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Artist StatementI paint in oil on stretched canvas. FestivalsChicago Botanic Garden Art Festival, Glencoe Festival of Art MediaPainting: Oil Paint Booth NumbersChicago Botanic Garden Art Festival: 52Glencoe Festival of Art: 16 Read more

Artist Statement Film has become the story telling medium of choice. With a simple establishing shot a director can set the tone and mood for all that is to come. I began to experiment with a series of stills that resembled these shots. The results were… Read more

Artist Statement I love glass. I love melting glass. I love manipulating glass. I love the smoothness of finished pieces and I love the never ending designs of shards. I work with glass daily. I enjoy the endless possibilities of what glass can do and what… Read more

Artist Statement Beauty. Quality. Originality. This is the foundation upon which LINX by mark morton was built. Each handmade one-of-a-kind piece is designed with the highest quality Swarovski crystals semi-precious stones and metals including stainless steel sterling silver gold vermeil and copper. Also humanely-harvested feathers from… Read more

Artist StatementI am a self-taught painter and my art represents the rural manufacturing environment in Western Illinois of which I was raised. I grew up with the sounds of trains and factories in my ear and farm houses and big skies on the horizon. I… Read more

Artist StatementDon Widmer is a Chicago-based book and paper artist. His practice incorporates hand papermaking letterpress printing and traditional and experimental bookbinding. His work is inspired by storytelling real and imagined histories myth and culture. His recent subject matter explores Midwest flora/fauna and architecture. Widmer… Read more

Artist StatementI discovered metalsmithing in 2006 through a class at the Indianapolis Art Center. I now teach as well. I work in Argentium Sterling Silver (Sterling is 925-Argentium is 930has more silver an alloy to retard tarnishing none that cause allergic reaction) I add handmade… Read more

Artist Statement The material used to make my art work is fine raffia called rabanne and also burlap. The hat is cut on the patron design by me as well as the bag. The fine raffia material comes s a sheet and the burlap as the… Read more

Artist Statement I started turning in high school in shop class in 2003 and immediately fell in love with it. My family has a long history in the lumber business so I already had sawdust running through my veins by working summers and weekends for my… Read more

Artist StatementAll my work is the culmination of years of apprenticeships with Colombian master jewellers who taught me the intricate pre-Columbian work based on wrapping braiding and filigreeing strands of wire. My designs capture the delicate movement that the wire brings out when I handcraft… Read more