Sol Sisters Reception
by Nancy Timper on 03 Mar, 2020 - Comments Off on Sol Sisters Reception
We so enjoyed the “Sol Sisters”, JANET ALVILLAR and VALERIE WATSON.
Aasia Hamid Aasia has always been an art lover, played with different mediums of art all her life, from pottery to stained glass to fused glass. Making jewelry has been her passion since 2003. She found beads as her new painting palette. Beadwork is the art of attaching beads to one another by sewing them with a beading needle and fishing line thread. Beads are available in many different designs, sizes, colors, shapes and material allowing much variation among bead artists and projects. She incorporates different stitches such as peyote, right angle weave, herringbone and many more to create dramatic jewelry. Each piece is meticulously handmade and some may take up to several weeks to complete. She loves to add texture and color in her creations. Variations of bead weaving are endless and the results are beautiful. Aasia works from her home studio and each piece is handmade by her. Her studio is like a candy store. In her opinion, jewelry should be an ideal finishing touch to any women’s outfit. Her pieces are a combination of traditional and contemporary designs from simple to exquisite.
Slade Graves is a self-proclaimed “idea” person. One of her best ideas was to pursue a professional career in painting. Her current work is the culmination of
25 years experience in figurative drawing, painting, and lithography. Slade received her BA from ASU in Tempe Arizona. She is primarily self taught – her most valuable education has been through observation and experimentation. Slade’s art has been reviewed in Art News and shown at galleries throughout the United States (New Jersey, Texas, Alexandria Va., Buffalo, N.Y., Scottsdale, Santa fe, Baltimore, and Naples Florida). The work is also in collections in Iceland and Italy.
JoAnn Augur began pursuing her passion for art after a successful early career as a young executive with a public company. JoAnn studied oil painting and charcoal with several prominent artists in Chicago and later in Arizona pursued more advanced development at the Scottsdale Art Institute over a period covering seven years. She also became involved with the San Francisco Institute of Art and studied under teachers there as well as in an affiliated program in Southern France. Her work is regularly exhibited in galleries, hotels, and art shows. Over time, her work has expanded to encompass acrylic, oil and pastels, and her emphasis is on intriguing combinations of color and composition that compel the viewer’s eye and concentration to be drawn into the painting. JoAnn teaches art in the Phoenix area and is also a certified & enthusiastic yoga instructor! She loves life and people and is deeply involved in many areas of her community. Her zest for life comes through in all her work.
Dale Andress received his BFA in Graphic Design from NAU. Dale is an artist with work experience in metal fabrication, process and manufacturing engineering, civil engineering and risk management. In his youth he was a garbage picker. He’d drag things home, tear them apart, sometimes just to see how they work, sometimes to put them back together in a different form. In high school Dale’s parents were scratching their heads wondering why anyone would build a wall out of empty beer cans or make a couch out of a clawfoot bathtub, but they went with it. In college he majored in graphic design. Dale took a 3D design class and was hooked. Working with his hands and seeing creations formed from raw materials, that he could never accomplish in the 2D world, was where he found direction for his artistic endeavors.
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Dale Andress
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Roger Asay and Rebecca Davis
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JoAnn Augur
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Elizabeth Buck
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Royce Carlson
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Kit Carson
Kit met the art world at the age of 9. By 18, he knew the path; by 25 he was in the business. Kit’s specialty is engraved jewel...
Kevin Caron
Born in Connecticut in 1960, Caron’s multidisciplinary training in the Navy provided a grasp of space, proportion and physics th...
Mark Carter
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Marco Cecala
Marco Cecala, a longtime member and present VP of the Arizona Association of Fine Woodworkers , is a master craftsman whose exqui...
Hans Christensen
I hand fabricate contemporary jewelry, combining modern designs, unique construction and natural materials. I strive to create a ...
Peggotty Christensen
Peggotty creates contemporary garments and accessories combining unique hand-painted designs, elegant fabrics and timeless silhoue...
Leigh Cosby
Leigh’s love affair with “mud” began in college. Today, Leigh is still enthralled with clay….creating both high-fire func...
Doe Cross
Fascinated with paper arts since early childhood, Doe now incorporates both Japanese and Western paper-making along with wood, pai...
Lane Dukart
From his solar-powered studio, nestled among tall pines and massive granite formations in a tranquil valley of the Colorado Rockie...
Bandhu Scott Dunham
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Newy Fagan
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Katherine Farr
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Christy Fisher
Christy's clothing has been seen on runways from New York to L.A. and on members of rock bands like Frank Zappa and Eric Clapton. ...
