Many a hat is worn by the talented Carol Lynn Lapotka—founder of the MADE fair and REcreate designs. Her skills were fine tuned while attending Edgewood College in Madison Wisconsin and receiving a fine art degree with a minor in environmental studies. She is focused on organizing and marketing with tendencies towards a creative flare. After moving to Montana in 2007, she vended her upcycled tee-skirts at the local market and saw a need for a holiday show. She is the powerhouse behind the MADE fair operation and a dreamer of how to expand and help artists and makers of Montana through handMADE Montana. REcreate designs makes adult & children’s clothing, accessories, and home goods handcrafted from upcycled materials.

Lapotka is seeing things not as they are, but  for what they can become since 2005.

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Courtney Blazon is an artist living in Missoula, MT. She graduated with a degree in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in NYC, and moved west in 2005 to pursue her career amidst the mountains and wildflowers. She has happily been working full time as an artist for the last ten years, and spends most of her waking hours doing commissions, developing work for future gallery shows, and making little products for her MADE Fair booth. She’s shown her work throughout the west, and most recently, had a show at the Missoula Art Museum. When she’s not drawing, she can be found watching world cinema, singing karoke, clearing out the cobwebs in the woods. or blowing mega-sized bubbles. 

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