81st American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour
This artisan has been making penny rugs and other wool applique pieces for 15 years, and began selling her work on Etsy about 10 years ago. For the past four years, she has been selected into the Early American Life Directory of Traditional Crafts. She enjoys showing and selling her work at juried traditional artisan shows.
Discover landscapes that come alive through glass!
Each of my stained-glass panels captures a moment in nature – from rolling waves to desert skies. Feel the wind, warmth, and raw emotion in every intricate piece.
Handcrafted with copper foil technique, these aren’t just art, they’re experiences waiting to be hung in your space.
Applicant is an impressionist using glass to capture a landscape’s color, line, motion, and season—inviting you to feel wind in your hair, warmth on your face, water flowing around you, rough hide on your fingertips.
Landscapes may be real or imagined places.
Patrons often exclaim, “I’ve been there! You captured my place!”
The first step is selecting rolled art glass sheets whose texture, pattern, and color invoke land, water, and sky.
Applicant then draws a landscape jigsaw puzzle and cuts each glass piece to fit exactly. He cuts simple lines using traditional hand-held glass scoring tools. Intricate, high-risk lines are cut with a wet ring-saw.
Each piece of cut glass is foiled on the edge using copper tape. The cut and foiled pieces are soldered into place and a copper patina applied to the solder before framing in solid copper.
The making process is an invitation for the artist to flow, fully absorbed in the immediacy of vision, tactile response, and emerging result. .
I became interested in the historic art of Fraktur as a hands-on way to blend two core interests in my life – art and history. The traditional designs of the 1700s are my inspiration.
To help ensure our traditional arts continue, I demonstrate at 18th century events, such as Landis Valley Museum and Fort Loudoun Market Fair. For many years I have been recognized as a Master Artisan by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and am listed in the Artisan Directory of Early American Life Magazine.
Fraktur has become, for me, so much more than art and history.
I am a historic redware potter since 1986. I employ historic folk art on slab technique redware pottery. I use mason stain and slip and underglazes.
