Randy Albright
Piqua, Ohio
Jewelry

Richard Barker
Salt Lake City, Utah
Ceramics

Carole DeFelice
Woodworking

Marjorie Diehl
West Springfield, Pennsylvania
RayMar Framing on Stone

Marjorie and her husband handcraft a unique method of framing and hand painting art on flagstone. Her husband matches a print to the flagstone texture and cuts it to size of the print with hammer and chisel. We dissolve the backing on the prints, which produces a film of color that, we hand rub into the surface texture of the flagstone. It is then hand panted to extend the color and lines of each stone, this gives the stone a finished and professional look. The final process is to coat the flagstone with polyurethane to protect the painting. All of the flagstone is quarried in Pennsylvania.

Wanda Dillon
Decorative Painting

Rita Disbrow
Newark, Ohio
Potpourri Oils

Rita has over 35 scented oils, room sprays and potpourri blends. She uses rose hips and other botanicals to create her different blends.  She uses colors schemes to match the scents. In addition she creates garlands interlaced with botanicals that can be hung on the walls, used as tiebacks, and on mantles.

Larry Eicher
Mansfield, Ohio
Photography
www.larrysimages.com

Larry holds the BS in Education degree from The Ohio State University, graduating in June of 1967.  He worked in public education k-12 for thirty years.  He taught band and worked with special needs children during that time. Larry is currently retired.

He grew up on a farm in Midwest Ohio.   He has three Children living and 7 grandchildren.  His wife, Carol, has two children, two grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

Larry has been interested in photography since his own high school years.  He experienced a resurgence of interest, as he became aware of the digital aspects of modern photography.  He is owner and sole operator of Larry’s Images, www.larrysimages.com.

Larry speaks about himself. “I am nearer the end of my life than the beginning.  My life has been a series of endeavors at learning where I might fit into this world and more importantly getting to know myself and being comfortable with me.  Since that is nearing completion, I think that I might like to share bits and pieces of myself with others.  Photography is the vehicle through which I can do that.  No one else sees the world through my eyes.  I see things that I like.  I like them because I am.  Through photography, I can try to share them with others.  I am frustrated much of the time because I lack the technical proficiency to capture that which I desire to share.  I am working on that. 

I use a Canon 20D Digital SLR.  I use Adobe Photoshop CS to optimize my images.  I print with an Epson R2400 printer.  I enjoy showing the beauty of nature.  Much of my work is done at Gorman Nature Center and Kingwood Center, Mansfield.”  

Chuck & Sheila Grimes
Cornerstone Showcase
Columbus, Ohio
Woodworking, Beaded Jewelry

John Hollingsworth
Howard, Ohio
Wood Dulcimers

The dulcimer is a neat instrument. All of that music can come out of three or four strings. About seven years ago, John Hollingsworth discovered this wonderful instrument with a “sweet sound.” That’s what the name dulcimer means. Not to be confused with the hammered dulcimer, this instrument is often referred to as the Lap or Mountain dulcimer. It is truly an instrument made for easy playing. One of only two acoustic instruments developed in the United States; the other being the 5 string banjo.

After buying two dulcimers, Hollingsworth decided to try and build one.  He has since completed the construction of 124 dulcimers, 50 “Banjer” sticks, 10 cardboard dulcimers (for student instruction), 2 Dulcibros, 3 Bowed Psaltires and one studio harp (kit).

Hollingsworth’s dulcimers’ are composed of solid hardwoods and softwoods. The body is usually a hard wood (walnut, cherry, maple, sassafras, hickory, butternut and mahogany) and the top a softwood (Sitka spruce or western red cedar.) Occasionally he builds one with a hard wood top. The fingerboard is walnut, cherry or maple. String lengths vary from 20 to 28 inches with 27 inches being the most common. Sound holes may be hearts, weeping/teared hearts, hummingbirds/vines, cross sectioned walnuts, round holes, ivy, Kokopelli, teddy bear, f-shape, maple leaf, horse cacti and others.

This year marks Hollingsworth sixth year at the Dan Emmett Festival. Hollingsworth will be available to demonstrate the Mountain Dulcimer to share and enjoy the “sweet sound.”

Bob Holt
Puppet Creations
Hand Puppets, Hugging Puppets & Portable Puppet Theaters

Joy Ingram
Brown Bear Pottery
Newbury, Ohio
Pottery/Stoneware

Rural Ohio artisan Joy Ingram creates distinctive and functional pottery that  not only looks beautiful in your home, but pottery you will enjoy using. Each piece is handcrafted on the potters wheel, glazed with lead free and food safe finish and then fired at 2167 degrees Fahrenheit.  The final product: a beautiful piece of stoneware, safe for oven, dishwasher, freezer, and microwave.

