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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS
BECAUSE OF YOU OUR 2009 LIGHT SHOW WAS A PHENOMENAL SUCCESS
ARTISTS TRANSFORM LAMPS AND MIRRORS INTO WORKS OF ART
Our deepest gratitude to all of
the artists who have given so
graciously of their talent, time
and materials to create the
incredible works of art we auctioned
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Laura Bender “Transformation”
Color and light transform and change like the human body, mind and spirit. Moving radiantly out from the center transcending towards heaven.
Laura Bender, owner of Bodies by Bender Personal Training Studio has been transforming bodies and minds for 28 years. She is considered a Master Fitness Specialist and has been studying the 7 Spiritual Laws of Yoga with Depak Chopra for the last year. She is a breast cancer survivor.
Tracy Boehm “Reflection Ignited”
Nothing carries us through times of light and darkness more organically than the reflection captured by our own words. As we live through moments of dissipating rays of light, we have the choice to use our experiences as fuel to guide us into life's next chapter. This piece gives permission to let go and move forward to continue our journey, guided by the light from within.
Michel Colville "Untitled"
I make One-of-a-Kind wearable art in the form of jackets and vests. My mind is always full of color and ideas of what I want to make next. I never repeat the same combinations of colors and fabrics. I simply start with a color, a fabric or an idea and then start putting other fabrics, paints, beads and other embellishments with it until I get a combination that I like. My art pieces evolve as I make them, I seldom know at the beginning of a garment how it will turn out in the end.
This piece is embroidered silk chiffon for the sleeves, and silk accents on the bodice. The bodice is linen. The lining is polyester.
Marisa Marinetto Creekmore "The Garden Gate"
The granddaughter of an Italian immigrant, Marisa grew up embracing her vivid heritage. Marisa’s father introduced her to the wide world of art at a very young age. Marisa graduated with a BA in Design and Marketing from American College for the Applied Arts in Atlanta. She left the South to work as an apprentice to Lazaro, a Couture Designer in New York City. Upon returning to Atlanta, she brought her imagination and skills to event management.
In the past few years, Marisa’s painting has become her driving passion. Marisa’s work has been seen throughout Atlanta and she has shown her work as far west as Montana. Marisa has private collectors from coast to coast.
She develops her art by creating dynamic expressive effects. She uses multiple techniques: distressing, layering, scraping, and generating texture, all while using intense color. Pulling from her life’s experiences and motivated by her cultural vibrancy, Marisa explains, “I paint what I feel… I am inspired by diversity, color, architecture, and nature.”
Sculpture is new to Marisa. “The Garden Gate” Mirror has been created specially for the Living Art Light Show. This piece was hand built and distressed to represent life’s natural course during the change of seasons…a gathering of life’s experiences; collecting wisdom and providing love…fertilizing the soil of generations to come.
Michael deMeng “Houdini”
My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing."
Larry Diskin “Raleigh”
Bicycles are often as meaningful in form as they are in function. I find attractive discarded parts and give them new life by incorporating them into unique pieces. The Raleigh Bicycle Company is one of America's oldest. This lamp entitled “Raleigh” showcases their famous Mallard duck logo. The crank is mounted in the two o'clock position to symbolize the most powerful point in a cyclist's pedal stroke. The woven appearance of the fabric on the base of the lamp represents the interconnected functions. As always, the light itself represents hope and warmth.
Liz Dye & Paul Filicetti "Selby's No. 4"
Light, bare skin, rays of sunshine, earth, health, fun, friendship, now, art. This experimental collaborative work combines everday photography and light in concert. Sun and fun captured in a historical view of a summer day on the beach, framed, and presented as an ethereal moment of photography, the captured moment, the captured memory, the captured story. Here, the story is asked rather tan told "...and what does he have in his hand?"
Liz Dye, Missoula native, real estate agent, daughter, mother, friend, community member, and all around inspiration to her family and friends, known equally for painting, 3-dimensional work and collage art, sculpture, and landscaping.
Paul Filicetti, Montana native, historic architect, son, father, friend, state and community member, historic home rehabilitation, and gatherer, better known for sculpture of houses, adoptive parenting,
architecture, and soldiers.
