A Rich Tapestry of Talent

"Drawing probably describes what I do most generally – graphite, charcoal, and pastel. Mixed media is a qualifier because I don't tend to stop or limit myself to one [medium]. If one isn't appropriate, I'll try something different. The thing I use most is called...

Goshen High School choral director"One of the things I love about choir – and it’s different from any other music situation – is that you’re making music with your body. You can’t trade in your instrument and get a better one. You learn to use what you’ve got, and you...

"I think henna's something unique. It's one of those arts from so many different cultures that has so many different styles. People typically think of it as only Indian, but there are Arabic and Turkish styles, too, like my friend's from Morocco. The Coptic Jews in...

Goshen musician and Junior High School band director "Most teachers probably aren’t this passionate about teaching. But these kids charge my battery daily. When you take a young player – he’s never had a trumpet in his hand, or a saxophone, or a trombone – and you’re...

Goshen Intermediate School music educator - podium director for grades fifth and sixth and assists with junior and senior high school orchestras"I’m a viola player. I’ve played since I was in fifth grade, so about ten years now. Both of my older brothers had been in...

“The broadest umbrella I could put this music under is electronic, like synth-pop. The actual genre that probably best describes it is dark wave or goth-pop, as I affectionately call it. It will move your booty, but it’s also a bit of a bummer. The Goshen experience...

"I took the job here in Goshen, sight unseen. I took the job in the first couple of weeks of February, and I flew out here to see Goshen Theater for the first time at the beginning of March after I’d finished my job in Spokane. I just fell in love with the theater the...

"I was always drawing. When I was little, I used to watch these little YouTube tutorials about cartoon characters – the ones with big eyes and little bodies. I would draw and follow along. And then I got into 4-H, and my projects were just drawing. I’m not sure what...

"I have to admit that I am an artist that wanted to be everything else. Acrylic is my favorite medium. I try all kinds of media, but you can do so much with acrylic. You can paint over just about any surface with it! But I also enjoy sculpture using found objects such...

"Most projects I’ve worked on involved acrylics, so I’d say working with acrylic paint is my primary medium. I love the convenience of carrying a few pencils and a sketch pad in my purse, though, and I’ve been sketching since I was little, so it’s definitely a tie...

"For the storm drain project, I saw an ad on Facebook. And then there were a few local people in the community who shared it with me, and they were like, ‘Oh, you should apply for this.’ I did the first one in 2019 and really liked it. That was probably my first time...

"I like to do handbuilding, and I'm not great at throwing large pieces on the wheel, so I handbuilt a large vase for my wedding so that people could sign it as our guest book. I liked the idea of seeing the signatures of people who celebrated with us instead of there...

"I have three groups, and I love them all – Goshen College's Chamber Choir, the men's ensemble Vox Profundi, and [the professional, community-based] Camerata Singers. They're all very different, but each of them gives me joy. I'm not here because of the money....

"Usually, what I'm best at drawing is…non-people. Ironically, though, some of my best drawings were from the figure drawing class because it was out of the second semester. I'd had more practice. There was this piece. It's a man with curly hair, and there's green in...

"I like to find things that make me want to move. When I'm creating – in my bedroom or out in nature or whatever – I can make something that sounds nice, but I tend not to go with that all the time because I'm thinking about the performance. What is something that...

"Goshen is a community with a lot of artistic people. We have some friends who are artists. We have Arts on the Millrace. There's art everywhere. I don't ever feel like I'm alone in making art here. The main thing I like to do is characters. I do fan art of things I...

"When it's for myself, the work I do in the studio is a combination of inkjet images behind a sculptural piece. And the sculptural piece, in the last decade or so, has included some wood and some plywood. The ones with the small vessel in front are the most recent.  A...

"This duo work is probably one of the most exciting things I'm doing right now. Pax duo is me and Tristan Swihart, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He grew up in this area, and he went to Northridge. I was his teacher there for five years, beginning when I was a...

"I’m from El Salvador. I was born there and raised there until I was 21. I moved here in 2013. I stopped making things, and I stopped drawing when I moved here. Then I just wanted to study somewhere. Before moving here, I studied architecture in my country, but I only...

"Music is a social art. Choirs are particularly social. But the legacy of segregation means choirs are not usually mixed racially in substantial ways. That impacts the choices made about repertoire and the music people hear in churches, temples, and schools. I grew up...

