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  • Holland Atkinson
    Holland Atkinson
    Visual Artist: Photography
    Holland Atkinson is a practicing artist increasing their audience to secure a second career. Holland’s work has primarily focused on graphic design, which is what they hold an Associate Degree in. They sell designs which often focus on minerals and the natural wonders of Minnesota. To date Holland has primarily used third party vendors to print and distribute the products along with social media for broad consumption. The last two years have been a period in which they have explored photography on a serious level. Their subjects normally include detailed macro photographs of minerals and wide-angle landscape shots.
  • Leslie Carpenter-Holt
    Leslie Carpenter-Holt
    Visual Artist: Photography
    Leslie is a fine art photographer working primarily in black and white and occasionally color to create digital images of the world around me. Her focus is primarily nature, but she also gravitates toward architectural and landscape subjects. By accentuating form, line and texture her aim is to give life to the seemingly mundane. Sometimes this means using photo editing software to make adjustments to exposure, contrast and color. She rarely finds a need to use complex editing to convey my messages. She seeks to challenge the view of the everyday environment in order to make the artistic aesthetic accessible to all and promote a sense of well-being. Her creative motivation is driven by a need to demonstrate to herself and others a certain order or pattern inherent in nature as well as the built environment that, hopefully, helps us understand our place in it.
  • Jane Dierberger
    Jane Dierberger
    Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography
    I am inspired by many things, but nature is my primary source of inspiration. In nature I find absolute beauty, truth, harmony and timelessness. My paintings are reflections of things I see around me that move me to create. I have been involved in the arts in Stillwater for over 25 years as a painter, art show organizer (For The Birds; Artful Lake and Cabin Show; My Kingdom for a Horse; Starry, Starry Night), columnist for the Stillwater Gazette (Spotlight on Art) and art discussion group leader (Van Gogh Café). To see more of my artwork, please visit my website at www.janedierberger.art
  • Dan Gerber
    Dan Gerber
    Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Photography
  • Matt Gillett
    Matt Gillett
    Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Printmaking
  • Christie Kowalski
    Christie Kowalski
    Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography
    My childhood involved watching my mother draw and paint.  I was also very intrigued by my brother’s photography.  So . . . from an early age, I loved to create using a pencil, paint, or camera.  My first painting on canvas was a joint effort with my twin sister.  After high school, I completed a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art. As an adult, I have combined my passion for travel and art by photographing many spectacular destinations.  Greece, Australia, Singapore, Bali, Sweden, the Caribbean, and many U.S. locations appear in my photographs.  Many of my paintings are mixed media pieces that include a process of transferring sections of my photographs to the painting surface.  The photographic image becomes integrated into layers of paint. My special area of interests include nature, color, different cultures, and abstract images.  These elements are seen in various captivating ways in my artwork.
  • Sarah Lilja
    Sarah Lilja
    Visual Artist: Photography
    Please visit my website: http://sarahlilja.photography. I am a photographer based in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.  Since 2017, photography has been an integral part of my exploration of the world.  I use my camera to document and explore unique perspectives and anomalous subjects, drawing the viewer’s attention to unseen details, vibrant colors, and distinctive compositions. My photos have won a number of awards and have been published in a variety of print and digital media. I also exhibit both locally and nationally.  In 2021 I was awarded the Artist at Pine Needles residency in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, sponsored by the St. Croix Watershed Research Station and the Science Museum of Minnesota.    
  • Bob Lyksett
    Bob Lyksett
    Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Photography
    Bob Lyksett is a new photographer in the St. Croix Valley, recently moving to Houlton, Wisconsin from Salt Lake City, Utah. Bob Graduated from Weber State University with a Bachaloriate Degree in Photography and also studied Fine Art at the University of Utah. Bob has experienced photography from television news and newspaper to medical and documentary photography. He is an accomplished Sports Photographer, being published in both regional and national sports magazines and is currently working for a local sports photography company. Bob has taught Photography in Park City, Utah for a number of years until moving to Wisconsin where he taught basic and advanced courses in photography at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin. With a love for the outdoors and growing up in the Rocky Mountains, Bob has captured a number of images in nature being published in calendars, magazines and other print publications.
