Fall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Deb Becker
Deb Becker’s current craft grew from making wood crafts to sell at local craft shows in the mid ‘90s. She took a class in basic stained glass techniques and discovered that she loved working with...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Jim Whetstone
Jim Whetstone started to teach himself to work with wood in the summer of 1966 when he was allowed to work independently in his local high school wood shop. Since then, Jim’s grown from being a casual...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Leslie Halaby-Moore
When we asked member Leslie Halaby-Moore how she came to be a chain maille artisan, she told us about a chance encounter at a bead show. “I was shopping at a local bead show for an unrelated project...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Carole Kyle
Carole Kyle has been creating and making handbags – functional and individual pieces of wearable art – for over eight years. Carole says, “I love to incorporate many diverse textures of upholstery...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Lana Heckendorn
After earning a degree in printmaking, Lana Heckendorn set out to do sculptural work in clay at a community art center Lana tells us she learned wheel-throwing as a means to further her sculpture, but...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Richelle Dourte
Metalledwith’s Richelle Dourte is a self-avowed DIY-er in almost every area of her life, so when she was thinking about a gift idea to celebrate the women in her wedding party, she knew she wanted to...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – David Welsh
David Welsh began woodburning many years ago, and, after growing some gourds in his back yard, he wondered whether he could woodburn on them. He visited a craft show, where he saw other work with...
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Nick Zdinak
“Pysanky is part of my heritage, but no one in my family did the art. I always saw them at other houses and always being interested in art, decided I wanted to give it a try,” says member Nick Zdinak....
View ArticleFall Into Fine Craft Artisan Spotlight – Dave Bowman
Dave Bowman’s medium is wood. He’s been doing furniture repair and interior millwork carpentry for thirty years. It’s the whimsical applications of carpentry that fascinate and challenge him, though,...
View ArticleAre You Ready for Some Fine Craft?
We are! Fall Into Fine Craft is almost here. At ten o’clock tomorrow morning the doors will open at the Carlisle Expo Center located at 100 K Street in Carlisle, PA! Starting tonight, our cadre of fine...
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