Virtual Art Fair
For the first time, FestivALL will transition the annual Capitol Street Art fair into a virtual Art Fair experience. This juried fair is dedicated to handmade items created by local and regional artists and will be open for the full 15 days of FestivALL.
This virtual platform provides the opportunity to shop small, support West Virginia’s economy, and learn about the techniques that go into making some of your favorite products.
Also, join us on Saturday June 27th for the premiere of the Virtual Art Fair Experience featuring behind the scenes looks at artists, performances by local musicians and street performers, and guest appearances from all sorts of FestivALL favorites. Virtual FestivALL Experience will premiere on YouTube on Saturday, June 27th at Noon.
AUTHORS
Carter Taylor Seaton
Huntington, West Virginia
Price Range: $15+
Carter Taylor Seaton is the author of Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music, and Living on the Land in West Virginia, two novels, and numerous magazine articles. A ceramic sculptor, she previously directed a rural craft cooperative and was a marketing professional for thirty years. She is the recipient of the 2014 West Virginia Library Association’s Literary Merit Award, 2015 Marshall University Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2016 Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
Michael Connick
Huntington, West Virginia
Price Range: $15+
Author of “HPD” – an award-winning crime novel set in Huntington, WV. Also, author of three Cold War historical spy novels: “Trapped in a Hall of Mirrors”, “Funhouse Mirrors”, and “Afghan Mirrors”.
BATH & BODY
Anderson Hollow LLC
Mannington, West Virginia
Price Range: $3-$12
Artisan Jackie Henderson makes handmade all natural goat milk soaps with milk straight from the farm! She and her team use the cold process method, adding in real essential oils and botanicals. They also hand-make goat milk lotion, lip balm and other products with doTERRA essential oils.
Good Horse Scents
Milton, West Virginia
Price Range: $3-$20
Artisan Connie Sue Boggess started making soap for her family at their farm in Milton in 2011. As a West Virginian, she is familiar with natural ingredients that have been used for generations and has used her knowledge of “folk medicine” to create homegrown products. After researching and studying she has come up with the perfect combination of fats, herbal preparations – infusions, teas, powders and resins to make handcrafted naturally nourishing soaps, body butters, scrubs, lip balm, bath bombs and other beauty products that are free of artificial fragrances.
Swallowtail Soaps
Spencer, West Virginia
Price Range: $5-$15
Swallowtail Soaps is a family owned and operated business in a small rural town in central West Virginia. Inspired to use healthy bath products for their kids, they now hand-make and sell high quality shea butter, goats milk, and olive oil soaps.
Wild Mountain Soap Company
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Price Range: $8-$30
Wild Mountain Soap Company was born in the hills of West Virginia where life’s pace is a little slower. People take care of each other and traditions are valued. The Peelish family invites you to see first-hand the benefits of hand-crafted soap – the way it should be made – with all natural ingredients from the hands of artisans who cherish the heritage of mountain living.
FINE ART
F. Brown Steele
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Price Range: $20-$1500
Fay Brown Steele creates both realistic and abstract scenes that are charged with energy. For years she studied the principals and elements of design, perception and composition, and continually studies to make breathtaking pieces of art. Steele works in a variety of mediums including watercolors, printmaking, watercolor pencil, egg tempera and mixed media.
She sells both original works and prints.
HepCatz Designs
Charleston, WV
Price Range: $2-$40
“A design firm in Charleston, WV established in 2014 by chief artist and can opener, Brenda Pinnell.
Brenda worked as a visual journalist for many years and has a lot of experience with illustration, newspaper and magazine design, informational graphics, writing, copy editing and crusty reporter-types. She left the world of daily deadlines to produce a product line based on Mr. Fluffy Butt and a cast of irreverent felines.
Brenda also likes to draw, design and write things that aren’t furry, so also does graphic design and promotional work for a variety of clients.
From Mr. Fluffy Butt, company spokes cat: HepCatz Designs’ can openers creates funny, irreverent cats and puts them on prints, cards, t-shirts, ornaments and other tchotchkes, such as Dr. Fluffy Butt’s Catnip-Marinated Mousies.
Ginger Danz Art
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Price Range: $7 – $2000
Ginger Danz is a professional artist living in West Virginia. Originally from Indiana, her roots are now firmly in the soil of this rugged and beautiful place.
“The biomorphic abstract shapes in my recent work are inspired by the female form, including the intricate beauty of the reproductive system. I incorporate collage and graphite to build texture, giving each piece a rich history. I then use fluid acrylic paints because of their transparency and blendability, and I prefer saturated modern colors. To me, the color of joy is teal blue! I compliment my beloved teal with soft, warm colors like peachy pink and sunny yellow.”
