2023 Participating Artists
Catch a glimpse of artists who participated in AIP 2023!
Keep checking back often to see who will be joining us this year
Barry Treu
http://www.barrytreu.com/
Kari McDonald
Kari McDonald is a printmaker. She hand carves woodblocks, applies ink, and prints onto paper for wall art, greeting cards, and sketchbook journals.
Peggy Mitchell
Peggy Mitchell is a fiber artist and makes handwoven tea towels, scarves, and shawls. She additionally makes soaps, hand painted glassware, and greeting cards
Cindy Bielefeldt
Cindy Bielefeldt works with mixed media utilizing a wide range of recycled materials to create her art.
Cynthia Legate
Cynthia Legate makes original, wire-wrapped jewelry with beads and cabochon stones. She works with silver, copper, and brass.
Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller is a digital oil painter who creates original works of wildlife & portraits.
Sarah Hutmacher
Sarah Hutmacher creates floral abstracts through acrylics on canvas & paper collages, that spark joy.
Kat Heitzman
Kat Heitzman is a self-taught artist inspired by fantasy, nature, and her inner spirituality. She is skilled in painting, pyrography, drawing, sewing, quilting, and mixed media arts.
Priscilla Osborne
Priscilla Osborne creates sculptures & paintings in oil & watercolor.
Lauren Killam
Lauren Killam makes hand crafted wood works, many of which are inspired by Swedish folk art.
Nancy Ocken
Nancy Ocken makes funtional, hand-built stoneware decorated with fabric textures and textures from nature. Her work includes mugs, jars, vases, boxes, bowls, planters, pitchers, and bird houses.
Betty Mickel
Betty Mickel designs & creates fabric bags, wallets & accessories.
Past Artists
Catch a glimpse of artists who participated in AIP 2022!
Alex McFarland
Rock Island, Illinois - @alex.mcfarland_art
Barry Treu
http://www.barrytreu.com/
Brenda Mattis
Country Glass Woodwork—South Beloit, IL
Chrissona Jessen
Jewelry - Freeport, IL
Cindy Bielefeldt
Cindy Bielefeldt works with mixed media utilizing a wide range of recycled materials to create her art.
Cynthia Legate
Cynthia Legate makes original, wire-wrapped jewelry with beads and cabochon stones. She works with silver, copper, and brass.
Geoffery Symanek
Geoffrey Symanek has spent most of his artistic practice as a sculptor and printmaker. He is currently working with watercolors to explore color and light.
Jamar Etienne
Jamar Etienne is an illustrator, cartoonist, and creator of the brand Brain Smoothie. His work is inspired by street art and pop art and is often influenced by his personal anxieties.
Joyce Werkheiser
Joyce Werkheiser is a photographer who mostly photographs landscapes, wildlife, and pets.
Kari McDonald
Kari McDonald is a printmaker. She hand carves woodblocks, applies ink, and prints onto paper for wall art, greeting cards, and sketchbook journals.
Kat Heitzman
Kat Heitzman is a self-taught artist inspired by fantasy, nature, and her inner spirituality. She is skilled in painting, pyrography, drawing, sewing, quilting, and mixed media arts.
Kelly James
Kelly James works with oil on canvas to create intimate settings that aim to create a subtle sense within the viewer that they have been there before by dream or distant memory.
Kurt Salla
Kurt Salla works with copper and brass and implements curvy lines and asymmetrical designs to make unique, elegant jewelry.
Laiqah Hanold
Laiqah Hanold is an Illustrator who works with both traditional mediums such as pen and ink and watercolor as well as computer programs.
Lauren Killam
Lauren Killam makes hand crafted wood works, many of which are inspired by Swedish folk art.
Maurice Walker
Maurice Walker considers his art prophetic and describes that “The Lord gives me dreams/visions on what to paint…that is where I get my inspiration.”
Melinda Cook
Melinda Cook works with a variety of mediums and enjoys making highly individualized functional objects for everyday use.
Michael O’Hara
Michael O’Hara works with charcoal drawings that include a variety of subject matter including still lifes, portraits, and animals.
Momentum Art Guild
Momentum Art Guild, or MAG, is a local art guild with multiple artists that work in a variety of mediums.
Nancy Ocken
Nancy Ocken makes funtional, hand-built stoneware decorated with fabric textures and textures from nature. Her work includes mugs, jars, vases, boxes, bowls, planters, pitchers, and bird houses.
Paula Kuehl
Paula Kuehl uses pastels to create paintings of flowers, children, and landscapes.
Peggy Mitchell
Peggy Mitchell is a fiber artist and makes handwoven tea towels, scarves, and shawls. She additionally makes soaps, hand painted glassware, and greeting cards
Tara Hagemann
Tara Hagemann used photography to showcase farm life and share her pride in in farming.
Terry Brown
Terry Brown is a woodworking artist. He designs turned bowls, platters, and urns for pets and people.
