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Silver Jewelry Artist | |
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Blown Glass Artist I am a Glassblower. I make blown glass pieces in the style of the Tiffany Glass Company, circa 1890's. I sell my glass at Festivals, through galleries and in shops throughout the United States. In the summer months I also demonstrate my work at The Colorado Renaissance Festival, where I operate a fully functioning glass studio. I enjoy the direct feedback from my audiences regarding what is appreciated or in demand. I produce and sell an enormous amount of work. People see my work and are impressed by the range of items that I make. They often think that I represent a group of workers because often, glass shops are organized this way, I, however am rare in that I do all the blowing myself. I also build my own equipment, formulate and mix the batch, Ioad and melt the glass, design the work, do the grinding and polishing, and take the wares to market. Literally, throngs of thousands watch me blow glass each summer in my open air studio. My Participation throughout the years in such Festivals has been and continues to be an immersion into the tides of humanity and the work I love. Customers often bring special requests to me. Together we work out the feasibility of their requests and then I manifest their ideas in glass. I, as result of a formal education and attempting to satisfy all requests, I've learned to fill a shop with all categories of glasswork. I also enjoy the exchange of ideas between myself and the other crafts people at the Festivals. Many of these folks and their families live and work on site at the festival, as I do. At home on the Hot Glass Ranch in California, I enjoy blowing glass in a more controlled environment. I like working in the mild winter temperatures and away from the high profile existence of the festival demonstrator. The Ranch is open desert where my family and I find well deserved privacy, quiet and rest. There, I involve myself with the internal workings of my business, craft and family. I do much planning, studying and foundation work. Along with my blowing schedule, I do several home shows, some consultant work, and demonstrate for occasional field trips to my studio by home-schoolers and the Iocal public schools. |
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Stoneware and Terra Cotta Artists David Camerlo, a native of Fremont County has worked exclusively with indigenous clays and minerals from this very geologically interesting area for over thirty years. He has studied painting and ceramics at the University of Southern Colorado and Rocky Mountain Pottery, but for the most part is self-taught. English, Italian and Native American traditions strongly influences his work which is exhibited in collections in North American, Europe and Asia. His current work features an ongoing interest in raw slip and ash glazes. |
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Watercolor and Designer of Greeting Cards George Douthit III is primarily a landscape painter. He is a native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, although he and his wife Alice have been residents of Colorado for over 50 years. They reside upon a 100 year old ranch surrounded by thousands of acres of aged pinions and Juniper trees south of Colorado Springs. Their home is a sunny refurbished bunkhouse once the home of working cowboys. Among the forces that have influenced his writing and paintings are deeply rooted ties to the natural world -- especially experiences in his youth that were associated with the distinct Midwestern seasonal changes. These transitions from season to season were enhanced when, as a boy, he went duck hunting with his father on early fall mornings to the lonely Dakota sloughs. They were expanded by exhilarating, sunny autumn afternoons tramping brown cornfields and weed patches in farm country in search of pheasants. Many of these feelings remain today with a deep awareness and respect for the land, nature and the wilderness experience. In a society where the practice of aloneness and the pleasures of silence seems passing, this artist is attempting to share in his work his response to a spirituality found upon the prairie, in the solitude of cool, wild-flowered aspen groves, still mountain meadows and deserted homesteads where as poet Carl Sandburg wrote: "Only the wind and rain come now." Douthit is self taught. He has recently compiled a small collection of poetry called, "Dakota Summer" and has just completed a novel for children entitled, "Boy Who Slept With Bears". He is well known in the area for his watercolor home portraits from onsite study and client photographs. |
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Photographer Meg Gouraud grew up in Connecticut. She attended the University of Colorado, earning a BS in marketing. Meg spent the next three years back in Connecticut, where she studied black-and-white photography and began her career in bookselling. She has lived in Canon City, Colorado for the past 25 , years, during most, of which she owned the local bookstore. Since retiring, Meg is again devoting her time to her photography. |
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Jeanne Huffman
