SOME OF OUR ARTISTS
Each year the Garden Art Party features artists from all over the country with many of them being from Nebraska! We are proud to represent these talented sculptors, crafters and artists who have all been hand selected due to their exceptional quality, uniqueness and professionalism. Plus, we really LIKE them as friends!
Sondra Gerber
LOCAL ARTIST
Sondra Gerber has a passion to creatively inspire others through everything that she does. She has been creating since childhood but discovered metal sculpting well over two decades ago and started to add other mediums to her sculpture over ten years ago. Gerber's work can be found across the country in homes, gardens, businesses and galleries. She and her husband Jason, owned and operated Blue Pomegranate Gallery for almost twenty years. Sondra's love for gardening is evident when you see and experience her backyard oasis that she and Jason built over the course of two decades. The couple now hosts creative events and experiences at their garden.
Melinda Eames
LOCAL ARTIST
Omaha, Nebraska local artist and Interior designer, Melinda Eames, delightfully creates her garden sculptures with passion and intention. It it evident that Melinda has a degree in design as it tends to be about line, rhythm, contrast, texture and harmony. Working in metal sculpture, she found a medium of strength that brings her a sense of empowerment. “I enjoy looking at objects with new eyes and telling an artistic story using found objects and diverse materials.”
Sharon Boynton
LOCAL ARTIST
Sharon Boynton has become known among the sculpture community within the Omaha area for over three decades as both an artist and a teacher. Her sculpture is unmistakably her, quirky and colorful, made from whatever steel piece intrigues her with a hyper-focus on texture and shape, often resulting in a look that is primitive yet sophisticated. Boynton has shared her vast experience in sculpting for decades with other creatives as a sculpture instructor at Metro Community Collage. She has dedicated her time, investing in the creative endeavors of those that want to learn to sculpt, teaching welding/fabricating skills. Due to this program, Omaha now has a vibrant sculpting community, including the Women Who Weld group.
“Broken edges becomes shape that becomes an opening to let in the light. This image becomes pattern that repeats in rhythm with itself. The color shimmers and supports the standing dimension as it rotates before you in space. These processes come together and invites you to partake in experience that is sculpture. Let experience take you to a new place in your head and your soul. Enjoy….” -Sharon Boynton
Judith Snyder
LOCAL ARTIST
Metaphors from Omaha clay artist, Judith Snyder’s writing days have crept into her sculptures to tell their stories. The play of form and color dictate the type of clay bead needed to complete each tale. As the sculptures grow taller these clay bead shapes change, and the rock cairns morph from depictions of storytellers into stories themselves. Colored slips are used to carve lines (sgraffito) and enhance forms, introducing a distinctive rhythm to create a unique totem pole.
Vicki Mason
LOCAL ARTIST
Vicki Mason is a sculptor that lives the lake life in Plattsmouth, Ne. Her metal creations are made from recycled or rescued metal parts dreamed into new innovative designs.
From old tools, bicycle hardware, knobs and even old art pieces may be utilized. Pops of fused glass (also made by Vicki) and mosaic may also accentuate some of her whimsical scuptures.
Todd Samland
LOCAL ARTIST
Omaha artist,Todd, has been working with stained glass for more than 40 years. It started as a few window panels for family members then grew into making pieces for art shows and commission projects. He utilizes both classic and modern stained glass techniques by designing, cutting, grinding, foiling or leading and soldering.
Todd enjoys creating meaningful art pieces that will bring customers joy for many years in thier homes and gardens.
Bob Kramer
REGIONAL ARTIST
Bob is a small town guy in Kansas that loves to build fun birdhouses and feeders with reclaimed wood and metal from barns, fences and trees rescued from the farms around the hills of Kansas. Once the construction process is complete, the structures are handed over to his wife to be “junked up” (as Bob calls it). She paints the houses and then adds vintage found objects as perches, adornments and finials.
Catherine Murphy
Catherine Murphy’s desire to do something creative led her to study blacksmithing in North Carolina. Fashioning incredible insects by cutting, heating and hammering copper, set her on a creative surge that has propelled her business to grow.
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Catherine’s creations are clear coated so the copper will not change color, ensuring years of beauty!
The Neff Bros.
The Neff brothers set up a makeshift pottery shop in their kitchen to start, and with only
high school pottery classes under their belts, began creating clay garden art that quickly gained in popularity. To handle the demand, they hired a crew of college buddies to help. Now 20 years later, they continue doing business in Utah creating unique and lasting ceramic garden art.
Jerolyn Crute Sackman
Californian Jerolyn Crute Sackman, combines her love of flowers with her graphic skills to create original pinwheel designs. She starts with photos of real leaves, flowers, butterflies and moths that she graphically finesses to create the design and shape needed to form the pinwheel. These artful images are commercially printed, then Jerolyn hand assembles each one.
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Pinwheels are waterproof as they are printed on polyester paper.
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Cy & Karon
Cy Turnbladh and Karon Ohm are a husband and wife team that sculpt in metal and fused glass. The couple works and lives at what was once an abandoned farm, now transformed into working studios in Washington. They have a variety of animals including horses, chickens, llamas, a pot belly pig, cats and their dog.
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Cy & Karen’s color-block glass “stix” look fantastic in the garden all year! The metal will not rust and the glass will not fade
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Fred Conlon
In 1999, Utah welder Fred Conlon saw an old army helmet and remembered his grandpa used to say, “War moves quickly.” Fred thought "Peace moves slowly, like a turtle” and his first army helmet turtle sculpture was created! Fred has been sculpting whimsical sculptures from found objects ever since.
Bradley Cross
Bradley Cross learned about metalworking from his father who ran a magnesium foundry during WWII. The copper spinners created by Neil Sater and Bradley Cross are called Wind Wonders. The spinners only need a slight breeze to turn into magical kinetic sculptures. These kinetic sculptures are made in Michigan out of pure copper and
can be outside year round.
Michael Macone
In 1979 Michael Macone developed a unique engraving technique that allowed him to etch his designs directly into the clay. This process gives his work a remarkably detailed dimensional quality. Michael is assisted by his two sons Miles and Clayton, and his son-in-law Dan Temple at his studio, which is located on their property in Wisconsin where they entertain friends and customers with live music, studio tours and shopping events.
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Macones pieces are made from a high fire clay that is weather resistant.
Lisa Regan
Native to Tulsa, OK, Lisa Regan began cutting metal over twenty years ago with scrap metal and a borrowed torch. After becoming somewhat successful touring art shows, she finally quit her “real job” and plunged into her art business full-time. Her creative and fun steel sculptures make a great addition to any garden or home.
Jay & Madeleine
In 2011, artists Jay and Madeleine Crowdus had a vision to turn their love of birds and other garden inhabitants into delightful, engaging, rustic metal silhouettes to ornament gardens. They have a passion for great design and it shows in their simple yet elegant yard art. In these later years of their career they have enlisted others to help them produce their designs in limited quantities, keeping them in the boutique category of art.