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Witmer Cinnamon Treasures Mixed MediaAmy makes cinnamon-scented beeswax ornaments using antique German chocolate molds, some of which date from Germany in 1884. She currently has one of the largest antique candy mold collections in the country. Cinnamon [...]
Niskala Metal Jewelry Jewelry I’m striving to convey a sense of peace through the melding of many types of materials. I express this aesthetic by using the ancient techniques of sawing, forming, texturing, torching, and shaping the [...]
Linthicum Hearts Desire Pottery ClayAs a gardener comfortable in the dirt, I find satisfaction using that same type of medium, clay, to try and replicate Nature’s art.Porcelain allows me to create a three dimensional, tactile effect as I [...]
deNeve Exploration Fiber/Textiles My fiber collages are like paintings in fabric. I work mostly by hand, it is time consuming. The work is very detailed. I use many different types of fabrics.. Fabric paint applied for more [...]
Justin Kauffman Kauffman Fine Furniture Furniture The zenith of furniture design and style in America was the last half of the mid-18th century and early 19th century. The designs of that period were based on Greco-Roman [...]
Icka Cantilo Square of the Bone Jewelry Handcrafted jewlry for the curious at heart. squareofthebone.com
Michael Aylward Aldie Glassworks Glass The portfolio consists of large stained glass windows, utilizing traditional technique and craftsmanship. Each window is designed from colorful and vibrant portraits, using art glass as medium. Detailed borders frame and [...]
Clay Savely Tree of Life Potters Clay Functional hand-built stoneware ceramics comprised of complex impressions of Appalachian ferns, leaves, flowers and tree bark inlaid in mandalas and landscape themes and then fossilized into the clay with [...]
Scott & Vicki Supraner Hawksbill Pottery Clay We create a unique collection of handcrafted stoneware. Each piece is embossed with original designs and hand painted with lead-free glaze. All pieces are ovenproof, dishwasher and microwave safe. Some [...]
Linda & Jim Winegar Winegar Pottery Clay The majority of our functional and decorative stoneware pottery is created on the potter's wheel. Many pieces are enhanced with hand-embossed or carved patterns, hand-formed leaves and acorns, and [...]
Grace Rochford Waterford Landmark Artisan I have always been interested in history and early American crafts. Through this interest, I became acquainted with the historical American floorcloths. I enjoy demonstrating and educating the public about this craft. [...]
Donna & Ted Kriebel Mixed Media Original folk art paintings are done on gessoed board using acrylics. A series of glazes seal the paintings and a shrink coat is applied to create cracks (the aged appearance). Oils are [...]
Barbara Wagaman-Donough Waterford Landmark Artisan Barb Wagaman-Donough and Bob Donough design and create wooden game boards in Lancaster Co. Pa. Ridge Hollow Game Boards began in 1986, due to both an interest in playing game boards and [...]
John & Carol Kara We work in an individual studio where we use hardwoods and laminations of hardwoods to make the items. The baskets are a spiral cut, burls are bevel cuts, and shapes are individual bevel cut done [...]
The Parsonage Waterford Landmark Artisan Mixed Media At The Parsonage Handmade Soaps, our goals are: 1. To strive for excellence in the soap making process 2. To make objects that enhance the life of the user [...]
Susan Wolf Mixed Media My love for gourd art stems from my horticultural interests coupled with my desire to produce a functional as well as decorative product. To briefly describe my work, I pencil a design onto [...]
Marie-Helene Grabman Waterford Landmark Artisan All papercut work is freehand cut from a single piece of paper with surgical scissors in the Swiss-German artistic tradition but with American themes. Some work embellished with acrylic to add color [...]
Kimberly Gladfelter Waterford Landmark Artisan I create whimsical, one-of-a-kind gourd folk art. I study the shape of a gourd to determine what it wants to be...no two are alike. Each piece is individually hand-painted with acrylics giving [...]
Laurel Dabbs Waterford Landmark Artisan Crudely fashioned or exquisitely detailed, decoys provided a means of luring migratory waterfowl close enough to be an important staple in the diet of the Colonists, whose early years were harsh before [...]
