Artisans 2019
Artisan Applications for 2020 open Jan 1-March 15, 2020.
Basketry
Judith Saunders
Judith’s woven sculptural baskets are representative of Ocracoke through the use of shells found on the island, as well as a number of plant materials harvested here. Her work is popular with both residents and visitors. Her display features the "shell series" baskets, plaited baskets in copper and painted paper, and woven bead earrings. beachbasket@verizon.net
Collage
Martha Johnson
Martha is a collage artist who draws her inspiration from the natural world, her travels far and wide, the words of many authors, and from color and texture itself. Her collages, cards, and magnets can be found in various local, regional, and national galleries. foursistersstudio@yahoo.com
Drawing
Stephanie Kiker Designs
Stephanie loves her life as a Hatteras Island girl, where she is literally immersed in the textures, colors, patterns, shapes, and movements that you will find in her soft pastel, and colored pencil/ink artwork. Her colorful art is available on functional items such as cutting boards, ceramic tiles and more!
Kim Mosher
Kim Mosher draws with colored pencils and creates highly detailed art of wildlife, fish, and animals. Kim is currently illustrating another children's Kim Mosher loves to draw North Carolina Wildlife with color pencils! Kim recently illustrated another children's book, Surf Dog's Beach Safety Tips. Her husband Kevin McCabe is the author of her books. www.kimmosherdesigns.com
Charley G Shipe
Charley creates mostly ink drawings that are inspired by her daily life on Ocracoke. She enjoys finding the tiny details of life and emphasizing them into their own piece of art. Her process begins with a rough sketch that she continues to refine until ready to begin the line work in pen. She creates texture to her art by playing around with various patterns of line and dot work. Often she finds herself inspired by tattoo flash and tries to incorporate that style into her work as well. This is her first year branching out into showing her artwork and she’s looking forward to sharing it with the island and its visitors!
Amy Draws
Amy Friend's work, rooted in foundations, delves into the complexities of life, finding balance between her desire for adventure versus security. Using metaphors and abstracts, her work maintains realism in its depiction. The compositions create a graceful struggle and an uncertain balance. Friend received a BFA from Art Academy of Cincinnati. www.amydraws.com
Glass
Karen Jefferson Stained Glass
Karen has lived in Virginia Beach for the past 30 years and has been creating stained glass art for 25 years. She incorporates all kinds of media into her work. She makes stained glass resin tables, glass blocks, sun catchers, stained glass panels and loves doing mosaic artwork such as stained glass mosaic on a surfboard, tables, trays and wall art. Her theme is anything coastal.
Tangled Turtle
Award winning artists Rosalyn Kutchins and Wendy Johnson make handmade glass wearable art. Using many glass forming techniques, each piece is paired with handcrafted fine metals to make unique one-of-a-kind pieces. Their art may be seen in many galleries in eastern North Carolina, from Oriental and New Bern to the Outer Banks. Tangledturtlenc@gmail.com
Karen Casey Fused Glass Designs
Karen designs fused glass jewelry, hair accessories, vases, dishes, clocks, mirrors, functional tables, and funky art pieces! Use of a saw and a combination of dichroic and other glass give them their unique look. Designs from elegant to wild! Come visit!
Nana Glass
Colors fascinate Nancy Aldridge. Through fused glass, she shares the wonder of color, light, and glass. She finds the luminescent pieces can encourage healing & transformation. Dichroic glass simultaneously reflects multiple colors, and is featured in her creations. Angels are often highlighted. Each piece is completely unique. nanaglass65@yahoo.com
Jewelry
Annie Grimes Williams
Annie Grimes Williams holds a BFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University. She currently lives in Winston-Salem, NC and works full time as a metalsmith, making work in her studio and traveling to exhibit in Craft Fairs as well as show in galleries around the country. She also teaches metalsmithing and enameling workshops at Sawtooth School for Visual Art. Annie uses traditional metalsmithing techniques with a contemporary style. Her work focuses on organic shapes and forms with a modern color palette, making for unique and stunning enamel jewelry.
