Fall 2022 Featured Artists

Please step back and lose yourself of sensibilities. Now step back in and enjoy this world of misfitted creatures.  Marleen's love of animals, botanicals, and everything whimsical is the foundation of her clay sculptures.

https://misfitswork.com/

Dogs & Stars is small batch letterpress print shop based in Old Town  Lafayette. Run by Brian Wood, Dogs & Stars is a  hard-working studio with a focus on hand-crafted, uniquely-designed  letterpress printed ephemera. Visit Dogs & Stars on the LAUGH tour for hand-printed greeting cards and posters.

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An abstract/figurative inspired painter and muralist Catherine is currently  craving the next oversized painting. She  loves to paint BIG! - colorful  murals that lift you up and enhance the community, bold canvases that  grace the walls of trendy restaurants, and happy works of art that  elevate the good feelings in your home.

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 Tif loves to create incredibly colorful paintings with a focus on subjects that are big joy makers - animals with mesmerizing eyes, dancers, and abstracts that are full of movement. She's a colorhaulic, unapologetically. 

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All forms of art fascinate Cecil. He began his journey as an artist carving  wood and soon realized that it would be difficult to produce enough  pieces to make a living. Cecil then decided to experiment with clay. For the  next forty years he created functional and art pieces which were sold at  galleries and art shows throughout the Midwest. Now that Cecil is retired, he enjoys designing pieces that are quirky and unique.

 Cecild@centurylink.net

Kristen  Law Lewis was bitten by the bookbinding-bug in the last semester of her  undergrad Studio Art studies at University of Colorado. She’s made all  kinds of books since - founding Papercuts Press in 2005. She later  pursued artifact conservation, a second love, and earned a degree in  Museum Studies. Kristen mixes her time between bookbinding, teaching  bookbinding, and caring for museum collections.    "My work is largely driven by materials and process. I love the  challenge of physically incorporating something special into what I  make. Upcycling, repurposing, and reducing waste are key interests in my  studio practice. I think a lot about where things come from, and where  they are going. I'm enamored with material objects - modifying their  past significance to construct a relevance for them today."   

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Ellen works in pastel and in watercolor, sometimes combining the two, in  images that convey a sense of the land in Colorado. In watercolor she expresses the fluidity of a land in flux, as it is changed and shaped by  people. Ellen's pastel work expresses the vibrancy of what surrounds us -  grasses, mountains, fields and rivers.  Ellen's goal is to have her paintings create a sense of place that is familiar  feeling,  and yet a uniquely personal look at the world.

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 My first college degree is in Art & Design and I  will always be an artist first and foremost. My first love was large scale, abstract painting, but in 2008 I discovered photography and have spent the last 15 years developing my personal style. Gardening, travel  and the natural world inspire me. I spend a lot of time digging in dirt  and growing things in the summer and love to take photos of my  successes. I consider myself to be an abstract,  lifestyle / cultural photographer. I enjoy playing with color and  bending light to create interesting and thought provoking compositions.

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We are a community oriented studio in the heart of Old Town. Here we  offer classes for adults and kids, offer space for local artists to  create and show work from artists in our studio or CO local artists. Our  style and artwork is truly honest, eclectic and unique.

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Hi I’m Jonathan. I love RECORDS. Turntables. Equalizers. Speakers. I love MUSIC. Thrift  Shops. Recycled stuff. And vintage POP CULTURE. I wanted to make tributes to the things I love, so in 2014, the journey of HIFI JONES began. Images are discovered in dusty and discarded LPs and books. They are manipulated and REMIXED in the digital realm and then brought into an  analog reality on recycled paper and substrate.

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1972, Matthew Doubek, spanked by a doctor, thusly introducing oxygen to this future artist, caricaturist, constructionist. In 1995 Matthew  received a certificate announcing his BFA, with a major in illustration  from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN.  In 1998 Matthew with now wife Shawnna, their cat and too many houseplants moved to colorful  CO, where he crossed paths with a masterful craftsman that had exposed  him to the fine art of high-end carpentry.  Since then, Matthew has been  blurring and redefining the line between visual art, peculiar  illustrations, collages, abstract paintings and art construction under  the moniker; alias krap masters studio.

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Native to Colorado and in awe of its beauty, Karli enjoys painting the  landscapes, vegetation, and light of sites around the state, including  Waneka Lake. She sees it as a form of  documentation. She started painting again in 2020 after three decades of  wearing other hats. She is experimenting with Abstract painting, finds  it to be a big stretch and challenge, and hopes viewers will keep an  open mind as she evolves with the stye. She sometimes finds she has to  reground from the world of non-representational abstraction by painting  another landscape.

kjh1550@comcast.net

I make collage art out of used postage stamps in the form of characters: Alice in Wonderland, Buddha, Gypsy, Samurai, etc
kennedy.cyndi@gmail.com

Cathy describes herself as being a visual person and studied design,  architecture and urban planning at the University of Colorado and worked  in this field in New York City.  She grew up sewing her own cloths and  has always loved creating. Cathy began painting seriously in 2017 and  enjoys the challenge of capturing the essence of an object, person,  animal or scene. She loves color and the life it brings to the painting  and strives to transform subjects and bring them to life in a modern  impressionistic style. Cathy works mainly in acrylic but has begun  experimenting with oil and playing with sculpture.  Recently she and has  been painting more often plein air as a way to infuse her work with the  color and light of her native Colorado.

www.cathyfaughnan.com

The inspiration for TOP Skirt came to me many years ago while freezing  my booty off at my kid’s soccer games. The parents would wrap up in  blankets, sleeping bags, and/or whatever they could find in the car. We  all have coats but our bottom half is never given a fashionable thought.  The challenge is that I don’t sew so then came the process of me asking  friends to try to create my ideas. I got serious and finally hired  talented seamstresses. Then some more seamstresses and our crew is still  growing. Together as a team, we have created some warm, cute, and  versatile TOP Skirts. All of our TOP Skirts are custom-made here in  Colorado. You can choose off the rack or custom design your own skirt.  

www.topskirt.net

My name is Gray, and I am a 16 year old artist, engineer, and reptile  enthusiast. While my months spent in school are dedicated to more  technical and formal crafts, I spend my summers running a small art  business! I love to draw fantastical creatures, bones, and things which  remind me of Colorado.

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