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Meet Our Community of Artists

Our guild is home to a diverse group of artists, each bringing their unique perspective and skills to the collective.

Sherry Adkins

Sherry Adkins

sherryadkinsart.com Sherry had a love for creating at a young age.  She started her art journey as a pencil artist.  She studied Physical Therapy Assisting at Ivy Tech out of high school and had a career in this field for 10 years before ending that journey and...

Vernon Bedel

Vernon Bedel

As a young child, I watched my dad make landscape paintings. I have had my hand in some art process ever since. When I retired as a high school art teacher, I started making pottery. My work is split between mugs, bowls, etc. and larger sculptural forms. Most of my...

Terri Best

Terri Best

Crafting and creating have always kept Terri busy doing something. Recently, Terri decided to attempt acrylic paints and has since painted over forty paintings including angels, barns, dogs, buildings, and waterfalls.  She likes to paint something new to see if she...

Diane Burrell

Diane Burrell

Diane is a 1988 graduate from Ball State University with a degree in Art Education.  Her specialty areas are painting and metal design with a focus on enameling. Her mentors are Patricia Nelson, the late Nina Marshall, and William Helwig. Diane has taught at Daleville...

Carla Corbin

Carla Corbin

Carla has been drawing and making things since childhood. She retired recently from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Ball State after teaching drawing, graphics and design, and history and methods. ​Her initial focus as an undergraduate was Fine Arts, but...

Georjean Cory

Georjean Cory

Forty+ years ago, she took her first art lesson when she was pregnant with her first daughter. Then, Georjean went back into teaching students with Special Needs. She taught Special Education, Physical Education, coached, and refereed many sports in her 28 years of...

Chic Elbert-Velazco

Chic Elbert-Velazco

Chicqiela (Chic) Elbert-Velazco is a retired teacher who taught art at Anderson Community School Corporation from 1976 to 2006. She also worked as a substitute art teacher for 10 years and two years as an adjunct art professor at Anderson University. She continues to...

Karen Evans

Karen Evans

I have always loved creating. As a child, while on vacation with my parents, I would sit in the cabin and draw as my father and brother fished all day. My small high school didn’t offer art as a subject and being unable to attend college, I immediately began working...

Karen Fisher

Karen Fisher

Karen Fisher moved to Muncie in 1972 as a Ball State freshman majoring in art education.  Just as her graduation goal came into sight, and her plan to exit Muncie was forming, she met Paul Fisher, a native of Muncie; the rest (as they say) is history. Paul and Karen...

Bree Giles

Bree Giles

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Sue Gordy

Sue Gordy

Sue studied architecture for a year, then graduated from Ball State University's business college and later was employed by Ball Corporation and Boyce Design Center, where she worked with artists David Dale and Brian Gordy. ​After a career in sales and marketing, she...

Alison Beam-Hindman

Alison Beam-Hindman

Alison gained an appreciation for nature on the farm where she grew up in Northwest Indiana and from her father who sparked her early interest in the science of astronomy by pointing out stars by name in the clear, night skies. Beam-Hindman holds a Bachelor of Science...

Deborah Brown

Deborah Brown

Artist WebsiteDeborah is a Muncie native. She completed her graduate and MA degrees at Ball State University, as well as a certification in Gifted Education. Before retiring, she taught school in southern Indiana, Georgia, Florida, then once again in Indiana. After...

Joanne Gossett

Joanne Gossett

Joanne has been a member of the Muncie Artist Guild off and on since the 1980s. She has won several awards at local shows in the surrounding counties over the years and she has sold several of her paintings. Two of her paintings were purchased by The Minnetrista...

De Hale

De Hale

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Find Your Creative Circle

Connect with fellow artists at our monthly meeting, held on the first Wednesday of each month at Minnetrista Museum and Gardens. It is a relaxed and welcoming space to share your work, exchange ideas, gain feedback, and build meaningful relationships with others who are passionate about creativity. Whether you are looking for inspiration, collaboration, or simply community, you will find it here.