About our Artists

Teri Barnett

Born in Southeastern Michigan, Teri takes inspiration from the lakes and landscapes of her home state and from quilt makers, both in her family and beyond. This is reflected in her art as she explores the elements of the world broken down to their most basic expressions – shape, color, and texture.
Her paintings have been exhibited in the Indiana State Museum and collected nationally. They reside in the permanent collections of Eli Lilly, Franklin College, Wellpoint, Rush Shelby Energy, NPCA, Community Hospital, and others. Recent achievements include being awarded the Jury Prize of Distinction for Contemporary Art at the 85th Annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition at the Indiana State Museum, having her work featured in the Arts Council of Indianapolis’ BeIndypendent campaign kick-off and being juried into the Indiana Artisan Program.
Teri is co-owner of Broad Ripple Art & Design and owner of Esprit Design. Her works can be viewed by appointment. She is also available for commissions and public art projects.

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Jason Dorsey

Dorsey comes from a family of artists. He discovered his gift of painting watercolors when he was 16 and placed in the top seven in a statewide high school art contest. By the age of 24, he had been accepted in many national watercolor exhibits. In 1993, Dorsey put away his brushes and moved to Chicago to complete his seminary training. Since that time, Dorsey's art has been woven into his ministry as a Presbyterian pastor. He is currently working on a children's picture book with his father titled, “I Remember Fishing with Dad...Derby Day."

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Allison Ford, Studio AMF

Ford is an artisan and crafter currently designing and making jewelry. Wood is her favorite medium but she also likes to incorporate silver and other natural materials into her work. Ford's inspiration comes from the design movements of the late 19th century through the 1950's, classic forms (Egyptian, Greek, Roman), and the colors and lines found in nature. Phone: (317) 430-7950.

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Elizabeth A. Guipe Hall

Indianapolis-based artist Elizabeth Guipe Hall explores a medium she calls encaustic collage, which incorporates the centuries-old technique of applying molten beeswax and pigment to a surface and fusing successive layers together with flame. Using encaustic as both paint and adhesive, Hall composes in three dimensions, applying and juxtaposing collage elements that include original digital photographs, found images, graphite, charcoal, etched lines and imported handmade papers. To a viewer, the rich layering seems to extend the content in both space and time. Hall's work explores themes of personal growth, the passages of life, the drive for self-determination, the illusion of self-control and the tenuous balance between containment and release. Phone: (317) 797-1113.

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Shannon Hinkle

Hinkle has been designing jewelry for the past 15 years and working glass with a torch for the past seven. Mostly self taught, Hinkle has spent the past few years growing her in her art while raising her four children. She has recently expanded her vision to creating beautiful spaces for events with all areas combining many different colors and textures. This brings great joy as she seeks to express her heart to those around her. The joy and movement she sees every day inspires Hinkle — as well as the discarded vintage jewelry that comes back to life when combined with freshly blown glass beads, offering them a new purpose. Phone: (317) 965-4011.

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Susan Hodgin

Susan Hodgin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, but moved to Missoula, Montana to study creative writing, fiction, at the University of Montana in 1996. She realized 3 years into her writing program that her characters never spoke, and never moved, but simply existed in gorgeous settings. Hodgin immediately switched her studies to painting, and received her BFA in painting from the University of Montana, Missoula. After living and exhibiting in Montana for a few years, Hodgin returned to Indianapolis, where she has been working and exhibiting since 2003. In September 2009, she will be starting a Low-Residency MFA program through the Massachusetts College of Art and Design held at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her primary medium is oil on canvas.

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Marybeth Jackson

Jackson has worked as a photographer for 17 years. Her focus is travel photography and photography that explores the human journey. While her favorite medium is black and white film, she has been using digital almost equally. Jackson is happy to discuss commissioned work, such as album art and welcomes questions via email.

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Matt Kenyon

Glass art and furniture design are evident in Kenyon's mixed media artwork. He produces both functional and sculptural art using different shaped or turned hardwoods with a central focal point on the blown-glass element. Kenyon produces a wide range of different works and welcomes requests.

