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Alexa Adamson

Visual Arts: Ceramics

Alexa is a ceramic artist currently living in Indianapolis, IN with her 3 cats. She spends her time being covered in paint and glitter as the art coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis, while finishing her BFA in ceramics at Herron School of Art and Design.

N. Danette Alles

Visual Arts: Ceramics

I grew up in a typical Midwestern family in Michigan. Always interested in art, but discouraged from following it as a career, I obtained a degree in accounting from Michigan State University. After spending many years in bondage as an accountant, I finally broke free and returned to school to pursue a degree in fine arts. As a graduate of Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, with a BFA in Ceramics, I continue to pursue my love of everything creative.

Slim Avre

Artist of Color; Visual Arts: Earthworks, Murals, Painting

As an Environmental Artist whose life’s goal is to create Health & Pollution consciousness, visual art is her tool used to help the vision & build communities. Recognizing Art as an intellect for education & development is the key to creating a better world of our own. Focusing only on what beings need to live & love life.

Kay Bae

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

I am inspired by Eastern and Western cultures, and as a scientist, I take a trial and error approach to making art. I appreciate the beauty of lines, shapes, colors, and space in nature and the man-made world. My art is unique because of my diverse influences and my interest in time, color, and methodology. My work explores organic, deeply textured, and delicate beauty. My art is characterized by linear rhythm, dynamic movement, and varied materials that, along with vibrant colors, create bold compositions. I also like to incorporate a variety of paper and sewing techniques into my paintings, creating a highly textured mixed media work. I work in acrylic, oil, watercolor, collage, mixed media, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, sewing, crochet, and felting.

Andrew Ball

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Sculpture

As an artist I enjoy creating both decorative and functional sculptural pieces from a range of materials including: steel, bronze, iron, wood, glass and stone. I often work with recycled materials giving new life, purpose and beauty to things others would consider trash. Basically, I work to eat and create to live. I don’t look for a deep meaning in my pieces. Instead I want them to be fun and pleasing to look at.

Chris Bauman

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Radio/Television, Theatre; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Mixed Media, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor; Performance Art Instructor Improv

I am a Visual Artist as well as a Performance Artist. Visual media include Abstract on canvas, glass, wood, and others. I specialize in Paint Pouring Technique. I am an Instructor in the Pouring Technique. I have evolved into epoxy resin art, and rehabbing old table and counter tops. In Performance Arts, I am a professional actor, working in commercial and film, as well as live comedy, via Improv. I have performed Improv over 22 years in Indy, and am an available instructor.

Tasha Beckwith

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Portrait; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting

Tasha Beckwith is an Indianapolis-based visual artist. She studied painting and drawing at the Herron School of Art & Design, IUPUI, but honed her skills in graphic design and digital art on her own. Her portrait-based work combines expressionism, realism, and surrealism and she cites science fiction, fantasy, and Afrocentric themes as her inspirations. Recent work includes billboards encouraging participation in the 2020 census, participation in an artistic campaign encouraging people to #MaskUpIndy, and the neighborhood history mural inside the brand-new Martindale-Brightwood branch of the Indianapolis Public Library. Beckwith works in a variety of media including digital design, oil painting, and resin.

Clayton Benefiel

Visual Arts: Glasswork, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Driven by the process Influenced by tradition was an emphasis on craftsmanship inspired by the glass itself there truly is nothing like working with hot glass .

Megan Benson

Visual Arts: Textiles

As a fiber artist and weaver, Megan Benson explores themes related to identity, gender roles, and perfection. Megan’s work blends the traditional structures produced on a four-harness floor loom with unconventional techniques through embellishment and deconstruction. The passage of time, difficult life phases and the perceived permanence/impermanence of life is explored through the labor-intensive construction of a weaving, thread by thread. What appears insurmountable can be overcome one moment at a time and expressed one thread at a time. Megan is a recipient of the 2018 Indiana Arts Commission’s On-Ramp Fellowship. She was awarded the 2019 Volunteer of the Year Award by Exodus Refugee Immigration for her work leading an art and sewing group for refugee women. Her academic background in Anthropology informs her weaving explorations and support of culturally diverse weavers in and around Indianapolis. Originally from Pennsylvania, Megan lived in Massachusetts, Delaware, Oregon, Utah and Washington before settling in Indiana eight years ago. She weaves on an heirloom Harrisville four-harness loom that originally belonged to her husband’s grandmother.

