A Creative Excuse

Diego Mier y Terán

Diego is the Graphic Designer and co-founder and Director of Innovando la Tradición and has been interested in the social and ethical dimension of design and its power as an agent of change. Diego holds a Master in Type Design from one of the best schools in world for Typography, The Konickleink Academy of Art The Hague in The Netherlands. In addition, Diego holds a Postgraduate in photography by the School of Active Photography in Mexico, a Fine Arts Postgraduate Diplomaet by Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden and a Diplomaet in Narrative Techniques by Colectivo Practicas Narrativas in Mexico City. Diego also teaches across many universities in Mexico and previously ran the Workshop of Utopias at the Universidad Iberoamericana which prepared students to challenge the conventions of contemporary society and design practice.

Bianka Groves

Bianka Groves is a potter in Santa Fe & her work is represented all across the United States. She is a graduate of George Washington University’s Corcoran College of Art & Design in DC. Bianka has studied all over the country & taught ceramics at Baltimore Clayworks, Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, & Santa Fe Clay. Her pottery is thoughtfully functional and has the ability to complete the elegance of any interior space. The polished composition of her porcelain surfaces are an ode to the simplistic repetition and studies of simple design, architecture, and landscapes. When she’s not making pots out of her home studio in Santa Fe, you can find her teaching ceramic classes or out hiking in the desert with her dogs.

Kara Duval

Kara is a lover of artistic expression. She believes in the power of a well-crafted story, especially the stories that lifts up the spirit and makes us want to be truthful, heroic, humble, more humane. While Kara has wandered into and wondered about many other creative mediums, performance has been a life long companion and teacher.  She has performed on stages, in galleries, in coffeehouses, and on street corners.  Many of these performances have been scripted, but more have not. The unscripted, live wire ones is where the sublime is found for her - following the constant shifting fluid state of being. Along with being a performance artist and holding a BFA in Photography and Digital Media, Kara has been a practicing massage therapist for over a decade.

Lindsay Locatelli

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lindsay Locatelli grew up in a family of artists who ranged from a clothing designer, musician, painter, illustrator, potter and furniture maker. Lindsay is interested in engaging her audience through adorning the body and the tactile experiences of wearing art jewelry. Her pieces are created solely by hand by using a wide variety of materials and techniques with polymer clay being the primary medium.

Andrea Hanley

Andrea is dedicated to the work of contemporary Native American artists and the Native American fine art field. She has over thirty years of experience in the field including National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., as both special assistant to the director and exhibition developer/project manager, the fine arts coordinator/curator for the city of Tempe, executive director of ATLATL, Inc., a national service organization for Native American arts, the founding manager of the Berlin Gallery at the Heard Museum, and the membership and program manager for the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. More recently she was the Chief Curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. She serves on the board of directors for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Santa Fe Indian Market and Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA). She is on the Native American advisory board for Nest.

Kat Kinnick

Illustrating wildlife and wilderness of the high desert of New Mexico, Kat Kinnick works to inspire a culture of fondness & connectedness to nature. She’s inspired by the magic & inexplicable qualities of childhood and is drawn towards expressing playfulness and curiosity with a folk art aesthetic. Her work is a celebration of the unique ecology in New Mexico, and it’s abundant diversity. Kat mostly works as a painter/illustrator, printmaker and ceramicist. Born in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico, her parents, both having backgrounds in craft & design, ran their own business restoring and appraising Navajo rugs. She received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in Sustainability & Social Practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives near Lone Butte & the Cerrillos Mountains, south of Santa Fe.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/kat-kinnick

Heather Bradley

I’ve been working in clay for 24 years, and all this time, wheel throwing has been my obsession. I delight in making a series of pots which feel related like family, and I vacillate between black and white work and exploring color. I have a background in painting, and I have always been an athlete, both inform my ceramic work. More recently I have been exploring functional vases and bowls, but function has never been my main interest. I see the clay as a primal source material in which I can express whatever I desire, and creating functional pots isn’t always my intent. Creating ceramic objects that hold mystery, individuality, and a sense of the sacred is my goal.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/heather-bradley

Sydney Cooper

Sydney Cooper was born in the 60's in Los Angeles, California - the child of a Japanese and Jewish family. In one neighborhood she lived in as a teen there were families newly arrived from Vietnam, Marines from a nearby military base, long time Mexican Californians, newly arrived Mexican and central American immigrants, Low-riders, Surfers, Military families of Vietnam veterans, Bike gang members, Mormons, Samoans, and that was just on one street!
This lineage and the question of how cultures, time and place intersect has influenced her longtime interest in ideas of the hybrid, cross-disciplinary practices, and the way our cultural and historical origins create distinctive ways of being. Sydney studied on the east coast further broadening her influences and received a degree in liberal arts at Bennington College in Vermont. Since then Sydney has lived in San Francisco, Paris, New York, Woodstock, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Chimayo and Santa Fe New Mexico.
www.sydneycooper.com

Daniel McCoy

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and surrounded with the arts from an early age, Daniel McCoy (Muscogee Creek/Potawatomi) was welcomed into a household of Artisans, Farmers, Music and Subculture. McCoy began entering Native Art Competitions at age fifteen under the direction of Cherokee Artist, Mary Adair while attending boarding school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He received his formal Art Training at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At the Institute, Daniel McCoy jr. was able to study and work with some of the best Native Artists in the field.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/daniel-mccoy

Leia Zumbro

Leia Zumbro is a jewelry artist living in St. Louis, MO. In addition to showing at Hecho a Mano, her handcrafted jewelry is available widely across the US.
https://leiazumbro.com/