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Boglioli, Loring

Loring Boglioli, Fiber Artist

Fiber/Textiles

Shamelessly dynamic, rhythmic and methodically crafted, Loring fuses venerated practices and innovative design, manipulating color, shape and dimension in her appliqued compositions inspired by Victorian penny rugs. Diverting from vintage examples, Loring’s design aesthetic is unabashedly bold, kinetic and playful, emerging from completely from upcycles materials, scavenged from flea markets and yard sales.

Completely original unique designs are assembled using various weights and shades of woolens, synthetic fabrics and felts and two common embroidery stitches to reinterpret color, shape and spatial frolic, evident in her work. Patrons and publications cite her “meticulous hand-stitching,” undulating, eye-popping designs and technical expertise. Using various needles and threads on hand-cut felt pieces amplify the visual freshness, enthusiasm and sophisticated naïveté trademark in her work. All works are mounted for hanging with external or internal mounting systems. Collectors throughout the Mid-Atlantic region collect and enjoy her work.

A material driven philosophy, stylized design and saturated color felt palate inspire and energize each composition with joy, nostalgia and modernity simultaneously, reacquainting viewers with past family experiences or long-forgotten craft projects from a distant past.

frugalfiber.com

Steinberg, Lorene

Pottery by Lorene

Clay

My pottery is wheel-thrown stoneware, trimmed with a footring, and bisque fired. The designs are hand drawn in pencil, hand painted with underglaze, then bisque fired a second time. The piece is finally dipped in clear glaze and fired a third time to stoneware temperature. My ideas come from architecture, textiles, stained glass windows, natural forms, wallpaper, and especially historic Italian majolica. Each piece is unique.

The work is food safe and microwave safe. Hand washing is recommended.

Wertheim, Peggy

Mixed Media

Peggy Wertheim

My fifty-year career as a Surface Design Artist, Colorist and Master Teaching Artist began with the artforms of traditional batik & silk batiking. I then continued by develop;ing my techniques of Complex Dyeing and Discharge with my Wearable Art designs including jackets, tunic dresses and shirts. In addition, my colorist’s eye was fascinated by Traditional Marbling using carrageenen and acrylics. I took the incricacies of marbling and applied the techniques and my designs to papers, cottons, silks and ceramic. Throughout my career, color and design create a fascinating palette of interest.

https://www.peggywertheim.com

Oliver, Amy

Monkeytown Pottery

Clay

I have been a potter for over 30 years, my focus is on form and function as well as surface design. I mix and use colored slips on bare clay to carve and sculpt illustrations, often featuring nature, trees, mountains and many recurring animal characters from the forest. I strive to make beautifully crafted functional art, I want my pieces to be part of everyday life and use.

I have always been fascinated by Art that tells a story. Therefore many of the pots I make tell a story, with many returning characters. Some of the characters you might find are tortoises, owls, ravens and birds, bears, deer, foxes, bunnies and horses all have special meaning to me and hopefully the viewer. They interact with each other, they seem to be having very full lives outside our windows, I like to think that they are a witness to a moment in time. The tortoise represents the slow moving of the earth but also the witness. If he’s in the story his shell will be showing another memory in time. Dinosaurs, and many mythical “monsters” show up in the stories as well, because who knows and why not. Who knows what the tortoise sees out there. Maybe it’s Bigfoot chopping wood. Maybe it’s just a friendship between an owl and a horse. Every pot tells a different story, I can tell you what the characters mean to me, but it’s up to the viewer to decide the story.

www.MonkeytownPottery.com

Banker, Ellen

Hannah’s Whim

Mixed Media

Everything in life is art. That has been true in my life ever since I can remember. Currently, I am working in mixed media—acrylic paint, vintage paper and, sometimes, found objects. However, for years I worked in textiles, specifically I hooked rugs
and am the author of Hooked on Words, published in 2018 by Ampry Publishing.

Once in a while, some textile form appears in my current work—an actual piece of wool or an image of a quilt or a rug or a sheep. I am drawn to antiques and images
of anything vintage but my great love is for Windsor chairs. I’m very lucky to live in Williamsburg, Virginia, with inspiring history all around me, but I once lived in Waterford which will always be in my heart.

Helberg, Kristin

Kristin Helberg Artworks

Mixed Media

Helberg has always been interested in history and a portion of her artwork reflects that. Whaling paintings and whaling scenes on boxes, as well as sea monsters attacking ships are part of Helberg’s artwork.

She enjoys creating tavern signs that depict imaginary places in Early America. Having spent most of her childhood in York County, PA, Helberg was immersed in the painted hex signs on barns and fraktur art and uses those images on the decorative boxes. Years ago, she mastered the technique of Early American vinegar graining and she always features some grained boxes at the Fair.

Helberg has also created a line of Memento Mori paintings and chests, featuring the dancing skeletons and Plaque Doctors of the late Middle Ages, as well as Halloween paintings and portraits of Edgar Allen Poe and Nosferatu.

Helberg’s paintings are in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian, the Clinton Presidential Library, the Reginald Lewis Museum of African American Art, Musee D’Art Naif in Quebec and the Carter Center of President Jimmy Carter.

KristinHelberg.com

Kauffman, Justin

Kauffman Fine Furniture

Furniture

As a period formal furniture maker, Kauffman’s intention is to build furniture inspired by the designs of authentic period pieces and to impart to those pieces a beauty that can be admired and enjoyed, and a functionality that can be appreciated for generations. Kauffman’s hope is that his furniture, having been built with time-tested, period joinery and embellished with period carving, inlay, veneer, and other decorations, will emulate the quality, lasting appeal, and value of furniture from the 1700s and early 1800s. Lastly, that his furniture craftsmanship, conscientiousness, humanity, and dignity will be easily recognizable to those who own it.

KauffmanFineFurniture.com

Aylward, Michael

Aldie Glassworks

Glass

I have been creating and displaying stained glass artwork for more than 30 years. Trained by craftsman in the Boston area, my work is centered on quality, detail, vibrant colors and creative patterns. Also, have been involved in numerous restoration projects for antique, ecclesiastic and architectural subjects. Have a keen interest in maintaining and showcasing the craft to the public, including teaching classes for others to learn.

AldieGlass.com