Daria Claiborne graduated from Kansas State University in 1979 and has done many shows for her artwork. She does work in ceramics, making sups, tea pots and sets, wind chimes, and recently soap/lotion dispensers and toothbrush holders.
Heinrich Leonhard was born in Germany but raised in Missouri. After graduating college, Heinrich worked on archaeological digs before turning to collaborating with his mother on Tannenbaum Ceramics. Since collaborating, he has made ceramin ornament, sculptures, tiles and murals, and travled all across the Midwest to craft shows. Heinrich works primarily with under-glazes in his ceramic work and this allows his to create washes and clean bright colors.
Glass artist Stacey Utech creates contemporary fused glass art, bowls and platters. She has always been fascinated with copper, stainless steel and raku pottery. Her fused glass pieces are made primarily of highly textured, black iridescent glasses that resemble these media.
I am currently Vice-President of Rademacher Financial, Inc. Prior to joining my husband at Rademacher Financial, I was the Associate Director of Financial Aid at the University of Kansas. I oversee the operations of the firm and assist Phillip Rademacher, CFP on the financial planning side of the practice as well.
As Phill and I recently joined the “empty nest club,” I have more time for my creative outlet of glass fusing. Over the years, I have shown and sold my work at local art fairs and galleries.
This is my creative outlet I enjoy in my spare time–I love working with bright colors and interpreting the world around me through my glass pieces.
Douglas Sheafor is part of AlBo Glass, a family well known for production of glass forms. Doug and his family make pieces together and wish to create beautiful, functional, and funky objects to beautiful homes with affordable glass art.
Deborah Costello creates original stained glass or fused glass designs with hand-cut pieces of colored/textured art-glass. She constructs each stained glass panel using the traditional lead and/or copper foil methods.
Pam Somerville has been making and designing her own jewelry for over 10 years. She uses her lampwork glass beads in her designs as well as Bali sterling, Swarovski crystals, and other gemstones.
All of Brad Egger’s jewelry is handmade including prongs and mountings for gems. No casting is involved–it is all created using the fabrication technique. Sterling silver and a variety of precious and semi-precious stones are used.
Britta L. KcKee grew up in Osage City, Kansas and has found her passion in art. She says, “Starting as a 2nd grader when I won an award from the Osage City Fire department for my drawing on a take of “Stop, Drop, and Roll” theme! Throughout High School art has been my #1 love. I won many categories at our League Art Competitions. When I graduated high school in 2005, I knew I wanted to pursue art!” She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts in Metalsmithing & Jewelry.
Nancy Goodall is a Topeka artist who uses dichroic fused glass and precious metal wire wrapping to form the basic components of her collection. She believes price should not preclude owning art so she provides price points to make collecting art accessible to all.
Kristen Haug’s sterling jewelry pieces are one of a kind, and are built around unusual natural gemstones. In her Silver Lake, Kansas studio, she hammers, stamps, and acid etches the silver to create interesting textures.
Jandi Burkett began her metals career in 1996 and produced signature gold and silver designs for a prominent fine jewelry boutique. She opened her own studio in 2012. Each of her pieces begins as sterling silver sheet metal or wire and is then cut, filed, formed, forged, soldered, and finished by hand in her studio.
Christine Hartsock started CEH Creations in 2007. All of her pieces are hand woven, using traditional bead weaving methods but with non-traditional materials. Things such as glass, metal, gemstone, and hardware components are some of the things you can expect from her non-traditional materials.
Wichita artist Luke Swearingen uses the finest gems and minerals and hand wire-wraps them in sterling silver and 14K gold-filled. He only uses hand tools and tension to set each of his pieces.
Julie Kingsbury started making jewelry when she took a silversmithing class in High School. At 15, she knew making jewelry was something she wanted to do. Most of her deisgns are made from sterling silver and genuine gemstones, such as amethyst, lapis, jade, turquoise, and black onyx.
Patti Zeiche from Sedalia, Mo., loves using trusted techniques such as wire wrapping, and employs new ones such as heat patina and acid etching on sheet metal. She says there are so many different patterns that arise and it’s always new and stimulating.