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Designer of Block Prints and Greeting Cards Jim Huffman is a graduate of Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Growing up in Michigan, he lived in the midwest until moving to Colorado in 1979. He worked for the Social Security Administration to support his artistic habit. Upon retiring, Jim began a serious pursuit of the arts as a political cartoonist, art restorationist and framer, jeweler, and and museum curator. His current interests include linoleum block printing, pen and ink, pastel and colored pencil. Jim and his wife Jean live with their two cats in Canon City, Colorado. He is represented by Outside Santa Fe Gallery in Madrid, New Mexico, The Fremont Center for the Arts in Canon City, Colorado and Blue Spruce Arts and Antiques in Florence, Colorado. The block printing process involves carving a design in reverse into the wood, rubber or linoleum block. The block is then carefully inked and either printed onto paper with the aid of a press or the inked block is covered with paper and hand rubbed (or hand pulled) by the artist. Although the image is the same throughout the numbered edition of prints, there will be subtle differences due the hand inking of the block and the hand-rubbing or pulling of each print. Photo or digital copies may be made of the hand-pulled prints to allow the artist the option of offering different sizes of the same image and a less expensive print for the collector. |
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Blown and Faceted Glass Artist | |
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Lee Jones
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Painter and Hand Drawings Artist Kathy Dorn Walker is a native of the American West. She spent part of her early childhood in Lusk, Wyoming, and, outside of a short stint in Kentucky, the rest of her time has been spent in Colorado. Kathy fell in love with the horse and the western American mystic when she was very young. Her great-grandfather told her tales of being a chuckwagon cook for various cattle drives. There were tales of her great-great-grandfather's time as a cavalryman. At the age of five, her grandfather gave her a book called "How to Draw Horses." Then there was Kathy's and her step father's shared love of horses which led to his gift of her first horse, a young buckskin, Quarter Horse-Arab cross colt. This love of the west, horses, and a natural artistic ability led Kathy down a path that she is still following today. Kathy has extensive training in many types of art and is currently the art teacher at Florence High School. Her degree is from the University of Northern Colorado in art education and theater. She enjoys working with many types of two dimensional art, pottery, and fiber (weaving, cross stitch, and paper making). Ms. Dorn Walker has won several awards for her art including two placing at the UNC art show and a UNC Art Grant for weaving. This summer she taught an art course for the Art Source Colorado Workshop for art teachers at Eagle Rock Ranch near Estes Park. When Kathy was in Kentucky she was one of the first female trainers in the Thoroughbred farms around Lexington. She also has owned her own T shirt printing business. Kathy has been an illustrator for a series of horse training books. For many years she has done custom animal portrait work for hundreds of satisfied clients throughout the west. Information about the custom portraits will be available at the show. When she is not working on her art or her classroom, Kathy enjoys working with her horses--naturally. She is an Area Coordinator for Pathfinders, a world wide church youth group. Kathy also enjoys her family, including her two grandsons. Kathy has been called one of the best horse artists in America. People have come to admire Kathy's touches that bring her paintings to life. Whether the paintings are of horses, dogs, cats, mountain goats, or scenery, there is a spark which makes each special. |
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Photographer and Designer It's more than the image on a page... It's the image that you can't forget that triggers your mind's wanderings, that resonates, inspires, excites, disturbs. It's the passion expressed in a photograph; it's the power of the image that allows you to see something, as if for the first time. Ann's photography has many points of view, ideas sought, and some that may surprise you. It's an ongoing, ever-changing dialogue for the world it serves and the community it engages. Ann's images are as beautiful as they are calming, as vital as to its appeal as it adds to the dimensions of the human experience. |
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Designer of Terra Cotta Tiles Marcy Kelly is a retired high school English teacher who has always enjoyed working with clay. Since her retirement she has become interested in the tedmiques and design motifs of the people of prehistory and is concentrating on relief tiles using the stamping techniques found in cultures around the world. Her tiles tend to reflect the designs found on cave/canyon walls and pottery. Many of the designs are done m terra cotta although recently she has been working on a 'designer' series using other clays and brilliant color. Her tiles can be used inside or as garden decor. |