Janet Lee Jewelry
Bit of Nature
Jewelry

Silvia Montera Monahan
Native Art of the Americas

Kirill Novikov
Gahanna, Ohio
Painting

Roger Ratliff
Pickerington, Ohio
Jewelry

Roger Lee Ratliff currently resides in Pickerington. Born and raised in Jeweled Ridge, VA, he joined the Air Force until 1966. Roger began silversmithing classes in 1995. He continues classes at the Cultural Arts Center to refine his skills, having also attended jewelry classes at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.

Karen Scott
Hand Turned Treasures
North Royalton, Ohio
Wood
www.handturnedtreasures.com

Hand Turned Treasures is located in North Royalton, Ohio (a southwest suburb of Cleveland).  The company was started in a 10 x 20 room.  As it expanded and grew, so did her work area.  After taking over her 20 x 20 two-car garage, the 10 x 20 room was just what Karen needed for finishing her pieces.  By adding a new 20 x 20 two-car garage for their vehicles, she kept everyone happy.

Karen's fascination with wood, species, color, texture and the endless creativity show in each individual piece. After 13 years in the craft, approximately 8 hours a day, each project brings a new challenge.  Every finished piece a new reality.

Hand Turned Treasures has gone international via the web site www.handturnedtreasures.com.

Gail Thompson
Mount Vernon, Ohio
Jewelry

Talented crafter Gail Thompson designs elegant 14k and sterling silver customized jewelry that says all the right things. Gail’s lovely hand crafted pieces symbolize everlasting bonds of love and friendship. Mother’s bracelets with children’s names, Grandmother’s birthstone bracelets and necklaces, Ohio State watches and jewelry are just a few of the creations you will see when you visit crafter Thompson.

Diana Van Bruggen
Westerville, Ohio
Fused Dichronic glass jewelry

Ms. Van Bruggen is a glass artist with a passion for color, design, and creating one-of-a-kind gifts. Each piece is handmade and kiln-fired by the artist.  Many have a hand-designed copper heart as part of the glass design.

Robert Walker
Loudonville, Ohio
Graphite, Watercolor, and Acrylics
www.emerging-artist.com

Robert Walker has been dabbling in art all his life. He worked in the field in his early adulthood, with a stint at Autry Brothers in Denver as a staff artist, and a short exposure in a stained glass window studio in Pasadena California. The need of raising a family, surviving to his current age, and eating precluded the following of his dream. However, when he retired a few years ago, he picked up that dream where he had abandoned it forty years earlier.

Walker now has a small gallery, “The Stonewall,” in Loudonville, Ohio where he creates and displays his works in graphite, acrylics, and watercolors, with occasional ventures into pastels, oils, pen and ink, and colored pencils. His work has been displayed and taken awards at Creative Images in Mt. Vernon, Shremshrock Gallery in Columbus, The Ashland Center for the Arts, The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University and several years at the Ashland County Fair. He has shown his work at several local businesses in Mt. Vernon, Loudonville, and Ashland, Ohio. He has displayed and sold his work at Loudonville’s Art in the Park, the Dan Emmett Festival in Mt. Vernon, along with hisown Stonewall Gallery in Loudonville. His work is also included in several private collections, both in the States and abroad.

Tonyia Ward
Columbus, Ohio
Hand painted glassware

Nancy Wasserman
Columbus, Ohio
Glass Jewelry

River Wolfe
Columbus, Ohio
Jewelry

Each piece of jewelry in River Wolfe's line is handmade by the artist in her Columbus, Ohio studio.  Most of the beads and pendants are handmade with polymer clay.  Her clay work is unique and illustrates what can be achieved when this versatile medium is stretched and explored thoroughly. 

You will also find the signature Fairie Bottle and Piecekeeper necklace in her collection.  These items are Wolfe's creations; she owns the copyright to the idea and name.  Both the Fairie Bottle and the Piecekeeper were created to fulfill her need to keep memories close and in secret places.

As you look at this collection, you are looking at a piece of history.  The story goes something like this:

"When I’m in the garden, or looking at bolts of fabric, I am drawn to the vivid colors and how they mingle in flowers and cloth. My clay transforms itself into these colors as it rolls through my fingers and gives way under my palm.  Ideas turn themselves into reality as a bead is shaped, rolled, stamped, and possibly painted. Lines and curves are smoothed, sanded, maybe buffed or glazed.  Reds turn into magenta next to silver and a spiral appears.  Aztec Gold mica dust falls into cracks, which become words or leaves.  Gold leaf adheres to clay, moves into a picture, a pattern, and finally a piece of my art jewelry. Thank you for choosing my unique piece of history."

Douglas Woodland
Glass Blowing