Open daily 10am • May – October • Limited weekends year-round 10376 Hwy 42 at Ephraim’s north end • 920-854-4343 finelinedesignsgallery.com 2024 SEASON SCHEDULE A UNIQUE GALLERY...A DISTINCTIVE DESTINATION
EXHIBIT I
MARTHA FIEBER, RENEÉ SCHWALLER
COLETTE ODYA SMITH, LIZ MALTMAN
EXHIBIT DATES May 24 – July 8 ARTIST RECEPTION Saturday, May 25, 4-6:30pm
ARTIST DEMO BY COLETTE ODYA SMITH Sunday, May 26, 11am-1pm
MARTHA FIEBER
Martha Fieber Calling her artwork “Landscape in Thread,” fiber artist Martha Fieber focuses on texture, technique, pattern, and detail to express her interest in our human connection to the natural world. The result is richly textured, vibrant work that often appears to be three-dimensional—a perfect combination of her ability for precision with her love of nature.
COLETTE ODYA SMITH
RENEÉ SCHWALLER
Egg Harbor artist, Reneé Schwaller will feature her sculptural series called “We”, which celebrates our differences and our oneness. “We” people are about unity, working together, respecting one another and loving each other. They have no specific gender, religion or race. They are adorned with images from nature and their third eye represents spirituality and intuition.
Known for working in pastels for nearly 30 years, Colette Odya Smith paints contemporary landscapes that often blur the distinctions between realism and abstraction. The driving force behind her work is her interest in finding and amplifying the beauty and mystery that exists quietly all around us, both obvious and hidden.
ANOTHER WORLD
Pastel Watercolor 20” x 20”
LIZ MALTMAN
Liz Maltman’s bright and innovative use of color, technique and pattern express her enthusiasm for the outdoors and her background in fabric and design are often seen in her landscapes and portraits. Liz has the knack for putting the odd and out-of-place front and center in her paintings which are the defining element for the longtime Door County artist’s colorful landscapes.
2024 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE
GLORIA Ceramic 12”
2.5”
x 5.5” x
THE WINDOW Acrylic 36” x 32”
ORANGE AND GREEN FALL Hand Embroidery 5”x 5”
EXHIBIT II
NICHOLAS STELTER, PAMELA MURPHY JANE FOLEY FERRARO
EXHIBIT DATES July 11 – August 5
ARTIST RECEPTION Thursday, July 11, 4-6:30pm
ABOARD Oil
32” x 51”
NICHOLAS STELTER
Art has always been a part of glass artist Nicolas Stelter’s life. His unique glass pieces are sculpted within the kiln before being cold-worked and polished to create the soothing shapes and organic lines that are a common theme of his work. His studies in the purity of shape and simplicity in form combine to create surprisingly complex pieces.
PAMELA MURPHY
Oil painter Pamela Murphy’s uses old photographs to form the basis of her nostalgic paintings. The figures Murphy’s paintings represent are presented on rich, textured surfaces. She strives to have the viewer find a little of themselves in her work and treats her subjects with a measure of tenderness and mystery.
ALL
NINE PORTALS Glass 40” x 40”
EXHIBIT III
STEVEN LANGENECKER, LORI BERINGER, TERRI BECK ENGEL, STEFFEN PLISTERMAN
EXHIBIT DATES August 8 – September 13 ARTIST RECEPTION Thursday, August 8, 4-6:30pm
ARTIST DEMO BY STEVE LANGENECKER Friday, August 9, 11am-1pm
STEVEN LANGENECKER
Beginning at the age of 9 and for the better part of the last 40 years, Steve Langenecker has painted from experience. He is attracted to a certain quality of light, color, patterns and movement. “The elements of the landscapes I love to paint are what I call nature’s “special effects”—misty mornings, sparkling lakes, translucent leaves, storm clouds, fiery sunsets to name a few.
TERRI BECK ENGEL
LORI BERINGER
Growing up in the small village in Wisconsin, oil painter Lori Beringer remembers her days of drawing small portraits on the pads of her father’s blank memo pads. The colors, lines, and shapes of the world captured her desire to create—and decades later, Beringer is an artist known for her bold brushwork and honest approach to her work.
Mixed media artist Terri Beck-Engel says creating art takes her into a space that feels “a bit like a kid discovering a new world hidden right within the neighborhood.” That sense of wonder, curiosity, and playfulness is rendered in her pieces—with natural landscape, shapes and forms, and imaginary places her most frequent source of inspiration.
STEFFEN PLISTERMAN
After more than 25 years as a painter and sculptor, glass artist Steffen Plistermann now blows and sculpts glass in Santa Fe, NM.. “Between heat, gravity, and centrifugal force, glass takes on a life of its own and as the artist, I end up collaborating with the material, rather than trying to dictate an outcome. When I am working with glass, I am approaching color from a painter’s viewpoint.”
WHAT THE TREES KNOW Oil/Cold Wax 12” x 12”
Oil 20” x 24”
GUARDIAN
SEAFOAM 61 Glass 13.5” x 9.6” x 2.5”
BACK TO BLUE Oil 24”x 36”
Fine Line Designs Gallery in scenic Door County is housed in a 1950’s chicken coop that was renovated in 1999 and turned into the beautiful multi-level space we operate in today.
