Featured Artist
About The Artists
Carrickter
I'm a wife and mother of a 5 year old and twin 1 year olds! I'm an art major at KCC planning to transfer to GSU to major in art with a focus on art history. My days consist of being home the majority of the day with my boys, painting, and doing school work! When I'm not doing that, I'm hard at work teaching art classes and working at various galleries. My go to medium is acrylic paint, but I've been experimenting with other mediums as well. I enjoy painting animals, landscapes, and the occasional abstract. My goal once I finish my degree is to either be an art teacher or a curator at a gallery.
Mandy Madrox nephilimnovels
Born and raised in Kankakee Illinois, I’m addicted to coffee, writing and love chocolate covered strawberries. I’m a big geek and enjoy playing video games when time allows.
I have always had a pretty active imagination and a fascination for all things horror, fantasy and science fiction. One of my favorite childhood memories was pretending to be asleep, so I could stay up late to watch horror movies on the tiny black n white tv in my bedroom. To this day, I look forward to the Halloween season for all the horror marathons on tv. I can’t get enough. Even the ‘cheesy’ old ones.
My first published work was “Curse of the Dark Heart”, a short horror story included in Bleed Black Volume 1, (January 2015) an anthology put together by Black Heart Comics to raise money for Juvenile Diabetes.
I love to write. I don’t want to write the next ‘big thing’ I just want to tell a good story. Aside from the Nephilim series, I have a few ideas within the science fiction genre I’m working on, another in the fantasy realm and a few just for laughs.
Greta Taylor stateline studio
Lifelong resident of Washington Township, a stable farming community, near Kentland, IN. Greta graduated from Ade Grade School and Brook High School, participating in all art related activities. She studied Commercial Art and Illustration at the American Academy in Chicago. Worked as Assistant Art Director for Prairie Farmer magazine prior to returning to Newton County, Indiana. Did free lance art work and photo coloring for local photographers for many years.
Greta continues to study painting with nationally recognized teachers. She teaches watercolor at the Brook Library, her Stateline Studio, at the ‘Art Center’ at the Northfield Mall, in Kankakee, IL. and at Indian Creek Resort in Florida.
Greta’s paintings have won numerous awards at local fairs, the Indiana State Fair and the Decorative Artists Convention in Ohio. She regularly exhibits at the Indian Creek Resort in Ft. Myers Beach, FL – Iroquois, Washington Twp. Library, Brook, IN. She also exhibits at the ‘Strawberry Festival’ and the ‘Art Stroll’ in Kankakee, IL. and Harvest Daze in Watseka, IL. Greta was featured in ‘Under Indiana Skies’ at Indiana University Northwest, Gallery for Contemporary Art in 2007, Gary IN.
She is a member of the Indiana Water Color Society, the Kankakee Art League, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the Society of Decorative Painters.
Dawn Wrobel
Dawn Wrobel has always been a craftsperson and artist, entering her first competition at the age of 12. Since 2005 when she made her first hand drum, she has been hooked on drums. Dawn is a drum maker, drummer and educator who has been facilitating drum circles for more than a decade. She is also certified in the Rhythms for Healing (tm) program. She has drummed with people from 5 to 95 and can help you find your own relaxing rhythm.
In addition to drums, Dawn creates other rawhide instruments and objects, works with leather to create a wide variety of jewelry and usable goods, and is learning the almost lost art of scrimshaw.