Artist: Jane Evans
Title:  Nonna's Famous Sauce
Medium:  Redwood, Acrylic paints
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Artist Statement

After retiring from a great career of teaching – elementary and music/fine art. I knew I wanted to branch out into visual art. Louisville Art Association offered me the opportunity to explore this. 

I’ve been painting and involved with the art community for 18 years.  I have had the opportunity to learn from many experts like Lorenzo Chavez, Ivadell Marie, Albert Handel,  Lee Mcvey to name a few. I have been juried in the Winter Park Art Trail (2x), Plein Air at Altitude competition ( 4x), Boulder County Open Studio Plein Air Festival.   My art is in many private collections in Minnesota, California, Florida, Idaho and here in Colorado. 

My garden poles are sculptures that tell a story of the person whose gardens they reside in.  Poles have included stories of a person’s love of typewriters; a love of goats; and the love of water sports.  They feature nature, bright colors, and words that express the person receiving it.  The poles are weather resistant. Painted on redwood 4x4’s ,4-6 feet tall, outdoor paint and are finished with a marine varnish.

Painting outside (plein air) is my main focus as I love being able to combine my love of nature to my love of creating art. When I can’t be outdoors, I love working with many other mediums from acrylic, mixed media and garden poles.

Artist: Arabella Melick
Title: Tomato Gems
Medium: Mixed Metals
Website
Instagram: Arabella232323

Artist Statement

Arabella Melick works from her studio in Longmont Colorado.  

Her passion and expression are in the art of welding.  Inspired by the human form and nature, her signature sculptures are steel dresses, torsos & shoes, created from cut, hammered & shaped steel leaves and various mixed metals. Before this new career move, Arabella spent years behind a sewing machine creating soft sculpture for corporations and a line of fleece outerwear for babies and young children called AB Seas Funwear.  Creating garments and pattern making were key to her success in the early years and naturally spilled over into this new medium of metal.  

Fascinated with the idea of bending, shaping, weaving, riveting, sewing, and welding mixed metals, Arabella continues to explore these combinations of construction, hoping to tell the viewer a story of line, shape, balance, and possibility.

Artist: Denise Micciche
Title: Prepping the Sunday Sauce
Medium: Mixed Media (Acrylic & Wood Burning)
Website 
Instagram: @denisem0407

Artist Statement

I have always enjoyed working with wood. As an art student in the 90’s, I practiced the art of woodblock printmaking as well as painting, and my love of each allowed me to receive my BFA in both mediums. Thereafter, I continued doing both – at first mostly woodblock prints, but when ‘studio’ space became too challenging for printmaking, I focused on relearning my painting skills. Acrylic painting remained a constant in my art making, and is now incorporated into my latest passion – wood burning (pyrography).

Combining these two art forms has felt like a happy medium for me. By incorporating wood burning into my images, I attempt to create a unique way of portraying shadows and highlights within a painting. I enjoy using the tool like a paintbrush, utilizing it as color as well as contrast.

Artist: Dorothy Weiner
Title: Oh, Sei Can You See?
Medium: Acrylic
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Artist Statement

As a somewhat recent transplant to Colorado, Dorothy is delighted by the botanical diversity here and by the endless opportunities to depict it. She is a member of two weekly plein air painting groups: Plein Air Artists of Colorado and Louisville Art Association’s Plein Janes. 

She works primarily in acrylics, creating canvases filled with color and joy. Her goal is to depict the natural world with creativity, while adding something of the artist to the image. Dorothy is known for colorful florals and stylized aspen paintings inspired by the high-country forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, 40 minutes from her home.

She has shown her paintings widely across Boulder County, in galleries, shops and cafes, and has been a member of several juried arts organizations, including Open Studios and East Boulder County Artists. She has served on the Louisville Art Association board, where she launched Paintings for NonProfits, an annual charitable initiative that beautifies the common areas of local food banks, shelters and other nonprofits with donated artwork.

