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Michael Minick
5-9 p.m. Thursday, May 13
When he knew he was dying of cancer, ceramicist Michael Minick said this to his wife Janie about the work he would leave behind: “You do whatever you want. Dump ’em in the pond. Smash them up.”
Mike passed away in 2018. What he left behind were...
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41st National Print Exhibition
Artwork is submitted from all across U.S.
The 41st National Print Exhibition has put Artlink on the map with print artists around the country.
Given that Artlink opened in 1979, annual exhibi...
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Voices
DJ E-Clyps’ photography finds gallery audience
Music was the first form of artistic expression for DJ E-Clyps, his first opportunity to express himself to the world.
But one unsatisfying year as a...
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Utesch
Utesch is also known for local band Metavari
Who can forget The Beatles’ crosswalk, the Velvet Underground’s banana, the Rolling Stones’ zipper, Judas Priest’s razor blade, Pink Floyd’s...
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Larry Burrows: Life in Vietnam
Burrows’ photos brought war into living rooms
For younger people, the Vietnam War is a piece of history, something they heard about from parents, grandparents, or teachers. But the images of war t...
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Art Gone Wild
Trubble exhibit raises support for Black Pine
With COVID-19 in high dudgeon and events that were scaled back a month ago being canceled outright, there isn’t a lot to look forward to these days....
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Alexandra Hall and Jeremy Stroup
Garrett Museum of Art hosts bright paintings
Alexandra Hall took a rather serendipitous route to becoming a full-time fine artist.
She always loved art and expressing herself through it. But sh...
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Falling For art
Support art with new Falling for Art event
The arts community has been hard hit by the realities of 2020, especially for artists who do their biggest business through art fairs and festivals al...
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The Orchard Gallery of Fine Art
Stepping in when fairs, festivals are shuttered
For many of the area’s art galleries, the Covid-19 crisis has taken a toll. But it has also provided the already creative among us the opportunity t...
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David Shapiro: Transcendent Abstractions
Fort Wayne Museum of Art keeps Shapiro’s works in the public eye
Long before he became executive director of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Charles Shepard was a young curator in New York City, working among the many...
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Margaret Burroughs
Burroughs known for co-founding a museum
The Margaret Burroughs exhibit at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, which opens this Saturday, Dec. 7, has its origins in an unlikely place.
When Mary An...
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Holiday Pop-Up Gallery
The Art Farm hosts its annual pop-up gallery
When Lisa Vetter and Paul Siefert met almost 30 years ago, sharing a farm in Spencerville and making art for a living wasn’t exactly the plan.
But ...
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Alexandra Belyaeva
Belyaeva is working through emotion
Artwork titles often define abstraction. You can usually find a melodramatic name like “A Moonlit Blemish” or “Inner Decay” on a little white ...
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Jake Patten
Most artists can pinpoint their beginnings somewhere in elementary school. Maybe they were given their first set of paints as a birthday present, or t...
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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...
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Jerrod and Kara Tobias
Downtown Fort Wayne and its surrounding areas have latched onto a new trend: large, colorful murals on the facades of buildings usually frequented by ...
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Jeremy Stroup
Like many artists, Jeremy Stroup finds it hard to define himself as one, or even process what exactly that means.
With one look at any of his creatio...
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Dox Thrash
Dox Thrash, an artist whose work is currently on exhibit at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, was talented and innovative, providing work that represented...
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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 why she eagerly agreed to be part of the Second Chan...
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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 about the little-known but centuries-old craft begin...
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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 head, a gigantic bison, or a wild boar. They’re la...
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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 gallery coordinator but also as an artist herself....
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Nancy Fritz
Pay attention to the city’s art scene, from colossal alleyway murals to farmer’s market popups, and you’ll notice Fritz Studio making a frequent...
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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 a statement.
That is, unless you’re describing...
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Lindsey Berggren
Local wunderkind Lindsey Berggren churns out more art each week than you probably have hanging in your house.
Berggren was interested in art at a you...
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whatzup Pick
Imagine owning and living in one of the most interesting houses in Fort Wayne. Now imagine opening up that house five days a week to the public so tha...
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En Hughey
Colorful yet simple landscapes featuring bold, black lines make up En Hughey’s ink and paper illustrations.
“I find inspiration while walking my d...
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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 through many musical genres, the beauty and artistr...
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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 way by the number of paintings, both minuscule and ...
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Brenda Drayer
Growing up in Muncie, Brenda Drayer's favorite class was art. But even though she says she was always hanging around the art department throughout hi...
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Michael Collins
Sometimes being in the right place at the right time can lead to destruction. A stray bullet finds its way through your body or your car gets caught ...
