Liz Hamstra is a multi-talented artist hailing from Fishers, Indiana. She graduated from Herron School of Art and Design with a BFA degree, specializing in ceramics, photography, and art history. Liz’s passion for art and creativity is evident in her vast body of work that...
Leigh Petersen loves to use art as a way to “escape” and “unwind,” to get in touch with her thoughts, dreams, and inner self. She has always been creative; even as a child, everyone assumed she would become some sort of artist.In high school, Petersen...
Hamilton County Tourism, Inc. seeks artists to create a vintage Americana-themed design for the annual Tenderloin TuesdayTM promotion (see inspiration and previous t-shirt designs for this promotion at the link below). The design should be celebratory in style as Hamilton County is celebrating its bicentennial...
Mark Timmis has been involved in the arts since the 1970s. After attending Indiana University for undergrad, he received his Master of Arts degree from Western Michigan University. He taught as an art professor in Evansville before transitioning into the IT field. Timmis took a 15-year...
The 11th annual Welcome to Fairyville event, presented by Duke Energy, alights on the Nickel Plate Arts campus April 19-22, with crafts and activities for all ages and most events free. “Welcome to Fairyville is our most joyous celebration of the year, a time when we...
Joy Tilson Cobb can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t working on some type of creative, visual project. She spent most of her childhood in Moorestown, New Jersey, and although small, the town and Tilson Cobb’s school were very involved in the...
Sheldon Shalley’s creative style of painting emerges from one of several methods: pulling images from his dreams, images he meets in meditation sessions, images he sees during Shamanic journeying and images inspired by models and photographs. Why these methods? Sheldon is a psychotherapist, and uses...
The 1986 song of the same name by David & David exposes the reality of life beneath the veneer in downtown Los Angeles. “The image portrayed of LA was just a manufactured story to draw people in, and when they arrive, they get used up...
Jerry Mannell’s art is open to interpretation by the viewer—and that’s just the way he likes it. In Jerry’s work, a lot of things about composition, color, and line are tangential to each other. They relate, but not in a direct way and the overall the...
Bobbi Samples is no stranger to Nickel Plate Arts, from being a longtime member of the board and a gala committee chair to an annual Showcase artist, her talents and support are seen and felt everywhere that Nickel Plate Arts has a presence. And for...