Unique, original gifts and collectable artwork are found indoors and out.
The gallery showcases monthly rotating exhibitions along with a collection by over 100 regional and national acclaimed artists. We feature original paintings, glass, jewelry, clay, custom wood furnishings, sculpture and fiber rich in color and texture.
We also showcase a beautifully landscaped two acre sculpture garden located in front of the gallery that allows visitors to stroll and enjoy our outdoor sculptures which include pieces created out of bronze, stone, metal, copper and stainless steel.
Our artist receptions provide an opportunity for you to meet the artists and discuss their work amidst a celebratory mood complemented by food, drink and music. Please join us at these and our other special events.
finelinedesignsgallery.com Open daily 10am • May – October • Limited weekends year-round 10376 Hwy 42 at Ephraim’s north end • 920-854-4343 ABOUT THE GALLERY
Owner Shari Gransee
2024 SPECIAL EVENTS
ARTIST DEMO – COLETTE ODYA SMITH
Sunday, May 26, 11am-1pm
In her demonstration, Colette will take you through the beginning stages of her painting process where much of the final results are determined. With her composition sketched out and ready, she will lay in her distinctive watercolor underpainting followed by the application of soft pastels, layered and textured to converse with the watercolor while continually refining the image. Get inside her thought process as she shares the whys and wherefores of her decisions and responds to what happens on the surface. She will welcome questions about the demo or the work in the show.
ARTIST DEMO – STEVE LANGENECKER
Friday, August 12, 11am-1pm
Using an impressionist style to capture the essence of the moment, Steve Langenecker will complete 4 miniature landscape paintings of state parks and nature preserves of Door County, At the end of the demo session a free drawing will be held for each of the four completed paintings. Bring photographs of your favorite Door County nature and they might serve as inspiration!
TOWNLINE ART FAIR
Saturday, October 12, 10am-5pm Sunday, October 13, 10am-4pm
A juried art fair exhibiting the work of more than 75 professional artists from across the Midwest held rain or shine. Glass, pottery, metal sculpture, paintings, photography, fiber art, and woodworking will be under tents for the 5,000 people that annually attend the show.
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, November 30, 10am-4pm
Come and celebrate the upcoming holiday season. Special gallery drawings throughout the weekend. Cookies and cider served.
GALLERY ARTISTS
PAINTING/PHOTOGRAPHY
Arnold Alaniz Daniel Anderson Beth Bathe Nathan Bennett Lori Beringer Dean Bradshaw Donna Brown Trish Coonrod Jean Crane Kathleen Eaton Terri Beck-Engel James Faecke Jane Foley Ferraro Kristy Goggio Michael Ireland Debra Reid Jenkins Frankie Johnson Darren Jones Polly Joubert Shelby Keefe Mat Barber Kennedy Aaron Kloss Michael Kratochwill Steve Langenecker Gail Macejkovic Liz Maltman Alberta Marana John McGee Steve McHugh* Laura Meddaugh William Millonig Deb Mortl Pamela Murphy Kathie Odom Colette Odya Smith* Bonnie Paruch Richard Patt Janice Rangel David Sear Allan Servoss John Schneider Mac Schueppert Ann Singsaas Sherrie Thomas Cynthia Tumpach Todd Voss Dannica Walker Terry Walsh Kathie Wheeler Stephen Wysocki* Pam Wattenmaker* FURNITURE Michael Beaster Tony Casper Tom Dumke Leonard Fieber Thomas Skaggs Sekoya Originals Sticks Furniture MIXED MEDIA Patti Carmody Smith Paul Klein Ed Lazzeroni GLASS Loy Allen Mariel Bass Eric Bladhome Dottie Boscamp Don Carlson Joseph Enszo Epiphany Glass Scott Hartley Michael Hopko Hegland Glass Michael Hudson Wesley J. Hunting Steve Immerman Thomas Kelly Melanie & David Leppla William Ortman Steffen Plisterman* Danny Polk Sara Rezin Joshua Rodine Silver Lake Glassworks Nicholas Stelter Mary Melinda Wellstadt Werner Whitfield PORCELAIN/CERAMICS Cassie Butcher Stephanie Evans Michelle MacKenzie One Acre Ceramics Jen Stein Three Wheel Pottery Rachel Vitko SCULPTURE Destiny Allison Mark Fischer Cricket Forge* Brent George John Krieger Brady Lueck Jack and Alice McLean Victor Nelson Stephen Palmer Angela Peterson William Piller Lyman Whitaker FIBER Sue Benner Martha Fieber Susan Hoffmann SCULPTURE Nathan Bennett Brent George Cricket Forge* Haw Creek Forge Brady Lueck Lyman Whitaker WOOD Bob Beaupre Mark Diebolt Mark Matthews Nathaniel Nienow* Gary Orthober Thomas Skaggs Don Stinson Dave Turner JEWELRY Anna Balkan Lisa Cimino* Dagmara Costello Firefly Vannessa Gilbert Tracy Harter Laura Jackson Beth Wenger Johnstone Emily Kiefer LuLu Designs August Nine Susan Richter Oconnell Michelle Pressler Sara Rezin Sarah Richardson Rosselini Sue Rosengard Emilie Shapiro Alicia Van Fleteren
Vanucci Anne Vaughn Jenny Walker *Designates a new artist for the 2024 Season.
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