Expansions Center for the Healing Arts Tiahna Skye

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	Lisa Fowler (Charlestown) Glass Utilizing the traditional lampworking techniques, I have learned how to aqueduct my creativity and develop my own whimsical style. Creating with glass is a very personal experience. I work primarily with soft glass, because the color palette is endless. Glass satisfies my inquisitive side with its many nuances and chemical reactions while feeding my creative side often incorporating colorful patterns and funky shapes into my piece of work. I thrive on the claiming of translating what is in my caput into something solid, something that can be held in the palm of one's hand.
	Kimberly Innes (Anderson) Textiles I am focused currently in fiber, specifically products I construct by sewing. I use a combination of purchased patterns I oft modify to improve upon the pattern too as patterns I have created myself. My favorite materials to use are cork, waxed canvas and high quality quilting cotton wool. I mainly make bags, purses and wallets. I strive to have a fairly cohesive look to my piece of work, ever circumspect to item and quality. I enjoy creating new products and love working collaboratively with customers to create something unique they've envisioned.
	Sadie Misiuk (Goshen) Pottery I make utilitarian work that is fired in an electric kiln or a woods kiln. My style has changed drastically from graduating college to now. My work consists of stamping and altering forms that create a symmetrical look to the asymmetrical form and currently researching traditional Polish pottery. I'm hoping within the side by side couple of months to make more handmade floral stamps referencing the Polish traditional flowers to incorporate in my work.
	Dylan Quackenbush (Nashville) Pottery I create everything from mugs to large planters and urns. My medium consists of both stoneware and porcelain clays with a variety of glazes. I fire with wood and inject soda ash at the end to both create a unique terminate as well as an additional flux. Recently I have also been working around a concept linked to the consequences of drug addiction in pocket-size rural towns. These vessels are less functional and focus more than on a narrative.
	Heidi Fledderjohn (Indianapolis) Dance/Movement I am the only Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist in Indiana. For the past 25 years, my work has explored the body and the "felt experience" every bit a playground, schoolroom, and the origins of personal and collective change. Like an Art or Music Therapist, I use the creative deed (in my case dance and movement) therapeutically to uncover and generate emotional, cerebral, social, physical, spiritual, and interpersonal integration.
	Mariel Greenlee (Indianapolis) Trip the light fantastic/Choreography I specialize in dance, motility, choreography, and pedagogy. I consult, create, and develop move as a language for purposes as broad as a language can be. In Indianapolis I am a teaching creative person for IRT, The Phoenix Theater, Park Tudor and Stage One Trip the light fantastic University. I choreograph plays for IRT, The Phoenix Theater, Summer Stock Stage, Marion University, and The Indianapolis Shakespeare Company (where I am a member), Zach and Zach Productions and Park Tudor. I besides choreographed 2 plays for the Pittsburgh Public Theater in 2019.
	Tony Jeffers (McCordsville) Graphic Fine art I am a graphic artist that is passionate about starting creative ventures that expand his network. I've worked every bit an art teacher, pb editor, brand developer, illustrator, digital artist, and at present CEO. I'k no stranger to trying new things, flexing my comfort zone, and actualizing my ambitions. In 2019, I started a clothing brand chosen Tjers to expand my creativity still again. The genesis of this new chapter in my life has immune me to make many products, including t-shirts, mugs, hats, and more than. My passion for creating has been ignited 10 fold equally I have built an online network of 37k with the launch of his second business featuring trendy products.
	Korie Pickett (Noblesville) Interdisciplinary I describe myself every bit an overall creative committed to creative movements that save lives. I pursue a lot of unlike mediums in my creative living journey. I created an online magazine in 2018 called Queen Spirit Magazine that showcased my photography, design, and writing abilities. In 2019, I was able to motion the magazine into a print publication. Each issue features creatives that submit their works of poetry, visual arts, storytelling, etc. in order to have an opportunity at existence published ever quarter.
	Megan Sheetz (Fort Wayne) Interdisciplinary I am a multidisciplinary visual artist working in printmaking, papermaking, and natural dyeing to create sculptural forms and installations. I utilize natural dyes and flora imagery to explore how paper sculpture and print media can exist transformed into familiar objects. Nostalgic memories of my babyhood inform my ideas: quilts decorating walls, decorative figurines and china behind glass curio doors and elaborate tile designs in the dominicus room. My formal instruction in ceramics influences how I alter apartment sheets of paper into three dimensional sculptures and installations. Printmaking, papermaking and dyeing processes permit directly influence on the paper's form, cobweb, and surface and creates a personal, paw crafted object. Working in this manner allows me to impart my own memory and experiences to invoke a sense of familiar connection with newly created sculptures.
	Sara Noë (La Porte) Literature I am an award-winning writer, lensman, and creative person. Equally an independently published author, I've enjoyed maintaining creative control over my work and applying my creative abilities to design my own covers, graphics, impress layouts, and trade. A Fallen Hero, the first novel in my fantasy series, was released in August 2018 with the sequel, Phantom's Mask, following in July 2020. Both books received the Literary Titan Gold Volume Award. Volume Iii: Blood of the Enemy is scheduled to be released in 2022. Seven books are planned for the series. My artwork "The Raven" and "Dapple Greyness" are currently on display in the Uptown Arts district of Michigan City, and my photography has been featured on the cover of a literary journal. Several of my poems are bachelor in the Indiana Poetry Archive. I love searching for magic and transporting people to new worlds through my various forms of art whether I'm telling a story with words, a charcoal pencil, or a camera lens.
	Manon Vocalism (Indianapolis) Poetry/Spoken Word I am a poet and spoken word artist, using my writing and operation as a medium for social practise. Much of my work confronts social justice issues such as homelessness and housing, mass incarceration, law brutality, sexism, racism, and discrimination of marginalized populations. However, as much as I see my own work equally a form of activism, information technology is too a courageous endeavor at beauty making, which I also see every bit revolutionary. In this spirit, I besides write and create work that illuminates the dignity of the man life force. Ultimately, I consider the ethos behind my work as that of existence a poetic documentarian; exploring the intersections of our past, present, and future selves, while underscoring the possibilities of our astounding human potential and chapters. I am interested in exploring and interpreting both the silent and outspoken features of our social language, in a discovery of what makes united states nigh and securely human. I seek to use my art and activism to create a communal space where dialogue, transformation, discovery, and inspiration can occur.
