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Salvage & Skrapwork
2656 County Road W14
Ridgeway, IA 52165
(563) 379-7450
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Fisher Jones Fine Art
1104 Walnut Street
Decorah, IA 52101
(563) 260-0183
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www.big-dogs-large-stories.com
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 ri’aH Salon & Spa

Sponsor of the Preview the 2018 Studio Tour Artists at Art Haus 

1003 Short St.
Decorah, IA 52101
(563) 382-1400

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207 E. Water St.
Decorah, IA 52101

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A property owned and operated by Pam Kester

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www.hiddenhollowacreage.com

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Kyra discovered her passion working with clay while attending Mankato State University where she earned a minor in Ceramics and continued to hone her skills in community studios in Hawaii and Vermont. Kyra’s artwork has also been seen at the Burlington City Arts Pottery Showcase (Vermont), ArtHaus Instructor Art Exhibition, the Dartco Driftless Art Collective event, Sparrow’s Candles and Gifts, the Austin Art Center Retail Gallery and the Austin ArtWorks Festival (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017).

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I create my artwork primarily from recycled found metal pieces embellished with wire, beads, and an assortment of shapes and textures. Many of the finished pieces resemble folk art type dolls or animals that hang on a wall.  My experience teaching K through 12th grade has influenced to this mixed media assemblage approach which is unconventional and sometimes humorous. 

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Real wood BBQ featuring ribs, pulled pork brisket and tri tip. Real food! Real quick! Open Wed–Sat 11:30a–6p.

118 Winnebago Street
Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-6558
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Only 4.5 miles from Decorah. Spacious deck with patio furniture, gas grill, large fenced-in lawn. Four bedrooms with queen beds, 1.5 baths, kitchen, dining, washroom, den, living rooms. Call Jan and Arleen.

2131 Oil Well Road
Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-2811
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Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank
370 Main Street
Lansing, Iowa 52151
Phone: 563-538-4231
www.kerndtbrothers.com
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Branches: Clermont, Harpers Ferry, Lansing, West Union, Cedar Rapids

Main St. Mini Mart in Spillville

Convenience store: food, gas and more in the heart of Spillville, IA
Monday-Thursday open till 8:00 pm.

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Art has been a life long passion of mine since I could hold a crayon. I have an Associate of Arts Degree in Jewelry Design, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education, a Masters of Education Degree in Counseling. As a Professional Educator with 32 years experience including in the Decorah School System, and 26 years as an international educator in Guam Micronesia, Germany, Hawaii, and Singapore. During my educational career, I have experience as an Art Educator, a Counselor incorporating Art Therapy, and a Director of Admissions Administrator.

As an Art Educator, I taught a variety of Art medium to students from Kindergarten through Adult Education. As an Artist, living internationally has allowed diverse cultural perspective. I am open-minded to exploring Art options. However, I prefer creating realistic Oil Painting; and Glass Art that includes fused, stained glass, and mosaic sculptural designs.

My family recently returned home to the Decorah area where we have a forty acre wooded country homestead that overlooks the Turkey River. From my barn designed studio I enjoy nature’s changing seasons and wildlife, including Eagles, flower gardens, an orchard and a newly planted Lavender field. Visitors are welcome by appointment year around, and private or small group art classes can be arranged in any medium.

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Beautiful home located just on the outskirts of Decorah. Fully furnished and perfect for the family getaway or the couples retreat. You won’t want to miss this!

2152 Twin Springs Road, Decorah, IA 52101
563-380-0685
www.twinspringslodge.com

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Marcia moved to Seattle in 1972 and worked in jewelry trade shops in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, apprenticing under master bench jewelers and achieving journeyman jeweler credentials in 1975.

She was a charter member of the Women’s Metal Arts Group in Seattle and the Alaska Metal Arts Guild.

In 1977 she started Gold Spells, a special order jewelry company. This eventually grew into a nationwide custom casting service for jewelry designers.

In 1997, she moved to Skagway and joined Casey McBride at Taiya River Jewelry as a designer, bench jeweler, and precious metal caster. In 2012 she and Casey McBride moved to Decorah, Iowa setting up a jewelry studio on an acreage south of town.

