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Creating art is generational. Artist David Smallcombe has traveled to art shows with his four children since he started his business in 1977. His two youngest, twins Abby and Anna, continued to do shows with him while pursuing careers of their own. Ultimately, they both left positions in education and human resources to pursue art full time. From creating an online presence to learning how to make the jewelry they had been around their whole lives, Abby and Anna Gallery Shop: Artist Highlight carried on their dad’s work as he moved toward retirement. Smallcombe Studios was officially organized in 2022.
Jerome Washington
Jerome Washington’s passion for drawing began as a kid growing up in the small town of Albion, Michigan. He would draw anything, from family to airplanes, cats, and dogs. One day he decided to draw his father’s work truck. When he showed him, his father said, “son you’re a good artist.” Jerome said he continued to draw ever since. In the early 1980s, Jerome began to develop his own greeting cards reflecting people of color – leaving people feeling unique, hopeful, and inspired.
Noelle Trese
Each of Noelle’s ceramic pieces is either thrown on the wheel or hand-built, sometimes using a slump mold. She learned all she knows about ceramics at the Kirk Newman Art School. With a love of bright colors and painting, Noelle sees the clay as a canvas she can mold to almost any size or shape. When creating the “fern design” real ferns are used that she has collected and stored in old phone books. All of her ceramics are food safe.
Heather Briggs
Heather grew up exploring different art mediums at the Kirk Newman Art School, which led her to combine cyanotype, a photographic blueprint, and origami. The cyanotype origami creations are a multi-stepped, time-consuming process. First, cyanotype solution is brushed on a thin Japanese paper called Masa. Flowers/leaves are then pressed into the paper to make the organic design. After exposing the paper to sunshine, it is developed in water, leaving a silhouette of leaves and flowers that is blocked by the sunlight. Heather has exhibited her origami installations such as “The Exhale Project,” which was her KIA residency project.
Jan Hunt
As a textile artist, Jan has always had a love of dyeing fabric. The process she uses to dye her scarves is called eco-printing. By using natural materials, heat, and pressure, she extracts pigment, and texture from plants onto the fabric. This process is very natural and removes the manufactured dyes from the process, but with results equally beautiful. Jan is able to walk from her studio to collect plant life from her farm, which she finds very rewarding.