Recently she has been busy making original paintings, collages, hand-colored prints and reproductions of original paintings: prints, cards and magnets.
Antique Pet Photos
Huntington, West Virginia
Price Range: Prints $3+, Custom Orders $30+
“Horrifyingly cute anthropomorphic animals dressed in Victorian clothing”
Jennifer Cremeans combines real antique photographs with photographs of pets and wild animals to create cute and sometimes creepy artwork guaranteed to spark a conversation and reaction! She uses Photoshop to digitally paint the images together and adds textures that she has photographed for an extra vintage feel.
JP Owens Art
Scott Depot, WV
Price Range: $5-$400
JP Owens creates mixed media works and sculptures. He also creates unique designs for merchandise and has done large scales murals in Charleston, WV.
West Virginia Watercolor Wildlife
West Virginia
Price Range: $2.50-$10, larger-than-standard print costs will be determined upon request.
Kylie Joins is a biologist and birder, and her love for the natural world drives her art. She works in mostly pen and watercolor and depicts wildlife, usually birds and fish, with a focus on native West Virginian species.
“As a birder, I try to document my sightings with drawings of the species- there are few better ways to learn how to identify a bird than to spend time drawing and painting it!”
To purchase, you will be directed to a Facebook photo album titled “FestivALL Virtual Art Fair” for pricing and a complete catalog of designs available. When you have made your selection, email [email protected] with a mention of FestivALL in the subject line.
Melissa Doty
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $22 – $550
“I have had pen in hand as a near-constant doodler for over 40 years now, but it wasn’t until 2016 that I began to draw or paint – most days – with intention. Is it cliché to say that I’ve always dreamed of being an artist? Probably, but that’s my story. Fear of failure held me back. But then: watercolors! I was immediately hooked by their finicky magic and could not put the paintbrush down.
I try to create something every day. It connects me to others in ways I could not have foreseen, and I think that has been the best part of (finally) living a creative, genuine life.”
Melissa Doty is a self-taught artist who works mostly with watercolor and acryla gouache. Currently she is working on bold, “graphicky” florals and geometric patterns, with the occasional West Virginia landscape.
The Doodlin' Roo by Lisa Harrison
Putnam County, West Virginia
Price Range: $25-$180
Lisa Harrison grew up coloring and sketching, starting with a #2 pencil. As years have passed she has matured as an artist and has gone from black & white pencil portraits to different paints and pastels.
She currently works in pencil, pastels and acrylics and offers original works and prints.
Charly Jupiter Hamilton
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $50 – $3800
Charles Jupiter Hamilton creates captivating acrylic canvases, hand-built sculptures, carved and painted wood wall reliefs and self pulled block prints that combine the vitality of contemporary art with a rich and resonant figurative imagery. Highly expressive and known for a satirical visual humor; his conflicting colors, elaborate patterns and painterly casualness, come together in a kind of “new world primitivism.”
Charly’s popular visions of an art life are laced with his gonzo enthusiasm, child like mischief, and an eye full of wild weather.
Charles Ott
West Virginia
Price Range: 16″x20″: $125, 18″x24″: $175, up to $250
Charles Ott studied art at the York Academy of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art from 1968 to 1970. He quickly realized impressionism was his calling which he still pursues to this day. His countryside landscapes are inspired from the beautiful Branchland region of West Virginia where he lives, and his beach scenes are inspired from a non-tourist fishing village in Mexico that he has frequented for more than a decade.
If you see a piece you like, please call Charlie at 304-807-6749 to purchase
Glass Work
Mountain Art Glass
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Price Range:
Stephanie G. Danz creates original designs customized to meet client’s needs. Her inspiration comes easy, surrounded by the beauty of the New River Gorge National River and living in one of the nation’s “Coolest Small Towns”!
Traditional designs as well as nature are reflected in her finished pieces. These include custom panels, jewelry, kaleidoscopes, gift items and more. She also offers classes, and welcomes wholesale inquiries.
Creative Hands Art Glass
Mercer County, West Virginia
Price Range:
Nancy O’Farrel started out as a potter and has transitioned into glass work over the years.
Currently, she works with fused glass, especially dichroic glass. She is fascinated by dichroic glass — “the colors are captivating and alluring, and the glass appears to sparkle and dance as the glass transmits and reflect wavelengths of color.”
Her work can be found at Tamarack, Pipestem Park, Wakerobin Gallery, Riff Raff Gallery, Beckley Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing a piece, please email [email protected]
Elgood Mountain Rainbow Art Glass
Princeton, West Virginia
Price Range:
Artist Jeannet Justice creates beautiful, hand crafted, fused, original design dichroic glass jewelry including earrings, rings , bracelets and pendants.
