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Jose Valencia

Performing Arts

Ben Valentine

Visual Arts: Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor

Joseph Valorani

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

I started drawing at a young age in Canada when my parents were looking at antiques. The stores up there often provided colouring books, but, as fate would have it, they were pretty much used up by the time we came by. So I was often given blank sheets of paper. Due to much moving around, it was hard to maintain friends, and in Canada, where summer lasted a day or two, it was easier to make up friends, draw, and create. When I moved back to the US, we had moved to Florida, where I was socially inept. I did finally make a freind or two, some were just because of Geographical Locations. My comfort and sanity remained in creative expressions. I took a Hyatus with the brith of my daughter as the art world demands much time and attention. Now, as she has grown older, I am venturing out once again.

Katrina Valuyeva

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Sculpture, Visual Arts

My life consists of autodidactic learning using books, online tutorials and workshops, driven by the ever-present compulsion to create. After college (2012) I moved from my parent’s house in New York to Indiana– where I started learning metalsmithing, lapidary and precious metal clay through workshops, books and tutorials online. I am currently focusing on sculptural jewelry and objects using a mixed media approach.

Tony Van Pelt

Brishen VanderKolk

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Crafts, Dance, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Multi Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Photography, Political Artist, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Crafts, Dance, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Multi Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Photography, Political Artist, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts

Hey and welcome to this facet of my digital persona! I am not a robot, but a human person. not spam. I have human children and non-human pets. I enjoy the internet, physical movement of my human form and eating human food. thanks for reading.. Beep booop.

Sandra L. Vardaman

Sharon Vargo

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor

Hello! I am the illustrator of numerous books for children and author/illustrator of Señor Felipe’s Alphabet Adventure, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book. My paintings have appeared in children’s books, magazines, textbooks, as murals, limited edition prints, and are in private and museum collections.. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY.

Beatriz Vasquez

Beatriz Vasquez About Me I am a daughter of Mexican parents and Spanish Grandparents; my desire to create is innate and derives from a long line of artisans and craftsmen. Working with my hands has always been important to me; I learned the skill of cooking, gardening and sewing at an early age. I was born in Brownsville, TX, but grew up in Matamoros, MX. After high school I moved to Indianapolis, IN. where I attended IUPUI, and received my BFA from Herron School of Art and Design. My Art I have been cutting paper since 2009, after graduation, my focus was primarily in children’s book illustration and painting. I found myself competing with other local artists that were much better in those mediums, which encouraged me to reinvent my skills as an artist. In 2009, I traveled to Matamoros, MX to reconnect with family and to do extensive research on indigenous Mexican crafts. My research took me to Monterrey, MX where I rediscovered the art of papel picado or paper cutting. I hadn’t realized it before then, but it had always been a part of me, it was all around me, in the markets, churches, fiestas, and in my childhood memories. Papel Picado is a form of tissue paper cutting mainly used for celebratory religious themes and festivities. Papel Picado is and has been an indigenous craft for centuries in South America and Mexico. After learning the traditional method of making papel picado, I began a journey to innovate the art. I began cutting paper, any and all kinds of paper grade, colors, textures and sizes. Paper became my obsession. I taught myself to cut using an exacto knife as if it were a pencil; I never outline any of my designs for fear of leaving pencil marks. My designs flow directly from my mind’s eye onto the paper itself. My work has journeyed into the fashion world, where I have created wearable paper art, from eyelashes to evening gowns. Just recently, I have returned to creating children’s book illustration with incorporation of paper cut designs within each page. Many of my stories are of my own childhood, growing up on the border towns of Texas and Mexico. These cut out stories will be the focus of my upcoming solo show in the University of Orlando in Florida in June of 2015.

