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I've been drawn to art and healing since I was little. I work as a Spiritual Practitioner which entails several things from readings, to yoga, to jewelry, to intuitive counseling, and quite a bit more. I love combining both the arts and healing into wire wrapped pieces, intentional scarves, and anything else that catches my eye or that I know would work for someone. I work on custom pieces and random ones that I know will find the right individual. I love what I do! Helping, healing, and raising awareness is my path...come join me!
via e-mail: margo_j_a@yahoo.com (317) 835-5506
About Marcus Bunch
Greetings my name is Marcus. I have been into the art world for many years now. I like to broaden my talents when ever I can so; I am a fine arts artist, SFX make-up artist, and a writer and poet. I have been in about a number of art shows. My art work consists of a variety of mediums and subject matters. I work in graphite, charcoal, pastels, acrylics, pen and ink, oil paints, water color pencils, mixed media, and whatever else I can experiment with. Most of my work is fantasy art and have a gothic twist to them. I also work with landscapes, personal portraits, still life, wild life, pet portraits and flash art for tattoos.
Beware that if you are easily offended my writing style is not for you; my poetry may be for all ages though.
I am on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/390873481), deviant ART (http://fullmoon-rose.deviantart.com/), face book, and newly developed, Exile Asylum http://asylumproduction.ning.com/ (http://asylumproduction.ning.com/profile/MarquisBeliair).
via e-mail: gathering_rain_storm@yahoo.com
Dennis Boothby
I was born and raised in small towns across Ohio. After graduation from high school I enlisted in the Air Force. When I got out of the service I moved to Texas where I acquired my art degree (BFA) from the University of Texas at Arlington. Upon graduation I married my childhood sweetheart who was from Indiana and moved back to my Midwest roots. After living in Indianapolis for several years I settled in Putnam County. I immediately fell in love with the historic covered bridges and old barns that dot the countryside.
I have entered my artwork in competitions at the Indiana State Fair and have received several awards as a result of this. I was also selected to participate in a juried art fair in Crawfordsville and for a fundraiser for Depauw University. I have also had my work on exhibit at the Putnam County Museum..
I started selling my work at local festivals at the urging of my wife and my in-laws about 5 or 6 years ago. I still attend festivals and art fairs throughout the year. Even though I have branched out from covered bridges and barns, my small town roots are still evident in my work
."Paintings & Drawings from Your Picture or Mine"
565 Cool Evening Rd.Cloverdale, IN 46120 765-795-5150 or via e-mail boothbybunch@yahoo.com
KEITH CURLEY
NAVAJO SILVERSMITH FOR OVER 30 + YEARS
JEWELRY DESIGN, CLEANING AND BUFFING
BRING YOUR INDIAN JEWELRY THIS WEEKENDAND SEE WHAT HE CAN DO FOR YOU.
(Minimum cost for cleaning $15 to $25; Repair Appraisal on site)
Steven Gilbert Arts
Steven Gilbert has been creating and selling American themed home décor for almost ten years, but is now stepping out and publicly sharing his canvas works for the first time! Steven is a Mitchell, In native, and currently resides in Terre Haute. Works to be shared are bright vivid color drenched works created out of vision, passion, emotion, and a variety of inspiring sources.
For questions or other info contact the artist at stevenbg2007@gmail.com
She is a multi-media sculptor, puppet builder and puppeteer. Since 1983 she has been carving in stone and wood, creating art and portraits in clay, and designing puppets with cloth and foam rubber. Workshops and puppet shows available.
Call 765-653-5031
via e-mail:
Sherry Paris
Writer, psychic, tarot reader, pendulum dowser, certified energy healer, crystal collector is just like you in everyday life.
Through energy healing her psychic abilities began contributing to her abilities to assist patients in healing after she went to school for Quantum-Touch Energy Healing in Indianapolis, IN where it took 2 years and 60 hours of internship to receive her certificate of energy healing from Richard Gordon – Founder of Quantum-Touch. .
During the 1980’s, Sherry began writing poetry having a poem published by Poetry.Com in their yearly poetry book.