"I played around with clay in elementary school like everyone else -- pinch pots, and whatever. But it wasn’t until college when I studied with Merrill Krabill my sophomore year, that learned hand-building and how to throw. Then I was hooked. It was so exciting. I...

"I started teaching in August. I love my kids so much. I like making art that looks realistic, but you can tell that it's art. I feel like, with acrylic, I would spend too much time trying to make it look like a photograph. With watercolor and charcoal, I feel like I...

"My creative medium is music. I dabbled a lot growing up. I did hand drawing, and I originally went to college to become an animator. But music has always stayed with me. My style is kind of all over the place when it comes to what I play and what I take in. What I...

"I'm a musician. I have been since I was nine. I have a lot of styles, but I would say it's mostly aggressive, like metal. I primarily play the guitar. I started playing bass about seven years ago. When I was nine, my dad took me to an Eric Clapton concert. His boss...

"My medium is sketch art, specifically portraits. Right now, I’m focusing on a series of Black Lives Matter victims of police brutality. So, realism and emotion. I use micron pens and pencils and graphite. Those are my preferred medium. I’ve only fairly recently come...

"My creative medium is design. It isn’t fine art, but the ability to envision putting different colors and shapes and textures together. I think people have this pre-judgment about me that all I do is mid-century -- and I love mid-century, my house is mid-century --...

"My medium is clay. I have been told that my style is very rustic and manly. I do a lot of slip casting. A lot of it is construction materials: vents, hammers, wrenches, nuts. So I think that’s where the manly part comes from. I’d probably say that a formative...

“I do ceramics. A big, important part of my work is that it is functional. For no other reason other than that, I don’t have a lot of space in my house. I like things to have a use. It’s really fun for me to be able to use my pieces every day, and honestly, they just...

“My primary medium would be mixed media. I find myself working with layers: collage, acrylic paint, and even marker. I kind of work in two different worlds: mixed media pieces that maybe have a little paint applied to them (collage and acrylics), and illustrations,...

“My medium is photography. I tend to lean more towards classic. I want people to be able to look at their pictures today and then again in twenty years from now and not be like, look at that eighties hair! I tend to photograph women. I really enjoy the empowerment...

“I am a singer/songwriter. My music is fused with touches of R&B, jazz, and indie pop. Honestly, a formative moment for me was singing at my very first open mic. I don’t have this issue now, thank goodness - I worked through it - but I had such severe stage...

“Music is my medium. I really like expressing myself through playing the guitar and singing. I feel more comfortable doing that in my native language, of course. That’s basically how it comes through on the music I do with the band. I try to stay close in touch with...

“My medium is watercolor, almost exclusively, though I also do some drawing. I say that my style is not hyper-realism, but realism. It’s definitely not abstract. I love colors, so I’m always pushing the colors and pushing contrasts. I'm very proud of being where I am...

“My medium is InterPlay. InterPlay is a system developed in California by Cynthia Winton-Henry and Phil Porter. It’s an active, creative way to access the wisdom of your body. It uses movement, dance, storytelling, poetry, stillness. You can make up songs. It’s all in...

Goshen has one of the most amazing artist communities around. Take a deeper look at the collaborative nature of Goshen's Clay Artist community in this documentary short. The video features interviews and work by Sadie Misiuk, Dick Lehman, Justin Rothshank, Trevor...

“My creative medium is flowers, growing, and arranging. Being at Flowers By Phoebe with Phoebe Brubaker was really formative. She taught me so much about floral design and the logistics of how to actually work with flowers. It kind of sparked my interest in arranging...

“My main medium is drum set and percussion. My style is ‘a listener’: You have to listen first. Listening is so important, especially as a drummer. If I may, I’m going to give you my theory on drummers. We go through three phases. Phase One is when you get a little...

“All of the things that I’m interested in, that I do, can be traced back to creative communication or creative marketing. That’s anything from video to social media management to photography. Even different areas like music, theatre, and pottery is communication....

“Music is what I do. I’m a recording artist, singer/songwriter. My space is in the world music space, and the sub-genre is Afrofusion. I’ve been working with artists in the Elkhart County area, mostly people in the Christian rap music space. In my space, in the...

“The medium that I use is acrylic on canvas. I like to create figures, mostly women’s. I work on some landscapes and abstracts too but mostly women is what I like to do. I like to work with colors. I use the palette knives to create texture and move colors on top of...

“I recently mostly have done acrylic. If I do another art form, it would be more like creative essay writing, but that’s kind of a new thing. I have described my style as representational, impressionism, and conceptual. The full immersion studio time at the end of my...

