2026 Fine Art Fair

Presented by Pump House Regional Arts Center

Saturday, June 13th, 10 am – 5 pm

Riverside Park, La Crosse, WI

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Artists awarded up to $1,000 cash thanks to sponsor Altra Federal Credit Union

Each year, four Artspire Art Fair artists can win cash awards up to $1,000. Altra Artist Awards winners are selected by a panel of jurors based on representative artwork displayed in their booths in the categories of originality, quality, and presentation. 

Artspire 2025 Altra Artist Awards

Katie Lawver of Merfolk Handmade – 1st Place, Winner of $1,000

Jason Kiley of One Eyed Cat Curiosities and Crafts – 2nd Place, Winner of $500

Rachel Hoscheit of Fox & Fern Designs – 1st Merit Award, Winner of $100

Quenten Brown – 2nd Merit Award, Winner of $100

Thank you Altra Federal Credit Union for your continued support!

Pictured from left: Quenten Brown, Rachel Hoscheit, Jason Kiley and Katie Lawver

2026 Fine Art Fair Vendors

The Fine Art Fair will be located at Riverside Park on Saturday, June 13, 10am – 5pm

Amy Johnson

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.

Andy Rasmussen

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

Phoenix Art

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.

Anne Scott Plummer

Island City Clayspace

Anne’s modern collection of pottery includes a range of functional pottery forms and unique animal and figure sculptures. Her pottery is simply glazed with saturated satin and gloss glazes and decorated with images of insects, animals, landscapes, and figures which inspire her work.

Annie Goldman

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 55 years, Annie still loves to create new works and is loves what she does.

Ashley Neary

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.

Autumnalwood

Inspired by vintage illustrations and nature, Autumnalwood’s artwork features whimsical, line-art-heavy scenes of suns, moons, mushrooms, frogs, the works!

Betty Christian

BJChristian Designs Jewelry

Betty creates a unique line of wire jewelry made using gemstones and other materials from Sacred Mother Earth. All pieces formed one at a time using many different hand tools; pliers, hammers, anvil. Process includes bending and cold forging.

Billie Stevens

Glass Stone Studio

Billie is an accomplished metalsmith that is known for her exquisite craftsmanship and innovative designs. She makes wearable art in metals such as sterling silver, copper, and brass. Her jewelry includes vibrant local gemstones, crystals, and other captivating elements. Each piece is made with raw materials transformed into breathtaking jewelry.

Birdie McBride

Lake Superior Drift Co

Hand-picked driftwood from Lake Superior, some pieces thousands of years old, preserved as irreplicable wall art, mobiles, and mosaics, each as singular as the story it carries.

Brenda Buddenhagen & Janessa Satory

River Glass LaX

We are a mother-daughter duo who love creating beautiful, creative and sometimes quirky stained glass items. Sun catchers, plants, wind-chimes, ornaments, jewelry, spinners and plant stakes are some of the items you will see. Each item is unique and carefully crafted. 

Brenna Brom

Brenna’s artwork is bold, colorful and depicts playful nature-like themes. Using intricate black line detailing, she organizes these often-chaotic pieces into something magical and whimsical. She paints in acrylic on canvas and then professionally made into fine art prints. 

Brooklyn Doby

B.Denae Artistry

Brooklyn is a painter, muralist, and future art therapist. She is passionate about creating art that represents women of color and highlights African American beauty. Her work reflects her love for acrylic paint and abstract portraiture. She strives to create imagery that is diverse, unique, and inclusive. When others see her art, Brooklyn hopes that it provokes positive change.

Carli Tourdot

Carliwood Publishing

I’ve been a Certified Child Life Specialist for 19yrs, working with kids and families in the hospital, with 15 of those years spent in the surgical area. I didn’t care for the other children’s books out there for kids to learn about surgery, so I wrote my own. It is medically accurate, developmentally appropriate, and playfully informative.

Caryn & Kyle Breunig

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.

Cynthia Fleishman

cJoy Art

Cindy’s art is a vibrant expression of her her enduring sense of the wonder reflected the world around her. The uninhibited and magical flow of color access a deep mystical connection. Inspired by the landscapes she loves, her intuitive abstract watercolor features her unique color vision, and an uninhibited sense of wonder reflected in the magical flow of pigment on paper. 

