James Adair
Outside Washtenaw County

Nelson Amos
Ypsilanti Area

Artistic realism (local images, landscapes, portraits, commissions), artist services (giclées, prints, etc.), custom framing, unique gifts. Nelson Amos's early experience in the visual arts was as an art major at Morehead State University in the 1960's. After a year of study, he decided to follow a career in music which led him to Ohio State University for a Master of Arts degree and The University of Iowa for his Ph.D. Since 1975, he has served as Professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University where he continues to teach classical guitar, lute, and graduate classes in music history. Inspired by his historical music interests, Amos decided in 1997 to incorporate Renaissance and Baroque painting techniques in his art work. In 2004, the Nelson Amos Studio opened at 9 East Cross Street in Ypsilanti's Historic Depot Town. The Studio has since moved to 23 E. Cross Street. To date, Amos has painted almost 40 portraits including individuals, family, as well as corporate commissions. His painted images of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor are favorite items having broad appeal in Southeast Michigan. Amos continues to teach at Eastern while his wife Korin assumes much of the day-to-day operation of the studio-gallery (custom framing and sales of his original art work).

Julia Ashcom
Ann Arbor Area

Autumn Aslakson
Ypsilanti Area

Jill Ault
Ann Arbor Area

David Austin
Ypsilanti Area

Multi media artist and gallery owner.

Wendy Bedolla
Ann Arbor Area

Contemporary Glasswork and jewelry

Diane Bennett
Ann Arbor Area

We provide Art Workshop Retreats in Ann Arbor, MI at the Botanical Gardens. The Workshops are taught by award winning instructors in a variety of mediums. We also work as Art Consultants offering original art, reproductions, and commissions for businesses, universities, and institutions.

Robert Boardman
Ann Arbor Area

Freelance Conductor, specializing in rehearsing and performing symphonic works from the standard orchestral repertoire and contemporary music. Band, Chorus, and Opera as well. Interests include cross disciplinary collaborations and events of community significance.

Polly Bradburn
Chelsea Area

For as long as I can remember I have been involved in one form or another of art. 9 years ago I tried my hand at pottery and feel it is now my true passion. Pottery gives me the chance to search into my soul and thus express my self through my creations. I make hand built and wheel thrown pieces. My pottery is functional with a twist.

Barbaranne Branca
Ann Arbor Area

I am a ceramicist. I believe that daily objects of functional use should be beautiful to the eye and to the touch. I endeavor to create pieces for household enjoyment, either for practical use or simple viewing pleasure. My work is a form of meditation for me.

Brittany Broas
Outside Washtenaw County

I just graduated from the textiles department at the College for Creative Studies. I'm eternally optimistic and am excited to get involved with the arts community.

Barbara Melnik Carson
Ann Arbor Area

I am narrative sculptor creating art that starts a conversation. Primarily interested in making work that exists in all three dimensions, I weave a story to connect it to intangible signifiers in the viewer’s existence. My passion for creating began in childhood growing up in Southwest Detroit. With limited art resources, in my early work I improvised using objects found in my neighborhood. Religious and ethnic themes grow naturally from that past environment. I’ve been an exhibiting artist since 2001. After a career working as an occupational therapist I continue to emerge as an artist. Working with intuitive and outsider artists during my career in mental health provided a creative surge. Today, my sculptural clay and mixed media works grow from personal insights linked to broader issues.

Jeanine Center
Ann Arbor Area

Kelly Christie
Saline Area

I specialize in handcrafting sterling silver jewelry. I am very inspired by water and nature, although sometimes equally inspired by moderna architecture. I use a variety of different techniques in my work, including forging and kuem boo.

Ed Comeau
Chelsea Area

Marlene Cooper
Ann Arbor Area

Graphic Designer, Painter, Jewelry Designer/Metalsmith

Kristine Cravens
Saline Area

Wheel thrown and hand build pottery.

carlye crisler
Ann Arbor Area

artist

Marsi Darwin
Chelsea Area

I believe that we are largely in charge of our own destiny. I envision the reality in which I'd like to live, and then do what I can do make it happen. I create little worlds, whether in glass, or in words, or in web designs, that make the imagination come alive. Stained and etched glass ornaments, coasters, and panels in celestial and southwestern designs are my trademarks.

