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a collection of independent web sites for makers
make v. to bring into being; build; form; shape; to produce or create;
to form by shaping or putting parts or ingredients together, physically or mentally...

Makers Gallery currently hosts the following:
some have their own domain names

Rex Lingwood REX LINGWOOD is a Canadian sculptor working in a variety of media who has achieved an international reputation for his innovative use of leather. His work in leather explores a variety of heat hardening methods which take medieval cuir bouilli as their point of departure. Friedlander BRAHM FRIEDLANDER, woodturner and cabinet maker, makes sculptural as well as functional wood objects. He manipulates the surfaces of the turnings by carving, leafing, burning, sand blasting and painting.
Rosalind Goss ROSALIND GOSS is a Toronto visual artist. This web site shows a wide selection of her drawings and paintings, resumé, and contact information.
http://www.rosalindgoss.com
Bradford KARLEEN BRADFORD is a writer of children's and young adult literature, fiction and non-fiction. This site describes her 19 published works.
http://www.karleenbradford.com
ART TOWN: this Owen Sound collective of artists and craftspeople presents an annual studio tour in the summer. Check out their other events such as exhibitions and Christmas sales. barb macleod BAAS STUDIO is run by Canadian artist Barb MacLeod who has worked in 2 and 3 dimensional fibre art for 25 years. Often functional as well as artistic, Barb has done scores of commissions for corporate and residential clients.
Hawksbridge JOAN HAWKSBRIDGE is a Canadian artist from Owen Sound, Ontario. Her semi-abstract works based on ideas drawn from landscape and nature are shown in a selected portfolio of drawings, paintings and sculpture.
Irvine Children call JOAN IRVINE the pop-up lady, because she has written several best-selling books about how to make paper pop-ups. Her web site tells you how to do it, shows you her books and invites you to enter her contest.
woodsight.net WOODSIGHT: This site started with an exhibition at the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery but now includes documentation and a timeline of wood in Ontario along with a Canadian bibliography.
http://www.woodsight.net
S.M. GIBSON has published online: themed photographs: Found Signs, Safe Trees, Harbour - Great Lake, Seems Solid, Little Deaths and Free as well as "Why Women..." poems and "The Loss Project".
Hogbin STEPHEN HOGBIN is a Canadian artist working primarily in the medium of wood, on commissions, individual pieces and installations in wood, bronze and stone. Recent and future projects. concrete ART CONCRET is a large site explaining techniques and materials for concrete used in art, a gallery of concrete artists, and images of Andrew Goss' concrete sculpture and jewelry.
Goss Design GOSS DESIGN STUDIO, where you can explore jewellery and metalwork made by Canadian jewellers Andrew Goss and Sandra Noble Goss of Owen Sound, Ontario. Schedule of events, gallery of work.
pat goss PATRICIA GOSS carves marble, limestone and alabaster into sculptures in her Toronto studio. The site shows a selection of her art. Smutylo ALLEN SMUTYLO, painter and printmaker, shows his artwork based on extensive travels over 25 years in the far north, Antarctica, Patagonia and the Himalayas. Updated with new images every year.
http://www.allensmutylo.com

781 Second Avenue West, Owen Sound, Ont., N4K 4M2 Canada Tel: (519)371-1857
Email contact, please reformat:
gossdes "at" bmts.com

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Last update: January 2, 2007         Visitor 196755