Artists: Deborah & Paul Bahm
Mount Vernon, OH
Deborah and Paul’s art consists of wood turnings using wood from fallen trees, with an emphasis on usable birdhouses, bird feeders, kitchen wooden ware & ornaments. They recycle forests into art.
Kathleen Dlabick
Columbus, OH
Kathy’s photographic subjects include flora, waterfalls, and the shores of Maine.
Kathy Woodruff
Beavercreek, OH
A self-taught glass artist, Kathy started working with the material in her parents craft shop when she was just 15 years old. Most of her artwork is inspired by the nature: birds, waves, water, trees. She attends over 20 art fairs every year.
Jack Pine
Laurelville, OH
Jack studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design and refined his skills at the glass houses of Seattle. Drawn to nature and inspired by its organic forms, he returned to his Southern Ohio roots to open a glass blowing studio for himself and other artists in the woods of Hocking Hills.
Mindy Sand
Mindy Sand
Chagrin Falls, OH
Mindy hand paints colorful and fun glassware using glazes that are fired at a low temperature. She compares painting on glass to a watercolor artist painting on a canvas. She uses lines, patterns and colors to create playful and functional pieces of art.
Michelle Ishida
Company: Starfish Earth Clothes
Columbus, OH
Michelle combines printmaking, drawing and painting with her love of fashion, music and nature to create screenprinted bags and leather purses.
K-Bellum Leather
Artist: Mikiko Kory
Nashville, TN
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Mikiko moved to the United States from Japan in 2002 to teach Japanese. When one of her students wanted to trade leather working lessons for Japanese language classes, she said yes and began her journey into leather designing in Nashville, Indiana. She combines the best features of traditional Japanese aesthetic design and American artistic innovation to produce leather products that are beautiful and will last for years.
Karen Yassenoff
Columbus, OH
A former elementary-school art teacher, Karen designs unique jewelry using metals including copper, brass and silver.