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Ron Campbell
In 1964, Australian animator Ron Campbell received a call in the middle of the night from TV producer Al Brodax.
Brodax wondered if Campbell wanted to work on a kids’ show about beetles.
“I thought for a minute,” Campbell recalled in a phone in...
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Jerrod and Kara Tobias
Downtown Fort Wayne and its surrounding areas have latched onto a new trend: large, colorful murals ...
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Jeremy Stroup
Like many artists, Jeremy Stroup finds it hard to define himself as one, or even process what exactl...
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Dox Thrash
Dox Thrash, an artist whose work is currently on exhibit at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, was talent...
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Second Chances Art Exhibit
Art can be therapeutic. It can tell a story. And for Jennifer Crickmore, it can do both. That’s wh...
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The Art of Metalsmithing Exposed
Art lovers will be able to dive into metalsmithing this month when Artlink features an exhibition ab...
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Downtown Art
Take a stroll through downtown Fort Wayne and you might see a panda with an ice cream cone on its he...
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39th National Print Exhibition
When Maddie Miller talks about the upcoming exhibition at Artlink, she’s speaking not only as the ...
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Nancy Fritz
Pay attention to the city’s art scene, from colossal alleyway murals to farmer’s market popups, ...
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Indiana Artisan Furniture Guild + 2D Artists
Furniture is typically functional and usually comfortable, but it doesn’t always stand out or make...
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Lindsey Berggren
Local wunderkind Lindsey Berggren churns out more art each week than you probably have hanging in yo...
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whatzup Pick
Imagine owning and living in one of the most interesting houses in Fort Wayne. Now imagine opening u...
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En Hughey
Colorful yet simple landscapes featuring bold, black lines make up En Hughey’s ink and paper illus...
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Fort Wayne Museum of Art
While music created by guitars has been providing artistic pleasure to millions for many years and t...
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Featured Artist
When I walked into local oil painter Peter Lupkin’s in-home studio, I was bombarded in the best w...
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Brenda Drayer
Growing up in Muncie, Brenda Drayer's favorite class was art. But even though she says she was alwa...
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Michael Collins
Sometimes being in the right place at the right time can lead to destruction. A stray bullet finds ...
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Matt Plett
Drive south out of downtown on Fairfield, past the neighborhoods that randomly switch from uber-swa...
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Featured Artist
Sculpture can be an illusive medium. Sure, clay comes to mind, and, of course, that god-awful scene...
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Katherine Rohrbacher has been pursuing art her entire life. When she realized she had talent, she d...
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If Nick Ferran took a look in the mirror, he’d see himself: a handsome, bald-with-a-beard, 27-yea...
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The first glance at Gregg Coffey’s work elicits almost too many thoughts to handle. There are bri...
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John Hrehov
Art has a way of sweeping us up as children, letting us ride its wave as far as we are willing to g...
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Art Moves
When John Byrne arrived in town last year to assume his duties as artistic director for Fort Wayn...
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Oil Painters of America
Oil painter John Michael Carter spends a lot of time traveling the world looking for scenes that ex...
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Taste of the Arts
Arts United serves up something special for those wishing to dig into Fort Wayne's cultural delight...
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Shakespeare's Island
It's easy to think of a major university parked in your own city as a great option as your kids get...
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Ruisard
Ian Ruisard is an artist with many gifts and ways to apply them. Labeling himself as a graphic arti...
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Ian Ruisard is an artist with many gifts and ways to apply them. Labeling himself as a graphic arti...
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Jason Rowland
Jason Rowland's art is instantly recognizable - not because he doesn't have contemporaries, but bec...
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JJoshua looks at the world as a place he hopes to help improve. This improvement through his art an...
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Nazar Harran spreads big thoughts across big canvases. His work is bold and shouts for attention. ...
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With reading glasses perched at the tip of his nose and a brush spiked with just a few, well-manicu...
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No paintbrush or chisel will be found in Alec Johnson’s studio. He works with pixels microprocess...
