Tammi Ann Ross

A local glass blower, painter, potter and all around art enthusiast, sharing her vision, teaching classes and providing demonstrations for anyone that wants to see one.

She is the founder of Ross Haven Gallery Art, a local gallery combined with Soul Hammer to promote small artists in our area with the vision that someday that little store will have given an artist a place to move on from. As the founder and owner of Soul Hammer, an Artist Collective that provides a place for artists to realize their talent and thrive. She has come full circle in her vision of promoting young artists and helping them thrive.

"If we can just reach that one person who needed to break out of their shell, it will have all been worth it."

Justin Christopher Zander

Wisconsin based glassblower specializing in flame working, specifically functional glass artwork and biological sculpture. He is the founder of Enlightened Flameworks, which originated in Madison, WI and offers insight into the meditative adventure of lampworking. 

“My belief is that goodhearted artistic endeavors are a valid attempt to express the higher dimensions of emotion and reality. Through passion, one can accomplish inner peace and glass is an avenue to this destination of  metaphysical understanding. It sounds unrealistically deep, but emphasize having fun and enriching people’s lives. It’s a profound contagious joy to teach and make people smile.”

Jon Ahrens

Artist in residence blacksmith at Soul Hammer Artist Collective.

Jon studied welding and metal fabrication at Moraine Park Technical College and has enjoyed blacksmithing and metal crafts for many years. 

Through the art of blacksmithing, Jon finds both opportunity and challenge: opportunity to transform imagination into iron art, and challenge in doing so with fire, hammer, and anvil with thousand-year-old technique. 

"It is very easy to forget that life is simply a series of small moments. When we realize this, we also can choose to interact in these small moments with love in our hearts. Now life becomes full, we now have made space for all the wonderful things we once felt were missing."

Todd Schabel

Todd Schabel is a contemporary realist oil painter who grew up in Central Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Todd's training mainly consisted of the portrait, the figure, and still-lives, but due to his love of the outdoors and interest in travel, it wasn't long before he fell in love with the landscape, particularly plein air painting.

Todd has had the honor of receiving several plein air awards in the Midwest region and has been juried into several National and International exhibitions. His work is featured in our gallery space at Soul Hammer.

"There is joy in more places than we can imagine, and my hope is to encourage others to pause and see more of that beauty around us, but even more importantly, to nurture it."

Bohippianfinch

Amazing Bees Wax products from locally sourced ingredients. From candles to doggie foot balm. There is something for everyone. These products are thoughtfully packaged in recycled or reusable containers.

 

Art By Ava

Ava Vrechek is a local Princeton artist whose talents vary from glass-work to jewelry to candles to paintings. Her passion for art has been lifelong, but after joining Soul Hammer in 2022, she soon became Tammi's glassblowing apprentice and gained a whole new perspective on art. She also spends her days in Hunting Studio Glass, as a glassblowing assistant there as well. Her signature artworks always feature flower embellishments or bright colors.