Jenny Foster
Native Arizonan Jenny grew up along the Colorado River, surrounded by petroglyphs and other ancient relics. Her paintings and scul...
Joanne Frerking
After moving from art to history to political theory and the academic life, Joanne returned to her creative side. Her work runs th...
Tim Garvin
Tim creates his work using several ceramic techniques. But it is his use of the ceramic technique known as millefiori (“thousand...
Raina Gentry
Raina Gentry’s artwork incorporates her studies in printmaking, life drawing, and painting. She views each canvas as a playgroun...
Donna Gordon
Though she has a Psychology degree, Donna has always had artistic abilities so she decided to follow her passions by lamp-working ...
Slade Graves
Slade is a self-proclaimed “idea” person. One of her best ideas was to pursue a professional career in painting. Her current...
Kathryn Guler
Kathryn’s journey with glass started in 2000. After working for years with fibers and surface design to create one-of-a-kind clo...
Aasia Hamid
Aasia has always been an art lover, played with different mediums of art all her life, from pottery to stained glass to fused glas...
Judy Hegenauer
Judy spent most of her life in education as a teacher, an administrator, college professor and educational consultant. She found h...
Liam Herbert
I carved my first sculpture at the age of 7 in the studio of renowned abstract wood expressionist Raoul Hague, in Woodstock, New Y...
Aimee Herring
After studying ceramics under a master potter in Namibia, Africa in 2003, Aimee opened a studio in Louisville Colorado, where she ...
Edward Jones
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Michelle Johnson
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Mike Konen
Mike's interest in woodworking came from working with his grandfather during his high school years. It was an interest that remai...
Paul Landis
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Laughing Glass Studio
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Jennifer Lenel
Jennifer has been an artist all her life. For many years she toured as a classical pianist but walked away from it when she fell i...
Lindsay Livingston
Lindsay is an artisan silversmith from Cottonwood, AZ. ?Her colorful bracelets and earrings are all sterling silver fabricated jew...
Frank Luedtke
Frank is a designer, furniture maker and wood turner with pieces featured in "The Art of the Lathe." ...
Linda Lutes
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Nathan Macomber
Nathan has been involved in first learning and then teaching glass blowing since 1995. He spent the first seven years of his caree...
David McDonald
David trained in Mashiko and Kyoto, Japan masters which allowed him in-depth training in the traditional lineage of pottery as a w...
Steve McGovney
Working from his studio in Prescott, Steve creates wild and unusual artwork using ceramic molds. His new works in the "Imagin...
Byron Mckeown
Byron Enrolled in the Kansas City Art Institute's BFA program in 1956 where he was introduced to the magical world of the visual A...
Deanne Mckeown
"My work is an endeavor to share my thoughts and vision through form and color and relationships, hoping to charge my images ...
Lesley Aine McKeown
The daughter of graduates from KC Institute of Art in Kansas (her father, a jeweler; her mother, a nationally recognized sculptor ...
Mark Mikutowski
Marc is an "old-school" wood-worker who still uses primarily 1940's equipment to design, build jigs and then craft some ...
Jody Miller
In 1984 at the age of 22, Jody was happy to just be around horses and took a job on an Arabian Horse ranch in Thermal, CA. At fir...
Dave Newman
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Jon Oakes
Jon has been handcrafting his unique Raku vessels for over 15 years. Glazed for iridescence with a crackling texture, his pottery...
Doug Oliver
Doug Oliver is represented by several premier art galleries throughout the West. His dramatic paintings are hanging in some of th...
Bill Ooms
Bill is a retired electrical engineer who has been active in the art community for the last 20 years. He is known around the world...
Carol and Tom Paretti
In the 1970's, Tom took apart a kaleidoscope prize he found in a Cracker Jack box in order to discover the secret behind the magic...
Tania Radda
A rising star in the world of wood, Tania begins with the life-like characteristics of various insects, plants and animals but the...
Sugatha Roeder
Sugatha is a master jeweler whose elegant pieces are a combination of fine silver or gold with top of the line stones and gems. ...
Alice Ross
Alice grew up in the former copper mining, now artist community of Jerome, Arizona. This unique childhood, immersed in a world of ...
Rebecca Rush
As a self-taught artist, I have dabbled in some form of art for as long as I can remember. I began initially with pen and ink dra...
Carol Russell
Carol's current work includes sculpture in stone, wood, metal, concrete and found objects, as well as figurative work primarily in...
Lana Saint Michel
Lana's inspiration flows primarily from her travels abroad, especially the years she spent living in Maui. Now in Arizona, Lana re...
