Nate Alberts

Nate Alberts is a guitarist/singer who has shared the stage with greats such Johnny Winter, Mammas Cookin’ Kenny Loggins, Jerry Joseph and the Jack Mormons , Charlies Daniels and Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead. Nate has formed a new all-star band featuring guitarist Mike Sundman, Bassist Sam Winn and Pam Manning on drums. Whether performing solo, with his band, or pairing up wih such talented musicians as Jacob Stern from the Crunchy Western Boys, Nate promises a good time that will leave a lasting impression.

Jonathan Auerbach

A powerhouse performer with or without the band… Jonathan plays with abandon, on tours across the USA, Italy, Austria, Spain and Portugal, garnering worldwide radio play, press praise, and a notable USA and Europe fan base. Jonathan muses, “ My aim as a songwriter and performer is great rock songs that hit like a missile, big on impact and explosive emotion, a big molecule-rearranging sound that cuts through the radio drone and people shout: ‘holy #!*$!!, who was that?!’

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Speakeasy Trio

The Speakeasy Trio rocks the ArtWalk with live music on the patio of Root every hour on the hour from 3 to 7pm! With Wayne Klinger on sax, Dave Saikin on guitar and Jeanne Robillard on vocals, you will be in for a jazz treat!

Fifth Business

Fifth Business celebrates the acoustic sound in music sometimes reminiscent of pub singing. Kate, Steve and Hannah Davie, Heather Alger, Nick Anzalone, and Stuart Corso place a strong emphasis on vocals. Their songs and tunes range from traditional a cappella singing to more complex arrangements wiht instrumentation by guitar, fiddle and button accordian. They draw from musical roots set in American, English and Celtic tradition, as well as some of Steve’s more contemporary compositions.

Erin Kuzmeskus

“I write positive uplifting songs in celebration of the Earth, the Universe, Life, and Love!  My music is danceable, covers several genres, and is enjoyed by people of all ages.  I perform at festivals and venues in New England and I am expanding my touring. My influences include many live performances by many great bands from an early age to the present, my dad and uncles guitar playing and in-depth vinyl sessions, various rock, folk, blues, reggae, soul, funk, bluegrass, jam, grunge, punk, ska, etc.  While studying Environmental Science in college, I played guitar and sang covers and few originals at venues in RI and CT just for fun. I had a musical explosion in 2009 when my 2 babies became busy toddlers and I found it easier to pick up my guitar than get my messy paints out.  I wrote at least 20 songs, started performing at festivals and other venues, put out a live cd in 2010 and put out my first studio cd, “Positivity” recorded 2011 at Mojo Audio in Easton, NH.  I am looking to collaborate with other artists, play some larger venues, promote my music and new cd, and increase the Positivity of the Planet in the process.”

Angie Muzzy

Angie Muzzy (Troy, NH) is an MFA candidate at The College at Brockport concentrating on choreography and performance. She began her dance training in the hills of Western Massachusetts and continued her studies at Keene State College where she received a degree in Theater and Dance (2008). She has worked with choreographers: Robert Battle, Beppie Blankert, Lorraine Chapman, Bill Evans, Stephan Koplowitz, Marcia Murdock, Candice Salyers, among others. She has been a guest teacher at Keene State College, Williston-Northampton School, Northfield Mount Hermon School, and Hillsboro-Deering Middle School. She has presented work around New England and currently divides her time between Southern New Hampshire and Western New York.

Jessica Howard

Jessica Howard (Fall River, MA) Jessica Howard graduated from Keene State College in 2009 with her B.A. in Theatre and Dance. As a theatre and dance undergraduate she was privileged to study under Marcia Murdock, Cathy Nicoli, Candice Salyers, and William Seigh and was selected to work with guest artists such as Paul Besaw, Mark Dendy, Pilobolus, and Sara Sweetly Rabidoux. Since graduation she became Founder and Artistic Director of The Heron Studio, where she offers classes and workshops in the healing and performing arts (yoga & dance) located in Fall River MA. She is also a free-lance performance artist & dance educator. Currently she is performing with Lorraine Chapman, the Company, and teaching for ACT at Saint Andrew’s School.

