2008 Fine Arts Festival Artists
VisArts is proud to present 30 artists booths for this year's Fine Arts Festival. Find out more information about the artists here! To preview their work, visit the artwork preview page!

Dan Brown & Shin-Yeon Jeon
Medium: Ceramics
Contact: dbrown@towson.edu, shinyeon@yahoo.com
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Artist Statement: Jeon has always been driven by the invisible aspects of human life. She feels that emotions are the least visible and the most ephemeral element of a human being. Yet she depicts these transient aspects in solid ceramic sculpture, transforming them into a permanent state. Dan Brown creates decorative functional ware featuring figurative images on it.

Carol Bouville & Leita Gerson
Medium: Watercolor
Contact: cbouville@aol.com
Website: carolbouville.com
Preview Carol's work here.
Preview Leita's work here.
Artist Statement: Carol Bouville and Leita Gerson both work in water color, water color mixed media collage and pastel. Both artists focus on the use or color. Leita's work is primarily expressionistic. Carol's style is more tied to realism.

Beth Carey & Debby Weaver
Medium: Jewelry and Glass
Contact: beth_carey@hotmail.com, debbyweaver@yahoo.com
Website: bethcareyjewelry.com, debbyweaver.com
PReview Debby's work here
Artist Statement: Beth Carey is a jeweler who fabricates her original designs in precious metals with color accents from various stones as well as Debby's lamp-worked glass. Debby Weaver makes lampworked glass beads which are used in a variety of items including those made in collaboration with Beth Carey.

Anne Carroll
Medium: Paint
Contact: acarroll04@comcast.net
Website: artsbyanne.com
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Artist Statement: Seeing, experiencing everyday life is so full of ideas. Imagining what mediums, what techniques and what styles are so inspiring. Life is plentiful with creativity. With these choices I've used watercolor paper (140-300lb) and paints. Single process, California style and English wash styles are used.

Anne Cherubim
Medium: Paint
Contact: cleo_asc@comcast.net
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Artist Statement: I try to portray the luminosity of the skies and everything they touch, painting in layers of color. A "wet on wet" technique effectively blends acrylics, adds depth to the canvas and evolves time and space.

Chanel Compton
Medium: Paint
Contact: compton720@gmail.com
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Artist Statement: My figurative paintings are oil paintings of friends and family. Many are inspired by the fashion industry.

Petra Desmangles
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: ngems@comcast.net
Website: naturesgems.biz
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Artist Statement: I strive to design jewelry that is eclectic, fun, and unique. All designs are handmade using silver wire, semi-precious beads, and pearls, with special emphasis on quality.

Jennifer Eubank
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: Jennifereubank@jdelldesigns.com
Website: www.jdelldesigns.com
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Artist Statement: Jennifer creates hand-wrapped jewelry line-necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings. Sterling wire beads and findings, pearls, gemstones, vintage glass, paper and resin charms and all included in her jewelry.

Wendy Edsall-Kerwin
Medium: Metal
Contact: wendy@hammerstrokeandfire.com
Website: www.hammerstrokeandfire.com
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Artist Statement: Using hammers, stakes, and vises I transform brass, nickel, sterling, and copper sheet and wire into home and body adornment. I use the techniques of forging chasing, fold forming and weaving.

Rollin Fraser & Susan Maldon Stregack
Medium: Photography
Contact: dmoosephoto@mindspring.com
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Artist Statement: In our view (no pun intended), the final image dictates the materials and techniques we use. Maybe unframed film in a 35mm camera or a 4x5 inch sheet of film in a large format camera. We also embrace digital technology. We shoot, process and print all of our own images.

Ellen & Steve Futterman
Medium: Floral arrangements
Contact: info@instant-garden.com
Website: instant-garden.com
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Artist Statement: Raw floral stems are arranged in unique containers to create one-of-a-kind designs that are extremely realistic. All details design and arrangement are done by hand.

Kate Giebel
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: kategiebel@juno.com
Website: www.kategiebelglassbeads.com
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Artist Statement: I create glass beads to use in my jewelry designs. I use torch to melt glass rods and wrap the molten glass around a metal mandrel; a process called lampwork. I use Moretti glass to make beads.

Debra Goren
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: debradesigns@aol.com
Website: www.debragorendesigns.com
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Artist Statement: I design and make one of a kind jewelry using semi-precious stones, pearls, hand blown glass, crystal, wood, polymer clay (which I make), and beads from around the world. I also bead pens, letter openers, and key rings.

Ric Grossman
Medium: Mixed Media
Contact: ricfinearts@aol.com
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Artist Statement: I create mixed media pieces by drawing with pencil, pen, pastel or charcoal on high quality watercolor paper. Then I photograph and/or scan this work to a computer to continue creating an art piece using a Wacom tablet to hand draw in a traditional medium simulation.

Debra Halprin & Julie Smith
Medium: Paint
Contact: halprinart@aol.com
Website: www.halprinart.com
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Artist Statement: Julie and Debbie work together weekly. While they each paint their own works they give share ideas and inspirations to take their work further. Paintings are created using watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Kesra Hoffman
Medium: Paint
Contact: kesrah@aol.com
Website: www.kesrahoffman.com
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Artist Statement: My goal is to capture the dialogue between nature's light and shadows by painting landscapes of places I've visited with Gouache on watercolor paper. Work is presented with hand-cut mattes and simple frames.

Fred King
Medium: Digital photographs
Contact: phred@cardsandprints.com
Website: www.cardsandprints.com
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Artist Statement: Digital photographs, minimally processed, printed on matte or photo quality paper, or photo paper for matted prints. Photographs are generally nature scenes, but can be whatever catches my eye.

