2009 Visual Artists - CenterFest Arts Festival

The 36th Annual CenterFest Arts Festival – Sept. 19, 20, 2009
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VISUAL ARTISTS
Visual Artist Applications due June 1, 2010
CenterFest 2010 is a juried festival that will showcase the work of more
than 120 visual artists from across the U.S. in fine arts and fine craft.
2010 Artist Awards
$1,000 Best of Show
$ 600
First Place
$ 500
Second Place
$ 400
Third Place
Plus the Citizens Choice Award !
CenterFest 2010 Visual Art Judges
CenterFest is proud to have the support and partnership of
distinguished fine arts judges who will be selecting the Visual Artist
merit award winners:
Here is our line-up of Visual Artists for CenterFest 2009
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Cynthia Aldrich from Durham has
been a potter for 35 years
creating functional ware that is
beautiful, useful, and artistically
stimulating.
Business Name: Cynthia Aldrich
Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: S7
Richard Barlow from Winterville,
NC is an avid nature
photographer. He enjoys sharing
his view and invoking a reaction
of the world around us with
everyone through his
photography.
Business Name: Barlow Design
& Photography
Media: Photography
Booth: E6
Bob Batura from Raleigh, NC
compliments burls and figured
woods with solid domestic species
for that special eye-appeal. His
specialty is contemporary wood
furniture and craft.
Business Name: Cutting Edge
Woodworks
Media: Wood
Booth: F13
Sandra Beeman from Chapel Hill,
NC creates handmade,
lampworked glass beads, buttons,
and jewelry. Using suprising color
combinations, she creates unique
beads that are playful in color and
design.
Business Name: Lime Moon Art
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B12
Marley Beers from Durham
creates well designed, elegant
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jewelry.
Business Name: Marley by
Design
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A10
Kat Benz from Durham, NC
weaves functional art baskets
using natural dyes.
Business Name: Dream Weaving
Kat
Media: Fibers
Booth: F23
Joyce Branch from Waxhaw, NC
has 30 years experience exploring
clay. She loves variety & new
techniques.
Business Name: Joyful Pots
Media: Clay
Booth: B17
Jerry Brem from Durham has a
BFA from the University of Texas.
His work is about exploring the
abstract elements of art with
simple bold shapes.
Business Name: Jabrem.com
Media: Mixed Media
Booth: A21
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Ashley Brodie from Durham, NC
Beautiful, one of a kind jewelry
Business Name: Ashley Brodie
Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: S6
Lynn Burcher from Hillsborough,
NC Lynn makes glass jewelry
combining fused and lampwork
techniques, and loves making art
for everday use.
Business Name: Gilded Lily
Glass
Media: Jewelry
Booth: S8
Natasha Caine from Wilmington,
NC is an artist of European
decent with a love of the Victorian
era. Each piece of silver jewelry
with vintage and antique parts and
beads is one-of-a-kind.
Business Name: Empire Jewelry
Media: Jewelry/Mixed Media
Booth: B7
Jared Carpenter from Raleigh,
NC distributes fine artist painting
in oils and acrylics; subject matter
including mostly people or
memorable objects and drawings.
Business Name:
www.jaredvcarpenter.com
Media: Drawing
Booth: S5
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Frances Carter from Durham, NC
creates funky, fabric pocketbooks
and beaded and wire-wrapped
jewelry. She has an eclectic
background, from places such as
England, France, Italy, Africa,
China, and the United States, that
has greatly influenced her artistic
style.
Business Name: Franbags
Media: Fibers/Jewelry
Booth: F24
Kimberley Cartwright from
Durham, NC works to take the
traditional art of crafting from the
old to the new. She creates
purses, fiber art, quilts, and
journals.
Business Name: Alexi
Media: Fibers
Booth: F17
Donna Cassidy from Raleigh, NC
creates fused and stained glass,
using her background in painting
to inform her creations.
Media: Glass
Booth: F9
Macon Cathey from Wilmington,
NC is inspired by a woman's
desire to feel beautiful and strives
to make each piece invoke that
feeling in it's wearer. She creates
funky gemstone and fresh water
pearl jewelry.
Business Name: Tallulah Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A6
Nell Chandler from Hillsborough,
NC creates jewelry with a
narrative theme. Her vision is to
"put a little light and love on the
world" through her artwork.