Darrel Bowman

Darrel Bowman Pottery

Darrel Bowman’s work intentionally brings art into the everyday rituals of life; preparing and sharing food & drink, displaying flowers, storing ingredients. It is important to him that there is a relationship between the maker and the user, and that we can know where our objects come from.

David Pehl

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. 

Desiree Edge

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.

Eastbank Artists

The Eastbank Artists showcase a varied selection of mixed mediums that range from oil painting, watercolor, jewelry, sculpture to ceramics from their juried collection. Their goal is to exhibit a coherent sampling of the Eastbank Association’s coulee region members.

Ed Bauman

Wooden Things and More

Functional and aesthetically pleasing items from native woods that are sustainably harvested, primarily from our farm.

Eli Picha

Picha Ceramics

Eclectic, earthy wheel-thrown ceramics that balance artistry and function, each piece shaped by hand to celebrate organic forms, natural textures, and subtle variations, resulting in functional objects that feel grounded, expressive, and meant to be used every day.

Elizabeth Higgins

Driftless Hand Crafts

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.

Glenda Plozay

Glenda’s Art Studio

Watercolor on paper using only three staining, transprent colors. The colors are layered for a vibrant glow inspired by wildlife, native plants and nature. There’s always something joyful to paint.

Jamie Dresen

Jamie Dresen Created paintings in oil, acrylic,  mixed media, pen and ink sketches

Jane Brunner

These paintings take me back to moments when I have simply stood and taken in what was before me. I feel an inner thrill when light rests on water, when dew gathers on petals, or when clouds glow at their edges.

Jason Kiley

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 Stuempges

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. 

Jay Skranka

WENONAH

Wenonah Body Lab is a family-owned, small-batch skincare brand. We handcraft all-natural botanical body care and perfumes using plant-based ingredients and plastic-free glass, aluminum, and compostable packaging. Every product is formulated, produced, and labeled by us, honoring people and the planet

Jessica Halverson

Stone & Earth

I make trinket trays to soap dishes to vases and beyond. Jesmonite pieces that add unique style to your space while reducing your carbon footprint. Jesmonite is an eco friendly, durable lightweight composite material made from gypsum and a water based acrylic resin.

Jill Johnson

RiverWinds Farm & Fiber Works

Jill Johnson creates original fiber art by shaping handmade wool felt into wall hangings, vessels and jewelry embellished with embroidery, beads, wire and found objects.

Joan Meyers

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.

Johanna Moldenhauer

Johanna Moldenhauer Art

Using either red or porcelain clay, Johanna throws a form on her wheel. After foraging fresh flowers and leaves, she imprints them into wet clay to create a design. Pieces that aren’t imprinted are hand painted with underglaze to create scenes reminiscent of Wisconsin native prairie.

Joni Welda

Joni Welda Fine Art Wildlife and 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.

Julie Erchoff-Costet

Julie uses acrylic paint on canvas or upcycled vinyl records. Her art showcases contemporary flowers, with whimsical patterns added with paint markers, and musical icons.

Karen Genz

Karen Genz Photography

Karen Genz’s work consists of canvas, framed, and matted prints, as well as magnets and bookmarks. Her photos highlight La Crosse area landscapes and landmarks, downtown architecture, and nature.

Katelyn Manske

Katelyn Manske Art

Katelyn Manske’s artwork consists of repurposed fabrics and fibers to create quilts, wall hangings and tapestriesinspired 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.

Kathleen Waldvogel

K.M. Waldvogel – Children’s Book Author

A former teacher who has a passion for reading and writing and absolutely adores American history. She is the author of the middle-grade book, Spies, Soldiers, Couriers, and Saboteurs: Women of the American Revolution, as well as three picture books: And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon, Three Little Ghosts, and Whoo, Whoo, Who’s Out There?

Katie Lawver

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.

Kayla Ellefson

Kayla Ellefson creates colorful, nature-inspired art including acrylic paintings, prints, stickers, handmade jewelry, and crochet. Her art includes fun, vibrant designs celebrating the beauty and joy of the natural world.

Kerri Piazza

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.

Lake Garren

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.

Laura Spies

Laura’s artwork captures the beauty and drama of the natural landscape with a blend of watercolor and pastels.

