WInterfair A Success

Another Winterfair show has come and gone. This year the club seemed to attract a great amount of attention and interest from the patrons. Our club showed some of it's members best and delighted shoppers. Some members even did demonstrations of technique. Here we have a few shots of our booth. This was our third year taking part in this show. It is sponsored by the Ohio Designer Craftsman Guild and has been held at the Northern Kentucky Convention center in Covington Kentucky.

Here we have a view of the other side of the booth.

Tow of our members Ingrid Heithaus on the left and Liz Marten on the right demoing some techniques. Great fun was had by all.

Rivercity Doll Makers 2009 show continued

As promised here are more pictures of the annual show our club just put on. The above picture is a complete picture of the group of fabric challenge dolls. I will post individuals in the next post.

Here are the individual entries for the Viewers choice challenge. The one above belongs to Cody Goodin. This is his Yeti Goblin.

This entry is from Jenny Boggs.

Kathy Garnar created her entry from gourds.

This lovely doll was the entry of Elizabeth Marten.

Nita Keller created this fun little character piece.

Here is the entry by Robbie Porter whom you may recall won the fabric challenge this year.

This beauty was created by Stephen Rausch who is one of our new board members.

Finally here is a close up of the winning entry this year. Linda Berkemeier creates such lovely fairies and other fun characters.

Hope you enjoyed this look into what some of our members do. Until next time.

Welcome to our new home

Hello and welcome the new home of the Rivercity Doll Makers. We are a figurative arts group focusing on art dolls as our form of creative expression. There are a variety of mediums used by the members. Currently we have approximately 20 members. We are located in the Greater Cincinnati are of the United States.

Our hope is that this blog will serve as a way for our members to reach out to the art and doll making world to share and show what we do. First up is our annual show and sale that was held this weekend November 14th and 15th at Newport on the Levee located in Newport Kentucky USA. This show featured a variety of doll and figurative art from about half of our members. In addition to the members having booths there were two Viewers choice awards. The first one was the Fabric Challenge 2009 which included dolls made from a piece of fabric members received at the 2008 Christmas brunch. Robbi Porter pictured below won. She won a gift card from Plaza Artist Materials.

Here is Robbie holding her winning entry.

The second was for a viewers choice table where club members could enter a doll to be voted on by the public. This years winner is Linda Berkemeier. Congratulations Robbie and Linda.

Well, we hope you have enjoyed your first visit and we will post more pictures of the show soon.