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Kim Bosworth started designing and creating hand-beaded jewelry several years ago, anticipating retirement from a life-long teaching career. Beading jewelry offered a relaxing way to unleash her creative side while feeding her passion for beads. Her artistry evolves around simple yet elegant original designs arising from a mixture of bead color combinations, shapes, and textures. She incorporates a variety of beads and materials: pendants, semi-precious stones, glass, crystals, fresh-water pearls, metal, sea-glass, polymer clay, wood or glass tiles, and natural shells that she collects from Florida beaches. Her designs include 3-piece necklace sets, bracelets, ankle bracelets, earrings, wine glass charms, and bookmarks. Her process lends itself to spontaneity which she feels produces a more creative and appealing design and sense of self-expression. Often it brings a surprise that is personally satisfying. Her intent is to create a finished product that captures both a traditional and contemporary look, pleasing to the eye.

Kim enjoys customizing jewelry to enhance a client’s attire or special occasion, whether it’s special pieces for a wedding or charm bracelets for holiday gifts. She often shares her talent with local elderly care facilities and displays her work at several arts and crafts shows and farmers’ markets throughout the year in Iowa and Florida where she and her husband spend the winter months.

Kim has a studio in her rural home north of Decorah, IA and in her winter home in St. Augustine, Fl.

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Eric Petersen-Brant is largely a self-taught artist working in clay, paint, printmaking, and more while also being a prolific poet and talented musician as long as he can remember. His ceramic work is reminiscent of the processes of the natural world, creating forms that are inherently earthy, grounded, and comfortable to use and live. These clay works include lively animal figures, eroded wall-hanging slabs, elegant dinnerware and more. When not making art, Eric can be found teaching art or overseeing the operations at Decorah’s community arts center, ArtHaus, with his wife and fellow artist, Jenni Petersen-Brant.

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Jenni Petersen-Brant learned the craft of creating elegant utilitarian pottery while earning her MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her current focus is on creating functional pots, with a delicate flare and supple surfaces, that act as daily reminders to celebrate the trivial, the tragic and the triumphant. She also dabbles in printmaking, mosaic, and craft work. When not making art, Jenni can be found teaching art at or overseeing the operations of Decorah’s community arts center, ArtHaus, with her husband and fellow artist, Eric Petersen-Brant.

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Bonnie Koloc has had a long and prolific career as a singer songwriter living in Chicago, New York, and Nashville. Still doing concerts with her incredible longtime Chicago musicians. Bonnie is eclectic in her visual  art like she is in her music. She often works in series-with-works on paper, paintings, printmaking and fabric. She loves to make original one of a kind hats and small bags from found and recycled materials. Her artwork is in many collections such as  Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Waterloo Art Center and the Elmhurst Art Museum. More info on her website.

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Art has always been a part of Sharlene Bohr’s life. Her connection to textiles began at a young age with her mother and their mutual fondness for quilting. She loves to play with color and pattern and that has combined with her appreciation of nature, born from growing up in rural Winneshiek County, IA.

Sharlene first discovered eco-printing while living in Los Angeles, CA. A friend of hers introduced her to the process and she was captivated from the moment she unwrapped her first piece. Eco-printing is a technique where plants, leaves and flowers leave their shapes, color, and marks on fabric.  

Sharlene places every leaf by hand (or, sometimes, tweezer), creating a pleasing pattern and color palette. The plant material is bundled inside of cloth and steamed or boiled to release the dye found naturally inside the plant, creating a contact print in the shape of the leaf or flower used. Colors are revealed as the plant material is lifted off the unwrapped fabric. These contact prints are referred to as “eco-prints.” 

“I solely use natural dye sources because I think the colors that come from nature possess a special quality that’s not found in manufactured dyes. I like how regional plants reflect the area in which they are found, and how the colors change as the seasons progress.”

Sharlene especially likes to mix natural dye techniques, play with different metals, and layer up fabrics to add texture and dimension to her work. Some of her favorite design moments are in the creation of a piece meant to hang on the wall.

Sharlene now resides in Cresco, IA. In her studio, you’ll find her wrapping fabric around pipes, rocks, and sticks, letting the magic of nature reveal itself through her textiles.

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Light-Painting Photography

A unique and creative style of photography occurring at night that utilizes a long-exposure and the illumination of subject matter by use of handmade light tools. Each photograph comes off the camera as-is, and involves no post-processing.

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Kim Bosworth started designing and creating hand-beaded jewelry several years ago, anticipating retirement from a life-long teaching career. Beading jewelry offered a relaxing way to unleash her creative side while feeding her passion for beads. Her artistry evolves around simple yet elegant original designs arising from a mixture of bead color combinations, shapes, and textures. She incorporates a variety of beads and materials: pendants, semi-precious stones, glass, crystals, fresh-water pearls, metal, sea-glass, polymer clay, wood or glass tiles, and natural shells that she collects from Florida beaches. Her designs include 3-piece necklace sets, bracelets, earrings, wine glass charms, and bookmarks.

Her process lends itself to thoughtful spontaneity which she feels produces a more creative and appealing design and sense of self-expression. Often it brings a surprise that is personally satisfying. Her intent is to create a finished product that captures both a traditional and contemporary look, pleasing to the eye.

Kim enjoys customizing jewelry to enhance a client’s attire or special occasion. She enjoys sharing her talent with local care facilities and displays her work at arts and crafts shows, farmers’ markets in Iowa, and her gift shop, Crystal Clear Galleries in St. Augustine, Florida where she and her husband spend the winter months. Recently, Kim self-published her first novel, Just When I Needed Her Most and is currently working on her second novel. She enjoys baking goodies and sharing them with others.

Kim has a studio in her rural home north of Decorah, IA and in her winter home in St. Augustine, Fl.

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Karen Misseldine began creating pottery in the early 1980’s while at Adrian College in Michigan where she graduated with a double-major in sociology/human services and art. She later received her Masters Degree in Art Therapy at Vermont College of Norwich University. After graduation, Karen’s pottery-making sat on the shelf until 2001 when she and her family moved to Decorah, Iowa. Karen soon realized after putting her hands to the wheel again, that creating pottery is a part of who she is, and no amount of time can take it away from her.

Karen creates everyday-functional pottery that is microwave, oven and dishwasher safe. She is known for her dinnerware sets, butter keeper, jewelry pot, berry bowl (strains berries), and many other practical items like mugs, bowls and platters. Each piece is one of a kind and almost all of the pieces are inspired by Karen’s love for nature with their warm fall and jewel-toned colors and occasional leaf prints.

Karen’s pottery is available through the Northeast Iowa Artists’ Studio Tour and upon request. She does commission work and shows her pottery by appointment. At Karen’s studio you will enjoy seeing a wide-variety of her pottery pieces and the process of creating them as well as taking in the beautiful tree-covered hillside view from her deck.
Karen has been on the tour since 2003, which was her first professional show. She now participates in the Bluff Country Tour and holds a private Holiday Show in her home. Karen is a member of the Iowa Art Therapy Association and American Art Therapy Association. While attending Adrian College she received the Outstanding Senior Art Award.

Although Karen loves pottery making it does come second to her passion for art therapy. Karen thoroughly enjoys the interaction with people she has while doing art therapy. In Decorah she is best-known for her pottery-making, but in the surrounding communities she is becoming more well-known for her giftedness in art therapy. She travels many miles each week to work with elderly and disabled individuals through art therapy.

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