	Ira Mallory (Indianapolis) Videography I am a film managing director, writer, and producer. In December of 2019 I released my highly predictable Hanukkah flick, The Dreidel on irafilms.com and YouTube. The goal of the film was to nowadays an educational, emotional, and entertaining piece while highlighting the presence of Jews of African descent. My nowadays goal is to go along this work and push for greater visibility within and outside of the Jewish community. This vision of greater visibility of Jews of African descent aligns with groups like Jews of Colour, Kulanu, and many others.
	Allison Ballard (Fort Wayne) Music I am the founding director of Fort Wayne Taiko, the first performing taiko group in Indiana which began in 2000 as a program of the Fort Wayne Trip the light fantastic toe Commonage. During 2019, I finished writing a one-woman show that tells the story of how (and why!) Fort Wayne Taiko was born. This biomythography portrays my healing journey from a dissociative disorder and the important function taiko drumming and the expressive arts played in my recovery. Using the transformative powers of love, anger, forgiveness, humor, a good therapist, and empty whiskey barrels, I created Fort Wayne Taiko equally a coping mechanism for challenging emotions, every bit a salubrious outlet for artistic self-expression, and equally a manner to connect to cocky, others, and my community.
	Idris Busari (Goshen) Music I am an contained singer-songwriter in the Afrofusion sub-genre. I have been writing songs since 1999. I released my offset serious musical work for global distribution in concrete and digital form on the 22nd of January, 2009. I released another trunk of work for global public consumption in April of 2011 and my latest endeavor was released over three years ago with a couple of professional crafted videos online to promote it. My last project took me back to Nigeria, Westward Africa where I worked with a seasoned music producer in my sub-genre to brand one of the best albums in that musical space.
	Micah Detweiler (Wakarusa) Music I am a percussionist striving to create engaging performances of contemporary music in spaces where this music is not typically heard. My primary work is in chamber music and solo repertoire. The goal of my work is to make contemporary music accessible and available to people who might not accept been exposed to information technology in the by. I am also a dedicated music educator. I spent four years working inside a high school and middle school as a percussion director and banana band director. I beloved being able to share the music and the technical skills that I am passionate about with the next generation of musicians.
	Julian Douglas (Bloomington) Music I facilitate community oriented rhythm experiences and compose, produce, arrange, and perform rhythmically-driven contemporary globe music. Every bit a percussionist, my influences include gimmicky and traditional music from the African diaspora, the Middle Due east, Eastern Europe, India, likewise as jazz, and new music. My vision is to create and share music that draws on the global pallet of homo music in a way that communicates something intimate and exotic, foreign, all the same familiar to a broader and more various audience. In a fourth dimension where some are talking most building walls, I seek to build bridges.
	Victoria Griswold (Indianapolis) Music I am a violinist in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and since 2014 I accept been hired by the ISO through my LLC, Concert Adventures for Early on Childhood, to design programs for the ISO Teddy Deport Series. My programs introduce immature children, ages iii-vii to music and instruments of the orchestra through story, movement, and live music. Each program uses five musicians and a narrator. I write the stories, arrange the music, and choose appropriate movements. Two of the programs have been fabricated into children's books and published through the Macy'due south Gives program.
	Susan Alterio (Valparaiso) Photography I focus mainly on nature photography and tying art with ecology. In my photography I am trying to show an organisms behavior, a landscape from a new perspective, or enlarge a small object through macrophotography to show an audience the stunning details of the everyday life that surrounds the states. Photography is meant to exist shared, and I try to do this in a mode that is easily attainable to a wide variety of people, both online and in person.
	Tony Vasquez (Columbus) Photography I photo mainly compages, concerts, events, and portraits. I have been working on an art series for several years entitled Nocturnal Luminosity, which includes both medium format film and digital long exposures of the urban landscape that I explore at dark time. The series of artwork endeavors to find and capture the dynamic nature of light in the darkness. These photographs are my observations of the nighttime and take become my escape from the trivialities of the day. They are studies of how fourth dimension can manipulate the light captured and the way it alters one'southward perception of these environments. I am awed by the way the nocturnal hours can be nonetheless and eerie and silent, yet at the same time, they can be full of sounds and placidity. Shooting public spaces during the nighttime leaves them feeling void and tranquil every bit nature acts upon them instead of people. The darkness tin appear as a distorted reality where one is surrounded by mysterious dazzler. In the process, I employ long exposures to distort the colors and shapes of the light that creates and defines empty infinite. The resulting color palette draws ane into these surreal environments. It's inviting quality is contrasted by the starkness of the space and the sensation of being alone. These images are steeped in an aureola of mystery, beauty, serenity, and isolation.
	Leonard White (Indianapolis) Photography I intend to create that empowers Blackness communities in the U.s. and abroad. I create photographic art of African cultures, giving me the ability to bridge cultural boundaries that have separated Black Americans from their bequeathed lands across the Ocean. I have a potent want to depict the forcefulness of Black women in my art, working to employ the Black female form as the center of political statements in a society that typically leaves them out of conversations on race, class, and feminism. I believe women should be heard especially on matters concerning their own bodies, and to help this, the women dictate how they would like to exist seen in their photoshoots, allowing them to create their own stories and allegories that create a new myth of black womanhood and all of the history and potential that that embodies.
	Evren Wilder Elliot (Indianapolis) Improvisational Theatre Using theatrical play and kinetic exercise, I facilitate workshops for trans people. These workshops involve yoga and improvisational play, and heavily draw from techniques in Boal's Theatre of The Oppressed. As a Trans person, I know that safe space is vital to our communities in order to pursue health, and these workshops help to examine who nosotros are within our own bodies and how those bodies are impacted by systems of oppression - and what we tin can do to claim our ability within those systems.
	Kimberly Janelle (Indianapolis) Modeling/Theatre I am a impress and commercial model, playwright, director, vocalizer and actor. I am the CEO and owner of Kimberly Janelle Inc. (KJI), the parent company for KJI Establish for the Arts, a not-profit system which serves as the training ground where immature people can champion their skills in interim, trip the light fantastic, modeling, vocal instruction, and more; and the newly formed KJI Talent Bureau, which serves as a span between the young, trained artists and opportunities that are in the industry. I began to see my gift of guidance with the youth during my time working in the schoolhouse system and, equally a issue, I became a Certified Life Coach.
