Art In The Pearl: Fine Arts & Crafts Festival

  Eileen brings her mind blowing colored pencil drawings to Pearl for the first time this year.  When asked about her start she says, “I have always drawn, not always well but I loved it and kept at it. It is basically a hobby that evolved into an obsession that is now my career. My […]

    Returning to Pearl for the second time, Michelle takes traditional techniques of wet felting and mixes fibers of silk and wool to create hand-felted silk.  Her experience at Kansas City Art Institute provided a foundation for fiber techniques that she employs in her studio to this day.  Michelle is a member of the […]

  Jacquline will bring her wonderfully inventive work to Pearl for the tenth time this year.  Making imagery that populates an inner imaginary world, Jacquline describes her work as: “’odd.’   I don't know how else to put it. I think it has a psychological twist that draws people in. They don't quite know what to […]

This is the eighth successive year Thomas will be bringing his woodcarvings to Art In The Pearl.  He started carving wood as a teenager and continued into making sculpture. People began requesting carved work so he got into custom woodcarving for 15 years, and eventually into carving linocuts. Thomas says, ”My sculpture is folk art […]

  Growing up the youngest of four children, Lynn was surrounded by mechanics, jewelers, fisherman, bookworms, rocket makers, and bike-chopper builders. This influenced taught him to work with his hands and value the process of making as much as the product. Read has a wide scope of art experience from Sculpture, painting and theatrical set […]