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Bryan Ballinger is a man who looks at the world through a unique lens. The artist is described by g...
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Look at a painting by Cathy Blyth and you’ll see fields of thick acrylic color stretching across ...
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Down a flight of wooden stairs, in the basement, hangs a curtain of Visqueen that hides the artist...
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Thick bold lines contrast with thin details while swoops and zigzags intersect with each other, cre...
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The Artlink Gallery is about to be taken by storm. Currently hanging is a retrospective show that i...
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Nina Bennett is an artist who has the Midas touch. Whatever she is involved in vibrates with the en...
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This past June, Roanoke’s Crestwood Gallery hosted an exhibit entitled Permutations, a series of ...
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Nestled in the heart of Fort Wayne’s beautiful West Central neighborhood is the studio and home o...
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Mark Phenicie is a collector of all things old. He’s a man who can look at an object, add a fla...
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A series of pits dug into the earth and filled with smashed pots are powerful testaments to the dem...
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If you’ve taken a stroll through Artlink or Crestwood galleries lately, you might have noticed a ...
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The writing on the window leaves no question. There is a new gallery in town. The tiny building tha...
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As a student schlepping drinks to earn her way through college, Alexandra Hall watched her patrons ...
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Enter the office of Cara Lee Wade and you enter the lair of a multifaceted artist with a vibrant pe...
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Into a building that has served as a doctor, lawyer, and dentist office enters a woman who has been...
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Down the sidewalk, up the stairs, down the hall and into the studio, an artist practices his craft ...
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Long, worn curls of salt-and-pepper hair suggest that Matt Mabis is a free spirit who has collected...
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Give a kid a shovel and he will dig – and dig, and dig, and dig. Joseph Pelka, a local ceramici...
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In early October 2013 two adult whales and one juvenile were carefully loaded onto a moving truck a...
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There was a time when artist Nathan Taves worked in an office surrounded by blueprints, land survey...
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On October 19, photography enthusiasts worldwide sat in front of computers streaming live feed from...
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A neatly trimmed building topped with green shingles sits just off the intersection of Columbia and...
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Over one year ago, on June 29, 2012, a powerful storm littered city streets with huge branches and ...
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Many stage actors got their start in theatre to overcome shyness. Others fell into performing becau...
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Jan Hoffman spits out words like “quinophothalone yellow” and “pyrrol crimson” the way most...
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With family roots burrowing through Indiana soil for over 200 years, Douglas Runyan is an artist wh...
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Thousands of colorful dots wrap the surface of a unique sculpture, entitled “Sun Kissed,” that ...
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His drawings are grand. His tools are simple. Htoo Doh reveals the strength and subtleties of the h...
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There must be something in the water that supplies the 46807 zip code. The area is a spring of arti...
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Jody Hemphill Smith and her husband, Mark Paul Smith, have roots that run deep under the pavement o...
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I met with Suzanne Galazka in her classroom at Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery located inside the ...
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Loading five kids into a van and zooming down the road to drop daughters off at ballet class, then ...
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Tucked up in a $3 padded chair scavenged from a recent GE auction, I leaned close to a tiny space h...
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Tucked away southwest of Warsaw, just a few miles off of U.S. 30, sits a potter’s sanctuary. Not ...
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There are many ways to go about getting your big break. Luck usually plays a huge role. Sometimes i...
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Fashion; follow it or not, trends in personal attire are a fairly accurate barometer of current cul...
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Though several years it appeared alongside delightfully snappy graphics in the Fort Wayne afternoon...
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Every artist has experienced the following at some point: A well-meaning friend or relative shares ...
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Fort Wayne potter Kristy Jo Beber is one of those lucky people who realized early on what they love ...
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Earlier this month Rebecca Stockert succeeded in placing first runner-up visual artist category in ...
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The downtown neighborhood of West Central is to Fort Wayne what Greenwich Village is to New York Ci...
