Mixed Media-3D

Birdie McBride

Wabasha, MN

© Birdie McBride

Lake Superior Drift Co

https://www.lakesuperiordriftco.com

2023 Booth #

Using hand-picked Lake Superior driftwood, stones, birch bark, and other found objects, I create assemblages that immortalize nature in all sizes and price points. Wall sculpts (starbursts) are created using a combination of fasteners and industrial-strength glues. Mobiles are strung with stainless steel wire, marine grade o-rings and a variety of semi-precious stones, glass, and ceramic beads. Mosaics include driftwood, mosses, stone, sand and other found objects.



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Brianna Rozmenoski

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Roz Custom

© Brianna Rozmenoski

Black River Falls WI

https://rozcustom.com

2023 Booth #36

After selecting each piece of hardwood stock, this is milled down into strips of different thicknesses in order to give the piece a 3D effect. The wood is then cut into various shapes and sanded. Paint or stain are then applied to each shape prior to putting the piece together. Each shape is then adhered to a backer with wood glue. After the edges are trimmed down, the piece is then ready to be framed and finished.


Hill Brin

Cotopaxi, CO

2020 Booth

© Hill Brin

© Hill Brin

Steel is fabricated using benders, welder and plasma cutter. Every piece is hand cut. once the steel is welded together, we inlay tiles which are created using clay, resin and our own 15 colors of glaze. Multiple firings create these unique tiles. Once completed, the tiles are cut and inlayed into the steel. The tiles are then grouted and sealed. The metal is then patina'd.

Chris Cumbie

© Chris Cumbie

© Chris Cumbie

2021 Booth

Broken tape measures. Animal bones. Rusted metal and tin. Piano keys. Spindles from broken chairs. Any and all old wood I can get my hands on. I turn these discarded objects into art. My mixed-media art is created using the techniques of hand carving, painting, welding, assemblage, sculpting and pyrography. I attempt to bring different genres and mediums into one piece, by recycling, recreating, refinishing and redesigning ordinary objects and old materials to give them new life as art. By rescuing other people’s “junk,” I try not to just make art, but also to preserve little pieces of history.
Detailed sketching gives me the structure and motion I need to get started.
I find inspiration in objects and build ideas from shape, design, form and color. I study art history, anatomy and the historical treatment of the materials that I use. Always experimenting with better ways to enhance definition and texture, I try to give personality and purpose to anything I work with.

Kristen Treuting

Kristen's Creations

Minneapolis MN

www.kristensgourdcreations.com

2023 Booth #94

© Kristen Treuting

I have always been drawn to the natural world for inspiration.
My fascination with gourds has been my most recent passion.
Gourds, with their earthiness and almost infinite variety of shape
and form, communicate to me and I listen…
I use a variety of techniques when making my gourd creations to include wood burning, carving, staining and embellishing them with natural objects and fibers.

Laura Burlis

Minneapolis, MN
2020 booth

I work with polymer clay, making both flat wall images and 3-D sculptures. I am known for my polymer clay switc hplates. Most viewers assume that the works are painted, but all are colors of polymer clay that I have manipulated with many techniques, including millefiori cane work; which I then cure so it becomes hard plastic. Some work is over blown out eggshells or recycled glass and metal object armatures; others incorporate found objects like driftwood and recycled materials such as 3-D formed cardboard packing inserts.

© Laura Burlis

© Laura Burlis

Stephanie Michaud

Studio Michaud
Cottage Grove, MN
2018 booth #43A

www.studiomichaud.com

The thing that drives me create is the strong desire to make others smile, laugh and be happy. Nothing is more important to me than the happiness of others and it is those things I want to elicit from people that view my unique and whimsical work. My subject matter is animals and nature and I work in clay, from earthenware to hi-fire clays, because it is so willing to move w/ the command of my hands. The movement to pushing and pulling is immediate and gratifying.

COLOR is my love so I use bright glazes as well as cold finishes, always in pursuit of bright color to celebrate the piece’s energy and happiness. I often finish pieces with glass, feathers, beads, metal, and/or horsehair to have the maximum control over expressive gestures and stylized subjects all designed to be light, bright and fun to make people smile.

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Anne Hoffman

WithanE Designs
Golden Valley, MN
2018 booth #100
www.withanedesigns.com
 

My business developed from a passion for feeding and watching birds for over 50 years, and my artistic skills and talents in working with stained glass. Creating functional birdfeeders that are a work of art is a challenge: the challenge is not the size, but designing 3-dimensional pieces that are functional for the birds and hold up to the weather, especially in Minnesota. The process is to combine functionality and strength with the beauty of glass and copper. I create all of the designs myself then cut all of the glass and copper for the birdfeeders by hand and solder with lead-free solder. Colors of glass are selected that complement each other, yet make an artistic statement in a garden.
In the past 10 years I have gotten into kiln work, creating functional bird baths among other things. Dichroic and iridized glass has always fascinated me, and I have a lot of fun turning this magical glass into outdoor pieces of art.

© Anne Hoffman

© Anne Hoffman

Becky Streeter

Maplewood MN
2021 Booth #71

www.beckystreeterart.com

Canvases are built using several different types of materials: expanding foam, pieces of wire, wine cork shavings, Amazon boxes, even a bathrobe and a “secret recipe” glue. The finished paintings often have a whimsical slant and are generally painted with bright, eye-catching colors.

© Becky Streeter

© Becky Streeter

Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and July 28, 2024

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