Connect with Babes in the Woods artists past and present...
we hope that you enjoy their vision and artwork as much as we do!
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Alaskan Earth Mamas
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairbanks-AK/Alaskan-Earth-Mamas/183188942208
The
world has provided us with plants to nourish and heal our bodies. We are rediscovering
our roots as people of the earth and re-learning to safely use the
materials at hand in a responsible way. Alaskan
Earth Mama's hope to help you and your family enjoy and receive the
benefits of these plants with their wonderful body care products for
Mama and child.
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www.shop-bella.com
Originally from Western NY state, Annie came to Alaska in August of 2004,
bringing with her an intense background in metal work and fine arts.
Her love of all things crafty expanded once again during her first long
Alaskan winter where she taught herself to knit. Annie's work can be
found in established shops as well as online at www.anniepants.etsy.com
Annie is co-owner of Bella Boutique in Anchorage. The
doors to Bella Boutique opened in early 2007 and their distinct mix of
jewelry and style has been flowing out ever since. From handbags to
jewelry, and hats to lip balm, the Bella Girlz carry handcrafted goods from a
variety of local and national artists. Their goal is to bring you the
highest quality accessories that will accent your personal style.
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Ashley Hovis
More information on this artist coming soon!
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Brianna Reagan
http://www.etsy.com/shop/AwedBoxArt
Brianna is a Fairbanks-based artist, specializing in mixed media fine art. Her creations stretch and inspire the imagination, they are simultaneously lovely and haunting. You have to see them for yourself to really understand.
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Catherine Warden ~ 'The Dragonfly Lady"
sedirect@yahoo.com
I have the good fortune to have been raised by studio
artists and musicians, specifically my mother and grandmother. Much of
my training has come from watching them train other artists. My passion for
dragonflies is much more recent. I started sketching and painting ACEO cards in
2006 at the Saturday Market and introduced my work at a friend's booth in the
State Fair. Dragonflies represent dreams and illusions which fit perfectly with
the whimsical, colorful nature of my heart. My interest in dragonflies has
revealed that they are territorial and even bite!
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Colleen Goldrich ~ Moondance Alaska
www.moondancealaska.com
I began my adventure in jewelry design in 1991 while
pregnant with my first child, Max.
I really needed a creative outlet so my mother-in-law, Hannah Goldrich,
began teaching me how to make earrings. My ideas come from many places. I love to use unusual combinations of
color, shapes and textures in my work.
Color, which has such a strong influence on mind, body and soul, has
always been important to me. I
find inspiration comes in many ways.
Something as simple as a leaf on a tree, a gorgeous piece of fabric, or
my friend Terri, coming over with a new blouse or skirt needing a great piece
of jewelry to pull her outfit together. I get it from my kids and the great ideas they have, ideas with no boundaries and uninhibited by age. Inspiration also comes from the
incredible wild landscape of Alaska.
From my home in the flats of downtown Juneau I am surrounded by
towering mountains and the sea.
The seasons provide an ever changing landscape of color and light and
are a never ending source of awe and inspiration.
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Eberhard Brunner
www.eberhardbrunnerphotography.com
When
Eberhard Brunner retired from his alpine
ski career, he left Austria to accept the
position as Alaska's first ski racing coach. He fell
in love with a land rich of splendor, challenge
and beauty.
As a guide and pilot, he has
seen much of Alaska's back country, villages and people. Today, as a freelance
photographer and writer, he
has become host and consultant for
sportsmen and photographers visiting Alaska.
His assignments have taken him to Africa,
Asia, Australia, Siberia and Europe.
Today,
in addition to his photography and writing activities, Eberhard
organizes and accompanies photo safaris in Alaska and Africa.
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Glacier Dyeworks ~ Dave & Lana Scanlan
www.glacierdyeworks.com
Glacier Dyeworks is located in the heart of glacier country in
Hope, Alaska. We, Dave and Lana Scanlan, are textile artists who take
pride in our work. Collectively, we have over 20 years experience
producing fabulous tie dye! In fact, many people discover different
images that appear in our detailed crinkle work.
Using traditional techniques, we hand tie and dye each garment individually so no two are exactly alike.
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Gladheart Acres
More Information Coming Soon!
