Artisan Market
An extraordinary Artisan Market will captivate your imagination with hand-made treasures for your home or that special gift.
The 2020 Victorian Chautauqua Artisan Market will offer an array of top artists in jewelry, pottery, textiles, edibles, and three-dimensional designs. Whether you looking for that unique home accent or utilitarian accents, 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.
Lea DeLauder
Practiquils
Leah DeLauder has perfected the art of quilling, a method of folding and coiling paper to make representational images and decorative designs. It becomes apparent that DeLauder's work is a direct reflection of her take on the world. At a distant glance, a piece appears two-dimensional until you "step forward." The intricate folds and narrow paths between the countless layers of paper are fluid with motion, light, and shadow.
John Simpson
Bowl Weevil Works
This wood whisperer who began Bowl Weevil Works has mastered the simple hand tools that coax out graceful lines and exploit the grains of nuanced wood. As he rhythmically taps away, the floor becomes a dense bed of chips that slowly reveal Simpson’s foresight. A keen sense for reading the grain and understanding the character of the wood is evident in each Simpson bowl.
Haeli Gustafson & 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.
Lorie & Ron Skidmore
Deep Creek Pottery
Deep Creek Pottery, owned and operated by Lorie and Ron Skidmore, specializes in wheel-thrown functional and decorative pottery with different firing ranges including wood-firing, gas firing, and electric firing. The couple also offers clay classes, mosaic tile creations, and a paint-your-own pottery studio.
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.
Chris Jones
the Barefoot Historian
Wet plate photographer, Chris Jones has revived an early method of photography that has gained him much attention. You can commission a one-of-a-kind tintype or glass plate photograph at the Victorian Chautauqua. Jones is known for his beautiful images that capture his subjects in a forgotten medium.
