Column Category: Artist Spotlight

Mike Burman

Art medium(s): Photography. How do you describe your art? My art strives to capture both the peacefulness and chaos of city life; to tell stories

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Sara Mullen (Verdick) 

Art medium(s): Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on watercolor paper. How do you describe your art? Whimsical, illustrative, dynamic and colorful for art licensing products

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Emily Heeg

Art medium(s): Pressed flowers, organic materials, felt and polymer clay. How do you describe your art? The only art classes that I have taken were

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Joann Mariahazy

Art medium(s): Printmaking, drawing, painting (watercolors), individual coloring pages and greeting cards that can be colored. How do you describe your art? Colorful, abstract and

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Vicki Gust

Art medium(s): Oil. It comes in vibrant colors that can be blended or layered easily to get the effect I desire. It also dries slowly,

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Heather Schaefer

Art medium(s): Mostly oil paint, but I also work often in charcoal, acrylic and pastels. How do you describe your art? Greatly inspired by nature,

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Eric Cihlar

Art medium(s): Multi-media (Wood, fine furniture, metal and upcycled). What does “repurposed and upcycled” mean to you in terms of your art? Taking something that

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Jessica Lomena

Art medium(s): Watercolor How do you describe your art? My art tends to be based on the themes of balance found in nature. There is

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Kate Lenz

Art medium(s): Clay! How do you describe your art? I love to keep my claywork looking clean and lovely in a simplistic way—to add elegance

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Matthew Patterson

Art medium(s): Ink. Usually 003 and 005 fineliner pens. How do you describe your art? Weird? Weird sometimes in a cute way, but typically in

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