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Ceramic bowl and other objects on a table with a black background

Member
Artists

Ray Shelerud, “Square Lidded Container;” Bob DeArmond, “Round Lidded Container;” Karen Keenan, “Pedestal Dessert Plate”

About Our Member Artists

Creatives from Duluth & beyond

Many of the DAI’s members are artists themselves—exhibiting artists, teaching artists, learning artists, and working artists both regional and national. Members have access to artist resources and benefits, including rental of DAI studio spaces and a monthly Artist Opportunities eNewsletter. Explore the listings below to discover the diversity of creative voices among DAI member artists.

Cherry Koch, “Minimum Rage,” oil on wood panel, 2022, 32″ x 46″

a painting of a woman at a messy table at a diner

Member Artist Directory

Raymond Allard Drawing, Illustration

Sarah Amistadi Acrylic, Watercolor

Woman with a blonde bob standing in front of a self-portrait of herself with a serious expression in a decorative painted frame

Alison Aune Mixed Media, Paint

Kirsten Aune Fiber

Brian Barber Illustration

Colorful digital composite image with an orange face emerging from a blue, green, and purple textured background

Timothy J Beaulier Photography

Abstract, cloudy encaustic work with black lines radiating from a point and patches of burnt orange, green, blue, and purple in mostly gray

Rita B Bergstedt Encaustic

Carole Bersin Drawing, Paint

Abstract, textural black and white photo, with running legs in a gauzy dress framed into an uneven chunk in the middle

Ken Bloom Photography

Brian Boldon Ceramics

Watercolor landscape image with colorful blue water and sunset, cliffs with forest, and two deer in the foreground

Linnaea Borealis Illustration, Ink Illustration, Photography, Watercolor

Photo of a slightly crinkled blank piece of paper signed bottom right

Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer Acrylic, Gouache, Ink

Green-tinted moody painting of cloudy day on the sea

Shelley K. Breitzmann Acrylic

Handmade brown mug with diagonal lighter splashes

Craig Bruce Ceramics

Book photo with cloudy texture over top, gray and vague

Gloria DeFilipps Brush Photography

Colorful pink painting of a Chicken of the Woods mushroom

Naomi Christenson Acrylic, Fabric Design

Carole d’Inverno Paint

Melody David-McKnight Ceramics

Robert DeArmond holding a handmade plate, tan with darker brown drizzled lines

Robert DeArmond Ceramics

Artist Martin DeWitt crouches holding a piece of glass to cast a shadow and points at an abstract painting showing the same glass shadow effect to a child in a red hoodie standing nearby

Martin DeWitt Acrylic, Digital, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture

Mary Beth Downs Watercolor

Claudia Faith Paint

Susanna Gaunt Collage, Drawing, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture

Chalk art of a white-haired Black woman with a lion and chipmunk to the left

Annmarie Geniusz Chalk, Illustration, Stained Glass

Painting of a girl fading into the grayscale wallpaper of a room that appears as an outdoor scene by a river with pink blossoms on a tree

Shawna Gilmore Acrylic, Drawing

Loose acrylic painting of river flowing downwards across clumps of green land with a little bit of cloudy sky in frame

Patricia L (Pat) Hagen Acrylic, Mixed Media, Mosaic

Mikayla Haynes Acrylic

Colorful abstract floral painting

Margie Helstrom Paint

Colorful painting of Duluth hillside view over rooftops to distant Lift Bridge

Terry Hildebrand Drawing, Illustration, Watercolor

Circular abstract geometric painting with colorful striped overlapping shapes

Ralph A Hanggi, Jr Paint

A teacher teaches a student about oil paintings of landscapes

Matt Kania Drawing, Oil Painting

Brown handmade pot with yellow, burnt umber, and dull green stripes

Jan Karon Ceramics

Victoria Kaufman Embroidery, Poetry, Printmaking, Writing

Handmade plate with light center and dark rim with hand-painted copper and blue floral pattern and small half-circle indents

