Opening Reception on Saturday, November 14, 3-6 p.m.
Holiday Reception on Saturday, December 5, 1-4 p.m.
BG Projects, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is pleased to present misc.: a small works show, on view from November 7 - December 19, 2026. This exhibit features a miscellany of affordable works created by artists who live and work in Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois. Discover something special in this lively exhibit featuring a variety of pieces, ranging from intricate weavings and fascinating jewelry to imaginative works in clay and more. Many of the artists in this exhibition share a special connection to the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: some have exhibited with us in past exhibitions, while others have contributed to the gallery by holding artist demonstrations here or working as gallery staff or volunteers. Coleman Stevenson, whose exhibition, Inhabited, is currently on view in the gallery’s main space, curated this exhibition along with the gallery’s leadership. misc.: a small works show brings together a talented group of artists with roots along the Wabash River, making this an exhibition celebrating local creativity and community.
Join us for either the opening reception or holiday reception to meet the local artists in person and to show your support for their work while sourcing something meaningful that’s been made with artistic acumen and care. With a wide range of artwork to explore, there is something special to take home as a gift for any art appreciator, and any artwork purchased on or before the December 5th holiday reception can be taken home directly from the gallery. BG Projects, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is open from Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
ARTIST BIOS
Clay Brigham is a ceramicist currently residing in Grayville, IL. A student of the University of Southern Indiana undergraduate ceramics program, Brigham has also worked as the Ceramics Technician for the New Harmony Clay Project since 2025. In addition to ceramics, he enjoys serving the New Harmony community as a barista at Black Lodge Coffee Roasters. For more on his ceramic artwork, check out his Instagram @clay.makes.clay.
Ravyn Drone is an multidisciplinary artist and educator from Mount Carmel, Illinois. She studied Art education at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and has taught high school art, most recently at Mount Carmel High School. Her current project, Valley Bird Makes and Creates, focuses on crafting art activities for children and handmade items.
Chris Horton is a woodworker from Mount Carmel, Illinois.
Luna Hottel is a New Harmony-based artist who works with beaded jewelry, traditional and contemporary drawing materials, and digital photography. The work she has created since graduating from USI in 2024 (and PSAD in 2022) has focused on themes of mental and spiritual conflict and self-actualization.
Victoria Kramer of Spirit Forces Pottery is an artist from Southwestern Indiana who specializes in alternative fired vessels. She regularly shows her award-winning work at the Northwest Territory Art Guild in Vincennes and at art fairs in the region.
Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), and several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online. Originally from Birmingham, AL, she now lives in a small town in the Midwest. www.colemanstevenson.com
Peggy Taylor is a fiber artist living and working in Posey County, IN who creates handwoven textiles inspired by those of the 18th century using wool, linen and cotton and historic weaving drafts. She researches historic textiles and weaves on looms similar to those used 200 years ago in the United States. She is a descendant of 16th century weavers from England, and her business name, “Loom Hall” derives from her family’s English ancestral home. She lives with her husband on the family farm in Indiana with their Shetland sheep and she has for many years been honored to be selected from the Early American Life magazine’s Directory of American Craftsmen.
Laurel Thomas is an artist from Mt. Carmel, IL. She studied Art Education at the University of Southern Indiana and now teaches Art in her hometown at Mount Carmel High School. Her subjects include Art Foundations, Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, and Sculpture, but her own specialties and favorite mediums are colored pencil and acrylic painting. She also creates greeting cards for local businesses and an assortment of gaming cards for her local game shop. In addition, she enjoys volunteering alongside her students with a local arts non-profit, spreading art throughout her school and community.
Muralist Robert Treece was born in Olney, Illinois, in 1975. A US Navy veteran and graduate of the Art Institute Chicago, he has had paintings, murals, and installations in the Field Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Alabama Department of Archives, the St. Louis Science Center, and the Smithsonian, and has had gallery representation in St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. He has completed dozens of murals in small towns throughout southern Illinois. He currently lives in Richland County. www.roberttreece.com
Sarah Vaughn is an artist and maker residing in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Vaughn grew up in Southeastern Illinois, discovering glass in 2004 while pursuing a BFA at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Vaughn went on to receive her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2014. She has spent more than twenty years exploring the material. In 2020, she launched Stacking Stones Studio as a space for her craft-based practice. You can find Vaughn's creations in boutique shops and galleries including Penland Gallery and Visitor’s Center, North Carolina Glass Center, the Arrowmont Supply Store, and Pittsburgh Glass Center Gallery.
Kimberly Williams is a painter and ceramic artist living in southern Illinois. Her work is rooted in close observation of the natural world and an appreciation for the quiet beauty of ordinary things. Her functional pottery brings the textures and forms of handmade work into everyday life.
A native of southwestern Indiana, Sarah Wolfe has lived and studied in Savannah, GA (Savannah College of Art and Design), Bellingham, Washington, and Bloomington, Indiana. A former restaurant owner (Farmer's Daughter Bakery and Cafe in Princeton, In), she has also taught private art and cooking classes. She has exhibited her artwork in Washington, California, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. She is a member of the 2021 On-Ramp Art Cohort of the Arts Council of Indiana. She is a contributing writer to the local magazine, Life On the Wabash. When she's not covered in paint, dirt or bread dough, she is tending to her family, dogs and garden. She serves on her local Historic Review Board and advises the First City Public Sculpture Committee. She volunteers with the Wabash Valley Progressives, local event planners and other social organizations.
Julia Wright lives and works on a farm near Freedom, Indiana, with her husband and daughter. She graduated from Vincennes University in 2006 with an Associates Degree in Agribusiness, followed by an Associates in Fine Arts, Studio Concentration, in 2008. Her father once joked that she’d either have smelly art or a pretty barn with that education combination. However, she does use both of those degrees daily as she balances homesteading endeavors and making art. From her studio she can see her barn, and she couldn’t imagine life any other way. Some of her favorite interests are enmeshed in collecting and reading vintage paper media, especially old agriculture publications. She takes inspiration from those vintage books and magazines and creates narrative pieces that allow the viewer to build their own story. She primarily works in two-dimensional mediums, but has a strong desire to try dabbling in three-dimensional works in the near future.
Christina Zimmer Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist from Evansville, IN. Her work is held in the permanent collection of The Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science. Robinson draws from personal experience alongside her academic background in sociology and psychology at Indiana University Bloomington, as she explores how our formative environments shape our perceptions of our internal and external worlds. Robinson hopes to illuminate the creative process of lived experience, challenging narratives created by social constructs, or simulated societal interpretations. She enjoys the tactile, problem-solving nature of sculpting as it relates to the continual process of collecting, developing, and editing ideas in an ever-changing world.
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