Tess Mosko Scherer
After a long, successful career as a gallery owner, Tess crossed the threshold to join ranks with her fellow artists. Tess's uniq...
Marna Schindler
San Diego, CA, is Marna's home. She worked as a graphic artist before becoming a full-time painter. Describing her work as organic...
Carolyn Schmitz
Carolyn has painted everything from motorcycles to pillows! Illustrating for landscape architects led her to learn all about nativ...
Mary Ann Sears
Mary Ann studied painting and dance at ASU. She now works fulltime as an artist doing both painting and monoprinting. The influenc...
Jody Skjei
Born in Minneapolis Jody’s family moved to Prescott in 1972 where she began her adult life (sort of!). Always drawn to the arts...
Bonny Stauffer
My art reflects the energy, spirit, and space of the natural world made present through meditative observation. Earth elements are...
Chelsea Stone
A jewelry artist, Chelsea uses silver, gold, copper, handmade glass beads, colorful gemstones, and brightly colored enamels. She c...
Rafe Terry
Rafe’s impressive, award-winning work encompasses many different styles from the traditional landscape, to large florals, to imp...
Sandy Terry
Sandy's passion for pottery began in 1969. Although focused primarily on her own work, Sandy has shared her talents with many stu...
Clayton Thiel
Clayton Thiel has been passionately making sculptures for over 40 years. He came to the San Francisco Bay area to study with renow...
Valerie Watson & Janet Alvillar (Sol Sisters)
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Myron Whitaker
Myron has been a ceramic artist for the past eight years working from his studio in located in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Alt...
Jenny Willigrod
Jenny is inspired by the bright bursts of color that exist amidst the harsh, desert landscape. Her "Southwest Whimsical"...
FOURTH FRIDAY ART WALK EVERY MONTH
Sol Sisters Reception
by Nancy Timper on 03 Mar, 2020 - Comments Off on Sol Sisters Reception
We so enjoyed the “Sol Sisters”, JANET ALVILLAR and VALERIE WATSON.
4th Friday Artist Reception – Kit Carson
by Nancy Timper on 04 Dec, 2019 - Comments Off on 4th Friday Artist Reception – Kit Carson
It was a cold night, but it was warm and inviting in the gallery for the Artist Reception for the incredibly talented jeweler and metal artist, KIT CARSON!
4th Friday Art Walk, September 27, 2019
by Nancy Timper on 02 Oct, 2019 - Comments Off on 4th Friday Art Walk, September 27, 2019
THIS was the happening place during 4th Friday Art Walk, September 27, 2019!! WOW!!
August 2019 4th Friday Art Walk
by Nancy Timper on 03 Sep, 2019 - Comments Off on August 2019 4th Friday Art Walk
The town was ready for a party during the August 4th Friday Art Walk and we gave it to’em!
Paul Landis Reception
by Nancy Timper on 10 Jul, 2019 - Comments Off on Paul Landis Reception
The crowd came out on the night of June 28th to see and meet PAUL LANDIS, mobile artist extraordinaire!!
Sweet 16 Birthday Celebration !
by Nancy Timper on 07 May, 2019 - Comments Off on Sweet 16 Birthday Celebration !
WOW….The town sure came out last night to celebrate our Sweet 16!!
The owners of Van Gogh’s Ear are most proud of its history. After spending almost five months renovating the space themselves to accommodate the needs of a large gallery, the ever-versatile owners then constructed all of their own pedestals and display cases!
A year later, the owners were rewarded for their efforts when Arizona governor, Janet Napolitano, presented the architect and gallery owners with a Main Street Award for historic reconstruction of a commercial space.
Giving back to the community has always been an integral part of who we are. Over the past few years we have had the privilege to contribute to the following organizations that have brought needed services and quality of life to our community and Arizona: Prevent Child Abuse AZ, Yarnell Restoration Fund, Prescott Film Festival, Courthouse Lighting Fund, Chalk It Up!, West Yavapai Guidance Clinic Foundation, and Prescott Creeks.
But in the end, it is ensuring honest, open and respectful relationships – whether between owner and artist, manager and employee or business and community – that remains the key to success or failure. Van Gogh’s Ear Gallery prides itself on its continued dedication to those principles and to its collection of top-notch art.
Come visit Van Gogh's Ear !
On Whiskey Row in Historic Downtown Prescott
928.776.1080
156B South Montezuma Street, Prescott, AZ 86303
Hours: Wed. - Sun. 10am - 6pm
