Megan Crawford

Megan is the owner and editor of Montana Woman Magazine, but she is primarily an alternative process printmaker. Working in gum bichromate, cyanotype, or salted paper, Megan prints photographs that are completely handmade on watercolor paper. The process produces prints recognizable as photographs, but there are brushstrokes and inconsistencies - the bits of magic that make each print unique in the truest sense of the word.

website: meganlcrawford.com
instagram: @mcrawfishes

Kendra Eyman

Moon & Bee Apothecary

Kendra is an Herbalist who crafts organic and botanically infused skincare and self-devotion formulations. All the products are made in small batches in Kendra’s studio in Bigfork, Montana.

website: www.kendraeyman.com instagram: @moonandbeeapothecary

Elizabeth Fruehan

Elizabeth Fruehan Ceramics

Elizabeth Fruehan lives in Whitefish and makes functional pottery in her home studio.

instagram: @e.fruehan.ceramics

Sophia George

Sophia is a studio artist and designer based in northwest Montana. Her work centers on color combinations, patterns, and motifs from nature. She utilizes mostly watercolor and mixed media.

website: georgesophiae.com
instagram: @georgesophiae

Krusty

Originally, hailing from the Jersey Shore, Kristy "Krusty" Overman graduated the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in fiber arts. The years following school consisted of traveling, snowboarding and making ends meet, while drawing, painting, and other crafty endeavors were an underlying theme. Upon arriving in northwestern Montana in 2010, she converted her garage into a home studio, where she prints her own shirts and sells them internationally. These days you will find her in her work space doodling with sharpies and painting in her sketchbooks, on her shoes, furniture, walls, and planning her next art attack.

instagram: @krustystuff
website: etsy.com/shop/KRUSTYstuff
pecha kucha: Day jobs, Doodles + Dreams (without deadlines)

Falina Lintner

Falina Sinopah Lintner is an emerging oil painter working en plein air,(on scene, outdoors, from life, in a single session) as well as within the studio and, in private/public spaces. Many of her subjects are captured on outings year round in all the elements in her home area of Glacier National Park, Montana. When not pursuing the outdoor artist life or working full time as a pastry chef, Falina is making studio works by a window with nice light at home. If her plein air pieces are mementos, her studio works are memories: the moment colored by time and perspective.

website: artistfalina.com
instagram: @falina_sinopah

Mary Kate Mathy

Mary Kate Mathy mixes watercolor and ink media to weave abstract illustrations of creatures that compliment original folk stories and poetry. Some of her watercolor paintings stand alone, while others come together in the form of short, illustrated books. All works exist to tell the stories of the hardships and joys of life, to celebrate life, and to help connect with ourselves and others.

instagram: @marykate.mathy

Sara O'Brien

Sara works primarily with sterling silver, copper and natural or raw stones. Her jewelry is inspired by nature, striving to keep designs simple yet bold. Each piece can be worn casually or elegantly. Jewelry for all occasions, because you never know where the day is going to take you when you’re out and about in Montana.

website: www.rawandrealjewelry.etsy.com
instagram: @rawandrealjewelry

Daniel Petrina

Montana Sawdust and Rust

Dan has been a hobby woodworker since he was in middle school where he first began hand carving shorebirds and duck decoys. After working in the banking industry for over a decade, Dan decided it was time to pursue his passions and start his own business. He opened Montana Sawdust and Rust in 2016. He now makes one-of-a-kind wood pieces using locally harvested live edge wood slabs and a technique called Licehtenberg art. This process involves a high voltage electricity and specialty finish.

facebook: Montana Sawdust and Rust
instagram: @montana_sawdust_and_rust

Larry Phan

Larry Phan Ceramics

Larry is a studio potter living and working in Kalispell. Montana. Fired in a wood burning kiln, Larry’s artistic focus is mainly utilitarian and functional ceramics.

website: www.larryphan.com
instagram: @dinner4.four

Barbara Schelling

In the past few years, Barb has been bird-watching and starting painting them. In the little paintings, she wants to capture the details and anatomy of local birds but add in a quirky personality through a fantastical embellishment. She finds that working on these illustrations is extremely satisfying – a chance to be creative on her own terms, rather than on demand. She currently has original paintings available at Underscore Gallery in Whitefish.

Artist Biography: Barbara Schelling is an award-winning graphic designer and has worked for boutique graphic design firms, ad agencies, retail corporations, and currently as a freelancer. She was born in Idaho, but moved to San Antonio, Texas where she spent 20+ years balancing a career and family life. When her two kids grew up and flew the coop, she realized she deeply missed the mountains and four seasons of the Northwest. In 2004, she moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, and then on to Montana in 2014. She works out of a home office/studio on east shore drive of Flathead Lake in Bigfork, where she lives with her partner, Jamie. She is a member of the Assiniboine (Nakota) tribe in Fort Belknap, and has been researching her roots and connecting with tribal culture. She is a committee member of the local human rights group (Love Lives Here) and is active in the Scholarship Group and MMIW (Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women) Ally Awareness group. She loves to hike, ski, snowshoe, camp and usually volunteers for a trail crew for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation every summer. She loves living in Montana.

instagram: @barb.schelling
website: www.bschelling.com

Johnny Ratka Skinner

Needlepoint focusing on votive iconography. Moist pieces are made to be tactile pieces. Other pieces are written snippets of songs, biblical passages or prayers; some Spanish-language items.

instagram: @johnskinner83