An extraordinary Artisan Market will captivate your imagination with hand-made treasures for your home or that special gift.
The 2024 Victorian Chautauqua Artisan Row will offer an array of top artists in jewelry, pottery, textiles, edibles, and three-dimensional designs. Whether you looking for that unique home or utilitarian accent, browsing the pop-up shops will quicken your pulse.
Artisans Roster
Connie Pardini
WIRESTORM CREATIONS
All of Connie’s jewelry and decorative items are hand-crafted with a small assortment of tools using a wide array of materials – her favorites being sterling and copper. Her unique use of vintage silverplate flatware transforms ordinary spoons, forks, and knives into whimsical pieces and decorative items. Chimes and ornaments featuring animal figures are one of her specialties.
Lori Wall & David Moran
CRIMSON SHAMROCK RANCH
The Crimson Shamrock Ranch is a working fiber farm in Eglon West Virginia with Alpaca and Sheep grown for fiber only. The ranch has been a leading Suri alpaca and Wensleydale sheep breeder for over two decades. Their top-rated fibers are transformed into woven, crocheted, and braided designs. Other natural fibers, including silk and cotton, are used to create hand-painted and marbled artistic designs.
Chip Lee & Kathleen Gibbs
COUNTRY PARSON HONEY
Is there really a Country Parson? Yes, there is! The Country Parson, Chip Lee is also the Rector at The Episcopal Church in Garrett County, Maryland. He and his wife Kathleen will be showcasing their full line of honey, jams, and hand-crafted items. All things made by bees and their byproducts are artfully turned into consumable or usable wares.
Woody & Katrina Knott
KNOTTY RES
Woody and Katrina Knott create works of art that marry wood and resin. Bowls, trays, and tables can be decorative or utilitarian. See a full display of unique goods at Artisan Row.
Haeli Gustophsen & Darryl Glotfelty
MEADOW MOUNTAIN HEMP
Meadow Mountain Hemp, one of the first commercial hemp growers in Maryland, is dedicated to the growth of hemp flowers full and rich in essential CBD oils for premium therapeutic products. Located on a 100-year-old family farm in Western Maryland. This full line of therapeutic tinctures, topicals, and gummies has become a favorite among people seeking natural remedies for pain, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
Brenda Caldwell
AUNT B’S PLACE
Browse through handcrafted Steampunk and industrial-style sculptural pieces, functional décor, wearable works of art, and accessories with a vintage neo-Victorian aesthetic. Antique typewriter keys, light bulbs, clockworks, cogs, gears, cabinet hinges, masonry nails, skeleton keys, miscellaneous metal bits, and other found objects are transformed and repurposed in delightfully unexpected ways.
Sue Caldwell
DEEP CREEK BASKETS & COLLAGE
Sue creates art inspired by nature. Her canvases are a unique type of paper collage. She paints large sheets of different types of paper, then tears them up and reassembles them by gluing the strips and bits onto canvas. The art looks like an impressionist painting from a distance and is dimensional, and deeply textured when viewed from close up.
Claire Jones
SOAPBOX AGENDA
Having backgrounds in chemistry and visual arts is a natural fit for soap-making. Such is the case at Soapbox Agenda. Each of their handcrafted soaps contains fragrances that pay homage to their travels, as well as the beauty of the West Virginia mountains. Their inspired products strive to use as many local resources as possible and to be economically conscious by using sustainably sourced ingredients and plastic-free packaging.
Jennifer Clark
28 STITCHES DESIGN
All of Jennifer’s items are completely handmade. Herb-stuffed poppet dolls and stuffed animals make up her menagerie of imaginative and personalized items. Choose from elephants, hippos, bunnies, bears, kitties, and more for an individual creation made with love and care!
Jeanette Patterson, Steve Imes, and Kate Kremann
CRAFTOVER
Three artisans combine their skills under one roof. Meet Jeanette, Steve, and, who together,l offer up hand-made greeting cards, journals, books, and novelty lamps in the steampunk style. Find that unique and charming item you can’t live without.
Lauren Risley
GRACEFULLY VINTAGE
Details pending.
Hertiage Artisans
Lauren Muney
SILHOUETTES BY HAND
Silhouettes have captured profile portraits of civilization for hundreds of years. Lauren Muney hand cuts silhouettes with scissors, in the traditional portrait style, made especially popular between the 1760s and 1860s. Commission a sitting for your or a loved one and leave with a unique family heirloom.
Dave Wilson
VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
Wet plate photographer Dave Wilson revived an early method of photography that gained him much attention in Gettysburg. At the Victorian Chautauqua, you can commission a one-of-a-kind tintype photograph. Dave is known for his seductive aesthetic and beautiful images that capture his subjects as if they are from a bygone era.