Amy Ludwig of Ludwig Custom Metals does garden vision metal sculptures. She produces a wide variety of sculptures from animals to flowers at various sizes and price ranges.
Bob and Donna Walter are a husband-wife team of artists who collaborate to make their unique hand-made pieces. Their work revolves around a Southwest, Native American, or Wildlife theme. They believe in giving the piece of personality of its own. They bend, shape, cut, and wield their pieces of steel until they deem it ready for a finish.
Carla Walters creates her bright, fun mosaic artwork by using vintage china, old jewelry, beads, and found and repurposed objects. Her items are whimisical and functional.
Jenny Meyer-McCall has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kansas State University with emphasis in painting. Her lifestyle and teachings allow her to be flexible and explore current color trends as well as visual and textural patterns. You can catch some of her work at the North Kansas City Hospital, Black & Veatch, Tippins, Midwest Builders Casualty, and Midwest Transplant Network.
David Jessup like making unique bits of art by taking parts from toys and combining them to get a creepy amalgamation that would otherwise be classified as a doll. He takes inspiration from the movie Toy Story for his projects, even gives them names and backstories.
Eric Doucette is based in the Kansas City area and is a self-employed artist, painter, and faux finisher. Having over 15 years of experience, his focus is providing his clients with creative finishes unique for their home or business.
Larry Baker has lived in Kansas City his entire life and started drawing at the age of 7. After the death of his father, Larry lost all interest in drawing until discovering the app “America’s Top Artist.” The media used in all of his artwork in pencil colors, magic marker and acrylic paints. Larry created the character Clump and continued to use and play around with him.
A nationally known wildlife artist, Rory Mattson has presented his paintings at art shows in nearly every major city in the Midwest. Employing a transparent watercolor style he describes as classic English, Mattson also is one of the only artists in the country to combine airbrush techniques with traditional watercolor painting.
Steve Hilt describes himself as an outdoor painter. He has benefited from the opportunities to visit places ranging from the bonefish flats of Florida to the rain swept tundra of the Alaskan peninsula. These experiences reflect themselves in the diversity of his paintings.
Karen Dreyer worked as an emergency room nurse for 13 years but has found a passion in art, particularly painting. Her mother was also an artist so growing up; they always had the smell of oil paint in the house. Karen currently lives in Leawood, Kansas and spends a lot of her time painting.
Taylor Kubicek works with oil and has a contemporary realist style that lends itself to contemplative symbolism by exploring subtle emotional qualities of familiar objects. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from MSSU with emphasis on Studio Art.
Martha Moore’s nature and wildlife photography emphasizes animal portraiture and expression. Her images are printed on archival paper or canvas, then matted and framed, or stretched as canvas wrap by the artist.
Alex Burke photographs landscape images from the Great Plains and the West. All are created using 4″x5″ large format film processed by the artist. The images are printed on archival inkjet papers, mounted for a unique, glare-free viewing.
Jean Hutchison is a photographer from Ottawa, Kansas. Her work consists of fine art photography featuring nature, landscapes and architecture which she personally prints on professional quality photo paper.
Tom Stubbs creates fine art photography with a focus on composition and impact. Though based in Topeka, his works feature diverse subjects from around the world. He uses large format film and high resolution digital. The archival printing and mounting is done by him in his studio.
Photographer Ric Cummings creates black and white, and color images. He photographs things and places captured as seen, not manipulated but only adjusted as one would do in a darkroom. His archival prints are on rag paper, acid free with double mats.
Arizona artist Robert Boyce creates his pieces using plasma cut copper, using fire on both sides of the copper for the colors and patterns. He makes fire-painted copper wall art using grinders for the depth. He also makes copper and glass illusion art with fire painted wind wings.
Darren Miller is an artist, professor, gallery director, and curator at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. His main themes include power, identity, and control. He got his Masters in Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ken Nelson creates boxes fabricated of contrasting turned hardwoods, including turned or carved elements in wood or other materials.
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