“I’m a musician. It’s more like modern folk music, I guess. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s storytelling, along those lines. Right now, I also work in fiber art. When I think about music, I just think of Ignition Music Garage. I love playing Ignition. It’s such...

“I’ve been doing photography for around 50 years, since my dad started out with a darkroom when I was about 7. Right now I’m shooting mostly digital black and white. I’ve tried to keep more of a vintage look to my photos instead of the modern Instagram style. I want...

“My artistic medium is probably sound. Music, but my interest is more in tonality and crafting sound. Stylistically, I approach it with kind of an air of experimentation and an interest in crafting that connection between sound and emotion. I’m not interested in...

“I touched clay in eighth grade, and I knew that was my medium immediately. I have three sisters who are all teachers. My mother was a teacher. I was going to be a teacher. It was sort of like ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ - I didn’t feel like I was really good enough to go on...

“My main medium is clay. Stylistically, I would say that at this stage what I’m exploring is a more painterly form, influenced and continually inspired by abstract expressionism, 70 years on. Finding ways to do that with clay, and use glaze as paint. I think of myself...

“The style of music I perform has evolved, but it’s all rooted in Latin American music. I grew up in Peru, so the music that I played first was traditional Peruvian music. When I moved to the United States in 1981 in California, I added a little more Latin American...

“I’m a classical pianist, but I like to think of myself as a musician and an instructor. I teach private piano lessons, and right now I’m teaching a group class to beginners. I’m also teaching a college course to Goshen College students who are learning to teach...

“I think the easiest way to describe my medium is eclectic. I like creating in every way that comes to me and every way that I can, whether it’s through singing or playing trombone traditionally or whether it’s through creating new sounds with my trombone. In...

“My creative medium at the moment is styling and photography. My job with Edible Michiana is recipe editor, so I do some writing, but I wouldn’t say it’s my first skill. I would say my style is focused on what feels natural. That goes hand in hand with the visuals of...

“My artistic medium is probably best defined as a general theatre artist. I’ve worn a lot of different hats doing theatre, but it’s definitely the art form I’m the most involved with. One of my favorite things is community theatre, and it’s because of the community...

“For sure, my art medium is ice. I’m not artistic in any way for anything else. I’m pretty new at it, so I’m still learning my style. I would say I love to ice carve animals. That’s not really a style, but something I like to do. At this exact time last year, I was...

“My medium kind of fluctuates depending on my mood. I guess I’m typically known as a writer if I am known at all. As a creative person, I feel compelled to work that out just constantly, whatever I’m doing. I don’t play video games. I don’t work well within some sort...

“My medium is words, for sure. My style is eclectic. I love trying out new genres. I have published in creative nonfiction and memoir, and I’ve published in scholarly writing. Those are the main two areas that I’ve published in, but I love, love, love writing in all...

“For Brides of Neptune, mostly I’m a vocalist. I do some of the lead vocals, but mostly I do harmonizing, which I really enjoy. Then I do some silly background folksy percussion, and I’ve been playing more and more acoustic and electric guitar in our songs as well....

“My medium as an artist ranges from ceramics to painting to photography. With my clay business, Clay Table, all of those mediums sort of combine into one. With ceramics, I approach my work more utilitarian. I keep it simple, keep it clean, so people who may not know...

“Currently I would say writing is my medium. I sing and perform but right now I’m not doing much of that so I’d say poetry and story-telling. Personal essays. My style is writing about experiences I have or things that are meaningful to me. Whether it’s something I...

“When I started as an illustrator out of college, I started with watercolor and ink. I actually used to do children’s book-style illustrations. I even got a chance to illustrate two educational children’s books for Scholastic Canada, which was kind of fun. Then I got...

“Voice is my medium. I identify first as a song and voice educator and second as a performer. I just get really nerdy about how the voice works. Not just like trying to make the voice sound better, but the kinds of sounds the voice can make, and how we uncover that...

“I’m a part of the roots rock band Shiny Shiny Black. That is my primary medium. The biggest role I play is on the songwriting end and helping shape kind of the overall ‘Who are we and what do we want to be as artists? What do we want to put in the world?’ My partner...

“My medium is all of theatre. Pick a thing, and I do it. I am a theatre artist. That is the most accurate representation of what I do. Ever since a very early age, I’ve been fascinated with just being involved and being in the building. It started with music and...

“My artistic medium ranges from painting to crafting. I get interested in certain art and it’s like I use up my creativity there and then I move on to something else or I’ll combine it with the next medium I move to. My favorite is anything vibrant or uplifting. I...

