February, 2011

Cindie Underwood-Vandebur

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Bio: Specializes in people, pets, and wildlife using oils, pastels, colored pencil, graphite and polymer clay.
Contact Name: By appointment.
Phone: 812-701-9986

David Bear

Bio: A woodworker for 35 years, David makes a wide variety of items ranging from one-piece wooden bowls to complex pieces such as a roll top desk or a complete bedroom suite. His interest also includes rebuilding and restoring horse drawn wagons and other early-American items. His country workshop is fulll of vintage American woodworking machinery.
Preferred Contact Method: By appointment
Phone: 812-265-2190
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: David's work is available at the Artisan Gallery.

Mingione’s Primitive Gardens

Bio: Jennifer Mingione makes all sort of artful creations out of sticks and wood and other materials. She is a frequent exhibitor at the Madison Chautauqua Festival of Art and wholesales her items all over the country.
Preferred Contact Method: By appointment.
Phone: 812-866-4660

Tiffany Black

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Bio: Black considers herself a muralist by professtion, even though she is often compelled to sculpt, collage, sew, draw, make woodcut prints, take photos and write songs. A graduate of Hanover College, Tiffany has concentrated on freelance work, including signage and portraiture and did the Giving Tree mural in Hanover College's mailroom.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment.

Patty Cooper-Wells

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Bio: Patty is know for her colorful acrylic paintings, murals, and portraits, as well as her imaginative assemblage pieces. Patty also created several murals locally and recently designed CD art for two local musicians.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment
Notes to Retailers: Patty's work is available at the Artisan Gallery

Pat Cunningham

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Bio: P.M. Cunningham is well known for his expertise in mid-nineteenth century tin ware. His reproductions are made the old-fashioned way with 150 year old equipment and hot-dipped tin, a process which lends itself to creating each article with a one-of-a kind charm. Some of his handcrafted items are on display locally at Binzer's Custom Framing. A cobbler as well, you may even catch him cobbling in Binzer's front window.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment.

Bob and Donna Carl

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Bio: Bob and Donna Carl are glass artists with 30 years experience in stained and beveled glass work in styles including traditional, contemporary, Victorian, and Art Deco.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment
Phone: 812-265-4486
Notes to Retailers: The Carl's work is available at the Artisan Gallery.

Margie’s Country Store

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Bio: Margie's Country Store offers fabrics, patterns, creative ideas, and notions upstairs, along with a charming cellar gift and accessory shop, complete with rounded river -stone archways. Author and co/author of six books, owner Margie Webb has gained national recognition over the past ten years for her delightful designs of jackets, vests and coats.
Phone: 812-265-4429
Hours : M-Sat 10a-5p su. 1p-5p
Street Address: 721 W. Main St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: No custom orders available.

Leon Michl

Bio: When Leon Michl was a child, his dream was to be a blacksmith like his grandfather. While Leon was busily employed at the local hospital as a surgeon, he was able to buy a barn and accumulate the tools that he needed for blacksmithing. As his hobby over the past years, Leon has made small art objects such as candlesticks and other ornamental iron decorative pieces. When someone asks if he really is a blacksmith he says "Yes, but I don't do horses."
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment.
Phone: 812-265-4047

Lawrence (Buddy) Humphrey

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Bio: Buddy likes to photograph the scenery in the local region. Of his work, he says "In any of the seasons one can find beauty, from snow flakes, the ice on trees, frozen water falls, the new spring flowers and blossoms, the critters that roam about, the summer sunrise/sunset and the fall colors.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment.
Phone: 812-866-8462

Ray May

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Bio: Ray has been drawing, sculpting and painting for 35 years. He produces mixed media sculptures and paints in acrylics. Currently he enjoys painting tropical scenes and landscapes.
Phone: 812-866-5329

Belva Lowry

Bio: Belva is a self taught artist that creates mostly landscapes in acrylics, oils and watercolors.

Jennifer Ripley

Bio: Jennifer's favorite subject is landscapes, and she enjoys working in watercolor and acrylic.
Phone: 812-689-3970

Marjorie Conner

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Preferred Contact Method: by appointment
Phone: 812-866-8624

Eric Phagan

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Bio: Eric creates paintings and mixed media sculpture of expressive lines over landscapes and humanistic forms that create a timeworn appearance. A native of Madison, Eric has studied at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and Paris, France along with earning a BFA in ceramics from the Herron School of Art.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment
Phone: 317-850-9639
Notes to Artisans: His work is available locally at Binzer's Framing and the Artisan Gallery.

Teresa Waller

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Bio: Teresa graduated from the Louisville School of Art with a BFA in ceramics and a minor in drawing. After graduation she pursued her interest in oil painting, exhibiting in several Kentucky and Indiana galleries. An avid gardner, Waller was inspired by large-leaf plants and the effects of sunlight on foliage.
Preferred Contact Method: by appointment

Harriet Carpanini

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Bio: Harriet is a longarm quilter and an educator with the Handi Quilter team.
Preferred Contact Method: 812-599-1738

Robert Moore

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Bio: Robert creates handmade pottery and he works to produce it with the smallest possible environmental footprint. Using recycled vegetable oil to fire his work, he strives to use a waste product in a constructive manner and create objects of function and beauty in the process
Creates: handmade pottery
Contact Name: Robert Moore
Phone: 812-599-5993
Street Address: 6171 S. Saluda-Paynesville Rd.
City: Hanover
State: Indiana
Zip: 47243
Notes to Artisans: Robert's work is available at the Artisan Gallery