2020 Virtual Webster Arts Fair

clay

Sherri Alexander @Full Circle Pottery

My work is wheel thrown and handbuilt porcelain that is decorated with happy colors and designs. These pieces are food, microwave and dishwasher safe.

Audry Deal-McEver @audrydealmcever

I start by throwing a blend 50% porcelain - 50% white stoneware clay on the pottery wheel. After the pieces stiffen up, I then carve ornate patterns into the surface inspired by historic textiles from India. Later the pieces are finished with food safe cone 6 glazes and fired in an electric kiln.

Jennifer Falter @springfieldpottery

Jennifer Falter creates wheel thrown porcelain vessels with sgraffito carving through a black slip.

Nathan Falter @springfieldpottery

Nathan Falter makes stoneware wheel thrown vessels.

Rebecca Grant

I create wheel thrown and hand built pottery and decorative pieces made from porcelain and stoneware clays. Each piece is hand carved with imagery using the sgraffito method and enhanced with colored underglazes. All functional work is finished with a clear glaze for durability and everyday use.

Laura Hohn @newspinontradition

My work is a combination of wheel-thrown and hand-built stoneware and porcelain fired in an electric oxidation kiln. I focus on clean lines and strong, simple forms. I add texture and visual interest through carving, stamping and layering the slips and glazes I mix myself. My pieces are inspired by nature and pattern with a strong focus on functionality and design. I have chosen to make functional pottery because knowing my work will be used by others gives me a sense of connection and purpose.

Kathleen Kelly @Klayworks

Each piece is individually hand built clay. I especially like using slabs but I use all methods of hand building. I use a sandy stoneware clay body that has a nice toasty brown fired color. Other colors are added using velvet underglaze, glaze and stains. The pieces are fired twice and have a nostalgic old toy look.

Rebecca Livingston

I use a high fire, white stoneware. The majority of my work is wheel thrown though some pieces, such as tea trays, have slab rolled additions. Pieces are trimmed and dried then bisque fired in an electric kiln to 1800°F. Pots are decorated using hand cut stamps, trailed glazes, wax resist, and brush work. The glazed pottery is finished in a propane fueled kiln fired to 2400°F. Some pieces are embellished with polished copper and black onyx cabochons. My thrown pieces are delightfully lightweight and well balanced while still preforming their intended function.

Joseph Pelka

The inspiration behind my work stems from the desire to take something from the earth and create vessels that will be valued from generation to generation. The infinite variety of forms and designs that can be achieved with clay is why I choose to work with this medium. I have always appreciated and been fascinated with nature and incorporate it into many of my designs.

Stephanie Pierson-Hutson

Most of my POND SCUM pieces begin as wheel thrown vessels. The vessels are altered and appendages are attached to form some creature. Each piece is kiln fired to 2165 degrees, a temperature that helps provide strength to the piece. The finish on each piece is a base coat of acrylic paint with ceramic stains and textured acrylic paint detailing. I prefer using acrylic paint over traditional ceramic glazes because they afford me a much wider range of color which adds to the whimsy of my work. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I enjoy making them.

Morgan Whitson @meow.lady

I create functional ceramic pieces to be used throughout the home. Each piece is unique. I’m intrigued by the relationship that each collector has with their piece of my artwork. My surface treatment is playful and bright. I hope to evoke a feeling of delight from the viewer, much like I experience when I see a piece finally complete. Each piece is thrown on the wheel, hand altered, hand painted with slip in colorful combinations, glazed & fired multiple times. Some are detailed with gold luster and fired a third time.

Colleen Williams @colleenwilliamsclay

These sculptural and decorative forms are hand-built using colored porcelain and are layered with colorful porcelain slips, all of which are from my own recipes. Using resists, wax and shellac are drawn onto the forms during the layering process to create a surface that is rich with textural pattern and color. Pieces are further enhanced with underglaze painting and multi-fired to accommodate the decorative process.

Digital Art

Geoffrey Harris @GeoffreyAaronHarris

My Original Digital Paintings, created entirely on the computer, are inspired by my collection and passion for antique toys and games. I strive to create unique and contemporary artwork with a nostalgic quality. I create my Digital Paintings on a 27 inch Apple iMac with the use of a WACOM graphics tablet. I digitally draw and paint the artwork with two software applications called Inkscape and Photoshop. I print a limited edition of each image with an EPSON Stylus Pro 3800 printer using archival inks and paper. I also matt and frame all of my artwork .

Fiber Arts

​Amos Amit

Batik is an ancient and unique art form.  It can be both primitive and modern, bold and detailed. It has a flexibility and a brilliance that few other media can claim. The technique is a difficult one and takes many years to master. The picture, with its various colors, must be planned in its entirety before the process is begun. Unlike other media, any mistakes made in batik cannot be corrected-thus the need for a very skilled hand and eye. Care must also be taken in the choice of fabric, wax and dye.  There are several steps in the creation of a batik. Each color achieved requires a double process repeated until the batik is completed.

Katrina Bennett @katrina.zchori

Katrina Z’Chori is a lifestyle brand specializing in one-of-a-kind wearable art. Founder/Owner, Katrina Bennett launched the brand in 2010 while working full-time as an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Lindenwood University. She now spends most of her days in her studio hand crafting unique wearables out of natural fibers like string, twine and rope for some designs, and cotton or linen textiles for others. 

Candiss Cole-Footitt

My husband and I dye yarn and weave fabric for dresses and jackets for women sizes petite through xxxl. All our fabrics and designs are original and all the construction is done in our home studio.

Christin Gilchrist @twobelmontsisters

At Two Belmont Sisters our goal is to design and construct functional long lasting handbags and soft goods that people love to not only look at, but also use on a daily basis. We work in small batches which allows us to ensure the highest quality, utilize all materials, and minimize waste. Our canvas is hand waxed with domestic organic beeswax, making our products naturally antibacterial/water resistant, and our products are sewn in house with precision.