	Susan Atwell (La Porte) Textiles I am a cloth artist. For the past two years I take been focused creating one-of-a-kind and limited edition paw-spun and dyed yarns. I intend to continue to create, develop and market place my new products. Creating i-of-a-kind hand-dyed and mitt-spun yarns has really sharpened my cognition of various fiber types, dye combinations and the creative possibilities of working with a big range of materials. I have worked with spinning on a small scale, experimenting with dissimilar processing approaches incorporating various materials, colors, and combinations.
	Kay Bae (Carmel) Visual Art I am midwest-based creative exploring organic, deeply textured, and frail beauty while drawing inspiration from Eastern and Western cultures. My inventiveness is fueled by the beauty of lines, shapes, colors, and space in both the natural and manmade world. Almost of my work can exist characterized past its linear rhythm, dynamic motion, and employ of varied materials that, along with vibrant colors, create assuming compositions. Something I observe that distinguishes my fine art is the attention paid to time, color, and methodology. Considering of my wide-ranging interests, my work explores a number of mediums including acrylic, oil, watercolor, silk painting, collage, mixed media, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, sewing, crochet, and felting.
	Boxx the Artist (Indianapolis) Visual Art I'grand a cocky taught artist, painter, body painter, instructor, and all around creative. My visual artwork uses acrylic, digital, and mixed mediums to capture different elements of blackness from by African civilizations to current day African American Culture. With this potent sense of influence from the African diaspora, it is used as an element to accost electric current social bug, social climates, religion, sexuality, politics, torso image, and more. Although I employ people of color/people of African descent in imagery, information technology is cross cultural and offers perspectives open to interpretation. I focus mainly on people and experiences, and often use black and brown faces to document history as I come across it existence created. People are used as metaphors to address relevant social issues and create a dialogue for change.
	Joshua Bronaugh (Evansville) Visual Fine art I use representational painting to explore the manner i senses, understands, and translates the presence of another person in space and fourth dimension. Portraiture and figurative painting is necessarily interested in identity. I utilize the process of painting to contemplate the psyche of some other person. Works of art, for me, become a prolonged meditation on the power to aspect mental states (beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge, etc.) to the subject, and to understand the subject's perspectives in contrast to my own. My current torso of work, which will, ultimately, consist of dozens of paintings of ane individual, thus accentuating the sympathetic exploration of identity. Instead of because narrative as a literary device (with iconography, etc.), I am interested in the narrative of the structure of a painting. I spend months carefully building the structure of a painting, e.thousand., re-measuring, rebuilding, sometimes even deconstructing several weeks or months-worth of work in order to find a more than honest representation.
	Paige Kissinger (Sellersburg) Glass I am glass artist with a broad range of skills including kiln formed, slumped, and fused techniques. Warm worked glass is my most desired artist expression. I have completed pocket-size to large installations. I've worked with residential and corporate clients. Residential projects include glass vessel sinks, shower enclosures, countertops, lighting, entry doors, side lights, division walls, and artwork. Commercial projects include effects; fountains; glazed walls; lighting; handrails; and big scaled artwork in hospitals, libraries, schools, churches, and corporations. Since beginning my personal studio, I've focused on gallery exhibitions. These smaller scaled pieces feature saturated color through fusion or layered mediums of wood, watercolor, and clear textured plate glass. I'm inspired to create a trunk of work, not only an aesthetic slice but a slice which unites the client to a sentiment, memory or theme. My artwork encompasses movement, calorie-free, and vibrant color.
	Tanya Kryder (Waterloo) Visual Fine art I am a whimsically dark, surreal, constructed reality artist. My piece of work is emotionally charged as I create images dealing with my ain healing, mortality, female empowerment, and the night side of the human status. I too work with alternative processes, traditional darkroom, and experimental photography. Many times, all of my creative processes layer upward to create one work. For example, I volition create a work in the digital darkroom with the intention of moving information technology to the traditional darkroom or vise versa.
	Toni Ridgway-Woodall (Roachdale) Visual Art My most well-known works explore the way various factors contribute to (wo)man's perception of the natural world, and the way our brains answer to places past building an emotional connection through memory. I continue to build my overall body of (private) work based on this theme considering of my experiences growing upward in a time of major environmental and technological chances, likewise equally my connections to nature through my rural community. Historically, I am inspired by the classical sculpture, abstract expressionist movement, and Medieval/Renaissance engravers and book binders. My current body of work draws attention to social and cultural issues that are repeated time and time again throughout history. My choice of mediums varies because I am seeking to share information through storytelling more then than emphasizing a specific material. I repeatedly create fine art based in Volume Arts techniques/processes (papermaking, printmaking, bindings, etc.), various forms of metal smithing (bronze, copper, etc.), and rethinking and reusing recycled materials.
	Christina Robinson (Evansville) Visual Art I work intuitively and introspectively and take much care in creating my fine art. What I create is the result of a continual striving for personal growth likewise as a attain for a way to establish a artistic career. My hope is that my piece of work tin can be both visually pleasing as well as inspirational to those who view it. I currently work in a multifariousness of mediums and dearest to explore new ways of expressing myself. I take experienced transformative benefits by allowing myself to create in a diversity of means without restraining myself to i particular medium or style. My hope is that one day I can find a way to share with others what I take learned so they may benefit in their own personal way.
	Rachel Speer (Tipton) Visual Fine art The main body of my piece of work is abstract and explores such topics as nature, spirituality, and individuality. I do this through the expressive means of colour, marking-making, and movement. My main art medium is printmaking, more specifically monotype printing. Each monoprint offers upwardly a view into my emotional, internal states at the time they were produced. So in a way, each monoprint is a nontraditional cocky-portrait, but besides has links to external forces that make upwardly the globe and which we are all intrinsically a function of, like nature or spirit.
	Zachary Will (Evansville) Metal I mainly specialize in creating unique custom-made metallic art pieces for indoor decor every bit well every bit outdoor. I have had nigh iv-5 years of continual experience with all shapes and sizes of metal artwork from miniature art show pieces, to indoor and outdoor Christmas ornaments, trophies, decorative pieces, and even big outdoor structures as function of landscape designs and outdoor furniture pieces.
