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Meet our fabulous flock of artists!
This group of creatives come from all around Wisconsin, and makes up the artistic and organizational forces behind our shows and events throughout the year.
Nancy Nelson Going
Nancy Nelson Going brings you artistically curated and designed one-of-kind jewelry. Her designs are crafted from high quality precious and semi precious stones, pearls and custom, hand forged metals. She has been beading for 32 years and finds the history of beads, their colors and textures most exciting. Forging metal is a “ new “ love of nearly 15 years and it compliments the organic nature of Nancy's work. She loves all design and finds inspiration for her work in her garden, travels and wild places! Nancy hopes that you'll enjoy your visit and feel right at home on the farm, among the flowers and the Free Range Artists!
Megan Woodard Johnson
Megan Woodard Johnson is a mixed media artist from West Bend. She shows and sells her abstract paintings and across the country. She loves being a part of the Free Range Art Show in the spring! To see what else she's up to, visit her website:
Kandy Gibson
Kandy Gibson is a utilitarian potter who creates pots that are visually pleasing and unique in character, but also useful in everyday life. Each piece of stoneware pottery created reflects her enjoyment for throwing, carving, sketching, embellishing,creating and using, Most of her pieces are wheel thrown but some are hand built. The forms are usually organic in nature, which stems from her love of the balance observed in nature,
Andrew Linderman
The pots I create are intended to bring artwork into daily living while enhancing the interactions between food, drink, people, and their community. As a craftsperson, I endeavor to create highly utilitarian wares for people to use, touch, see, and experience on a consistent basis.
My forms are loosely inspired by the natural world. Just like all oak trees are distinguished from any other species in the forest, each tree is also unique unto itself. I find beauty in the diversity that handcrafted works bring into our assembly-line culture.
Lisa Brobst
I’m a fine art woodworker who draws inspiration from the harmonious marriage of form and function. Through meticulous craftsmanship, I transform raw materials into functional art pieces that seamlessly integrate into everyday life. With a keen eye for design, I create furniture that not only serves a purpose but also evokes a sense of beauty and sophistication. My work reflects a commitment to timeless aesthetics, durability, and a deep respect for the inherent qualities of the natural material. Each piece is a testament to my dedication to creating functional art that transcends trends, enriching spaces with enduring elegance.
Denise Ehlert
Denise creates beautiful textile pieces including traditional hooked rugs, embroidered wall hangings and painted floor cloths. She uses beautiful materials combined with a wonderful sense of design. and technical mastery - resulting in timeless pieces that are not only lovely to look at, but that also stand the test of time.
Karla Fuller
Karla Fuller’s one-of-a-kind mixed media collages and assemblages combine vintage ephemera & found ingredients to create curiously serendipitous artwork. An avid collector of old objects & papers, Karla uses these reclaimed materials in her art and highlights their time-worn patina and genuine imperfections. From hand-cut collaged portraits of people, birds & butterflies to whimsical assemblages of paper music houses & storied glass bottles, her artwork is sure to draw you in for a closer look. Karla Fuller’s award winning artwork has been embraced by the public in numerous gallery exhibitions, publications & fine art festivals.
Kelli Greentree
Born and raised in and around Milwaukee, WI, Kelli graduated from UW-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in both Painting and Metalsmithing. After completing school she worked at the Milwaukee Art Museum for thirteen years as an Art Preparator/Gallery Technician. This was a fine job, but not the life-long calling she had been searching for.
Mentally ready to take the plunge, Kelli became a full-time professional Artist in 2014. Oil painting has become her main passion, creating colorful illustrative landscapes. She is inspired by nature and the great outdoors, and hope her work conveys the feelings of inspiration, peace, and rejuvenation to those who take a moment to view it. It's a way to remind the viewer (and herself) that every day is a new day, a new start, a new beginning, and a new chance to live your best life. You can find her selling her artwork at art fairs throughout Wisconsin and online.
Mel Kolstad
Mel Kolstad is a Fond du Lac artist who incorporates hand-dyed papers and fabrics into her collages and prints. Her work can be found in many shops and galleries throughout the state, and she is THRILLED to be a Free Range artist!
Emiko & Mark Franzen
Hello! We are Emiko + Mark Franzen, and we're fine-art photographers based out of Grafton, WI. We are cat parents, and lovers of all things vintage. Spending time in nature is so inspiring to us. We love connecting with others through the unique perspective of our art.
Shari Grenzow Mauer
I’ve been a working artist since I was in my 20’s, mostly self-taught. I’ve worked as a designer of wood signs and award plaques, a laser operator, and spent many years traveling to art and craft shows in the Eastern half of the US selling my work. Since 2020 I’ve concentrated on learning to cut salvaged metal items with my plasma torch. I had lots of time during the pandemic to practice. All of my work is done freehand, sketching the pattern on the metal with chalk and cutting with a hand-held torch. The pieces are beautiful when they’re lit up after dark.
Roxane Mayeur
Roxane Mayeur grew up in Milwaukee Wisconsin. She has worked professionally as an art educator and founder of a public charter school focused on social justice. She is now retired and creating art full-time and teaching workshops in her studio in the Bay View area of her home town. Mayeur is a visual artist working primarily in wax-based media. Her work layers symbolic imagery and abstract patterns. Each piece employs an element of chance and is unique and visually dynamic. Mayeur exhibits in local, national and international juried and invitational exhibitions.
Christina Persika
Christina Persika of Persika Design Co. is a Milwaukee-based mixed-media artist, designer and muralist. Her work features motifs of nature and fauna that are infused with Scandinavian influence and folk art inspirations. Christina’s work meets the worlds of fine and applied arts through her joyful creations of original paintings, art prints, greeting cards, and hand-made objects.
Emily Graf
To me, the art of wet felting is about enjoying the process and pushing the limits of the materials. I can become completely absorbed and entranced when sculpting my products, focused on what is right in front of me as well as the texture and smell of the wool. I love the fact that, using the same natural materials, I can create elegant wearable art or a durable solid wool rug. Thank you for taking the time to enjoy and learn about this traditional art.
Justine Heinrichs
Welcome to my world of wool, nature and story. I’m a fiber artist using needle and wet felting for my creations. I find my inspiration in the natural world and wool and silk is my medium. My work explores the beauty in all things, real and imagined, human and animal. Using fiber allows me to express nature using nature’s bounty. I love the organic, yet magical, nature of wool and the endless ways it can be manipulated. It can be used to create lifelike creatures to the fantastic. The sky's the limit.
Carrie Dorski
Carrie Dorski is an artist and arts administrator inspired by the rhythms of everyday life. She creates layered, textured works that blend vintage fabrics and found materials, blurring the line between traditional and unconventional art. Guided by intuition and storytelling, her pieces invite viewers to explore both their physical depth and underlying narratives.
Jodi Engel
I create functional and decorative art to give tangible shape and form to the familiar and abstract alike. I love portraying beauty through the lens of mosaic art. I approach each piece like a puzzle that evolves in my mind. I work very organically, seldom sketching, letting the pieces direct my vision. My work includes a variety of tesserae, or mosaic pieces including beach glass, mosaic tile, rocks, shells and repurposed found objects.