Best in Art v5.23
BEST IN ART v5.23
Meet Tina Schlumpberger—our Best in Art v5.23 Grant Recipient
Tina Schlumpberger - $1,000 Grant
Tina is the owner and artistic talent behind Sugar Belly Desserts in North Mankato. She has a vast culinary background spanning over twenty-five years. Tina recently completed sugar art schooling at Wilton in Chicago and is eager to expand her illusionistic dessert ideas to the area. Sugar Belly is a home-based Cottage Food business that specializes in French macarons, gourmet cupcakes and custom cakes. Tina provides pulled sugar designs, fondant figurines, chocolate work and out of the ordinary creations.
Other Presenting artists
Abby Lundebrek
Abby is a Mankato based, fresh up-in-coming artist recently graduated with her BFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Following up with her MA this coming year at MNSU, her medium is primarily based in sculpture. Being locally shown in multiple shows around Mankato including the Carnegie, she also has a new piece installed in the MNSU library for the 2023-2024 academic year. Her work is primarily based on the tradition of Surrealist automatism, allowing the conscious and unconscious mind and intuition to play a major role in her work. Most of her art works with manipulating different materials into unrecognizable forms, seamlessly melding found objects into fabricated ones. Creating a mind-bending experience for the audience.
Dinah Langesjoen
Dinah is a fine artist and illustrator, muralist, painter, and overall creative living in North Mankato. She harnesses her intuitive approach to explore many media, subject to what inspires her at the drop of one of the many hats she wears. Forefront to all and the subject tugging on her heartstrings, Dinah is using her photographic eye to collect the moments that she shares with her son, Torin. Together, they are trekking on an autobiographical journey that uses them to illustrate and write a children’s book. It personifies nature as a means to embrace healthy grieving after the loss of a parent.