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Matt Plett
Drive south out of downtown on Fairfield, past the neighborhoods that randomly switch from uber-swanky to rundown, and you'll eventually be visually ...
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Featured Artist
Sculpture can be an illusive medium. Sure, clay comes to mind, and, of course, that god-awful scene from the movie Ghost, but the great works of scul...
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Featured Artist
Katherine Rohrbacher has been pursuing art her entire life. When she realized she had talent, she dove deep into it in high school. Once she found ou...
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Featured Artist
If Nick Ferran took a look in the mirror, he’d see himself: a handsome, bald-with-a-beard, 27-year-old with glasses. But what he’d also see is wh...
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Featured Artist
The first glance at Gregg Coffey’s work elicits almost too many thoughts to handle. There are bright colors, geometric lines, abstract shapes, poli...
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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 go.
For some, the wave never becomes more than an...
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Art Moves
When John Byrne arrived in town last year to assume his duties as artistic director for Fort Wayne Dance Collective, his first appearance came as t...
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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 excite him. It might be street life in Paris, a sunr...
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Taste of the Arts
Arts United serves up something special for those wishing to dig into Fort Wayne's cultural delights. In a new two-day format, Taste of the Arts has ...
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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 older. But the truth is that most colleges and un...
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Ruisard
Ian Ruisard is an artist with many gifts and ways to apply them. Labeling himself as a graphic artist, his talents shine through in a cohesive style ...
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Featured Artist
Ian Ruisard is an artist with many gifts and ways to apply them. Labeling himself as a graphic artist, his talents shine through in a cohesive style ...
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Jason Rowland
Jason Rowland's art is instantly recognizable - not because he doesn't have contemporaries, but because the subjects that he chooses to modify to cre...
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Featured Artist
JJoshua looks at the world as a place he hopes to help improve. This improvement through his art and positivity is a main goal of this Canadian-born ...
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Featured Artist
Nazar Harran spreads big thoughts across big canvases. His work is bold and shouts for attention. Once compared to Franz Klein, known for explosion...
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With reading glasses perched at the tip of his nose and a brush spiked with just a few, well-manicured hairs in his hand, Sam Hoffman begins another ...
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Featured Artist
No paintbrush or chisel will be found in Alec Johnson’s studio. He works with pixels microprocessors and flat screens. During a recent show that br...
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Featured Artist
Bryan Ballinger is a man who looks at the world through a unique lens. The artist is described by gallery director Bridget O’Riley, as an artist wh...
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Featured Artist
Look at a painting by Cathy Blyth and you’ll see fields of thick acrylic color stretching across the picture plane overlapped by slashes, smears an...
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Down a flight of wooden stairs, in the basement, hangs a curtain of Visqueen that hides the artist’s workspace. A sheet of drywall mounted to the w...
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Featured Artist
Thick bold lines contrast with thin details while swoops and zigzags intersect with each other, creating hundreds of organic and geometric shapes tha...
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The Artlink Gallery is about to be taken by storm. Currently hanging is a retrospective show that is safe to say will bring in hundreds of people bef...
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Featured Artist
Nina Bennett is an artist who has the Midas touch. Whatever she is involved in vibrates with the energy of art. Her creative mind expands far beyond ...
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Featured Artist
This past June, Roanoke’s Crestwood Gallery hosted an exhibit entitled Permutations, a series of 17 single-print photographs shot with an eye that ...
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Nestled in the heart of Fort Wayne’s beautiful West Central neighborhood is the studio and home of local artist Diane Groenert. Her studio is drenc...
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Featured Artist
Mark Phenicie is a collector of all things old. He’s a man who can look at an object, add a flash of creative thought and turn that object into s...
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Featured Artist
A series of pits dug into the earth and filled with smashed pots are powerful testaments to the demand for accuracy and quality that the artist, Rich...
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If you’ve taken a stroll through Artlink or Crestwood galleries lately, you might have noticed a few surprising pieces hanging on the walls. Justin...
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Featured Artist
The writing on the window leaves no question. There is a new gallery in town. The tiny building that shares a wall with the popular Phoenix restauran...
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Featured Artist
As a student schlepping drinks to earn her way through college, Alexandra Hall watched her patrons carefully as they slipped into topsy-turvy convers...
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Featured Artist
Enter the office of Cara Lee Wade and you enter the lair of a multifaceted artist with a vibrant personality crowned by an ever-changing head of hair...
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Featured Artist
Into a building that has served as a doctor, lawyer, and dentist office enters a woman who has been a zookeeper, lifeguard, SCUBA instructor, dolphin...
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Featured Artist
Down the sidewalk, up the stairs, down the hall and into the studio, an artist practices his craft in a downtown studio using materials to experiment...