Please visit their products online at www.gladheartacres.com
or by emailing: info@gladheartacres.com
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Heather Krawlec ~ Mountain Heather
www.mountainheather.com
Fairbanks based artist Heather Krawlec of Mountain Heather
creates one of a kind wearable art. Best known for her original line of
Mountain Heather fleece hats, her creations now include fleece baseball caps,
vent hats, headbands, painters caps, and cotton skull caps. Mountain Heather
hats are inspired by the magnificent views of the Alaska Range - including
Mount Hayes, Hess Mountain, Mount Deborah, and Denali (though rarely seen from
Fairbanks). Often the twin sister mountains, Hess and Deborah, loom in the
Fairbanks horizon. These twin sisters are the mountains represented in the
Mountain Heather logo.
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| Jen Otey ~ MOONbow ARTworks
www.moonbowartworks.com
Jen Otey is a Mother, Artist, and Architect living in and
inspired by the birch trees of Fairbanks, Alaska. She moved to Alaska in the
Summer of 2000 from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, following the
receipt of her degree in Architecture from Virginia Tech. Growing up in what is
considered the Bible belt of the United States lent to her great love of
Nature, God/Goddess, the Holy Spirit, and Christ. Jen has also lived in many
other wonderful places that have offered her teachings and teachers of
Shamanism, Buddhism, Magic, and a love and reverence for Mother Nature. Over
the years she has developed her intuition as a tool for creating works of art
that speak to people on a spiritual and intuitive level, honoring the sacred
feminine in us all.
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Jordan Pagels
www.jordanpagels.com
You could say that Jordan Pagels makes a life of 'dreaming in
grandeur'. Pagels' work as a contemporary designer has found his
signature scroll work and languid curves in the realms of costume,
scenic and lighting design, as well as photography and architectural
rendering. Pagels is originally from Boulder Colorado and attended
Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle Washington.
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Julie Clem ~ Alaska Leash Company
More Information Coming Soon!
Visit Julie & Alaska Leash Company online at:
www.alaskaleash.com
or by emailing julie@alaskaleash.com
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Karen Daniels Johnson was
born in New Orleans on January 26, 1968. She began art lessons while in
grade school and continued to study and create art throughout her life,
culminating at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. After 16 years in
Alaska, she is still in awe of its majestic mountains and glorious
vistas. Through her work, Karen hopes to share that sense of amazement
with you.
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Kathleen M. Benner ~ Mossy Hill Studio
More information on this artist coming soon!
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Kathy Turco ~ Spirit of the Arctic
www.spiritofthearctic.com
More information on this artist coming soon!
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Keith Greba
www.keithgreba.com
Keith came to Alaska in the early 70's through a tour of
duty with the U.S. Coast Guard as a shipboard navigator and traveled
extensively throughout the state. Since completing his tour of duty in 1977, he
attended the University of Alaska and studied art and worked summers as a
commercial fisherman. Throughout the years he has worked with a variety of art
forms including decoy carving, ivory scrimshaw, pen and ink drawings, and
painting in several mediums. He remembers winning his first art show in the
third grade and his work has been accepted and placed in numerous art shows
around Alaska. He now resides in Sitka, painting in the winters from the
inspiration and ideas he gets as a captain of his own charter boat which he
operates in the summers.
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Kitty Kincaid (KAT's) Scarves
http://www.silks.tv
K.A.T.'s Silk was founded in Anchorage, Alaska in
1993. K.A.T.'s is an acronym for Kincaid's Art Tech. Kitty Kincaid,
an emerging silk artist sells her art pieces through the Internet, retail
stores and galleries. All scarves are washable with regular
clothing. Throw the scarf in the washer / dryer / and steam iron the
back. Enjoy the scarf and your memory of Alaska with its wildlife or
floral beauty.
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Kristy Hall ~ Alaska Gadgetry
www.alaskagadgetry.etsy.com
Kristy is the creator behind these funky resin-based pieces of art. Functional
forms of relevant gadgetry and images, her work is a perfect combination of
skill and fashion. Hip jewelry, belt buckles and money clips... her work will
be sure to captivate the comedian in you.
