1st Annual Artists Center Holiday Handmade Gift Guide

Wel­come to our hol­i­day gift guide!

The guide is a list­ing of:

• artists whom we have had the honor to fea­ture dur­ing 2009 and will be fea­tur­ing in 2010;
• emerg­ing artists rep­re­sent­ing artists in the early stages of their cre­ative journey;
• mem­ber artists who who sub­mit­ted work and were juried into the guide;
• non-member artists who also were juried into the guide.

The mis­sion of The ARTISTScenter.com is to help artists get their work out into the world so the world can become a nicer place to live.

Con­se­quently, this gift guide is ded­i­cated to each of the artists in order to help them more vis­i­bil­ity, and help you as poten­tial buy­ers, eas­ily find some of the best artists around.

Each list­ing includes links(when pro­vided by the artist)to each artists web site, sales venues, con­tact infor­ma­tion, includ­ing Face­book and Twitter.

To learn more about our Fea­tured Artists, just click o the badge below each fea­tured artists name. The link will take you to the fea­tured artist sec­tion of this site were you can read more about them.

Christy DeKon­ing

Christy DeKon­ing grew up in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia. With for­mal train­ing in singing and clas­si­cal bal­let, Christy worked as a vocal­ist on the Van­cou­ver music scene in the early 90’s, and then as a Cer­ti­fied Makeup Artist for sev­eral years before finally con­cen­trat­ing her career in Fine Arts.

In the past sev­eral years, Christy has com­pleted over 200 com­mis­sioned water­color por­traits for clients world­wide. Christy now lives in South­west­ern Ontario, Canada with her hus­band, two sons, two cats and a back­yard full of squir­rels (but no mice!).

Web Site

Etsy

Art­fire

Bound­less Gallery

Jane Camp­bell

Jane Camp­bel is a Folk Artist liv­ing in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia right in the heart of Gold Coun­try. Her home is just miles from where apples are grown, wine is made & gold was first dis­cov­ered. She was born in South Car­olina & spent her early child­hood there before mov­ing to Japan , Ari­zona & finally Cal­i­for­nia. Her trav­els add to her var­ied taste in art. There isn’t any style that she does’t like! I love paint­ing angels, mer­maids & mer­maid angels.

Web site/blog

Altered pages

Twit­ter

Robin Pedrero

Robin Pedrero began fine art stud­ies at the age of thir­teen. She rode her bike where Fox­woods casino now sits near her home­town of Nor­wich, CT. Her early exhi­bi­tions began at The Mys­tic Art Asso­ci­a­tion, the sea­port town where she met Julia Roberts and cast dur­ing the film­ing of “Mys­tic Pizza”. Acknowl­edged for her lumi­nous and cap­ti­vat­ing work Pedrero has since become an estab­lished award win­ning artist; pub­lished in mag­a­zines, news­pa­pers, doc­u­men­taries, and news broadcasts.

Pocket Full of Colors

Gallery 523

Etsy

1000 Mar­kets

Books, Cal­en­dars

Face­book

Face­book Fan page

Twit­ter

Liese Mar­tin

Liese’s aim is to use sim­ple lines and shapes lines and shapes to cre­ate art­work that is both bold and serene. She feels that a piece has turned out well when it has a flow sim­i­lar to that of music or dance. Her hope is that her work brings some of that rhythm to the spaces it adorns.

Liese is a self-taught artist liv­ing and work­ing in Man­i­tou Springs. She has cre­ated art as a hobby since child­hood, but becom­ing a pro­fes­sional artist was like falling down the rab­bit hole. After a knee injury put her out of her job in retail man­age­ment, she screwed up her courage and tried to put her cre­ativ­ity to work. Moun­tain Liv­ing Stu­dio in Man­i­tou Springs was the first gallery to accept her work and just hap­pened to need an expe­ri­enced sales per­son at the same time. Before long she was man­ag­ing the gallery and it remains her most suc­cess­ful brick and mor­tar venue. Her paint­ings and illus­tra­tions are now in homes and busi­nesses all over the world.