These pieces both reflect light and project more than one color due to the nature of the dichroic glass that contains tiny metallic crystals. Justice also creates interesting luminescent art pieces such as nightlights and wind chimes. And new to their line of creations is 100% raw copper bracelets, earrings, pendants and rings! The copper in its natural state is helpful as an anti inflammatory and is also known to be anti viral.
Jewelry
Chrizart Creations
Buckhannon, West Virginia
Price Range: $12-$1000
Christine Keller creates unique, handcrafted jewelry using silver, copper, brass, enamel and aluminum. “Made in the Appalachian Mountains in the time honored way.”
Anna's China Jewelry
West Virginia
Price Range: $18-$500
Anna creates jewelry from broken china, as well as custom work from family china. Her work is made up of mixed metal, gemstones, and found object jewelry, and she also creates 3 dimensional gallery art pieces
Open studio by appointment
[email protected]
Phone: 304-415-5851
lace&sediment
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$50
“Born and raised in WV, I have always had a love for nature and it’s beauty. From a young age I discovered art, but didn’t always have supplies. I learned to be resourceful and used things around me to create – often times using nature as inspiration, or even a medium. lace&sediment – made by man and earth to cultivate lovely reminders of the beauty around us.”– Artist Jackie Poole
Making Cent$
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $5-$90
Matt Meadows handcrafts affordable, everyday-wear jewelry made from coins, tokens, mine scrip, and just about anything else of “value” he can get his hands on.
You can wear history on your finger, wrist, around your neck, or hanging from your ears with his pieces. In addition to coin jewelry, he also offers hand-stamped bracelets, earrings, and pendants that can be customized to your particular requirements.
MoondanceArt Jewelry
West Virginia
Price Range: $25-$1000
Jewelry that is designed and made by hand in the home studio of Marjory Moses in the mountains of West Virginia.
Many pieces are one of a kind featuring quality gemstones, cultured freshwater pearls, sterling and fine silver, copper, brass, gold-fill, and enamel. Designs that are repeated will still show the subtle variations that come from being crafted by hand.
MoondanceArt jewelry is fabricated using traditional metal-smithing techniques and tools. Hand-sawed, hammered, formed and soldered, each piece of jewelry is conceived as a little work of art that can be worn every day.
Mystical Crystal Jewelry
West Virginia
Price Range: $25-$1000
Unique handcrafted silver and gold jewelry using a variety of colorful gemstones, minerals, fossils + carvings by Robert Riffe
All pieces are hand fabricated in fine and sterling silver with bezel set stones. The layering of metals and unique stampings, quality stone choices + combinations + embellishments of gold + detailed work on the back sides of pieces are hallmarks of my jewelry.
“I have been working as a Silversmith, Lapidary + studio artist for over twenty years + exhibited at many juried art fairs and have my work shown in several West Virginia Galleries including The White Room in Thomas + Tamarack in Beckley.”
Ree Creation Boutique
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$300
Ree Creation Boutique is a mobile sustainable collective that designs artisan fashion and home décor accessories, and is owned by Sharee Fleming. Her mission is to protect the environment by manufacturing goods that are earth friendly and provide forgotten materials a new up-cycled life.
Shibui Wire & Gem Works
Charleston, WV
Price Range: $8-$200
Damienne Dibble makes variety of unique jewelry, hanging ornaments, wire bonsai landscapes, and digital art prints at her home studio. With over 50 years of experience in graphic design, studio pottery, mixed media sculpture, and artisan jewelry, she offers a wide range of products that can be worn or hung in your home.
“The name Shibui describes a Japanese aesthetic I strive for. It is like the art equivalent of umami.”
Softscapes
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $15-$50
Softscapes is a Charleston, West Virginia-based brand of handmade clay jewelry and homewares. All pieces are designed, cut, and assembled by Cynthia McComas (and occasional collaborations with close friends!)
The Artisan's Menagerie
Morgantown, West Virginia
Price Range: $15-$265
Artist Matt Benson uses a wide variety of techniques to create elegant jewelry pieces in silver, gold, and glass enamels.
The Pretty Pickle
West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$100
Nature made wearable. Real items from nature (pressed flowers, botanicals, moss, wings, etc.) encased in resin and made into wearable jewelry pieces and wall hangings made by Megan Brown.
Teresa Gail Designs
West Virginia
Leather
Morgan Rhea
South Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $20-$595
Morgan Rhea is a family owned and operated Luxury Leather Goods Business located in South Charleston, WV. All of their leather accessories are designed and handmade by husband and wife team, Morgan and Michael. Each accessory is artistically designed for everyday wear with expiration free quality, style and meaning to guarantee that it can be loved and enjoyed for generations to come.
