Cindy Biles
Pottery

Cindy Biles’ ceramic sculpture has won awards in regional and national competitions, including Best of North Carolina Artists and Testifyin’ 2005: A National Competition. Her work has been shown in the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, and has been accepted for an online exhibit in the Upstream People Gallery, opening in January (see ). Cindy has been published in Clay Times and Ceramics Monthly. An artist-in-the-schools, she has taught clay techniques to children of all ages.

Lynn Bregman-Blass
Encaustic and Oil on Clayboard

Lynn Bregman Blass came to her art career first through the Field of psychology and a deep involvement in the arts of Los Angeles in the 70’s and 80’s. As a psychotherapist she was always interested in the creative process. It wasn’t until the late 90’s that she began to re-explore her own creative needs. She took off from there as an artist with many gallery shows. Encaustic became her medium of choice because she loved both the luminous and textural quality of the wax. Her art is an attempt to stay grounded in the now, whatever that means at any given time. Lately it has meant circles, houses, bowls and all that we use to contain our lives. Lynn and her family recently moved from Boulder, Colorado to Chapel Hill.

Lisa Clark
Photography

Steve Cote
Sculpture, Statues and Statuettes in Steel

Steve Cote was born into an artistic family. He and both of his brothers are working artists. He is a self-taught artist who creates imaginative figural steel sculpture which is often humorous and in his own words, "sometimes down right strange." When asked why he sculpts, he says "It keeps me off the streets." His gentle sense of humor is often reflected in his art. Each sculpture is fabricated, not cast. Each is made from new and found or used materials. Each piece is unique and is never repeated.

Monique De LaTour
Photography and Silk Textiles

Monique de Latour was born 1964, in New Zealand and spent her childhood there. She moved to the USA in 1996 to work as Art Director for the 'bluesologist' Gil Scott Heron. In recent years her focus has been on her textile designs and fine art work.She recieved her BA in Textile Design in 1997 from the Royal Melbourne institute of Technology, Australia. She currently teaches design to inner city youth at Harlem Textile Works & The Childrens Art Carnival in NYC. In October '06 she moved her studio to Saxapahaw, NC due to her interest in the rich textile history of Alamance County & the peaceful surrounding environment.

Jeff Fogg
Sculpture Creatures

Jeff Fogg is a self-taught artist, currently producing whimsical garden sculptures in cement and hypertufa, and fanciful creatures in mixed media. His sculptures bring excited children running for a closer look, and bring surprised smiles to weary grownup faces too. Jeff also produces fascinating 2-D art in Ink on paper and acrylics.

David Gould
Pottery

Ruffin Hobbs
Metal Sculpture

Ruffin Hobbs Metal smith and artist Ruffin Hobbs is giving the historic McBane grist mill a new purpose. Located on Cane Creek, where the winding stream makes a final rush to the Haw River, the 1850 mill is now home gallery and workshop to Hobbs. This rural setting in Alamance County is where Hobbs forges intricate, original and reproduction gates and railings, creates contemporary garden sculpture, wall murals, furniture and mobiles poised in flight. Hobbs tells visitors, "I am fascinated by the interplay of line, volume and open spatial relationships that one can create with metal. The color variations are often evident in my work. As a blacksmith, I began to explore this medium to understand its fluid potentials in fire. I've discovered iron's linear qualities while retaining a great appreciation for traditional metal working methods."Ruffin Hobbs creates his art using forged metal techniques in combination with sheet metal forms. This approach yields exciting, spatial relationships in the play of solid and open forms. His work is installed in museums, corporations, galleries, and throughout the United States.

Kara Ikenberry
Wrought Iron Sculpture

I love to do physical things; I love to cook, garden, dance, do yoga, take walks in the woods and make art. I think this is why blacksmithing appeals to me so much; it is very physical. The shapes and patterns I see around me during the walks in the woods inspire me. I enjoy making things that swirl, twist, wrap and open up. I like things chunky, funky, bumpy, clumpy and loose. When I work I start out with a plan but then follow what the material wants me to do. Each piece is a collaboration between my ideas and the voice of the material. This collaboration produces surprises and inspiration and keeps me coming back for more.

David Jessee
Photography

The versatility of 35mm makes it my preferred format. Out in the world, I let images find me, relying primarily on available and naturanl light, using a variety of lenses. Occasionally I use filters to exact the right contrast

Photography for me captures images at once interperative and timeless. Perspective combines with light and shade, a dance of tonalities, to suggest basic geometric shapes that act as stepping stones for whatever the viewer may imagine

While working as a contract photographer for the Anaroc Agency, The Triangle Land Conservancy and others, my primary interest is as an artist, exploring photography as an expressive medium.

Jean Fortune Kaplan
Woven Textiles

Like a song that has no words, weavings speak with shapes and colors, expressing what I can’t say in any other way. I want to reach out and touch the wonder of the world, and I try to put its language in a form. My fibers are primarily handspun wools, silks, and cottons tinted with natural dyes. The designs interweave the objects, sounds, light, textures of my woodland home on Cane Creek. I have worked and exhibited in several venues, including the Penland School of Crafts and the Mint Museum.

William Moore
Sculpture in Marble, Ceramic, Stone, Wood, Bronze

Sculpture from the sublime to the hilarious. Marble, ceramic, stone, wood, bronze.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Sculpture

Paperhand Puppet Intervention is Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger in an ongoing  collaboration with their community. Now in their 5 th year, Paperhand, uses cardboard, papier mache’, trash, and a variety of puppetry styles to help promote social change, peace, and hope for a better world.

Rose Rosely
Paint on Tin

Before jumping ship from the rat race, she worked in Los Angeles for Nickelodeon and Warner Brothers in the television animation biz as a storyboard artist. She has been making wacky art her whole life and her work has been bought by folks all over the place over the years.

The last five years she spent out of country...first in Ghana,West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer and then in Honduras, Central America where she taught school to third and fourth graders.

She's back now making art, starting a business and planning her next adventure south of the border to collect more things for the dirt road gallery...a barn full of arts and crafts from around the world.

David Schaeffer
Blown Glass

David was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Miami, Florida where he received a B.A. in Liberal Studies and a B.F.A. in Sculpture, from Floridia International University. David then received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Cincinnati, and a second M.F.A. in Glass from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

David has exhibited both regionally and nationally including several solo shows and has work in private collections around the country. Currently David is teaching Glassblowing at Resnik Thermal Lab in Chapel Hill, and he teaches a Winter Term Course in Digital Art at Elon University,

Nancy Talbot
Colored Pencil, Graphite, and Oil Crayon on Paper

Nancy Talbot is an artist based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, using objects as symbols of emotions and character traits in order to compose still life/portraits of life phases and experiences.ype of Workwith pencil, colored pencil, graphite, oil crayon drawing on paper.

Amy White
Handmade Powdered Milk Paint on Wood

Amy White lives in Carrboro, North Carolina. She has worked in a range of forms including choreography, performance, writing, music, video, film, photography, drawing and painting. Most recently she has returned to a painting practice in the old mill town of Saxapahaw, in a vintage abandoned factory space.