Ashley Hensel-Browning

Ashley Hensel-Browning (Chester, VT) founder and artistic director of Rural Dance Revolution, works as an educator, community artist, and choreographer  throughout New England. Her work has been presented in venues such as the International Festival of Art and Ideas, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, and MassMOCA. She choreographs and directs for the Opera Theatre of Weston in Weston, VT, most recently including The Magic Flute (2011), The Little Prince (2010), and Hansel and Gretel (Jan 2009).  A Juried Teaching Artist on the Vermont Arts Council Teaching Roster, she has received multiple grants for work in public schools and community sites. Recent projects include a teacher training in incorporating math in movement in the Berkshires, choreography residencies through Vermont, and guest teaching with Boston Ballet’s CityDance. Ashley received her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her BA from Hampshire College where she designed her own concentration in Dance Education and Community Development through the Arts.

Bethany Neslon

Bethany Nelson (Jackson, MS) is a choreographer, educator, collaborator, and ardent improviser. Bethany is interested in connecting disparate dance communities within the greater Jackson area by creating communication networks, collaborative environments, educational opportunities, and dance works that are accessible and inclusive of all audiences. She is currently teaching for Ballet Mississippi, organizing the Mississippi Improv Alliance, performing with Front Porch Dance Collective and Duncan Dance, and learning how to break dance. Bethany holds an M.F.A in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Cori Olinghouse

Cori Olinghouse (New York, NY) is a New York-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer whose work explores the plasticity and shapeshifting capacities of the body in relationship to creativity, health, and culture. Her work has been presented by Danspace Project, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Movement Research, among others. Cori performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002-06. In 2005, Cori began a dancing dialogue Bill Irwin and has since been researching a variety of movement forms that explore physical transformation. She’s been studying corporeal mime with Colin Gee and continuing her study of voguing with Archie Burnett and Benny Ninja. Cori was a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Cori is currently collaborating with filmmaker Shona Masarin to create a 16 mm b&w film, Ghost line. She is influenced by her creative practice research, Body Literate Initiative with partner, Kai Kleinbard.

Ellie Goudie-Averill

Ellie Goudie-Averill (Philadelphia, PA) a 2007 MFA Dance Performance graduate of the University of Iowa, Ellie currently co-directs the Stone Depot Dance Lab and dances for MacArthur Dance Project and Group Motion Dance Company in Philadelphia.  Her choreography has been shown NYC, Philly and throughout the Midwest, and she was recently a selected artist for Dance New Amsterdam’s RAW Material.  Ellie teaches Modern technique and repertory at Temple University and has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of dance at Bucknell University and Artistic Director of the University of Iowa Youth Ballet.  In the past, Ellie performed with Daara Dance, Kayle+Co, Cohan/Suzeau, Prairie Wind Dancers, and was a founding member of the Bowery Dancers.  She began her training at Ballet Midwest in Topeka, Kansas and holds a BFA in dance from the University of Kansas.  Along with performing, choreographing, and improvising she loves teaching dance to people of all ages and jumping for joy!

Kai Kleinbard

Kai Kleinbard (New York, NY) was born and raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. His approach to movement is influenced by his study of waving with Future Ninja, voguing with Archie Burnett and Benny Ninja, and Aikido. Kai has worked with artists Kota Yamazaki, Mina Nishimura, Gerald Casel, Jimena Paz, and Cori Olinghouse. He tutors privately (grades K-12) and specializes in developing and organizing his students’ work and learning habits. Kai is an AMSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and is currently engaged in a creative practice research, Body Literate Initiative with partner, Cori Olinghouse.

Sarah Gamblin

Sarah Gamblin (Denton, TX) is interested in the intersections of improvisation, choreography and performance and seeks out collaborative relationships across performance contexts. Recent collaborators include Amii LeGendre, KT Niehoff, Ray Schwartz, and Jordan Fuchs and with Texas musical entities Hentai Improvising Orchestra, Shiny Around the Edges and Impulse. She has been produced in Texas and beyond including Houston Fringe Festival, Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, the Fusebox Festival, the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, The Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards and Bates Dance Festival. Gamblin is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University.