She’s done tarot readings for individuals as a fundraiser and parties along with other metaphysical fairs for over five years.
Pendulum dowsing is a new discovery turning out to be a great adventure for her. Not only is it fun but also it’s very accurate and also currently studying crystals and their healing abilities.
Providing tarot at home parties, holiday parties, or you may come to her home for a reading. If interested in energy healing you may make prior arrangements with her as well.
You may contact her through mail 2300 Lewisville Road, Quincy, IN 47456
email – yellowcanary@hotmail.com, or 765-720-7062.
Edie Richards
Graduated from Indiana State University in 1992 with a bachelor of fine arts. Since then, she has pursued different avenues to showcase her art abilities and desires. She worked as the charge scenic artist in the movie Going All The Way, three years as a scenic artist for the Indianapolis Civic Theatre, taught for the Indianapolis Art Center (including a semester at the Indiana School for the Blind), and as a contributor to several group and individual shows, and as the Art Coordinator for the “Celebration of the Arts and Soul” events in Brazil, Indiana. Recently she had a show in Corsicana, TX sponsored by the Navarro Council of the Arts, work displayed at the Halcyon Gallery and at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Spring Show, in Terre Haute, IN. Her goals are to keep evolving her skills as an art coordinator and artist, besides applying for a master’s in fine arts. This summer she is excited to be teaching for the Summer Youth Art Programs at the Swope Art Museum and painting again for the third season at CCRT.
Besides being an artist she also is a certified massage therapist and a Reiki Master Practioner.
Her art work includes everything from paintings, drawings, photography, stained-glass stepping stones, to tie-dyes and more.
contact her via e-mail: edie@edieartsandwellness.com or by phone (317) 796-6389
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Matthew Sheek.
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” - John Maeda..
My work is a pursuit of this ideal. All to often we become complacent with our surroundings. A tree is green. The Sun is yellow. The Sky is blue. Are they really? Have we just accepted a generality? (Generality is not to be confused w/ simplicity.) In my landscapes I try to capture a moment that is wild with color. I want to convey that it is worth shedding what we accept and to enjoy what is really before our eyes. My works in Figurative and abstracts come from the opposite. In those works I want the viewer to enjoy the simplicity of the everyday . I wish to convey the beauty of a figure or the power of the everyday object. In other works I want the emotion to be in the forefront and the figure is a way of conveying that message.
I have no formal training in art other than three dedicated high school art teachers who expected and demanded more of me. I am indebted to Robert Sattler, Camile Helsly, and Mary Mitchell for their collective influence on my young life. I have always had a sense of light, line, and color. Creativity is as natural to me breathing. Sadly, since winning a Scholastic’s Gold Key Award in high school, I set down my work and pursued other creative outlets. I still picked up a brush or pencil but nothing serious until 2007. It was through a desire to create and encouragement from my wife that I now do what I believe I should have been doing all along.
I am an Indiana native though I have lived in different parts of the country due to my career in radio. I have made my home in Minnesota, Missouri, and New Mexico. I have settled back to the Hoosier state for 15 years now to be near family and a more settled life.
contact via e-mail: mrsheek@hotmail.com
About Tony Showa
He facilitates drum making workshops and drum circles at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN
as an artist in residence and was mentioned in "The Native Peoples Magazine", a nationally known
Native American arts and crafts periodical, July 2009 issue, along with other notable drum makers.
Tony has lived in Indianapolis for the past four years and is a Pow Wow drummer and singer.
He practices traditional ways in Native American Spirituality. Contact via e-mail: tonyshowa@hotmail.com.
Dennis Skelton, Fine Arts Photography and Native American Flutes.
I attended Indiana Sta
te University in 1967 where I majored in Fine Arts but soon changed majors to Geology receiving and BS in Geology, MS in Earth Science, and A PhD in Physical Geography. In 2002, I began re-cultivating my interest in art with an emphasis in Photography which began back in 1967. Most of my work was with 35 mm SLR cameras, but in 2004 converted to all digital.