Kelsey Bigelow

Visual Arts: Illustration, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

I have a fine arts background but I mostly draw cartoons for a living.

JD Bills

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Mural and commission based painter B.A. from Herron School of Art & Design

Linette Bledsoe

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting; Faux Painting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Stutz Artist Studio, Indianapolis, Indiana Prolific Artist (July 2011 – Present) Create and sell original, fine art pieces. Current bodies of work include newest series, Plasterworks, and existing series, Leafless and Something Old, Something New. Linette’s Painting & Fine Art LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana Owner and Artist (January 2009 – Present) Design and produce custom murals, decorative painting, and commissioned art pieces for commercial and residential clients in studio and on site. Continuously develop and create new techniques in mural painting and faux painting, and provide color consulting services to clients. Most recently collaborated with Chatham Home on the 2013 Indianapolis Decorator’s Showhouse for the third floor playroom to produce the large scale, landscape mural for the space. Custom Muralist, Decorative Painter and Fine Artist (July 2003 – Present) Received hundreds of commissions from both residential and commercial clients for projects ranging from nursery murals to faux finishes to commissioned reproductions. Collaborated with interior decorator Anita McClellan of Nita Designs LLC from 2003 to 2007 to fulfill all decorative painting needs of Davis Homes LLC, and for KB Homes in 2007. REPRESENTATION White Key Gallery, Valparaiso, Indiana 2015 EXHIBITIONS Plainfield Arts Gala, Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, Indiana, juried group show First Peek, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show Common Ground: Breaking Out of Tradition, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, two-person show Cold. Dark. Unsecurity. Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 2014 EXHIBITIONS First Jingle Stop, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show Art on the Avenue: New Work by Linette Bledsoe, Madame Walker Theatre, Indianpolis, Indiana, solo show Harvest Soul, Healing Arts Indy, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show Raymond James Corporate Office, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 1st Look, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show IDADA’s Sneak Peek for the Stutz, Cole Noble Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 2013 EXHIBITIONS Splendid Menagerie, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 1st Look, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 2012 EXHIBITIONS Splendor, Mirth and Good Cheer, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show One Peek Show, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show April Featured Artist Show, Chatham Home, Indianapolis, Indiana, solo show Put a Bird On It, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show Ten Yards, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show 2011 EXHIBITIONS Small Treasures, Stutz Art Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, group show OPEN HOUSES Stutz Artists Open House, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2012 through 2015 Stutz Artists Holiday Show, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2011 through 2014 PUBLIC WORK 2014 Decorator’s Showhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana Teen Study, collaboration with Chatham Home 2013 Decorator’s Showhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana Children’s Playroom, collaboration with Chatham Home 1st Place Key Award and 1st Place People’s Choice Award EDUCATION Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with minor in Art History May 2003 with High Distinction ORGANIZATIONS Stutz Artists Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 2011 – Present IDADA, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 2011 – Present PUBLICATIONS Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana “Linette Bledsoe Paints Her Pain” Published February 2015 Southside Times, Indianapolis, Indiana “Art: A Risky Business” Published July 2012 Indianapolis Woman, Indianapolis, Indiana “Five Questions For: Linette Bledsoe, painter” Published April 2012

Mandy Bouso

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor; Comic Books

Using the power of stories as my inspiration I seek to tell them visually with expressive and stylized art. With book illustrations, comics, and story boards I bring my stories, and my clients ideas, to life. Through intricate detail, lighting, atmosphere, and the sublties of emotion I capture stories to share.