Stephen and Bev Beck Glueckert “Apple of My Eye”
We initially talked about experimenting with sections or segments of mirror rather than one large reflective piece. Our focus was on the individual components or pieces that make up the whole. It is a
comment on close observation wherein one may perhaps find the “apple of your eye” by observing one small detail. We were striving for simple and playful, yet keeping these ideas in mind.
Stephen Glueckert is a sculptor and mixed media artist living in Missoula He holds a BA in Art from the
University of Idaho and an MA in Art Education from Western Washington University. His work has been
widely exhibited throughout the Western region, as well as nationally. He is currently in the process of
completing a large body of large mixed media drawings. He serves on the board of the Montana Art
Gallery Director's Association.
Bev Beck Glueckert is a working artist and art educator in Missoula, MT. She holds a BA in Art from The
University of Idaho and an MFA in printmaking from The University of Montana. She is an adjunct
instructor in drawing and printmaking at the University of Montana, and an instructor for The Flagship after school arts program in the schools. She continues to work on a series of mixed media pieces called, “Lost Worlds”.
Odette A. Grassi "A Child's Garden"
As I've spent more time working with children again, I am reminded of the great joy that they express in their works, we especially young children.
When encouraged to create, they are most often not concerned with exactness or detail or reality, but instead are concerned with shape, and color, and their own individual vision. Their strokes are free of worry and to watch a child paint is to see work infused with passion. To listen to a child tell the story of their work can show us a whole world revealed.
While a young child's work might often be classified by adults as 'primitive', to me it is deeply filled with life and emotion.
This "painting" is designed to remind you, and me, of the joy that we can find every where and in every thing, if we will only look. And even more, to remind us of how truly simple, and basic, and primitive, love can be.
Tom Hanks "Untitled"
Tom Hanks has been a master carpenter for 15 years and resides with his wife in the Bitterroot. Tom loves the outdoors, is an avid horseman and white water rafter. He and Marcia’s 5 grown children have been a source in his motivation for learning carpentry; many of his first pieces were creations for his family.
This creation of partially recycled materials reflects Tom's philosophy of not using materials in excess of need- keeping things simple. The mirror is a “jewel” from Missoula’s Home Resources, the tiles are hand-made from Mexico and are extras from a remodel project. The colors and design were an inspiration after a trip to Arches National Park where many of these colors are seen naturally in the landscape of the formations. The mirror is designed to be hung in or out of doors.
 
Molly Huffman "Presence of Heart"
Living most of my life in Missoula, MT, I find inspiration from the landscape around me and also think fondly of the greatness of the oceans far from home. I look forward to this project every year, to see what it will bring me to discover about myself.
Vickie Lynn Johnson “Rainbow Dance”
The Rainbow is an extension of light reflected through a prism…as well as often times just being a
symbol of hope and faith.
From Dorothy’s dreamy belief that ‘somewhere over the rainbow…skies are blue’ and Kermit the Frog wondering ‘why are there so many songs about Rainbows’, to the Lakota visionary Black Elk’s dream of
the ‘Rainbow Dance’ of human unity, the image of a rainbow always brings ‘lightness’ to my heart.
And now I would like the color and playfulness of my piece “Rainbow Dance” to bring YOU that dream of
peace, harmony and lightness.
“Jhan Kares Groom” Luna Mirror
Materials: Wire, foam rubber, cotton fabric, beads, mohair yarn, stone, shell, mirror, air drying clay.
Jhan Kares Groom is a visual artist of many years experience in various areas including graphic design, theatre design, sculpture, collage, mosaic, puppetry and mask. In addition to working as an arts integrated instructor (artist in residence) with children and teachers in classrooms for over 10 years, she has recently completed her training as a certified art therapist specializing in working with children.
Jhan has had a lifelong fascination with myth, story, and dolls, particularly cloth dolls. A few years ago she learned to make wrapped cloth dolls, using a variety of fabrics to create interesting combinations of color and texture. These unique figures lend themselves to representing mythological characters and telling their story. The ‘Luna Mirror’ is a personification of the Moon Goddess in the starry night sky in her full moon aspect, and alludes to her effect on the tides as well as on us and our own personal story.
