2009 Artists
Site # 1 Chuck Goranowski

Chuck Goranowski
Studio: 26231 County 7 Blvd Welch, MN 55089
Chuck began learning the art of glass design/glassblowing in 1979 during his undergraduate studies at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud Minnesota. In addition, he studied glass design/glassblowing at the Anoka Ramsey Community College, Winona State University and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. and M.Ed in Industrial Education with a major emphasis in Studio Arts. In April 2007, Chuck decided to make a life change and leave his approximately 20 year career at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant to devote full time to his art. He is a frequent artist at summer art shows and fairs.

Sites # 2, 3, 4, The Anderson Center

Ardee Rosasco
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Ardee Rosasco is surrounded by a visually stimulating environment of water, bluffs and seasonal landscape colors. Art has always been a passion for her. Ardee paints with oils and watercolor in a Classical tradition including the Impressionist style of light to produce a painterly work of art. A few of her idols include Velazquez, Sargent, Vermeer, Artemisia Gentileschi and Hals. Subjects include landscape, portraiture, still-life and art design. Her work is shown locally and out-state in several private collections. She regularly participates in workshops with well-know artists

Lynn Brown
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Lynn Brown draws and paints in a variety of two dimensional mediums. Lynn grew up in St. Paul and earned a BFA from the University of Minnesota. A long-time resident of Red Wing, Lynn has helped with many art activities including facilitating numerous mural projects with local elementary, middle, and high school students. Her work has been exhibited both locally and regionally and is held in numerous private collections.

Peg Simonson
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Visit Peggy's studio to see her work. Peggy paints in both soft pastel and watercolor where she often incorporates textured papers and ink. Recently she began using a unique method of painting detailed work with dyes on silk fabric, then mounting the finished product on canvas.

Site # 5 Hobgoblin Music - Home of Stoney End Harps

Gary & Eve Stone
Studio: 920 Hwy. 19, Red Wing, MN.
Harpmaker Gary Stone designs big, elegant voiced folk harps and sells them all over the US, Canada, England, Japan and other foreign countries. 12 models of three to four and a half octave harps are made from local Walnut and Cherry. The Stones also own Hobgoblin Music, an importer and seller of folk instruments, both businesses are housed in a remodeled 1920's grey barn with a poem on the side. Visit www.stoneyend.com for more information.

Site # 6 Dan Wiemer

Dan Wiemer
Studio: 491 Spring Creek Road.
Bold, direct watercolor with strong design best describe Dan's work. For twenty years Dan has balanced a career of commercial illustration and fine art. His regional workshops are in demand and his paintings can be found in homes and businesses throughout the country. Dan has a passion for the landscape and draws much of his inspiration from vista views around the Red Wing area. Original art as well as prints and cards will be available. Visit www.danwiemer.com for more information.

Site #7 Falconer Vineyards Winery

Falconer Vineyards Winery
Winery: 3572 Old Tyler Road
Welcome to Minnesota’s newest vineyards. Following a 30 year career in the stoneware pottery business, John Falconer established a vineyard in 2001 with the winery opening in 2004.
The winery specializes in wines made from northern grapes, focusing on Minnesota grown varieties: Marechal Foch, Frontenac and Seyval Blanc. Visit the winery and enjoy a walk through the vineyard. The Winery Cellar Door is open to the public weekends from Memorial Day through Thanksgiving. Falconer Vineyards Winery looks forward to meeting you on your visit to the vineyards. Cheers. More at www.falconervineyards.com

Guest artist: Neal Topliff
Born and raised north of Duluth, Minnesota, Neal has been a resident of Red Wing for the past two years. Neal is a composer and pianist with three solo piano CD I to his credit. His soothing and relaxing music reflects his northern Minnesota heritage. Neal will be performing live all three days of the Ramble. - Visit www.harbourlightmusic.com to learn more about his music.