Robin Macek
Robin Macek is a mother of three grown children and wife to her husband, Chad. They left Connecticut for the North Carolina coast in 2012, and started YouMeUs Designs shortly thereafter. In 2018, she and Chad moved to Ocracoke! Robin makes things that are fun and evoke great memories for people. Who doesn’t feel good when they think about the 60’s/70’s? instagram.com/YouMeUsDesign
Sea, Sand and Hand
Pembroke is a professionally trained goldsmith who receives inspiration from the natural beauty and history of authentic sea glass, and uses that inspiration to make fine jewelry in his home studio on the Outer Banks. The sea glass incorporated in his metalwork is never altered in any way.
www.SeaSandAndHand.com
www.SeaSandAndHand.com
Crystal Blackmon
Crystal Blackmon designs jewelry using beach finds from our islands. Whelks, imperial venuses and coral are examples of specimens she casts into silver, copper and bronze. These creations are complemented with gemstones, pearls and leather. Crystal’s working studio is The Empty Nest Studio and Gallery located in Frisco on Hatteras
Woodcrafty
Applying techniques found in Japanese yosegi, Jon Pitts creates intricate wooden mosaic jewelry by hand using scrap wood and broken skateboard decks. Jon Pitts creates all of his marquetry in small batches using analog wood tools.
Staci Sawyer Phebus
Juniper Bay Metals is the handcrafted jewelry work of NC native Staci Sawyer Phebus. Staci was born and raised in Coastal NC. She began what has become a lifelong journey of traditional metalsmithing while studying at East Carolina University School of Art & Design. Each piece of Juniper Bay jewelry is created by Staci's two hands in her Raleigh studio using semi-precious stones, sterling silver, gold-filled, and 18k vermeil materials." juniperbaymetals.com
Joy Hannan's Mermaids
Extraordinary mermaid jewelry in precious metals and gemstones designed and made by Joy, by hand, one at a time. She uses a thin saw, a torch, polishing wheel. They all have names! Whimsical and fun. Got fins?
Metal
Danny Robinson
Danny transforms vintage files and rasps into a variety of cutlery and tools for use in the home, on the job, and in the field. Much of the handle material for his knives is made by his wife from a variety of fabrics including burlap/denim/wool/etc.
Other Mediums
The Pepper Mill Shop
Kelly Sweitzer is a full-time artist and illustrator living in Wilmington, NC. Her food pun characters are created with one goal in mind: spread laughter. She and her husband, Charlie, travel to art festivals up and down the east coast year round, just to make folks laugh!
Cheek to Cheek
Sarah Setzco has been professionally face painting for three years, using high quality, FDA approved, skin-friendly face paints. Her designs range from simple cheek creations to full face "embrace the paint" artwork. 252-917-2998 www.facebook.com/CheekToCheekFacePainting
SeaCatchers
Beth's art is inspired by the beautiful beaches and wildlife on the Outer Banks. The treasures she finds during her frequent beach walks she calls "Sea Catchers”… Mobiles and pendants made from colored wire, glass beads and local shells. Her photos can be seen on sets of coasters made from marble tile, as well as notecards, matted and framed prints.
SUES Hand Painted Leather Handbags Bags
Sue Sweeney is a handbag artist creating wearable art pieces on leather. She graduated with a BFA from the University of the Arts, and worked for many years designing men’s/boys wear in the fashion industry in NYC, and illustrating for other companies. In 2011 she started painting handbags, starting with a 1950’s old ladies clutch, and the line evolved from there. She loves painting bags and seeing women wearing them! Facebook.com/SueSweeneyArt
Milk Street Soap Co.
Kim and Roger Meacham invite you to one of the BEST showers of the year! Sponsored by Milk Street Soap Co. Big, effervescent bubbles, shower blooming essential oil blends, and skin nurturing premium ingredients. Earth conscience handcrafting, organic and long lasting... a LOCAL FAVORITE! Warning: May be HABIT FORMING. MilkStreetSoap.com
Painting
Mike Lane
Mike studied Asian ink and watercolor painting while working in China. Coming back to the States in 2015, he continued with Asian painting style, but the subject matter became the coast of the Atlantic. This was a natural "coming-home" focus for him because his mom was born in Swan Quarter and lived many years in Kitty Hawk. In addition to doing shows, he enjoys teaching Asian style painting at the Visual Arts Center in Norfolk, Va.
