Tag: creativity

Marri Bootz | @marribootzart

Wausau, WI | she/her

I am a 21 year old artist and love creating pieces no one has seen before. We are infinite and the limitations are endless. I really enjoy acrylic painting!

Leah Cashaw | @VadoseOrchid

Milwaukee, WI | she/her

I am drawn to upcycled materials for their history and unpredictability, finding inspiration in the challenge of giving discarded objects new life. As both an artist and educator, I am passionate about fostering creativity and environmental awareness.

Elizabeth Crooks | @thespoolsyarn

Wausau, WI | they/them

I am a fiber artist inspired by topography and the beauty of our world’s landscapes. My work is uniquely three-dimensional and incorporates several fiber types and textures. The form of each piece is built using papier-mâché over recycled tile mesh – a building material commonly made of fiberglass with a plastic coating that dissolves upon sun exposure (microplastics – yikes!).

Julie Dinauer

Sun Prairie, WI | she/her

I love combining my two passions, art and thrifting to make something beautiful! I find collaging upcycled shirts, skirts and old upholstery from thrift stores and my own closet to be very meditative and healing. My art includes blending acrylic painting with many small pieces of fabric thoughtfully cut and placed to create a picture that morphs throughout the process.

Susan Fiebig | @slfiebig

Franklin, WI | she/her

I am a collage and assemblage artist. I utilize thrifting finds including frames in my artwork.

Gil Gribb

Monona, WI | he/him

Retired Video Game Programmer. My art celebrates women.

Square Curves

Old Toilet Seat Cover, Old Kennel Panel

Katharine Hatwich | @k8iwampus

Madison, WI

Making something out of nothing has been a driving principal in my life. Recently I have embraced the challenge to create beauty where I do not see it. In this project I choose a color scheme that I find unsettling but hope will strike a chord with someone in my audience.

Janet Hunerdosse | @janethunerdosse

Cottage Grove, WI | she/her

I enjoy traveling, biking, hiking, and creating. I like mixed media, watercolor painting, and urban sketching.

Linda Keegan

Madison, WI | she/her

I have worked in many capacities over my lifetime, including social worker. No matter what my “day job,” I have created various types of art since childhood and throughout my adult years, and organic forms have been my inspiration and a continued theme.

Recently, I have been incorporating small ceramic pieces, some of which I made by hand, with much-loved vintage buttons and other sewing accessories and/or knitted materials. I also have been growing flowers in my sunroom, then drying them and preserving them against a backdrop of acrylic on canvas.

I considered how artists attempt to capture moments of images and feelings, as if to immortalize them. My art overall is my acceptance of the beauty in the world, and its ultimate death, while longing for an eternity of physical form.

Mandy Kron | @atbkart

Madison, WI | she/her

My work pairs natural and human-made imagery, often utilizing recycled materials. Creating art with items that would usually be discarded gives them new value. I often question our culture of waste and wonder why we perceive some items as valuable and others as trash.

Emily Morrison Weeks | @emoweeksdesign

Whitewater, WI | she/her

Emily Morrison Weeks is an artist and designer originally from Madison, WI currently residing in Whitewater, WI. She loves creating whimsical mixed media pieces as well as digital illustrations, often featuring animals. Emily earns her Master of Arts in Graphic and Web Design from Minneapolis College of Art and Design this August.

Wilbur Ross | @willbuckross

Madison, WI | he/him

Animals and nature have always been a common theme in my art, but I didn’t truly begin to understand the depths of it until I studied them from life in my scientific illustration courses in college. There’s always so much to look at, even in the most minute of details, and I enjoy trying to capture that life in my work.

Tammy Schreiter | @hatcharthouse

Madison, WI | she/her

Tammy is the owner/curator of Hatch Art House, as well as an artist. Art was her sanctuary growing up, which led to the opening of Hatch as a welcoming environment that supports local artists and makes art accessible to everyone.

Jay Solwold

Madison, WI | he/him

Jay Solwold is a Madison based artist known for making art out of found objects, especially his bird sculptures made from driftwood and found feathers.

Jane Weier | @mulberry_patch_quilts or @jaweier

Cottage Grove, WI | she/her

The piece I’m submitting began with my hand dyed fabric for the sky, then adding background fabrics & thread painting the capitol with free motion stitch on my domestic sewing machine, Using discarded fabric scraps, thread, & packaging material, I cut them into tiny pieces (like confetti) and carefully placed them over the background & trees to mimic autumn leaves, then sewed them in place with a tulle overlay to keep them contained.

Scott Weiss

Sun Prairie, WI | he/him

I’m a full-time graphic designer and I also teach letterpress printing part-time. In my free time, I like to spend time in my studio working on printmaking or mixed media art. These cow pieces are from a series that I made last fall.