Michael Johnson Wood Working with a wide variety of Southern hardwoods, I create a wide assortment of both hip high and tall walking sticks. Each is unique, as the wood reveals its qualities to me. The characteristics [...]
Michele Hollick Fiber/Textiles I have been making floorcloths for over thirty years. For many years I was one of the judges and later the chairperson for SALI (Stencil Artisan League, now IDAL) and their certification process. We [...]
Judith McKellar Waterford Landmark Artisan Mixed Media The English craft of pargework was brought to America with the colonists. It was popularized by the Adams brothers whose interior decorative plasterwork graced the elegant colonial homes .My [...]
Barbara Jeffords Mixed Media Art has been a part of my life since I was a child watching my father paint. He instilled a love of the beauty of nature and the simple things in life that [...]
Jeanne Proctor Jeanne Proctor Quilts Fiber/Textiles I think of quilts as paintings made of fabric. The technique of quilting layers of fabric to produce bedding, clothing, and even armor can be traced back centuries. I am [...]
Tacy Hawkins Fiber/Textiles I am a hand spinner, weaver, knitter, and crocheter and I like to experiment with felting and other textile related work. I prefer to use natural fibers, but find it sometimes necessary to include [...]
Waterford Quilters Waterford Landmark Artisan The Waterford Quilters Guild of Waterford, VA creates an original quilt to be raffled off each year at the Waterford Fair. The quilt is hand or machine pieced by the members of [...]
Carolyn Hazelton Fiber/Textiles My hooked rugs are all my own original designs. Inspirations come from antique quilts, tole trays, weather vanes, photos, geometric patterns and creative imagining. All rugs are hooked on new linen. hookedbylynn.com [...]
Cheryl Mihills Waterford Landmark Artisan I create original pictures using a miniature needle and a single strand of cotton thread producing a series of approximately 1200 loops and stitches per square inch. My technique creates intense detail, [...]
Andrea Durnell Waterford Landmark Artisan I am a mixed media artist working in natural fiber, wood, repurposed antique or vintage fabrics, leather, and clay. I use antique, wooden hat molds to create wet and needle [...]
Kathie Ratcliffe Waterford Landmark Artisan I create miniature quilts inspired by 19th c. quilts. Using the most effective elements in the design and color of 1800s. pieces, I stitch intricate miniatures adding my contemporary interpretation. Each is [...]
Susan Withnell Waterford Landmark Artisan I am passionate about fiber arts and particularly enjoy spinning yarns from animals that I have bred, delivered, raised and cared for. Weaving allows my creative needs to explore color and texture, while [...]
Michael Stanik Furniture I am a second generation woodworker, and learned most of my skills by working with my father. I have worked with my hands, building furniture most of my life. It is my passion to [...]
Linda Van Hart Jewelry This sculptor focuses on undulating and textural surfaces. Asymmetry and kinetic features lend surprising grace to the larger scale of this narrative work: each piece develops as a tribute to a hero, a [...]
Candace Stribling Candace Stribling Jewelry Jewelry I design and make contemporary sterling silver jewelry using traditional metalsmithing techniques and tools such as hammers, anvils, mandrels, and torches. I am inspired by science, architecture and nature which [...]
Erich & Janice Steinhagen Waterford Landmark Artisan We create redware pottery informed by the traditions of the 18th century in Great Britain and the American colonies. Using traditional wheel-throwing techniques mastered over the course of four decades of [...]
Judy Rohrbaugh Clay Combination of clay and pine needle basketry. The basketry is done using a coiling technique with long leaf pine needles, that I gather from the forest floor in the southeastern United States. Needles range [...]
Maureen Mills & Steven Zoldak Clay Bridging Old World traditions with a contemporary sensibility these functional and decorative forms have an elegant calligraphic style that is unique. From stately urns to serving platters, the inspirations come from [...]
Winton and Rosa Eugene Clay Since 1986, we have successfully developed a unique line of functional and decorative stoneware. We maintain a working pottery studio and enjoy a successful retail, mail order, and commission business. Techniques: PIeces [...]
Karen Wychock Basketry Working over wooden molds, in the method of the Shakers, my baskets are traditional in shape and materials. I weave both Shaker reproductions in ash and traditional, utilitarian baskets of reed. Native hardwoods such [...]