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Long, worn curls of salt-and-pepper hair suggest that Matt Mabis is a free spirit who has collected a rich history of story and adventure. The wrinkl...
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Featured Artist
Give a kid a shovel and he will dig – and dig, and dig, and dig. Joseph Pelka, a local ceramicist, connected with the earth (mud specifically) at...
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Featured Artist
In early October 2013 two adult whales and one juvenile were carefully loaded onto a moving truck and carried south to the Port Canaveral, Florida. T...
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Featured Artist
There was a time when artist Nathan Taves worked in an office surrounded by blueprints, land surveys and aerial photographs. He studied the details o...
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Featured Artist
On October 19, photography enthusiasts worldwide sat in front of computers streaming live feed from the premier international award for black and whi...
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Featured Artist
A neatly trimmed building topped with green shingles sits just off the intersection of Columbia and Tecumseh. Inside what used to be a gas station, a...
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Featured Artist
Over one year ago, on June 29, 2012, a powerful storm littered city streets with huge branches and fully mature trees as it blasted its way across Fo...
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Featured Artist
Many stage actors got their start in theatre to overcome shyness. Others fell into performing because they are natural entertainers. Tracey Buckmaste...
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Featured Artist
Jan Hoffman spits out words like “quinophothalone yellow” and “pyrrol crimson” the way most of us talk about what to eat for dinner. You as...
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With family roots burrowing through Indiana soil for over 200 years, Douglas Runyan is an artist whose deep connection to our state’s history is re...
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Thousands of colorful dots wrap the surface of a unique sculpture, entitled “Sun Kissed,” that rises above the heads of staff and students at Hom...
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His drawings are grand. His tools are simple. Htoo Doh reveals the strength and subtleties of the human spirit in drawings that are executed with suc...
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Featured Artist
There must be something in the water that supplies the 46807 zip code. The area is a spring of artistic talent. Once again I found myself rolling slo...
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Featured Artist
Jody Hemphill Smith and her husband, Mark Paul Smith, have roots that run deep under the pavement of West Wayne Street. Hemphill-Smith was raised in ...
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Featured Artist
I met with Suzanne Galazka in her classroom at Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery located inside the Auer Center for Arts and Culture in downtown Fort ...
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Featured Artist
Loading five kids into a van and zooming down the road to drop daughters off at ballet class, then turning around to race to the soccer field for ano...
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Tucked up in a $3 padded chair scavenged from a recent GE auction, I leaned close to a tiny space heater, hoping that my chilled red nose would go un...
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Tucked away southwest of Warsaw, just a few miles off of U.S. 30, sits a potter’s sanctuary. Not just any potter’s sanctuary, but one owned, work...
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Featured Artist
There are many ways to go about getting your big break. Luck usually plays a huge role. Sometimes it comes down to who you know or striking when the ...
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Featured Artist
Fashion; follow it or not, trends in personal attire are a fairly accurate barometer of current culture. “Fashion statements” are indicators of t...
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Though several years it appeared alongside delightfully snappy graphics in the Fort Wayne afternoon daily, the name Sam Minick might be familiar to m...
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Every artist has experienced the following at some point: A well-meaning friend or relative shares with them the work of another artist whose brush o...
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Fort Wayne potter Kristy Jo Beber is one of those lucky people who realized early on what they love to do, are terrific at their craft, and have figur...
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Featured Artist
Earlier this month Rebecca Stockert succeeded in placing first runner-up visual artist category in the annual whatzup Readers Poll (Whammy Awards). T...
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The downtown neighborhood of West Central is to Fort Wayne what Greenwich Village is to New York City or what Georgetown is to Washington, DC. Renown...
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In sitting and chatting with Audrey Ushenko one is quickly drawn
into a life rich with music, painting, family and friends. Yet as accessible as th...
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Is there anything prettier than colored glass? It is perhaps the one man-made material that rivals the luminescent beauty of flowers. In flower petal...
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As you read this sentence, very likely somewhere in the world a small, hand-crafted postcard is starting to make its way to the small town of North Ma...
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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 girl. During the work-a-day week she's in the adm...
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Featured Artist
Diners, don't be alarmed. If you look up from your plate of pasta to find a blank wall staring back at you, it may not be the restaurant's fault. P...
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Collared once with the label "man of the cloth"
for his intricate fabric collages,
fifty-few-year-old local galleryist Joel Fremion
remains tod...
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Featured Artist
Consider this description of a
12-year-old work as a not so simple, but
revealing portrait of local philosopher/artist
Jeff Strayer: The piece, e...
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This is a story about David Seculoff, who,
disguised as a mild-mannered, part-time doorman
during the day, becomes a mild-mannered
clarinetist ...