On My Travels
Originally from UK, Manda Holden has lived in NC for 23 years and recently moved from Ocracoke to Beaufort. Her bijou whimsical ink and watercolor paintings are places and things she loves on her travels. Every piece is an original, framed in vintage up-cycled frames that she repaints in soft, salty colors fitting to the artwork. Instagram: onmytravels Facebook: On my travels mandaholden64@gmail.com
Meg Rubino
Meg Rubino paints in watercolor and acrylic. She is inspired daily by the natural beauty of the Outer Banks. Meg's favorite things to paint are snippets of beach living and also little things that make her happy. You can find her work on Instagram @yellowsolstudio and on her website www.megrubino.com.
Pottery
Marty Freeman
Marty is the owner of MGF Mudpies. What started as a hobby developed into a full fledge passion. She loves to make things with amazing color and form, but something that is very functional. She is a bit off centered and most of her creations are too! Marty loves altered and textured things. Sometimes a little crack in the right place can make a beautiful piece. She likes the unusual and rarely likes to make the same thing more than a few times. mgfmudpies.com
Oak Trace Pottery
Fun & functional! Christy Eubank has been creating pottery for more than 20 years. She has won multiple regional awards and her work has been featured in Our State Magazine. Working out of her gallery in Siler City, NC she is inspired by the endless possibilities clay provides. She makes hand crafted items using stoneware clay, textures, and a variety of glazes resulting in a colorful collection made for everyday use or display.
Textile/Fibre Arts
Carol Bullard
Carol is a multi disciplinary artist from Scotland with a love of many different mediums. She has a degree in photography and loves to shoot portraits outdoors. Carol also likes to draw and make things with her young son who is also very creative. She learned hand sewing shortly after moving to Ocracoke 15 yrs ago and started working with felt about 8 yrs ago. She finds sewing with felt to be very satisfying It allows her to create tiny, precious things and she have an obsession with tiny things!
Vicky Lowe
After many years working in New York designing housewares, Vicky Lowe moved from the city to Hatteras Island. She creates whimsical, bright watercolors, as well as functional items for the home, including pillows, table runners, and shower curtains. Her work is available in galleries on the Outer Banks and online at www.agoodcatch.us
Jennifer Ray
Jen is a local artist that uses recycled T-shirts to make awesome adjustable clothing for adults and kids. All one of a kind-made one at a time. She also crochets a variety of stuffed animal and dolls, including pirates, mermaids, and other sea life. New for 2019 Dinosaurs! www.facebook.com/jenraymadethis
Lazy Sundae's
Lazy Sundae's is new this year to the Ocrafolk Festival! It's the latest creative outlet for Sundae Horn, a longtime Ocracoke resident and Ocrafolk Festival performer and volunteer. A love for sewing, quilting, and upcycling Ocracoke t-shirts led to her create Lazy Sundae's collection of pillows, scarves, bibs, dolls, and bike seat covers.
Wood
Mac Ryan's Messenger
Barney Barker is a freelance musician and artist. All of his work is painted or scroll-cut from up-cycled wood. Themes vary from nautical to patriotic items. Much of his work is commissioned by business owners and individuals. He participates in a festival a month with his art work from coastal NC and SC to the mountains.
Jiri Kalina
Jiri’s work is inspired by his appreciation of natural, simple objects that have beauty and function and by his love of woodcarving. He grew up in the Czech Republic, where his father and grandfather taught him about the creative and functional potential of wood. Jiri’s father was a skilled woodcarver, and his grandfather helped to restore wooden parts of churches. Since immigrating to the United States, he has established a home in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he works as an antiques restorer and, in his spare time, creates wooden products for the home and kitchen, primarily, spoons, spatulas, bowls, and cutting boards. All these items are food safe and designed to look beautiful even as they are being used every day.
Crawford Evans
“Making saw dust” is Crawford’s hobby! Using wood from his brother’s SC property, they fell the trees, mill the logs and after stacked drying time, he handcraft benches, hope chests, porch swings, potting tables, patio bars, end tables, coffee tables, step stools, sofa tables, rocking horses and custom pieces.
Vic and Ellen Berg
Vic and Ellen are local Outer Banks carvers and have been so for over 30 years. They are known for their whimsical folk artsy carvings. They are one of the most prolific carving duos in the country. www.outerbankswaterfowl.com
Papa Herschel's Creations
Papa Herchel enjoys finding unique pieces of wood and releasing their hidden wonders. The fun of wood-turning is allowing the wood to determine the outcome of the turning. No turning is the same. His creations include uniquely designed bowls, miniatures, and decorative items such as Christmas ornaments and candle holders.