Artist: Patty Ellis
Title: Tomato Reading
Medium: Wool
Website

Artist Statement

A Northern Colorado based artist working in a variety of mediums including oil, pastel, textiles and photography. She is active in the Louisville Art Association, participating in the plein air group weekly.  She grew up with an artist mother, Mary Moate, who taught and influenced her in many ways. Nature is a major theme, though portraits and architecture are also interests.

Besides learning from her mother, she studied art and design at Louisiana State University at Lafayette, as well as many workshops and classes throughout the area.  Patty was represented in the former New Orleans gallery Anglade-Barthelemy. Her love of vibrant color shows in her work as well as harmonies found in nature and beyond.

Patty has been creating needle felted “whimsies” for a few years showing and selling them at art and craft shows.  Recently she has been exploring 2D felted paintings.

Currently showing landscapes at REMAX Louisville.

Artist: Anthony Adamsky
Title: Il Pomodoro di vetro
Medium: Glass
Website
Instagram/Tiktok: @adamskyglass 

Artist Statement

Anthony Adamsky founded Adam Sky Glass in 2021 and currently works at the Globeville Riverfront Art Center. As a self-taught artist with a background in architectural design, Anthony brings a uniquely contemporary approach to the historical craft of stained glass.

His works have been acquired by collectors based in India, Japan, Australia, Germany, and the UK, as well as private individuals and companies located across the United States. Having established his stained glass studio as a commercial venture, he has recently turned his focus to artistic, functional installations in the fine art realm that fuse queer perspectives with traditional aesthetic genres such as Art Nouveau, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the architectural styles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe.

“The ability to play with light in such a romantic way will always bring my heart joy. Watching the shadows dance throughout a space at different times of day creates a sense of whimsy I find intoxicating.”

My goals include creating a series of sculptures that reinterpret stained glass into a modernist style through my own contemporary lens, infused with new ways of creating and thinking about my medium.. I was recently commissioned to create a sixteen-panel pentagonal lamp that measures over six-feet-tall. Its shape invokes an abstracted cactus, an indigenous plant of the American Southwest. I hope to explore this concept further with the underwater concept by designing multi-sided, large-scale lamps that reflect the landscape, such as a coral reef. My idea would include a multisided sculpture and invokes the multidimension shapes of the coral reef and expresses the vibrancy of the colors of the ocean. I would personally love to light these from the inside to where they glow on the beach and depending on how it gets submerged have them lit underwater as well. I appreciate your time to read my proposal and love to continue the conversation of iterating this concept through the creation of a sculptural series that exists in dialogue with nature.

Artist: Rita Vali
Title: La Torre di Pomodori
Medium: Ceramics
Website
Instagram: @ritavaliceramic
Facebook: RitaValiCeramics

Artist Statement

Rita has worked in ceramics for over 35 years as a ceramic artist and educator, creating porcelain pottery, sculptural work and installations for public spaces, gardens and businesses.  Rita finds great joy in making the world of ceramics accessible to others — through her pottery, teaching classes and workshops, or installations that bring communities together. In both the solitude of the studio and the energy of the classroom, clay continues to challenge and inspire her. Each piece she creates reflects her passion as a maker.

Artist: Genevieve Waller
Title: Beaded Tomato
Medium: insulation foam, glue, toothpicks, fabric, dressmaker pins, sequin pins, starflake beads, and rondelle beads
Website
Instagram: @thepopeelopes

Artist Statement

Genevieve Waller (she/her) is an artist, curator, and writer who was born in the heyday of disco and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She holds a B.A. in art history from Wichita State University, an M.F.A. in photography and art history from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She currently lives in Aurora, Colorado, where she is the founder and editor of the art journal DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis (in print and online at dariamag.com), which documents and promotes the visual art scene in the Colorado Front Range. In her creative practice she focuses on photography, installation art, and sculpture and is concerned with the porous boundary between interior decoration and fine art, the legacy of Surrealism, and dethroning the seriousness of high art.