Column Category: Artist Spotlight

Sara Prentice

Sara Prentice is a self-taught artist who found her love of art at a young age. “I’ve always felt like I’ve had it in my

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Barbi Gossen

Art medium(s): Metals, jewelry, enameling. How do you describe your art? My work is inspired by natural and organic elements. I make small-scale sculptures, jewelry

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Colt Brown

Art medium(s): I would say my strongest mediums are photography, painting and tattooing.  I don’t like to limit myself to any medium.  How do you

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Samantha Ducas

Art Medium(s): Ink, pencil, acrylic. How do you describe your art? If I can be honest, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about

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Richard Allen Norenberg

Richard Allen Norenberg Art medium(s): I have been fortunate to work in many mediums. In my youth, I purchased a Kodak X-15 camera with money

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Claudia Benson-Cortez “Dia”

Art medium(s): Acrylic/oil paints, colored pencil, graphite pencil, ink, whatever feels right. I’ve even incorporated some textiles into my art. How do you describe your

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Erin Quick-Laughlin

Art medium(s): Oil painting, previously acrylic. How do you describe your art? Previously post-impressionist, now contemporary realism/symbolic narrative. Were you always interested in following a

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Mary Ellen Sisulak

Art medium(s): 1. 2D work incorporating leather stretched over wood panels, stones and objects. 2. Encaustic: to “burn in.” I use hot wax and wax

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Pat Baum Bishop

Art Medium: Textiles. How do you describe your art? I work primarily with fabric making art with the basic materials of fabric, thread, a sewing

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JJ Van Parys

Art Medium: Woodturning/woodworking How do you describe your art? I have a passion for transforming raw wood into a unique and visually appealing art piece,

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