September 20th - November 30th 2025

Reception on Thursday, Sept 25th 5:30 - 7:30p

Juried by Melanie Tallmadge Sainz

I use red earthenware clay to create unique functional pottery using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. I love exploring quirky forms, texture patterns, and colorful surface decoration. My main influences are rustic modern design, folk art, and vintage illustration. My goal for each piece is to celebrate human touch and the idiosyncrasies that are evident in a hand-made object.

Working with clay is a joy. It is uplifting, meditative, and a great excuse to play in the mud without being judged. I love to experiment with new shapes, new designs, and really just anything that strikes me as fun at the time. Every piece I make is meant to be held, used, and loved on a daily basis.

Remember: everything tastes better when it’s served in something handmade!

With the exception of the coasters, all of my pieces are food safe, microwave safe, and oven safe. Handwashing is always recommended, but if you’re in a hurry they are all dishwasher safe too. 

May 8, 2026 - August 1, 2026

Feature Reception: Thursday May 21, 2026 from 5:30p-7:30p

Carol Naughton is a potter who creates wheel thrown and hand built, one of a kind, functional pottery. The forms reflect her love of fine cooking, gardening, and nature. The strong visual aesthetic of her ceramics is reflective of her environmental graphic design and exhibit design background.

The ceramic pieces are made from porcelain and stoneware clays. The clay is fired using a gas kiln capable of achieving a wide range of glaze surfaces and colors. Many of Carol’s glazes reference historic Japanese glazes. Many of the pieces have drawings and sculptural additions or alterations to the base form.

Carol’s studio is located in a remodeled 1876 stone granary on a beautiful farm in the driftless region of southwestern Wisconsin. The historic limestone construction and colors of the granary are reflected in the clays and glaze choices of Carol’s work.

My work is combination of painting and collage. I piece together separate parts – various papers that I paint, cut into shapes and adhere to gessoed birch panel with gel medium and small nails. I add more cut paper pieces and painting to that surface and seal each piece with satin varnish for protection. I intend for each piece to have a graphic power from a distance and an engaging, delicate quality up close. My influences include folk art traditions from textiles and quilts to Mexican Retablos.

My predilection to draw and paint was first exhibited as a young child. My mother would set me in front of an easel and I would paint for hours at a time. As I grew older, I loved to spend most of my time filling entire sketchbooks every few months and reading. The natural world was and is my muse. I am a devoted observer of nature and learning about flora and fauna.

Drawing, painting and teaching has been my focus the last two decades. But three years ago during a move and lack of studio for six months, I began to explore stitching and fiber arts as a medium to express myself. I found I could work just about any place and engaged with a wonderful group of encouraging, artistic women who share my new interest. It is rejuvenating to create art through this different lens. Using texture, embroidery threads, beads, and hand-dyed fabrics has added a whole new dimension to my vocabulary of expression. So goes my evolving process. I look forward to the twists and turns.

David Timberlake is a Georgia boy but has spent his adult life in Wi. Where he has worked as a timberwright, furniture maker and carpenter. His inspirations to crafting metal are Tom Every, Ellis and Tom Nelson and his son Kaleb. He now upcycles scrap metal components harvested from machinery into tables and other aft forms.

Edward’s solid bird’s-eye maple cutting boards are unlike any you’ve seen. Each board is crafted by joining sections from a single piece of specially selected, figured bird’s-eye maple, so the wood tone and figuring are consistent throughout. Each is precision-shaped and beveled for graceful shape and balance. Individually hand-sanded and finished to a sensual silkiness, each board is an art object designed to add aesthetic and utilitarian pleasure to your daily life.

Some owners display their cutting boards as art and hesitate to use them. However, they are designed to provide many years of service and satisfaction; minimal care will preserve their appearance.

My jewelry is a language. It speaks of beauty, hope, serenity, tenderness, and other qualities of the heart. I believe if we are drawn to a work of art, it’s because it reflects something we are looking for in our own lives, and that gazing at it can help us feel balanced. I combine the qualities of inner light with the play of light bouncing off metal, and transform gold, silver, pewter, gems, stones, shells, pearls, beads and insect wings into soft, delicate shapes which evoke some of nature’s gentlest images: waves, wings, seeds, moonbeams. The materials are hammered, cast, fabricated and formed, and often the spirit of the work is reflected in its name. The jewelry I make doesn’t reflect current trends, but rather deep currents of meaning I am searching for in my life.

My creations are a reflection of the inspiration I find within, and the beauty that surrounds me. The designs come from a deep place in me, and I hope they speak to a deep place in others.