Amy Johnson Enamels

Amy Johnson, an enamel artist from Rochester, Minnesota, blends together metal, fire and glass to give life and color to her jewelry. She also melds different metals to fashion beautiful sterling silver spinner rings, copper bracelets, necklaces, and earrings; each piece has a personality of its own. Some of her work is elegant and graceful, while other pieces resemble a whirlwind of color and light.

Rasmussen Glass

The Rasmussens create fused glass art to reflect the vibrancy found all around us. By combining color, texture and visual depth we develop designs that are decorative and functional for the home. Many of their pieces involve custom murrini glass created in small batches in their studio.

Ann Hess’ art work consists of wooden fairy (garden) doors of various sizes and techniques used. Some doors have simple opening doors, while others have doors that are created with relief carving and/or images burned into the wood through the art of pyrography.

Stoneware Pottery by Annie Goldman

Annie Goldman’s functional stoneware glazed colorfully with her Moon Rising motif is her ode to God’s country. She also has hand drawn animals on functional stoneware and whimsical hand thrown animal sculpture. After 54 years, Annie still loves to create new works and is loves what she does.

Red Lantern Leatherworks

Ashley finds meaning & value in creating pieces of strength, timelessness, & durability- an island in an ocean of fast & cheap fashion. Ashley works from whole cow hides & uses every square inch in creating lifetime wardrobe piece.

Ruthless Stitches

Ruthless Stitches is a modern take on the craft of cross-stitching. She makes subversive and pop culture-inspired cross-stitches, pins, and holiday ornaments. She also makes macrame jewelry, bookmarks, and small wall hangings. With all her products, she tries to support and celebrate equality and inclusivity by making items that have a strong focus on feminism and the LGBTQIA+ community.

A multi focus on subject matter in the traditional realism style of acrylic painting. Main subject of rural Americana is highlighted, however, landscape, wildlife and still life play an important role in the creation of Bill Zierke’s art. Bold use of color and mood are used to project a feeling of nostalgia or to trigger memory of the like.

Beki’s Custom Sewing

Beki’s creative process incorporates pre and post consumer fabric and fiber waste into wearable art and items for the home. Techniques used: natural dyeing, botanical printing with windfall leaves, boro stitching, braiding, beading, and felting.

Billie is an accomplished wire wrapping artist that is known for her exquisite craftsminship and innovative designs. She makeswearable art in metals such as sterling silver, gold, copper, and brass. Her jewlery includes vibrant local gemstones, crystals, and other captivating elements. Each piece is made with raw materials transformed into breathtaking jewlery.

Fat Duck Designs

Caryn Breunig’s woodworking and polymer clay business, Fat Duck Desgins, is a fusion of woodworking created by her husband Kyle. He creates everything from plant propagation stations, to cribbage boards, while Caryn creates clay jewelry that is lightweight and versatile in design.

Constance Jewelry Design

Constance creates one-of-a-kind art jewelry using sterling, fine silver, brass, semi-precious stones, and miscellaneous and found materials. The artist has also incorporated leather, paper, resin, bone, stones, wood, and glass with sterling silver, fine silver, and other metals into works.

CindyreeArts

Cynthia is a fluid artist using both acrylic and alcohol inks to create one of a kind fluid abstracts. Besides wood panels and canvas, pieces are  made by painting on tiles, small wooden boxes, resin charcuterie boards and trinket trays.

Turners Ridge Wood Workz

Blending various species of wood to bring out the natural beauty of the wood, David creates one of a kind functional items for every day use. From cutting boards, to beautiful turned bowls, each piece is a work of art. 

Debra Munson is an encaustic painter. Encaustic painting is a process in which bees wax and damar resin is melted and the layers of the medium are fused together.

DesArt Designs

Desiree draws inspiration from Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, with their bright colors to attract the onlooker being a major influence of what the the artist was drawn to. The artist tries to find retro objects from the 80’s and create a look that emulates the pop art style.

Driftless Handcrafts

Driftless Handcrafts provides block prints where nature, pop culture, and a touch of magic intertwine. Drawing inspiration from the Driftless Region, the prints seek to remind us that beauty is all around. Each piece celebrates the magic of everyday life and encourages viewers to embrace their own inner weird.

Gary Barone uses trees that have to be removed or ones that come down during summer wind storms. He draws from several influences such as Mayan and ancient Greek pottery, architecture and nature.