Though she works with 18K gold set with unusual stones and pearls, Marcia specializes in 22K gold. She is inspired by fabulous jewelry and studies her extensive collection of jewelry history books as a personal challenge to raise the level of her art. She has great respect for the craftsmanship of ancient jewelers, as their work has survived the ages. She hopes her work will do the same.

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Moving to Skagway, Alaska in 1974, Casey established Taiya River Jewelry in 1976 and began creating natural gold nugget jewelry. Marcia Cook joined him in 1997 and together they operated Taiya River Jewelry until 2012 when they moved to Decorah, Iowa.

Casey was a charter member of the Alaska Metal Arts Guild and is a past member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. He is also a retail member of the American Gem Trade Association.

Casey creates jewelry pieces in 18 Karat Gold combined with natural gold nuggets, diamonds, or colored stones. His favorite material is raw, natural gold nuggets. The small gold nuggets are soldered to karat gold to create unique patterns and textures.

Casey believes jewelry should be wearable and durable. A jewelry piece should be enjoyed for generations.

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www.taiyariverjewelry.com
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Linda Elkins was born and raised near Detroit Michigan. She left the midwest for the southwest living there for 15 years before returning to Michigan and getting her MFA in fibers. From Fibers(weaving) her work evolved into bookmaking, paper making and collage and assemblage.

She enjoys ressurecting things that have been discarded, left behind, replaced, or just broken and combining them into other identities with new meanings. Whether collage or assemblage, at times her work involves universal human concerns and at times her own fantasy world. She especially likes juxtaposing the past with the present, creating layers of meaning. Alchemy comes to mind. Each thing she uses has had a past life, a past conotation or meaning, and she attempts to place each into a new arena of relationships. Recently much of her work seems to be an attempt to answer “what’s it all about?” and “who/what has been here before me(us)/”. She consioders herself a miner of lost things, lost ideas, metaphors. Those people who know her studio space, know she has a lot of “stuff” from which she harvests and gathers materials.

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Empty Nest Winery presents “Wining with the Arts” 

October 4th, 2014
noon – 5:00 

1352 Apple Rd., Waukon, IA
563-568-2758
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Empty Nest Winery will have the big tent up for Local Artists displaying their talents.  Included are Wood, Glass, Canvas, pottery,  and fabric Artists.  Bring a friend and enjoy the afternoon here at the winery!!

Feel free to download the poster  wining.arts.emptynest.event

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Mad Woman Pottery: Linda Sue Sulzdorf is the ceramicist and owner of “Mad Woman Pottery”.  She has lived the past 20 years in Montana where she owned her own pottery studio.  She moved to a little farm in Elkader about a year ago.

 Judith Engle – Artist: has a passion for depicting cultures from around the world including places  she has visited and painted in like Spain, Africa, Central and South America. In 2011, she won “Best of Show” at the Iowa Artists State Exhibit for her drawing Market Girls from Cusco, Peru.

Kyle Halse Woodshop Creations: uses some home-sawed lumber inherited from his grandfather along with purchased wood to create unique wooden one-of-a-kind pieces. He has made many made to order cutting boards and scroll saw pictures.

Pam Stevens Glass & Fabric Designs: moved to the Harpers Ferry area recently.  She creates both glass and plastic lawn and flowerbed ornaments in unique designs and colors. She makes woven rugs from a variety of fabrics in an assortment of colors and sizes and crochets.

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The award winning nature photographer has been published in many medias including five national magazine covers, and state and national publications and even on television photography shows. Besides wrap around canvas photos, print enlargements on fine quality paper, a vast collection of nature notecards, she has recently published her Fine Art Nature Photography books from 5×7 to coffee table book size done on stunning metallic paper. Come enter the world of Joyce Meyer Photography and feel the many emotions of her fine art gallery pieces.

Joyce A. Meyer/Correspondent
563-562-3937
P.O. Box 156
Spillville, IA 52168
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A bed and breakfast experience of casual elegance. 1 block from the downtown business district. 3 guest rooms and 1 on-suite guest room, guest dining room, guest media room and guest beverage station.

314 2^nd Street E., Cresco, IA 52136
563-379-8702
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A taste of a simpler time. After a complete renovation, this century-old house welcomes you. Old World charm with modern conveniences will refresh and vitalize you!

