ARTWEAR
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Bio: I was an art Major at Indiana University and have worked with fibers since I was a teen. I have taught needlepoint and restored damaged needlepoint canvases, spent time weaving and I always have at least one knitting project going.
Contact Name: Sally Wurtz
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-265-4537
Street Address: 508 Jefferson St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: ARTWEAR is available at the Indiana State Museum Gift Shop in Indianapolis and the Lanier Mansion Gift Shop in Madison, In.
Carlson Art & Sign
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Creates: My main business is signs, but I would like to get better known for my painting (oils and watercolor). I've been an artist for 40 years. My concentration lately has been Plein Air painting, though I also do portraits.
Contact Name: Kevin Carlson
Preferred Contact Method: Phone or email
Phone: 812-701-3993
Street Address: 227 E. Second St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Carolyn Lopez
Bio: I was in the Chautauqua for 17 years. Now I display paintings from my home. I love painting in watercolor, expecially flowers and scenes. I also do some painting in oils, acrylics and pastels. I paint at my kitchen table and my hours for showing paintings is anytime I'm home....by chance or appointment.
Creates: Paintings
Contact Name: Carolyn Lopez
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-265-4748
Street Address: 411 W. Second St.
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Artisans: I show in my home and at the Madison Art Club Gallery
Dottie Shepherd
Bio: Born in October, 1944 in Carroll Co., Kentucky. Dottie grew up in Scott Co., Indiana and has lived on a farm 3 miles east of Lexington, Indiana for the past 40 years.
Dottie retired in April 2000 after working at Grote Industries for 34 years with approximately 34 years of that time in the Customer Service/Sales and Marketing Dept.
Her hobbies include camping, home decorating, gardening, and painting. She has been painting with oils since March 2002 and has taken instruction from artist, Veletta Blackman of Borden, Indiana and with local artist Kevin Carlson. She especially enjoys painting scenery and still life and has been exhibiting with the Madison Art Club Gallery since November, 2003.
Contact Name: Dottie Shepherd
Street Address: 10269 East New London Rd.
City: Lexington
State: Indiana
Zip: 47138
Folk Art by May
Bio: Folk Art by May is a Madison shop where Santa's are featured. These santas are handcarved by Bruce May and handpainted by Dianne May. The designs are their own and each is signed and dated. There is also one santa each year that is chosen as the yearly santa and is signed and dated accordingly. Many new designs appear each year. There are also cats, dogs, angels and other creatures and figures, but Santa is supreme. Stop iin the shop and watch Bruce carving.
Creates: handcarved & handpainted Santas, Angels & Animals
Contact Name: Dianne or Bruce May
Preferred Contact Method: phone
Phone: 812-265-2725
Hours : 12 pm to 5 pm, most days
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Jane DeVito Art
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Creates: I am an oil painter, my art is mostly modern/abstract/expressionist.
Contact Name: Jane DeVito
Preferred Contact Method: E-Mail
Street Address: 510 East St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Jenny Straub Youngblood Art
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Bio: Jenny Straub Youngblood has been an artist as long as she can remember. With an artist for a mother and a grandmother, she just naturally followed their lead, developing her own unique style along the way. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art at Hanover College in Hanover, In. Jenny enjoys findingdistinctive ways in which to paint the human form. The images in her paintings are hauntingly beautiful and are created in her home studio.
Creates: Paintings
Contact Name: Jenny Youngblood
Preferred Contact Method: e-mail or phone
Phone: 812-265-1779
Street Address: 410 Berry St.
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: I accept commissions for non-traditional portraits.
Karen Taylor
Bio: Karen is a watercolorist. She has lived in the county, north of Madison for 30 years. She and her husband, Stephen, also a practicing artist, work together as a team. Their meeting took place while they were students at the Fort Wayne Indiana Institute of Art.
Karen continues to study her craft from comtemporaries such as; Duane Light, Judy Betts, Rob O'Dell, Barbara Nechis, and Joseph Fettingus to name a few. Her subjects are house portraits, Madison historic sites, rural Landscapes, trains and some florals. A signature member of the Kentucky Watercolor Society of Indiana and she is also a member of the Hoosier Salon and Kentucy Watercolor Society. Karen exhibits with her fellow artists in the Madison Art Gallery and other places in town. her work has been shown several tines in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in the Watercolor Society of Indiana shows and other juried shows in the Midwest.
"I love nature and the beauty around me. The dear Lord blessed me to be brought up in a creative and humble country family. He gave me this artistic ability-a gift. I want to do all I can to share it with others."