	Sarah Wolfe (Vincennes) Visual Art I am fascinated with anatomical drawings, specifically the heart, and am exploring medical and anatomical drawings opportunities with a local concrete therapist who is looking for an artistic bend to their social media posts. I likewise create sculptural pieces that reflect on the fragile nature of our environs and fertility. These seemingly disparate works allow me to speak from both sides of my creative mouth; the sculptural pieces fulfill a need to create a domicile, over and over, and continue it prophylactic for whomever may reside there. The anatomical drawings are role of a long reaching series (over the last five years, I have drawn close to 60 hearts in diverse media). Nosotros ascribe great emotional ability and vision to our emotional hearts, and these pieces often intersect those moments of feeling heart heavy, lighthearted or weary. Some are bright and joyful, prepare to spring out and hug you; others withdraw and shelter in identify.

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	Angie Andriot (New Albany) Visual Arts Instagram: @angieandriot My fine art is about connecting to Spirit. Information technology evokes a whimsical yet wistful approach to looking at the world. My goal as an creative person is to assistance people uncover reality by integrating what you come across with what you perceive – to find that sacred space where field of study and object unite. I co-pb a creative, contemplative community chosen Limen Place, where I teach art as a spiritual exercise.
	Brian Hitselberger (Lafayette) Visual Arts Instagram: @brianhitsstudio I movement between making paintings, works on newspaper, wall-based installations and artist books. Time, magic, distance, and the night sky are some of the most enduring subjects and themes in my projects. I am interested in reimagining the challenges of making art as opportunities and program to explore these concepts in a book project.
	Cortlan Waters Bartley (Jeffersonville) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @ceedoubleubee I am a mitt lettering artist and calligrapher who works across a variety of mediums from traditional pen and ink to pigment, chalk, and digital media. Taking inspiration from my own lived experience, pop culture, and everyday joys, my pieces often reverberate elements of those themes through integrated pattern, and occasionally photography.
	Madelyn Copperwaite (Floyds Knobs) Design I am a graphic designer who loves all things branding, including logo pattern and advertising. Inventiveness and expressing myself though art, both with digital work and through print medium, is what motivates me. I enjoy being surrounded by other creative people in an environs that allows for a great deal of teamwork and collaboration with others of varying specializations.
	John Hickerson (Jeffersonville) Media Arts Instagram: @millennialproductions1 I am a videographer working on a project to educate the local population about some of the great events that happened locally but have helped shape our nation and society. As a blackness homo who grew up in and around Jeffersonville, I have a strong connection to the places and people that make upward the diversity of this region. Offer a home-grown and youthful all the same historically accurate presentation of events, people, and place volition assistance foster a better understanding of the role black Hoosiers have played in our broader history.
	Jaime Immature Irvin (New Albany) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @The_king_512 I am a Dramatist. Though my roots are fully in theatre and acting, I also work in video production. My fourth dimension is divided between a product company, writing, producing, directing, and editing. I co-own Closecall Amusement, where I am the chief editor and writer. I accept also worked as a "teaching producer", meaning I work on video projects with creators new to filmmaking everything they need to know to get projects off the ground with modest budgets.
	Kris Lasher (Ferdinand) Music Writing original songs and monologues for a fully produced stage show, composing a collection of lullabies for adults, establishing an arts and environmental instruction organisation called Projection ACORN, and managing the bakery for the Sisters of St. Bridegroom are only some the experiences and results of my artistic practice. Music is my chief medium, only I include writing and customs organizing on my listing as well.
	ShiFen Liu (Indianapolis) Visual Arts I explore genuine feeling or emotion deep in a person. I employ that emotion to help myself make fine art. My trunk of work deals with gender problems, feminism, materialism, health, and human rights. To conduct out research, I have worked in retail stores and observed shopping behaviors. Virtually of my work is created in the field. These sketches and drawings made on the get, help me make sense of how the globe functions.
	Katherine Magalski (Brookville) Crafts The process of creating objects by hand has fascinated me since childhood. The objects I make are the result of contemplation, memories, and separation from our materialistic society. My materials and media include ceramics, fiber mix media, and wood. I have been education myself how to macrame and wrap stone and ceramic pendants with the goal of selling jewelry and functional pottery.
	Valerie Milholland (Sellersburg) Interdisciplinary I envision a retail/class space to accept and sort art supply donations to redistribute through sales, classes, kits, and coordination with schools and community organizations. Currently, I run small, pop up experiences with upwards-cycled tie dye at craft shows. My envisioned expansion would create jobs and an outlet for fine art supply hoarders emerge from their stuffed closets and upwards-cycle their supplies.
	Tahj Mullins (New Albany) Design Arts Instagram: @thewizardof_art My main artistic work is animation, character pattern, analogy, and graphic design. I animate videos for tape labels, write and illustrate children's books, and freelance with the urban center of New Albany as a graphic designer.
	Skye Studebaker Nicholson (Columbus) Literature Instagram: @souls.truth.coaching I write poetry and personal essays. For me, poetry is an intimate exchange between the reader and the words – sometimes at that place is chemical science and sometimes in that location isn't. I am working with an illustrator to collaborate on a self-published collection of poems framed around my personal recovery journey titledAlchemy. The book uses the metaphor of alchemical transmutation to tell my story of transformation through poetic verse.
	Sam Rosenburg (Bloomington) Music Instagram: @mistergoblin66 I am musician currently performing under the moniker Mister Goblin and have released multiple albums on the NY-based label Exploding in Audio records. Over the grade of my career in music, I have been fortunate to tour the USA and Europe and my work has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. I am currently working on a very ambitious full-length project to exist recorded in Chicago, produced by Bartees Strange.
	Julia Youngblood (Floyds Knobs) Visual Arts Instagram: @j.youngblood.arts I am a visual artist with undergraduate and graduate degrees in photography, and breezy painting mentorship by folk artist and sculptor LaVon Williams and painter Sue Terry Driskell. My acrylic paintings are created in lightweight wood boards. My subjects include landscape, portraits, healing mandalas and symbols. Through painting I explore my spiritual relationship to the land and topics such as voter suppression, honoring LGBTQIA+, the pandemic, The Red Dress Motion for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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	Dan Alexander (Bloomington) Painting Instagram: @beetlegraphix I am a visual artists working in mediums such every bit watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pen and ink, digital media, and occasionally sculpture to create portraits, caricatures, and illustrations. I work traditionally and digitally; in forepart of viewers and in private. I relish instruction and sharing my noesis with other artists and contributing to the local Bloomington arts community.
