Discover the Art-a-Whirl participants

Kimerly Miller

Kimerly Miller, retired now from her career as a language educator, developed an interest in photography soon after graduation from Macalester College with a B.A. in French. Starting with a film camera that she purchased for a trip to France in 1978 she focuses on architecture, wildlife, landscape, and abstract photography.

For Art-A-Whirl, Kimerly will exhibit the photographs she took during a two-month stay in Brittany.

You can find her photographs on her Instagram @kimerly50

ÉTOILE DE COTON

Zulma, from her artist's name Étoile de coton, is a mixed media and comic artist.

For Art-A-Whirl, she will have original paintings, prints and cards, and little extra goodies too (like buttons & ephemera). She loves stories and has been drawing, painting, sewing, creating for most of her life. Her goal is to go beyond aestheticism and to use her art to share stories.

You can find her creations on her Instagram @etoilecoton.

Gregg Rutter

Gregg Rutter has been interested in photography his whole life. In high school he had a goal of photographing all of Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings in Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a BA degree in Architecture, he traveled to France and Italy with his 35mm Canon camera in hand to photograph the architecture and street scenes of Paris, Florence, Siena, and Rome. 

For Art-A-Whirl, Gregg will be displaying framed photographs on easels.

You can find his photographs on his Instagram @GreggRutter

Melissa Sisk

Born in Germany and raised around the United States, Melissa Sisk developed a unique perspective that profoundly influenced her independence and journey into the world of art. Melissa is an illustrator and printmaker. She’s also a medical and scientific visual artist! Her future projects at Highpoint Center for Printmaking will include merging art-and-science as a theme and medium.

For Art-A-Whirl, Melissa will have a collection of screen prints that she has both illustrated and printed.

You can find her creations on her Instagram @sisk_meli

Po Cushman

Po Cushman is a painter, a musician, a dancer, and a storyteller. His artworks are inspired by the woods.

For Art-A-Whirl, Po will have original watercolor paintings and original pen and ink drawings.

You can find their creations on their Instagram @Poliewog

ANNA ORBOVICH

Anna Orbovich is an artist who recently relocated back to the Twin Cities and is excited to reconnect with the art community there. She loves being outside whether hiking, backpacking or paddling. In her art practice, much of her current work is now made on location outdoors in the early stages of her process, and is inspired directly by the landscape she finds herself in.

For Art-A-Whirl, she will be showcasing some new etchings based on blind contour drawings of wildness alongside some screen prints and cyanotypes.

You can find her creations on her Instagram @aeorbovich

MATHIS JE

Mathis JE is a clay artist.

For Art-A-Whirl, he will be sharing his new pottery collection which features fossils and cave paintings that he replicates by hand.

You can find his creations on his Instagram @mjeclay

Jennifer Scheffler-Johnson

Jennifer Scheffler-Johnson loves making art and helping people discover their artistic side too! Art as fashion is her favorite thing.

For Art-A-Whirl, she will be sharing some new skull art and her spring/summer line!

You can find her creations on her Instagram @realiabyjen