Contact Name: Karen Taylor
Street Address: 4423 West CR Rd. 400 N
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Lanthier Winery, LLC/Loft Gallery
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Bio: Cellarmaster Christopher Lanthier is a chemical engineer and hails originally from Detroit Michigan. He balances his executive position with Dow Corning Corporation with his duties as Lanthier Winery's wine maker. Christopher's dream to pursue his own business began with a simple thought inspired by visits to Napa Valley wine country in 1990. He premiered his handcrafted, award wining wines September of 1994 when he celebrated the grand-opening of Madison's oldest winery, Lanthier Winery during the winery's annual Harvest Celebration Festival. Christopher is a member of the Indiana Wine Grape Guild. He has acted as consultant and advisor to numerous individuals seeking to open new wineries in Indiana and throughout the Midwest.
Creates: Wine
Features: Wine and traditional painting,
wood, photography
Contact Name: Rita Adams
Preferred Contact Method: Phone call
Phone: 812-273-2409 or 1-800-41-WINES
Hours : Wed.. Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Street Address: 123 Mill St
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Artisans: Interested in increasing offering of Indiana made
products. Wholesale, consignment.
Lawrence Rudolech
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Bio: A native of Madison, Indiana, Lawrence Rudolech has spent most of his life admiring and studying the simple and natural beauty of southern Indiana's countryside. Larry credits the Boy's Club as instrumental in cultivating his young artistic career. They provided him with his first oil paints and introduced him to Mr. Lou Knoble, who would be his high school art instructor and the driving force behind Larry's artistic career. Larry attended The John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis with plans for a career in Graphic Design. Larry has worked in all the facets of commercial art and ran his own freelance design and illustration company.
Larry did not take his fine art career seriously again until the late 1990s when he became a member of the Madison Art Club. In 2001 he entered and was accepted into his first Hoosier Salon Show. Larry has had work in this prestigious show every year since and has won numerous awards. "Why I paint I'm not sure and I have often wondered why anyone would even bother to paint at all. One thing I have come to know, is I can't stop trying to express to others what it is I see maybe even more, feel when I gaze on a site as simple as a road covered with an an early morning fog. I don't think I see anything different than what others see, I am just trying to make sure they don't realize that it is only with God's blessing that I am able to see sometimes more with my heart than with my eyes. So maybe that is why I try to use my brush to express what others may be able to put into words. I also don't think I need to paint every detail, nor do I want to. Because I am not really dealing with what is in the painting, as much as I am dealing with the emotions I am feeling at the time I am painting it. That is why I feel my work is only successful when I feel more coming from it, than what I see coming from it."
Contact Name: Lawrence Rudolech
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-866-3827
Street Address: 128 Joes Ln.
City: Hanover
State: Indiana
Zip: 47243
Notes to Retailers: Club Affiliations: Madison Art Club, Hoosier Salon, Brown Co. Art Guild, Indiana Heritage, Indiana Plein Air Painters Assoc., Cincinnati Art Club, International Plein Air Painters Assoc., Landscape Artists Internationsl, and Oil Painters of America.
Lee Featherstone
Bio: Lee Featherstone is a self taught artist, with some classes from Ellie Smith. Lee started painting 22 years ago. She had to quit painting for 7 years due to family illnesses, but she started painting again in 1998. She tries to paint a couple of days a week, and has been an active member of the Madison Art Club for 22 years.
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-866-3778
Street Address: 10155 West Ford Rd.
City: Lexington
State: Indiana
Zip: 47138
Leticia R. Bajuyo
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Creates: I find inspiration in objects, materials, and activities that are ordinary, but have the potential to maintain a voice when combined or altered. Through materials such as soap and artificial grass, my works are designed to encourage a dialogue about individual and community approaches to "happiness."
Preferred Contact Method: Email
Phone: 812-866-7338 or 812-270-8832
Street Address: 269 Garritt St.
City: Hanover
State: Indiana
Zip: 47243
Lillie Wingham
Bio: Lillie started painting in 1980. She is mainly self taught, but has taken lessons from artists in the Madison area and few from other parts of the country. She admires many artists in the state of Indiana, as well as reading about artists and their work in art magazines. She paints often and works in several medias. She paints minatures as well as large paintings. Many of her paintings are in Japan, as her Japanese friends have purchased her work. She also has paintings in other countries, as well as here in the U.S.
Her greatest desire is to bring peace and beauty through her work to all who desire to look. Her aim as a painter is to continue to learn from those who excel and to follow their lead to better paintings.
Contact Name: Lillie Wingham
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-265-2270
Street Address: 9414 East Splinter Ridge
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Lou Knoble
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Contact Name: Lou Knoble
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-273-3602
Street Address: 1721 Allen St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Madison Table Works
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Creates: Custom handmade tables
Contact Name: Robert Maile
Preferred Contact Method: phone or e-mail
Phone: 812-273-5050
Hours : 10 am to 5 pm, Saturdays, 12 pm to 4 pm, Sundays
Street Address: 325 E. Main St.