	Dusty Baker (Salem) Literature Instagram: @permielove My primary creative piece of work is a collection of stream of consciousness writings resulting in poesy. Each writing occurs in a historically pregnant location within Washington County, and flows from items, people, activities, etc., tying human being interactions to inert objects. While my verse is historical fiction, information technology is strongly influenced by historical facts.
	Sharon Bonner (Indianapolis) Painting Instagram: @slbonner260 I create abstract florals and abstract art using acrylic paint. My piece of work is being sold in shops in Muncie and Beech Grove, Indiana. I am a member of the Eastside Art Commonage and am working to make the Eastside of Indianapolis a bright spot of artistic endeavors. I am a blackness woman who loves to paint nature and I want to amplify the artistic voices of others like me.
	Janet Chilton (Carmel) Visual Arts Instagram: @chilton.janet Painting is my most successful studio art. While I had my studio at the Stutz in Indianapolis I painted large-scale, expressive piece of work that drew on my life-long study of colour. I also created a series of expressive drawings set to music using Sumi ink and brushes of my own design. Several of my paintings from that era are in private and commercial collections. Currently, I am attempting to bring my skills (maker, educator, customs facilitator and small business concern possessor) together to create a practical business model that volition sustain me.
	Lisa Dodson (Martinsville) Mixed Media Facebook I create everything from mugs to big planters and urns. My medium consists of both stoneware and porcelain clays with a variety of glazes. I fire with wood and inject soda ash at the end to both create a unique finish besides equally an additional flux. Recently I accept also been working around a concept linked to the consequences of drug addiction in pocket-sized rural towns. These vessels are less functional and focus more on a narrative.
	Krista Hall (Jasper) Media Arts Instagram: @kristahallphoto Facebook I am a storyteller. I accept been a working documentary photographer since 2008 and have been teaching myself documentary filmmaking of the terminal ii years. Two years ago, I discovered documentary family films and cruel in beloved with this grade of storytelling. My work entails spending four hours with a family unit and documenting their life, details of their children, some of their favorite family unit activities, things that volition change over the next twelvemonth. Information technology is my goal to capture all the love in a family and preserve it so they can relive it over and over.
	Ursula Curiosa (Evansville) Interdisciplinary Facebook My main creative work is a corpus of paintings, sculptures, diverse crafts, some photography, editing, and essays. My arts and crafts experience includes origami, kirigami, fabricated-to-order paper notebooks, and macrame creations. I have likewise had the laurels of facilitating the creative art of writing at Women'southward Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan through the Prison house Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
	Brick Kyle (Bloomington) Photographer Instagram: @heybrickkyle I am a cocky-taught portrait and still life photographer, capturing the magic of the ordinary through light and color. I arrange still lifes that are an observation of obsessions arising out the pandemic. My portraiture is an evolving trunk of work that focuses on capturing the color and character of artists and performers in the queer community. Using elevate equally a vehicle to capture hidden personas, these intimate portraits are a result of collaborative and playful studio sessions.
	Justine Scott Lemon (Anderson) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @C00lbutrude I use creation as a style to fight for my own health likewise as the dazzler in the globe that is institute in the truth of each artistic expression. I am an interdisciplinary artist working in mediums including painting, cartoon, sculpture, writing, photography, murals, and more than. A bulk of my fine art is meditative, wistful and healing for me, my partner, and my 2 young children.
	Tanner Lemon (Anderson) Painting Instagram: @tanrlemn I am a primarily self-taught portrait artist working in graphic design, acrylic, and oil. When you look at someone, you can but gather a small corporeality of information about that person. I endeavour to paint the rest of the information. How does that person feel of a daily basis? Where have they been? Where are they going?0.
	Georgiya Mitchell (Bloomington) Wearable Art Instagram: @gigi.mitchell.usa I brand wearable art: unique garments, accessories, and jewelry. Every bit an environmentally witting designer, I have adult a technique for upcycling yarn past unwinding industrial knitted garments that I austerity. I so re-knit the upcycled yarn into my own designs. My dream is to notice a balance where I continue to explore and grow equally an artist while also developing skills in marketing and distributing my fine art.
	Matt Ramsey (Vincennes) Photography Instagram: @matt.ramsey.photograph My electric current work is in scenic and landscape photography, with an accent toward the rural or agronomical scene. I produce, present, and sell my photographs in impress products ranging from calendars to signed express edition prints on art papers. I aspire to produce thoughtful work that challenges the popular conceptions of landscape photography as reserved for the grand generic vista, and as unsuitable to chatty expression.
	Zach Roy (Palmyra) Woodworking Instagram: @zachariah_roy_northspoon I am a green wood worker specializing in wooden spoons and other cooking/home utensils. The wood is gathered sustainably from the forest without power tools. I then carve functional items for the home using an axe, pocketknife, and saw. Based on Scandinavian sloyd techniques, I take inspiration from cultures effectually the world and add them into the usable crafts I create. When the items we utilise are meaningful, hand crafted, applied, and beautiful, it brings a beauty to common tasks in a profound way.
	Mitchell Schuring (Bedford) Graphic Pattern/ Muralist Instagram: @metabyte_ I am a freelance graphic designer and muralist. I blueprint everything from logos, promotional items and illustrations, to large-scale murals and street fine art pieces. I as well blueprint and print/embroider hats and clothes. My goal is to transition into street art total-time and make art accessible to as many people as possible.
	Jennasen Snyder (Indianapolis) Music Instagram: @jennasen.music I am a composer and performing musician. I lead several different musical projects/bands. I write songs and lyrics, collaborate with other musicians, and handle the business organization and creative aspects of these projects. Nearly recently, I recorded a total-length pop stone album for children and families. I am also diving into creating audio recordings in Digital Sound Workstations and have begun training every bit a mix engineer at a local studio.
	Sarah Spomer (Bloomington) Mixed Media Facebook My graduate work explored the synthesis of psychology and art to describe the complexities of navigating difficult mental states. I integrated drawing and metalsmithing and used texture as a representation of intense emotions. I sought to create highly gestural work that communicates the experience of processing these emotions and using fine art as a catalyst for mental clarity. My goal is to push button these textures and gestures into new contexts and figuring out how to adapt these highly conceptual works for a broader audience.
