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Scholarly Interests: Scandinavian Art Education, Museum Based Art Teacher Training, and Multicultural/Environmental Curriculum Development. Artistic: Painter and Illustrator.
Teaching Area: Area Coordinator Art Education/Museum Education, BFA Art Education K-12 Women Artists in History
Link to Alison Aune's Work
Link to Massachusetts' Exhibit
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David Bowen is a studio artist and educator. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibition nationally and internationally. He received his BFA degree from Herron School of Art in1999 and his MFA degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2004. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Link to David Bowen's Website
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Originally from Wisconsin, Eric Dubnicka moved to Duluth in 2002 after receiving his BFA from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN and currently lives and creates his artwork in Washington Artists' Studios Cooperative in Duluth.
Eric's primary focus is as a painter but has also shown photographs and sculpture. His work involves social commentary, anxiety and worry and often with a humorous slant that pits the individual against many.
Link to Eric Dubnicka's Website
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Kristina Estell was born and raised in the rural landscape of Indiana. She has a B.F.A. in sculpture from Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and an M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Estell has exhibited her work locally, nationally and internationally as well as attended artist residencies within and outside of the US. She currently lives and works in Duluth, where she teaches and continues to pursue her sculptural and installation research.
Along with her sculptural work, Kristina will be featuring her craft business Soft Rock at this year’s gala. (www.softrock.etsy.com)
Link to Kristina Estell's Website
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Christine Gildersleeve | Artist |
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Christine Gildersleeve is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Superior majoring in art. Originally from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, she now resides in Duluth, Minnesota with her family, Taelem and Erik Berry. Her artistic pursuits are ceramics, abstract painting and mixed media.
Form, function and movement create a statement about Christine’s love of art. Her pottery integrates elements of fluidity and nature. The use of organic materials such as shells, seeds and her own fingertips create distinctive textures and surfaces. A passion for the unique finishing of wood firing completes her work.
All potters break pots sooner or later and Christine’s fascination with the shards of her own broken pots soon combined with her love of abstract painting. She particularly enjoys incorporating an individual’s broken or discarded memorabilia with natural items such as seeds, dried foods and herbs along with her broken pots into unique wall art. “Art out of Anything” perfectly describes this fusion of mediums. |
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Adu Gindy | Artist |
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Adu Gindy was born in Parnu, Estonia, and following six years in post-war relocation camps in Germany, emigrated with her mother to the United States in 1950. Adu earned her B.A. from Vassar, her M.A.T. from Columbia, and has also attended classes at the Art Students League in New York City, the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, prior to earning an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1989. Her work is in museum collections in Sweden, Cuba and throughout the Midwest region’s art centers, and she has gallery affiliations in Chicago, Duluth and the Twin Cities. Adu taught in the Art and Design Department at the University of Minnesota, Duluth until her recent retirement. She now devotes full time to her painting.
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My tenth grade art teacher exclaims, "Wow! Why don't you PAINT?" That didn't mean anything to me at the time but I remember it so clearly. Seven years later, I looked at that situation with a new light - time for a hobby. I started in my living room, gave the paintings of two-dimensional backgrounds and a sun to all of my loved ones and traveled for a year. When I came back, I started painting again in a new living room. Within the next year, people said "Who's the artist?" I was quite surprised at the responses! THAT could be one of the most fascinating parts to painting - people lookin' at it. It's just amazing to see what people like and everyone always like something different.
My inspirations come from everything, even nothing. I like to use acrylics and am trying to be patient with oils. I also use a lot of drips and water, put paint on, take paint off and scrape it around. It's abstract for the most part and I feel very lucky to be able to play with colors... any color.
It's now been another year and I am actually finding it harder to feel satisfied! It could be of many reasons but I feel like the newness and complete raw, experiential plunge into painting was where anything could happen. Now, I am trying to make something happen and I get lost but I need to see this as a great challenge.
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Emily Ostos is a relatively new artist in Duluth. A nomad, of sorts, she has lived and traveled the country, while be influenced by every person, lake, mountain, and tree in her path. An impact of recent residences in Oregon and Alaska can be found while her Venezuelan heritage is also present in the form of color and curvier linear lines.
While attending Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Emily received her BFA in 2005. Though specializing painting with oils, her style is quite diverse, ranging from stylized Ecuadorian landscapes to neoclassical fauvist nudes, to complete abstaction.
Emily's work has been exhibited at Lake Avenue Cafe and the upcoming Earth Day celebration at Leif Erikson Park of Duluth, and 307 Piano Bar, and Artmosphere of Lafayette, LA.
She is happy and honored to join the Duluth art scene.
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For artist and author, John Peyton, the very essence of life was found in the beauty of nature. He approached it purposefully, longing to learn the truths that surrounded him and called to his canvas – in the woods, atop a rock, around a campfire, in a cave, from the shore and on the lake.
Always, on the lake.
John Peyton trekked through the Northwoods and canoed Lake Superior throughout most of the 94 years of his life, beginning not very long after his birth in 1907. He referred to the lake as the Ojibwe do, calling it 'Tschgumi.
For Peyton, art and nature were as intertwined as the wind and water. He swam, hiked, camped and canoed – often bringing his paints and canvas along with him out on the lake or into the woods. To him, it was the logical way of doing things.
Link to John L. Peyton's Online Gallery
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I was initially drawn to work with pastels because of their directness of application. I continue to work with them because of their luscious colors and the special light the finished paintings emit.
With three small children, there was little time to pursue the passion of painting. Discovering pastels, compressed sticks of pigment applied to paper, I discovered my medium. I set up an easel and a still life in my basement next to the washing machine. It seemed I spent much of my time doing laundry, so it was easy to apply a few strokes of color between loads. No mixing of paints, fumes or waiting for paint to dry. It was slow going, but I finished paintings. I continued to paint and took classes. It was at one of these classes that I met a woman with a large studio. She invited me to paint with her weekly. My art took a step forward as I committed real time to working on it. Once out of the basement and into the light, I was better able to instill a sense of light into my paintings. I now have a studio of my own.
Michelle Wegler's paintings have been exhibited locally and regionally. Commissions include calendar illustrations, book covers and portraits. Her paintings have won awards and honors, and are included in private and corporate collections.
Ms. Wegler has studied under national and regional pastel artists. She is affiliated with the Pastel Society of America, Lake Country Pastel Society, Duluth Art Institute, and Artists of Minnesota.
Michelle Wegler was born in Buffalo, NY, and currently lives in Duluth, MN.
Link to Michelle Wegler's Website
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