During my early years as an artist, I used the color and beauty of the lush gardens surrounding me to uplift myself, looking for a way to turn the darkness in my life into Light. I found joy in painting these colorful flowers.  At an art show later, in Sedona, Arizona, I was enchanted by the energy and light of the red rocks, and felt my spirit guides compel me to relocate. Intrigued by the energy moving through the vast...

What art would ensue if nature was given a voice? Kristi Rauckis, a local artist, has committed to asking herself these kinds of questions and seeing what answers and art emerge from that space. She, her partner, and her dog have taken to the woods, the canyons and the mountains over the last year in their self-built-out Promaster van to create and live from a deeper connection with nature. “I want to communicate and share the lightness I feel when...

Damian Gomes is a self-taught abstract figurative painter and sculptor working primarily in oil, acrylic, wood and clay. With references to surrealism, Gomes' wildly gestural neo-expressionist forms explore themes of life and death, socio-cultural phenomena, and other existential questions. Frequently macabre, sensual, and darkly comic human images figure prominently into Gomes' work. The journey from the sublime to the absurd is populated by religious and profane characters, and rendered in an introspective, self-effacing style. He explains about his artmaking process...

​Monte Yellow Bird is a member of the Arikara and Hidatsa Nation from Fort Berthold Reservation, Whiteshield, N.D. He signs artwork with the name he was given through ceremony, Black Pinto Horse. Within his lifetime, he has experienced life through a series of passions that have assisted to define & redefine him as a teacher, horse trainer, educator, martial and visual artist. Black Pinto Horse creates to educate and shares, “There are so many stories untold- the issues we face,...

I am a contemporary, emerging landscape oil painter inspired by wilderness and by the breath taking beauty of nature. My work hovers between abstract sensibility, emotive expression, and representational imagery. I hope to convey the energy of my experiences painting outdoors through my own authentic way of mark making and “seeing.” Nature is my primary inspiration. I paint wild spaces with the desire to motivate others to respect, preserve, and appreciate our sacred lands. I see my paintings as thoughtful...

Tiffany has always been involved in creative pursuits of some form or another. Upon graduating in Graphic Design at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, she moved to New York City to pursue her dream of designing fashion magazines.   While in NYC, Tiffany and her husband discovered the transformative power of yoga, and even began teaching yoga classes and learning energy healing. This subsequently got them both rethinking their career directions and catapulted them on a year-long vision quest around...

Elizabeth Gerstner, features sacred Goddesses. The Goddess has been a metaphysical journey as her figurines are symbolic of “geometric motifs" that have been Pagan earth-centered culture through time. Elizabeth’s creative process is intuitive as the Goddess regenerates from clay into a sacred piece of art. - Click here to see Elizabeth Gerstner's art QR code to this page:

When Misty Soderberg was 2 years old her father gave her some soft wax & hours later she had created a great horned owl sculpture.  By the age of 3 she had sculpted numerous pieces that her father cast in bronze. She sold several pieces at her first art show & was hired to sculpt her first commission. She also started showing her work in art galleries from Scottsdale, Arizona to Houston, Texas. She began gaining national attention as a...