Lisa Ackerman & Max Schmidt

Two Block Design

We are an artist duo crafting home goods and apparel that reflect your unique identity. We create hand woven textiles and relief prints meant to enliven everyday spaces with bold, playful, and unconventional elements.

Lisa Erickson

Luckey Us Handmade

I love the creativity that I am able to explore in my sewing through modifying patterns, choosing colors, mixing textures, sketching images to use as fabric appliqués, dyeing fabric, and upcycling clothes into new items. Sustainability in my business and my life is very important. Most of my children’s clothing items are Grow-with-me styles.

Lori Hungerholt

Root River Baskets

Beautiful, decorative, functional coiled rope baskets made with natural and synthetic fibers. To add a touch of the unique, baskets feature a stone with a NATURAL hole from the Root River in southeast Minnesota.

Lydia Hansen

Lydia Hansen Art

Crochet artwork using a blend of natural & acrylic fibers. Multimedia techniques & natural elements (wood & stone) are included to make fiber “paintings” & artwork celebrating nature, plants, & fungi.

Lynda Eckheart

LTE Designs

Through the process of glass fusing, LTE Designs by Lynda Eckheart creates unique, colorful jewelry, dishes and garden stakes that are both beautiful and functional. Each piece is a unique, hand crafted, one of a kind work of art. I am often inspired by nature for my ideas and designs.

Lynda Wallis

Lynda Wallis Artist Maker

Wallis repurposes vintage bits of jewelry into contemporary pieces. Combining beads from across the globe and apnning time, Wallis brings all the different elements together into new pieces of jewelry with old stories.

Lynn Dolezel

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.

Lynne Majetic

Majestiglass Designs

8 layer glass enamel painting each fired separately in a kiln, then carefully fused together to create a nearly 1 inch thick artwork.

Macy Neader

Sylvan Jewelry

Made locally in La Crosse, Sylvan Jewelry specializes in handcrafted earrings, pendants, and rings made from high quality metals and semi-precious stones. Traditional wire wrapping and metalsmithing techniques are used to create intricate and wearable pieces of art made from copper, brass, and silver. Individually made and inspired my nature, each piece is one-of-a-kind and intentionally crafted to evoke a feeling of fantasy.

Marcia Newquist

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.

Maria Rudrud

Eternal Bloom Designs

Preserving flowers and insects as unique keepsakes inspired by nature, memory, and transformation.

Mariella TerBeest-Schladweiler

Helen’s Daughters Handbags

The artist designs and constructs upholstery fabric handbags. Mariella’s “design aim” is to adorn them with unexpected details. The artist works with color, pattern and blends a combination of fabrics, which develops into a unique look for the handbag.

Mark Strehlow

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.

MaryBeth Dircks

Beneath The Bark

Beautiful handcrafted charcuterie boards made from a variety of woods in a variety of shapes and sizes, many with live edges. Kiln dried wood with food safe oil and wax and make great gifts or keep and enjoy yourself!

Melissa Baca

Beading is Medicine by Melissa

Beading is Medicine by Melissa transforms Indigenous aesthetics into wearable art that speaks to both tradition and contemporary life. Each piece, from earrings to wristlets and lanyards, is handcrafted with care, balancing color, texture, and form while honoring cultural meaning. Melissa’s work reclaims Indigenous design in ways that challenge Westernized norms, turning everyday accessories into cultural statement pieces. Through her workshops, she shares this process with others.

Pat Balk

Get Stoned Designs 

For the past 17 years, I’ve been designing and handcrafting unique, one-of-a-kind jewelry using sterling silver, brass, and copper. My process combines traditional metalworking techniques like stamping, torching, soldering, and enameling , along with tools such as a rolling mill, guillotine, and doming blocks. Each piece reflects my love for texture, detail, and individuality, transforming raw metal into wearable art with character and soul.

Pearl Street Gallery

Pearl Street Gallery is a collective of the best artists from our local region spanning across the Driftless Region, and through our artwork we look to connect artists and community. Displaying artists: Bailey Nelson, Dakota Pickhard, Gavin McCue, and more.

Philip Waletzko

Waletzko Primitive Craft

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.

Phyllis Martino

Phyllis Martino Fine Art

Starting with watercolor media, I create a paintings that can be very traditional in style and all the way to mixed media to be Impressionistic to abstract. I enjoy combining the transparency of watercolor with the rich opacity of oil pastel.

