Smile

What makes Craig Ogden smile? “Happy people,” said the Noblesville resident and owner of The Mix Vintage and New Marketplace, a five-year-old business on Logan Street in downtown Noblesville. The Mix invites shoppers to join in Noblesville Main Street’s March First Friday Sip & Shop, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday on the Square. The Mix is among two dozen downtown event participants, which offer  cocktails and promotions. The Illinois native and his wife, Tonya, who have three adult children, Evan, Abigail and Avery, and owned Noblesville Antique Mall on the Courthouse Square for eight years, then sold the business and took a break. They moved from Fishers to Noblesville about six years ago. He enjoys the creative side of life. “From the beginning of my school years, art was my thing …. In third grade, I had an amazing art teacher who stayed after school so I could sit on the floor of her office and draw pictures on large pieces of paper. She made the effort of having my drawings displayed in the library.” After high school, he went on to attend and graduate from Herron School of Art. During his fourth year at Herron, he started a graphic design business in his basement and built his business over the next 23 years, hiring “all the great young talent from Herron,” he said. After his days in the graphic-design industry, he focused on his illustration and painting. Then he took a 10-year break and developed his hobby — of collecting antiques, old toys and signs — into a business. Today’s feature is a look back at one of The Times’ previous Faces of Hamilton County. For the past three years, he has gone back to painting and has completed more than 100 paintings and has shown his work at many art shows and galleries as Craig Ogden Art.