by Nickel Plate Arts | Oct 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Artist Profile
Have you ever been moved to create your own original artwork? Megan Hutchins was, and she’s clearly nailing it. “I began creating nail art in the fall of 2013, when I was pregnant with our fifth child. I had an empty wall in my living room and I wanted to create a...
by Nickel Plate Arts | Oct 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Artist Profile
Krista Darrow has skyrocketed in her budding art career. After her first charity exhibition in 2016 with Agape, she developed her art skills to warrant winning the Emerging Artist of the Year award at the 2019 Nickel Plate Arts Gala (pictured). Darrow, a Fishers...
by Nickel Plate Arts | Oct 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Artist Profile
Melissa Bruhn excitedly debuted her first solo exhibit at Nickel Plate Arts in January 2020. Bruhn showcased a two-part theme, “Polarity.” This theme firstly highlighted the literally “polar” creatures who may no longer be with us in a few years, as their polar...
by Nickel Plate Arts | Oct 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Artist Profile
Simona Buna has been an artist all her life. Harkening back to her childhood, she remembers her house as smelling of turpentine and oils and being filled with her mother’s and father’s canvases. One day when she was thirteen, she picked up a canvas herself and painted...
by Nickel Plate Arts | Oct 30, 2020 | Art & Culture, Artist Profile
Bobbi K Samples became an artist later in life, roughly 15 years ago. She took two lessons, and the rest was history! She ended up creating 85 paintings in her first year of painting. In Samples’ words, “I couldn’t stop — since then, my style has evolved with me. That...