Maquoketa Art Experience is free and open-to-the-public.
Everyone is welcome to view the Exhibit, as well as to join us at the Artists Reception. No RSVP is needed to attend.
Here’s information on each of the club members:
Georgeann Younggren Kreiter
As a child I was very interested in dolls, both collecting and occasionally creating ones. Since becoming a member of the Davenport doll club and creating art figures it has opened my mind to trying new materials and various techniques. When creating an art doll, I imagine an image but as I go through the process my figure wants to go in another direction and it
becomes something different from what I had originally planned. Since 1979 I have always created an annual Christmas tree ornament for each member of the family. I also enjoy making Christmas cards. The holiday items that I create give me so much incentive to create more interesting items, especially art figures.
Colleen Curry
A Donahue, Iowa artist and is one of the four founding members of the “Art Figures of the Quad Cities” in 1998. Originally it was called “Hello Dollies”. While others create “soft or clay figures”, I was never content with this process and began experimenting with many types of media that I would come across. My current “Shoe” exhibit here is a series of
experiments with what I could do with coordinating doll figures and putting shoes together. Satire and humor are important ingredients for me in all that I create. Obviously, I have just scratched the surface.
Deb Veber
Deb is a Moline, Illinois artist who has created one-of-a-kind art figures for the last thirty years. Deb uses wire, foil, clay and/or found objects to form the body. The face, hands and feet are individually sculpted from polymer, air-dry or epoxy clays. The figure is then costumed with a variety of materials, such as beads, fabric, antique trims and other unique objects.
Sue Kirk
Sue is a Davenport artist that creates in a variety of mediums. Her grandmother taught her to embroider samplers when she was 4 years old. After learning that craft she was given instructions in tatting, crochet, knitting, sewing on a treadle machine, and cutting quilt blocks by the time she was 8. Her first high school art figure was made in plastic which resembled her favorite dog. Sue ran a ceramics class for 13 years teaching carving, clay lifting, glazing and making fused and sagged glass plates for
special occasions. She also enjoys creating in many medias including- stained glass, fused glass pendants, Zen Tangles, ice and tie-dyeing fabrics (including t-shirts), kumohimo, drawing, sculpting figures, and painting. She makes quilts and finishes them using her longarm quilt machine. Sue creates a variety of scrappy quilts for charity, for the quilt guild and teaches quilting and sewing at the VA Outreach center. Sue joined the Art Figures group about ten years ago. And creates figures using many different medias-clay, fabric, fiber, gourds, paints, stuffing, wire and metal pieces.
Rosalie Baker
Rosalie is a retired commercial artist and lives in Davenport Iowa. She is a member of the original “Quad Cities Art Figure” group that began in 1998. Her interest lies in creating dolls and animals. Rosalie enjoys many other interesting media including crafts, and both watercolor and oil painting. She is a prize-winning pictorial quilt artist including receiving several “Best of
Show” awards at several local, national and international quilt exhibits. Her various quilts have been exhibited at the Museum of the American Quilters Society and as well as also published in their annual Art Calendar. Rosalie’s quilts received recognition in the 2010 published book entitled “500 Art Quilts”.
Becky McDonald
Becky McDonald is a current resident of Dubuque, Iowa. She has resided in different locations over the years, her last residency was Florida, where she owned and operated a vintage and collectable store called “Becky’s Attic Treasures”. Becky has enjoyed creative endeavors since childhood. She has the ability and imagination to discover interesting items, which
proceeds from a simple object to creating an artistic statement. Becky has always been interested in various forms of art and has worked with a variety of mediums. Her favorite mediums are working with clay, fibers and metal. New to creating art figures, Becky uses a plethora of artistic techniques to create her images.
Joan DuBay-Tully
Joan resides in Dubuque, Iowa and is a professional artist with over 65 years of creating in many different mediums ranging from painting and sculptures to etchings and unique fiber art. She has continued to increase her artistic knowledge throughout the years by taking classes and workshops in various disciplines that she enjoys. In 1983, Joan began working with fabric designing and producing “art quilts” and she has been exploring the boundaries with fiber ever since. She enjoys discovering and developing various techniques using an assortment of fibers, art mediums, thread embellishments, metals, painting, beads, papers and found objects. Joan has worked in both two and three dimensions, integrating traditional and
innovative techniques into her art quilts and sculptures. In general, she does figurative work, frequently drawing upon her immense imagination, creativity, and talent to incorporate color, texture and whimsy into her original- one- of- a- kind-
pieces (OOAK). Joan’s artistic creations and fiber art pieces have been featured in several local, state and national shows and publications. In addition, she has won acclaim at many juried arts, fiber, figurative and quilt shows, and competitions throughout the United States. She has exhibited and sold her works nationwide in galleries and other show venues.
Brenda Christner
Brenda is a transplant artist from Iowa City now residing in Dubuque, Iowa. She enjoys working in several medias, but her favorites are fiber arts, glass, paper, acrylic and watercolor painting, clays, and collage. I am new to the Dubuque area and have met several creative people who have guided me into joining in a few creative pursuits, such as creating art figures. I love to learn new techniques and how to include them in my creations. I have learned how to use air dry and polymer clays, gourds and how to incorporate paper fabric and beads into my designs. I love imagining an idea and finding different techniques to use in my creations.
Jackie Goodrich
In 2011 Jackie relocated from her childhood home of Seattle, Washington to her new residence in Dubuque, Iowa. Since childhood Jackie has involved herself in many creative activities. As a youngster she learned to sew, and her grandmother taught her how to knit. Jackie spends her time involved in a variety of interests including spinning wool into yarn (she
claims to be a want-a-be weaver too), also crochet and knitting, fiber arts as well as quilting, designing in glass, and camping in her tear drop camper.
On many days Jackie can be seen hitting the road with her biking friends, just enjoying the great outdoors. As an accomplished biker, she peddled not once but three times on the 200-mile, two-day trip from Seattle to Portland, in a biking event. This girl loves to travel. Her passport includes a variety of international places and traveling across the USA.
Jackie is new to creating art figures and still learning the various techniques in working with a variety of clays to complete her interesting figures. With her imagination, she will go far beyond the ordinary.