Site # 8 Featherstone Pottery

Tom & Jeff Larkin
Studio: 31998 210th Avenue, Red Wing, MN.
Featherstone Pottery is the inspiration of Jeff Larkin after returning to Red Wing from a two year apprenticeship at the Leach Pottery in England. Tom soon joined ranks, helping to design and build a thirty foot wood-fired climbing kiln. The pottery resides on the 150 year old ancestral Featherstone homestead in rural Red Wing. Domestic and porcelain clays produce a wide range of functional pieces. Hand prepared glazes are developed from local materials such as limestone, granite, clay, ash, hay, cornstalk, soybean, and wheat straw. Come see a dramatic demonstration of pottery making. Visit www.featherstonepottery.com for more information.

Site # 9 Cardinal Bluff Studio

Guy and Judith Williams
Studio: 1502 West 4th St Red Wing, MN.
Returning to the tour this year are Guy and Judy Williams. For the William's Cardinal Bluff Studio is a way of life: Painting and Claying in the studio while outside co-creating with nature the garden to build a sustainable way of life both in nature and art. Visit their Website for more information: www.cardinalbluffstudio.com/

Site # 10 Lori Horsec

Lori Horsic
Studio: 2405 South Oak Drive Red Wing MN.
LoriHorsicPhotos@pressenter.com
New to the tour this year. The distinctive photographs of her work are created by applying computer special effects to original photos, in order to produce unique interpretations of the image.
She is inspired by the natural beauty of this area, and especially enjoy exploring the patterns, colors and textures found in nature. She also finds inspiration from music, especially jazz, with the notion of taking a melody (in this case, an image), creating variations, interpretations, and transforming it into something new. Visit her site at: www.LoriHorsicPhotos.com

Site # 11 Maggie Paynter

Maggie Paynter
Studio: 108 East Seventh Street, Red Wing, MN 55066
paynter@charter.net
Margaret Paynter is an artist working in oil, acrylic and watercolor. “The process of painting has been a personal journey that has challenged my technique and furthered my growth as an artist. Paynter’s work are images from nature. Flowers, landscapes, and riverscapes are all subjects that she paints in a plein air or studio setting.

Site # 12 Kate Goodman Eiynck

Kate Goodman Eiynck
Studio: 511 East Seventh Street, Red Wing, MN 55066
KateHelenGoodman@yahoo.com
For several years, she has been experimenting with various media to create a likeness that expresses her ideas about human morality and captures fleeting moments of beauty or grotesque glimpses into human motive. In the last three years she has focused on drawing and painting the human form exploring attraction; emotional, sexual, material and the emotions that motivate those lusts.

Site # 13 Doris Gardas Brushes With Nature Studio

Doris Gardas
Studio: N1602 Co. Road VV, Hager CIty WI.
Doris’s love of Nature and the surroundings of her native Wisconsin are the primary inspirations for her work. Drawing at am early age has developed into a life of art whether it involves capturing her grandchildren on canvas or painting the natural world.

Guest Youth Artists Mallory Gardas, Madalyn Gardas, Brooke Herling, Zack Herling.

Site # 14 Ann-Marie Rose & David Husom Husom & Rose Photographics Studio

Ann-Marie Rose
Studio 8484 162nd Avenue, Hager City, WI
Her work is created on computers using her own photographs and scanned objects. She uses digital imaging because it offers a more intimate and complex relationship with her images. She exhibits her work in museums and galleries both locally and internationally. Visit: www.husomandrose.com/printsa.html

David Husom
Studio 8484 162nd Avenue, Hager City, WI.
His color photographs document small town Minnesota and Wisconsin, particularly the Mississippi River valley. His large format color photographs have been exhibited widely across the US including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in October 2006. Visit: www.davidhusom.com

Husom & Rose Photographics also does Giclee printing for artists and museums including many of the artists in this tour. See: www.husomandrose.com/printstudio

Guest Artists: John Turula
John uses hand built ceramic forms with shapes suggesting life forms stacked to a human scale. Sculptures, yard art and benches. Also drawings that combine ink and computer manipulation. www.NoPointInk.com to see work. Visit John on the Web at: www.nopointink.com/

Guest Artist William Pringle Rodman
He is a documentary photographer with strong humanist leanings. His main interest in making candid black and white images of people at work and at play. He is currently photographing workers in traditional manufacturing jobs in Minnesota.