Web Site

Etsy

Moun­tain Liv­ing Studio

Plan­ners, Cal­en­dars and Diaries

Twit­ter

Kris­ten Stein

Kris­ten Stein is a Con­tem­po­rary Artist liv­ing in the Philadel­phia region of Penn­syl­va­nia. Kristen’s works are cur­rently avail­able on a vari­ety of online venues, or through her web­sites Kristen’s paint­ings are in pub­lic and pri­vate col­lec­tions within Aus­tralia, Canada, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Sin­ga­pore, Spain, Switzer­land, Italy, Den­mark, Japan, the United King­dom, and through­out the con­ti­nen­tal United States. Her cubist work appeared in pro­mo­tional logos for the Fer­n­dale Fine Art Show and appeared on the cover of the Allied Social Sci­ence Association’s annual meet­ings. Her whim­si­cal art appeared on the cover of the Bull­dog Club of Greater Seattle’s 2002 Spe­cialty Show. Her paint­ing “The Birth of Venus 2002″ won first place in a themed con­test held by the emerg­ing artists group “ESR@”. Her paint­ing “The Jazz Club” appeared on the Amer­i­can Eco­nomic Asso­ci­a­tions Annual Meet­ings in Jan­u­ary 2008. Kris­ten is the author/illustrator of the “The Veg­e­tar­ian Lion” and the author of “Kris­ten Stein Con­tem­po­rary Paint­ings”. She is also the illus­tra­tor of “Stacey McDuver’s House”. Kristen’s work will appear at the Straube Art Cen­ter dur­ing the Win­ter Fine Art Show in Jan­u­ary — Feb­ru­ary 2009.

Web Site

Etsy Online Shop

Blog

Twit­ter

Face­book

Michelle Ciarlo-Hayes

Michelle Ciarlo-Hayes is an award-winning fine art pho­tog­ra­pher and dig­i­tal artist from Philadel­phia, and her work has been fea­tured in venues, that include the Tiberino Memo­r­ial Museum (PA), City Hall (Phila, PA), and the Straube Art Cen­ter (NJ). Her pho­tog­ra­phy appears on the cover of the 2009 “Paws for Char­ity” Art Book, and her whim­si­cal col­lec­tion of nurs­ery art called “Alpha­bet Soup!” is now avail­able as children’s book by the same name. She pho­tographs every­day things in extra­or­di­nary ways

Web Site

Etsy

Jan Blencowe

Prac­ti­cally born with a crayon in her hand, Jan Blencowe con­sid­ers visual art her first lan­guage. She has been draw­ing and paint­ing for as long as she has been talk­ing. Her for­mal train­ing began in New York in high school, all the basics cou­pled with an unusual begin­ning at a young age paint­ing in the abstract expres­sion­ist style. The fine art pro­gram at Cald­well Col­lege, Cald­well, NJ fol­lowed where she received a BFA, magna cum laude, in 1984 with con­cen­tra­tions in paint­ing, color and art his­tory. Her col­lege years also included an intern­ship at the Mont­clair Museum, Mont­clair, NJ.

Her most artis­ti­cally sig­nif­i­cant con­tin­u­ing study is engag­ing in paint­ing en situ, out­doors on loca­tion learn­ing under the care, nur­ture and guid­ance of the great­est, most pro­found men­tor, Mother Nature.

Blencowe’s cre­ative goals include con­tin­u­ing the path forged by the great Amer­i­can land­scape painters who so seam­lessly merged the grand but tem­po­ral beau­ties of nature and the sub­lime spir­i­tu­al­ity present in every liv­ing thing. Her pas­sion for con­nec­tion con­tin­ues to lead her into the ever evolv­ing world of the inter­net and social media as a con­duit for bring­ing together artists and art lovers all over the globe. Jan Blencowe, award win­ning artist, gallery rep­re­sented, col­lected world­wide. Con­tem­po­rary impres­sion­ist land­scapes, daily paint­ings, abstract art, com­mi­sions accepted.

Web Site

Blog

Face­book

Twit­ter

Lori Whit­ting­ton

I spe­cialise in draw­ing, paint­ing, fibre art and pho­tog­ra­phy using tools both tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal: ink, pen­cil, pas­tels, paints, embroi­dery, pho­tog­ra­phy. My work is gen­er­ally abstract in nature and includes many artis­tic influ­ences, from the Baroque to con­tem­po­rary Pop Art. I take my inspi­ra­tion from nature and the world directly around me. I spend a lot of time on the beach where I live and am inspired by the sea and all things with­out and within. I sell my work mostly online and privately.

From Fri­day the 27th through to Mon­day the 30th I am offer­ing FREE worl­wide ship­ping off marked items in my Etsy Shop. I have cre­ated a Black Fri­day Offers sec­tion, and all items which fall under the terms of the offer are in there.

