I am an artist/craftsman specializing in wood and metal work here in Boone County. I have a Facebook page called NA PUZZLES INK. I like to build one of a kind items for fun as well as a few bread and butter items for sale. I strive to be an artistic craftsman and a crafty artist., Most of my work has a function as well as an artistic flair so I call my work Functional ART (FART for short). I am a relatively new member of the Art League but am now a three time award winner including these Golf clubs which got an honorable mention in the gift of art show this fall. Most of my work will have a secret compartment hidden as cleverly as I can but unfortunately the golf clubs are an exception and stand alone without a secret compartment. The discs can be laid on carpet and it can be a real challenge to sink a put. Have fun and enjoy
Frank Stack
“Texas born artist Frank Stack has made Columbia his home since 1963. He served as a professor of Art at MU for 40 years and has continued to be active in the local art community since his retirement. His oils, watercolors, intaglio, and lithographic images often represent the Missouri landscape, although he is equally well known for his figure paintings and work as a graphic novel/comic artist. Stack’s artwork is held in collections nationally and internationally; and it was even featured in the 2003 Academy-Award-nominated Paul Giamatti film, “American Splendor.””
Anastasia Pottinger
Kate Gray
Ms. Gray received her B.F.A. in Advertising Art and a minor in Marketing from the University of North Texas and received her M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ms. Gray has professional experience in both the fields of art and design.
As an artist, Ms. Gray is an award-winning professional fine artist and a signature member of Missouri Watercolor Society. To date, she has won numerous awards, hung more than 30 solo show and exhibitions. She is skilled in a range of medium and is known for combining her poetry with her artwork.
In the design field, she has more than 30 years of professional experience in all areas of the communication and design field. Her design-related experience includes: teaching graphic design as a faculty member at Stephens College; owning her own award-winning design firm, Add Design; designing for the Intel Corporation; managing a creative team as the Assistant Director of Publications at the University of Missouri and designing, branding and project management for the digital and print materials, exhibition design, illustration/artwork for Independent Stave Company.
Julie Bonifay
Julie Bonifay is a self-taught weaver who lives and works in Columbia, Missouri. Her work has always been influenced by simple forms and sharply contrasting colors, and since 2012 she has used fibers as her preferred medium. All of Julie’s loom/frames are custom-designed and handmade by her husband.
Terri Rickerson
Terri is a pastel painter that has recently moved back to Missouri after living in Florida for 26 years. Her paintings are developed with an emphasis on vibrant color, composition, and especially light. The goals in her paintings are capturing a mood or atmosphere, while studying how the effects of light change color. "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present" --Francis Bacon
Catherine Armbrust
Catherine Armbrust grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas but has enjoyed life in various parts of Missouri since 1989. An alumnus of the University of Missouri, she earned her MFA in Fibers & Sculpture and a BA in Anthropology. Armbrust currently lives in Columbia, Missouri and works as the director of the George Caleb Bingham Gallery on the MU Campus. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MU School of Visual Studies and teaches Fibers at Columbia College (Columbia, MO). Though her work has shifted somewhat since her husband’s sudden passing in 2015, Catherine Armbrust’s mixed media work most often conflates biological and cultural themes in the forms of costumes, dioramas, collages, soft sculpture, and installations. In that work she channels a Rococo spirit to parody human methods of collection, ornamentation, pleasure, play, and seduction.
Amy Denninghoff
Amy Denninghoff, nee Stephenson, studied art at the University of Memphis and Belmont University. She has shown in galleries in Memphis and Nashville Tennessee and locally in Columbia.
George Szabo
Pam Gainor
I have been making art most of my life. I like to think I construct a model of my world in my art. I love mystery, color and forgotten landscapes. I love to show how small and defenseless we humans are in relation to the power of the earth. I hope to show hope as well as danger.
