Susan Brackney

“After a lot of trial and error, it kind of took off.”

Costume weapons earning props from Hollywood.

A Bloomington metal fabricator creates mod address digits and mailboxes that make the cut.

Sew you.

Pretty sneaky.

“What we do is more like Ferrari or Rolls-Royce—really small-batch stuff, but really good.”

“It always resembles a storm or a sunset or a sunrise. I look for something that evokes a feeling in me.”

Constance Collins’s high-end textiles.

“I haven’t seen anyone making letters the way we do,” Erin says.

“I sold to a lot of young women who wanted to be like Joni Mitchell,” he says. “Now, I sell to older ladies, and Joni Mitchell would be in that ‘older lady’ category.”

In Julie Gootee’s hands, butterflies become jewelry.

“It’s a continuously changing design. I look at it like four-dimensional art. You have the three-dimensional space, and it changes with time.”

A quiet, unspoiled retreat not far from Bloomington.

Great on paper.

Find the missing piece to your growing Indiana pride collection.