Bill Darwin II
Chelsea Area

I learned the art of stained glass from my grandfather when i was 16, and have made a living doing it for over 30 years. Custom doors and windows are my specialty, for homes, churches, and businesses. About 10 years ago I started restoring and selling antique slot machines as a sideline, which is now a thriving business.

Rick De Troyer
Chelsea Area

I have always been intrigued with making things, being aware of nature and trying to limit my use of resources on this planet so to reduce global warming. Recycling is a big part of my art. I try to practice what I preach by using found objects in my work. They tell a story of their own, along with adding character to art. When I see a design in my mind I try to shape it into reality. My work is freehand and comfortable. I cut or add to my eyes’ delight. I like curves and flow the pieces into a new use. . I find a new energy from some objects, and creativity takes that "Ah Ha!" step. Some metal can develop a look over time much as a wine’s flavor can grow. I try to blend the look of rust with the shine of grinding. I hammer the surface repeatedly to develop a textured look. My hands seem to know what to do when I cut, hammer and weld metal. Learning to let my heart over rule my conscience is sometimes the hard part.

Marta England
Ann Arbor Area

handmade sterling silver Jewelry

LIz Fiero
Outside Washtenaw County

Professional fine artist who specializes in abstract, realism and landscape drawings and paintings. BA of Art Education from Eastern Michigan with k-Adult teaching certification. Memeber of the Ann Arbor Association of Women Artists and Michigan Art Therapy Association.

Frederick Fischer
Dexter Area

laminated redwood furniture with no straight lines

David Frankel
Ann Arbor Area

I make beautiful ceramic plates & platters with elegant lace patterns imprinted in the clay. Turquoise is one of my favorite glaze colors. I am a member of the Potters Guild and participate in their sales. The Ann Arbor Art Center sells my pottery.

Carrie Gardner
Ypsilanti Area

Fused Glass

Katy Giordano
Ann Arbor Area

Sally Goldberg
Outside Washtenaw County

Ceramic Artist, member Ann Arbor Potters Guild

Idelle Hammond_Sass
Ann Arbor Area

One of a kind, custom and limited production jewelry in precious metals, gemstones and pearls. Classes offered in jewelry making through Ann Arbor Rec and Ed in artists studio.

Barbara Hardesty
Ann Arbor Area

Constance Harper
Ann Arbor Area

Paul M. Hickman
Ann Arbor Area

A multi-disciplinarily art & design studio creating objects + environments through the decorative arts – green design, personalized custom furniture/cabinetry, home furnishings, decorative finishes, materials and color consulting, interior and graphic design, and fine art prints and sculpture. Reclaim a piece of Michigan’s environmental legacy created by the Emerald Ash Borer with fine picture frames and furniture by Urban Ashes. Designer, Paul M. Hickman’s new line of frames and furniture, Urban Ashes, is hand-crafted with transitional/disabled labor in Michigan from Michigan urban wood, salvaged from local Ash and other trees. These are trees that grew on our streets, in our yards, in our parks and in other urban areas. The entire Urban Ashes collection is hand-finished with petroleum-free finishes often highlighting the unique character of the Ash and other urban woods used in these frames.

Nathaniel D.J. Hockman
Ypsilanti Area

Lover of music, & the arts, positivity, purpose, & comedy

niki hogan-lefler
Ann Arbor Area

Candice Hope
Saline Area

I love to dye fabric, sew, quilt and knit. Most of all I like to make art that is useful. I show it all off on my blog & sell it on Etsy.

Jay Howe
Ann Arbor Area

Tricia Huffman
Ann Arbor Area

I fine arts mosaic studio. Commissions,Workshops,Gallery.

Kathleen Ives
Ann Arbor Area

Currently a Graduate Student at EMU for Arts Administration, interning at the River Gallery in Chelsea, MI. A 2008 Graduate of CMU with a degree in Drawing and Sculpture. Illustration, drafting, working with fiber, paper, wood, and foam.