Anna Repke

What LOOKS like a painting is actually made from wool. I hand dye wool, lay it out in three layers with my intended design on top, get it wet, rub and massage it which turns it into felt. After I rinse and dry it, I then take a special needle to poke wool fibers in to create details. I poke instead of paint! The felt is stretched like a canvas picture or attached with velcro onto a foam board.

Jeri Vitello

My weaving begins with organizing my spun wood pulp yarn into a warp which I then hand paint using dyes mixed from the three primary colors. Once the warp is ready, it is beamed onto a manually operated loom and woven. The cloth is then cut and sewn into a garment with careful consideration to design and color.

In addition, I weave using yarn with differential shrinkage which creates three dimensional cloth which has different patterns on each side. This cloth is then constructed into garments that are reversible or added to garments that has been woven with the hand painted cloth to added texture and interest to the jacket.

Glass

Lisa Becker

Most of my work is made with murrini I design and pull. The murrini starts as a 1500 degree Fahrenheit block of glass that is pulled into long rods. Each rod contains a unique concentric circle design inside. Once cooled, the rods are nipped into thousands of individual pieces. They are meticulously pieced together and fired again at 1500 degrees. After firing, all pieces undergo a series of coldworking techniques which gives the edges of the glass a professional appearance.

Tom Bloyd

I have dedicated the last 20 years to designing with metal and blown glass, striving to find a balance between rich color and fluid movement. My interest in metalworking started in college with jewelry making which later turned into much larger scale sculptural pieces. My larger work incorporates metal and blown glass. My work is widely collected through the U.S. and on display in a variety of private, corporate and community locations.

Leslie Friedman

My cast fusing methods involve layering thin sheets of glass and frit, using different colors to create impressionistic images of nature with three dimensional integrity. I often frame each piece using textural linen matting with a simple black frame or a sculptural frame is used to create dramatic composition.

Melanie Mollman Hancock

I make decorative and functional fused, kiln formed, and cold work finished glass. I focus on clean, modern designs that celebrate the unique qualities of glass. I enjoy creating pieces that highlight color shadows and contrasts between transparent and opaque glasses. I love bright color combinations and am inspired by Mid-Century Modern design styles.

Robin Kittleson

Robin Kittleson of Geneva, Illinois, creates striking art glass of timeless modern beauty, using an ancient glassmaking technique known as murrine. Kittleson has a contemporary line of ethereal mosaic glass plates and platters. Each piece is handmade and one-of-a-kind. Her process relies on the old Venetian technique for making kiln-formed mosaic glass. Murrine, or murrino, is the Italian term for colored patterns made using long glass rods, or cane. The exciting colorations are revealed when the canes are crosscut in sliced sections.

Chris McCarthy

My work is a complex mix of both the hot and cold side of the glass medium. I'm fascinated with the ability to play with fire and create a unique form as I sculpt each piece, thinking about the effect of light and diffraction. I use the Venetian techniques of Murrini, Incalmo and Battuto to give each piece depth and complexity. 

Janice and Rick Moore

We create kiln formed glass and metal wall art and sculptures. Metal is cut from sheets with a plasma cutter, welded and polished. Glass is cut from sheets and fused in a kiln. The two mediums are then combined to form a piece of art. We incorporate stainless steel for the metal.

David Tate

I began working with molten glass in 1983.  Then started to offer works for sale in 1987.  It is wonderful to share my creations with you and know there are many enjoying my blown glass in their homes around the country. 

Jewelry

Stefany Brown

Minimalism, playful balance, and illusion guide my design as I create each one of a kind piece. Technique: Blown glass murrini sliced & kiln formed into custom sheet glass. Each piece is hand cut from the new sheet, cold worked and polished. Finally the pieces are set in hand-forged sterling and fine silver to create my minimalist designs.

Amy Buettner @amybuettnertuckerglasow

Using high karat golds and sterling silver, the jewelry is created using traditional fabricating techniques. Each piece features the finest stones possible, many of which we source, slab and cut ourselves in our lapidary studio. We use tooling, forming, forging, sawing, soldering and setting techniques to make each jewelry piece. Patina is always applied to enhance the textures and depth of the one of a kind designs.

Theresa Carson

My work is fabricated sterling silver. It is given various surface finishes to define the space within each piece, including oxidized, polished and matte. By juxtaposing the cool finish of polished sterling silver with textured and patterned oxidized areas, I strive to give my pieces warmth and a real awareness that they are of the hand, yet modern and clean at the same time.

Mixed Media 2D

Mixed Media 3D

Painting

Photography

Sculpture

Wood

John hecker @tattoo_dreams_art

John Hecker’s handmade story boxes contain themes of love, art, music and peace. Extending on these themes, his coveted Good Karma Bead Strings are like no other– highly collectible and can be displayed in a wide range of locations.

Works on Paper

Gary Bachers @garybachers

Art is a second career for Gary Bachers and he pursues it with the same passion he did his first after a devastating life event. He creates colored pencil works that are brilliant and vivid, masterfully created. These works often challenge any preconceptions the viewers have about pencil works.

Joseph bodus @jbdesignillustration

I am a local graphic artist/illustrator from St. Louis, MO. My main focus is fine detail pencil drawings of local St. Louis and surrounding cities historical buildings, landmarks, and iconic sports. My work is design to have an old vintage look to it.

Alison Bozarth

Detailed, shaded, and brilliantly colored, these pieces of art show an interesting perspective on extinct or nearly extinct animals and sea creatures. Images are graphite drawings over abstract watercolor paintings using Daniel Smith watercolors and Yupo paper.