Tony Vasquez

Visual Arts: Photography, Visual Arts

Art has always helped define who I am. I sketched and painted in my early years, often preferring visual expression to other forms, and I always knew art would be in my life. For me, music and the visual arts are inherently connected, and together they were the source of my inspiration as a young adult. I was always drawn to music and art that challenged the status quo and was relatable on a very visceral level. I loved looking at vinyl album covers and liner note art. For me, they provided a window into that world which I wanted to be apart of. I studied at Ball State University in Indiana and earned a Bachelor of Fine Art’s degree in Fine Art Photography with a minor in oil painting. My style took a more focused direction in college, and my life experiences became evident in my work. My work celebrates the cooperation between contrasting ideas of nature in urban environments, light in the darkness, a swatch of intense color in a bleak pallet, joy, and beauty in the melancholy, classic with modern energy. Whether I am taking a portrait of a bride and groom on their wedding day or shooting a band on stage, I am looking for authenticity. Photographs of a fairytale wedding should show the true spirit of the couple on their fantasy day. Posed doesn’t have to mean contrived. Real people, true love. And a photograph of a band should capture their passion for the music and the energy of the show. To me, art is an expression and celebration of life. It tells a story. I’m looking forward to helping you tell your story. ~Tony Vasquez

Preeti Vasudevan

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

Vasudevan is an Indian classical dancer and contemporary choreographer.

Larry Vaughn

Visual Arts: Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Visual Arts

A renaissance man. Apprenticed for 7 years as a glass beveler and related crafts. Custom designed art glass windows, antique window restoration, and on site repairs for over 40 years. Art is a solo effort!

Samuel E Vázquez

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Visual Arts

Samuel E Vázquez is a visual artist working primarily in found materials and mixed media. Vázquez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1970 and raised in New York City in the 1980s. His inspiration is rooted in the New York City subway style writing movement of the 1970s and 80s along with the works of Ed Clark, Jackson Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Vázquez was appointed a Scholar In Residence at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Arts and Humanities Institute (2017-2018) and awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis (2017-2018). His work is in private and public collections including The Joanna Nixon Collection, The Miles Family Collection, and Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF). In 2017, Vázquez was a featured artist alongside Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, Chris “Daze” Ellis, Zephyr, Torrick “Toxic” Ablack, and Cey Adams among others in City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries at Newfields. The works in City as Canvas are from The Martin Wong Collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

John Vazquez

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

I am an Indianapolis-based artist focused on making illustrative work both with traditional and non-traditional media. My style gravitates towards realism when drawing animals and people but can often shift to the surreal.

Starr VÃ©lez

Starr never dreamed that her love for nature and color would develop into art. When diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2002 she was faced with new and abrupt challenges. Creativity allows her to conquer daily obstacles and express the voice that was once hidden deep within. A self-taught artist, she works with mosaics, acrylic, watercolor, encaustics, chalk, photography, altered art, resin, fiber, papers, mica, block printing, and various combinations of mediums in various styles. Her passion is life and she likes to envelop reality, whimsy, and spiritual symbolism in all of her work. Her inspiration comes from life and from the insights of her personal experiences.

Grant Vecera

Literary Arts

Grant Vecera’s poems have been published in numerous small press and literary magazines. He would like to believe his teaching career might be regarded by some as a sort of performance art in-progress.

Grant Vecera

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

I write poems & I teach writing & thinking at Butler U. & IUPUI.

Starr Velez

Phil Velikan

Graphic Arts

Phil Velikan: Sculptor/illustrator Phil is an award winning and internationally selling 2 and 3D artist who has illustrated his own line of coloring books and many children’s books. He sculpts in epoxy clay and has learned to mold and cast his work in resin duplicates.

Ventiko

“I have no limitations except those I place on myself. Therefore I have none. I see real people in a way they don’t see themselves. The world exists. I want to make it beautiful. I want to make it real. I want to make individuals feel good about themselves.”