Raina Thelen

Painted Raina 

Raina Thelen creates bold, original artwork, jewelry, suncatchers, and home decor inspired by light, color, and fantasy. Her mixed-media paintings combine intricate details, vibrant hues, and textured elements to evoke wonder and imagination, and each piece is thoughtful designed to spark joy and bring beauty into everyday life.

Randi Hoyt

Randi Hoyt Art – The Connection Between Women and Nature

Randi Hoyt creates a narrative of feminine power through ethereal paintings and illustrations in various media such as acrylic painting, watercolors and illustrations.

Randy Reeves

Red Clay Studio

his body of work explores form, texture, color and utility. Serving ware and retro shapes interest me currently. My work is hand built, mold formed, and wheel thrown. The low firing temperature of earthenware offers endless combinations of color. I use clay slip colored with Mason stain to achieve the bright and playful results.

Robbie Brokken

I create modern jewelry by upcycling vintage jewelry to create pieces that resemble Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Mid Century style necklaces. These pieces are whimsical, full of energy and fun to wear. They are a focal point for any creative dressing.

Roxanne Spielman

Foxy Roxy Arte

I create original relief prints and paintings with surrealist themes that draw people in and keep them present with the work in a brief moment of escape. I focus on keeping my practice sustainable by recycling paper, bags, and clothing, as that is an important aspect of my process. The world around me guides my creative process, drawing inspiration from places I visit, the people I love, and music. My work becomes a direct reflection of the lived experience of being a human.

Sarah Sweet

Sweet Space Studio

Using chiyogami (a Japanese silk-screened paper) and washi tapes (a paper tape from Japan) on wood with resin, I create unique jewelry and accessories.

Shanna McCann-Marsolek

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.

Sharon Cherney

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.

Shelly Lanzel

Calico Cat Art Studio

My artwork features handcrafted ceramic pieces inspired by nature & expressed through whimsical imagery with bold, vibrant color. Each piece is handbuilt & hand painted embracing organic shapes & delightful imperfections. From small trinket dishes to larger decorative & functional pieces, my ceramics are one of a kind. They are created to be cheerful, approachable, loved & smiled at.

Sheryl Rupperecht

Sheryl Dreams In Color

Sheryl paints Acrylic Landscapes from photographs taken on the artist’s many adventures. The artist instills the energy and feeling of that place and time in the works. As a secondary means of expression, the artist also does Fluid Art compositions in acrylics.

Shoua Yang

CeevTsegPress

Shoua Yang’s works are prints & t-shirts are all printed from authentic woodcuts through the process of relief printing. Furthermore, his work is inspired by the Hmong heritage with concepts developed from Hmong folklores, mythologies and the Hmong Diaspora.

Sierra Lovejoy

Lovejoy Ceramics

I make dishwasher, microwave, food safe pottery that mostly consists of mugs, bowls, jewelry dish’s, plates, cups and vases. These vessels are always one of a kind and unique with their colorful glaze and different firing techniques. Each pot has a uniquely beautiful look to it and allows me to explain the history and facts of pottery.

Sigried Johnson

Tinges of Hope, LLC

Original acrylic paintings reimagined as artist-designed journals and paper goods that bring quiet beauty into everyday life.

Susan Galkowski

WHISKED AWAY

Functional and decorative hand tied Appalachian Folk Art style whisk brooms and brushes with a modern twist.

Susan Koehler

Leaf Street Pottery 

Susan Koehler makes a wide variety of functional pottery, mainly table and kitchenware, but also decorative pieces. All pieces are hand thrown using her own stoneware clay body.

Susan Roskens

The Pressing Garden

Botanical jewelry with a boho flair incorporating art glass, copper and pressed flowers.

Theresa Frost

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.

Tim Nelson

Norm’s Creations by Tim Nelson

Woodworking primarily using a bandsaw to produce wooden boxes accentuating beautiful wood.

Timothy Kobs

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.

Valerie Kathryn

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.

Will Brzezinski

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.

Zoe Klosterwill

Zoe Klosterwill Studio

Zoe Klosterwill produces botanically inspired paintings, prints, and cards through layered drawing, carving, and painting of flowers that connect her to her garden, her community, and the landscape.

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