2024 Mixed Media 3D
Ken Bose | Jefferson
Skeeter Creek Fabricators
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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
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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.
The work brings watercolor and acrylic paint combined with natural elements, and found objects to create wondrous pieces of one of a kind art. It displays imaginative subjects such as fairies, gardens/nature, mermaids, and unicorns, with an awareness of humans relationship in the sphere of the natural world through imagination and creativity. |
Brad Kiefer | Ogden
ruby willo llc
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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.
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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. |
Rhonda Scott | Ames
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Rhonda Scott is a teaching artist from Ames, lowa who works in multiple media. She is passionate about the value of creativity and lifelong learning. She is especially fascinated by age-old processes with a modern twist, such as lampwork and paper marbling. These two art forms have many things in common, aside from their long history; both allow her to play with colors, pattern, visual texture, mark making, and negative space, as well as surface tension and chemical reactions.
Rhonda creates journals of many sizes and shapes. Journals are hand bound with a variety of bindings, papers, covers, closures, and embellishments. Rhonda uses commercial papers, vintage papers, handmade papers, and her own hand decorated papers. Some journals include pockets and/or signature wrappers. She uses found objects, her own glass beads, and other embellishments. Rhonda also upcycles old books that are destined for the landfill into journals; these are specifically made to encourage others to be creative. Collage materials and tips for use are included. Rhonda also creates pens with her glass beads and pencils decorated with her marbled paper. |
Betty Chamness Trost | Des Moines
Three Smooth Stones
FB: Three Smooth Stones
IG: ThreeSmoothStones
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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.
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Rachel Weber | Johnston
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A Little Eggstra LLC, is a Midwest-based Mother-Daughter duo. We use artistic expressions that are rooted in the meticulous art of Pysanka. Through this medium, we are able to preserve the ancient craft that has been passed down through generations. By incorporating modern techniques and designs, we strive to introduce Pysanka to a wider audience and keep the tradition alive. Our work is a reflection of our deep connection to our heritage and a celebration of the intricate beauty that can be achieved with simple tools and humble materials. Through A Little Eggstra, we hope to ignite a sense of wonder and appreciation for the art of Pysanka and its cultural significance.
Our pysanka range from traditional to modern in design and from finch to ostrich in size. We have also branched out from traditional batik techniques on the exterior of whole egg shells to include jewelry, bowls, books, ornaments, and more! We have created an assortment of carved and cross-stitched shells, and used fragments to make mosaics too. We enjoy experimenting with techniques and pushing the capabilities of art using egg shells. |