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CHARLIE BAKER is a Mineral Point studio artist. Having retired from a successful design career in Chicago, Charlie now enjoys pursuing many art media including drawing, painting and printmaking. His woodcut and linocut prints and etchings and engravings on copper showcase his considerable drawing skills and sense of graphic design. |
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DEAN BAKOPOULOS first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2005 and received “Book of the Year” awards from the New York Public Library, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Library of Michigan, and the Friends of American Writers. Recipient of a 2006–07 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he is at work on a second novel to be published by Harcourt in 2008. Dean has taught at UW- Madison and has been a guest lecturer at a number of colleges and universities. |
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JORJAN BORLIN is fascinated with the idea of people living IN ART not just WITH ART. Her jewelry and garments help people say who they are and share the beauty, strength and energy within themselves. Over the past 25 years, JorJan’s art has been featured in numerous magazine articles and included in fine craft shows and galleries from Santa Fe NM to New York City. Her studio in SW Wisconsin is included in the annual Fall Art Tour. |
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KAY BRATHOL-HOSTVET is a practicing artist and enthusiastic art instructor with a love of teaching. Her works are in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the Midwest. She is represented by the Artisan Gallery, Paoli (Madison) and BNOX Gold & Iron and Fine Art, Pepin, Wisconsin. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in Drawing and Painting and works from her home studio in Madison. |
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SANDY BULGRIN has been a basket weaver and gourd artist for over 15 years. She is co-owner of Basket Bits Magazine, a quarterly publication catering to the basketmaker. Sandy teaches extensively throughout the Midwest at private basketry shops, basketry associations and conventions, as well as at the Madison WI Garden Expo, Olbrich Gardens in Madison, at park districts and extension services in suburban Chicago, and at museums in Kenosha and Racine, WI. www.basketbits.com |
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TOM CABEZAS is a Mineral Point wood-worker and mixed media artist. He has been designing and building unique quality furniture since 1991. With a background in sculpture and a deep respect for craftsmanship and detail Tom strives to create work that does not attempt to place form over function or function over form. His work has been shown nation-wide and has won numerous awards. Tom earned an MFA in sculpture from UW-Madison and currently teaches design and ceramics at Madison Area Technical College. |
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BARB CESAL Regarded as one of the finest gourd artists around, Barb teaches gourd chip carving at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago, and is well known for her delicate “inside out” carved sculptures. |
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JAMES JOHNSON began his artistic career as a poet and switched to painting in 2000 while finishing an M.A. in Theology and the Arts. His primary concerns are balance, line, space, color, and simplicity of statement. He has taught Chinese martial arts for many years and likes to think that because he has repeated so many Taoist-based movements, he is, in fact, painting the Tao. |
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JAN JOHNSON is a Mineral Point artist who creates colorful watercolor prints and cards, botanical drawings and paper sculpture. Withe an early education in botany and horticulture, Jan's primary interest is in the unexpected details of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Capturing an "up close and personal" experience with plants is what Jan's work is about. Her original watercolor paintings, prints and notecards are brilliantly colored, bold designs suitable for cheerful occasions and contemporary settings. Jan works at Chestnut Hill Studio in Mineral Point. Her work may be seen at the Howdle Gallery in Mineral Point. |
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TATIANA KATARA creates charming faerie houses, furniture, pirate ships, and more using the detritus of nature and found objects. Her work has been exhibited at the Chalk Farm Gallery, a showcase for visionary art in Santa Fe, NM and has been demonstrated on Wisconsin Public TV. For the last two years she has created entire Faerie villages for the Holiday Express show at Olbrich Gardens in Madison, including a replica of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, all made of natural materials. Tatiana lives in SW Wisconsin and teaches workshops to adults and children at various venues, including at Olbrich Gardens. |
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TOM KELLY is a Mineral Point woodworker and painter whose work has gained national and international recognition. Tom carves and paints using subjects common in traditional folk art such as birds, animals, fruit, vegetables, and hearts. His style was born after years of working in antique restoration where he had close contact with old folk art pieces. Attempting to capture the "spirit" of the old pieces, yet with his own style, Tom stacks and balances components, uses brighter colors, and explores new subject matter. Whimsical is a word often used to describe the "Kelly" style. His work has appeared on the cover of six Lands End catalogs, in the 2006 Madison “Cow Parade” and may be seen at Longbranch Gallery in Mineral Point. |
