Meet The Artists
Our artists have been selected for their art, professionalism, passion and because their self expression melds with our mission: Art is an experience and we offer a collection of art that creates happiness, introspection, human experience and opens the viewer to a world of mystery and exploration of their own life.
Michael Lancaster
Owner/ Founder of Calliope.
Born in Sarasota, FL Michael grew up in an arts family, the son of portrait painter Betty Warren, and actor Stuart Lancaster, Michael is the great-grandson of Circus magnate Charles Ringling. He apprenticed in pottery at Red Rock Pottery. “I am inspired by machines, relics, patina and color.”
Barbara Harnack
Owner/ founder of Calliope
Her art is raw, real, expressive of the human and surreal condition of life. “For a lifetime I have been a ceramic sculptor, which meant I was painting (or glazing) on my ceramics. I have transferred this painting onto panels. This process of carving and drawing on panels has forced me into a physical engagement of expression.”
Mitch Berg
One-of-a-kind - New Mexico mixed media, found object assemblage, glass artist and creator of experiential art.
He is a self-taught artist based in Albuquerque, NM. With a degree in journalism (University Wyoming, 1986) and a background in radio, and tribal textiles, storytelling is a central component to his mixed media sculpture.
John Stephens
My work comes from my subconscious, a web of encased memories, dreams, and emotions, some stemming from early childhood. Everything within seems to be connected in an associative, color-coded pattern. When I’m ready to work, I try to access that place in order to begin. Nothing else matters, just the composition of color, texture, shape, and emotion.
Bonnie Teitelbaum
I paint original works using acrylic paints. There are many layers in my paintings
starting off with a strong under painting. I then sandwich layers of paint between pours of clear gel. This provides a clear barrier for light to travel through the different layers giving a sense of depth, like looking into a tidal pool. More layers applied becomes lighter and more transparent.
Jennifer Lamprey
I love it when jewelry surprises me and invites me to look deeper. When I see a piece and think, “wow, that is so unique, whimsical, funky, unusual”, “I’ve never seen anything quite like that before”. These are the pieces I delight in discovering and the pieces I am called from within to create.
Richie Mole
I have always done art to feel in the present. To have a bookmark for a period of time in my life. Challenges met through different studies. And of course the pleasing reward of others admirations. Hopefully I will have a legacy, when I’m gone in my art and craft works that have survived through the test of time time.
Luisa Baldinger
A maker of containers all of my life in clay, I am intrigued by volume, negative/positive space, and complex surface, and work to have these elements orchestrate into a satisfying three-dimensional “vessel” idea. At this point, my vessels are simply sculptural forms, vehicles for the exploration of color, surface, movement in three directions. Inspiration comes from rocks found in the back arroyos, fragments of coral on a beach, plant parts, and geological elements.