Kathryn Kress “Candelier”
This piece is a decorative little chandelier. Hung out of doors, it will glow prettily on a summer night. The materials are; plastered-over bird nests, Aspen branches and battery powered tea lights. Extra batteries are included. The nests are fragile, and not waterproofed therefore, caveat emptor.
Dyna Kuehnle “Straw into Gold”
Dyna Kuehnle is an MFA graduate of UM who lives and works in Missoula. She has exhibited her large scale mixed media installations regionally and nationally.
"Most of my work revolves around ideas about permanence and impermanence -- what we keep, what we discard. I think about the alchemy that occurs when objects are transformed by the way we look at them or by the way we touch them, the way we decide what is valuable and what is not.
'Straw into Gold' is made from a found pedestal and a burlap bag that has been pigmented with encaustic wax, which is a mixture of beeswax and damar varnish. I hope it makes people think about the light within, and the way in which all things are transitory.
Marion B. Lavery “Big Rainbow Mirror”
Acrylics, silver leaf, paper
My explorations of water, river rocks and fish continue with the “Big Rainbow Mirror”. It is an extension of a series of one dozen trout paintings entitled, “Fresh Fish”, that features only their jewel-like metallic colors, par marks and spots.
My formal education and BA was received from Penn State University, with subsequent graduate level course taken at University of Minnesota in Deluth, Western New Mexico University in Silver City and University of Montana here in Missoula. With studio work preparing for numerous shows and teaching workshops, I find my work becoming more experimental and I am always on the lookout for ways to use all the wonderful new acrylic products on the market.
Carol Mavros “Candle Power”
As an Architect and Interior Designer, the importance of light is highly recognizable as a major element in design. The illumination of space or highlighting as element can influence the aesthetics of an entire project.
The Lamp I am contributing appropriately named “ Candle Power” combines a semi-modern street light with an historic light source.The candle uses the reflector to maximize the amount of light from one single flame resulting in “Raw Energy”.
The intensity of light is measured in “Foot Candles” and is defined as being the unit of measurement which represents the intensity of illumination that will be produced on a surface that is ONE-FOOT distance from a source of One Candle Power, and at right angles to the light rays from the source (in this case, the “Candle”).
No longer does this original lamp design consume large amounts of energy to provide a glowing source of light but lives on to illuminate an area with a soft flicker of candlepower.
Elizabeth McCubbin "Untitled"
Elizabeth McCubbin has been beading for 25 years and is the founder of Blue Dragon Beads llc. She has been teaching beading in Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley for the past 7 years, and has previously taught beading classes in New York , Minnesota , and California.
Elizabeth markets her own line of nature based jewelry. Her creations can be found locally at Rockin Rudy's, as well as in several galleries in Helena, Polson, Havre, West Glacier and West Yellowstone.
Beading is her passion in life and she feels very fortunate to earn a living doing what she loves most.
Elizabeth lives in Missoula with her husband and their three boys.
Andrea Naples “Luscious”
There is something luscious about the Feminine Spirit. A Spirit so strong that even in the Darkness
the glow is acknowledged inside. This lamp is a metaphor for that Spirit.
Gleaming like a sunset when lit
And glowing with a steadfast ember when it's Dark all around.
Susie Risho “ Is That You?”
Susie Risho is a professional artist and teacher, and serves on several non-profit organization boards.
In 2008 The Missoula Cultural Council presented the Cultural Achievement Award to Susie and her husband, Ray, for supporting the arts and enhancing the quality of life in Missoula. Susie holds a bachelor's degree with honors in both Elementary Education and Art from the University of Montana.
Susie works with various mediums including ceramics, jewelry, painting, drawing and textiles. She
regularly undertakes special projects and commissions so, if you desire a certain art piece for a particular area, the challenge is on. Go ahead and call her.
“Is That You?” is composed of various natural materials are accentuated by small, glass embedded
ceramic sculptures which frame the reflected image.
Sherry Roe “Night Lights”
May the celestial beings watch over us, in whatever form they take.
Sherry Roe is a Missoula Health Care Provider, Artist, and World Traveler. She believes that it is our
responsibility to make the world a better place and is honored to bequeath her creations to non-profit
organizations for fundraisers. This is her 4th year as a contributor to Living Art's, The Light Show.