Business Name: Nell Chandler
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Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A13
Stan Cheren from Chapel Hill, NC
creates handcrafted terra cotta
pottery using a combination of
wheel throwing, jiggering, hand
building and original cast forms.
The unique majolica glazes are
certified food, microwave and
dishwasher safe.
Business Name: Sierra Terra
Cotta
Media: Pottery
Booth: A7
Juline Chevalier from Durham,
NC is part of the Durham String
Thing, a fiber arts community that
gathers to share projects, new
techniques, and good times with
good company. She creates
knitted and felted accessories as
well as hand-spun yarn.
Business Name: Durham String
Thing
Media: Fibers
Booth: E18
Thomas Clark from Raleigh, NC
makes his wood objects from
domestic and exotic hardwood. He
does not stain or dye anything,
but seeks to emphasize the
wood's natural characteristics and
beauty. His pieces are functional,
decorative, and minimalist.
Business Name: T&J Arts and
Crafts
Media: Wood
Booth: B2
Keith Collins from Salisbury, NC,
strives to capture the beauty and
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grade of nature in metal.
Business Name: Cascade
Sculpture
Media: Sculpture
Booth: F10
Mary-Anne Collins from Raleigh,
NC is a self-taught artist who
creates polymer clay sculptures,
each of which is meant to bring a
smile.
Business Name: Off The Deep
End
Media: Sculpture
Booth: F5
Patrick Crawford from
Huntersville, NC has always had a
love affair with mother nature.
Using visual puns, dreamlike
images, and fantastical creatures,
he explores the duality of nature
as it has been re-ivented by his
subconscious to create threedimensional mixed media
functional sculpture.
Media: Other
Booth: A14
Jamie Crockett is an artist from
Durham who describes painting as
“Painting is like watching the sky,
the paint moves across the
canvas, guided, I witness and
allow it to unfold” She works in
oils, acrylic and watercolor as well
as well as draw in graphite, pen
and ink, and charcoal.
Business Name:
www.jamiecrockett.com
Media: Painting
Booth: A20
Ann Marie Crosmun from
Durham, NC creates woven bead
and precious metal jewelry.
Business Name: Classic
Creations by Ann Marie
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A22
Krishna Dasi from Hillsborough,
NC Has been doing all natural
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henna body painting since she
was 10 years old.
Business Name: Gopi Arts
Media: Painting
Booth: B9
Jamie Davidson from Greenville,
NC A free lance nature
photographer; her images capture
intimate details that the natural
world so beautifully provides .
Business Name: New Life Photos
Media: Photography
Booth: B13
Penelope diMaio from Beaufort,
NC she says she doesn’t try to
reproduce a subject, just her
perception of it and will often
abstract an image.
Business Name: diMaio Artworks
Media: Painting
Booth: A24
Debi Dwyer from Boone, NC
creates captivating pieces with
handrolled art glass that display
vibrant color and texture. Her
pieces include 3-d stained glass
butterflies, fairies, Tiffany lamps,
and 2-d window pieces.
Business Name: Debi Dwyer
Designs
Media: Glass
Booth: G7
Ben Dyer from Hillsborough, NC
creates gold earrings, one of a
kind brooches, necklaces,
bracelets, and rings.
Business Name:
www.bendyerjewelry.com
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B1
Susan Evans from Chapel Hill,
NC creates 3-D mosaic
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birdhouses, mirrors, vessels, and
button bouquets, incorporating
tumbled antique glass pottery
along with iconic, utiliatarian,
everyday items.
Business Name: Tumbled Shards
Media: Glass
Booth: A9
Ed Fadool from Burlington, NC is
a professional artist for 10 years
and a graduate of VA
Commonwealth University. He
wants to grow as an artist
expressing what he sees through
color. His work includes oil on
canvas landscape and still
paintings.
Business Name:
www.edfadoolart.com
Media: Painting
Booth: F3
Larry Favorite from Durham,
derives his greatest satisfaction as
an artist from the sheer joy of
doing – being at one with the
wood.
Business Name: Favorite
Designs
Media: Wood
Booth: B18
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John Furches from Elkin, NC I
use printmaking to capture the
world around me; both natural and
manmade; original hand drawn
zinc plate etchings .
Business Name: John Furches
Gallery
Media: Printmaking
Booth: G4
Sakshi Gantenbien from
Asheville, NC. He enjoys being
creative and feeling the space
inside that is pure joy.
