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 […]
Mary Calehuff – Nodders I had been a collector of antique toys when I discovered and purchased my first nodder. It was a small white horse that enthusiastically nodded yes to me when I gently touched its head. I fell in love with him then and have been hooked on nodders ever since. In pursuit […]
Marta Urban Marta has held a fascination with art and hand lettering from an early age. At age 12, she taught herself calligraphy and later worked as a commercial artist while still in high school. Although not pursuing fine arts in college, she knew that her interest in hand lettering would continue to grow and […]
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 […]
About Steve Hazlett Weathervanes, whirligigs and trade signs are as varied as the subject matter they represent. One hundred plus year old heart pine salvaged from out buildings and barns built during the 19th century from the upstate New York area are used in creating my work. I also incorporate antique copper, tin and iron […]
Susan Skinner – SJ Pottery SJ Pottery LLC is a limited production studio producing traditionally inspired redware, mocha, salt glazed pottery and whatever else catches our fancy. With every piece we strive to combine aesthetics, craftsmanship and function. We do not run from the words craft or craftsmanship. But strive to earn these well established historical […]