Afewca

I transfer personal travel photos onto various substrates and add texture with oils

My art celebrates the movement and moments in travel. Appreciating life with open eyes and taking in the sameness and difference in the world changes the traveler. While traveling over 8 years as a volunteer around the world I took photos of everything. I now use those photos as either inspiration or transfers in my pieces. I love texture in art and try to implement either literally or with as a feeling in my work.

I’m from Southern California. I earned a BA & MA in Speech Communication with Minors in Literature, Women’s Studies, and Italian Medieval Studies from UTK.

Broadway Studios and Gallery 1127 N. Broadway Knoxville, TN 37917

Zuparoo

Soft sculpture toys, accessories, art

Fiber artist Cindy Bensey creates eco-friendly toys, accessories, and art using thrifted and repurposed sweaters, buttons and fabrics, as well as found branches and other bits of nature. From smiling stuffed kitties to felted wool cat pins, from ravens and owls perched on branches to catnip-filled kittens and more, every creation is handmade from her original design -- and designed to make people smile!