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In sitting and chatting with Audrey Ushenko one is quickly drawn
into a life rich with music, pai...
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Is there anything prettier than colored glass? It is perhaps the one man-made material that rivals ...
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As you read this sentence, very likely somewhere in the world a small, hand-crafted postcard is star...
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It's not easy at times to find
the multi-dexterous Susie Suraci.
She's not a recluse, just a
busy...
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Diners, don't be alarmed. If you look up from your plate of pasta to find a blank wall staring ba...
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Collared once with the label "man of the cloth"
for his intricate fabric collages,
fifty-few-y...
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Consider this description of a
12-year-old work as a not so simple, but
revealing portrait of lo...
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This is a story about David Seculoff, who,
disguised as a mild-mannered, part-time doorman
dur...
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Chatting with Beth Albright at her dining table on Fort Wayne’s south side, it is hard to keep fo...
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Style trumps pretty much everything except
aesthetics according to artist Tim Johnson. It's an ad...
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Julia Meek, the widely respected Fort Wayne
visual artist and radio personality, has become
so...
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For most of us that culminating last snapshot in the bathroom mirror, cursorily taken in preparat...
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One of three award winners from the Fifth
Regional Exhibition in January, Sayaka Ganz, the
you...
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It's been four years and four months ago since internationally known sculptor and former Fort Way...
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Attired in a pair of baggy khaki shorts, a
burnt orange t-shirt and cross trainers,
32-year-old ...
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Go Figure. Drawing, a fundamental, if not
the most elemental skill in an artist's tool kit
is lo...
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Local artist Gary Travis wears several hats. Soon he'll be turning them.
The 53-year-old has ...
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One of a recognizable, yet small, cache of local
plein air or, outdoor, painters living and
wo...
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In many ways the 56-year-old local artist Bill
Snyder provides the dictionary definition of
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Karen Thompson, the revered educator and
much-admired photographer, may have finally found
her l...
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Doing something halfway or part-time typically
produces a result that is itself but half-baked....
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For 45-year-old Fort Wayne native David Krouse -
the painter, sculptor, set designer, gallery
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Confronting a Don Kruse work for the first time may make you feel the need to dial up Mapquest, fin...
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Wearing jeans, a neatly ironed striped, button down-collared shirt
and soft suede leather boots...
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Columbia City artist Tom Hubbard is one of those people who look exactly like who they are — like...
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The unassuming (except for the pony-tail and ear stud),
reasoned and articulate Renaissance man ...
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At 28 Sal Soto has already been around the block a couple of times.
Raised on South Lafayette S...
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A pilgrim with perhaps tens of thousands of miles under his belt artist George McCullough doesn't g...
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Pretensions are out the window when you meet Art Cislo in his studio at his quaint South Side home....
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At 50, Terry Haffner is a mature man who dominates a room. He's a
fast talker, articulate, assu...
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A cross between the classic curmudgeon and Yoda, the much respected Russell Oettel -
fine arts Pr...
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When she arrives she appears in a color-coordinated outfit: red and black cardigan sweater over a ...
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You gotta ask yourself: Is there an inherent problem with the whatzup
polling procedures regardin...
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Consider the basket. For thousands of years, people have used them to carry, haul and store countle...
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It's been a few years since painter Crystal George last roamed the dusty paths and narrow lanes t...
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According to industry figures from a couple of years ago, there were nearly 200 million cameras in...
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To distill the essence of local painter Michael Poorman's recent work
is to retrace the artist's ...
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It took just a brief moment for artist Terry Ratliff to scout up a couple chairs and place them pre...
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It may have only been a wild fantasy back then. It may not have even been anything that conscious. ...
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Perry Mason wouldn't stand for it. Neither would Johnny Cochran, but his objection would be more st...
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I figure at least on some days illustrator/musician Chris Pyle awakens to a
universe populated by...
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I'm no daredevil, particularly when it comes to art. I'm comfortable with a paintbrush or a pencil,...
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