jugtown potters in North Carolina where she was born. Sue studied ceramics at the University of North Carolina and at Stephens College...
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Susan Leslie Lumsden
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Susan's award winning art quilts are characterized by strong, rich colors and her use of pattern and fabrics, mostly hand-dyed silks. Using contemporary surface design techniques along with the...
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Margie Magnuson
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Margie’s formal education in jewelry and silversmithing has emphasized simple, clean design that employs hand-forging techniques. This, along with a mind open to new trends, is the foundation of...
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Kenneth Marine
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This talented glass artist works solo and all of his glass is made "off-hand", one at a time, from start to finish. He gathers the hot glass from the furnace on the end of a punty rod or blow-pipe...
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Lee Marshall
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Lee grew up in Louisville, KY and spent 30 years as an engineer. After discovering pottery, she made so much of it that she had to take it to an art fair! "So long, corporate America,” she...
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Jim McCord
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Jim McCord creates beautifully crafted, one-of-a-kind, wooden boxes and games. Most of his woods are native to Missouri. His quality laminating and finishing techniques produce work that is...
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John McDonald
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John says that he is challenged every day to design new and exciting pieces. His fulfillment comes from seeing what he imagines come to life on the end of a pipe, and then again in seeing people...
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Jim McDonald
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Jim McDonald is our resident perfectionist. His jewelry boxes are truly treasure chests for your treasures. Jim works most often with native Missouri woods. The inlays, sanding, finishing and...
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Sandra McKensie Schmidt
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Danny Meisinger
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Cynthia Messer
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Cynthia Messer, a Bluestem partner, received a BA in art education from Colorado State University. She has turned her skill as a watercolorist to painting accessories for the home. Her joy for life...
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Dick Nelson
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Dick Nelson is the brother of Bluestem partner, Marilyn Vernon. He is a retired chemist who discovered a special talent for woodcarving and spent years perfecting his skills. He is well known for...
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Hans Neumann
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Hans learned to turn wood in his native Germany. He has perfected his skills on the super abundance of hardwoods in Missouri. He was one of our first Bluestem artists.
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Deanna Nichols
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Deanna’s work shows the artistry and skill of a production potter who understands beautiful forms, glazes and clay. This same fine craftsmanship is shown in everything that she makes. Deanna is...
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Ed Pennebaker
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Ed Pennebaker crafts his unique glass works by hand, using simple raw materials. Ornaments and sun discs are his specialties. Each brilliantly colored, one-of-a-kind piece is created at his Red...
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Carl Perkins
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“I grew up on my grandparent’s farm in Lonedell, [Missouri],” Carl says. “Everybody knew ‘the Perkins boy!’ I always built stuff with Grandpa’s tools. At 10 I started an airplane,...
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A Scott Peterson
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Nena Potts
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John Preus
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Charles Pritchard
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Charles Pritchard turns beautiful woods into beautiful bowls, both decorative and functional. He also uses brightly colored laminated woods in smaller turned pieces such as perfume decanters,...
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Laura Ross
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To quote this nationally known artist, "It is my intent to make pottery which is selected because it functions effortlessly in the dance of daily use as well as having an energy and life force that...
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Robert Rothbard
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“I am the sole creator of each piece of hot glass and wire sculpture,” says Robert. “My wall vases are made of a hot glass vessel and one continuous piece of wire. Much of my work just...
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Nancy Rowe
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Janet has 20 years experience as a custom jeweler. All her designs are original. Each piece is sculpted in wax and cast in sterling silver using the lost wax technique. After the piece is cast,...
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Carl Sandstrom
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Carl Sandstorm works on a small family farm in the Missouri Ozarks. He uses woods found through out Missouri: locust, birdseye maple, walnut, osage orange, wild plum and cherry. All of the utensils...
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Janet Scherrer
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Janet Scherrer began her fine art training in ceramics but found the allure of precious metals and gems guiding her to jewelry creation. She draws her inspiration from nature. She uses the...
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Ed Sheppard
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Ed Sheppard’s wood bowls are handcrafted from carefully selected and aged Ozark hardwoods. A retired professional forester, Ed now works full time creating these beautiful wood bowls.
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Yael Shomorni
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Yael's goal is to make clay pieces that are beautiful in form and simple in function. Her luscious glaze surfaces are an invitation to touch. She is influenced greatly by the ancient pottery of...
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Micheal Smith
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A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Micheal is a nationally known production potter in the finest sense of the word. Each piece is individually and meticulously created for function and...
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Vicki Smith
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Vicki creates felted flax and handmade paper fiber art. She is working in paper collage and incorporates handmade paper, leaves, printing, stitching and textile elements, xerox and photo transfers...
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Jennifer Smith Falter
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Jennifer’s porcelain is bold, black and white. After she throws and glazes the vessel, she carves away the surface leaving the design in relief.
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Leandra Spangler
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Leandra taught art in the Columbia public schools for many years, but she now works full-time at her paper art. She exhibits in both regional and national shows. She is founder and owner of Bear...
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Amelia Stamps
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Sam Stang
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In downtown Augusta, Sam remodeled an old auto repair shop and turned it into a glass studio. Known for his luminescent colors and intricately patterned vessels, his work is nationally acclaimed....
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Kathy Taylor
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With a meticulous technique, Kathy captures humor and delight in all that she does. Each gourd has an identy of its own, from the small "gourdament" to the lighted "bomber gourds". Definately a...
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Sandra Topolewski
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Sandra draws much of her inspiration from Russian and Scandinavian folk art. She uses methods adapted from the study of old dolls and floor cloths, sewing angels, snowmen and other figures in...
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Doris Trojcak
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Each of Doris’ terra cotta animal flutes has a unique tone quality. Not only are they perfectly pitched musical instruments, but also they are beautiful pieces of sculpture – truly multi-media...
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Marilyn Vernon
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Marilyn Vernon is a founding member of Bluestem. She creates a wide array of one of a kind cards and mobiles from cut paper.
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Bernard Voss
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Wood to Bernhard Voss is the most exquisite of all materials. The story of its life is revealed in its rings. Voss recycles locally grown hardwoods, giving them new life as sculptural...
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Ruth Walker
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Ruth makes all the felt for her goods . . . dyeing, designing, felting and "walking" the raw wool into colorful and fashionable hats, scarves, bags, cozies, balls and pincushions. Trimmed with...
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Wendy Walsh
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This talented jewelry artist uses her materials skillfully. She often begins a piece with a simple form that she finds intriguing. She will then build upon it, drawing from animal and plant...
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Donna Weiss
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Donna's work has evolved within the framework of the Raku process and aesthetic; a process with immediate results ranging from disappointment and loss to revelation and surprise. “The ultimate...
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Jenna Weston
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Jenna Weston's sculptures begin with armatures constructed from linear elements, such as vines and branches, with handmade paper integrated into three-dimensional "drawings". She uses stones,...
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J G White
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Gary White began building wood quilts in 1986 and then translated them to boxes. His wood comes from the great variety of trees found in the Ozarks, combined with a few imports for highlights. He...
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John Whitt
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John Whitt is a self taught, willow furniture designer and maker. Since 1982, his love and enthusiasm for creating has never stopped growing. He has consulted experts in forestry, kiln drying, and...
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James R. Wilbat
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Each piece of James Wilbat's glass has gone through a most complicated process from the creation of his pleasing palettes of color, to the forming of his signature twisty shapes. The final...
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Juanita Yeager
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"My art is about color...it's all about the beauty and joy I find in nature".
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