Lucia Behmer is an artist creating one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces and objects.  She graduated from the University of Illinois with B.F.A. in Painting and continued on at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago towards an M.F.A.  She earned art teacher certification at National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois (now National Lewis University).  

 

She was raised in a family that embraced all the arts. Her father was an artist and educator.  He supplied her with materials and encouragement in her early years.  

Lucia has taught art to children age 4-14 in private schools in Chicago.  She enjoyed the years spent encouraging children in their art and introducing them to many processes. She has found that some things can only be known through the hands.  

 

Lucia has explored many materials and processes in her own art. After leaving a job as a designer, Lucia attended Jewelry and Metals classes at The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn Illinois.  She studied with internationally known jewelry artist Suzan Rezac.  Lucia learned the marriage of metals technique from Suzan.  It is probably her favorite technique and often incorporates it in her work. Lucia’s work in painting and assemblage has influenced her jewelry pieces. Her work has been included in group exhibitions, galleries, and publications.  

 

Mark Behmer is an artist and fisherman from Northeastern Michigan, specializing in original oil paintings of the outdoor sporting experience and wildlife art.

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Mark started drawing at a young age. He grew up in Detroit, MI and after graduating from high school in 1968 he enrolled in the commercial art program at Oakland Community College. After a semester of core design classes he became increasingly interested in painting, drawing and fine art classes he needed to take. He transferred to Northern Michigan University as a fine art major for a year, transferred again to the Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts (Now the College for Creative Studies, CCS) in Detroit.

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He has exhibited in  Mullaly’s 128 Studio & Gallery in Elk Rapids, MI, Art In The Loft Gallery 109 in Alpena, MI, Thunder Bay Arts Council Gallery in Alpena, MI, and the Ann Arbor Art Center in Ann Arbor, MI., and the Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs.

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He is currently represented by the Beartooth Gallery Fine Art in Red Lodge, Montana

He was Honorable Mention Award Winner in the 2009 and 2019 Juried Art Exhibition at the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan in Alpena, MI.

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In 2021 his painting “Flyfishing the Lewis River – Yellowstone” won Second Place at the Mountain View Americana Art Show in Easley, S.C. The juror was Seth Hopkins, the Director of the Booth Museum of Western Art located in Cartersville, GA.

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He was also exhibiting artist in the 26th and 27th Wildlife Arts Festivals.

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His work has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Michigan Trout Unlimited Magazine and Ruffed Grouse Society’s Covers Magazine.

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