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Sareshwala, Khadija

Khadija Brand

Fiber/Textiles

My work explores the intersection of textile, painting, and surface design—merging tradition with contemporary expression. As a mixed media artist, I use fabric as my primary canvas, combining hand painting, wax resist, block printing, and layered dye processes to create richly textured, wearable pieces.

Rooted in my South Asian heritage and based in Northern Virginia, my practice honors traditional textile techniques while pushing their boundaries through experimentation and modern aesthetics. I view textiles not only as materials, but as living surfaces—capable of carrying emotion, memory, and cultural narrative.

Through each piece, I strive to reflect personal growth, lived experience, and a broader worldview shaped by navigating multiple cultures. My intention is to bring peace, joy, and tranquility to those who experience my work—while also celebrating diversity and encouraging a deeper appreciation for cultural inclusion.

Layered, tactile, and expressive, my work invites viewers to slow down, connect, and find beauty in both tradition and transformation.

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Sulmonte, Giancarlo

Metal

My work is comprised of primarily hand forged steel, and wood. I use a combination hand finished metal, and natural patina to create a rustic, yet refined aesthetic. My focus is to use traditional techniques and construction methods to create kitchen cutlery, and home hardware.

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Madigan, Cindy

Cinder Goods LLC

Leather

Modern American Leather Goods -Taking a new twist in leather work.

Personally creating beautifully crafted items that are long lasting and artfully designed.

I make all of my own patterns, each piece is meticulously designed, hand cut and assembled using an industrial sewing machine. All of my leather is premium full grain leather often procured from secondary sources, as a bi-product of the furniture and fashion industries. Strongly committed to honor the animal by nothing going to waste…

The highest level of distinction in my body of work would be The National Park Collection/Take Me Away Series and is a true passion project for me. These designs, are my signature pieces, each one completely unique. The process of making these has opened up a wellspring of growth and creativity, while at the same time paying tribute to our National Parklands, which continue to provide me with boundless inspiration. After breaking down a hide and cutting out my patterns, I’ll set aside unique pieces which typically come from the natural edge of the hide.

From there, each bag starts out as a blank canvas and I start by sorting through all of my bits and pieces, collecting the colors, interesting shapes, textures ect then add layer upon layer there-by building a mosaic of colors and swirls of shapes until the imagery comes to life. Each landscape represents a different Park or landscape… examples include Wolf Trap NP, Joshua Tree NP, The Blue Ridge NP, The Shenandoah NP, AcadiaNP,The Great Smoky Mountains NP, The Grand Tetons NP, US Virgin Islands Buck Island NP, and many others from an ever-growing list of commissions and custom orders.

Because our parks are so precious, I will be donating a portion of my sales to The National Parks Conservation Association. NPCA has the highest 4 star rating on Charity Navigator. See below the link to their website and mission statement which is very much in line with my values. In the best of times, our parks and parklands have been under staffed and under funded. Now more than ever, we need to support our National Parks, Lands and Forests.

https://www.npca.org/

My interest in leather-craft is rooted in my childhood, watching my Dad. He’d come home each night and work at his little bench tucked away in a corner and did leather craft to unwind. I’d go with him on Saturday mornings to the local leather shop to pick up tools and supplies. I loved everything about those trips…my senses of sight, touch, and smell coming alive the second we walked in the door. Many years later, after my Dad passed away, I inherited his tools…His tools sat in my basement until the fall of 2020 when I was laid off from my longtime career in the specialty food business and found myself wondering…now what? After working the corporate grind for more than 30 years… the time had finally come to follow my passion. I took a chunk of my much earned severance and invested in an industrial sewing machine, dusted off my dad’s tools and launched Cinder Goods the following year to begin the journey of starting my own leather goods line. Aside from a free elective sewing class in college, I am self taught.

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Hughes, Bob & Sally

River Rat Pottery

Clay

We are a husband and wife team who love living history and sharing our passion for traditional American crafts. We create redware pottery—both utilitarian and decorative—inspired by early American redware, using traditional materials and processes. Often, our inspiration comes from early American folk art created in other mediums such as wood or leather. Fraktur has been a great reference for decorative ideas.

Our work is used and sold at many museums and historic sites. We hope to keep traditional crafts relevant by adapting our work so it appeals to a changing market. For example, we create traditional Pennsylvania German feather trees that are displayed in wheel-thrown redware bases with impressed decoration created using leatherworking tools.

Often, my wife brings her antique box looms to shows and weaves linen tape using both historical and contemporary colors. This handwoven tape is sometimes used to embellish our pottery.

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Staton, Amy

Amy’s Wool Applique

Fiber

The artisan has been creating wool appliqué for almost 20 years. Baltimore album quilts and other antique quilt motifs provide her with an endless supply of inspiration. She also incorporates antique crewel designs and fraktur motifs into some of her pieces. In addition to her wall hangings, table runners, and throw pillows, she creates penny rugs, a form of folk art which dates to the early to mid-1800s.

She uses both new and recycled wool from clothing and blankets in her creations. But whether new or recycled, it’s always 100% wool. The artisan applies the blanket stitch to secure the appliqué pieces after adhering them with heat activated adhesive. She also employs other embroidery stitches in her pieces.

The artisan has been selected for Early American Life’s Directory of Traditional Crafts for the last five years. For the most part, she sells her work at traditional artisan shows.

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Clark, Altyn

Altyn Clark Stained Glass

Glass

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. .

altynclarkglass.com

Grotheer, Jacob

Georgia Colony Smiths

Metal

Jacob Grotheer

My trades-partner and I have both been participating in living history for over 20 years. He gravitated towards teaching himself blacksmithing, while I learned from a friend how to cast pewter. When big projects or ideas come about in either trade, we help each other to make the ideas reality. Due to the intensive labor it takes to smith steel, the majority of what we sell is pewter, including toy soldiers both painted and unpainted, musket ball dice, reproduction coins, historic necklace charms, salt cellars, chess sets, and spoons cast in original bronze molds or copies of original spoons of which I make molds.

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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