 Meredith Lyons

Meredith Lyons received her BA from Mercyhurst College with a focus in Teaching & Choreography and her MFA in Choreography at Smith College.  As a dancer, she has performed with the Albany Berkshire Ballet, Ballet Concerto, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Elm City Dance Collective and appeared in both ballet and modern masters’ works: Balanchine, Tudor, Mark Morris, Trisha Brown, Bebe Miller, David Dorfman, Danny Buraczeski, and Wally Cardona. She is a current company member of PDM: Peter DiMuro – Public Displays of Motion (former Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange), Kayle + Company and Tori Lawrence + Co.  She has served as Dance Director of the Taft School/Connecticut, leading the dance ensemble in tours throughout Europe.  Additionally, Meredith has been on faculty at Ursinus College, Connecticut College, Providence College, Springfield College, and the Five College Dance Department at Smith College.

Debbie Aldrich

Debbie was born and raised in the beautiful small town of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. She spent a two decades living in the glittering cities of Dallas , Texas and then Houston , Texas . Her goals are to expand her horizons with travel and create new pieces from those experiences and find many other places to exhibit ,all over the world !  View Debbie’s work at Razzmatazz

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Matt Bassett

Matt creates a mix of original paintings on wood & upcycled materials. Mostly Pop Culture, with a healthy dose of Dogs thrown in for good measure. One of three founding members of the Bad Art Gallery in Littleton, NH, Matt’s work is vibrant, fun, and loaded with humor.

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Jose Bonilla

The feel of the clay, the thrill when it begins to take shape and the clay and I both decide what it will become, the surprise and excitement when it comes out of the kiln in all its colorful glory and the satisfaction of seeing it in the hands of its destined owner are just some of the reasons I love what I do. All my creations some which are featured at Maia Papaya’s, are made here in beautiful Bethlehem.

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Steve Campbell

Woodsville resident, Steve Campbell originally hails from New York City and has spent his entire life drawing and painting. Says Steve, “I’ve finally discovered a method of painting I can live with. Letting go of the idea of success. My motto has become… anything you can paint, you can paint over. These paintings, some of them have been around for years. I love painting over my own work. Failure is the means to success.” Steve’s works have been shown in Phoenix, Arizona, Quebec, and Burlington, Vermont.

Sirpa Cowell

Sirpa grew up around the Finlayson cotton mill in Tampere, Finland where two generations of her family were employed. Immersed as she was in both the industrial world of textile production and the clean, colorful aesthetic of Finnish design, it is no surprise she is so passionate about fabrics and the artistic possibilities of print and textile design. Nor that she chose to intern in college on the factory floor of a textile printing mill, eventually becoming the third generation at Finlayson as a textile print designer.

Artistically, she draws inspiration from every day life and is strongly influenced by traditional folk art as well as contemporary fine art. She holds a deep respect for the history of textiles, especially handcrafted world textiles. Color choices are an essential component of her work and she is skilled at reducing a design to its essence. But she is also grounded by her familiarity with the serious practicalities of industrial production, coupled with a straightforward sincerity, which has proven quite effective at developing and managing design departments.

Her talent was recognized over the years by the award of three separate grants to assist her work, and a number of her designs are found in the prestigious Museum of Printed Textiles in Mulhouse, France. She was a founding member of MODUS, a Finnish design and craft organization, and has served on the Pirkanmaa Regional Arts Council. Sirpa’s studio(s) is at her home. She painst and works with textiles. She painst colorful bold flowers on black background and have pillows with the same theme.

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Elaine Gabriel
Heather Harvey

Elaine Gabriel & Heather Harvey are Twins Separated at Birth. Their Mother was a Showy Trifle who was impregnated by two different fathers on the same night. She laughed & danced her way through her entire pregnancy, giving birth to her beautiful daughters in a field riddled with Cosmos. A passing Gypsy Caravan happened upon the three & were immediately taken with the lovely scene & spirited them away, dropping both babies on different door steps during their travels. Even though they grew up in loving dysfunctional families, they both knew that they didn’t belong and yearned to find that missing piece of themselves.