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Deborah Kolp

Deborah Kolp is an Indianapolis native but spent fourteen years in Nashville, Tennessee, where she graduated from Watkins College of Art and Design. Her work has been in solo and group shows and she has created numerous commissions for worship spaces. She has taught K-8 art from and is the mother of four children and one grandchild.

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Atsu Kpotufe

Atsu Kpotufe is an Indianapolis based artist and designer. An alumnus of the Herron School of Art and Design, Atsu's work is characterized by its simplicity of message, its graphical rendering, and its diversity in media.

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Carl B. Leck

Leck is a Ball State graduate who majored in graphic design/fine art specializing in drawing, painting and printmaking. He's currently a self-employed freelance artist specializing in large scale murals. His biggest project to date is a 16' x 30' 3-D illusion mural in the Baker & Daniels Club at Lucas Oil Stadium. Between mural gigs, Leck works on personal artwork in his studio at the Harrison Center. While his commissioned work is primarily realistic or trompe l'oeil, his personal work is mostly surreal. Leck also enjoys a good laugh.

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Kim Lohr

mosstudio: decorative painted furniture and terra cotta pots.
Lohr draws inspiration for her work from varied and diverse sources: the colors and textures of nature, a passion for Italy, the patterns of antique kilim rugs, art pottery from Ohio, the classic architectural details in the furniture she paints. The very heart and soul of mosstudio is recycling. Lohr finds it important to create an heirloom to be cherished. The furniture emerges with a new appearance and sometimes a new purpose, a complete rejuvenation. Phone: (317) 439-0900.

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Lara Lord

Lara Lord began painting at the age of 10.  She has painted off and on throughout her life and made it her passion about 10 years ago.  She has a BA from Denison University, having spent her junior year in Paris, France studying painting and art history.  Lara has always been drawn to the Impressionists, especially Monet and Renoir.  Working in oils, her aim is to capture the ever-changing beauty of nature on canvas.

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Tyler Meuninck

Meuninck's work initially begins with his surroundings — whether it's the studio or the city. He works figuratively and then pries open possibilities for exaggeration. The paintings become a resolution of subtle color shifts and color temperatures. The paintings have a theme, whether they begin with working-class neighborhoods or a studio interior or a still life. However, there really isn't an overt narrative. The painting motifs exist just as they are, like you just happened to pass by them, but then again you would never really see these places or things as they are, but rather how they're now interpreted. Working this way gives Meuninck the opportunity to explore and vary each solution to the problems in each painting.

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Elizabeth Nelson

Nelson likes to explore concepts or ideas in her paintings, often in a somewhat abstract and subtle way. She draws inspiration from poetry and the written word and enjoys mixing aspects of illustration with a more free form of painting. Her hope for her work is that it will evoke emotion, whether that is negative or positive, from its audience. Nelson wants her art to communicate with the viewer in a way that provokes thought.

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Kipp Normand

Normand has no formal training in art. His grandfather taught him to paint, and his father taught him to build things. Normand is a scavenger and an obsessive collector, searching streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings looking for clues to explain the mystery of our world. He finds stories in discarded things: stories about himself and stories about all of us; our cities and our shared history. He first began making assemblage, shadow boxes and collage images as a way to justify his relentless collecting. They soon became much more. They are Normand's way to dig deep into the vast museum of this world and share his finds with anyone who cares to look.

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Jude Odell

The unexpected oddness of our lives; the twists, turns, stumbles and rebirths — these occur by chance and circumstance, the subtle marks and scars of experience influencing expression, outlook and presence. The intrigue of this process is reflected in roughened clay surfaces, faces not quite real, and glazes painted in layers and rubbed off, alluding to life that is layered and seasoned, rather than glossy, perfect, or predictable.

Jude Odell is a professional clay artist, showing and selling her work in juried exhibitions across the country. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Crafts and Art Education, received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indianapolis Arts Council.