322 2^nd Street E.
Cresco, IA 2136
563-547-3350
651-335-5053
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www.conniescentury.com

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Carol Gaustad has been a practicing artist for over 35 years. After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls in 1978 with a B.A. in art education, she taught elementary art for 34 years in the Howard- Winneshiek and the Decorah Public Schools, retiring in 2014.

Carol enjoys exploring the juxtaposition of colors, color layers and nuances through the mediums of watercolor, oil painting, pastels, and silk paintings. Her favorite themes include figures in natural settings, floral still life and the changing seasons of the beautiful northeast Iowa landscape.

A long time member of Northeast Iowa Studio Tour, Carol shows her work in local exhibits throughout the year. Her work has also been featured in several area galleries, including Agora Arts, The Perfect Edge, McGregor-Marquette Center for the Arts, and the Bluff Country Gallery in Spring Grove, Minnesota.

Carol Gaustad resides in rural Decorah with her husband Gordon. They have one daughter, Emily who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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BIO: Born in 1973, Tonya Balik grew up in Decorah, IA and moved to Minneapolis in 1992 to attend the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and spent the next decade working with photographers before completing her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2006. After receiving her MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2010, she returned to her roots in northeast Iowa. It is her childhood here in Iowa that informs her current projects—the place where, as a child, her grandmothers taught her to sew, crochet, and knit; all techniques that she continues to use in her work.

ARTIST STATEMENT: My work as an artist involves a wide range of materials that attempt to capture the ephemeral – the often over-looked fleeting elements of daily life. The techniques I use vary from traditional drawing and painting to mixed media, experiments in photography and traditional women’s crafts including quilting, sewing, crocheting and knitting. At present, I am using found materials, colors and imagery from childhood. I use these visual records as references to specific times and places. The process of first discover and then creating this work has become meditative; a way to both collect and release secrets, thoughts and fears.

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Enriching Experiences in the Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts.

McGregor-Marquette Center for the Arts, MMCA, is a place to explore your creativity and share in the creative experience with others. A place dedicated to the many forms of creative expression, it will provide everyone a place to experience a wide variety of art activities. A place to create, display and experience the visual arts such as painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, fiber, and ceramics. A place to create and partake in music, dance, film, video, poetry, spoken, performing, and literary arts events.

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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 451, McGregor, Iowa 52157

Street Address: 158 Main Street, McGregor, IA 52157
563.873.8912

Homemade goodness and great service at small town prices. Tasty breakfast and lunch items in a country-dining atmosphere. Homemade pies and deserts, daily specials and soups. All luncheons served with homemade baked bread. Serving breakfast and lunch Mon-Fri 6am-2pm, and Sat 6am-11am.

563-382-0167
1101 Montgomery St.
Decorah, IA 52101

Dine in, carry out, noon buffet everyday 11am-1:30pm. Free delivery.

105 East Water Street
Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-2118
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Specializing in wood-fired pizza and international cuisine. Beer and fine wine. Experience the “sweet life” in an outstanding scenic setting. Wed–Fri 4–9p. Sat 11a–9p. Sun 10a–8p, w/brunch 10a–1:30p.

2141 Twin Springs Road
Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-4723
www.mcdolcevita.com

Casual fine dining, lounge. Steaks, sandwiches, pasta, sea-food. Mon.-Sat lunch-dinner, Thurs night Iowa Chop, Fri night all-you-can-eat fish, Sat night prime rib.

(Behind Super 8, on Hwy 9.)
811 Commerce Drive, P.O. Box 62
Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-4614

Casual dining. Steaks, seafood, sandwiches, cocktails and wines. Traditional favorites and grilled fare with southwest influence. Open every day except Sunday.

1101 Hwy 9
Decorah IA 52101
563-387-0300
www.theoakssteakhouse.com

Full service restaurant, great soups, sandwiches, gourmet coffee, super premium ice cream. Day and night specials, full beverage. Fun staff and décor. Dine inside or on deck. Visit website for hours.

113 West Main
Spring Grove, MN 55974
507-498-DOCS
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Studio area for 24 to craft, create. Dining area for 24. Come feed your body and soul. Room for 20 to sleep in five separate rooms, three baths. Complimentary breakfast.

