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Ivan Iler Studios

Hammer in Hand Custom Cycles was founded in 2009 and has transformed into Ivan Iler Studios.

09/22/2024

I have proposed sculpture “Pod of Whales” at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids. If it gets enough votes I will receive the funds to build it. If you are able to go see it in person and vote, please do. I’ve been wanting to build a giant pod of whales swimming in the sky for years…you can help make that happen.
Located at 61 Commerce Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI.

You can vote online here:

https://community.flockx.io/activity/3763a3ad-b0d8-4add-9296-5cf27d1440fb

04/17/2024

A friend of mine, and fellow artist, Dace sent me a picture of a poster for an upcoming music festival with a beautiful painting of one of my sculptures in Lansing Michigan on it. Art depicting art to advertise a festival of art. Oh the layers

04/10/2024

Everything we put out into this world is an extension of ourselves. Just something to ponder over. It’s been on my mind.

Photo by Brooke Elizabeth

03/22/2024

Someone recently asked me if I missed any of my work after it was sold… I miss him from time to time. I suppose then, the answer is yes. Though if asked what my favorite work is that I’ve created, the answer always seems to be whatever I’m working on at the moment. Maybe that’s telling. I’m not sure I’ve given it enough thought to really know

03/19/2024

As Artists we try to create something simply because we want to create it. We don’t know if we are creating something people will like; if we are lucky, or lying to ourselves, we don’t care… but it’s hard not to care when we are sharing those creations with others, listening to the cranked up static of opinions as we create the next thing we have in mind. I always wonder how much influence the world has on me, rather than how much influence I have on the world. How am I not myself

03/11/2024

Continuing work on the trunk of the Giving Tree. It’s a lot of thinking ahead about where pieces will land based on the pieces before them. A lot of foresight and a lot of hindsight.

02/26/2024

My mother had to have an emergency surgery in Flint Michigan. She was stable for a while, but now she has to go under for another surgery.

She’s one of the most amazing, kind, patient, and loving people I’ve ever known in this world. I can remember as a child, her coming up behind me and covering my eyes from whatever had my attention, asking if I could come help her with something, completely unaware that she had called out for me more than once without ever yelling at me. I wouldn’t be who I am if she hadn’t raised me the way she did… if she hadn’t been the person she is.

I haven’t always been the best son, but she has always been the best mother, to me and my brother and sisters.

It doesn’t take money, religion, good schools, or any of that to raise a good person… it simply takes another good person. To me, and so many others, she is that person. Please keep her in your thoughts, and if you’re religious at all (in any faith) please pray for her. This world needs people like her in it.

02/16/2024

Now I had the local Boy Scouts come in to my shop to learn about gears and gear ratios. I had an absolutely wonderful time with them as well. Thank you to all who came. I hope you had as good of a time as I did.

12/18/2023

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve been dealing with a loss in the family. Art Clark was the best person I’ve ever had the honor of knowing in my life. He was always there when anyone needed anything. It didn’t matter who you were or what you were going through, he be there, even if you were on the other side of the world and he had to sell everything he owned to get to you. You would never know that just to talking with him though. The only thing you would think in that moment was that he was your new best friend. It took calling him so many times when he was in the middle of helping someone for me to truly realize how much he did for the people around him. Even for strangers who simply needed a ride somewhere, a meal, or a place to stay. He had a memory you wouldn’t even believe. He loved connecting with members of the family and finding connections between all of us. He spun the rope that he used to connect us all and hold us together. He told me about people I was related to so many times removed, and explained how we were connected. He connected our family to a whole other branch that had grown out over a hundred years ago.

I was born at a hospital in Petoskey Michigan, and Art was there to see me come into this world. We moved all around. I eventually ended up back in Michigan. I didn’t reconnect with him until I was an adult. He was at the Black Iron Days I had gone to with my Granddad, my Uncle, my cousins and my nephew. As soon as I saw the smile on the face of my ever stern Grandfather, I immediately knew how special he must be. I hadn’t been back to Petoskey since I was born. When I heard about his cancer coming back and found out where he was it seemed sadly poetic. He was there to welcome me into the world, and I went back for the first time since I was born to say goodbye as he left it. The world will forever be a little bit dimmer without you in it Art. I love you so much and I miss you already. If you’d been boastful about your deeds they would’ve made a saint out of you… that’s just a small part of what makes you more than a saint to me.

12/08/2023

The light was coming into my studio today in a way that really lit up one of the sculptures I’m working on

12/04/2023

Have you ever wanted to create something even though you didn’t know how?

11/20/2023

Sometimes you may feel… whatever it is, embrace it

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918 E State St (M-21)
Saint Johns, MI
48879

Website

http://www.ivanilerstudios.com/

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