BellosLeatherArt is simply an
expression of that joy.
Business Name: Bellos Leather
Art
Media: Fibers
Booth: A17
Tim Garvin from Durham, NC
looks at the world in detail to find
and elaborate design. He then
creates his work in over 500
different colors of clay using the
ancient millefiori technique of
combining colored clays into a loaf
and slicing cross-sections from it.
Business Name:
www.bluebusstudio.com
Media: Jewelry
Booth: F16
Steve Goodspeed is a selftaught jeweler from Buckingham,
VA. He has been a full-time
jeweler for 20 years.
Business Name: Steve
Goodspeed Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: E10
William E. Gramley from
Lewisville, NC seeks to convey
the vivid colors of nature. He
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focuses on the contrasts of light
and dark in an Impressionist style.
He creates original framed pastel
pictures.
Business Name: Mostly Pastels
Media: Drawing
Booth: E12
Michael Grohs is an award
winning photographer from Cary,
NC, with array of landscape
photos.
Business Name: Your Planet -U
Media: Photography
Booth: E17
Charles Guidry from
Hillsborough, NC is a self-taught
artist who draws upon life and
"formal education." He hopes to
reflect satire and whimsy in
modern life.
Media: Wood
Booth: F11
John Gunther from Abingdon,
VA, concentrates on landscapes,
distance color forum and function
imaging.
Business Name: Gunther
Contemporary Fiber Designs
Media: Fibers
Booth: A2
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Jennifer Hamilton from Rock Hill,
SC has been painting
professionally for 30 years. Her
focus is to create the suggestion
of movement and mood using
vibrant color and expressive lines.
Business Name: Fine Arts
Emporium
Media: Painting
Booth: B20
John Harmon from Roaring Gap,
NC is a fine art photographer.
Business Name: John Harmon
Gallery
Media: Photography
Booth: G13
Janet Harriman from Smyrna, NC
is a jewelry artist with a fine art
background whose works are
based on collage, dream images,
and architectural details.
Business Name:
Harrimanjewelry.com
www.harrimanjewelry.com
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B15
Deborah Harris from Chapel Hill,
creates contemporary porcelain
while continuing to make beautiful
pots.
Business Name: Deborah Harris
Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: E20
Sylvia Harrison from Oxford, NC
creates hand-built and thrown
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stoneware that is not only
functional by also beautifully
decorative.
Business Name: Earthen Vessels
Media: Clay
Booth: E19
Wayne Hatcher from Charlotte,
NC paints small evocative
landscapes and neo-classical
style figurative works. He exhibits
throughout the Carolinas.
Media: Painting
Booth: F12
Jim Hayden from Siler City, NC is
a self-taught stained glass artist
for 9-10 years. Color, natural
forms or symmetry inform his
designs. He creates small to large
stained glass panels.
Business Name:
www.JimHaydenStainedGlass.com
Media: Glass
Booth: G2
Harry Hearne from Brasstown,
NC has been a studio potter since
1990. He creates Raku fired
pottery.
Business Name:
Media: Clay
Booth: B5-6
Kelvin Henderson from Suitland,
MD creates spiritual and musical
abstract images for the enjoyment
of all. His work includes acrylic
paintings.
Business Name: Fruits of the
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Spirit Fine Art
Media: Painting
Booth: F8
Bill Herb is from Townville, SC
has worked in Raku for 34 years.
Business Name: Dimensional
Design
Media: Painting
Booth: G3
Jennifer James from Durham, NC
strives to design with unusual and
unique beads in order to offer
truly one-of-a-kind pieces that suit
any personality.
Business Name: Jenni Leigh
Creations
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B21-22
Martha Johnson from Kill Devil
Hills, NC is a college artist who
draws inspiration from the natural
world around her and the words of
many authors. She is interested in
color and texture.
Business Name: Four Sisters
Studio
Media: Mixed Media
Booth: B4
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Janice Kalin from Durham, NC is
a mom creating thoughtful toys
and accessories to challenge
children's mind, motor skills,
creativity, and imagination. Lots of
love is poured into each one.
Business Name: Busy Little
Hands
Media: Fibers
Booth: F21
Craig Kassan from Franklington,
NC, always pushes his creative
boundaries.
Business Name: Kassan's
Creations
Media: Wood
Booth: A3
Kimberly D. Kearney from
Raleigh, NC designs woven bead
jewelry created with a needle and
thread.
