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Jenny Fields is a full time fiber artist currently completing her Master Spinner's Certification. Her work is a marriage of formal fiber craft and punk rock rebellion. Local farms supply Jenny with raw wool, which she scours, hand-dyes, hand-cards, and spins by hand into beautiful yarns. These yarns are knitted, crocheted, sewn, and felted to create truly unique accessories. Her inspirations include pop-culture, the Burning Man Festival, the natural world, and a deep love of giving others warmth and comfort. |
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Shanna Fliegel is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY where she teaches both children and adult ceramic classes, while maintaining an active studio practice. Her current work explores interactions between animals and humans in a narrative context on a variety of ceramic forms. Vessel forms such as cups, platters, jars, and bottles possess a strong predisposition to carry the narrative quality of the images by virtue of their functionality, tactility, and dimensionality. The role of function in this case allows a more intimate and active involvement to develop with the drawings, helping to acquaint the user with the images overtime with each use. |
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Susan Katz's love of the natural world sparks her need to create, and provides impetus for her poetry as well as jewelry designs. Her house in Litchfield County is filled with stones and shells collected from ocean shores and mountain tops. She revels in their shapes, textures, colors and combines them in ways that celebrate "the immense beauty of nature." |
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Owen Sea Luckey (Branford, CT) is an artist, mother, fabric designer, knitter, seamstress, visual merchandiser, freelance decorator, fabric junky, color collector and pattern/texture crazy who also loves to bake. Her unique work pushes the boundaries of knitting and sewing, with holes, soft textures, and embellishments, while keeping the integrity of each piece. |
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Kristin Merrill's passion is creating beautiful things out of natural materials. Her jewelry and sculpture are the result of a life long search for treasures to use to create her work. She feels she is especially connected to the sea, in both a literal and a psychic sense. Merrill invites viewers to see her work, as only each individual can; touch it; and adore it, "for yourself and generations to come." All of her work is produced in single or limited editions, and she welcomes special requests "as long as I can make the metal or the wood smolder with my spirit." |
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Irene Miller discovered her passion for monotype printmaking after a career as a professional potter. Her background in pottery and the marks she made on her ceramics continue to influence the shape and design of her monotypes and mixed media works on paper. Her works are on the whole non-representational but straddle the line between realism and abstraction, and are a result of constant experimentation with textures, layers and lines and their interaction on paper. She incorporates photos and documents that have long been part of her life and surroundings. She is also interested in how mark-making, in its abstract nature, is able to communicate the excitement she feels in composing her work. |
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For many years, Gina Poppe worked with stained and leaded glass, teaching and creating commissioned stained glass windows. She taught herself fused glass techniques, and now concentrates on this method for creating vessels, bowls and plates. |
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Since the 1990's Diane Wright's focus has been on fabric of all kinds, either hand or machine stitched and often embellished with beads, fiber "shards" or found bits. Having lived for several years in Japan and Australia and eight different states in the U.S, her work is greatly affected by the diversity of culture and landscape and is noted for its use of color, original design and the variety of fabrics whether commercial, foreign, hand painted or vintage. She lives and works in Guilford, CT and is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Connecticut Women Artists, and Sisters in Cloth. |
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Kristina Zallinger, of Hamden, comes from a family of artists (her father, Rudolph Zallinger, painted the dinosaur and mammal murals at Yale's Peabody Museum, and her mother was a book illustrator), and made art from her youngest years. Following art school, she moved to Montana, and eventually stopped painting to earn a living as a graphics illustrator. Her love of color and texture emerged when she returned to painting in 2007, following a long struggle with what was only recently diagnosed as bipolar illness. "As I slowly, but consistently became 'stronger,' I found the inclination and the joy of creating," Zallinger says. "I am very happy and my work shows it. I'm finally free enough to do my art. There are no more hospitalizations. I am shouting that from the rooftops!" |
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