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Laura Pinnick ~ Krafts with Kare
www.alaskakraftswithkare.com
Krafts
With Kare is a home based business in Wasilla, Alaska, dedicated to
making products that mothers, fathers, babies and grandparents love!
Operation began in 1993, when Laura Pinnick, a stay-at-home mom,
realized the need for high quality and affordable baby items and gifts.
These items and gifts are special in that each and every item is made
with a special touch ~ Love, softness, and comfort for that certain
special bundle of love
(whether it is a girl, boy, or even twins)!
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Leah Sturgis
www.leahsturgis.com
Inspiration for Chicago born artist Leah Sturgis comes from
the place where landscape and architecture intersect. Her unique, handmade
jewelry captures the mystery of wild elements ~ caribou antler, porcupine
quill, wood, fresh water pearl ~ in structured, clean designs, creating pieces
that are both elegant and organic. Many of Leah's materials come from Alaska,
where she lived for 12 years before moving East. Born and raised in Chicago,
Ill, Leah developed a strong artistic sense and began creative exploration at
an early age. Her parents said that, "If you give Leah enough paper and
tape she will build a house."Leah's studio is located in Alexandria,
Virginia, where she lives with her
husband, musician Frank Solivan. Her work can be found in galleries
across the country, from the tiny outpost of Chicken, Alaska to New York City.
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Lee Post ~ Your Square Life
www.yoursquarelife.blogspot.com
Lee Post, world-renowned cartoonist (well at least known in
his cul-de-sac) brings his slightly weird, sarcastic wit to print in this
compilation of cartoons compiled from his wildly popular comic strip, Your
Square Life, that ran for too many years to count. Sympathize with his odd
assortment of robots, clueless losers, bored office workers, and other
characters as they muddle through life in these cynical, sometimes too realistic,
always hilarious cartoons. He elevates the un-cool parts of us to the status of
comic strip superstars, celebrating the underdogs and those uncomfortable
moments we all would like to pretend never happened.
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Lena Kilic ~ One World Designs
www.oneworlddesigns.us
www.shop-bella.com
Making jewelry a full time endeavor has been a wild ride for designer
Lena Kilic. From a small booth at the weekend market One World Designs
has evolved into a wholesale and retail line around the US. Inspired by
fresh and simple styles, Lena's goal is to make pieces that will be in
your collection for years to come. You can visit her work online at www.oneworlddesigns.us
Lena is a co-owner of Bella Boutique in Anchorage. The
doors to Bella Boutique opened in early 2007 and their distinct mix of
jewelry and style has been flowing out ever since. From handbags to
jewelry, and hats to lip balm, the Bella Girlz carry handcrafted goods from a
variety of local and national artists. Their goal is to bring you the
highest quality accessories that will accent your personal style.
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Marika Carey
Somewhere in the midst of deciding what I wanted to be when
I grew up, I had kids. Loving to
be outside, even in negative 20, I now needed to make clothes to keep my babies
warm while I skied. One garment
led to another as one year led to the next. Pretty soon specific requests were being made for dresses
(in the heart of winter), pockets that look like horses, and fairies on their
fleece hats. In clothing my
children and myself, I've grown to love my sewing machine and think of it as my
most prized possession. Now I've
decided to put my creations out there and see if other families can enjoy them as
we have.
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Melanie Darling ~ Sister Hipster
www.sisterhipster.com
Sister Hipster was started by two hip sisters: Melanie
Darling and Brandi Sessions. They were looking for fun and funky baby clothes
and gear. In the absence of affordable cool, the sisters decided to take
matters into their own hands. One sister knew all about sewing and the other
sister started asking her for handmade items. An idea was born. Since both
sisters were new mommies they began creating practical, cool items they could
use themselves. People started
noticing, and so, the sisters started selling! And now the adorable style being
rocked by our two cute tots is available to babies, toddlers and even moms
themselves.
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Nancy Nolfi ~ Pizzazz Fiber Arts
www.pizzazzfiberart.com
Nancy Nolfi's unique "Pizzazz" fiber arts are created in her Big Lake studio
surrounded by her family's 160 acre homestead of pristine Alaska
wilderness. Nancy has been immersed in the beauty of Alaska all her
life - a privilege she never takes for granted. It is this natural
beauty, serenity and harmony that inspire the pieces she designs.
