Meet the Artists

Nancy Kuhel is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Clintonville, Columbus, Ohio. She has made  contributions to public art and community-centered creative projects. 

Nancy's indoor artwork has been documented as part of the Columbus Makes Art public art program, where her piece Day 100 has been cataloged in the Columbus Metropolitan Library collection.

"I have been engaged with both artistic creation and community arts advocacy, which underscores my belief in the power of art to connect people and shape public spaces.  A Clintonville Resident for 36 years, I am very excited to be a part of the development of the “Clintonville Arts District.”

Nancy creates with acrylic,  watercolor, photography, alcohol ink, and mixed media. 

Elaine Li is an artist and cake designer whose work bridges the worlds of glass and edible art.

 She earned her BFA in Glass from The Ohio State University before moving to Brooklyn, where she taught and worked at UrbanGlass, a leading center for contemporary glass art. As her family grew, Elaine returned to Columbus and shifted her creative practice toward cake design, allowing her to balance motherhood with making. 

Through her wedding cake studio, Sweet & Shiny, she transforms her background in glass—its attention to form, light, and surface—into edible works of art. 

Today, her thriving cake business is also creating space for her to reconnect with and explore her glass practice once again. 

sweetandshiny.com

Joy Holderbaum is a native Clintonville artist who explores color, texture, and emotion through intuitive, layered work.

 Inspired by her love of flowers and inner landscapes, her paintings are meant to be felt as much as seen.

Joy has done artistic design of commercial spaces and has additional showings of her work coming up around Columbus.

www.thejoyfulpainter.net 

Dave Ungar can’t seem to stay inside boundaries very well.  Boundaries are helpful, but he generally uses large gestures – and sometimes those lines are in the wrong place.

Everything is a little sloppy, a little jagged …  The medium isn't the point. Methods tend to be burning, bending, tearing, dropping.  Those results reflect the ideas he's trying to convey; Not necessarily unrefined or gritty, but broadly forged, framed and shaped looks at oneself.  More like looking at the shadow you cast than your reflection in the mirror.

Dave's art sets out to remind you that life is great or that life is terrible, whichever you choose to believe.

daveungar.com