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Artisan Gallery

​Andy Johnson
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Andy Johnson has been designing furniture since childhood, but it took more than 20 years for him to fully embrace his creative drive. In the intervening years, he studied mechanical engineering at Princeton University and worked as a design engineer, product manager, design director, and consultant for leading firms in industries ranging from consumer electronics to aviation. The unifying element of Andy’s career is the creation of products that astonish and delight customer. He founded Ample in 2010 while earning an MBA from Babson College.

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​Amyjo Avnet​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Who do you want to be today? 
It is Amy jo Avnet's deeply held belief that the jewelry we choose to wear has the power to reflect our day to day changing nature while embracing the complexities of the soul.  
Amy jo Avnet's Precious Steel artisan jewelry collection combines the rugged and commonplace material of steel with precious metals, gemstones and pearls. These always wearable statement pieces display graphic contrasts that resist stereotyping into ready-made categories. Are they fine jewelry? Wearable art? Precious? Or more earthly, even industrial? The contradictions are welcome.

​Manuela Fischer


​My background is in Movement Education, Theater, Dance and Design.
I have always been interested in sewing and crafting. I simply enjoy the feel of fine wool, playing with colours and combining different techniques and materials.
Most of my work for this show involves recycled Cashmere and Alpaca
Yarns crafted into shawls, headscarfs and fingerless gloves.​

​Isabelle Zifcak


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Ana Karina Luna


​As a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, Karina enjoys mixing printmaking (letterpress, wood block, linocut), technology, origami, interior and graphic design, drawing and illustration, and fashion in her work.
Karina is interested in and often writes about graphic design, architecture, industrial design, urban planning, technology, social issues, and art – often as it relates to the internal life of the individual.

Bittersweet Project


​Seattle based jewelry designer – crafting unconventional
organic forms in jewelry.


I am drawn to the aesthetic values of the Japanese, where beauty often lies in the
imperfect mark of the hand. This aesthetic, that they call wabi sabi, accepts the process
of growth and decay, and celebrates it through the beauty in the cracked, worn-down
or repaired. It is an understanding of imperfections. These cracks and changes from
time just add to the meditative value of the piece. It is humbling and grounding.

Schwa Designs

Lauren Schwartz Ryman

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“I’m inspired by nature,” says Lauren Schwartz, the innovative artist behind Schwa Designs. “I’ll see a flowering plant out in the woods and get an idea for how to mix colors.” Such organic inspiration is evident in Schwartz’s vibrant gemstone combinations: sunny citrine against aqueous chrysoprase; woody garnet next to warm tangerine quartz. This penchant for taking visual cues from the natural world has led the young designer to call her work “jewelry of the earth.”

Slab Art

Gudrun Onkels​

Eric Holder

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By reanimating wood in artisanal designs, we  create a new narrative that incorporates the tree’s origins and preserves its indelible beauty. For us, the process of woodworking is a continuous dialogue between design
and sheer organic presence.

Each tree has its own story, reflecting the world around it. In return for the life that trees help us sustain, we place them in protective shelter among us, as they have sheltered us for millennia. By transforming salvaged trees into artistic, useful designs, we aim to give them a new lease on life.

 

www.slabart.com

 

Margaret Myhre

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Calliope Jewelry

Alena Fisse-Karr

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Laura Cooper

Blue Flower Designs​

I love color and collage is currently my favorite form of visual expression.
For quite a few years I have focused on making greeting cards from handmade and origami papers, botanical prints and textiles. Cards are an intriguing art form because they are so accessible and you never know whom they are going to touch or where they are going to end up. Cards are colorful little surprises. By providing beautiful card art I also hope to inspire others to enjoy the diminishing tradition of handwritten notes.
Recently I have turned my color/collage focus to cashmere. After collecting recycled sweaters for my palate, I sew squares of cashmere together in various color combinations.  The resulting soft and vibrant scarves and baby blankets are designed to keep us cozy and brighten our winters.

 

 

Morgan Thomas

Morganopolis

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Working with my hands and whimsy have always brought joy to my life.  I was a craftsperson before I was a mother, but becoming a mother expanded the playground of my inspiration, plus I now had in house fit models.  Morganopolis products are handcrafted with love right here in beautiful Ballard.  I hope that the pleasure that they have brought me in making them shines through.

 

"Creativity is contagious.  Pass it on" -Albert Einstein

Annette Sindel

Blumerkinder

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Blumerkinder designs are inspired by my children, nature, art, and fashion using quality, reclaimed garments which I carefully select for color and softness.

 

My goal is to make beautiful, unique, and practical clothing with a good conscience.

Jalair Box

 

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​Kristina Przyjemski

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​Richard Steppic

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​Cynthia Dellinger

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I grew up in Virginia and have loved history from as early as I can remember.  I also like to make things.  I was so happy to find and outlet for both interests whe I saw Moravian stars for the first time while visiting family in North Carolina.

Historically Moravian stars are the result of a geometry lesson for boys in the mid 1800s.  They consist of eighteen four-sided pieces and eight three-sided pieces, which are joined together to create the twenty-six point star.

They take between 4 and 5 hours to make, and are all hand made.  There are hundreds of cuts and folds made before they are assembled.  The ends are embellished with Czech beads.  No two stars are exactly alike.

 

​Mike Nauman-Montana

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Glen McCarthy

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