  • David Parker
    David Parker
    Visual Artist: Photography
    I was born in St. Paul, and I’ve lived here in Minnesota most of my life. It seemed natural to try to break into the artist world with my camera. It seems that I’ve been using one for as long as I remember. From “borrowing” my parents Kodak 100 film camera, to being envious of the neighbors when they brought home the brand new “disk” film camera; the ability to capture an image on a piece of film was what pulled me into photography. Coupled with my love of old buildings and architecture, I wanted to go out and capture these fantastic buildings across not only Minnesota, but the United States; the world. I started doing “day” trips across Minnesota to find some of these fantastic buildings that were still standing. Fergus Falls, for example, with the old Regional Treatment Center. Traveling to these locations across the state, you pass through many small communities which also have plenty of fantastic buildings. Ceylon, Fairmont, Jackson. St. Joseph, Stillwater. The list can go on; so many of our communities – even Minneapolis and St. Paul – have fantastically historic buildings. But I also find myself drawn to the farming communities of southern Minnesota. The small towns that are all but drying up due to that farming isn’t as popular as it used to be, coupled with the small farmers being bought out by the larger corporations for their land. The towns are disappearing. The wonderful, old wooden barns are slowly disappearing as well; they are either falling apart due to neglect or being torn down as the large corporations bring their own equipment to the farms and do not need storage for them on site. My work has been published in magazines, newspapers, calendars, and online. My images have also been used as permanent displays in several buildings. I love history and exploring. Nothing’s more fun for me than traveling to a new (or old!) location and wandering around with my gear, looking for subjects to photograph. I’m so lucky to call myself a resident of Stillwater, Minnesota, for more than a decade now. This town has a great mix of history (it’s known as the “birthplace of Minnesota”), and the whole town begs to be walked and photographed. One thing you’ll notice about my images is the lack of people in them. Although I do occasionally photograph people, I really enjoy and focus my work on photographing buildings, bridges, sunrises and sunsets.
  • Kristin Prideaux
    Kristin Prideaux
    Visual Artist: Photography
     I enjoy examining the under examined. I try to find qualities that excite me – movement, texture, pattern, depth, points of focus. I like that these photographs challenge the general belief of what a photograph is or historically has been. What I enjoy in my most current pieces are that they can be interpreted by each viewer differently. They are a bit like Rorschach tests, tapping into the imagination and your own visual experiences as context.
  • Sue Rowe
    Sue Rowe
    Author / Writer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography
    My art illustrates tiny bits of life lived, metaphorically, by a large variety of particular bears. Their faces and bodies have been the main focus of my art for many years, but, as I seldom have specific plans for the final images, the results often surprise me as much as anybody. I enjoy using the power of line and color to depict subtle ideas created in everyday living. The bears and their surroundings have the ability to illustrate stories, most often without words; but frequently as I work sentences form and are drawn on the piece. The bears’ lives, therefore are more fully revealed. These creatures have tales to tell and secrets to shed. They, like many of us, have mixed emotions about relationships, food, survival and life in general. I very much like overhearing observers’ chuckles, sighs or gasps of personal recognition. If my bruins provide a giggle or provoke some serious pondering I consider that we, as a team, have done our good deed for the day.
  • Barbie "Babs" Vidana Luepke
    Barbie "Babs" Vidana Luepke
    Author / Writer; Choreographer; Dancer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics; Visual Artist: Sculpture; Crafty
    Occasional Offerings: Encouraging the Creative Genius in YOU! ​Thomas Merton, the writer and poet, stated: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” YOU are a work of art.  There is no other YOU.  So, with that in mind, I have created guided ArtPlay, ClayPlay and DancePlay.  While we may begin with similar ideas, we expand to express what is inside us.  Intuitive. Interpretive.  This helps us discover new things about ourselves.  It may be letting our inner child out to play (permission granted!), or reignite a passion we set aside and intended to revisit with someday.  I encourage you to make that someday NOW. Simply put, adults don’t play enough!  Here, we do.  Come join us! I look forward to being your Creativity Coach in upcoming ArtPlay, ClayPlay and DancePlay, creating, experiencing, glowing and growing right along side you. I also host other amazing instructors who share their passion.  Check the website often, as new and amazing things happen to pop up. See you in the studio! Barbara Vidana Luepke Art is too important not to share ~ Romero Britto  
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