Ohio Designer Craftsmen
Fine art & craft, art exhibitions, education and more
Artist: Todd Pink
Oneonta, NY
Combining his interest in conceptual art, geology, cooking, gardening, and chemistry, Todd Pink creates SoapRocks. Each SoapRock soap bar lights up underwater, and over many uses, slowly weathers away. The soap bars are endowed with extracts of earth: aloe, calendula, chamomile, comfrey, lavender, vitamin E, jojoba oil, olive oil and almond oil.
Artist: Ashley Summerlin
Indianapolis, IN
Facebook.com/ColumbusCrayonCo.com
Columbus Crayon Company is a small business that takes old broken crayons and recycles them into new, fun shapes that make learning fun! My making crayons into shapes, they become more durable and easier to grip for small hands.
Company: Jean Schnell Photography
Cleveland Heights, OH
www.jeanschnellphotography.com
Jean Schnell is a Cleveland-based professional and fine art portrait and wedding photographer. In her personal work, Jean approaches her art the same way she does her life; to challenge herself to have the faith to let go, to explore, to trust, to give, to receive- without the need to see reason, or predict and control the outcome.
Columbus, OH
Mary Ann Crago’s favorite thing about making art is the making. It’s the creative process that she loves most and the discoveries that happen along the way. Inspired by nature, her work explores the beauty of objects whose histories are muddled, hidden and lost.
The bird-like figures who appear throughout her work are the “guardians” of it all. Guardians of dreams, guardians of history, guardians of people and place. Each piece is built from a collection of smaller parts and each smaller part is integral to the identity of the larger work.
Athens, OH
Passion Works began as a collaborative community studio in 1998 where people with and without developmental differences made art together. The non-profit studio remains a trailblazer in creating integrated settings where people investigate their own talents and interests while participating in community-based programming and creative employment opportunities.
Artist: Jenny Turner
Daisy, MO
www.Villagedesigns.com
Dodie Eisenhauer, has been making her wire mesh and springy wire designs since 1989. Her daughter, Jenny Turner brought new and fresh energy to the business in 2010 with the introduction of jewelry and has taken over the business since her Dodie’s passing in 2020. Her pieces are created after she coils the wire, appearing to be a “spring”. Springerlee sounds the part but is really a type of German cookie. Her jewelry is made with silver plated copper wire. It has been permanently colored and made for jewelry. The Orbanizers, trees and larger items are made with steel wire. They will not rust.
Berlin, MD
For nearly 40 years, Chris has been designing and producing unique note cards featuring her hand-drawn original designs embellished with tatted lace, which is also made by hand. The tatted lace as an integral part of the design and represents a key element of the overall artwork. Tatting is the age-old art of making delicate lace by hand, looping and knotting a single cotton thread using a small shuttle.