For
over 20 years Nancy has been creating interesting, beautiful fiber
art. Her most recent passion is needle-felting and surface design.
Before working with fiber, Nancy expressed her creativity for 17 years
designing and creating stained glass art for both commercial and
residential installations.
Nancy's
commitment to art leads her to her studio every day where inspiration
takes over and she combines a wealth of interesting materials,
needle-felts and crochets with Italian novelty fibers, recycles
fabrics, incorporates jewelry pieces and chooses from thousands of
unique buttons to make useful, beautiful, fun, wearable art.
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Rebecca Poulson ~ The Outer Coast
www.theoutercoast.com
Rebecca grew up in Sitka, Alaska, a town of about 8000
people on the outer coast of the southeastern Alaskan archipelago. For about
ten years she worked as a shipwright repairing wooden fishing boats, went to
boat building school in England for a year, and cofounded the Sitka Shipwrights
Cooperative. She also worked occasionally as a deckhand on trollers and
longliners. Rebecca learned wood engraving around 1992 from Dale DeArmond, who
had just moved back to Sitka. In 1996 she started doing art and her calendar,
the Outer Coast calendar of art and poetry. In 2000 Rebecca received an MFA in
printmaking at Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. She is now working on new
art, and putting in a lot of time with the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to
restore a WWII marine ways as a maritime museum and WWII interpretive center.
That website is www.sitkamaritime.org. Rebecca has a husband, Eric Dow, a
little girl, Cora Grace Dow, and a son: Asa James Dow.
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Samantha Geuss ~ Alder Patch Art
Naturally Inspired Creations
www.alderpatchart.com / www.babesinthewoodsAK.com
Samantha has grown up enjoying the unique freedom and wildness of Alaska, and
our state continues to inspire her art-making and lifestyle. She works
primarily in the mediums of photography, graphic design, and apparel
design. Her work is inspired by the particular joie de vivre of
capturing beauty in unexpected places, and by the simultaneous exploration of oneself and the outside world. The themes of her artwork resonate with others who are compelled to explore the world 'out there', and to follow their wanderlust into the woods or across time zones. She is the co-founder of Babes in the Woods LLC, a mobile gallery that represents Alaskan Artists.
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Sandy Kleven ~ Heartworks
www.heartworksak.net
Sandy's visual work is a collection
of mixed-media images evoking multiple and changing possibilities. Kleven
is better known as a poet and writer. When words fail her, she tears up paper
to create collages, many suggestive of landscapes and the natural world.
She sometimes fills them with words. In May, 2009, Kleven
read poetry at the Spenard Jazz Festival, backed by a band. Kleven has
published poems and essays in several journals and is the author of two books, The
Right Touch and Holy Land. Work will appear this year, in Cirque
and Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska.
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Shelbi Lynne Laughlin ~ Pullin' Dandelions
www.pullindandelions.com
Born and raised in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Shelbi
Lynne grew up with a fervor for the outdoors and backwoodsian Alaskan
adventure. These things, along with an irrational fear of cats, makes being a
full-time artist her only real option. Her current artistic workings include
mixed media paintings, a smattering of lampworking, and other inspiring randoms
as they come to life. She hopes that you are pleased with her visions of art
and that her work inspires you to look at the world with a profound sense of
awkwardness and general elation towards pirates!
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Stephanie Timmerman ~ Free Spirit Creations
smtimmerman@excite.com
or http://evenkeel.etsy.com
Born and raised in Alaska, I grew up in rural Dillingham
without reliable television service, so I had ample time to channel my
creativity into making things. As the daughter of a commercial fisherman, I
find great inspiration in the water and things in it. You'll see lots of blues,
silver, browns, greens, and golds in my work with a little sunset red.
I am fortunate to be the product of an artistic clan. My
family includes painters, potters, carvers, and a whole bunch of good cooks! My
niche in all this is jewelry-making. I've been at it for fifteen years and have
more fun with it each time I pick up my pliers! What I love about designing
jewelry is the chance to make something meaningful out of simple items: wire,
rock, crystal, and glass. These items are elemental and basic but become
something to grace a life when combined with patience, joy, and an eye toward
sparkle.It's my hope that my jewelry is worn to happy occasions since laughter
is really what makes things beautiful.
