On Saturday, November 1st, 10 to 3pm and Sunday the 2nd 1-4pm, the Joplin Regional Artists Coalition is having a Studio Tour. This is a free event.
Below is the list of Participating Artists and their biographies.
| Artists | Medium | Biography |
| Brooks-Elizabeth Billings | Mixed Media | As a seasoned veteran art educator, Brook’s current works consist of bright colorful pieces that are inspired by music’s jazz culture. She is a working artist who creates her own Jazzspiration’s and creates custom pieces for clients. |
| John Good | Wheel Thrown Clay | Parkwood Graduating Class of 1979, BA Studio Art MSSU 1988, MFA Studio Art-Ceramics 1992, Spiva Board Member, Owner – Adelmo Family Care LLC 2009 – Present, Lives in Webb City 2 Children 1 Step Child |
| Brenda Hayes | Fiber Artist | .Reuse, reduce, recycle – those are my three R’s. I take parts of old and parts of new to make one of a kind, upcycled Art. I love new artistic challenges and I love color, texture, and hope to remain fearless in trying new things. |
| Dianne Miller | Glass Artist | After a career in secondary education, I now enjoy the solitude of my glass workshop with “golden oldies” playing as I contemplate a sheet of glass. The possibilities are endless! I lean toward the traditional, however, I force myself to explore different ways to combine glass – glass weaving, frit casting, shards, and other techniques. I teach of glass art in workshops at ArtForms Gallery in Pittsburg, Kansas. |
| Jordan Murdock-Thompson | Inspired first by the illustrations of childhood fairytales, she combines the whimsical and the macabre to illustrate the impermanent nature of being human, working in both digital and traditional media, with a particular love for pen and ink. | |
| Kristin Peterson | Jewelry | Kristin makes jewelry from bits of nature that she preserves forever in electroformed copper. |
| Neva Rowland | Acrylics, Mixed Media | With a deep appreciation for texture, color, and emotional resonance, Neva primarily works in acrylics but enjoys experimenting across a wide range of mediums, including collage, ink, and found materials, exploring the intersection of inner life and creative expression. |
| Marta Churchwell | Jewelry, Photography | Primarily a wire-wrapping and steampunk jewelry artist, she also works in photography. As retired news reporter, she is now an arts columnist for The Joplin Globe. You will find her jewelry in many local exhibits and shows. |
| Stacy Heydt | Mised Media, Fiber Arts | Stacy’s main products are wet felted using alpaca fiber and the resist method of felting into 3D vessels, pods, bowls, and embellish with leather, beads, feathers, and other found items. She also creates pictures by wet felting alpaca fibers into a fabric, then embellishing with freehand machine sketching and hand embroidery, beads, and other found items. |
| Debbie Reed | The point of creativity is to express and challenge one’s self, to make meaning, to embrace one’s life. Debbie creates through painting media of all kinds – watercolors, oils and mixed media. | |
| Linda Teeter | Photography | A retired Farmers Insurance agent, her artworks represent series, such as: Tuscany, Graffiti: Urban Art, Landscapes, Rust, Jellies, and more. You can always find her work at Urban Art Gallery as well as area galleries and shows. |
| Justin Kidston | Justin was born in Cherry Point, North Carolina in 1990. HIs family settled in Webb City, Missouri in 1998 and attended Webb City High School until graduating in 2008. Justin has always been interested in art and started drawing at a very young age. In 2019 he decided to approach oil painting which has been his primary medium ever since. Justin lives in Joplin, MO, with his wife, daughter, three dogs and cat. | |
| Daria Claiborne | Pottery has such warmth. Good pottery should make you want to touch it in order to feel that warmth. Most recently, I’ve started working more with the mishima process and underglazes which is a reflection on my interest in watercolors. | |
| April Davis-Brunner | April Davis calls Carthage, MO home. She is an award winning artist who takes great inspiration from nature. Her studio is surrounded by flowing water and trees. From there she paints the birds, butterflies, and bandit racoons that reside around her. April also expresses her love for nature through sculptures and one of a kind pieces of jewelry. | |
| Brent Skinner | Brent creates wheel thrown and slab-built pieces made of stoneware and porcelain | |
| Melody Knowles | Clay, Porcelain | Melody creates both sculptural and hand built porcelain pieces. |
| Ashley Brown | Stoneware, Porcelain | Ashely Brown Ceramics – wheel thrown and sculptural stoneware and porcelain |