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JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction including the memoir Space, the writing text Building Fiction, and the poetry collection Dog Angel. Her most recent book is The Alice Stories, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in the fall. She was the founding director of the University of Wisconsin MFA Program in Creative Writing. Currently, she is the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband, two wonderful children and one very bad dog. |
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BOB KLEBBA is co-owner of Morningwood Farm Nursery, a full service nursery and garden center in Mount Horeb, WI. He has been gardening for over 30 years and has been involved in many gardening activities in Dane County, as well as having been a lecturer at Garden Expo in Madison and at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway. |
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INA LUKAS is co-owner with husband Doug, of Blooming Valley Nursery near Avoca WI, where the art of growing is their passion, and bringing beauty into an ecologically respected world is their vision. They have both been working in the horticultural field for 18 years. Ina is a landscape designer, garden coach, nursery manager…and enthusiastic teacher. She teaches at her nursery and has been a lecturer at Garden Expo in Madison and at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway. |
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DANIEL MACK has worked with natural materials for 30 years as an artist, furniture maker and architectural consultant. His work is in many private and museum collections. In the 1970s, he was a network television and radio producer and taught college. Currently, he runs Rustic Furnishings, Inc., which provides rustic architectural services. His seventh and eighth books will be published in June, 2008. He regularly teaches workshops on rustic work and has recently started teaching and writing in the area of "ordinary creativity". Since 1997, he has been on the Faculty of The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY. He lives and works in Warwick, NY. |
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LANCE McNAUGHTON is an attorney with a small practice in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, where, from 2004 to 2008, he served as the City’s mayor. His practice consists mainly of small business assistance, real estate transactions, and estate planning and administration. Lance graduated from the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where he also instructed first-year students in the field of legal research and writing. He received his undergraduate degree from Carthage College, and also has a Masters in Public Policy from Duke University. In addition to his official capacities, he has been active regionally in a variety of economic development efforts. |
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KATHLEEN MULHOLLAND has mastered many art mediums including oil and batik, but it is in watercolor that she finds her passion. Kathleen has taught art at the high school and college level and to adults for over 15 years. She has recently returned to Wisconsin after a successful painting career in Florida where she earned a B.F.A and M.A degree. She teaches at the Plymouth Art Center, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the Rahr-West Art Museum and at her Manitowoc County studio. Her work has appeared in juried exhibits in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, California and Florida and can currently be seen at Brewery Pottery Gallery in Mineral Point. |
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MICHAEL PERRY is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoir Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, and the essay collection Off Main Street. Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. His essays have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and he has performed and produced two live audience recordings (I Got It From the Cows and Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow). Perry lives in rural Wisconsin , where he remains active as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder. |
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KAY RASHKA started metalsmithing over 16 years ago to satisfy her craving for silver jewelry! She has attended technical college metals workshops and supplemental classes including blacksmithing and ornamental garden welding. Kay has been teaching metals classes for over 7 years at various venues including Peninsula Art School and in the UW- Madison Continuing Education department. Her work is available at Firefly Trading in Cable, WI and at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (mMOCA) museum store in Madison, WI. |
| ROGER REYNOLDS is an organic farmer, a Master Gardener, an enthusiastic environmentalist and a frequent lecturer at Shake Rag Alley’s Garden Getaway. He has been involved in numerous environmental projects in SW Wisconsin. Especially knowledgeable about rain gardens, Roger spearheaded efforts to solve water run-off problems by installing a community rain garden at Harris Park in Dodgeville, WI. see class |
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BOBBETTE ROSE works in mixed media and painting. She widely exhibits and sells her work. She earned her MFA from UW-Madison and works professionally as a designer for print and web media. She teaches classes and workshops through both university and community arts programs in design and fine art and has spoken at national and international conferences. She lives in Madison, WI and is locally represented by Grace Chosey Gallery in Madison. She is a member of the arts TRIBE collective, the International Encaustic Artists association (IEA), the Chicago Arts Coalition (CAC) and the Madison Artists Alliance (MAA). |
