Scott Smith – Cabinet Maker Cabinetmaker Scott Smith is a third-generation carpenter and woodworker. After thirty years in the bridge building business, he retired to follow his passion for creating hanging cabinets, tables, and other pieces inspired by colonial and Early American examples. His favorite woods are tiger maple, walnut, and cherry, and he also produces pieces […]
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 […]
Artisan’s Gallery The Artisan’s Gallery contains examples of wonderful American Folk Art (More on Our Facebook page), by experience craftsmen, that will be presented at the Artisans Tent at the Zoar Harvest Festival. This gallery contains; paintings, furniture, pottery, painted furniture, theorems, floor cloths, Noah’s Arks, stone carving, primitive paintings, whimsical hand carved birds & […]
The Harvest Festival at Zoar Village Zoar Village was founded in 1817 by a group of 200 German Separatists seeking escape from religious persecution in their homeland. These Separatists thrived as a unique Society for more than 80 years, making Zoar Village one of the most successful communal settlements in American history. Today, Zoar Village […]