Business Name:
WildWomanDesigns
Media: Jewelry
Booth: E16
Kyle Keeler from Fletcher, NC is
a lampwork glassblower recently
moved from the Rocky Mountains
of Colorado to the Appalachian
Mountains of NC. Inspired by the
great outdoors, Kyle attempts to
capture the beauty of the natural
world and recreate it in his glass
work. He creates functional and
decorative handblown glass art.
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Business Name: Visionary Glass
Media: Glass
Booth: G6
Fred Kessler from Mt Pleasant,
NC uses a flat piece of steel to
create animal and plant sculptures
that are full of fun and personality.
Business Name: Stories in Steel
Media: Sculpture
Booth: G5
Curtis Krueger from Wilmington,
NC is a traditionist obsessed with
photographing his neighbors'
garden chair in all 50 states.
Business Name:
www.curtiskrueger.com
Media: Photography
Booth: G1
Anna Kurtz from Efland, NC
designs ironwood jewelry with
silver & semi-precious stones.
Business Name: Anna Kurtz Fine
Arts & Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B19
Eduardo Lapetina from Chapel
Hill, NC uses symbolic shapes
and colors to express his deepest
emotions and passion for life.
www.eduardolapetina.com
Media: Painting
Booth: F1
Jay LeBow from Boiling Springs,
SC Beautiful nature photography .
Business Name: LEE MEE Art
and Design
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Jay LeBow Photography
Media: Photography
Booth: F20
Letitia Lee is a Hampton, VA
native who creates paintings in
vivid, energized colors through her
life experiences.
Business Name: LEE MEE Art
and Design
www.leemeeart.com
Media: Painting
Booth: E15
Deborah Levine from Wallace,
NC is a simple, loving, animal
rescuer who is open, free-spirited,
and creative. She creates
antiqued bronze and sterling
jewelry.
Business Name: Deborah Levine
Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B10
Andria Linn from Durham, NC
reveals a strong sense of self and
personal connection in her
seasonal and texturally infused
acrylic paintings. Her love for
people and nature inspires her
subject matter. She strives to
make her art accessible to the
public by offering her work in a
variety of mediums.
www.andrialinn.com
Media: Painting
Booth: F4
Robert Long from Wilson, NC is
a self-taught artist who creates
one-of-a-kind metal sculpture
creatures from junk and reclaimed
materials.
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Media: Sculpture
Booth: B8
Jo Lovvorn from Hillsborough,
NC thinks that creating in clay is
pure joy. Her aim is to capture the
joy and feel in the creative
process and convey that to others.
She creates wheelthrown, altered
cone 6 functional pottery.
Business Name: Lionshead
Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: A4
Richard Maldonado from
Charlotte, NC is a musical
instruments maker. He creates a
variety of bamboo musical
instruments including flutes, pan
pipes, and whistles.
Business Name: Quilla
Media: Other
Booth: F14
Roberta Marasca from Pittsboro,
NC make jewelry with an
emphasis on craft, wearability,
and simplicity of style.
Business Name: Roberta
Marasca Jewelry
Media: Jewelry
Booth: G10
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Kimberli Matin from Pittsboro, NC
Has been creating recycled metal
sculpture since 1993. She has a
new book "Ready, Set, Weld!".
Business Name: The Matin
Studios
Media: Sculpture
Booth: S11
Janine Maves from Raleigh, NC,
is a mixed media artist with a rich
history.
Business Name: Althea
Peregrine
Media: Fibers
Booth: E13
Alison McCandless from
Durham, NC creates beautiful
baby hats, felted bags and
scarves from yarns blended with
organic fibers such as soy wool,
bamboo, and cotton!
Business Name: Knitted Art
Media: Fibers
Booth: F15
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Alison McCauley from Wake
Forest, NC, is a representational
painter, capturing the light in
genre scenes and landscapes.
Business Name: Alison
McCauley Fine Art
Media: Painting
Booth: G8
Laurie McNair from Raleigh, NC,
is a part-time potter, with a fulltime passion to create hand
crafted, original pieces of art work
for special occasions.
Business Name: Hokulele Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: E21
Bruce Mitchell from Durham, NC
is a professional artist whose
paintings depict the hidden beauty
in scenes we Americans see
everyday but seldom notice.
