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  • 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.
  • Morgan Clifford
    Morgan Clifford
    Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft
    Morgan works with textiles because first and foremost she loves to handle them. If someone asks her “why weaving?” She feels the answer in her fingertips. The tactile quality of beautiful linens, silks and bristly, hand-spun hemp combined with her own dyeing processes fills her with enormous pleasure. Morgan is happiest in her studio handling fibers, sorting them, dyeing them, untangling them, testing ideas, planning new pieces and finalizing them. If you wanted to really punish her you would make her go outside and play.
  • Elissa Cottle
    Elissa Cottle
    Author / Writer; Poet; Teacher / Instructor
    Elissa loved to promote achievements & stories of conscientious businesses, organizations and professionals. She provided writing expertise for entrepreneurs, builders, artists, planners, designers, health care providers, government, nonprofits and more. Her talent for putting art in business and organization writing came from a lifelong pursuit of creative writing. She was a published poet and taught creative writing classes for adults. Shortly before her death in 2021, Elissa published a book of poetry, The Receiving Quilt: Poems.
  • Sue Cranston
    Sue Cranston
    Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting
    I live on the Kinnickinnic river with my family in Wisconsin. I graduated with a teaching degree in 1992 from The University of Wisconsin-River Falls and teach drawing and painting classes at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. I’m nostalgic and fond of combining vivid memorable images from my childhood with my experiences with Motherhood. Often my art work pays close attention to documenting details that reflect my love of uniforms and textiles. Other times, my work reflects experiments with color while documenting everyday objects or subjects that I find particularly striking.
  • Dorie Cronin
    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.
  • Pauly Cudd
    Pauly Cudd
    Visual Artist: Glass
    Glassblowing is my life’s passion.  I am attracted to the mystical qualities of fluid glass.  It is truly challenging to manipulate and persuade a media that you can’t touch with your hands.  Instead I have to rely on different methods of shaping and forming the glass, such as wood blocks, wet newspaper, and gravity. I’m best known for my love experimenting with a variety of colors and glassblowing techniques. Some of my favorite work has copper foil embedded into the glass. The chemical reaction between the heat of the glass and the foil creates an amazing color palate. Another technique I love is adding baking soda to the glass, which makes for a “Bubblicious” creation.  Other new work includes hanging pendant lights and “Memories” paperweights, ornaments and other glass pieces into which the cremains of a loved one, human or pet, are enclosed into what becomes an everlasting memorial. I love the emotions that come over me while coaxing the hot glass and its color possibilities into a unique, beautiful piece of art.  With each piece I make, I try to pass on my passion for glass to the new owner.
  • Guillermo Cuellar
    Guillermo Cuellar
    Visual Artist: Sculpture
    I was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1951 and studied ceramics at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where I fell in love with the potter’s wheel and the unpretentious beauty of old pots. After working as an environmentalist I returned to pottery in 1980. With the certainty of youth I embraced the notion that pursuing the life of an artist potter was possible and would lead to a better society. In 1986 I set up a studio in the village of Turgua, an hour southeast of the capital city, Caracas, where I made pots for the following 18 years. Traveling in Venezuela, I came across the baskets, pots, weaving, and woodwork of native Indian people. Seeing their beautiful folk art in its context in daily use was an epiphany. It was not only the handwork I loved but the capacity of these pieces to transcend their function and bring people together; to be vessels of the group’s identity. The way the Indians relate to their art, not at a distance but keeping it close at hand, remains an ideal to me. In that spirit, my pots are made for use, for preparing and sharing food. I want them to be accessible, not confined to a formal setting or behind glass. Beautiful handmade objects should be a part of our daily lives, often in use in our hands. In 1992 a group of my Venezuelan potter friends came together to found Grupo Turgua, a non-profit association of artisans dedicated to the support of good craft in Venezuela. From 1992 to 2005 Grupo Turgua hosted twenty-eight group sales at the Turgua studio, offering pottery, jewelry, photography, woodwork, drawing, weavings, Venezuelan native crafts and other creative work. In 2005 my wife, Laurie, our children and I moved back to the USA and established a home, studio and showroom in the upper St. Croix River valley near Shafer, Minnesota, where I am currently making pots. In 2008 I was invited to participate as one of seven host studios on the Minnesota Potters of the Upper St. Croix Valley Annual Pottery Tour.
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