The MakerCraft Grand Opening will be held on November 8th from 6 PM until 8 PM at 6 South Main Street in Mont Alto PA. We wish to thank the many community members that assisted us on opening our business and give them a chance to see what we have done with the place. Light refreshments will be provided.
The Pop-up Market, running from 10 AM to 6 PM on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 8th, 9th, and 10th, focuses on fine art and homemade/handmade crafts and items. We wish to support regional artists and crafters while stimulating the economy and giving back to our community. For our first event we have chosen fourteen artists and artisans with a variety of media, and broad range of prices.
Pop-Up Artists
Sleeping Cat Creations
www.sleepingcatcreations.com
Sleeping Cat Creations designs quilts, sells quilt patterns, teaches workshops, gives lectures, and creates beautiful quilted works of art. Patti Laird is the sole proprietor and specializes in creating memory quilts and quilts with traditional patterns. This pop-up event will be displaying more than a dozen of her works.
The Gentle Beader
Kay Ackerman is a beadwork artist who had no idea when she began beading thirty years ago that she would become obsessed with pieces of glass with teeny tiny holes in them. Her interest has expanded to working with other shiny things, such as stained glass and painted metal filigree. Her favorite beading techniques are bead embroidery and various beadweaving stitches such as peyote and right angle weave. She takes her inspiration from nature, architecture and historical decorative arts traditions."
Dancing Pig Pottery
Facebook.com/DancingPigPots
For over 25 years Dancing Pig Pottery has made wheel formed stoneware pottery; mostly functional. We make mugs, plates, bowls, goblets & cauldrons, yarn bowls & planters. Celtic motifs or plain practical plausibly period pots. Many whimsical, pithy, political, pagan or profound. All handcrafted with love.
Prancing Pony Pottery
www.prancingponypottery.com
Prancing Pony focuses on creating small-batch production wheel-thrown and hand-built stoneware that can be enjoyed every day. Each piece of pottery is individually crafted, fired, and then glazed by potter Anna Marie Torre Wright in her Richardsville, Virginia, studio. Since each piece of Prancing Pony Pottery is hand-made by the artisan, your item will be a one-of-a-kind piece of pottery that you can use and enjoy every day! Stoneware pottery has a wonderful feel and heft to it. Food seems to taste better when eaten from hand-made pottery; tea a little warmer when sipped from a mug that was hand-formed just for you. Glaze colors can run the gamut from a translucent blush over the clay’s surface to intense tones with a lot of depth. Many of Prancing Pony Pottery’s pieces are glazed in earthy hues over a clay body that has a lot of character.
The Painter’s Perch
www.thepaintersperch.com
The Painter's Perch is everything art… original artwork, prints, art classes, hand-crafted gifts and more by professional artist, Deborah Slocum. Contact her at ThePaintersPerch@gmail.com Whether you're 7 or 97, we encourage people to get in touch with the creative energy of art in a relaxing and fun environment. In addition to art classes, Deborah Slocum also does fine artwork in watercolor, oil, acrylics, alcohol inks, charcoal, and mixed media. Commissioned pieces can also be requested. Original artwork can be found in our online gallery.
Sara’s Mystical Beads
Delightful selection of beaded bracelets, necklaces and earrings.
JCards
www.instagram.com/jacinature/
5x7 blank greeting cards depicting various photographs of natural settings.
Joe's Cork Flyrod Poppers
Joe, a lifelong dedicated fisherman, carefully crafts a hand-made, as well as beautiful and effective, assortment of flies for the serious fly fishermen.
Loops and Love by Nan
www.instagram.com/loopsandlovebynan
Handmade gifts and accessories for family and home.
Hanna Triplett
Beautiful embroidered rope bowls and fabric wallets.
Carol Fogelsonger
Original paintings & prints
Iris Bog Handweaving
I learned to weave while a student at Berea College, KY. Berea is renowned for preserving Appalachian arts and culture. The appreciation I gained there has remained with me throughout my life. I love using the traditional Appalachian weaving patterns and the ethic of making use of every scrap. As a committed recycler, I rarely buy new yarns or materials for my handweaving. My fiber stash is full of reclaimed, upcycled and discontinued goodies as well as vintage, attic and flea market finds. My handwovens are one of a kind, designed and made by myself. Each weaving is a puzzle of color, texture, fiber and design. I love a good puzzle but once it has been solved I do not need to repeat it. The exception being intended sets such as placemats. Although I love traditional patterns, many of my designs are contemporary or of rag construction. Most often the design of any given project is inspired by a fiber from my stash. I enjoy embellishing some of my work with vintage or found items including buttons or jewelry. I also have a collaboration with Caledonia Clayworks for one of a kind ceramic buttons to complement my weaving.
Peggy's Woodworking
It all started when I wanted to make some frames for cross stitch pictures I was working on. Ironically, once I started woodworking, I never made another cross stitch picture. From the beginning, I have been self taught, learning to make everything from furniture to Christmas ornaments. My pieces are of my own design. I enjoy using both exotic and domestic hard woods. I start with raw lumber and continue through the creative process to the finished object. It is important to me not to waste any of the precious resource of wood, so many of my pieces are designed to use the wood scraps from larger projects. For example, I developed the chaotic trivets specifically to use the smallest scraps. Many of my creations are one of a kind.