After a long series of unfortunate events, they found themselves facing off in a duel over the same piece of art. While the crowd surrounding them cheered and placed bets, they immediately recognized each other from so long ago, tore off their Batman Masks and ran into each others arms, vowing to make art together forever…disappointing the huge crowd that had gathered, but really making the world a better place. Heather Harvey has a BFA from Plymouth State University

Elaine Gabriel has a degree in Art Education from UMass Amherst.

Melissa Jones

Melissa Jones has always enjoyed working with different kinds of materials, from the fine arts to decorative crafts. Featured at this event will beher pottery, multi-layered foam plate prints, paper cutting, collage and pastel pieces.

Erin Kuzmeskus

“My paintings celebrate the beauty and abundance of our planet and the wonder of life itself. I fell in love with painting in my teens when I painted on my first canvas; I have been exhibiting and selling since 2005. Painting feels to me like a glorious exhalation of the mind and soul; I paint joyfully either outside by sunlight and birdsong or inside by candlelight and loud music while dancing. My paintings are whimsical and full of color, because that is how I see the world in my mind’s eye. My subjects include flowers and trees, birds, insects and animals, nature spirits, earthscapes, dreams, symbols, and the universe. “

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Donna Larcom

Growing up on the shores of Buzzards Bay in the coastal town of Mattapoisett, MA, Donna enjoyed the arts and crafts of the area. Her mother was an artist and had a Art Gallery during Donna’s high school years where she sometimes worked. After leaving high school she studied art at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. She soon married her childhood sweetheart and moved to Missoula, MT where she and her husband Richard graduated from the University of Montana.

With her degrees in art and education Donna worked with the schools and continued to work with her arts and crafts. Having the opportunity to live in several art centered towns in Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming she had unique experiences that helped shape her style and develop her interests. While living on the Oregon Coast she worked closely with a master tole painter and did a great deal of design work in that area. During her time in Wyoming she started a cottage business painting antique style duck decoys and hand craved birds her father did. She enjoys watercolor painting but her favorite medium to work with is oils. She likes painting natural scenes including wild animals, plants, fruits and vegetables as subjects and has given most of her work away to friends and family.

Now living in Easton, NH and teaching art full time in Littleton at the high school and middle school her art work is a collection of all of her diverse life experiences and her business, Wildwoods Consulting, is more of a form of pleasure and relaxation then a money making endeavor.

Fallon O’Brien

“We are completely surrounded by the forces of nature, and as such daily life is a constant reminder of the connections we share with the universe. I believe to understand those connections is our survival and our evolution.

While I work with a variety of mediums, this desire to connect to the whole is a common chord in all of my work. The thread that ties us together is very simply our DNA. My focus over the last year is to work simply with an array of color, without introducing recognizable icons in to the piece.

It’s much the same as when you gaze up in to the heart of a tree… it becomes an abstract world of lights and darks, colors, lines, textures… pulling you in to its embrace. It’s this sensation I am attempting to recreate.

My art is full of as much play and uncertainty as nature itself…..a mirror reviving in new forms the ancient tension between order and chaos”

~Fallon

Kristine Lingle

Kristine Lingle is a painter, collage artist and art teacher currently working for a non-profit in the White Mountains. Her sunny studio is in the cottage she shares with her husband and two tabby cats, Simone and Rex. Kristine will be offering live painting demonstrations at teh WREN Farmer’s Market from 12 to 2pm.

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Mary Pelletier

Mary Pelletier was born in Lancaster NH and grew up in Bethlehem NH, where she graduated from Profile High School in 1982.

Mary is self-taught in the art of jewelry-making. She has been making and selling her jewelry at local craft fairs, yard sales and to friends and family for at least 10 to 12 years, and recently just started posting and selling via online.

Craig Pursley

Bath resident and owner of the American Heritage Gallery of Art, located next to The Brick Store, Craig Pursley is a realist oil painter who captures landscapes and paints realistic portraiture. Recipient of a Best of NH award in 2011, Craig’s work is viewable in various galleries in both New Hampshire and California. Craig will be showing his local realist landscapes and a few portraits at The Gables.