I view my photographic word through what I call “The Mind’s Eye”. I noticed in earlier work that what I thought I saw was nothing like what was reproduced in printed form. I soon realized that the reason for this difference was because a person’s view of natural beauty is influenced by the person’s emotional energy at the time. “What we see in our mind is not what the film or digital sensor records”. Through hours of interpretation, I attempts to print on paper what my mind eye once saw.
Boomer-Kiowa flutes were inspired by my Grandfather who was full blooded Cherokee. He died when I was five and just begun teaching me about Native American and Blue Grass music. He played the NA Flute, the violin, and an instrument that resembled an autoharp, not sure what they called it. He had no formal instruction but was able to play each of these instruments "by ear". Of course he played the NA flute from his heart.
Prior to his death he had began teaching me about music and particularly the NA flute. He wanted to teach me how to make and play them. He died just as my teaching began. I always had an interest and when I was much older tried to create my first flute. It looked great; however, the sound it produced was far from melodic. I gave up flute making for many years, but later had a dream of my grandfather telling me to continue and he showed me what I was doing wrong and how to change it. The next day I went into my workshop and started what has become Boomer-Kiowa Flutes. The first flute I created with my grandfather's vision looked great and sounded wonderful and making and playing NA flutes has become one of my passions. Although my grandfather is no longer with me his love for the NA flute lives within my soul.
The name, "Boomer-Kiowa Flutes" comes, not from the Kiowa Tribe, but from the name of my two beloved dogs Boomer, a yellow-Lab, and Kiowa, an Irish Setter they died a few years ago. Since I was a child I always owned two dogs. Because of this my brother gave me the name of "Two Dogs". My two dogs today are Ringo, a Yellow Lab, and Tuffy, a Jack Russell Terrier.
I hope you enjoy my flutes and photos and they bring you joy and peace to your soul.
contact via e-mail: dskelton1@isugw.indstate.edu
Mark A. Smith MFA-IA
Interdisciplinary Artist The art work created by my hand bridges the inner and outer worlds of experience. Often we are caught up in life and do not pay notice to these powerful driving forces from within and around us. I seek to address and make visible this great portion of life that is the substance of life itself. These thoughts, ideas, emotions and environments often blend together, informing us through the events of our lives. My work attempts to harness the spirit of man and his struggles against himself and with others as we travel new paths of reality. I address two main subjects within my work that offer I dichotomy on the subject of experience. First, my impression of the things I experienced in war and the lessons I was given there. Secondly, metaphysical discernment of life experiences, and inner atmospheres with attention to thought forms, emotional movements, textures and ideas.
Please email any questions to vallyveteranarts@web.com or ruiz_araiza@yahoo.com for further information
Native artist, storyteller and flute player.
Owner of Wooden Turtle Presentations
Provides cultural awareness and education through public presentations of storytelling, drumming and flute playing. Teresa creates and constructs traditional native rattles, dreamcatchers and leather bags. She also writes and frames inspirational poetry.
Contact via e-mail: tlwebb007@yahoo.com
Jai Dean, formerly from Greenville, South Carolina, began presenting her multiple talents as ArtOZen prior to partnering with Zanne Overton as zanjai arts. Her contemporary primitive style is unique and from the soul. Each piece, be it on canvas, glass, pressed cotton fiber or whatever media presents itself to her, is masterfully and lovingly created with the hope of enriching the viewer. Jai also shares herself through music, being a skilled musician and songwriter. Her multi-talents are shared in such work as "Cry Out," both a song written and recorded by Jai, and the "Cry Out" series of pen and ink art inspired by the song.
Zanne Overton is an established mural and portrait artist. In addition to mural and portrait commission work, Zanne is now reaching deeper into herself to communicate her personal spiritual journey with acrylic on canvas. She is also beginning a series of wood carved pieces to represent the goddess and Sacred Mother or sacred feminine spirit she experiences.
Zanne and Jai share the joy of letting the art take them where they need to go.
via e-mail: zanjaiarts@gmail.com