Karen Keenan Ceramics, Hairwork

Kelli Lien Book Arts, Collage, Watercolor

Tia Keobounpheng Colored Pencil, Metal, Mixed Media, Thread, Watercolor, Wood

Ann Klefstad Ink Illustration, Sculpture

Ed Labernik Watercolor

Echo Larson Paint

Curly-haired person seated with a green pencil in their mouth and a paintbrush held over a watercolor painting in progress on a table

Betsy LePlatt Acrylic, Digital, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Soft watercolor painting of blueberries with green and yellow background

Diane Levar Watercolor

Loose packing paper multimedia piece up on a blank wall, featuring two or three ghostly figures that may be parents and a pointing child. One figure holds the neck of a giant paper crane on a blue background.

Tali Margolin Multimedia

Umbreen Hasan, MD Cold Wax, Encaustic, Ink, Mixed Media, Resin

Loose watercolor painting of koi in blue water

Marlene Miller Acrylic, Multimedia, Watercolor

Artists Rita Morris and Barry Sands holding their handmade mugs outside in cold weather clothes

Rita Morris Ceramics

Realistic painting of an owl

Becca Mulenburg Oil Painting

Set of two painted chairs with portraits of moviegoers seated in a theater that are also characters from the movie Psycho

Kris Nelson Acrylic

Anthony (Ant) Nold Animation, Digital, Illustration, Ink, Paint

Deb Northrup

Photo of butterflies on pink flowers

Vern Northrup Photography

Kathryn E. Lenz P. Drawing, Paint, Sculpture

Abstract art

Robert Patrick Paint

A painting of geese from above looking down at the landscape below

Tight Squeek Press Book Arts, Printmaking

Robb Quisling Paint, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

Colorful abstract painting with blue background and yellow center with a fence and colorful flowers hinted loosely

Sue Rauschenfels Paint

Relief print of boats at a dock

Tom Rauschenfels Drawing, Paint, Printmaking

Black and white image of a person looking downwards from above at a pot on a pottery wheel

Timothy Gene Riley Ceramics

Person standing in front of two large and four smaller abstract mixed media fiber wall hangings

Riha Rothberg Mixed Media, Mosaic, Paint

Cut paper symmetrical mandala featuring a tardigrade in the center, houseflies, zebra mussels, lilies, and immortal jellyfish. Primarily blue with dark purple, red, and yellow.

Ellen Sandbeck Cut Paper

Artists Rita Morris and Barry Sands holding their handmade mugs outside in cold weather clothes

Barry Sands Ceramics

Oil painted landscape of a sparse forest with lush wildflowers on a sunny day

Kelly Schamberger Oil Painting

Tim Sheriff Jewelry

Man standing and smiling in front of colorful paintings filling a wall

Adam Swanson Acrylic, Murals

A colorful painted scene full of pop culture and Indigenous history figures in a downtown

Jonathan Thunder Acrylic

Colorful abstract with reds, oranges, greens, and lavenders, with green and blue long thin shapes making up the visual foreground

Larry Turbes Oil Painting, Sculpture

Ivy Vainio

Surreal painting with red, blue, green, and yellow, bold black shadows, and a large moon to the right

Moira Villiard Acrylic, Digital, Illustration, Public Art

Bonnie Norling Wakeman Sculpted relief art

Natalija Walbridge

Landscape of Minnesota lake or river with rocky shore and evergreen trees

Michelle Wegler Paint, Pastel

Linocut print of an old domed manmade beehive with a bee above it on a patterned background made of bee-related iconography

Todd White Printmaking

Handmade jug in a donut shape with a hole in the middle and two small handles near the small mouth, copper colors

Julie Ann Zenner Ceramics

A painting of a blue sunset over water, with a moon and owl to the left and three eagles and a bit of land to the right

Sam Zimmerman Paint

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