I will be adding more items to the sec­tion over the course of the week­end, AND list­ing NEW art in there as well. Keep check­ing on the SALE sec­tion for new stuff.

Email

Web­site

Blog

Etsy

Deviant art

Zaz­zle

Artists & Illustrators

Art4sale

Face­book

Twit­ter

Flickr

Can­dyce Fitzloff-Westfield

Orig­i­nal jew­elry inspired by the nat­ural world fea­tur­ing the use of beach stones and fine silver.

Email
Web­site
Etsy
Trunkt
Face­book

Kath­leen Van Schepen

Right to left: Felted wall hang­ing inspired by Tus­cany it fea­tures a rod pocket on the back sur­face for easy hanging;

Cen­ter, wet felted hand­bag, with nee­dle felted embell­ish­ments. The beau­ti­ful daisy like flower was wet felted then beads added by hand to make it sparkle;

Right, The wristlets are per­fect for those chilly days when gloves are a lit­tle too much. I love wear­ing them at the com­puter, while keep­ing me warm I can still do the nec­es­sary. But you will find a mil­lion uses for them, knit­ting, nee­dle work, dri­ving, sit­ting by the bonfire…Why not be styl­ish and warm???

Email
Phone 763–878-2964
Web­site
Etsy
Face­book
Twit­ter

 

Rachel Walsh

Hand­made, eclec­tic jew­elry inspired by nature, the ele­ments and sea­sons. I also make many mod­ern, sim­plis­tic pieces.
I use many mate­ri­als includ­ing Ster­ling Sil­ver, Cop­per and Brass mixed with gem­stones, glass, nat­ural stones, vin­tage com­po­nents and pearls.

Web Site
E-Mail
Etsy

 

Deb­o­rah Maxwell

Func­tional pot­tery is food, microwave, oven and dish­washer safe. Raku and Pit Fired pieces also avail­able in the studio.

Email
Phone 810.367.7001
Web­site

Lind­say Iredale

I make bright, chunky, and funky resin jew­elry. Mostly neck­lace pen­dants but I also have some ear­rings and bracelets. I also make dou­ble sided resin fridge mag­nets out of recy­cled bot­tle caps. All of the art­work in the jewelry/magnets is done myself, with the excep­tion of the retro cli­part. I enjoy my jew­elry a bit quirky and bright…and I bet I have a lit­tle some­thing in there for everyone

 

Email

Web site

Lori Lee Sampson

Cus­tom Pet Por­traits: Charm­ing, hand-drawn illus­tra­tions of YOUR pet. Send pho­tos by email, receive fin­ished art by email! No ship­ping cost. My style is detailed with real­is­tic under­tones accented by line work and an artis­tic charm. Use your hi-res art file for any­thing per­sonal. Print at any size for scrap­book­ing, mak­ing your own sta­tionery, note cards, even upload the file online for cus­tom items like a t-shirt, mug, jew­elry, just about any­thing you can imag­ine. Get Creative!

Email

Web­site
Etsy
Face­book
Twit­ter

Mary Fos­ter

Brighten someone’s day with my beau­ti­ful note cards and cal­en­dars fea­tur­ing images of flow­ers that I grow and pho­to­graph. They are per­fect for host­ess gifts, stock­ing stuffers, or small gifts for cowork­ers, teach­ers, friends, fam­ily, and espe­cially for the gar­dener in your life.

The note cards are avail­able in four dif­fer­ent boxed sets of eight (Amaryl­lis, Gar­den Flow­ers, Roses, or Four Sea­sons) and a set of six (Per­fectly Pink) assorted cards with envelopes. The desk­top cal­en­dar con­tains 12 pages of botan­i­cal beauty in a cd jewel case that folds open to form an easel. Please visit my Etsy shop, MaryFosterCreative.etsy.com, for com­plete descrip­tions and listings.

Email

Phone 612–724-7583
Web­site

Jes­sica Clay

Indie jew­elry made in fine sil­ver and cop­per from pre­cious metal clay. Designs inspired by nature.

Email
Phone 612–423-5498
Web­site
Face­book

Lon­nie Ebertowski

Pick­le­Ber­ries fea­tures brightly col­ored jew­elry fea­tur­ing hand­made fused glass. Expect to find pony­tail hold­ers, ear­rings and pen­dants. Most pieces fea­ture mille­fiori, which resem­ble lit­tle flowers.

Web Site
E-mail
Etsy
1000 Mar­kets
Art­fire
Face­book
Twit­ter