About Tim & Nancy Startup
We are collaborative artists, husband and wife, and friends.
Our inspiration for the pieces we make can come from an experience, travels, stories, or legends, but is always influenced by the wood we buy and collect.
We are fierce advocates of ideas, lovers of nature, art, music, architecture, color, diners, drive-ins and dives, logical conversation, and humor.
Drawing out the beauty, character, maybe even the purpose of the wood we work with, is foremost. Rough unworked wood joined with fluid ideas and fine craftsmanship is our starting point.
Along the way corrections, rethinking, and advocating all occur as together we shape and build a piece.
Awards
2021 Sioux City Art Festival, Sioux City, Iowa, Award of Excellence
2017 WAAC Art Fair off the Square, 1st Place Wood, Madison, WI
2017 Madison Art Guild Salon Show, Mixed Media Second Place
2017 Artwalk Stoughton, Stoughton, WI, Judges Award
2016 WAAC Art Fair off the Square, 1st Place Wood, Madison, WI
2016 Madison Art Guild Salon Show, Carol Burns Memorial Award, Hunger Moon
2015 Agora Art Fair, Award of Excellence, Fitchburg, WI
2015 Spring Green Art Fair, Second Place Award: Wood Class, Spring Green, WI
2015 Madison Art Guild Salon Show, Judges Award, Big Sur, Madison, WI
2014 Madison Art Guild Salon Show, Studio Art First Place Award, Strata, Madison, WI
2014 Wisconsin Regional Artist State Award, Inferno, Oconomowoc, WI
2014 Spring Green Art Show, Second Place Award: Wood Class, Spring Green, WI
2014 Sturgeon Bay Art Show, Best of Show, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2014 Wisconsin Regional Artist State Award, Cliffside, Sauk City, WI
2013 WRAP State Show, John Barton Award, Fissure, Madison, WI
2013 Wisconsin Regional Artist State Award (August), Fissure, Oconomowoc, WI
2013 Lake Mills Art Festival, Best of Show, Lake Mills, WI
2013 Wisconsin Regional Artist State Award (April), River Cut, Madison, WI
Juried Exhibitions
2014 Craft Forms 2014, Selected Exhibitor, Satine Stack, Wayne, PA
2021 Tennessee State Museum best of Tennessee Craft 2021, Hunger Moon, Nashville, TN
2023 Custom House Museum, Clarksville, Tennessee, Best of Tennessee Craft 2023, Raptor Moon