Artist Leah Leach has an honorary doctorate in metaphysics—the study of life, taking things apart and putting them back together again, which sounds an awful lot like her chosen medium, torn paper art. Inspired by an episode of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood in which the author...
Kathryn Smithkatsmithartist.com Kathryn Smith was always interested in the arts, but she began as a performer—dance, acting, singing—and didn’t take her first real visual arts class until her senior year in high school. As she got into college, working toward a degree in elementary education, she...
Stuart Troxel has been an artist for as long as he can remember, drawing and making art since he was able to talk. In fifth grade he used to draw his own comic strips, featuring his character, Flash the Mouse, and sold them on the...
Megan Hutchins’ wood and galvanized nail creations are not only unique, but unexpected, “A lot of people assume when I go to shows that [my work] was [done by] a male artist. It’s fun to put on a skirt and eyelashes, put on a show...
Creativity has been the unifying backbone of Jerry Mannell’s professional career. A Fine Arts and English Literature major in college, Jerry combined his love of visual and written stories into a career as a graphic designer, working for an ad agency for a few years....
Craig Ogden is a painter that creates from a place of deep emotion. He personifies the term “labor of love.” Ogden started putting brush to canvas again after a decade-long hiatus from art as a means to escape his daily routine. Pushing paints around a...
Simona Buna has been an artist all her life. Harkening back to her childhood, she remembers her house as smelling of turpentine and oils and being filled with her mother’s and father’s canvases. One day when she was thirteen, she picked up a canvas herself...
Jason Kistler, a local artist and photographer, began seriously taking photographs in 1992 during a black and white workshop at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. Over the past 7 years, he has experienced an overflow of photographic creativity. Kistler says, “Photography is my true...
NOW FEATURING: EMERGING ARTIST, ROBERT ADAMS IV Bobbi K Samples became an artist later in life, roughly 15 years ago. She took two lessons, and the rest was history! She ended up creating 85 paintings in her first year of painting. In Samples’ words, “I couldn't...
Ghost in the Machine Alive only at night time How did I not know haiku by Christine Merchent Christine Merchent returns to Noblesville Creates this October to provoke our minds and delight our senses once again in the Stephenson House gallery. “Ghost in the Machine,” her latest collection, explores...
