© Tracy Meisterheim
Stoneweaving: Spirit-Infused Earth Sculpture. Lake Superior stones are woven with black ash basket weavers, leather, waxed linen, and accented with driftwood, birch bark, and a contemplative question.
Stuart Lenz
S Lenz Metal Sculptu
Arden Hills MN
2022 Booth #49
© Stuart Lenz
Mr. Lenz does a mixture of oxy/acetylene welding and blacksmithing to create his sculptures, usually from many small pieces. This is commonly called Direct Metal Sculpting. His art reflects natural themes, often with a minimalist look and feel.
Gedion Nyanhongo
© Gedion Nyanhongo
I create my sculptures using carving techniques used for generations by the Shona people of my homeland, Zimbabwe. The style of my sculptures is of the Traditional Shona Sculpture Movement of Zimbabwe. I use many different types of stone, all of which are indigenous to Africa. I import all of the stone I use to the USA. Carved & chiseled and honed over many, many hours by myself only and completely by hand. Each piece is one of a kind.
Alex Zaves
Santa Barbara CA
2022 Booth #AZ
© Alex Zaves
Copper Kinetic wind & garden art. Each hand designed,shaped, welded, with natural patinas- of blue green with a water salt solution and the various rainbow colors that is yielded up by copper is drawn out during a heat process of around 2,000 degrees. All my copper art starts off as raw copper in long sheets that I create one at a time from cutting, shaping, welding, by hand without power tools. All my designs are created and made by me alone, I do not have any employees to help and I have been doing my artwork this way for over 40 years. My designs and sculptures are only created by me thus this becomes my signature work of art. .
Ray Zovar
McFarland WI
Zovar Fine Art
2021 Booth #75
360° Illuminated Sculptural Painting-Abstract expressionist painting on fabric using inks, dyes, paint, attached to fiberglass/resin form lit from within by remotely controlled LED lights. The result is illuminated sculptural paintings that are interactive, changing with every light change and viewer angle, allowing the viewer to personalize my art constantly.
© Ray Zovar
Tanya Allen
Avon, MN
Gourd-geous Arts
© Tanya Allen
2020 Booth
My typical process for creating my art pieces is as follows. I get my gourds from Georgia. Once I have a basic design I do a rough sketch of the overall design. The image starts on the gourd in pencil that then goes onto the gourd with a wood burner. I then make what ever cut necessary to open up the inside. I clean out & sand the inside, then paint the inside if the design warrants it. The carving is what comes next, mostly I make luminaries. I then take it into my finishing studio to dye or paint & embellish it. I use a special gourd dye for my pieces & I love to incorporate stones and gold leaf where ever it enhances the design. Finishing is a coat of poly and if it's to become a luminary it will get attached to a base. Working with gourds is a very unique process that is a combination of drawing, woodworking and other processes similar to working with clay. In fact my work gets most commonly confused as being ceramic, people are genuinely shocked when they find out it is a gourd.
Cliff Matyszczyk
Wales, WI
2020 Booth
© Cliff Matyszczyk
Metal sculpture created by cutting, heating, bending & welding steel; often adding pieces of chiseled stone. Some powder-coated in bright colors, others left to naturally oxidize over time.
Wayne Trinklein
© Wayne Trinklein
In a unique process copper wire is hand molded and fused at high temperature with tin. Then alloys are applied, reheated, and worked for texture. The tree is mounted into rock and finished with patinas, resin, and/or metal leaf.
Andre LaSalle
New Orleans LA
© Andre LaSalle
2019 Booth #101
Each sculpture is handmade from a vast assortment of discarded metals that have been salvaged and repurposed. The metal is gathered, assembled, cut, shaped, welded and forged.
Stephen Born
Minneapolis, MN
2019 Booth #110
Each original, life-sized, wall mounted sculpture, is created with 13 layers of Baltic Birch, faced with a black laminate, and finished with 6 coats of hand applied polyurethane.
© Stephen Born
Steve Nugent
Steve Nugent
Nugent Yard Art
Minnetonka, MN
2023 Booth # SN
I create copper and brass wind sculptures that move in the slightest breeze. I cut, shape and solder all of my work in my studio. All of my sculptures have bearings in them so they last and move in the breeze for years. They are meant to be outside year round and be able to handle the elements. The hanging sculptures have stainless eye hooks and caps that protect the bearings from the elements and the in ground sculptures are on sturdy steel posts that go into the ground. After fabrication each one gets a heat patina. All sculptures are individually made and signed.
© Steve Nugent
Alice Delaney
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #105
I create sculptures for the home and garden. Each piece starts as an original drawing. Depending on the size I then sculpt the piece in either wax (for small details) or clay (for a larger design) I am then able to make a mold from my sculpture and use that mold to create hand cast concrete replicas of the original. As my last step, I am able to customize a color though different stains so that each finished piece is unique.
©Alice Delaney
Julie Johnson
Feat of Clay
Blaine, MN
2018 booth #90
My sculptural work in polymer clay demonstrates proficiency with structural & surface techniques. I create 3-dimensionality in my sculptures & kaleidoscopes by building layers of clay & curing the project in stages.
My work exhibits my passion for color. I custom-blend all my clay colors for each project. During project construction, I use a variety of techniques to create unusual shapes & intriguing outcomes. A personal favorite is mokume gane (borrowed from ancient Japanese metal working) which I use to create patterns that can’t be duplicated & are uniquely mine - the outcomes are serendipitous & exciting! I believe in expanding my skills and moving in new directions; I create canes to achieve predictable patterns; cane work requires construction precision; it is labor-intensive & results in repetitive designs.
I love polymer clay because it allows me to combine it with other art media e.g., metal leaf, inks, etc., in new & as yet, undiscovered ways.
© Julie Johnson
Paul Olson
© Paul Olson
My beautiful and sensuous works are primarily done in wood. I try to make them full of movement and grace. Some of my recent works are somewhat kinetic with a horizontal piece just balanced on the main form. I want to suggest forms and feelings in an abstract way without naming them directly,
David Montague
Brooklyn Park, MN
2017 booth # 67B
Movement. Balance. Change.
I create hanging mobiles (kinetic sculpture) from stone, metal & acrylic materials in a wide range of sizes. My stone mobiles include agates, geodes & fossils; the acrylic type are available in any color. I'd like to present my work as an alternative to traditional sculpture & wall art--my mobiles utilize the frequently neglected spaces above. My sculptures interact with the viewer & the environment through endless transformations.
Please imagine my work in motion.
© David Montague
Layl McDill
Clay Squared to Infinity
Minneapolis, MN
2023 Booth # 93B
I layer colored clay to create images that are stretched and reduced from 6 inch diameter to a 1 inch diameter or smaller. Then this "millefiori cane" is sliced to reveal the miniature image. These tiny images are then combined together to create my sculptures. I also use many other clay techniques including transfer of my own drawings. Found objects, wire, glitter and other materials are also used.
© Layl McDill
Joanie Drizin
Girly Steel
Noblesville, IN
2017 booth # 119A/B
I create steel sculpture for the landscape using various welding techniques. Each piece is handmade and either left to a natural rust patina or spray painted with a high end graffiti paint.
© Joanie Drizin
Sean Corner
Sean Corner Sculptures
Wichita, KS
2023 Booth #43
Hand-built figurative earthenware clay with airbrushed underglazes and mason stains fired to cone 02.
© Sean Corner