Joe Unni

Joe Unni is a studio furniture maker who specializes in creating custom pieces. Joe formerly worked in the IT field. Self taught, he's drawn toward contemporary design and is driven to challenge design norms and obstacles.

Unni Woodworks has recently been commissioned by a brand new, local magazine (Merrimack Valley Magazine) to design and build a coffee/conference table. He's also been invited back to participate in a local art auction (New Paint - scheduled for Saturday, June 2nd), hosted by the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA. For a previous auction, Joe created recycled material lanterns; one was a hurricane lamp made from old mill floor boards (this lantern received local Newspaper coverage) and the other was a Shoji lamp made from an old bed rail and an old pallet. http://www.unniwoodworks.com/

For pictures of Joe's lanterns: http://mandisinterviews.blogspot.com/search/label/Unni%20Woodworks

Steve Barylick

Steve Barylick paints, works with photography and mixed media on canvas.

His creative endeavors also include music. He is the drummer for
Alter Ego, which is a group of seven Boston-area musicians, singers and songwriters. Their current repertoire is a mix of melodic originals and covers. Stylistically, their music ranges from alt-country to folk to low-volume rock/pop. www.alteregosongs.com

The Little Girl Giant

If you can't view the video here, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc

On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park...

Video posted on youtube by: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=electricpig

Robert Laniewski

Robert Laniewski is a South African visual artist and musician. He is a classical pianist, a software developer and a visual artist. Although Robert is studying art privately, much of what he does in his paintings comes from his background in music and the information technology world. http://rlani.blogspot.com

Joseph Baldwin

Joseph Baldwin was born in Belleville, Illinois in the United States. In the 1990s he studied photography and sculpture at Southwestern Illinois College while working as a screen printer and later went on to work in newspapers as an advertising designer and an editor. Early in his career, he left the newspaper business to return to making art full time. This led to a series of publications and exhibits of video and print in St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Wilmington and Montreal in the Americas and overseas in Osaka, Seoul, Manila and Tokyo.

Joseph exhibits and publishes regularly in galleries, print, video and on the web. He works in photography, video, sound, sculpture and mixed media. He's open to collaborations, critiques, group projects, etc. He is currently studying Moving Image Arts at the University of Illinois and works as an artist doing post-production/retouching/& set-up for a custom photo/printing studio.

Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT_aP99aGoY & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMbgZFFFIUg
Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/527166
Websites: http://prx.org/user/noisivelvet & http://www.selfportrait.net/noisivelvet

Michele Rudenko

Michele Rudenko creates American Raku ceramics. Her process includes handcrafting, burnishing, bisque firing, glazing, Raku firing and post firing reduction. The latter two steps yield the qualities unique to Raku. http://artofraku.com/

Demarquis Lamar Johnson

Demarquis is a freelance artist residing in Virginia Beach, VA. For the past three years, he's been using brown paper bags as his canvas and focusing on images of children engaged in everyday activities. Many of his pieces are accompanied by poems that provide additional layers of imagery to his work. Demarquis briefly studied art, though he prefers to set aside formal lessons and to rely upon his artistic instinct instead. His work has been displayed at the following venues: Outre Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Detail Gallery in Delaware; and at the Plieades Gallery 23rd annual National Juried show in New York.

http://www.store.shopdetail.com/demarquis.html
www.myspace.com/demarquislamar

Harvey Whitcomb

Harvey Whitcomb is an Architect as well as an emerging, versatile artist of varied techniques. For his artwork, Harvey recycles CDs by modifying them with the heat of a butane torch, then cuts them into shapes. Different brands and types exhibit different colors when torched. Harvey accepts donations, so if you or someone you know has old CDs, please let him know. He particularly wants the CD-R type that have the colored optical plastic or any DVD-Rs. You might have CDs or DVDs that didn't burn correctly; don't throw them in the trash where they are just another landfill problem. Give them to Harvey! http://the-art-of-being-harv.blogspot.com/

Nikolas R. Schiller

Nikolas R. Schiller was recently featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He's been creating geometric and abstract artwork using maps rendered from satellite imagery for years. Nikolas was recipient of a 2006 DC Commission on Arts & Humanities Young Artist Program Award. http://nikolasrschiller.com/

Kassia Marie Halteman

Kassia Marie Halteman was born and raised in Pennsylvania. She's currently 19 years old and has enjoyed drawing and other creative activities since she was a child. She is self taught and is currently studying different drawing techniques. Kassia generally draws with colored pencils, though she also uses other mediums such as water color pencils, graphite, charcoal, chalk, and ink. www.freewebs.com/dreamwild128/

Yuko Adachi Interview

Check out our new Q&A with Yuko Adachi at: http://mandisinterviews.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html