I create expressive figurative sculptures. My clay sculptures often include other materials such as; wire, nails, beads, or epoxy resin. Cutting to expose their smooth insides, adding extra materials, and choosing various finishes creates abstraction and adds to the story of each piece.

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I participate in the arts as both an artist and as an educator. My work centers around a variety of techniques using clay, and also as a woodfire artist and sculptor creating medium scale abstract form. I have recently founded an arts a space, the Indian Springs Art & Ceramic Center to promote the ceramic arts organize ceramics classes , exhibitions in the studio gallery, with workshop events for the public and firing events. Please see our website to arrange a tour or enroll in classes.

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I'm Marina Caliari and I'm Brazilian. I got my BFA in fine arts where I discovered ceramics. I attended a masters program in restoration of cultural heritage in Barcelona, Spain, specializing in Conservation of archaeological ceramics. In 2012 I fell in love with making ceramics all over again and I’ve been hand-building sculptural and functional work ever since. I love incorporating materials like wood and felt into my pieces. I’m inspired by all the women around me, nature, the ocean, how we represent our memories, and the relationships between people and their objects. I celebrate all things imperfect.

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Amanda Ganong is a jewelry artist working out of her studio in Nevada City, CA. Her work favors monochromatic color plays, floral motifs, and elements that create the effect of handmade lace. She integrates found objects and stones that she finds and cuts herself whenever possible, exploring the resilience of nature in bead work and metal.

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I’ve been creating sculptural and functional art full time since 1993. I tend to play with the relations between animate and inanimate a good percentage of the time. My medium is primarily metal with glass, stone and wood introduced on occasion.

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Patti Glenn creates wearable talismans made from sterling silver, bronze and copper crafted by piercing, etching and joining the metals, often embellished with natural stones, gems, antlers and other objects that giving meaning and energy to its wearer. She received her BFA in Fine Art from Humboldt State University and is a self-taught metalsmith, making jewelry since 2013.

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Makwa ia a visual artist who is a jewelry maker. His work is created under the concept of and inspired by nature. He considers himself a Neo-Shamanic artist and utilizes such ideas in his art process.

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Robert Bennett is an artist and engineer living in Grass Valley, California. His sculptures strive to capture energy and emotion in a frozen moment. He is also working on a series of paintings of futuristic views through a monochrome lens. He guest-teaches sculpture at a local elementary school, and he has provided illustrations and sculptures for a number of local start-up companies.

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We are artists and craftspeople specializing in woodworking, welding, furniture fabrication, and the designing and building of unique spaces. Creating beautiful spaces because everyone deserves to be surrounded by beauty. We specialize in using high quality, unique and when appropriate reclaimed materials. Working closely with the client, understanding their needs to create functional, artistic pieces to enhance their space.

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My focus is bringing California hardwoods that might be destroyed back to life as treasure & incense boxes highlighting the grain patterns. We let the wood talk. All work done in my shop.

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My whimsical slab clay sculptures are inspired by interesting people I meet and wonderful animals ranging in size from nine feet to twelve inches. I maintained a commercial studio for ten years in the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz, CA before relocating to Nevada City. I'm a resident ceramic artist at As If Studios in Grass Valley creating there and in my home studio in Nevada City.

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Deborah established a career in bronze classical figuration, then developed a line of cement garden sculpture that is currently being carried in art galleries across the U.S. These days Deborah is creating thought provoking ceramic figurative sculpture, teaching advanced sculpture, and running a studio that includes two apprentices.

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Anything metal. I'm available for large or small commission and have several examples in Truckee. Specializing in kinetic sculpture.

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Working in the public realm, I have come to understand the ability of art to transform our relationship to our physical environment by evoking a sense of emotional-curiosity, beauty, whimsy and/or a desire for additional investigation. I’ve had the pleasure to serve on several community engaged, architectural design team projects throughout my career and in each case, the collaborative values expressed through the project team becomes a driving force in design development. Public art is the portal within our built environment through which we may discover a common sense of identity and connection with our physical surroundings.

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Commemorative Portrait Sculptor.

Figurative, metal, woodworking, pottery

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An artist for over 40 years, I love all the possibilities clay has to offer. I mostly hand build or alter thrown pieces. I love textures and 2-tone glazes that accentuate them.

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Cully has always been drawn to exotic wood, insects, unique petrified animal bones and elements of nature. He brings that love to life with interesting yet functional furniture and artistic home goods as well as one of a kind pieces of jewelry.

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Handmade sculptural and functional porcelain and stoneware.

Functional Pottery | Original Sculpture | Wall Pieces

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A wood artist practicing the traditional art of woodturning creating wooden bowls, sculptures and useful items of wood on a lathe. Creates aesthetic vessels intended for display and also utility pieces for daily use. Primarily works with native Nevada County hardwoods.

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I make utilitarian porcelain pottery that evokes forms, textures, and colors in nature. Values I strive for include simplicity, integrity, and beauty.