Jessica Jacobi
Ann Arbor Area

Cindy Johnson
Dexter Area

Melissa Katke
Manchester Area

We are a custom frame shop and Art Gallery in beautiful downtown Manchester.

Janet Kelman
Ann Arbor Area

Janet Kelman has created sculptural and architectural glass for homes and businesses in the metro area since 1970. Her work includes fused glass, mosaics, and sandblasted windows, doors, and mirrors. Commissions are invited. Janet offers classes in fused glass that are challenging and fun! Beginners are welcome.

Brenda S. Kerster Richardson
Outside Washtenaw County

Artist working in a variety of mediums both professionally and personally. Web site maintenance and design; fine arts (oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics), fiber arts (spinning, weaving, knitting), and music (piano, Celtic harp, violin, guitar, vocals), video editing and post production. Member of Brighton Art Guild. Works as Information Specialist at Hamburg Township, and Daily Programming Director at Channel 99, Hamburg Township Television.

Carla Kohoyda-Inglis
Manchester Area

Kana Kubota
Ann Arbor Area

Laila Kujala
Ann Arbor Area

I am a painter, digital artist and a jewelry maker. I do custom alphabet art.

Rebecca Lambers
Ann Arbor Area

I am a couturiére, practicing the art of dressmaking. Couture is my reason for being. It is a constant striving with my best efforts reaching toward perfection of my objects and their performance. My work exists at the junction of art and highend ready-to-wear clothes. Like architecture, this art form is lived in. Its effect varies, often changing in appearance over time. It has many dimensions. It is the name of my dreams. A working artist serving clientele for over thirty-five years, I focus on the woman and make each garment, from concept through to finishing. Every life experience is unique and contributes to our personal spirit. Translating the language of dressing the body - fashion - defines my being and discerns the individual in my clients while recognizing our shared humanity. Themed shows in my Ann Arbor studio suggest possibilities. These venues reinforce my belief in the value of meaningful dress, a reasoning of cloth, the body and identity. Sense of Skin - coming Oct. 2010 Things Japanese - Oct. 09 The practice of my craft. I am challenged by Zen cultural readings concerning the concentrated pursuit of art as necessary for ethical learning, a way to be in the world. Origins - Feb. 08 Exploring the influence of the African aesthetic in my life and work: using rhythm, color, materials, to reaffirm life’s spirit, finding beauty in tragic reality, laughter after pain. Still Life: re forming Nature - Oct. 07 Discerning sensuality in the myriad possibilities presented by floral relationships: vibrant color, warm tangibility, organic complexity, edges of darkness and the fleeting quality of joy and exuberance. Birds! - Feb. 07 Inspired by knowledge gleaned through care of my chickens and by the free dream of flight – evidence of levity. Couture: the art of dressmaking, melds my designer aesthetic sense with beautiful materials, intricate technique and interactive process to engage a client’s personality.

Kate Lebowsky
Ann Arbor Area

I am an artist that loves to create toys that bring happiness to children small and big

Jackie Ludtke
Chelsea Area

I am a self-taught artist from Chelsea. I love to paint abstract portraits! I use acrylic paints, and I paint on everything from canvas, ceramic tiles, handbags and shoes! I also paint with my computer and have these designs printed on handbags, t-shirts, card cases and more! I hope you love my work as much as I love creating it!

Kirsten Lund
Ann Arbor Area

Ruth Marks
Ypsilanti Area

I make figurative art that explores feminine archetypes of the hero, adventurer, performer, and dreamer.

Leslie Martin
Outside Washtenaw County

Erin McDonald
Outside Washtenaw County

Susan McDowell
Ypsilanti Area

Glass artist - fused and engraved functional and non-functional wrok.

Mark Meier
Ann Arbor Area

3D Modeling, Digital Fabrication, Sculpture. Please see my website and blog for examples of my work in furniture design, woodworking, digital fabrication, and sculpture.

