Generator Artists

Caroline is a Reno Artist who currently has a studio at The Reno Generator, where she volunteers weekly in the textile lab and teaches classes on sewing, painting leather jewelry and more! Check out what Caroline has for sale at an upcoming Third Thursday event.

My creation of “The Tsagasun Baru” Silhouette Fine Art is unique, a new style and form of American Fine Art. The Paper is fragile simple material, and the Scissors are an aggressive tool. “The Tsagasun Baru” Silhouette Fine Art is three-dimensional, you could create phototype or conceptual Art. But you can create whatever you have great ideas for and create your unique world.

I am a functional artist, designer & welder. My design style is MODERN MOUNTAIN INDUSTRIAL and my preferred mediums are metal, leather, and wood. When possible I love to resource old metal or up-cycle materials rolling them into beautiful new pieces of furniture, lighting fixtures, railings, and more. I believe in the details and I live my life surrounded by inspiration and inspiring people.

I am a painter specializing in hand painted, large scale banners for sideshows, circus operations and independent sideshow performers. I've completed over 200 pieces, and my work is found around the US as well as Australia, France and England.

Drawing inspiration from the transformative power of decoupage, Jessica Meissner intricately pieces together magazine clippings to craft vivid portraits; each a mosaic of reshaped narratives and reimagined worlds. Her work reflects a profound narrative of transforming the mundane into the extraordinary, one intricately layered piece at a time.

Barry Crawford makes mechanically styled sculptures from steel and found objects. Barry has created sculptures such as Mechateuthis, RatchetFish, and RearingHorse.

Ruth Flagg was born and raised in the 89511 and got her BA in Film and Video from CCAC. She also maintains her esthetician license. At home her preferred medium is watercolor, but at the Generator she works on refining her fleece processing and yarn spinning as well as teaching classes on junk journaling and hosts the month Fiber Arts Community Gathering.Her upcoming classes include a yarn making intensive where you can go through each step of the yarn making journey, including making and using a drop spindle, creating art yarn, and even making yarn from recycled silk garments.

Sa Misiura is a Reno, NV-based artist, originally nomadic. Born in Toronto Canada, growing up in the Mojave desert, and coming to age at Cal Poly Humboldt State University, where she received a B.A. in Fine Arts. She remains a multimedia artist, with photography, design, painting, sculpture, and woodworking skills. Currently she has an artist residency at the Reno Generator with aspirations to become an alternative art teacher and mentor.

MonkeyCat's Green Walls are inspired by biophilic design, which seeks to connect individuals to nature by incorporating natural elements in architecture and design, creating a more inviting and calming environment. Exposure to greenery, sunlight, and nature-inspired shapes can reduce stress levels, improve cognitive ability, lower the risk for hypertension, and create a feeling of well-being. MonkeyCat Studio is passionately owned and operated by Liz Brown - a creative, dedicated, and meticulously organized girl boss whose background includes event planning, floral design, prop styling, visual displays, merchandising, and a degree in fine art.

Brenda Bush started painting in 2018 by taking a paint and sip class. After getting positive feedback she just kept painting. She lost track at 300 paintings a while ago. Inspiration has come from the clouds, mountains and trees of Reno, The Art Sherpa and all the great people she met while frequenting Pinot's Pallette before the pandemic shut it down. Her goal is to share creativity and encourage others to try something new. She started with acrylic paint and worked her way to watercolors. She discovered a love of Alcohol Ink and teaches how to use and make it at the Generator.

Amanda Palmer is a self-taught artist who works in traditional drawing and painting mediums such as pen and ink, colored pencil, acrylic, and watercolor. She is deeply interested in social messaging through her art, and how it can be used to leverage the power of communities toward grassroots activism. Her work concentrates on the intersection between the cultural, political, and spiritual concerns surrounding the natural world, in addition to exploring mythological and historical symbolism.

Ashley Rugge is an oil painter, songwriter, and writer based here at The Generator. Her art encompasses a broad spectrum of influences, mainly pulling from ancient Cave Art.Ashley learned to paint from her mother instead of following an academic art path. Learning in this way gave her a great deal of freedom to find her voice in tandem with learning the technical disciplines of fine art. She is an instinctual artist and often describes her process as hunting for the image within a taschist emotional landscape

A academic Social Scientist Bachelor (Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil based in Reno,Nevada.

My goal is to instigate on the viewer reflections about their own interpretation and cognitive symbols with non-figurative art. The viewer’s perspective and reflections are more important than the art representation displayed. My main motto is “what do you see?” My main themes of interest. are Abstract Art conceived with 3d Chromadepth and Pareidolia/apophenia.

The primary mediums are Acrylic, spray paint ,Graffiti supplies and oil Sticks. The styles include action painting, Surrealist Automatism, abstract expressionism, and cubism. My main goal with CHROMADEPTH is to offer something that I would say that get close to abstract stereograph art.

Hamish is a mixed media sculptor and carver working predominantly with natural and recycled materials. He has a broad range of styles ranging from abstract and conceptual pieces to his main passion for sculpting accurate scale models of native animals from his home country New Zealand.
All of his pieces are made by hand with no computers and little mechanical assistance, from the concept and design sketches through to the final production of the piece.
Many of Hamish’s sculptures are incorporated into stage designs for music festivals and other events - so often works closely with effects specialists to incorporate elements of lighting, projections, pyrotechnics and more into these designs.
Whether working with a team of people behind him or doing it solo, Hamish has an eye for detail and dedication to his art that is noticed within moments of experiencing his work.

Driftwood artist and sculptor, Ben Bewley has developed a unique style, self-describing his work as an “imaginative collaboration” with the natural world.

An avid explorer, Bewley spends much of his time in a meditative search foraging for his ‘treasure’ along our vast coastlines and creek beds. An instinctive vision and child-like inquisitiveness enables him to transform his meticulously selected driftwood pieces and beautifully weathered timbers into unique works of art.

I am a freehand painter and I work primarily from observation and imagination. Bordering an ‘a la prima technique, my paintings come from basic thumbnail sketches that give direction for content and composition. My passion for the artistic journey, coupled with my knowledge of patterns in nature, fractal properties, and color theory allows me space to find a painting directly on canvas.

I dissect my thought process from visual art while painting, instead focusing on auditory and musical arrangements. I understand the parallels of sound and color based on tonal frequency and this is my focus when finding a visual groove. Color palette, texture, line work, and other technical parts of the painting craft become scales, harmonies, pitches, and time signatures in my visual compositions. While finding my paintings, I want all visual elements to be in synch, and I always check myself based on the words of Stevie Wonder: “....just cause a record got a groove don’t make it in the groove...” I create bodies of work that are sums of parts. Each painting is a song to an album or a section of a symphony.

Every piece can stand alone like a riff or sound byte waiting to be sampled, and still maintain a singular significance as part of a larger composition. I choose to do this because I want painting to command an experience.