L.T. Short – PA German Folk Art & Fraktur Lisa Short, of L.T. Short Folk Art, is a southeastern Pennsylvania artisan specializing in Pennsylvania German fraktur and traditional decorative arts. Self-taught and deeply inspired by the folk art traditions of rural Pennsylvania Germans of the 18th and early 19th centuries, she creates hand-inked and watercolor-painted […]
Andy Smith – Watercolors Full Time Painter for 47 years! Andy Smith is a self-taught artist. What he lacks in formal training he has made up in self studying the works of the masters, reading voraciously and keeping current in the “Art World.” He has an in-born talent, fine tuned by practice, discipline and dedication. […]
Sarah Gilligan Folk Art Sarah Gilligan folk art creates unique folk art in the Pennsylvania German Manor. She is a self taught painter that paints on antiques, bench made pieces, and vintage furniture appropriate for Pennsylvania German folk art. Collectors seek out Sarah’s work because of her uncanny ability to reproduce that aged surface look […]
Laurel Dabbs Laurel Dabbs will be one of the great artisans at the Zoar Harvest Festival. You can see Laurel and other amazing artists at the Artisans Tent at Zoar. 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 […]
About Joan Berkey I am a folk artist, specializing in small oil paintings that depict what America’s towns, villages, and farms looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. I call them historic townscapes and historic farmscapes. I am a professional architectural historian who learned folk art from my mother many years ago and I […]
Peggy Taylor Peggy Taylor creates handwoven textiles in the early manner, inspired by those of the 18th century, using wool, linen, and cotton and historic weaving drafts. She researches historic textiles and weaves on looms similar to those in use 200 years ago in this country. Her business name, Loom Hall, comes from the ancestral […]
Jennifer Frantz Jennifer Frantz is an artist who believes art should be seen as well as used – visually apparent and appealing on a daily basis. Art historically documents our past, particularly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ms. Frantz’s love of art – particularly folk art that is functional by design, lead to the […]
About Stacey Bear – Spun Cotton Ornaments Stacey Bear has been creating her whimsical unique art since 1996. Her work has appeared in publications such as Country Living, Country Home, Victoria, Where Women Create and Better Homes and Gardens. She has been a featured artist at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York […]
JONATHAN & JAN WRIGHT: Jonathan and Jan Wright founded Crocker & Springer, Ltd. early in 1987, shortly after marrying. With youthful enthusiasm, they set out to make a living together in the world of fine craft by combining their skill sets — Jon’s love of hand-throwing pots on a potter’s wheel, as well as building […]
Anne Childs – Watercolors Living in an 1890’s log home that she and her husband, John, have lovingly filled with early American antiques, Anne enjoys her connection with the past. She paints in watercolor and gets her inspiration from early artists such as Jacob Maentel, Rufus Porter and W.M. Prior. Also inspired by frakturs, theorems, […]