Carolyn Korman
Medium: Glass
Contact: carolyn@carolynkdesigns.com
Website: www.carolynkdesigns.com
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Artist Statement: Carolyn creates one-of-a-kind hand crafted kiln formed glass jewelry and functional and decorative items. She uses flame working, sand blasting and grinding in my designs.

Fran Kronstadt
Medium: Bronze jewelry and belts
Contact: fk.harley@comcast.net
Website: www.frankronstadtstudio.com/
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Artist Statement: The buckles you see are the result of my passion for bronze casting and attention to detail. They are all one of a kind designs with interchangeable leather straps.

Kay Layne
Medium: Mixed media
Contact: Art@kaylayne.com
Website: www.kaylayne.com
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Artist Statement: My work is abstractionism using contrasting and harmonious colors with geometric shapes imposed over textured surfaces.

Marsha Liebl
Medium: Photography
Contact: marshaliebl@yahoo.com
Website: www.marshalieblphotography.com
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Artist Statement: I use Canon cameras, an A2E for film capture and a 20D for digital capture, though most of my work is now my digital. 95% of my work is shot on a Gitzo tripod. Impact is what I look for - I want the image to grab your attention.

Kathie Perry Lynch
Medium: Glass
Contact: kylynch6424@aol.com
Website: www.kathieperrylynch.com
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Artist Statement: Kathie Perry Lynch is a resident artist at Visarts. Her work is designed by her use of bold color, graphic design and woven layers of glass for a highly textured object.

Ann B. McKay
Medium: Paint
Contact: annbeallmmckkay@aol.com
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Artist Statement: I go out and paint plein air with oils. I often paint on large canvases to capture the lay of the land or mood of the river or feel of the city.

Kimberlie Moy
Medium: Metal
Contact: kmoy530@yahoo.com
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Artist Statement: I use a visual language that addresses purity, sensuality, modesty and containment. My metal forms are based on geometric and organic principles and are made with relevance to the part of the body on which they will be worn.

Stacey Naughton
Medium: Glass
Contact: justbeadit@hotmail.com
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Artist Statement: I’ve been working in this medium for 20 years. I enjoy pushing the limits of the fused glass and making things that people can use in their home or display on their walls.

Sam & Charleen Noto
Medium: Sculpture and jewelry
Contact: samnoto@aol.com
Website: www.samnoto.com
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Artist Statement: Sam's sculpture - assembled rolls welded into steel base coated with unique multi colored painting system. Each unique piece must fit with in parameters of 19"x6"x6". Charleen's jewelry- I create handcrafted unique jewelry made from materials personally collected from all parts of the world. Special emphasis on pearls, shells, metals, etc.

Mathew Brand Parker
Medium: Photographic collage
Contact: reinventing-reality@hotmail.com
Website: www.reinventing-reality.com
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Artist Statement: A photographic collage begins by observing a place and making a sketch. I rotate the camera to produce different angles and shoot over many hours. Photoshop is used to rotate and layer each photo, making prints and web information. Miniature collages are assembled by hand, using wallet size photos taped together to create a unique product.

Fernando Pinheiro
Medium: Ceramic sculpture
Contact: amazonceramic@aol.com
Website: www.amazonceramic.com
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Artist Statement: Fernando's hand thrown and hand built ceramics and sculpture are carved and etched Amazon motif designs inspired by his heritage.

Fritzie Seidler
Medium: Found material sculpture
Contact: fritziemd@rcn.com
Website: www.fritzie.com
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Artist Statement: All of my work is individually designed and handcrafted by me using only recycled reclaimed, and found materials. The work is functional and used both indoors and out.

Stacie Spencer
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: staciejewelry@yahoo.com
Website: www.staciejewelry.etsy.com
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Artist Statement: Stacie uses a unique combination of precious metal clay, sterling silver, semi-precious stones, fresh water pearls, Swarovski crystals and vintage beads to create her one of a kind jewelry. New line includes jewelry using precious metal clay and artwork using a photo transfer process.

Michael Straight
Medium: Photography
Contact: windrushstudios@aol.com
Website: www.windrushstudios.com
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Artist Statement: I typically transform my photographs to impressionistic images that I print on canvas or cotton paper with archival inks. Many look like pointillist paintings. All images have limited editions of 250.

Peter Stolvoort
Medium: Paint
Contact: peterstolvoort@gmail.com
Website: www.peterstolvoort.com
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Artist Statement: What is under the surface may be deeper than what is first revealed. Experiences, memories, emotions, layer upon layers woven into a stream of color, light, and reflection. The ebb and flow of ocean tides, salt filled breezes and the movement of sand are forever an inspiration. In my paintings I envision the transitions of flow, light, color tension, and repose.

Linda Wagner
Medium: Jewelry
Contact: lswagner1@hotmail.com
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Artist Statement: I design paper jewelry painted with acrylic and accented with bead and wire. My beaded pieces use colorful hand-blown and lampwork beads. Many of them show whimsical and asymmetrical designs.

Jerry Whitehorst
Medium: Wood
Contact: chipsrlyin@aol.com
Website: www.jerrywhitehorst.com
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Artist Statement: Each piece is hand turned on a lathe and finished with 20 coats of lacquer. Materials used are domestic and exotic woods (primarily burls), alabaster (from Europe & USA) and occasionally stones (such as turquoise), copper and other embellishments.

Janet Wittenberg
Medium: Glass
Contact: glasshabitat@glasshabitat.com
Website: www.glasshabitat.com
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Artist Statement: Although each technique will vary depending on the piece, piece, I usually cut, grind, and assemble the various glass components, and may incorporate sand blasted, torch worked, and airbrushed glass into the design as well. The piece may be fired multiple times, with the last firing determining its shape.