Autumn McCoy
paint, clay
sold

I used multiple medias including paint, clay and gold leaf. My goal was to use symbolism with the florals. Wolfsbane symbolizes danger, which is why it is depicted near the cliff. Daisies symbolize purity and new beginnings, which is why it is lining the sky the fool jumps towards. Her eyes are closed to show her inexperience and innocence of leaping into the unknown. The animal compainion I chose was a raven as they represent wisdom and exploration! I had a lot of fun. This is my first ever art piece that I have shown in a show!

Evelyn Starsky
acrylic, mixed media
$350

I am a multi-dimensional artist who explores many different artistic mediums. I didn’t go into this project thinking I was going to do a mixed media piece. I thought I was going to go into my roots as an acrylic artist, and did two or three different completed drafts of the Magician, until I settled on doing this final mixed media piece.

Emily Leary
oil and acrylic
$600

Jo McGranahan
mixed media
$875

The Empress. She stands for fertility, nature, abundance, the divine feminine. I have so many feelings on the subject of womanhood, and lately a lot of them have been drawn into sharp focus on this fraught political and social landscape. I felt from the very beginning that I wanted, needed, her to have an edge. I wanted to highlight her power rather than her softness (even though that is a strength as well). I rendered her holding a pomegranate, which is a symbol traditionally associated with The Empress, but I also gave her an attitude. She's holding it and looking at you as if to dare you to try her. I chose to surround her with plants to represent nature, but if you look closely, and know your botany, you'll see they are all poisonous or deadly plants. Hemlock, Belladonna, False Hellebore, Angel's Trumpet, Pokeweed and Amanita mushrooms (this is one I got a little wrong -the ones I stitched aren't the deadly ones. Research fail!) She wants you to know that she provides abundance, but she can take it all away in an instant if you aren't careful with her. Her 12 point crown is made from broken shards of plexiglass and while beautiful, they are sharp and menacing. She is evoking all the badassery of all the women in the world who don't sit back and take things quietly; who wield their knowledge, their beauty, and their ancient wisdom in ways that make the world better.

This is listed as mixed media, but it is predominantly embroidery. A slow, thoughtful, deliberate (you could say tedious) process. Plants and flowers are easy enough, but for this project I challenged myself to stitch a person, with a face! And a hand! And I won't lie, a fair amount of tracing was involved, but I'm still proud of how well it turned out. And if she looks a tad familiar, well, that's because it began with an old photo of a constant muse of mine: Madonna.

Amanda Styer Arnold
acrylic and colored pencil
sold

Jessica May
acrylic
$555

Mike Arellano
acrylic and spray paints
sold

Piper Groves
monoprint & collage
$325

Rose Guterbock
mixed media
$625

Shaymus Trainum
mixed media
NFS

Mert Brubaker
found object assemblage
$250

There are certain situations that seem to come repeat themselves in our lives. Jung said that what we do not face on the inside will come round to us as Fate on the outside. Until we deal recognize and deal with the internal issue, we will continuously be presented with opportunities to respond to that situation differently. I saw participating in this art show as such an opportunity. First of all, I chose the wheel deliberately rusted, banged up, well worn - I have been here many times before!! In my search for objects, I kept being drawn to toys, child images and eventually realized that my habitual responses were embedded in me as a child. Once-functional patterns and reactions needed to be jettisoned to allow for more deliberate (and more difficult) responses. Demons arose; patterns are hard to change. But this time I did not yield to them and chose differently.

Mary Yoder-Anderson
acrylic
sold

Hannah O’Connor
oil pastel
sold

Things often feel suspended before mountains move. ‘The Hanged Man’ asks us to embrace limbo and surrender to stillness so the Universe can get on with it.

My hanged one is encased in a protective bubble as she transmutes heaviness into enlightenment. She does not see the movement around her, but trusts herself to take the next right step by turning the spotlight inward. This card is associated with Pisces, so I imagined her in the depths of the ocean, taking on fish-like features.

Though officially ‘The Hanged Man,’ I call this piece ‘Hanging with Dragons.’ If you look closely, you’ll find hidden guardians in the light and the shadow, enforcing her protection and self-trust before she transforms.