Chris Bowman

Visual Arts: Crafts, Sculpture

Jacquelyn Brice

Multiracial; Performing Arts: Dance, Music; Portrait; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Photography, Portrait, Visual Arts Instructor

Performing arts: Dance Ballet Modern Contemporary Jazz Music Oboe Marimba Visual Arts: Painting: Oil Acrylic India Ink Watercolor Drawing Colored Pencil Charcoal Photography Action Shots Portrait Landscape

Angie Brooks

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

Alvin Brown

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting

Alys Caviness-Gober

Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Painting, Performers and Writers, Photography, Sculpture, Works on paper

Disabled Indiana author and artist Alys Caviness-Gober began exhibiting and selling artwork in 2012; prior to that, she taught Anthropology at Ball State University. Alys left a PhD program (Applied Linguistics) due to health issues. She is a Juried Artist Member in the Hamilton County Artists’ Association (painting and photography categories), where she served on the Board for many years in various officer positions. Alys founded Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. (LSS), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit music, arts, and education venue located in the heart of Noblesville, Indiana, and serves as the LSS Board Secretary. Alys’ paintings, photographs, and poetry have received national and international recognition.

Stephanie Cifuentes

Visual Arts: Crafts, Jewelry, Painting, Sculpture

Hi, I am a full-time work at McDonalds and a full-time student of IUPUI. I have all ways been good with my hands and eyes; even if I have glasses. I like experimenting. The more experiences and techniques I learn, the more I can grow as an artist. While some forms of art may be my weakness, it can be another’s strength.

Sonja Clark

I am a photographer who focuses on movement and the human body, primarily dancers. As the photographer for the Indianapolis Ballet, I have found myself gravitating toward dance photography more and more throughout the years.

Anne Cleary

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Vocal; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Textiles, Works on paper

Anne Cleary is a native Hoosier living in the Indianapolis area. She grew up out in the Zionsville countryside. Her childhood spent roaming the fields, creek and woods inform her work to this day. Much of her abstract work is based upon nature, landscapes and the sky, often referring to the mysterious connection human beings have with the natural world. She studied art, English, and vocal music in her undergraduate years, going on to pursue graduate work in vocal performance (Opera). Music is an integral part of her life, and a certain musicality can be seen in some of her painter’s language- brushstrokes may sometimes conotate musical notation, layers of markings and glazes- perhaps a visual chord. She is currently working heavily in textiles- specifically painted and dyed silks and natural fibers for collage, wall hangings and fashion. She works out of her home studio in the top of a barn on the North side of Indianapolis, and is visited often by appointment. Website. www.anneclearydesigns.com, Instagram : @anne_cleary BA 1997 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Studio Art major 1997, 1998 Masters Studies in Opera Performance, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Ma 1998 Masters in Opera Performance studies, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Bloomington, Indiana

Constance Collins

Visual Arts: Textiles

My artistic expression contains three key elements: pattern, color and texture. I became a weaver because it requires all three of these. As a result, my fabrics combine unique complex designs with expansive colorways and a mix of yarns to create a final piece that harmoniously blends these elements. I have always appreciated architecture; its precision, angularity and the beauty of functional form inspires me and is a cornerstone of my art. As a child, I would draw patterns while others drew their pets or family. As I grew, my eye recognized patterns in everything from nature to buildings to menswear. I was always admiring the precise beauty inherent to them. Color provides emotional impact to everything in our world. The interplay between colors intrigues me and is critical in my fabric design process. Integrating color into the patterns I design strengthens and complements them rather than overwhelming them. Crisply defined patterns are the foundation of my work. Texture adds a dimensional component to our lives and is the third element of my art. As the name implies, Textiles are tactile and to me, the hand of a fabric is critical. When selecting yarns, weight and feel are key considerations.

Destiny Cooper

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Works on paper

Destiny Cooper was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1996. She is currently studying at Herron School of Art and Design to obtain her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics with a minor in Art History. Her studio practice includes pottery and functional ware with some sculptural work. Cooper’s three-dimensional ceramic works focus on ego death, psychedelia, sacred geometry, and environmental issues. She is the owner of Destiny Cooper Studio and Destiny Cooper Photography. She also owns Destiny Cooper Studio and deshtiny on Etsy. She attends music festivals and concerts like Hyperion to run a booth selling her fine art and Etsy work.