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Featured Artist
Chatting with Beth Albright at her dining table on Fort Wayne’s south side, it is hard to keep focused on the artist, attractive and vibrant though...
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Style trumps pretty much everything except
aesthetics according to artist Tim Johnson. It's an adage clearly manifested in
the 33 pieces that compr...
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Julia Meek, the widely respected Fort Wayne visual artist and radio personality, has become so associated with all things folk, eco-sound, pantheistic...
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For most of us that culminating last snapshot in the bathroom mirror, cursorily taken in preparation to face the
world, grants immediate answers. ...
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One of three award winners from the Fifth
Regional Exhibition in January, Sayaka Ganz, the
young metal sculptor, brings a wispy breath of
fresh...
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It's been four years and four months ago since internationally known sculptor and former Fort Wayne resident Dale Enochs
soloed at his friend Davi...
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Attired in a pair of baggy khaki shorts, a
burnt orange t-shirt and cross trainers,
32-year-old clay artist Charlie Cummings recently
sat calm, c...
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Featured Artist
Go Figure. Drawing, a fundamental, if not
the most elemental skill in an artist's tool kit
is losing status in some academic quarters.
Not so f...
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Local artist Gary Travis wears several hats. Soon he'll be turning them.
The 53-year-old has spent the past 15 years at
IPFW as the university...
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One of a recognizable, yet small, cache of local
plein air or, outdoor, painters living and
working in Fort Wayne, Karen Moriarty stands out
as...
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In many ways the 56-year-old local artist Bill
Snyder provides the dictionary definition of
He hasn't had a public showing of his works for...
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Karen Thompson, the revered educator and
much-admired photographer, may have finally found
her la querencia, that place staked out in the
arena b...
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Featured Artist
Doing something halfway or part-time typically
produces a result that is itself but half-baked.
But for the well-regarded local painter Tom
Kee...
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For 45-year-old Fort Wayne native David Krouse -
the painter, sculptor, set designer, gallery
owner, teacher, father, husband, house painter
an...
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Confronting a Don Kruse work for the first time may make you feel the need to dial up Mapquest, find the Rosetta Stone or search for a user’s manua...
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Wearing jeans, a neatly ironed striped, button down-collared shirt
and soft suede leather boots, retired IPFW art department associate
professor...
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Columbia City artist Tom Hubbard is one of those people who look exactly like who they are — like the female dancer whose ponytail, leotard top, je...
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The unassuming (except for the pony-tail and ear stud),
reasoned and articulate Renaissance man Matthew Jones, now in his early 40's, has spent ne...
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At 28 Sal Soto has already been around the block a couple of times.
Raised on South Lafayette Street (his parents still live there), the
younger...
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A pilgrim with perhaps tens of thousands of miles under his belt artist George McCullough doesn't give you the feeling that he's been in pursuit of t...
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Pretensions are out the window when you meet Art Cislo in his studio at his quaint South Side home. Clad in suspender-hung khakis and his traditional...
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At 50, Terry Haffner is a mature man who dominates a room. He's a
fast talker, articulate, assured, one of six siblings that include a
lawyer an...
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A cross between the classic curmudgeon and Yoda, the much respected Russell Oettel -
fine arts Professor Emeritus at IPFW, former head of the Fort ...
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When she arrives she appears in a color-coordinated outfit: red and black cardigan sweater over a black blouse with tailored black slacks and ox-blo...
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You gotta ask yourself: Is there an inherent problem with the whatzup
polling procedures regarding the Whammy awards for best visual artist?
With ...
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Consider the basket. For thousands of years, people have used them to carry, haul and store countless items, from life-giving grain to romance-induci...
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It's been a few years since painter Crystal George last roamed the dusty paths and narrow lanes that frame the public market of Cochabamba in Boliv...
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According to industry figures from a couple of years ago, there were nearly 200 million cameras in the U.S. accounting for something like 17 billion...
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To distill the essence of local painter Michael Poorman's recent work
is to retrace the artist's own 40-plus-year journey of collecting,
discardin...
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It took just a brief moment for artist Terry Ratliff to scout up a couple chairs and place them pretty much in the center of his solo exhibition the ...
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It may have only been a wild fantasy back then. It may not have even been anything that conscious. But Joseph Andersen's journey to this point starte...
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Perry Mason wouldn't stand for it. Neither would Johnny Cochran, but his objection would be more stylish. "If it's hearsay, it cannot sway," he'd tel...
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I figure at least on some days illustrator/musician Chris Pyle awakens to a
universe populated by edgy, cartoonish musicians and singers. They appe...
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I'm no daredevil, particularly when it comes to art. I'm comfortable with a paintbrush or a pencil, but I generally stay away from media that are cap...
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