Jackie is a Metalsmith who creates organic fine art jewelry, wearable in everyday life. She uses a variety of techniques to create rustic looking nature-inspired pieces. She primarily uses silver in varying forms & gauges, accenting with gold & other metals. Her work is thought through to create strength, depth, interest, and manage weight (ensuring earrings stay light and rings are strong). She fabricates using a jewelers saw, hammers and textured anvils to create a unique look.

One Eyed Cat Crafts

One Eyed Cat Crafts puts the “Fun” in “Functional Ceramics”. Each item is hand crafted with care and an eye for quality. The designs found on the work are what set aside the artist from others. Jason puts together imagery that is a throwback to the collector cups of the 80’s.

Jason Ray Photography

The artist’s work reflects a love of the outdoors and the often subtle beauty that exists. For Jason, landscape photography is about taking time to appreciate the world around us. Life can be hectic, but photography always finds a way to center the artist. Jason’s hope is for others to take time to appreciate it as well. 

JSR Watercolors

Jennifer Rehberg has developed her own style of watercolor painting through the use of color and texture that pushes the lines of traditional watercolor.  She enjoys playing with color, adding in hues that may not be obvious at first glance. Her paintings consist of a mix of landscapes, birds, rusty tractors, and old buildings.

Created 2 Give

Created locally in the heart of the Driftless, Joan create’s stoneware pottery that is both functional and beautiful. Thoughtful design allows charcuterie boards to become hanging wall art when not in use and wine chillers can also be a vase or utensil holder.

The Variegate Lens Nature Photography 

Joni Welda’s fine art and nature photography brings all the colors, textures and emotions from nature through her camera and lens. She strives to share an intimate experience with her subjects, and bring the images to life as if you are witnessing them live.

Kal Norton Ceramics and Craft 

As a mixed media artist, Kal Norton is often drawn to creating art that explores themes of self, identity, growing up, and their relationships to others. Their collage and ceramic work is how they process day-to-day life, using imagery and secondhand materials to create harmony and dissonance.

The Art of Repair 

Katelyn Manske’s artwork, inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, uses meaningful, repurposed fabrics to create textile pieces that embrace brokenness, blending beauty, healing, and the fragility of life.

Merfolk

Merfolk is whimsical hand-embroidery by local artist Katie Lawver. Each piece, whether wall decor, wearable art, or repurposed item such as an antique tennis racket or tea strainer is botanically and celestially inspired and imbued with a dreamy sensibility that is uniquely Merfolk.

Kay Campbell is a stoneware potter who creates unique, one of a kind pieces. She hand-mixes each of her glazes to make each piece individual.

Blue Feather Silver Studio

Blue Feather Silver is Kerri Piazza’s studio, where she creates one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces with traditional jewelers’ tools. Everything begins with a blank sheet of metal and is transformed into a unique, wearable piece of art.

Lustrous Beaded Creations by Lake

Beadwoven jewelry that is eye-catching for both casual use & sophisticated outfits. For the artist, beadweaving is a slow, solitary, and meditative creative process. The emerging geometric patterns and sculptures explore the potential of beads as a vibrant medium.

Linda creates stained glass, agates, vintage dishes and many more accents are used to create her pieces. She designs, cuts the glass, grinds the edges, then foils each piece and solders them together to create a unique artwork to be enjoyed. She is inspired by nature, abstract designs and all that is around her that shows the colors with the light shining through.

Bracelet Luv

The artist hand weaves leather wrap bracelets using a wide variety of unique beads. The bracelets and their components become memory joggers for so many people. Lynda loves the stories shared by folks who visit the Bracelet Luv booth and the storytelling part of participating in art shows.

Fieldstone Terrace Handmade Jewelry

Fieldstone Terrace is handmade jewelry created with artful blends of glass, metal & gemstone. The artist finds inspiration in the colors, textures, shapes & patterns of gemstones. Lynn is passionate about collecting beautiful semiprecious stone beads and focal stones, plus other components to complement their natural beauty.

Creative Jewelry by Marcia

Marcia designs jewelry to create unique pieces that are made with quality materials and workmanship. When creating her pendants and focal pieces, she works with metals, clay, stones, and vintage pieces.

Agra Pottery

Bringing the fun to functional pottery. Agra Pottery by Mark Strehlow offers pieces that attract attention and make people happy. He incorporates attractive shapes, bold colors and interesting contrasts in color and texture, and offers a variety of items like mugs and bowls.

Mason Anthony

Mason Bunkelman is an abstract watercolorist that enjoys the unplanned aspects of working with watercolor inks. He appreciates how an art pieces can change and adapt to accommodate the will of the medium.

Knothead Design Studio

Melissa Owens is a fiber artist who combines felting and woodworking to create unique and whimsical animal sculptures. Each animal is crafted using needle and wet felting techniques to sculpt their features and bring out their personality.

