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Leslie Batt-Lutz

Visual Artist: Jewelry; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

I’ve always loved natural materials and being around fire – from campfires as a kid to glassblowing in college. While in high school at art camp one Summer at UW-Green Bay, I hung out in the painting studio, but I was fascinated by the flames and smoke of the raku firings happening on the patio outside. I was fortunate, then, while in college at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls (getting my B.F.A. in sculpture) to learn from its stellar faculty at the time – which included Doug Johnson, Kurt Wild, and Jim Engebretson among others. Now, after years of juggling, I’ve retired from the job in corporate America, raised an awesome family, and can find a bit more time to fulfill my art-heart. Though I love painting and mixed media sculpture still, the siren song of raku has captured me. I embrace the unpredictability of raku in every firing. I set up my small low-tech kiln in my backyard and in batches of four or six tiny pots, I’m mesmerized by fire and smoke, anxiously and impatiently waiting to see the gift of alchemy. My work is out of my little home studio in beautiful River Falls, Wisconsin where I’ve lived for 38 years. I settled in River Falls to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and stayed active in community arts in the years since. I’ve been fortunate to have many opportunities, including working in potteries, selling at art fairs, painting large scale murals, illustrating children’s books, painting portrait commissions, and creating public art. My artistic endeavors have included Alley Exhibitionists (founding member), Mississippi Clayworks (co-owner), Art House Galley (not for profit/owner), Bella Luce Studio (owner), and CAB Board member. Art venues have included the River Falls Public Library, The Mabel Tainter, Wisconsin Regional Arts Program, Hammond Arts Alliance, Art on the Kinni, Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council in Ketchikan, AK, and several River Falls Utility Box Beautification projects.

Casey Beck

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

My work is based around the idea of function and utility. I have always enjoyed the pleasure of using handmade objects and strive to share this love with others around me. Initially, the majority of the work is thrown and altered while still on the wheel. After it has had time to set up, the foot is turned and clay is then subtracted to define the form and create edges and plains. The work is primarily fired in atmospheric kilns. After strategic placing in the kiln, the work is left to the kiln to decide in collaboration with myself what is painted onto the work by the fire. Depending on how the pot is placed in the kiln, sometimes it may be gently kissed by the fire and atmosphere, but on the other hand, it may be bombarded with the same atmosphere. The reason I choose this process, and let the kiln partially decide how the work will look is very spontaneous and never creates the same mark twice. This process creates a new excitement with each firing, and makes me keep coming back for more.

Dorie Cronin

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

Dorie is a studio potter who lives outside Minneapolis on her 13 acre farm. Her medium is high fire porcelain and she makes all her own crystalline glazes. Dorie also creates sculptural pieces many of which focus on women and their story.

Nick Earl

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

“I make pots and am continually fascinated by the softness and reception of the clay from which they are made. When successful, these qualities translate into the finished pieces, objects that will hopefully enrich the regular ceremonies of life. I have a strong interest in art history and I try to exhibit the strength and beauty I see in old pots in my own work. Cooking is also of great interest to me and my work being mostly functional has a lot to do with the storage, preparation, and presentation of food.”

Matthew Krousey

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

The preservation of a disappearing landscape through imagery on ceramics is the reason I create. Inspired conceptually by the regionalist painters of the early 20th century who sought to document the rural landscapes of America, I see myself as a modern Regionalist working with clay. I make pottery, murals, and sculpture decorated with the landscapes, flora, and fauna of the Midwest. This region is being vastly altered by commercial development and urban sprawl, forever changing its natural character. My hope is that the daily use and viewing of the work will be a gentle reminder to the public of the vanishing natural world around us.

Carol Patt

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

Having taught art to children and adults over a span of 30 years, most of my energy went toward helping others nurture their creativity. I retired in 2017 with the goal of building my skills, my professionalism, and my dreams. I have been building my self confidence this past year, sticking to my goals, and getting my work out into the community. Clay has always been the medium that I have felt most drawn to. It incorporates form and imagery. It offers endless possibilities for color and texture. It allows me to emulate qualities I see in natural objects and form inner visions into physical matter. I would like to express the inner nature of my subjects, not just their physical appearance. I hope my art touches and inspires, contributes to something enduring and allows the viewer to have deeper insight and connectivity to the natural world.

Emily Schollett

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

I strive to create pottery that brings joy to simple meals or to new traditions. Pottery is a reflection and celebration of ourselves, carrying memories and emotions. Meals provide an opportunity for friends and families to come together and connect. A beautiful serving vessel can transform these events into treasured and special experiences. The natural world inspires my work. I am drawn to the pure aesthetic beauty of organic forms I find along the trails and streams. My pieces reference the graceful unfurling of a leaf or bud, implying life, growth and movement.

Marjorie Wade

Visual Artist: Pottery/Ceramics

Marjorie creates pottery for everyday use and embraces simplicity in each piece. Her work is inspired and influenced by the pottery and artifacts from primitive cultures, particularly those of Africa and prehistoric Japan. She finds it is by incorporating the textural elements and qualities from these traditions into her pottery that allows aspects of these cultures to be part of the world today. The nuances in the patterns and textures found in objects from these countries are essential to Marjorie’s work. She is also influenced by the Japanese folk tradition of Mingei, which honors the simple beauty in everyday objects made for daily use.

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