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2023 Mixed Media 3D

Ken Bose ​| Jefferson
Skeeter Creek Fabricators



​Started in 1999 building nostalgic bird houses. Was started in Midwest Magazine, Country Home and The Chicago Tribune. Wall products are handmade from recycled barn material.

Sara Burrier | Des Moines
Dreamflyer Studios
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Born in the city of Des Moines Iowa, but with a heart for the woodlands and prairie, Sara creates pieces that explore the imagination and voices of nature. She is a professionally educated illustrator with 20+ years of experience in watercolors. Yet, in 2019 she began exploring, foraging, and building fairy lanterns. This has now become her mission - to bring the Iowa prairie into focus as a resource that is vital to the earth’s survival. Sara has always had a passion to create using natural elements; pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and now ‘treasures’ from nature assembled to create fairy dwellings and portraits. To Sara, the fairies represent the personalities of nature. They are a visual representation of our elements and ecosystems. In this way, Sara is able to communicate, through their homes and faces, the wonderment and majesty of the world around us. Created by the Creator, Sara finds ways throughout each day to create. Whether it be in her fairy gardens, organizing the house, drawing, or building. It all comes from, and in pursuit to, better understand what it means to live as one with our planet. Her favorite media is watercolor, dried flowers, sycamore twigs, acorns, and fungi. You can find these often in some, if not all, her work.


Brad Kiefer | Ogden
​ruby willo llc

I started pounding on copper back in 2001 when I made copper shingles for my shop. Since then I have been making lamps, roses, cattails, countertops and what ever anyone can challenge me to make. Most new ideas come from new commissions that people ask for. That is the part I really like. I think some of the best and purest artwork comes from a collaboration of artist and owner. Bringing your vision of art through my hands.

Betsy Peterson | Perry
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Art has always been a part of Betsy, with early expression naturally spilling out as she experienced the world around her. Following a formal art education at University of Iowa, Betsy taught elementary art before home-schooling her two sons. Inspiration was everywhere and Betsy continued to express what she experienced in soft-sculpted figures with twig limbs, paintings and drawings.

With bright colors, whimsical figures, and meaningful words, Betsy’s art draws from her soul. Her love of words, color, and childlike spontaneity pour into each piece creating art that inspires generosity, gratitude and joy.

​Beyond the gallery, Betsy has created award-winning pieces, commissioned work, and public art with the talent and heart that are a part of each project she pursues.

Betty Chamness Trost | Des Moines
Three Smooth Stones
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Betty Chamness Trost is a Des Moines, Iowa artist who creates a life of color and texture through mandala stone painting. She is a life-long and self-taught maker. Since 2013, when she retired from teaching at Iowa State University, she has focused on creating her art. She sells at a variety of indoor and outdoor art shows in the Midwest. She enjoys teaching adult classes and does so at garden nurseries, wineries, and art galleries. I transform naturally smooth stones into textural and colorful pieces of meditative art. I hand pick my stones from the coastal waters of Oregon, Washington, and Lake Superior, then using acrylic paint I hand dot multi-layered mandala designs onto them to create stunning objects of texture and color.


"...share the magic and meaning of one small town set on the Prairie, but connected to the world."
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