Karl Stein “Light Moves”
Karl lives with his wife, Youpa and son, Kai in the beautiful JockoValley, near Arlee, Montana. He began oil painting when he was ten years old in Berkley, California. His first painting looks very much like the hills and mountains of Montana. Karl received an art degree from the University of Montana in 1974 and is an award wining signature member of the Montana Watercolor Society. His work is represented by The Dana Gallery in Missoula and the Hangin' Art Gallery in Arlee, Montana.
Karl created "Light Moves" with Dogwood branches, handmade paper, a chunk of lumber, non-toxic paper hardener, concrete, lights and some acrylic paint.
Brendan Stewart “Untitled”
It is difficult for me to put into words why I do what I do. I am inspired by everything in life. I create art in the
hope that people will feel the joy that I do. My goal is to be involved with art for the rest of my life. Within art I see zero limitations.
The painting style identify with most is action painting. Within that realm the possibilities are endless.
Through experimentation and randomness I select materials and create themes. Seldom do I have a
predetermined agenda when approaching a piece.
This lamp was created using materials mainly found in nature. I've chosen to leave the piece untitled
allowing you to be affected by your own interpretations. I have a background in carpentry and am
fascinated by the process of creation. Having never studied art professionally I feel that the skills gained in building have helped set a foundation for my creativity.
Pat Supplee and Keith Niederman with Studio Modera Architects
"Readen, Writen, and Riden"
These tongue-in-cheek light fixtures were designed by Pat Supplee and Keith Niederman, with Studio Modera Architects. The fixtures were created to add a chuckle to the viewer's life and to honor the diversity of the people of Montana.
Studio Modera is an architectural firm that specializes in modern sustainable residential designs. We believe houses that are site sensitive as well as environmentally respectful. And we believe in tailoring each home that we help to create to its owner's needs, its owner's lives, and its
owners dreams.
Kim Wishcamper “Tangled Up in Blue”
Kim Wishcamper is a mosaic hobbyist and owner of Abode Natural Building Supply (coincidentally
located in the same Main Street storefront that once offered stained glass and mosaic classes). She suffers from artistic ADD and an interest in far more materials and media than time allows her to explore. A Missoula resident for almost 10 years, Kim is grateful to have an office/studio at home where she can look out at the Sapphire Mountains while making a delightful mess.
This particular piece was created with acrylic paint, glass marbles, iridescent mosaic tile, silver beads
and recycled tempered glass on a wood substrate. The wooden base was crafted by Joe Jensen of
Confluence Construction.
George Ybarra "Arc Blow"
Missoula resident George Ybarra is gaining notoriety for his artistic offerings as an accomplished welded
metal artist. Ybarra is active in the inventions and applications of new techniques in his field.
Applying an unerring eye for composition, his metal fabrications interfuse aspects and essentials of
modern art with the uninhibited landscape to form newfangled and original sculpture. The end results
of this emerging artist are thrilling, and quick to animate both imagination and amazement.
Loryn Zerr “House of Protection” I am drawn to the language of symbols and the ideas they can convey. Those symbols that have to do with dreams, wishes, hopes, magic and those of a sacred nature find their way into my work quite often. I usually only have a vague idea of what I'm doing when I start a new piece. I work intuitively, and don't really think of what a piece's combined symbolism might come to mean till it is completed and I've had time to reflect upon it.
In this piece I wanted to use a house because I like the form, it is a symbol of family and signifies protection. The house form can also be a reference to shrines, stupas and other places for religious sculptures, relics and revered ideas.
Hands have had a long history with symbolism in many different societies and cultures. The hand with the palm out is seen as a form of protection, sometimes guarding against the 'evil eye'. The hand in 'House of Protection' is in the protection mudra. This is shown by the positioning of the palm facing out, as often seen in sculptures of the Buddha.
Birds have long been a symbol of the soul flying free of the earth-bound body and seeking the heavens. They have represented a passage between the physical and spiritual worlds.
On the surface of this piece I used many layers of color, beginning with a gold core layer and finishing with a final aging layer, reminiscent of the human condition.
Originally from Colorado, Loryn has made Missoula her home for the last fifteen years where she lives with her husband and son. She received a BFA, emphasis in ceramics, and a BA, emphasis art education, from the University of Montana.
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