	Amanda Webb (Ninevah) Music Instagram: @AmandaWebbBand I am a singer/songwriter/bandleader working in Southward Primal Indiana and Northern Kentucky. I write and record original music using a blend of styles such as blues, pop, country, and rock. My band has competed in the International Dejection Claiming which required u.s. to dig deeply into the preservation of the dejection genre. There are very few women bandleaders, and, at 45 years one-time, I bring a uniquely singled-out perspective to the music industry.

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	Raymar Brunson (Gary) Media Arts Instagram: @iambrunson My main creative work is videography/cinematography. I currently shoot music videos and short films with a Canon DSLR in Gary, IN. I edit all of my work with Adobe Premier Pro on an Apple tree estimator. When a project comes along, I spend a lot of fourth dimension with the client trying to plan out what we're creating together. Whenever I work on a project, no matter how small, I e'er put my dearest of cinema into it.
	Terry Chouinard (Gary) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @terrencechouinard A blend of street and documentary photography is the current focus of my personal do. I am also a bookwright – a craftsman skilled in a wide range of book arts, e.g., calligraphy, typography, printing, papermaking, binding, etc. A bookwright non just designs books but builds books. I am hired by clients such as publishers and schools for my design sensibility, level of craftsmanship, program blueprint, and system design.
	Martin Clinch (Indianapolis) Visual Arts Instagram: @memento.marty I am a narrative and sequential artist, working primarily in 2-dimensional work, both traditional media and digital media. Recurring themes in my work are the intersection between the supernatural and the mundane, and creating empathy for monstrous and outsider subjects. My goals are to publish several serial of sci-fi and fantasy comics/sequential art projects, illustrate for writers whose piece of work I love, and educate and give admission to publishing and printing for other artists with narrative work.
	McKenya Dilworth (Gary) Theatre Instagram: @mckenyadilworth My main creative work is rooted in writing plays and performative fine art. For me, the two are not separate. I write the works to be performed. Whatsoever is being explored onstage has the potential and space to be digested past both actor and audience, making courageous conversations more of a tangible possibility. I have directed internationally and was the Artist in Residence for the Black Cultural Heart at Purdue University from 2004-2006.
	Eve Eggleston (Indianapolis) Visual Arts Instagram: @art_of_eevee Teaching, apiculture, and creating – these three spheres encompass my main artistic work. My creative do has always been built-in of curiosity, and obsession with the bizarre, a desire for new experience, themes of femininity and ecological sustainability, and an aim for inclusion and agreement. My master media are graphite, pen & ink, and charcoal. I have participated in many events beyond Indianapolis, such as Masterpiece in a 24-hour interval, the Monster Drawing Rally (Newfields), Flava Fresh D. Del-Reverda-Jennings), and Indy Landscape Fest.
	Diana Ensign (Indianapolis) Literature Instagram: @dianaensign I am a author whose principal focus is spirituality, healing, personal growth, and compassion. In 2011, I created the Spirituality for Daily Living blog, which contains cogitating essays on topics relevant to all spiritual seekers. In 2013, I published my first volume, a spiritual guide with mindfulness tools for wellness. I currently publish under my ain imprint: SpiritHawk Life Publications. 2 of my books, Centre Guide and The Freedom to Exist are Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) Gold Medal Winners. With all my writings, I invite readers to delve deeper into their heart space. I believe firmly that we heal the trauma in our lives and larn more than nigh each other, we create a more loving planet.
	Jeff Hagen (Nashville) Painting Instagram: @Artbyjeffhagen My medium has been watercolor for over l years. During that half-century of painting, I accept developed a unique fashion mixing architecture, history, and whimsy to create a deep sense of identify in the Heartland. When I pigment a town, I paint both its present and past. I bring dorsum the memories of former structures and buildings that accept been torn down and weave them together into a townscape.
	Addie Hirschten (Indianapolis) Painting, Literature Instagram: @alchemy.of.art.addie.hirschten I am a botanical and impressionist painter, author, and public speaker. Teaching painting classes in my gallery, Studio Abracadabra, every bit well as online is too part of my creative exercise. I host the "Alchemy of Fine art" podcast and have authored several books includingThe Abracadabra of Art: Stories for the ClassroomandThe Alchemy of Painting: Developing Your Fashion and Purpose
	Pete Kaminski (La Porte) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @project_pk_ultra My master creative piece of work is based in volume cover design. This entails using fonts and imagery to create and express a cohesive message. My process is focused on the power of emotions and the passage of fourth dimension. I entered the graphic design field afterwards college and spent a decade in publishing. Every bit a next step, I feel ready to aggrandize into book design and writing.
	Brie Piffling (Valparaiso) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @everyangelterrifying I am a writer, editor, and publisher of collaborative zines. Perennial Magick & Poetry is a series that began in 2014 and has been published annually. My mission with any zine I publish is to include as many mediums and textures as possible. Bated from collaborative zines, I also publish my own poesy chapbooks. These are medium-length publications, usually meditating on a theme or a season of my life. I was featured in a group exhibit titled Fold, Staple, Riot! at the Indianapolis Herron Schoolhouse of Fine art. This was a groovy moment of accomplishment – not simply for me personally but for zines to be looked upon every bit the art form they are.
	Joe Rauen (Munster) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @joe_rauen I am a builder and performer of unlikely musical objects. My art blurs the lines between performance, sculpture, and design. There is ever the demand to engage the techniques of instrument building to make instruments capable of playing in tune. The instruments are visually striking in their own right. As a performer, I play many instruments together giving the effect of a strange orchestra. The performances are nearly ever interactive and attuned to the specific audition at mitt.
	Madeline Richardson (Hammond) Illustration Instagram: @smilingfeline1 I am an illustrator. I create original characters and their corresponding universe. My tonal range extends from horror to cutesy. I am likewise a designer, experienced with logos, patterns, and covers. My long-term ambitions are to sustain myself with my art and teach it to others.