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Emma Overman

Overman works primarily with acrylics to entertain children and nostalgic adults. Her work has been called "innocent yet otherworldly." While her inspirations are many, Overman is a strongly internal person. She most loves to experiment with colors and mood. Phone: (317) 590-0771.

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Quincy Owens

As a professional artist, Owens focuses his work on interaction and dialogue. Imagery and memories from his childhood, specific colors, symbolic shapes, and serigraphic images converge into a visual language able to create a dialogue. His popularity in the Indianapolis art market has risen very rapidly due to his passion for process. A strong portfolio, resume, and list of collectors (both public and private throughout the Midwest, Southern states and the East Coast including Indiana University, Purdue University, Butler University, WellPoint and Eli Lilly) has established Quincy as a respected artist.

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Kyle Ragsdale

Ragsdale grew up in Texas and New Mexico, witnessing from a young age a mix of vibrant cultures and large, wild spaces. For 15 years, since earning degrees at Baylor University (BFA) and Southern Methodist University (MFA), Ragsdale has been painting full time — working periodically as a decorative painter and stage set designer, and making fine art. He has served as curator for exhibits in Texas and Indiana and currently is curator for the Harrison Center for the Arts. Ragsdale's work has changed many times — the paint has been thick, thin, shiny, and flat. He often delves into decorative floral patterns, landscapes, and portraiture, but probably is best known for his mysterious elongated figures. Many times, people featured in his paintings are enjoying the beauty of community, sharing life at picnics or parties. Sometimes formal, sometimes casual, these signature figures and their often-ambiguous settings always leave room for interpretation; like an open-ended novel, relationships and meanings are found in the viewer's gaze. Phone: (317) 531-0474.

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William A. Rasdell

Over the past 25 years, Rasdell's primary interest as an artist has been the legacy of enriching influences of the African presence in daily life and custom throughout the Americas. To that end he has conducted cultural field studies in places such as Grenada, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, South Africa and Trinidad with an extensive 10-year focus on the music, dance and folklore of Cuba. This work is important in that it records and celebrates the retention and integration of African traditions with other cultures in the Americas.

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William Denton Ray

William is a native of Indianapolis and attended the Columbus College of Art and Design as well as the Herron School of Art and Design. He currently works as a senior designer and as a professional artist. William is constantly doodling and drawing, creating whimsical worlds and characters for his viewers to be consumed by. William's work resembles Tim Burton meets Dr. Suess with a touch of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Stanley Mouse, all of whom have had an influence on his work. William is also inspired by graffiti art, skateboarding culture, popular music, fashion and witty humor. William classifies his work in two words, "Whimsical Funk."

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Amy Reel

Reel paints with oils, focusing on the relationship between nature and human nature. Her landscapes are made through the filter of human perspective, and figures through the observation of other people. She uses color to invite emotion to hint at a narrative. And her landscapes represent people's environments, their visual surroundings, and internal thought.

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Artur Silva

Silva is interested in how people experience capitalism within different classes and groups in America, now and at other periods in history. His work is the result of his pursuit to understand, as an artist, these experiences as well as his own capitalist experience in America. He grew up in Brazil, but has lived his entire adult life in the United States. His curiosity about this subject, viewed through his cultural background, is the primary drive of this exploration.

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Carolyn Springer

Springer's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990 at sites ranging from Sushi Performance and Visual Art Gallery in San Diego, Yokohama — Japan's Citizen's Gallery and Tijuana's Cultural Center. She has won numerous awards including a research grant to study in Italy. Her work is in many private collections. She paints with the encaustic medium. Encaustic painting is the process of working with melted beeswax that has been pigmented with colors. Encaustic or "burning in" in Greek refers to the process of fusing the wax a second time in order for the wax to remain stable. This process is considered one of the oldest methods of painting in history, dating back to early Egypt. To Springer, creating artwork that captures a unique beauty and also translates a deeper spiritual meaning to the observer is her ultimate goal when making paintings. Art making is a creative process that involves many levels of intellect and emotion for her. When she paints, she opens herself up to the flow of passing thoughts and feelings in order to capture something truer and greater than herself, a universal feeling or experience that many people can relate to.

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