“I have been a singer and an actor for most of my life so I’ve worn many different hats as a creative. I have been focusing lately on my music. I love singing songs from the Great American Songbook but I’ve been expanding that recently and finding female writers who...

“My medium’s always been music. I moved to the Goshen area 5 years ago. I’ve been involved in various projects going on here in Goshen. My music kinda leans towards Motown music, soul music, acoustic-driven, kinda like Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers. I have a band here...

“The two mediums I tend to focus more on are ceramics and drawing, although I do paint, sculpt and do printmaking. I would say those are my top five. As an arts educator, I do a little bit of everything but me personally, that would be my pecking order. I like...

“I mainly do a lot of printmaking and drawing. I do some mixed media pieces. I like to combine different forms of printmaking. For a long time, I only did figurative work. In the last year or two, I’ve gotten much more into abstract work, and that is in part because...

“Most recently I started doing fusible web quilting or fusible web appliqué. There are different names out there depending on what you want to call it. I’m creating a design and really simplifying it and cutting shapes out of fabric, and then quilting over it. I like...

“Currently I’m at Waterford Elementary School here in the Goshen Community Schools system, and I teach grades K through five. We do pretty much everything that I can get my hands on: painting, drying, ceramics, watercolor. I try to do some fiber arts, mostly weaving,...

“I use egg tempera, which is one of the oldest painting mediums. It’s egg yolk mixed with ground rocks, colorful minerals. It goes back to ancient Egypt and is extremely durable and long-lasting. It’s the traditional medium for Byzantine icons. Egg tempera also dries...

“To paraphrase Piet Mondrian, I am always inspired by the exciting interplay between color and line. That interplay is what some people call beauty. The subject matter, like the dancing birds, gives people permission to look at the image and really dive into it a...

“My main medium is willow basketry, which is classified as folk art. It can be traced back to my great-grandfather who came to the Dakota territories in 1874. In the prairie, willow was pretty much the only wood source there was for a while until people started...

“Performance art is my medium. I can’t play an instrument. I don’t sing anymore, though I’ve been in a lot of musicals and plays over the years. I really enjoy improv and just performance and performance art. I’ve really embraced, like, odd and weird things the past...

"My medium would be music, of course. The more precise medium would be the hammer dulcimer. But also as a band, because that’s what I do now, we have marimba and percussion and bass. The bass player is not always with us. He lives out in Ohio, so he’s more of a studio...

“As far as how I would describe my style, I would say colorful, eclectic. I like to up-cycle things. The medium that people in the Goshen community know me for is jewelry. I’m a jewelry maker. I do, though, dabble in a bunch of other mediums; I like acrylic and...

“My medium is acrylic paint. I do other stuff, too, like pencil, ink, oil sometimes. My personal style that I think works for me has been pop art - very vibrant colors - and surrealism. I really like incorporating both of those things because they’re so opposite of...

“I’m probably the most proud of the murals I’ve done for the city. Those are projects that have taken me months and months to do. The first one I did was on Middlebury Street. I worked with the Boys & Girls Club on that. I did a design where they could do a...

“I use all kinds of mediums. I do everything from wood burning to murals to fabric art to a lot of stuff. I express it with my bright, bold personality and the colors I use. I like to bring happiness and love to the paintings. I’m probably most proud of the two or...

“Right now, I am working on metal-worked jewelry. The process of creating a piece starts out with sketches. I start out with a design on paper, and then I cut out that design and put it on a metal sheet. Then I begin to transfer that design onto the metal. I cut it...

“I work in sculpture. My medium is metal sculpture, mainly aluminum and stainless steel. Some of the surfaces are painted, and some are textured. I’m also known for my things that are kinetic. Most of my outdoor work is kinetic. They have one or two parts that move in...

“My medium is music, for the most part. My style is indie folk. Along with music, though, I’m an incessant crafter and have incorporated that into what I’m doing with music. I just sell it on the side. I make soap and reusable coffee filters and lip balm and salves...

“We do custom clothing, but we also do textile design and we do embroidery. I like to do a lot of genres within that field. Last season, I did some things that were definitely art deco-inspired. That happens a lot, where I have customers who want something from a...

“My current medium is acrylic paint on canvas. In college, I focused on figurative sculpture. I’ve done bronze casting. I spent several years as a custom woodworker. Then I got into teaching, and that got me into watercolor and calligraphy and art history and all...