The Gallery of Marquette features artists local to the Marquette, Michigan area
Ellen Bett-Witt
Ellen is a nature and travel photographer inspired by discovery, and the cultures and scenery she encounters. ellen tries to accurately capture the world around her with minimal digital processing.
Ellen grew up in Farmington Hills, MI. She moved to Marquette nearly forty years ago, and has been in love ever since!
Joy Bender-Hadley
Joy is a multi-disciplinary artist who is always pushing herself through various mediums. She sees herself as a painter who will also choose to use clay, recycled materials, collage, and printmaking as a tool to convey her imagery. Joy’s process is all about exploration. While challenging herself with various mediums, she works to unite color with nature, whimsical stories, and creative meditation.
Jenny Frein Hamel
Jenny is primarily a ceramics artist, but she works with fiber and some other mediums as well. She finds inspiration for her work while spending time in nature.
Jenny’s pottery is functional and meant to be used as part of our daily rituals, like making a cup of coffee. Her unique handmade pieces bring joy to the everyday.
K Harris Pfaffle
Kristianna is a multi-media artist whose work focuses on fine details of line-work, whether those lines are created with henna, ink, paint, by pyrography, or via Dremel bit. It’s not unusual to find her lost in a project on fabric, paper, canvas, leather, bone, wood, or stone surfaces until she feels ready to step back and let the piece speak for itself. Inspiration is derived from traditional mehndi art styles blended with nature motifs and a lifelong love of symbolism.
Sarah Kathryn Hinch
Sarah Hinch is a ceramics and fiber artist whose work embraces organic, simple and classic forms. She seeks for her work to be subtle and fit comfortably in your everyday life. Through her creative process, she navigates emotions and experiences and thus her artwork reflects back a current state of being. Her artwork is an expression of her inner world, in ways that language and body cannot reach.
Matt Johnson
Matt is a landscape painter who is constantly inspired by the Great Lakes. He likes to paint both
traditional and sometimes abstract vistas with an invitational use of color and playful
brushstrokes. His work breathes unity and movement between the sky, sea, and terrain while
emulating aspects of both impressionism and realism. Traveling, hiking, and exploring are some
of his many hobbies. Matt graduated from NMU in 2018 with a BFA and has returned to earn a
certificate in education.
Virginia Killough
Ginnie Killough, spinner and handweaver A lifelong fiber enthusiast, Ginnie loves exploring traditional weave structures and designing original weaving plans which incorporate vivid color and handspun yarns as much as possible. She enjoys making functional items which bring art and craft into our daily lives.
Colleen Maki
Colleen is a nature photographer and painter who’s love for the outdoors shines through all of her work. Colleen’s connection with the environment of the Upper Peninsula shows through her artwork as she photographs the intricate details of nature and the astonishing macro beauty of Lake Superior. Colleen can also be found walking up and down the beaches in search of the perfect rock in which she paints recreations of famous works and of course, nature scenes.
Solar Moonwave
Solar’s work is diverse in mediums and content; varying from ceramic jewelry, sculptures, drawings, paintings and mixed media works. She is deeply inspired by the divine feminine and nature, allowing these energies to guide her creative practice. Her intention is to spread love and to help empower others to express themselves authentically through her unique creations.
David Payant
“Let the chips fall where they may.”
David Payant is a wood turner from Marquette.
“I have been turning for 10 years and I love wood. All of my work is in local woods. Each piece of wood is unique and when you “open” it up amazing beauty is revealed.
Christine Saari
Multi Media
Christine is a multidisciplinary artist who expresses her angle on life through mixed media, photography and written word. Christine is known for her cigar box shrines, insightful photography, and heart touching poetry.
Sarah Sobczak
Sarah joined The Gallery in May 2023. She works in macrame and wire wrapping. Many of her materials are sourced locally. Sarah’s love of macrame started as a child with friendship bracelets. Macrame knots taught her much about jewelry making! Sarah loves living in Marquette for it’s support of the arts and the beautiful nature. She is raising a teen and has THREE Australian Shepherds!
See Sarah’s work at: www.daystarcreations.com facebook & Instagram @daystarcreations906
Don Wilson
Don creates jewelry using local materials. His unique designs often include copper, agates, Petosky stones, and local woods. Don taught Art, Woodworking and Jewelry Design at a high school near Seattle for many years. He now uses those skills to design his own line of jewelry. His collections reflect the wide range of influences on his life.
Special, non-member artists include John French, Kate Wolfe, Taylor Johnson, and Kendra Nelson