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Amanda’s current works focus around a series entitled “Figurative Trees”. The works, in her words, “explore narratives - and the human form as vessel and vehicle, a hosting of energy, emotion and self”. She describes her exploration as “an intentional blurring of distinctions between interior and exterior, story and truth”.

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Abstract paintings, figurative sculpture and jewelry.

Paintings | Sculpture | Handmade Jewelry

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Connecting the dots between woodworking and fine art, Tom Beebe's design-build business encompasses a wide range of woodworking disciplines, including furniture making, cabinetry, finish carpentry, restoration work, and art.

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A Grass Valley native artist, Shayna Christie has been working in the medium of gourds for the last several years. Gourds are a natural product with amazing variation in size, shape, and texture. The luminaries she creates are wood-burned, carved, and pigmented to echo forms and shapes found in nature. Each gourd has two lives, lit and unlit. Day and night. Ordinary world and shadow world. The intricate play of light and shadows is essential to her work.

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I have been commissioned to create both paintings & gourds. I take great pleasure in working with people to create unique pieces that fit their artistic desire. My greatest pleasure comes from taking someone's abstract idea and giving them a piece of art that fits the image they had in their mind.

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Specializing in custom tables with wood and metal.

Custom Furniture | One of A Kind Art

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Thoughtfully crafted one-of-a-kind silver and turquoise jewelry by Calie Altieri.

Earrings | Bracelets | Pendants | Rings

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Hand-thrown and slab-built artisan stoneware and porcelain pottery by Bob Davis.

Functional ware | Decorative ware | Gift package gift-wrapped and shipped | Custom commissioned work | Digital Gift Cards

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Mesmerizing mobiles, lighting fixtures and stained glass works, using resourced wood from the Yuba River valley and the Sierra Nevada high country.

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Tea trays and tables for your home made by Rick Fusco.

Slap Tables | Tea Trays

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My goal as a knifemaker is to create a cutting tool that is as artful as it is functional. The knife has to feel good in your hand.....ergonomics and balance are important. It has to please the owner in shape, form, fit and finish. I hand forge my blades out of high carbon steel. The handle material I use varies from micarta to elk, deer and moose horn, fossil ivory, exotic woods, leather, brass, copper and silver.

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Floral arrangements in resin! I use native Californian wildflowers, foliage, mushrooms, and found dead insects by Elizabeth Xedes.

Resin Art | Wood Burnt Portrait | Custom Orders

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Horse Jewelry, Sculpture, Gifts for Horse Lovers

Bronze Sculpture | Keychains | Jewelry | Décor

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Handmade, unique, creative expressions by Patty Lassaline.

Beadwork | Cards from Paintings | Pottery Gifts

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Playful rustic wooden robots and owls.

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Artisan Jewelry showcasing nature through the wonder of gemstones and metals made by Pam Klein.

Handmade Jewelry | Custom Design

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Hand crafted pottery and paintings made with love and intention made by Asja Dawn.

Pottery | Prints of Original Art

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Sterling silver, bronze, and 14K gold jewelry handmade by Jim and Lance Candelaria.

Earcuffs | Earrings | Rings

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Laser engraved items.

Coasters | Cutting Boards | Bottle Openers | Décor

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Handcrafted jewelry and gifts made by Karen Minkel.

Pendants | Necklaces | Earrings

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Handmade Jewelry from the heart.

Rings | Pendants | Earrings | Cufflinks

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Exceptional jewelry executed with style, technical skill and a flair for the unusual.

Necklaces | Rings | Earrings | Custom

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After thirty plus years in clay, Ms. Montalbano has worked large and small but always with elegance and animation in her work. She believes that clay is the wave of the future and the link to the past. And the medium lends itself to play, contemplation and camaraderie. Her work is best described as sculptural vessels.

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Faducci was developed in 2002 by the combined exploration of Solomon Bassoff and Domenica Mottarella. Their whimsical emotive sculptures have received enthusiastic acclaim and have been acquired for public art installations and private collections. Their creative interests are sparked by nature and influenced by the wildlife that surrounds their home in the Sierra foothills. They are experienced at creating artwork that celebrates the natural environment, while delighting and inspiring the viewer. They have accomplished this goal with installations at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA; Redding, CA; Natomas, CA; the Northwest Library in Oklahoma City; and most recently in Sunnyvale, CA.

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Truckee has a true folk artist that builds fully functional replicas of historical landmarks into birdhouses and bird feeders. Greg Zirbel has been building whimsical replicas of historical landmarks out of discarded historical lumber since 1992. Unique, custom, well-built, documented, and signed birdhouses and bird feeders are fabulous pieces of art preserving history in a little way. Happy Birding!

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We are artists and craftspeople specializing in woodworking, welding, furniture fabrication, and the designing and building of unique spaces. Creating beautiful spaces because everyone deserves to be surrounded by beauty. We specialize in using high quality, unique and when appropriate reclaimed materials. Working closely with the client, understanding their needs to create functional, artistic pieces to enhance their space.

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Dan Gobert is a self taught stone sculptor working with local river rock and slab remnants.

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