105 North Vine
West Union, IA 52175

563-422-8212

www.moonlightstitching.com

Rich in history, modern in feel. Five guest rooms. Awesome view. Close to park & downtown. Perfect for small or large groups. Wifi and breakfast.

305 Grove St.
Decorah, IA 52101
563-380-8080
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Luxurious suites overlooking the Mississippi.

203 Main Street
Lansing, IA 52151
563-538-9262
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www.mcgarritysinn.com

Housed in century old barn between Waukon and Lansing. Wireless Internet. Private entrances. Private baths, TV, mini-fridge, microwave, blow-dryers, hot country breakfast buffet.

1231 Hwy 9
Lansing, IA 52151
563-568-2665 or 563-380-8272
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Restored 1879 historic hotel only 20 minutes from Decorah. In 1923 Charles Lindberg stayed here. Eight sleeping rooms; five full suites.

117 South Main Street
Mabel, MN 55954
507-493-5768
www.mabelhousehotel.com

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Rick Scheffert’s pottery ranges from utilitarian pieces, that will add enjoyment to your daily meals, to decorative pieces including large vases and face pots. His designs often come from nature, and sculptural elements are an important part of many of his works.

Rick lives and works in a beautiful valley 5 miles south of Decorah. He began his journey into pottery under the direction of Dean Schwarz at Luther College. In addition to his studies under Schwarz he took classes from “Jack” Dale Raddatz and participated in workshops taught by various potters including Marguerite Wildenhain and William Daley.

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2011 features many new pieces! Having worked in traditional quilt-making techniques since 1983 my ideas about fiber art began to shift in new directions in 2000. With this change comes a new body of work that reflects my passion for nature, color and texture. New styles of fiber art have emerged with this redirection and the resulting thread paintings, fiber collage and framed pieces complement and diverge from my traditional roots.

In addition to the art for sale on my website, commissioned pieces can be arranged.

Individually instructed sessions are available for those interested in creating their own unique quilts or artwork.

Visits to my studio in beautiful Northeast Iowa can be scheduled with advance notice.

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Artists/naturalists Lee Zieke and Lindsay Lee have long been known around the area for their work in landscape gardening and as growers of perennial flowers.
Lesser known are their talents with willow and other natural materials like birch bark and riven green wood. Their baskets and boxes are the perfect companion of beauty and functionality.

“There is something magic” says Lee when you can take this pile of sticks and by bending and twisting them the right way, this lovely form comes into being.”
Together Lee and Lindsay grow their own willow in a coppice patch covering about three acres. By harvesting (cutting) the stems near the ground each year, a crop of graceful flexible weaver rods is produced.

“It really is a renewable resource”. says Lindsay. “With the birch bark it’s more of a salvage operation, as it is harvested ahead of the logging crews. Traditionally it is done without harming the tree.”

In the studio the bark is peeled back to reveal the inner layers, cut, decorated and bent into the versatile storage canister. They are inspired by traditional Scandinavian birch work.

Please consider this an invitation to visit Lee and Lindsay’s rural studio and see their projects along with the raw materials utilized in their work.

www.willowglennursery.com
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The gallery features Doug’s original art work in oils, watercolors, and drawings. He also exhibits a large selection of commercial prints of his original work. Images include local scenes, Iowa landscapes, Norway landscapes, & scenes from his world travels. The gallery  also houses a creative studio and room for studio art workshops.

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www.eckheart.com
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Mixed – Beads/Yarn/Clay

Born the youngest of eleven children Paula was surrounded by inspiration from her older siblings. Creating original jewelry and art work has been a passion from a very early age. At the age of fifteen she participated in her first arts and crafts fair.

Paula now resides in Northeast Iowa with her Husband Tom and two small sons. The birth of their first child was the inspiration to make a career of her artistic talents so she could be home with her children.

This will be Paula’s fourth year participating in Northeast Iowa Artist Studio Tour, and this year she is also the Treasure for the organization.

The Goods includes designs in various media inspired by nature and incorporating many natural elements. Paula’s seemingly endless original ideas make for an interesting and eclectic mix of art pieces. You never know what she will come up with! Besides creating and selling her jewelry and accessories Paula also teaches jewelry making techniques in private and public workshops.

You can find The Goods at regional art fairs including Nordic Fest in Decorah, online at Etsy and on Facebook.

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