Earth, Wood & Fire Artist Tour
October 23 & 24, 2010
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The Artists
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Glen Cutcher • Potter - Glen Cutcher Studio
218 Spring Street, Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 355.9194 • glencutcher.com
  Mark Skudlarek • Potter - Cambridge Wood-Fired Pottery
10 Tranquil Lane, Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 423.4507 • www.cambridgepottery.com
Glen’s pottery is contemporary with an organic feel to it, using a multi-layer approach in decorating, to achieve depth and texture.   Celebrating 20 years in business, Mark produces a wide range of functional wood-fired pottery inspired by European and Asian folk traditions.
   
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Michael Schael • Potter - Rock Eagle Pottery
2297 Clearview Rd., Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 423.7026 • woodfiredpots.com
  Ric Lamore • Potter - Broadwing Clay Studio
503 Co. A., Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 884.8099 • ric.lamore@gmail.com
Inspired by his passion for food and gardening, Michael’s pottery evokes colors of earth, sea and sky. These colors combined with a sense of form create pottery, which enriches one’s life.   Over the last thirty years, Ric Lamore has explored high fired stoneware and wood fired stoneware.
   
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Mary Wallace • Feltmaker - White Dove Farm
173 Co. Rd. A., Cambridge, WI 53523
(608) 884.4301 • whitedove@jvlnet.com
  Fiberholics - Basket Weavers
W7867 Riedel Lane, Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 563.1466
Mary Wallace makes wearable, colorful and decorative artwork (including some one-of-a-kind scarves) using wet and dry feltmaking techniques.   Eve West, Dorothy Davenport, Ellen Haukom and Stephanie Funck are basket weavers and fiber artists, weaving art with a variety of materials.
   
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Sandhill Designs • Bill Bale - Furniture Designer
N3163 Co. Hwy. J, Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 568.0333 • sandhilldesigns.com
  Mary Pratt • Potter/Sculptor - Pratt Clay Studio
Exhibiting at the Sandhill Designs location
Home studio: Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 728.0528 • mary@prattclaystudio.com
Combining carefully selected hardwoods and clean lines, Bill Bale designs furniture in the Arts & Crafts (Mission) style.   Mary works with white stoneware, using fresh, classic images, incised and sculpted with a contemporary twist. She calls it “Reality in Detail.”
   
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Jorn Lynae Mork - Jeweler, Printmaker
Exhibiting at the Sandhill Designs location
Home studio: Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 397.7384 • JornsStudio.com
  Suzanne M. Modjeska-Seffrood - Pastel Artist
Exhibiting at the Sandhill Designs location
Home studio: Edgerton, WI 53538
(608) 279.0170 • love-to-pastel.com
Incorporates etching and printmaking techniques in her hand made jewelry, using various materials to create pieces which are narrative in nature.   Suzanne’s highly photorealistic pastels focus on the play of colors, patterns and distortions that exist in highly reflective surfaces like water, glass and metal.
   
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Toby McCulloch • Toby McCulloch Woodworking
Exhibiting at the Sandhill Designs location
Home studio: Sun Prairie, WI 53590
(608) 837.9354 • toby.bowl@yahoo.net
  Dawn Dark Mountain - Watercolor Painting
Exhibiting at the Sandhill Designs location
Home studio: Monona, WI 53716
(608) 221.8692 • darkmtn@gmail.com
Using windfall or distressed trees, Toby creates bowls from blocks that are dried, finished turned, sanded and polished with beeswax and oil.   Working transparent watercolor, Dawn allows the white of the paper to be the whites. Native American heritage & nature is her subject matter.
   
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Rick Hintze • Potter - Johnson Creek Clay Studio
140 1/2 N. Watertown St., P.O. Box 454, Johnson Creek, WI 53038
(920) 699.2529 • rickhintze.com
  Ed & Laura Klein • Potters/Sculptors - Bur Oak Pottery
W6202 Klein Lane, Johnson Creek, WI 53038
(920) 648.4549 • buroakpottery.com
Rick Hintze utilizes several techniques to create his functional and decorative stoneware and porcelain. For his larger pots and sculpture, Rick uses the process of coiling.   Ed & Laura Klein make a variety of wood-fired pottery. Inspired by Art Nouveau, pieces range from sculptural to functional.
   
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Peggy Furlin • Watercolor - Watercolor Outside the Lines
Exhibiting at Sweet Lips Gallery
Home studio: Lake Mills, WI 53551
(414) 510.8087 • artid.com/efstudio
  Bruce Johnson • Potter - Bruce Johnson Clay Studio
302 Campus Street, Lake Mills, WI 53551
(920) 648.3049 •  www.brucejohnsonclaystudio.com
Peggy Furlin creates one-of-a-kind watercolor paintings, using fractured space, geometric shapes, patterns and color shifts on canvas with a style all their own.   Bruce's pieces are wheel thrown and hand built. He is best know for his copper matte raku and ash glazes.
   
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Karen Calkins Ragus - Painter/Printmaker
N6778 Shorewood Hills Rd., Lake Mills, WI 53551
(608) 237.1712 • ragus.com
  Leslie DeMuth • Landscape Painter - Town Hall Studio
N8016 County Highway G, Lake Mills, WI 53551
(920) 390.9341 • lesliedemuth.com
Karen creates large contemporary water media paintings, some abstract, some figurative. Some are very colorful, others are monochromatic.
  Leslie DeMuth is a landscape painter that captures in paint the rural and natural vistas of Wisconsin.
   
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Ann Long Fisher • Handweaver
Exhibiting at the Town Hall Studio location
Home studio: Lake Mills, WI 53551
(920)945.0122 • ponyweaver@charter.com
  Will Wipperfurth • Woodworker
Exhibiting at the Town Hall Studio location
Home studio: Lake Mills, WI 53551
(920) 648.2563 • designsbywill.com
Ann weaves limited production scarves, shawls and fabrics for clothing or home furnishings. She dyes many of the yarns used in her hand woven fabrics.   Will Wipperfurth designs and builds quality wooden boxes that have everyday functionality in addition to natural beauty.