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Stephen Nigl ~ Adrift Photography
www.adriftphotography.com
Picture this: A group of gathered friends or
family. Imagine them wherever you like: at home, a coffee shop, out
hiking - whatever. Do you have the image? See the guy in the group with
the camera? That's me! I've been a photographer for over 15 years.
Hobbies have come and gone; but my photography has always survived
life's changes! The camera is my tool, my diary, and my compass.
In
today's world, it seems that everything has been said and done. There
is always someone out there who has done it 'better' than you. But
photography turns this idea upside-down. It's a record of how you see
your world. Of who you are. Life has taught me that there will always
be somebody who finds your unique world-view interesting.
My course through life has been largely
determined by circumstance. Adrift, I'm searching for meaning through
the lens of a camera, and I'm taking you with me! Thank you so much for
taking an interest in my work.
Stephen Nigl
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Susan Beaupre
Susan grew up in Florida, and attended the Savannah College of Art
and Design, in Savannah, Georgia, where she majored in Graphic Design
and Illustration. Several elective classes in jewelry arts, soon fueled
a passion that would guide her down an unforeseen career path. After
graduation, she braved the advertising world and taught elementary art
for several years. Always creating art. After the arrival of her two
children, she began creating jewelry professionally.
All of Susan’s work is handmade and totally created from start to
finish by the artist herself, using the lost wax process and
fabrication. In her Alaska studio, she works primarily in silver and
embellishes her work with semi-precious stones. She is inspired by the
natural world around her and her jewelry has an organic feel to it. She
also enjoys displaying uplifting, iconography on her pieces. Something
everyone can relate to.
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Tasha Walen & Lincoln Farabee ~ Basement Studios
www.basementstudiosalaska.com
Basement Studios is a collaboration between glass artists,
Tasha Walen & Lincoln Farabee. Their glass studio in located on Douglas
Island, which is just a stones throw away from downtown Juneau, Alaska. The
studio seems to have two seasons: "chaos" (May through December) and
"winter" (January - April). During the chaos seasons, Tasha &
Lincoln find themselves working with glass everyday, going downtown to check in
at the Juneau Artist co-op gallery they belong to, and, of course, walking the
dogs on the beach. During the "winter" season, they watch the
snowfall, make more glass beads, shovel the snow, and still manage wet, cold
dog walks. The artists enjoy traveling all over to spend time with amazing
glass teachers. Previous teachers include, Larry Brickman, Kimberly Jo Affleck,
Sabina Boehn,& Davide Penso (Murano, Italy).
The type of glasswork Tasha & Lincoln do is called
"lampworking" or "torchwork". They start by placing a glass
rod in the flame of my oxygen/propane torch. They work with many different
types of glass (effetre/vertofond, borosilicate, Bullseye, many different types
of 96 coes) The glass is heated into a molten ball and applied to a stainless
steel mandrel rod used to form the center, or hole of the bead. From this
point, different colors, shapes, and textures are added. Both artists
experiment with silver foils, metal rods, enamels, etching and glass first to
create chemical reactions. Exploring and pushing the boundaries of what the
glass can do is endless.
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Tassita Tonena-Rawlins ~ "Alaskan" Zipper Pulls
http://akzipperpulls.com
Each
one of Tassita's Alaskan zipper pulls are truly one-of-a-kind. She
specializes in creating zipper pulls for each unique person and
intended function. These little pieces of functional art just make life
better.
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Whaley Schmoyer ~ WHL DESIGNS llc
ART FOR THE INSPIRED
www.whldesigns.com
Whaley
was born and raised in Alaska, to her, one of the most beautiful and unaffected
places in the world. She has been drawing since she was very little and only
started to paint a few years ago, using mostly oils in the beginning then
slowly expanding into acrylics and papers creating multimedia works. In art,
above all else she is mesmerized, enamored even, by texture. Whaley hopes you
see this and find what you are looking for in her art. Please visit her website to find
further inspiration: www.whldesigns.com.
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Whetstone Gallery ~ Ed Hutchinson & Jan Knutsen
www.whetstonegallery.com
More information on these artists coming soon!
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