Elk Mountain Max Studio

Mike Zierke’s artwork reveals an overall mood using the effects of light, color, value, and the subtleties of texture and weight. Through many layers of pigment, a sense of luminosity and depth is achieved.

A collection of dreamy and romantic color stories waits for you to discover hidden details among the nature inspired imagery. These mixed media paintings are created by a self taught artist, originally from Onalaska, now located at Magnolia Hollow Salon and Gallery on Main Street downtown La Crosse. Immerse yourself in this locally crafted fine art for an experience you can take home with you.

River Road Mosaics

As a mixed media mosaic artists, Nancy Dokkestul uses a variety of different media including hand painted glass, stained glass, mirror glass, metal and glass beadwork and colored aluminum wire. Each piece she designs and creates requires an eight step process which occurs over four to five days.

Opal makes needle felted magnets and coasters with wool roving using hand held needles and a needle felting sewing machine. Addtioanlly, Opal creates hand sewen penny rugs ie: mug mats, trivets, table runners and mats using wool and wool felt. 

PJM Image

Pete Mutschler creates original photographs of familiar subjects in unique ways. His work includes a great variety of images. Pete has a passion for everything related to photography and strives to create images that touch the viewer’s emotions.

Peter is a self taught watercolor artist. His art is greatly inspired byboth the forests and waters of Wisconsin and Maine. Wherever he is, he goes on long walks alone in the woods and, eventually, they will show him something to paint. All of his paintings are watercolor, not ink, and he does not use any masking fluid. Just a steady hand and a very pointy paintbrush.

Quenten Brown’s mixed media works were created on canvas, board, and paper. Each piece was conceived as part of a series; with a focus on the following qualities: curved edges, bright shots of color, clean lines, hard white edges, with bold outlines.

Morid Maven

Rae is a mixed media artist who is inspired mainly by nature, true crime, and the occult.

Fox and Fern Designs 

Founded in the Fall of 2017, Waletzko Primitive Craft is a small family business in the Driftless region of WI. specializing in hand-carved wooden spoons. The goal is to create utilitarian household utensils out of reclaimed, locally sourced wood that would otherwise be landfilled or burned. Utilizing environmentally friendly finishes, these items are made for everyday use and admiration.

Simple Soaps For Simple Folks, LLC

Handcrafted, cold-process goat milk soaps created in artisan batches to preserve quality & craftsmanship by using certified organic base oils, the artist’s goats’ milk, & unique, molded shapes.

Natterjacks

All of the bags are the artist’s original design. Each bag is hand cut and machine stitched. Many of the pieces are decorated with trapunto, cut work applique or embroidery.

Light Pixie Studio

Sharyn’s images have signs of life, human or wild nature, subtle as a footprint or overt. Key elements include sunlight against darkness, a rich color palette, and always a story to be found. Art can teach us to seek the good in others, see the beauty in small things, and live joyously! 

Shoua Yang’s works are printed from authentic hand carved woodcuts. Furthermore, his work is inspired by the Hmong heritage with concepts developed from Hmong folklores, mythologies and the Hmong Diaspora.

Steve’s Bowls 

Steve Tischer creates handmade wood bowls from locally harvested wood. He recovers all the wood from storm damaged trees, firewood piles and even local recycling areas, and seeks to transform the wood into something beautiful. 

Steven Beseler Art Studio 

Steven Beseler creates worlds, scenes and moments that blend fantasy and reality. Taking inspiration from history, mythology and fantasy he mixes those principles to create art that is grounded in reality.

Bent LLC

BENT jewelry is elegantly simple and inspired by nature. Each piece is handcrafted through forging, hammering, bending and burnishing in sterling silver, copper and stainless-steel fine quality metals. It is perfect for wearing every day, or for that special occasion. It will make you feel… simply elegant.

Realm

Timothy Kobs’ acrylic paintings can be categorized as surrealism. The ideas for his paintings come from his imagination coupled with the beauty of nature. The finished acrylic painting is a moment of insight captured from my imagination for others to enjoy.

Through layering and subtractive techniques with an eraser, Valerie Kathryn harnesses the delicate qualities of charcoal to create expressive compositions. By isolating wildlife subjects, the work highlights their resilience, inviting viewers to engage with themes of perseverance, hope, and healing.

Positive Spin Ceramics

The clean flat planes in the artist’s work act like a canvas for color and texture. Hand carved designs are inspired by the bluffs of the surrounding area in which they are created. Made to be used and enjoyed every day.