Isabel Matter
acrylic
$150

Jeremy Cohen
acrylic
$60

Malea Gascho
watercolor & colored pencil
sold

Cheree Hammond
watercolor, colored pencil, ink
$200

I drew this card several times this year so I wasn’t surprised to draw the card for this event. In many ways this has been a Tower year, not just for me but for the collective.

In creating this card I thought about the placement of the card in relationship to the card before and after. The Tower fruitions only after ignoring the warnings of the Devil card. In my depiction the “devil’s warning” manifests as the dragon who destroys the Tower, which is a place of safety but also a prison. I used the same colors in the dragon as in the queen’s dress because I sense she and the dragon represent two sides of the same dynamic (the relationship between the threat of consequences in a destructive relationship, materialism, fixation and so on, and choosing to ignore the growing danger or putting a positive face on something rotten in order to bear it.) The next card, The star, is also represented here. In the lower right hand corner a woman heads to the water with her two jugs. She is preparing for the rest (both rest in terms of recovery but also “the remainders” of the catastrophe). This is the hope in the Tower.

The king’s clothing mirrors the colors of the water. He will be saved (as will the queen) by plunging into the depths of the unconscious (the water that surrounds the now ruined tower.) In this way, the depiction is meant to represent the entire cycle of the Tower event.

Hannah Johnson
mixed media
$425

LCSP
stained glass
NFS

Jon Styer
ink and watercolor
sold

JC Armbruster
mixed media
$125

Rachel Rebecca
acrylic, spray paint
$450

My inspiration for The World came from the Buddhist goddess Quan Yin. A bodhisattva symbolizing compassion and fertility. She is holding the world in her womb as she is surrounded by folds of her flowing fabric which also aludes to the folds of a vulva surrounded and in the cosmos. A true celebration of the divine feminine which is needed in our world riddled with patriarchal ideals. The feminine is awaking in us all.

Sage Latane Hastert
acrylic
$275

Sarah Beth Latane
hand painted paper collage
$275

Loring Gibson
mixed media
NFS

Margaret Beebe
acrylic, latex, lettering enamel
sold

Erin Murray
oil
NFS

My card is Five of Cups. The card's meaning is about focusing on the things we have lost and losing sight of the things we do have.

I decided to do a self portrait because the card's meaning felt relevant to my recent experiences. I did a portrait of myself with two paintings on easels.

The painting on the left depicts a young girl gazing down at a dead owl in her hands. It is a slight alteration (as the girl is wearing my painting apron and the bird is changed to an owl) of "The Dead Bird" by Paul Soyer. This is meant to signify the feeling of loss of my professional art teaching career, which brought extreme feelings of loss of identity and of something I had worked toward and for more than 20 years.

The other painting is meant to be myself as the Muse of Painting (derived from a painting by Paolo Veronese) with an owl on her shoulder. This is meant to signify the opportunity to create and paint based on my own inspiration and goals, outside of academia. You'll also notice the Muse's apron hanging on the side of my painting cart.

The spilled cup and dead owls on the left symbolize the loss of my career with academia and the university and the artist (myself) turned to the right, toward the living owls, symbolizes the intention to focus on my own intelligence and individual pursuit of learning and creativity.

Thanks for taking the time to read about it. It was a very cathartic piece for me to make and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to be in this show and to live in a community where individual perspectives are celebrated.

Penny Kennedy
mixed media
$240

Brittany Koontz
mixed media
$50

Laura Thompson
mixed media collage
$350

Kat Martin
mixed media
NFS

Matt Phelan
acrylic
$875

Petra Huffman
mixed media
$115

Ryan Styer Arnold
acrylic
$200

Lara Ressler Horst
vellum & charcoal
$50

Pam Tittle
acrylic
$300

Rhoda Miller
acrylic & brass
$275

The Ace of Pentacles speaks to new beginnings and opportunities, often in the financial or health areas of life. As a jewelry artist, I have owned a jewelry saw for many years but have been too scared to learn to use it. I had a large sheet of thick brass I had ordered long ago that was too heavy for earrings so I decided to challenge myself to saw a giant pentacle for this piece. It’s not perfect, but hey, new beginnings… The rest of the piece is like a window or portal looking into another world. There are many symbols of prosperity and it was hard to choose which ones to depict here. I chose to include citrine, white lily, a key for unlocking new opportunities, and the money plant. The mountains and clouds are nods to elements in the Rider Tarot deck.