	Jessica Peterson Rogers (Hammond) Literature My chief artistic work is literature, with an accent on writing and editing. I take been a web desk reporter and costless lance reporter for South Bend Tribune, WSBT-TV, and The Post Tribune. Cheers to a career pivot, I became a co-teacher at the uncomplicated and high schoolhouse level. I assist kids by breaking novels autonomously via literary criticism and interpretation so they have a articulate understanding of the text. I was published in the Gary Anthology, and during that process, I was inspired to pull together a literary mag for loftier school kids. Thus, an idea was built-in.
	Ida Short (Goshen) Folklife/Traditional Arts Instagram: @maeshorts I am a visual artist with projects ranging from custom illustration to designing and executing loftier-end letterpress prints for clients. This includes, but is non limited to, concern cards, personal stationary, and invitations. In that location is ever an element of didactics in my work because clients are very involved in the design process. I created Short Stack Printing, LLC to build a business that keeps me press, creating, and interacting with clients. I would also like to beginning a nonprofit printmaking guild in Goshen.
	Akili Sosa (Goshen) Media Arts Instagram: @aesosa I create hand-drawn animations. I am interested in the cross section of analog and digital and the exploration of line and color vs other animation principles to push the medium in a dissimilar direction. I focus on making small vignettes of everyday life and try to get out space for the audience to call up. One of my major works, The Flower Princess, premiered at the Busan International Kids and Youth Festival in South korea.
	Carmen Vincent (Chesterton) Media Arts Instagram: @CarmenVincentFilms I am a passionate freelance video editor and documentary filmmaker located in Northwest Indiana. I notice slap-up joy in editing all types of content, including documentary and narrative films, commercial videos, promotional videos, educational content, and more than. Forth with freelance video editing, I direct, produce, shoot, and edit documentary films that tell raw, oftentimes misunderstood stories. Equally a artistic with invisible disabilities, I moderate discussions virtually disability for local and national groups and organizations.

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	Max Drury (Fishers) Blueprint I am a designer at eye. Whether that means using vector graphics for a logo design, writing drafts for a novel, sculpting board games pieces, paneling comics, or leading creative teams – these are the things that become me excited to learn and work. Subsequently hundreds of hours studying the game nights of friends and family, I accept been investing time in cocky-publishing a unique lath game. This is the first footstep in a broader appetite to make a business organization that reaches young people and their families with meaningful creative content.
	Jo Gormong (Marion) Painting Instagram: @johannagormong_ I am a visual artist whose main medium is oil pigment. I piece of work with intensely lit yet life setups and am heavily based in colour theory. My work captures luminous mannequin and effigy yet life setups that I work from to create a painting that captures the colour and feeling of the setup. The aim of my work is to create an surroundings where the viewer gets lost in the visual feel of the color relationships in a painting likewise as the narrative subject affair. The blending of ane color into the next is equally much the focus of these paintings as the objects depicted in them.
	Angelita Hampton (Indianapolis) Mixed Media Instagram: @angelitahampton I am a mixed media creative person working in gimmicky expressionist and surrealist styles. I primarily treat subjects of social justice, employing imagery and text, while combining digital paint with hand-drawn paper sketches, photography, watercolors, and collage. I create art designed to challenge perceptions of race, gender, sexuality and social status though black portraiture and female figure in conjunction with popular images and ideology from American history and Black civilisation.
	Lauren Johns (Nappanee) Interior Blueprint Instagram: @laurenjohnsdesign I am pursuing a business in interior design. This involves working with clients to design homes, offices, and commercial buildings. I help design space, select finishes, furniture, and equipment to create an environment that supports and enhances each client's personal or concern goals. One of my long-term goals is to establish a design collective modeled after pattern centers found in larger cities.
	Cierra Johnson (Indianapolis) Visual Arts Instagram: @cjcrtv My work is nigh identity and the ability it has to shape our lives. It seeks to examine how nosotros define ourselves, how we relate to each other individually and how nosotros interact with our community and environment. My electric current practise is in mixed media, painting, and illustration. I brand images near the ethereal nature of man experience with a vibrant and textured look. My newest work is rooted in mythology and the feminine black experience.
	Clare Longendyke (Indianapolis) Music Instagram: @clarelongendyke My creative piece of work is rooted in classical music. I am a classical concert pianist, arts entrepreneur, educator, chamber music coach, and a mentor to artists wishing to explore the entrepreneurial aspects of their artistry. My career balances itself into 3 prongs: I am a committed and active performer, I find ways to teach audition members and my students about the history of classical music and its links to other genres, and finally I am the founder of the Music in Bloom festival and all-around go-getter.
	Jaylan Miller (Marion) Literature Instagram: @jaylanmiller I am a memoirist and journalist. I write nonfiction essays and memoirs that are centered around my experiences. My current work chronicles my life as a young woman growing up as a pastor'south child in the evangelical Christian church. I am also working on a related project which tells the story of my sister's wedding in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. I recently finished my kickoff twelvemonth of my creative writing MFA at Emerson Higher and am focusing on finishing at to the lowest degree ane full length memoir before long.
	Braxton Moore (Indianapolis) Interdisciplinary Instagram: I am a digital illustrator, visual artist, and beat-maker. I want to create synergies betwixt my visual fine art and my music. I am confident in my creative abilities, but looking to attain the next level when it comes to the business of fine art. I want to see my art in galleries, on saleable prints, and generate interest in the piece of work I take on Soundcloud.
	Eliza Mowery (Indianapolis) Painting Instagram: @elizamariestories I paint impressionist-way landscapes and lifestyle scenes, by and large with acrylic and chalk. My piece of work reminds people of play, summertime, and nostalgia. Ultimately, the mode I employ my work to connect with others is by giving them a identify to residual and feel any feelings arise while looking at my paintings. I know the need for quiet and at-home intimately, and then I use my piece of work to offer and connect with this place of at-home nosotros all need.
	Melissa Parrott Quimby (Indianapolis) Visual Art I am a contemporary visual artist concerned with topics related to nature. I emphasize the movement of shape and colour in my collages, paintings, drawings, and ceramic sculptures. The paper cut-out collages incorporate an aggregation of flat shapes using bold, vivid hues to create an arrangement of patterns and rhythm of infinite. The dirt work focuses on the utilize of monochromatic glazes emphasizing the simplicity of the form.