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Photographer and Designer of Greeting Cards During the 1960's in rural Wisconsin, a young girl picked up a Brownie box camera and found magic. This curly haired girl with curious eyes discovered the magic that takes place when you capture a fleeting moment on film. Within the walls of her fathers darkroom, she watched images magically appear on seemingly blank pieces of paper. She had been bitten by the proverbial shutterbug. In the 1970's she received an Instamatic camera, and shortly thereafter, a 35mm SLR, which is now her constant companion. She continually delights in creating with the lens to the present day. During the late 1970's and into the 1980's, Kathleen showed her photographic works locally, garnering awards and accolades. She also received national recognition for her photographic abilities. Kathleen moved to Colorado in mid-1980 and took a sabbatical from the lens to focus on raising her three children. During those years, she aimed the camera at her own children, recording the fleeting moments of their young lives. They continue to be her favorite models. During the past few years, Kathleen has been awakened to her unique talents and to the possibilities of again creating with the lens. She spoke of her craft; "Each day holds countless blessings and gifts. With my camera and as a vessel of the Great Creator, I capture a myriad of moods. Often times the end result is very personal. Sometimes I get an image that is pure magic, with a universal feel, something that touches many, many people. That's where the art is." Beyond photography, Kathleen writes children's books and spiritual essays. She creates in other mediums under the name Luminara. |
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Co-Founder of The Blue Spruce | Stoneware & Raku Pottery Artist Lynn grew up in Boulder and graduated from the University of Colorado, with a degree in Psychology and Secondary Education. She later attended Lesley University, obtaining a Masters degree in Curriculum Development. Her involvement with clay began in 1971 during her freshman year at C.U. Boulder. when she began taking private lessons. For thirty years clay has been a part of her dally life, whether teaching in the schools, offering private classes, or working on her own art in the studio. Currently living in Penrose on ten acres with views of the mountains, her studio is a spacious converted farm outbuilding where she also occasionally works on stained glass, and refinishes antique furniture in her spare time. Her art has been influenced by her long hours in the outdoors, by an internship on the Navajo reservation in the 1970's, and by a love of both color and simplicity. Her work has been included in numerous Colorado and regional art shows, and can currently be seen at several Colorado galleries, stores and art fairs. A member of Commonwheel Art Co-Op in Manitou Springs for twenty years, she recently has helped to open the In an historic building in Florence, Colorado. |
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Watercolor Artist For Watercolorist Jim Maxon, Art is a second career after retiring as an Archaeologist. His main interests are landscapes, cityscapes, old buildings, and trains. He prefers to work on location, and believes that fresh air painting enhances the spontaneity of watercolor. The exceptions to fresh air for Jim are the trains that he paints. As a child in the San Luis Valley, he watched the last of the regularly running narrow gauge trains that served the mining and ranching communities of Colorado. This engendered a life long interest in Colorado Railroads. Most of the trains that he portrays are of necessity from historic views. Jim also works in Pastels and Ink. Jim currently shows at the Blue Spruce Gallery in Florence Colorado, the Park Ave Gallery in Canon City, Colorado, and the Eagle River Trading Company in Colorado City, Colorado. He has owned and operated the Alma Fine Art Gallery, in Alma Colorado. He is a member of the Southern Colorado Watercolor Society, and regularly shows in a number of local and regional fine art shows. |
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Watercolor & Fiber Art, Purses and Designer of Jewelry | |
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Painter of Western Images | |
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Photographer Alan Miller's images are provocative, striking, simple and beautiful. The usage of infrared and black-and-white film in his work is distinguished. The blackest blacks are full of depth and tiny nuances. His compositions, is as much about the subject that fills the space as it is about the negative space. Alan has a remarkable ability to capture textures and incorporate them into images to make the photograph whole. The organic shapes captures a modern look on a timeless theme. "Photographers are recording our culture and projecting our images unlike anytime in history," stated Alan in a recent interview. His portraits capture a totally different lifescape. They are about the mystery and life's drama. Yet, his subjects seem to be quite comfortable around him and allow him into their private world. They are very up-close and personal. see Alan at www.alanworks.net |
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Designer of Chip Carved Boxes and Ornaments Vicki Portice started Chip Carving in 1997 after taking a lesson. After having tried many other forms of art, such as silver smithing, leather bags, jewelry and other forms of crafts; nothing I did pleased me as much as chip carving. Also in the past 2 years I have been trying my hand at wood turning and thoroughly enjoy that also. My greatest inspiration is my husband Jack, who is one of the most exceptional woodcarvers in the country. Most of my pieces area done out of northern Basswood, Which is a very light colored wood and is often stained different hues. My husband and I live in Canon City and were residents of Como for 17 years where we once had a gallery. We now enjoy the warmer climate of Southern Colorado. |
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Designer of Jewelry | |
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Designer of Turned Wooden Bowls | |
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Designer of Painted and Fired Glass Jewelry | |
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Designer of Silk Scarves | |