Being raised in the Mennonite community, I had to laugh when I drew a pentacle. One of the main tenants of the Mennonite faith is living simply and a rejection of material wealth. It was an interesting journey to see what all this brought up for me and how to move forward and create a piece I could be proud of.

Having little experience with Tarot before, this was a really enjoyable process of researching and learning more about it and its usefulness as a tool for understanding aspects of myself and my life.

Jane Ellen Reid
mixed media
$250

Jennifer Rucinski
wool
$895

Noelle Burgess
acrylic
sold

Emily Guinn
acrylic
NFS

Noemi Salome Clymer Kurtz
watercolor
sold

Jamie Moore
acrylic
$200

Colleen Kivley
graphite on paper
$300

Olivia Kohler
mixed media
$100

Jason Anderson
mixed media
$125

Katelyn Wood
screenprint and collage
$275

Like all tarot cards, the Page of Pentacles has two different reads depending upon whether the card is read upright or in reverse. The upright position reveals the page to be a scholar, thirsting for knowledge and in active pursuit of their dreams. The page is seen as grounded, loyal, dependable and responsible, carefully mapping out a plan for success. In this read, the page is seen as the master of their own destiny. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

In the reverse position, the page takes on a darker meaning and is seen as immature, lacking goals, disloyal, and rebellious. The reversed page is obsessed with a goal but does not take an active part in reaching it and relies on cunning to take the goal by any means no matter the consequences.

The scene is set in a cave of pentacles where two of my fairy characters strive for the same pentacle coin. The main fairy is dressed as an explorer, prepared with all the proper gear to extract the coin they covet so dearly. However, in the top corner we see the gray, mischievous fairy, awaiting the very moment the coin is dislodged from the cave wall so they can snatch it away with ease. I wanted to illustrate that even the most carefully laid plans can go astray and that if the fairy took time to look around the cave, they would see that opportunities are abundant. Sometimes all we have to do is look at the larger picture and choose a different path to find success.

finnian wengerd
acrylic
NFS

Roshi Arnold
acrylic
$250

Cheri Greenfield
mixed media
NFS

The King of Pentacles is confident and comfortable with abundance and success, with astrological connections to Taurus (the Bull, Earth) and Leo (King, Fire). The shadow side of this card brings up greed, insecurity, scarcity, envy, gluttony, and arrogance. We see a lot of these shadow qualities present in our world right now, and I chose to approach this work as an opportunity to consider how this archetype might surface in my own experience. Our culture and economic system encourage a striving for wealth and material attainment, and this can often feel like a moving target. “What is enough” is complicated by our own conceptualization and attachments to wealth, success, and experiences of scarcity. Access is also an important theme here–who has access to wealth and what is performed in order to protect that access.

For this piece, I chose colors and materials corresponding with earth: leather, clay, metal, textile, and acrylic paint. The gold metallic background and gold coin represent material wealth. The King of Pentacles embodies financial security and generosity, the potential of getting beyond our egoic attachments to material things while experiencing contentment with what we have, and expanding this beyond the material. This card encourages the reader to welcome success and abundance without urgency, and to share our gifts with the collective. The bull skull with the beaded crown is here to challenge our motivations and attachments: how do our relationships to possessions get in the way of what is truly valuable? The skull also states an obvious but sometimes uncomfortable truth: Nature/The World will survive us and our things.

The coin was the final piece in this work, and an interesting thing happened as I was contemplating this last step. When I stumbled upon some antique coins I’d forgotten about, I hesitated, thinking, “I can’t put this thing of value on a piece of art. What if it gets ruined or lost?” Truly, I had only recently remembered the existence of this coin, but suddenly I felt attached to its potential value. This duality–perceived value vs what is truly valuable–is the medicine of the King of Pentacles.