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CHERYL SMEJA is a Mineral Point leather artist, nationally known for her pioneering work in wet-formed leather sculpture. She has appeared on the Carol Duvall show, teaches at national leather conventions and has had articles published in “The Leather Crafters and Saddlers” journal. For over 25 years she sold her formed leather masks, wall hangings, jewelry, pots and more at art fairs and from her Mineral Point gallery/shop. Now semi-retired, Cheryl enjoys pursuing other interests such as needle felting, wire jewelry, polymer clay, paper making, and Photoshop image manipulation. A versatile artisan and dedicated teacher, Cheryl is ever ready for a new challenge. |
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CAROLE SPELIC creates elegant globe and vessel forms in papier mache with reverse patterning derived from Tibetan Tiber rugs, Gregg shorthand and map imagery of invented worlds. Originally from the east coast, she earned an MFA and then spent 17 years as a working artist in Manhattan. She now lives and works in Mineral Point. Carole and her artist partner, Richard Moninski, operate the Green Lantern Studios where they make and show their own work as well as offering changing exhibits of work by national and regional artists. www.greenlanternstudios.com |
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SHARON STAUFFER is a Mineral Point mixed media artist. She enjoys doing representational graphite pencil drawings, not-so-representational collage and assemblages, and dabbling in some of the “alternative” art forms such as altered books and mixed media works incorporating non-traditional art materials. She is on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Regional Artists Association and organizes the annual Mineral Point Wisconsin Regional Art Association (WRAP) workshop and exhibit. She has also demonstrated fountain building on Wisconsin Public TV’s “Wisconsin Gardener” show. Her work can be seen during the regional Fall Art Tour at her home studio. |
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JONI STEIN graduated with a degree in graphic art and was the first full time graphic artist for the WI Dept of Public Instruction. Since then she has ventured into wood carving, quilting, Japanese watercolor and needle felting which has brought her acknowledgements from various shows and contests. Her passion for using needle felting as a means to embellish clothing as well as to create 3 dimensional sculptures led to sharing this art form with others at the 2007 Quilt Expo in Madison. Joni currently teaches at local and regional needleart stores and accepts private orders for commissioned works. She is an energetic and vibrant teacher who enjoys teaching and watching her students succeed. |
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DIANE STERBA is Youth Program Director at Shake Rag Alley where she organizes and teaches classes for kids, teaches adult classes, facilitates art retreats and runs a weekly Women’s Art Party in which women come together to play with art “as a process, not for the product”. With a Masters in Education and over 30 years teaching experience from preschool through graduate levels, Diane loves inspiring others to access their creative self. As an artist she explores her creativity through a wide variety of media and is influenced by folk art, nature and the children and adults she works with. |
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JUDY SUTCLIFFE is a multi-faceted artist who enjoys creating and teaching in a variety of media, including dollmaking, primitive weaving, printmaking, forged jewelry, tile, concrete, carving and poetry. A native of Iowa, Judy spent 17 years as a tile muralist in Santa Barbara CA before returning to the Midwest in 1996. Her tile paintings grace many Santa Barbara public buildings and private homes. In addition to tile work, Judy, as The Electric Typographer, has designed over 30 typefaces, including calligraphic and image fonts. Judy is currently co-owner of the Longbranch Gallery in Mineral Point. |
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HEATHER SWAN ROSENTHAL is a poet and a teacher of writing and literature who has been a Martha Meier Renk Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a recipient of the August Derleth Award and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Award. Her poems have appeared in The Cream City Review, Iris, Mothering Magazine, Forward, The Comstock Review, and The Wisconsin Poets Calendar. Her chapbook, The Edge of Damage, is forthcoming from Parallel Press. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Wisconsin Center for the Book's Bookmark Prize. |
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ROBERT TARRELL is Professor of Art (Drawing and Painting) at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. where he has also served as Director of the Painted Forest, a folk art site in Valton, WI and was instrumental in developing the DeRicci Gallery, a venue for professional and emerging artists to showcase their work. He received his MFA from UW-Madison in 1994 and has earned numerous awards for teaching including being named Wisconsin Art Educator of the Year in 2003 by the Wisconsin Art Educators Association. |
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CHRISTINE THARNSTROM is a fiber and especially quilting enthusiast with a specialty in handerchief quilts. She and her husband own Red Shutters Inn in Mineral Point, and she relishes all things Victoriana. |
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