Dante Ventresca

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Multi Arts, Murals, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Sculpture, Theatre, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Visual Arts: Multi Arts, Murals, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Sculpture, Theatre, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Social Practice in inclusive performaning and visual art making

Art connects me to the world. It nourishes the ebb and flow of intimacy between myself, others, and our shared surroundings. My experience of art exists as a vast web of internalized relationships. I maintain an archive of these visual and conceptual impulses in commercially fabricated file folders. These are the folders I convert into surface grounds for drawing, painting, writing, mark making. My strategy for the creation of marks begins with the practice of counting using tally marks and evolves through improvisation into patterns of camouflage. These, in turn, accumulate into large scale objects and installations made of paper, pencil, twine, lumber. These expressive strategies find their most compelling context when placed in sites dominated by vacancy – abandoned structures, empty lots, wedges of marginal and liminal spaces. These installations cause the work to morph into vibrant place markers found in forgotten sites reinforcing the human labor involved in the utopian intent of exercising hope.

Wendy Vergoz

Literary Arts

Wendy Vergoz’s poems have been published in Cleaver Magazine, Flying Island Journal, Ground, The Christian Century, Literary Mama, and Anglican Theological Review, and they have appeared in exhibitions at the Harrison Center for the Arts, “Spirit and Place,” “Art of the Moving Image & Spoken Word,” “Wrestling with the Infinite,” and “Religion, Spirituality and the Arts.” Vergoz is the recipient of a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission. She teaches writing at Marian University in Indianapolis and a writing workshop at the Unleavened Bread Cafe for women survivors of incarceration, domestic violence, and drug addiction. She is editor of The Unleavened Bread Cafe: Twenty Years of Living Water and Voices Unlocked: Soulful Stories from 30th and Central.

Erin Harper Vernon

Visual Arts: New Media/Technology, Photography, Visual Arts

A theme of investigation in the environment is a connective trait between several of my projects, including: Light pollution, suburban studies, and toxic towns. The subject matter varies, but the work always shows this sense of inspection or a static visual event, object, or place in the landscape. These works critique our culture and its demands on limited natural resources, inviting a dialogue between crisis and stasis, risk and threat while questioning the balance between the construction and consumption of our environment. Through my images, I am interested in conveying an aberrant relationship between humans and the land because we have changed our natural landscape through settlement, deforestation, and environmental pollution.

Natasha Vidger

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts

B 1993 – Littleton, Colorado Natasha Vidger was born and raised in central Colorado and now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. The subject and passion of her art was established in youth, born from the nature and wildlife native to the Rocky Mountains. Vidger received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Adams State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Herron School of Art and Design with emphasis in Painting and Drawing. Numerous years of study have facilitated solid foundations in various disciplines. After the typical structured study of art in form, shape, and light, Vidger progressed into a focus of animal art. In her early years surreal platforms gave way to animal form, composing voices for her subjects and their plights. Through years of practice and evolution Vidger has experimented with the various manipulations of style ever seeking ways to convey the message she seeks. Today Vidger produces sprawling prepared canvas delineated with life sized animal portraits, probing the duality that separates and unites humans and animals. Employing expressive realism, Vidger paints a stage for viewers to come face to face with these animals. Their landscapes are void and atmospheric, denoting the isolated environments they are forced to traverse. Vidger’s work ultimately aims to shed light on our similarities to provoke compassion that transcends the barriers between species.

Lucas Vines

Justin Vining

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

Justin grew up on a small family farm in Northern Indiana, working the land of three generations of Vinings. He frequently draws inspiration from rural America and has become fascinated with the disappearance of small family farms that once dominated the American Landscape. Further inspiration comes from his time in law school. In the fall of 2007, Justin left his job as an elementary art teacher to attend law school with his younger brother. His return to school transformed his passion for art into something bigger. Needing an escape as finals approached his first semester, he picked up a paint brush and subsequently painted a series of work that was stronger than anything before. After graduating and passing the bar, he shifted his focus to art – pursuing his once hobby as a full-time, flourishing business.

Joslyn Virgin

Visual Arts: Photography, Visual Arts

The work of Joslyn Virgin shows life as it pauses. With the use of lighting, props and choice environments, dimension is added and emotion is evoked.”

Joe Vondersaar

Visual Arts: Photography, Visual Arts

Vondersaar captures the beauty of the natural world in his landscape photography which he then translates into black and white silverprints.

William Voos

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Painting, Visual Arts, Works on paper

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