14"x11", Digital Illustration -
Artist: Danielle Rueger-Miroweski
Inspired by: Annoying Pets by Mia from Holy Family Catholic School
Suggested Value: $250.00

"As much as we all love our pets, they can indeed be very annoying. The way Mia described her annoying pets very much reminded me of my own experience with my two fur babies: Emma (german shepherd husky mix) and Peekaboo (little black cat). It also reminded me of how interesting they make life and how much I love them"

Danielle is a Cleveland-based illustrator/designer who specializes in cute, fun, and colorful. When she's not working, she's out in nature, traveling somewhere new with her husband, or playing with her pets.

12" x 12" - Encaustic Wax - Framed (Grey)
Artist: Dawn Tekler
Inspired by: My Beautiful Tree by Kiera from Holy Family School
Suggested Value: $200.00

"I am currently exploring trees and nature in my personal work; so this poem was a natural fit."

Dawn Tekler earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Cleveland Institute of Art with a major in Photography and a minor in Video and Film History. You can visit her gallery at 78th Street Studios. Tekler is drawn to the idea of encasing the subject so it can be studied at a ta later date. This is a theme that is carried over from her voyeuristic approach to photography. Through the layering of wax, adding color and texture, Tekler aims to create an environment that allows the viewer to bring to it their own story and hopefully enjoyment of that journey. Also with anticipation invite the viewer back over and over again to find different elements not noticed in the original viewing.

9"x 12" - Mixed Media on Paper
Artist: Barbara Bachtell
Inspired by: Neptune the Seahorse by Colton from Holy Family Catholic School
Suggested Value: $400.00

"This poem has a great story full of vivid description, a loving family, a fiercely protective mother figure, and a happy resolution that appealed to me visually and morally. It also has some great rhymes. It inspired me to challenge myself with conveying multiple events within one work of art in a cohesive way."

Barbara Bachtell is a Cleveland Heights-based artist who grew up in Hudson, Ohio, Pittsburgh, PA, and Alburquerque, NM. She has a B.A. in Visual Art from Wesleyan University (CT) and a B.F.A. in Painting from Cleveland Institue of Art. She has incorporated both text elements and organic forms into her work for many years and is a published poet and writer as well as visual artist. Her drawing and small sculptures have been exhibited throughout Ohio and Wisconsin, at several locations.

17" x 11" - Photography - Framed (wood)
Artist - Jim Baron
Inspired by - My Beautiful Tree by Kiera from Holy Family Catholic School
Suggested Value: $85.00

"I felt the poem was well written and I also have a love of trees."

Jim Baron has spent over 30 years as a commercial photographer in Cleveland. He has photographed many of the people and places that make Northeast Ohio a great location to live in.

13" x 5.5" x 1" - Steel - Wall Hanging
Artist - Stephen Yusko
Inspired by - A Feis Day with Maeve by Maeve from Holy Family Catholic School
Suggested Value: $300.00

"Ruthie Coffey, my wife, is from Ireland, speaks Gaelic, writes poetry and was a very accomplished ballet dancer. It was a nice surprise to find a poem that shared so many of her interests. Incorporating characters from the ancient Irish alphabet called Ogham, my piece spells D-A-N-C-E. The letters in the Ogham alphabet are linked together by a solid line and are read from bottom-to-top."

Stephen Yusko's studio is located in Cleveland, OH, where he creates forged, machined and fabricated steel vessels, furniture and sculpture. Yusko has taught at several schools and universities, including Haystack School of Crafts (ME), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and SUNY Purchase, where he was a Windgate Artist-in-Residence; and served on the Board of Trustees for the Haystack School. He has exhibited his work widely including the Metal Museum (TN) and the Ruthin Craft Centre (Wales, UK) and has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards and a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship Award.