Kimberly Mertz
Dexter Area

Hello! I make Fairy Doors! These are little doors that you can place around your home to welcome in fairies and other fae folk (who will hopefully bring you good luck.) I make them all by hand out of clay and embellishments. There are other things I do/have tried, but my fairy doors have been the most successful so far. Glassblowing has been another favorite activity, but is quite costly. I have been an arts enthusiast for as long as I have been able to hold a crayon. When I was growing up I found that nothing could make me happier than experiencing or creating art, in all its forms. Now that I have done lots of experimenting with where I want to take my skills, I am (hopefully) ready to get my personal business up and running. A "regular job" can not compare to starting a business of your own when it comes to personal joy and freedom, at least for me, and I hope to get the opportunity to explore my options as a young artist in a competitive economy.

Dee Miles
Manchester Area

Working in jewelry satisfies an basic need in me: creating small pieces of art, one at a time, one of a kind. Having The Wild Acorn LLC as an outlet for my work and others is a joy to me.

Emily Milton
Ann Arbor Area

Lone artist seeks place in world.

Kandy Myny
Outside Washtenaw County

I am a mixed media artist

Susan Nestor
Outside Washtenaw County

mixed media art

Ginger Newborn
Ypsilanti Area

mural artist, macrame jewelry designer and teacher, wire wrap jewelry

Natalie Nirdlinger
Chelsea Area

Both the preservation and the degradation of memory are present in my work. Memories are always in a state of metamorphosis. By using materials that are impermanent, I have created work that is also in flux. Each time a viewer engages with the art, a new interpretation results, and a different memory comes to mind. There is a tension between the solid portions of memory and the fading, dissolving portions, created by combining permanent materials with delicate, impermanent parts. Wax preserves a delicate structure, but heat destroys it. Enamel lends strength to thin, pierced silver, but shatters if dropped. This tension between stability and impermanence is important to express how I conceive of memories: they are something that we need in order to understand ourselves, but we also sometimes need to destroy or alter a memory in order to protect ourselves. Nothing can change an event from having occurred, but the construction of memories surrounding an event can be altered, destroyed, improved on, and corrected to suit the needs of the individual at any given time. Although we cannot change our past, we can change the way we understand it.

Pam O'Hara
Dexter Area

Pam O'Hara is a functional stoneware potter. She is a partner in Artistica gallery in Dexter

Heather O'Neal
Ann Arbor Area

The simplicity represented in my drawings interrupts a busy world in motion. I feel an instinct to capture thoughts, moments in time, situations and scenes and put them on paper. I most often use permanent marker and watercolor to describe what I see. If my camera is available, I will take a picture and capture the moment more clearly. Hand blown glass, bead jewelry and metal works are other artistic endeavors I've explored. Wherever I go, I document my travels and adventures through writing, and sometimes I make music videos to capture the journey.

Nicole Pangas
Chelsea Area

Studio artist. My work explores abstract image making through a variety of processes and materials involving painting, printmaking, sculpture and clay.

Rebecca Pavy
Outside Washtenaw County

I am a design artist and writer. I work with glass to develope large panels. Beautiful translucent glass-on-glass, as well as opaque, solid and durable surface art. Tell me what you want and I will create it for you.

Mary Perrin
Ann Arbor Area

Lisa Platt
Ann Arbor Area

Marilyn Prucka
Outside Washtenaw County

fiber arts: art quilts, spinning, dyeing; polymer clay; collagraphs

Gail Ristow
Ann Arbor Area

Handcrafted metal and semi-precious stone one of a kind meditation/focus bead strings. Aid for mental, spritual and physical well-being.

Jacqueline Roberge
Outside Washtenaw County

Jewelry Artisan

Gini Robison
Ypsilanti Area

Whimsical Pins and Hair Ornamens and Rings Jewelry to make you smile

Kristina Ruthven
Ypsilanti Area

I produce artworks in the mediums of textiles and furnace glass. I am also going into K-12 art education.

Michelle Shankwiler
Ypsilanti Area

~ ARTIST AT LARGE ~ :)

Margaret Shaw
Manchester Area

Folk Artist whom works with found materials. I sell from my web site and currently have work at Found Gallery in Kerry Town A2.