	Cathy Shouse (Fairmount) Literature Instagram: @cathyshouse I'm a journalist writing for Travel Indiana magazine, Glo women's magazine (Ft. Wayne) and Home Living magazine (Ft. Wayne) as well as Directions in Nursing newspaper (regional). My creative work is gimmicky romance novels that characteristic small towns and rural blazon/ranch settings, inspired by places in Indiana. I'd similar these stories to be known in the county and for people to visit the are to run into what they're reading nearly. I'k a fellow member of the National League of American Pen Women and the Romance Writers of America.
	Yeabsera Tabb (Greenfield) Visual Arts Instagram: @yeab_art I am a Social Impact Designer and Interdisciplinary Visual Creative person. My procedure includes merging design research, design thinking, and placemaking with visual arts. My current main focus has been relief woodcut prints and other printmaking processes. I love storytelling and problem solving through art and design thinking. I've held internships and fellowships in the area of creative placemaking and visual storytelling at the Harrison Center, Marion Design Co., and City of Marion'southward Arts Commission.
	Teresa Vazquez (Fort Wayne) Visual Arts Instagram: @dreamingwoke My piece of work is mainly two-dimensional fluid media works (including inks, watercolors, and diluted acrylics) that explore the imagery, characters, settings, and narratives of dreams. I consider dreamwork an integral function of my artistic work, and visual fine art to exist the perfect medium for exploring dreams. Texture, pattern, proportion and especially color, are the about of import elements of my by and large abstruse pieces on canvass, paper, Yupo, and ceramic. Working in e'er-larger scale is a creative goal, as well as producing more than commercially accessible works that showcase my artistry at more affordable toll points.

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	Matthew J Dark-brown (Fort Wayne) Interdisciplinary Instagram: @Lovedead187og I am a sculptor and musician focusing mainly on soundscapes and visual effects such equally makeup, prosthetics, lighting and video projection. Combining these forms creates a cohesive experience of visual and audio arts. I accept self-produced, recorded, engineered and performed my own music for 22 years. I am compelled to create and explore the human being condition.
	Lukas Clevenger (Marion) Tattooing Instagram: @sailor.lou I am a tattooer whose piece of work is securely rooted in the tradition of American Tattooing, drawing from Americana, European, and tribal folk art. My process often begins with reference images of old folk art, paintings, ceramics, textiles, etc. I am e'er learning and striving to create unique designs with a potent 2nd layout, contrast, and elementary color pallet. Aside from tattooing self-devised designs, I likewise offer custom work based on customer requests.
	Isaac Benjamin Dees (Fort Wayne) Interdisciplinary My main creative practise is artistic writing, including, but not limited to, songwriting and spoken piece of work poetry. I also organize cultural events, including music, spoken word operation, and culinary arts. As the events continue, the types of art forms included will expand. I want to facilitate space for artists to remember, work, and create together.
	Drew Fletcher (Huntington) Visual Arts Instagram: @malena.fletcher My master creative work is graffiti and modernistic fine art influenced paintings that contain urban and street art methods. I take worked in large and small-scale calibration. I complete paintings in layers with graffiti mode backgrounds and drippings every bit underlay before the full image is created using acrylic paint, watercolor, sharpie, paint markers and pastels. I besides experiment with collaging recycled papers and the use of crayons in paintings to create urban portraits.
	Em Guerrero (Fort Wayne) Folklife/Traditional Arts I am a storyteller, workshop facilitator and installation folk creative person of Mexica ethnic ancestry. My fine art embodies my bequeathed traditions and contemporary Latinx symbols to encourage and inspire audiences to aggrandize their cognition of various cultures. The arts are an essential function of a universal linguistic communication which tin joyfully bring people together.
	Curtis Jarrett (Huntington) Painting As an artist, I practise large scale oil painting that has been described as "graphic surrealism". I have shown my work all around the Midwest. I want people to bask my piece of work and be able to afford its value.
	Audrey Johnson (Lafayette) Music @audrey.elizabeth.johnson I am a classically trained opera singer, and I bring American heritage to life through music. My mission is connecting audiences with American vocal to inspire positive, inclusive patriotism and engaged citizenship through my company, Of Thee I Sing: American Heritage Through Song. I curate, create, and perform solo song one-woman shows that focus on specific events and time periods of American history.
	Sunday Mahaja (Goshen) Sculpture Instagram: @Mahaja_arts I am a creator that works with discarded metals to limited beauty, humor, and functionality. My work tells a story and brings imaginations and dreams into reality. I started welding during college, and subsequently graduating, I went back to school to written report TIG and MIG welding. I am certified through the American Welding Association. I work in discarded metals to give new life to discarded materials and reduce the amount of metallic that ends up in landfills.
	Rhonda Newsome (Richmond) Wear Art Instagram: @sky_and_earth_studio I am a self-taught metalsmith and artist. My materials include metals, clay, gemstones, enamels, and paints. I make wearable and functional fine art, including jewelry, ceramics and metal objects. Jewelry is intensely personal – what we choose to adorn ourselves with is very intuitive and special. I love existence part of that. I love creating things that speak to others; jewelry that will be treasured, given to a loved one, passed on, or kept equally a reminder of a good retention
	Sarah Schwab (Huntington) Interdisciplinary @Artloversarah Mainly I work with sewing and fiber arts, jewelry making, newspaper mache, painting, pottery, and a variety of other crafts at Pathfinder Services Creative Arts Studios. I also teach and coach individuals with disabilities. Creating ceramic pieces and collaborative watercolor and acrylic works are besides current pursuits. I desire to use arts business tools for my personal practice likewise equally for professional person development when assisting individuals with disabilities in pricing their work and gain a sense of independence.
	Abby Schwantz (Fort Wayne) Visual Arts @getstitchesembroidery My primary artistic focus is photography, marketing/graphic design, embroidery, and jewelry making. In 2019, I started embroidery on a variety of items, including hoops, clothes, bags, etc. I like making custom projects above anything else. Making something that someone has specifically asked for and helping them bring a vision to life is the nigh fulfilling function of making my art.
	Janelle Sloan (Pleasant Lake) Ceramics Instagram: @relic.emporium I own and operate a community art studio in Angola, Indiana. The focus is clay, including; cycle throwing, tile making, and paw-building. I too piece of work in a night room for blackness and white photography, and brand jewelry, pigment, screen impress, silhouettes, batik, drawing, lino cutting, macrame, and more. I offering classes to the public in all forms of these disciplines. My passion is creating handmade tile installations, as well as custom creations.