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Phillip Reeder

Fun and whimsical, kinetic sculptures and mechanical wire sculptures, are a delight and an enjoyment to watch. Phillip mixes mechanics with art and develop “Rube Goldberg” type machines, wind powered mobiles, rolling ball powered sculptures and other fantasy generated motion systems.

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Roland Shick

Roland makes handcrafted lamps from varnished cotton canvas, 35mm movie film and welded steel rods. His lamps will be on display in the Colonial Theatre windows throughout the month of August.

Ron Smith

Originally from Falmouth, MA, Bethlehem resident Ron Smith is an architectural and sculptural artist who lives and has a studio right in the heart of Main Street Bethlehem. Ron studied sculpture and sculptural furniture at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth and studied furniture design at Boston University. Ron Smith will be showing his sculptures, sculptural furniture and architectural detail work at his studio, Arta Design, next to the Colonial Theatre.

Fred Storella

Bethlehem woodworker, Fred Storella, will be displaying several handmade wooden items, including letters, boxes, spoons, benches and more at Country Collectibles.

Jon Stroker

Owner and operator of Bad Art Gallery in Littleton, NH, Jon Stroker originally hails from Bethel, CT and pursued his studies at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. BAD ART is a Studio, Gallery, School, Co-Op, Etc… A place where anyone can come in and be an artist. It is located on Littleton’s (soon to be famous) Riverwalk, and specializes in Outsider, Folk, Sculpture, & “What have you” type art (Chainsaw Bears Excluded). They are currently accepting artwork to display in the gallery (Low commission rates).

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Mitchell Tellier

Mitchell Tellier is a good ass dude with great skills in music and drawing. He also likes sparkling water and hides blue eyes behind rayban sunglasses.

Barbara Thompson

Bethlehem resident, Barbara Thompson, is a clay artist, the owner of Ragamuffins Design, and a juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.

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Trissa Tilson

Trissa Tilson is a New Hampshire artist, with a love of many styles of art and design from comic books and pin-up art to steampunk and baroque. Claiming she has a form of artistic ADD, she plays around with anything she can get her hands on, from pencils and paint to digital art and even sewing. She collects random objects most people would throw away because they have an interesting design, and stores them away for future use. After a stint of costume design and a lot of digital pin-up art, Trissa started her upcycled journals as a gift to her husband, and once she realized how fun they were to design and build, things kind of took off from there.

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Jason Tors

Jason Tors lives and works in Sugar Hill NH. He grew up in the suburbs outside New York City in the 70s-80s. His early influences came from graffiti art, break dancing, skateboarding, comics and cartoons. Jason attended Skidmore College from 1993-1997 and majored in Studio Art. After graduating he moved to New York City and worked at various web design agencies. While in NYC he took multiple exposure photos (on film) of street art, grafitti and urban decay. In 2001 Jason moved to northern NH.

Jason Tors inspired by contemporary street art, graffiti and graphic design. Many of the ideas using recycled materials come from Jean Michel Basquiat / Robert Rauschenberg as well as crowd sourcing inspiration from his Tumblr dashboard. His work also combines elements of photography and typography as well as stencils and collage. Website

Paula Wolcott

Paula is a Sugar Hill artist and long-time WREN member, well known in the region for her colorful oil paintings of dogs, horses, adobe churches and moonlit scenes. She builds her own canvases at home and paints from a combination of life, memory and imagination.

This show of new works combines her love of figures, with a new abstract approach, using color to express facets of the interior mind. She says, “I think any painting that is heartfelt and has a strong feeling of life is a good painting.”

Brooke Sullivan

Brooke Sullivan is a book lover, painter, weekly blogger for the Huffington Post & Work Stay Play as well as a WREN gal. She currently runs the WINGS program and instructs several business courses at WREN, while working at Local Works Marketplace. A native of Connecticut and a PSU grad w her BA in English, currently lives in Holderness, NH w her pup Birdie and Hubby Sully. Follow her at @beesmischief