Kathleen Shea
Ann Arbor Area

One of a kind ceramics and paintings - oil, watercolor and acrylics. I also teach private lessons to kids through 12 grade.

Susan Skarsgard
Ann Arbor Area

Emily Slade
Ann Arbor Area

Hello There! I'm Emi..the girl who creates highly stylized and one of a kind paintings and sculpture, equipt with screaming color and the infamous "smoking mushroom" icon. I am a full-time working artist, die-hard A2 and Ypsi lover, and notable artist in this inventive and ever-growing art scene. I started out my career as co-creator of the Atomic Art Collective (based in Ann Arbor), an organization based on community enrichment and social/artist networking. I found this to be my calling and have since gone on to organize and particpate in many MANY ypsi/A2 events (and of course events all over the world as well) every year!!!!

Sarah Stanton
Saline Area

Funky hand made sterling silver jewelry

Kathe Suddendorf
Saline Area

I am an artist in Saline, MI, working in watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencil. I also teach colored pencil at 212 Arts Center in Saline, MI. My home is my studio and I am available by appointment.

Catherine Thursby
Ann Arbor Area

I Own a small shop in downtown Ann Arbor that has a mix of my art work as well as local and national artists along with vintage furnishings, retail products, children's gifts, and things for the home. It is a charming shop set inside an old house with very colorful rooms!

Martha Travers
Manchester Area

My path is to assist individuals in accessing their creativity and life-vision. To do this, I teach contemplative practice (sitting meditation, tai chi, working with color, etc) and nature-based contemplative practice. I teach a 'Writer and Contemplative Practice' retreat at the GilChrist retreat center as well as a nature & mysticism retreat. I also teach these retreats in Northern Michigan in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. Open to all who want to quest for deep vision with the assistance of the natural world. My work pertains to all the arts.

Mary Underwood
Ann Arbor Area

Front Porch Textiles offers handwoven textiles, handspun yarns, custom yarn design, lectures and classes. Additionally Mongolian and Bhutanese textiles are available for sale. Open by appointment.

Jon Van Eck
Ann Arbor Area

I am primarily a clay artist, but I also paint, and work with wood and mixed media.

caroly n wallace
Ann Arbor Area

Marlies Wandres
Chelsea Area

I am a mosaic artist I started making mosaics about 10 years ago in the Caribbean where I decorated my house with mosaics. Soon I was making mosaic tables wall murals etc. for local hotels and guesthouses . Back in Michigan I started Artistica gallery in Dexter with some ladies and soon was asked if I would teach mosaics. The rest is history... I recently moved my studio into the Dexter Arts Center that just opened a few month ago in Dexter. I am very motivated by nature and I usually integrate items I found into my Mosaics.

margo west
Chelsea Area

i make dishes....i make dish-washing fun!

Kathryn Williams
Ann Arbor Area

I reach to the community in an area I call Life Healing Art. I provide commissioned writings and drawings for those celebrating life and/or working through hardship. I offer craft workshops and I work with small groups leading inspirational discussion. I have a healthy living column on the Examiner.com and I write bereavement articles for Open to Hope. I offer bereavement products such as remembrance lanterns and sympathy cards.

Stephanie Wottreng
Ann Arbor Area

Julie Yeager
Ypsilanti Area

I create a wide variety of colorful and unique hand-painted and etched glassware, designed with fun and functionality in mind! I began painting glass about eight years ago. It started as creating something fun and functional for myself, and slowly progressed into a small business. My clientele has grown from friends and family to now include the public through a variety of arts and craft shows and retail stores and galleries. My audience is growing, and so are my glass creations. In addition to hand-painted glassware, I have also added etched glassware. The hand-painted and etched pieces are safe for food and drink, and most are dishwasher and microwave-safe. Each piece is truly functional for everyday life. In addition I also do acrylic painting, jewelry making, photography and copper enameling. I love trying new mediums and I especially love teaching art to others (kids especially) - I love to see and help others find their creative talent.