Business Name:
paintingsbybruce.com
www.paintingsbybruce.com
Media: Painting
Booth: G12
William H Moore from Burlington,
NC creates carved wooden
animals and functional turnings.
For William, to see and feel an
animal appear from a block of
wood is most rewarding and, he
says, "I have to carve animals".
Media: Wood
Booth: A23
Peter Mulcahy from Pinehurst,
NC creates humorous cartoon
illustrations using acrylics and ink
on paper and/or acetate and he
describes himself as "still crazy
after all these years".
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Business Name: PeterPrints
www.peterprints.com
Media: Painting
Booth: E5
Dan Murphy from Chapel Hill, NC
is an abstract metal artist for 32
years, fulltime, since 1976 with
sculpture, adding jewelry 4 years
ago.
Business Name:
Media: Sculpture/Jewelry
Booth: F7
Stephen Nesnow from Chapel
Hill, NC is a potter who creates
functional artistic pottery by
incorporating his life experiences
into clay.
Business Name: Lonebrook
Pottery
www.lonebrookpottery.com
Media: Clay
Booth: A1
Elliot Norman from Richmond,
VA specializes in high-fire
stoneware pottery.
Business Name: Bear Paw
Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: B16
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Rhanna Nyman from Asheville,
NC, creates thousands of tiny
fabric squares interwoven with
free motion embroidery.
Business Name:
Media:Fibers
Booth: E9
Yumi Okita from Raleigh, NC, is
a fiber artist designing handbags
with creativity and style.
Business Name: iro
Media: Fibers
Booth: E22
Will Olney from Wilmington, NC
desires to make aesthetically
pleasing objects for people to
adorn themselves with and
cherish.
Business Name: Olney Originals
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A12
David O'Neal from Raleigh, NC
creates Native American style
flutes using modern methods that
draw upon ancient tradition.
Business Name: Rising Moon
Flutes LLC
www.risingmoonflutes.com
Media: Wood
Booth: F2
Debra Pagliughi from Swansboro,
NC has found an exciting way to
convey her love for nature and joy
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using copper and glass to create
enameled copper plaques.
Business Name: DP Fine Art
Media: Other
Booth: B14
Jessica Jordan Papke from
Cary, NC has a design degree
from NC State's College of Design
and specializes in stylish
accessories for women. She
describes her pieces as
"handcrafted jewels with an 'old
west meets India at Starbucks'
style".
Business Name: Rosy Revolver
www.rosyrevolver.com
Media: Jewelry
Booth: A19
Ginnie Parrish from Cary, NC
creates millefiori designs using
polymer clay, which satisifies her
fascination with colorful, intricate
patterns. She adds beads, wire,
feathers or charms to her artwork
and creates fun-spirited pieces.
Business Name: Blue Frog
Designs
www.bluefrogclay.com
Media: Mixed Media
Booth: A5
Molly Pasca from Durham, NC
strives for simple forms and clean
lines. She hopes that people
derive pleasure from using her
contemporary, functional, and
decorative pottery.
Business Name: Pasca Pottery
www.abcplace.com/pascapottery
Media: Clay
Booth: E2
Donald Portschy from
Greensboro, NC creates
contemporary and realistic metal
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sculpture wall hangings.
Business Name: Don's Designs
Media: Sculpture
Booth: E1
Gayland Preacher from
Greensboro, NC creates one-of-akind art pillows for the home. His
original designs are hand-quilted
and hand-embroidered.
www.ninepatch.com
Media: Fibers
Booth: A18
Noah Riedel from Chapel Hill,
combines traditional production
techniques with organic/modern
design sensibilities. His aim is to
create functional ware with an
original voice.
Biloya
Media: Clay
Booth: S10
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Clifford Robinson from Durham,
is a wood working artist
specializing in hand-built jewelry
boxes.
Business Name: Robinson
Woodworks
Media: Wood
Booth: A16
Mikel Robinson from Durham,
NC is a mixed media artist who
specializes in multi-media painted
panel, and vintage found-object
jewelry.
Business Name: Robinson Studio
www.mikelrobinson.com
Media: Jewelry/Mixed Media
Booth: A16
Christine Lush- Rodriguez from
Fredericksburg, VA, has a goal to
try to get clay to do what it
shouldn’t be able to do like
defying gravity.
Business Name: Fruitoid
Media: Clay
Booth: F18-19
Julie Rowe from Clayton, NC has
been working in clay for 25 years,
creating wheel-thrown porcelain
pitchers, bowls, vases, urns, and
finials.
