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Get to know our creative participants from past events, as well as future!

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Meet the Creatives: Welcome

December 2020

The Holiday Crawl

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Michael Kashey

Thomas & Moriarty’s

Owner and talented bartender shows us how to make a tasty drink of our own at home. They now have premixed cocktails and to go charcuterie as well!

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Bill Brien

Bountiful Rei's

Native American digital artist living in Bismarck. Bill is Lakota, Dakota, Chippewa and Metís. Find out more at www.bountifulreis.com or Bountiful Rei's on facebook.

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Dawn Kopp

Dawn Kopp Art

Mosaic artist using almost exclusively stained glass. Three furry studio assistants who will most likely help with the tour/demo. Current show hanging at Laughing Sun Brewing through Feb 2021.

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Justin Cancilliere

BisMan Writers Guild

Justin created the BisMan Writers Guild to uplift writers in our state by offering writing workshops, write-ins, and for writers to submit to anthologies.

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Peter Bartlett

Bartlett Farms

At Bartlett Farms, their family mission is to create healing foods from our farm that will nourish your whole family so everyone can feel better and you know exactly what you're feeding your kids! Whether that's probiotic raw dairy products, or cancer-fighting grass fed beef, or gut friendly sourdough breads, everything was made because they love it themselves and it helps heal the gut and build the immune system. Direct to home delivery makes it easy to shop during the holidays! Learn more about them online at www.bartlettfarms.us

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Samantha Wolf

Fatum Novis

Bones, fossils, and dried plant matter are used in a process called electroforming - similar to copper plating. Most bones are from found creatures that would otherwise have been passed by and looked over. The bones are mindfully cleaned and carefully crafted into a new form, meant to celebrate the life that once moved them. Fatum Novis means "strange fate" in Latin, a contemplation on the decay our own bodies, the release that comes with self renewal, and the Great Unknown that we all must face. Shop at http://fatumnovis.bigcartel.com

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Linda Roesch

The Sketching Spot

Linda is an acrylic and watercolor painter living in Jamestown ND. Linda works as the Artist in Residence at Jamestown elementary schools, and does online lessons with other schools in North and South Dakota. She also teaches drawing and painting at University of Jamestown.

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Nicole Gagner

Meadowlark Mercantile

Meadowlark Mercantile is a collection of central North Dakota artists creating small art for refurbished vending machines. Be sure to follow Meadowlark Mercantile on Facebook for more developments!

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Shelly Sayler

Nodakian Studios

Nodakian Studios produces high fired ceramics. Each piece is wheel thrown and hand decorated and or altered. Pieces range from three-legged mugs and bowls, sgraffitoed crocks and canisters to a verity of colorful hanging planters. Each piece tells a story with abstract texture, drawings, and glaze. Higher end pieces include teapots, decanters, bottles, and vases all using the same techniques. The group of work is meant to be used and shared not only for special occasions but everyday occasions making them special. All pieces are dishwasher safe, microwave safe and food safe.

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Linda Donlin

Linda Donlin Fine Art

Linda is an impressionistic artist who paints primarily with a palette knife. Her paintings are rich in texture and color. She calls her process Body, Mind and Spirit, and believes art is beneficial to our overall health and well being.

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July 2020

 The First Crawl

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Aaron Anderson

The Dark Canoe Studio

Owner and talented bartender shows us how to make a tasty drink of our own at home. They now have premixed cocktails and to go charcuterie as well!

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Bill Brien

Bountiful Rei's

Native American digital artist living in Bismarck. Bill is Lakota, Dakota, Chippewa and Metís. Find out more at www.bountifulreis.com or Bountiful Rei's on facebook.

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Andrea Fagerstrom

Artist, BSC Instructor and Gallery Coordinator

Andrea Fagerstrom was raised in Riverdale, North Dakota. She graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and then went on to the University of Montana, Missoula where she graduated with a Masters of Arts in Integrated Arts and Education.

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Chris Kraft

Lifeless Arts

Chris is mainly an oil painter, focusing on people, animals, and landscapes. He runs a community art studio in downtown Mandan, ND. On Instagram and Facebook follow @LIFELESSARTS

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Hollis Mackintosh Heid

Northern Plains Dance

All of the hard work that goes into our performances happens behind closed doors, so they loved letting the public have a sneak peak into the rehearsal process. Check out www.northernplainsdance.org or follow them on Instagram or Facebook

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Nicole Gagner

Painter Nicole

Painter Nicole is the umbrella that catches the artwork and teaching artistry of Nicole Gagner. Her time is split between painting pickles, landscapes and other prairie scenes and teaching art as an adjunct instructor at BSC, on the NDCA teaching artist roster, with Art for Life and more.

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Samantha Wolf

Fatum Novis

Bones, fossils, and dried plant matter are used in a process called electroforming - similar to copper plating. Most bones are from found creatures that would otherwise have been passed by and looked over. The bones are mindfully cleaned and carefully crafted into a new form, meant to celebrate the life that once moved them. Fatum Novis means "strange fate" in Latin, a contemplation on the decay our own bodies, the release that comes with self renewal, and the Great Unknown that we all must face. Shop at http://fatumnovis.bigcartel.com

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Kyle

Kosher Artwerx

Kyle has been an artist of mixed media for as long as he can remember and recently decided to start selling his art. He has always loved the outdoors and fascinated by nose art on our nation's war birds and the stories of how they received their name. He generally stick to wildlife and my own pinup style, using several different media. However, as someone that loves all forms of art, he does whatever he can get his hands on and create.

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Shelly Sayler

Nodakian Studios

Nodakian Studios produces high fired ceramics. Each piece is wheel thrown and hand decorated and or altered. Pieces range from three-legged mugs and bowls, sgraffitoed crocks and canisters to a verity of colorful hanging planters. Each piece tells a story with abstract texture, drawings, and glaze. Higher end pieces include teapots, decanters, bottles, and vases all using the same techniques. The group of work is meant to be used and shared not only for special occasions but everyday occasions making them special. All pieces are dishwasher safe, microwave safe and food safe.

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Linda Donlin

Linda Donlin Fine Art

Linda is an impressionistic artist who paints primarily with a palette knife. Her paintings are rich in texture and color. She calls her process Body, Mind and Spirit, and believes art is beneficial to our overall health and well being.

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Mike Langer

Pianist, composer, and music educator

Mike lives in Bismarck but is in the middle of working on his doctorate in piano performance at NDSU where he will be teaching as a Challey School of Music Fellow. In Bismarck he has taught various music courses at BSC and U Mary.

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Mike Mulligan & Tony Taylor

Copilot Designs

Together Mike and Tony make lots of functional art using metal, wood, leather and other materials. They are always experimenting and learning new disciplines and love to combine different media’s to create functional art! Follow them at instagram.com/copilotdesigns/

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Witney Nielsen

Unconventional Cookies

Witney is the sugar fueled mastermind behind the creative sugary art that is Unconventional Cookies. We were graced with an inspiring demo on the crawl, but for more about her edible art form check out unconventionalcookes.com or give her a follow on facebook or instagram!

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