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Marguerite Ligon
Bio: Marguerite is a native of Southern Indiana having spent nearly all of her life in the Madison and Hanover area. Her early life was spent working for the federal government, mostly with the Social Security Administration and Department of the Army, at Jefferson Proving Ground, Madison, Indiana and the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant, Charlestown, In. Later she became Chief, Position and Pay Management then Chief, Management Services Directorate where she served at the executive level as primary advisor to four Commanders. Marguerite retired in 1987 and became a full time Realtor until 2000. With such a busy career there was not a lot of time for "art" but she pursued courses in folk art and china painting, and subsequently realized that she really wanted to do fine art. She studied under an Art Instructor at Hanover College for over a year, and has worked in developing her own skills. Marguerite essentially dropped her art until she went into semi-retirement in the year 2000. She currently works in oils, but has done china painting, glass painting, tole painting, and folk art. She and her husband of fifty years, Orland "Keith", have two daughters and a granddaughter in the Indianapolis area. Marguerite welcomes your calls if you are interested in other art pieces or a commissioned work.
Contact Name: Marguerite Ligon
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-866-2934
Street Address: 1361 S. Riverview Dr.
City: Hanover
State: Indiana
Zip: 47243
Mudcat Pottery
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Creates: Handmade functional pottery and sculptural pieces in original bright and earthtone glazes.
Contact Name: Darlene Yarnetsky
Phone: 812-265-2445
Hours : 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Mundt’s Candies, JWI Confectionary
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Creates: Handmade candies and luxury
ice creams
Features: Handmade candies and luxury
ice cream
Contact Name: Maryanne Imes
Preferred Contact Method: E-mail, Letter
Phone: 812-265-6171
Hours : Seasonal Hours.Call in Advance
Street Address: 207 W. Main
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: Interested in wholesaling (candies only)
Notes to Artisans: Interested in increasing offerings of Indiana made
products. Wholesale.
Pixiechick Creations
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Contact Name: Margo Watkins
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-273-4257
Street Address: 804 E. First St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
RainBowS Stained Glass
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Bio: Full service studio/gallery offering ready made glass, custom glass, stained glass classes, unique jewelry and gifts, custom design, kilnformed glass and a large inventory of most art glass and supplies.
Creates: Glass and Jewelry
Features: Glass and Jewelry
Contact Name: Sharon Collier
Phone: 812-265-0030
Hours : Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm
Street Address: 831 W. Main Street
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: Interested in selling products wholesale to retailers. Willing to display or consign pieces to visitors centers or galleries.
Richard James Studio
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Bio: Ever since my first experience with wood firing, I developed a close connection with its ideals, process, and philosophy of asthetics which mirrored my own ideas about life as a whole. Wood firing is a very labor intensive process, taking three times longer than any other form of finishing pots. The risk to the work is also multiplied three fold. But the reward is beauty and truth imbued into the clay that is one hundred times that of any other process. As an artist, I can only manipulate the variables under my control to a certain level, it takes the touch of something elemental and powerful, something without consciousness and working in conjunction to make great art. I don't astrive to control the life of the fire, but to create a dialog with it that is recorded in the soul of the clay. Much of my work does not "match the sofa" or feel smooth to the touch like a prefabricated cup. I make this trade off in the hope that my work will keep giving inspiration to the owner long after the newness is worn off, that it will be work that reveals something new periodically over time, like a good friend.
Creates: woodfired ceramic sculpture and pottery
Contact Name: Richard James
Preferred Contact Method: e-mail or phone
Phone: 931-703-3372
Hours : 9 am to 5 pm, Thursday and Friday
Street Address: 1025 W. Main St.
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Robert H. Saueressig
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Creates: Contemporary fine art painting; acrylics and plein air
Contact Name: Robert H. Saueressig
Phone: 812-273-0552
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: Interested in wholesaling, willing to demonstrate.
Sally Fitch
Bio: Encouraged and supported by family, friends and teachers, Sally has always had a strong involvement in art. It led to a career and lifelong interest in painting. Sally received her Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from Southern Illinois University and her Master of Science degree in Art Education from Indiana University. Sally spent many rewarding years as a public school art teacher in Illinois and Indiana. For years, Sally helped many of her graduating students prepare for their own careers in art.
Since retirement, Sally has had more time to pursue other interests: acrylic painting, watercolor painting, and, along with her husband, Paul, restoring an old house and antiquing. Paul and Sally (Paul Sally Studio) work together designing and building folding screens, furniture and other decorative items. They take on projects on a commission basis.
While living in the northern Indiana, Sally founded the Northwest Indiana area group of Plein Air Painters (outdoor painters). Her paintings and art work are a part of many private collections.
"I love painting! Even though the subject matter changes from portraits, house portraits, scenics, gardens, florals, to abstracts, a lively, colorful personal touch is added to everything. The art experience is very gratifying. I hope others enjoy my art work as much as I enjoy doing it!"