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Business Name: JMR Pottery
Media: Clay
Booth: E21
Charlotte Runde from Chapel
Hill, NC is a quick caricature artist
who tries to capture both the
personality and facial features of
her subjects.
Business Name: Illustrations by
Charlotte Runde
Media: Drawing
Booth: B11
Reuven Sadeh from Chapel Hill,
creates metal crafted sculpture.
Business Name: Creative Iron Art
Media: Other
Booth: S4
Laurie Saldarini from
Greensboro, NC Handpainted silk
scarves inspired by nature;
painted floral designs using bright
colors to create wearable art .
Business Name: Mod Silk
Media: Fibers
Booth: E4
Tanya Schreiber from Durham,
NC creates colorful, functional
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mosaic pieces for the home and
garden using stained glass,
ceramic tile, beads and mirrors.
Business Name:
Media: Glass
Booth: F25
Paul Shatz from Charleston, SC
creates black and white
photography that celebrates the
spirit of conservation and
preservation in the natural
landscape.
Business Name: Paul Shatz Fine
Art Photography
Media: Photography
Booth: E23
Nelson Smith from Rocky Mount,
NC creates pieces of sculpture
which represent the world around
us. He says: "I have distinct
images in my mind that I am able
to reproduce within the metal".
Business Name: Nelson R. Smith
"METAL"
Media: Sculpture
Booth: F6
Renee Snell from Sanford, NC is
a graphic designer who creates
handmade lampwork beads from
Italian glass and uses them to
make one-of-a-kind jewelry
pieces.
Business Name: Snell Design
www.yessy.com/design
Media: Jewelry
Booth: E14
Mesa Somer from Durham, NC is
a writer/photographer who has
recently discovered the narrative,
lyrical beauty of gum bichromate
printing.
Business Name: Two Crow
Studios
Media: Photography
Booth: G9
David Sovero from Hillsborough,
NC was born in Lima, Peru and
creates semi-abstracto, oil on
canvas paintings.
Business Name: Soveroart
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www.soveroart.com
Media: Painting
Booth: G11
Nataliya Strumila from
Burlington, NC, loves to create
jewelry inspired by mother nature
that will always remind us of the
beauty surrounding us in our
everyday lives.
Business Name: Colors of Russia
Media: Jewelry
Booth: S9
Darcy Szeremi from Durham, NC
Copper, brass and sterling silver
jewelry - Expressive imagery in
metal.
Business Name: Colors of Russia
Media: Jewelry
Booth: B3
Francis Vega, Vega Metals, Inc.
is a collaborative team of full-time
Artist-Blacksmiths, specializing in
Art Railings, Art Furnishings, Site
Specific Sculpture and
Architectural Ornamentation.
Francis Vega has won national
awards, and major commissions.
Media: Sculpture
Booth: A25
Kiona Van Rhee-Wilson from
Raleigh, NC Mixed-media jewelry
using vintage wallpaper, coins and
beading.
Lucky Accessories
Media: Mixed Media
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Booth: G15
Joe Walston is a photographer
from Durham.
Business Name:
www.joewalston.com
Media: Photography
Booth: E7
Melanie Walter from Wilmington,
NC, has found creative expression
for the past 15 years in making
pine needle baskets. She loves to
share the beauty of natural
materials in her intricately woven
work.
Business Name: Pine Garden
Baskets
Media: Fibers
Booth: A11
Luba Warrack from Greensboro,
NC specializes in classic and
contemporary jewelry design with
gems using different techniques
including filigree, reticulation, and
plique-o-jour enamel.
Media: Jewelry
Booth: E3
Linda Welch from Brewster, MA,
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creates one of a kind antique
button jewelry.
Business Name: Sentimental
Journey
Media: Jewelry
Booth: E8
Richard D. Wilson, Jr. from
Greenville, NC is an international
award winning artist with a vision
to inspire and uplift others through
the message of his well crafted
pastel paintings on wallis sanded
pastel paper.
Business Name: Richard Wilson
Fine Arts & Graphics, Inc.
Media: Drawing
Booth: A8
Fred Wise from Durham, NC is
committed to creating images that
investigate the spiritual condition
of life. He creates acrylic and oil
paintings on canvas.
Business Name:
fredwise.homestead.com
Media: Painting
Booth: G14
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