An extraordinary Artisan Market will captivate your imagination with hand-made treasures for your home or that special gift.
The 2025 Victorian Chautauqua Artisan Row will offer an array of top artists in jewelry, pottery, textiles, and three-dimensional designs. Whether you're looking for that unique home or utilitarian accent, 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.
Alexander Hastmann
H&H KNIVES
Alexander Hastmann creates knives with Antler Bone handles. No two are the same, making each knife unique and special, while highlighting the beauty of nature. He can also custom-make knives from a supplied bone, creating a wonderful hunter’s memento.
Woody & Katrina Knott
KNOTTY RES
Woody and Katrina Knott create works of art that marry wood and resin. Bowls, trays, and tables can be decorative or utilitarian. See a full display of unique goods at Artisan Row.
Jennifer Clark
28 STITCHES DESIGN
All of Jennifer’s items are completely handmade. Herb-stuffed poppet dolls and stuffed animals make up her menagerie of imaginative and personalized items. Choose from elephants, hippos, bunnies, bears, kitties, and more for an individual creation made with love and care!
Jeanette Patterson, Steve Imes, and Kate Kremann
CRAFTOVER
Three artisans combine their skills under one roof. Meet Jeanette, Steve, and, who together,l offer up hand-made greeting cards, journals, books, and novelty lamps in the steampunk style. Find that unique and charming item you can’t live without.
Steve Imes
UPCYCLED LAMPS
Steve Imes doesn’t think a lamp should be ordinary. His illuminated designs take unexpected objects of beauty to light up not only your room but also your spirit. Musical instruments and gadgets of all types become works of art you can cozy up to in the dark.
Lorie and Ron Skidmore
DEEP CREEK POTTERY
Potters Lorie and Ron Skidmore throw down some of the most beautiful handcrafted ceramics and mosaics you can find. They love sharing their passion for pottery by teaching classes throughout the year at their McHenry, MD studio.
Cat Gnatowski
GRACIE MAE COMPANY
Cat Gnatowski is inspired by nature. Painting primarily in oils, acrylic, and watercolor, on canvas, paper, and wood is her medium of choice. Most of her work is created in part, “Plein Air,” on-site, and from observation. She likes to inspire the discovery of beauty in the surrounding world.
Dave Arnold
VINTAGE LAMPS BY DAVE
Find that perfect illuminated accent piece made from found objects or crafted from scratch. Dave Arnold uses his creativity to fabricate utilitarian works of art that make perfect family heirlooms.
Gisele Mohler
GLASS ART CREATIONS
Gisele creates stained glass panels, suncatchers, holiday ornamental suncatchers, and garden stakes. As a byproduct, she additionally creates glass mosaic flower planters and patio tables.
Sara Cartron
SOAP A SAURAUS
Soap·A·Saurus offers handmade, cold-process bar soap and other skincare products. The solid natural body products are long-lasting, travel-friendly, self-preserving, and are free of synthetic preservatives. Everything is environmentally friendly, palm oil-free, locally sourced (when possible), and uses plastic-free packaging to help reduce its carbon footprint. Small batches ensure you receive quality handcrafted products.
Hertiage Artisan
Dave Wilson
VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
Wet plate photographer Dave Wilson revived an early method of photography that gained him much attention in Gettysburg. At the Victorian Chautauqua, you can commission a one-of-a-kind tintype photograph. Dave is known for his seductive aesthetic and beautiful images that capture his subjects as if they are from a bygone era.
