UNCHARTERED TERRITORY

Featuring artwork by VIVA members inspired by unusual media and materials

Glass Artist

My work often explores the flow of hot glass. Using heat, gravity, and a little luck, the glass flows to create unique patterns and designs. Sometimes metal and plaster casting molds are used to create more complex and sculptural forms. Every project teaches me something new, so even if it doesn't go as planned, it's still (at least a little bit) successful.

Collage Artist

Each of my colorful "paper paintings" are deeply textured, colorful, and detailed images that are created from bits of cut and torn paper, carefully layered, piece by piece, as a painter applies brush strokes. Some pieces also include ink or acrylic paint.

The enamel art jewelry starts as a piece of hand-cut copper sheet . I carefully cleaned the copper shape and applied multiple layers of enamel, which is finely powdered glass, to both sides of each piece. Sometimes I add details with special enamel paint and a tiny brush. Each application is fired with a torch or in a 1450 degree kiln and then cleaned before the next layer can be added. This process is repeated two to six times per piece.

DAAF Peoples Choice Award winner

I work at a landscaping company. I love it. I paint because I have to. I don't know if I believe in muses, but I definitely feel like the images are shown to me somehow, and I need to try to get them down as closely as possible. I don't know what the paintings mean. That is your job. Please tell me.

Painter

Kimberly Burnett is a self taught artist and illustrator living currently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her style is self described as fractured realism and she uses color to evoke emotion. She primarily works with oils and charcoal.

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Painter

Mosaic

Before becoming a mosaic artist Miriam Sushman worked as a photojournalist in the USA and Israel. Her passion for mosaics was ignited while working on a mixed media table. Having learned to work with a variety of mosaic methods and materials, she has taught workshops and classes to children, teens and adults in addition to leading community projects.

Potter

Painter

Kathie creates remarkable landscapes and portrait commissions and works primarily with a rich oil palette, but also enjoys dabbling in pastel and watercolor. She paints plein air throughout the year, as well as working in the studio, and is a Signature member of Oil Painters of America, The American Women Artists, the American Impressionist Society, and is also  a member of the Portrait Society of America.

VIVA Gallery in Viroqua presents the 13th annual Artisan Market. The market will include the creations of a guest artists in an array of different media along with new work from VIVA member artists. The market is a perfect place to find special, one-of-a-kind gifts for the holidays.