Street Address: 409 E. Main St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Seth Bickis
Creates: I produce glass beads and sculpture.
Contact Name: Seth Bickis
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-273-2519
Street Address: 6659 E. Pleasant Ridge Rd.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Steamboat House Art
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Bio: Barbara Walters-Dixon was born in Louisville, Ky. and grew up in Madison, In., her father's home town. She graduated from Madison High School, married and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, she lived there for 33 years and now resides in Historic Madison Indiana. Barbara is a self taught artist. She sketched in her earlier years and tried many medias. The most interesting media in her experience was with oils. Recently her passion has turned to painting Historic Madison and it's riverboats, however she does commission work consisting of pets, portraits, landscapes, architecture, riverboats, etc. Some of her paintings have been sold internationally, others throughout the U.S.
Creates: Paintings/Prints
Features: painting on canvas, wood, porcelain and slate
Contact Name: Barb Walters-Dixon
Preferred Contact Method: e-mail or phone
Phone: 812-265-9848
Street Address: 738 W. Third St.
City: Madison
State: IN
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: I am willing to sell wholesale and have a wholesale price list.
Notes to Artisans: will do commissioned work of favorite pet, child, house, boat, etc.
Taylor-Made Art
Contact Name: Karen M. Taylor
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-265-4155
Street Address: 4423 W. 400 N.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Artisans: I am a member of the Madison Art Club, the Watercolor Society of Indiana, and Indiana Heritage Art.
The Elder Pot
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Creates: I make the following from natural materials. Furniture, bowls, photographs w/ frames, leather bags, carved jewelry, bookmarks, drawings, and housewares.
Contact Name: Matt Hicks
Preferred Contact Method: Phone or email
Phone: 812-599-1316
Street Address: 209 East St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
The Elder Pot
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Creates: I make handcrafted soaps, lotions, bath salts, and body spritzers. Soap varities include all natural soaps, and soaps containing frangrance oils, as well as essential oils. I make cold and hot processed soaps, as well as handmilled soaps.
Contact Name: Michelle Hicks
Preferred Contact Method: Phone or email
Phone: 812-599-5605
Street Address: 209 East St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
The Sewing Basket
Creates: Pillows and quilts
Contact Name: Debbie Snodgrass
Preferred Contact Method: Phone:
Phone: 812-273-6719 or 812-599-7501
Street Address: 609 E. Second St.
City: Madison
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: Available at Something Simple
William Borden Watercolors
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Bio: Indianapolis native, William Borden is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art with a B.F.A. in industrial design. He worked for thirty years as a designer at the Ford Motor Company Design Center in Dearborn Michigan and the Ford Research Centre in Melbourne Australia. A freshman class at Cleveland sparked his interest in transparent watercolor painting and since the early 70’s he has pursued a second career as a painter of landscapes and mechanical compositions. In 1988 he was elected a signature member of the American Watercolor Society. He is now a full time watercolor painter. Bill’s work has been displayed in a number of well known local and national exhibits, the most notable of which are the American Watercolor Society, the Allied Artist’s Exhibit, and the Audubon Annual in New York City, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the Rocky Mountain National in Golden, Colorado, Watercolor USA in Springfield, Missouri, Watercolor West in Riverside, California, The Hoosier Salon in Indianapolis and Scarab Club exhibits in Detroit, Michigan. He has been included in four of the American Watercolor Society’s traveling exhibits and received that organizations Kitty Logan Award. He has also been included in the Watercolor U.S.A. traveling exhibit, received the American Academy of Art award from the Midwest Watercolor Society and numerous awards in annual Scarab Club exhibits.
In addition to the American Watercolor Society, Bill holds signature memberships in the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society and the Watercolor Society of Indiana. He is also active in the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association, the Indiana Artist’s Club Indiana Heritage Arts and The Madison Art Club. He has instructed numerous watercolor painting workshops in Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky. He is one of ten Indiana artists chosen to contribute paintings for the book “The Changing Face of Agriculture” by Indiana University Press.
Bill’s work is available at the Brown County Art Guild in Nashville, IN, The Hoosier Salon Galleries in Indianapolis and New Harmony, IN, and the Madison Art Club Gallery in Madison, IN
Creates: Transparent watercolor paintings, primarily landscapes.
Contact Name: William Borden
Preferred Contact Method: Phone
Phone: 812-866-5793
Street Address: 1342 S. Riverview Dr.
City: Hanover
State: Indiana
Zip: 47250
Notes to Retailers: I market my work through galleries and personal contacts. Bill's work is currently available at the Brown County Art Guild in Nashville, in., The Hoosier Salon Galleries in Indianapolis, and New Harmony, In., and the Madison Art Club Gallery in Madison, In.