Zacchaeus Crawford

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

I am an outgoing, enthusiastic artist. I love people and portraits. I love willow charcoal, working on toned paper and often incorporate pastel. I have a background in culinary arts and also weld. I love any form of creating. I enjoy drawing and engraving, building and experimenting. At the end of the day I am best at portraits, and have over 9 years of experience drawing.

Stephen Creech

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Sculpture, Works on paper

Stephen Creech is originally from Kentucky where he studied ceramics while attending Morehead State University. After college he worked as a Production Manager at IMG_187 in Los Angeles, the Studio Technician at Eastern Kentucky University and Studio Manager at One World Art Center. Since moving to Indianapolis in 2012, he has co-founder of National Clay Week, founding member of Indy Clay Co-op, and became the Director of Marketing at AMACO Brent.

Mark Crenshaw

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Printmaking, Works on paper

2D/3D artist with Photoshop, Illustrator, Snapseed, Quark, and teaching experience.

Jamahl Crouch

Visual Arts: Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor

My artwork is based on my experiences. I focus on acquiring techniques and the knowledge that comes from doing public art projects.

Julie Davis

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Portrait, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Hello! I’m Julie, a multidisciplinary artist. I explore art’s healing potential and choose to express states of being that inspire self-reflection, healing, gratitude, and connection. I am inspired by nature and the human condition. Art for me is a reminder of my humanity, my connection to all that is, and my power to choose how I want to feel and respond and what to create from it. Through my work, I hope the viewer feels their great connection too.

D. Del Reverda-Jennings

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Portrait, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Afro Futurism (AfroFuturism), African & Latin Diaspora, Caribbean,

A native of Alaska, as a youth D. Del Reverda-Jennings resided in Chicago, Illinois., and was educated in parochial academy institutions. From that timeline, the Indianapolis-based interdisciplinary artist has since traveled a creative and an artistic journey influenced by a kaleidoscope of cultural nuance. Visually D. Del Reverda-Jennings, is known for producing a broad range of work inclusive of sculpture, mixed media, installation, painting, and interdisciplinary roles in the artworld as an award-winning published journalist, arts editor, author and poet. She is the Creator, Founder and Independent Curator of “FLAVA FRESH ! ” an Indianapolis based, Annual Juried, Multiple Exhibition Presentation Series of Contemporary Art. The multicultural series has been an acclaimed visual arts showcase for over twenty-three years, with the seven month long consecutive event venue having received a number of honors and awards. The versatile arts practitioner also works as an administrator, facilitator and free-lances in a number of arts disciplines throughout the Midwest and beyond. As a journalist, regional arts editor and author Del Reverda-Jennings has for over two decades researched, sought out and cultivated aspiring beginners, newly-discovered, emergent and early-career artists who reside and work in Indiana as well as regionally to expose their creativity through writing, photographic documentation and by exhibiting their work in professional commercial arts venues, exposing their creative life stories, events and achievements in Midwestern regional, national and international print and online media. D. Del Reverda-Jennings, has been involved long-term in grass roots arts efforts, the non-profit sector and community service in Indianapolis and is the founder of several groups and organizations. The invested activist and cultural worker is a regional arts grant panelist, adjudicator, a noted lecturer and is currently an Artist Ambassador for the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), and an Equity Ambassador for the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She is widely known for having acquired a well-earned reputation as being driven and making great things happen for underrepresented and/or marginalized artists and continues to be a vital force in the exhibition and scholarship of twenty-first century art.

Emelia Dennis

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Portrait, Sculpture, Textiles, Works on paper

Just a young artist trying all the things. Born and raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I went to Hendrix College and graduated in May 2020 with my art degree. I moved to Indianapolis in February 2020. I currently have my art for sale at a local business: Relics Redesigned. You should definitely look them up. The ladies who own the business have been incredibly helpful to me by hosting my art in their shop, as well as, helping me find my way around Indy and make it a home.

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