Lauren Penrod
mixed media
NFS

Frank Marshman
mixed media automaton
$150

Zeke Trainum
wood & brass
$350

Brandy Somers
cut paper
$265

Katie Reverie
cyanotype & mixed media
$50

Gabby Trainum
oil & acrylic
NFS

Kassy Newman
handmade tile with white gold detail
sold

Karen Milnes
reduction block print
sold

I used a reduction block printing technique to print my card. This means only one block is used to print all of the colors. The lightest color is printed first, the bock is carved out, then printed in the next color, carved some more, printed again. It ends up being quite a mental exercise, and even with careful planning, the final result is always somewhat of a mystery until the last color is printed. This reflects the metaphor of the subject of the 8 of Swords, who is often bound and blindfolded. If only they could open their eyes to look at the whole picture and see the swords to cut the bindings. The moths repeat this concept: a moth near a light source becomes disoriented and unable to see well. We are often blinded by our very own perception.

Dietrich Maune
acrylic
$275

Anngela Gibson
mixed media
$100

Hanna Foster
acrylic
NFS

I initially drew blanks when considering how to represent this card! It was not a card I had personally connected to or considered in great depth before. I eventually found a way to relate to the Page of Swords through a developmental lens, especially through observing my young adult daughter's creativity and intellect blossom. I focused on the gifts and the challenges of this stage of life, specifically in the realm of thoughts and the mind. The young page has abundant energy, fresh perspectives and so much potential. Hers is a time for learning to focus and develop responsiveness. Her task is to find stillness in the midst of a busy world and an active mind so that she can bring her unique gifts forth and flourish.

Denise Allen
mixed media
$325

Erin Lee
acrylic
$130

Kelsey Kauffman
fiber
$85

Julie Clay
mixed media
NFS

The soul speaks in images - and as I spent time with the Ace of Wands - the image of a tourmaline crystal emerging out of the depths arrived and persisted - no matter how much I wanted to include the traditional images of the Ace of Wands. Aces are beginnings and the Ace of Wands is for me about inspiration - and there can never be a beginning without a prior completion. This conversation began with layers of paper - piano lessons from my father’s 1930’s primer - bits of discards of this and that - layers of paint - more paper - transparent glazes - and so on. The crystal (wand) rises out of some sort of primordial alchemical fire - and is surrounded by a stormy sky (the wind element of the Ace of wands). There is a verdant valley - hidden by an ethereal haze - and superimposed are spirals of heat energy rising up. The crystal is shedding and rising and emerging. If you draw this card - you might ask yourself: From what hidden layers is my inspiration drawn? What past is being shed as I emerge? What do I notice when the energy of emergence spirals and turns in on itself while also “holding fast” and being rooted?

Rachel Janacaro
acrylic
$750

Britney Mongold
acrylic & collage
NFS

Jonathan Stewart
oil
$250

Rebecca Porter
acrylic
$200

Karen Ennis
acrylic & leaf
$400

Stuart Landis
oil
$380

Janet Marshman
mixed media
$150

Lynn Lough
mixed media
$125

Lee McCraw-Leavitt
acrylic & collage
$130

Candace Christy
handstitched applique & embroidery
$300

Hannah Businger
mixed media
$250

Mariann Reardon
acrylic on panel
$750

My Queen of Wands is inspired by our local biome. She is a Queen who is at one with nature and part of it. Her throne is a sugar maple, which offers sweet and energizing sustenance. Her wand is a redbud limb, coming to life after dormancy. The fire symbolism is hidden within the hoof fungus—a polypore that can be prepared as tinder. In place of the traditional sunflower, an unassuming bloodroot blossom at her feet opens for the sun and closes at night. The putty root orchid is a self-pollinating plant, a nod to her fertility symbolism. A bobcat takes the place of her feline companion, embodying the power of her wild instincts. All the native flora represent her healing, nurturing, and reconciling nature.

Aaron Miller
acrylic on panel
$840