Philip Peters Jr
Jeanne M Pascale
The first nine years of Pascale's life were spent in New Jersey where a normal view was the Manhattan skyline. A trip to the movies with her grandparents meant Radio City Music Hall and a floor show by the famed Rockettes. Then her family moved to south-central Arkansas - at the time known as the "Land of Opportunity". While the move meant opportunity to her parents, it would be several years before Jeanne came to appreciate Arkansas on her own terms. Later periods living in Dallas, the Boston area and Montreal, Canada, had a profound effect on her creativity. Years later, she came full circle with a move to central Missouri. She now finds equal inspiration in viewing a ballet performance or a rural Missouri landscape.
A lifetime fascination with fabric, textures, color and needle arts ultimately resulted in a BFA degree in fashion design and influences her still life paintings today. She also enjoys street scape painting - first inspired by scenes in a favorite North American city - Quebec City, Canada.
Jeanne lives in Boonville with husband Patrick Hanna and their cat Figgy.
Karen Stout
Abigail Gorsage
Abbey is an art teacher at Rock Bridge high school and a mother of two. She enjoys creating on her free time, and is developing illustrations for a children’s book she is writing.
Scott McMahon
Scott McMahon grew up in Connecticut and now resides in Columbia Missouri where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College. He received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA and his BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Selected exhibitions include Poetics of Light, Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum Santa Fe, NM & National Media Museum in Bradford UK; Amerykańskie Metafory, Galeria Pusta, Katowice, Poland & Old Gallery ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland; Forgotten Attributes, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Bioluminescent Firefly Experiment, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Second Nature, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA; Response Time, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. McMahon’s work has been published in Pinhole Photography, Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James, Anthotype by Malin Fabbri, Poetics of Light – Contemporary Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Pinhole Journal, The Hand Magazine and Gum Printing – A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson. He was a resident artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; iPark Artists’ Enclave in East Haddam, CT; Border Art Residency in La Union, New Mexico and Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY.
Katie Barnes
My passion for photography is fueled by a passion for the environment. From a young age, I was brought up in a family that revered nature. Vacations were spent outdoors in National Parks, and always in tents. Years later, my love of the natural world around me has become my favorite muse to document. I have degrees in both Fisheries and Wildlife and Photojournalism, but I think my true asset as an artist is curiosity. Spending the twilight hours outside with my camera is when I feel most creative. I currently live in Columbia, MO with my humorous husband and two wild children. When I’m not exploring the woods with my macro lens, I’m photographing people saying “I do” with Wildflower Wedding Photography.
Deb Roberts
I grew up in Chillicothe, a small rural town in northwest Missouri. During my twenties and thirties, I studied art at Central College in Pella, Iowa, Missouri Western College in St. Joseph, Missouri and the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. From 1980 to 1992, I worked as a graphic designer and a product photographer for a small commercial print shop. My husband, Mike and I moved to Columbia in 2001.
I am a still life photographer. I became a still life photographer as the result of working as a product photographer for several years in Chillicothe, Mo. I prefer still life photography because it allows me the time and control to create just what I want. I build each image with deliberate action...each shape, texture and color is carefully selected and placed.
Each of my still life photographs is organized and constructed with a sensitivity to “just the right” available light. I may wait hours for the perfect light to fall on a construction. I can’t predict what the light will be, but I know it when I see it.
I am a collector of odds and ends. The items I collect are often found objects I pick up on walks and excursions outside. The bulk of my collection, which is neatly organized in drawers in my studio, is the result of the eighteen years I have lived in Columbia.
The city of Columbia and the surrounding area is home to an abundance of parks, scenic trails and spaces... places to exercise, play, relax, enjoy wildlife and observe the beauty of nature. Columbia is “green” space to me. For me, the green spaces provide a place to play and be entertained. My work in this show is a representation of the treasures I have found on my walks.
Erin and Nick Potter
Nick and Erin potter are collaborative mixed media artists living in Columbia, MO. Erin has a BFA in two-dimensional media. Nick has a PhD in creative writing and teaches in the digital media department at MU.
Sarah Nguyen
Sarah Nguyen is an artist living and working in Columbia, Missouri. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibits and publications nationally and internationally. She received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Amelia Dean
I am a scratchboard artist living here in Columbia. My focus is on the nature of light and its interaction/importance in our world. I hope to convey vague idea and emotion with intricacy and delicacy through my scratchboard pieces.