METAL
Life's Forge
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$10,000
Bennett Life is a self taught blacksmith. He forges items like kitchen knives, fireplace tools, furniture, hunting knives, decorative items, hardware, signs and much more. Each item is forged on an anvil, and heated in a coal or gas forge.
“When I was 14 years old I was reading one of the books in the Foxfire series and came across a chapter that described how blacksmithing was first introduced into Appalachia back in the 1800s. I was intrigued by the important role the blacksmith played in the lives and culture of the Appalachian people back then. Not only did they do all the metal work, but at times had to fill different roles such as dentist and veterinarian.”
Mixed Media/Miscellaneous
Sculptured Stories
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $50-$250
Bob Fisher creates mixed media sculptures of welded steel composed of recycled articles from flea markets and restore businesses. Each piece has a story and each has a heart.
“These stories may come from a dream, a joke, a quote or a suggestion from someone. I lean toward the humorous or absurd (there being little distinction to me). Then comes the enjoyably creative parts. Firstly, looking over piles of nik-naks, recycled plumbing parts, old electrical parts and rusty steel. Anything that can be put together to give the story a physical form. These are then welded, brazed, soldered or epoxied together. Finally, if deserving they are given a small heart. “It’s alive..It’s alive!!” As the Tin Man said, “I once had brains and a heart. Having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart”.”
Bearbranches
West Virginia
Price Range: $20-$100
It’s a family affair! Pat, Dannette, Clay Parker & Leah Parker Loar create unique jewelry & accessories using hand carved deer antler, copper, wood, semiprecious gemstones and other natural materials.
The Carpenter Shop
Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Price Range: $5-$50
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kevin Jack Photography
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $25+
Kevin Jack is a life long Charleston, West Virginia resident. He picked up a camera a little over two years ago, and jumped into the world of photography.
His images capture the beauty of the hills of West Virginia and the life in the city.
“I will never stop being amazed by the things I now see. I have even ventured into portrait work. Examples of my work are listed in the galleries, all available for sale.”
Randall Sanger Photography
West Virginia
Price Range: $30-$250
Reflection in a Pool
South Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $4-$600
Jesse Thornton makes photographic fine art prints of West Virginia landscapes and scenery that emphasizes the moody and surreal, with a particular focus on night photography.
“I offer multiple display options such as elegant ready-to-hang pieces printed on vibrant aluminum metal and classic gallery wrapped canvas. I offer other West Virginia themed printed products that make great gifts for the WV lover as well; including smaller sized prints on luster photographic paper, stickers, magnets and 2021 calendars based on West Virginia night skies.”
Pottery
Mallymoon
West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$80
Tonya Browning is a self taught small batch potter specializing in unique and colorful designs for every day use.
“My pottery is meant to provoke feelings of joy and laughter and hopefully something you won’t find anywhere else :)”
Regina G. Swim
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$400
Regina Swim creates functional and decorative art pottery which includes hand built and wheel thrown pieces.
Finished works sometimes include driftwood, wire, beads, or lamp fixtures. Her Firing techniques include cone 6 oxidation, raku and obvara.
Siren of Jupiter Pottery
West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$100
Artist Kyrstin Riggs Harrell makes functional pottery that draws inspiration from her home in West Virginia, the ocean and space.
“I try to make work that’s pretty close to one of a kind and tiny works of art.”
Wingard Pottery
Fayettville, West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$75
Julie Wingard makes handmade functional stoneware pottery with various decorating techniques such as sgraffito, and screen-printing and decal work.
PRINTMAKING
Eddie Spaghetti Art
Price Range: $25-$200
Eddie “Spaghetti” Maier is a woodcut printmaking artists. He offers both framed and unframed prints.
“I work with woodcut printmaking. Woodcut printmaking consists of carving a slab of wood, inking the surface then printing onto handmade paper. My intention is find a deeper connection with the world we live. I want to create. Even as I write these words, I feel an urge to start tinkering in the studio. It’s about putting things together, taking things apart, being aware for around the corner lies that next great found treasure. The child within helps to keep me in the moment.”
JustAJar Design Press
Marietta, Ohio
Price Range: $4-$100
justAjar Design + Press is the mighty tandem-team of Sara Alway & Bobby Rosenstock. They create handcrafted woodcut and letterpress art including gig posters, art prints, stationery, t-shirts and more.
“We are all about preserving and sharing the traditional crafts of hand-setting type and carving wood. All of our work is very labor intensive and of the highest quality. If you are interested in learning more about what we do send us an email, or even better come and visit!”
Liz Marie Print & Design
West Virginia
Price Range: $5-$1000
Liz Marie is an artist, printmaker, and an elementary art teacher living in West Virginia.
“I carve limited edition reduction prints and make block printed textile goods. My reduction prints and textile designs use visual imagery that echo a moment, a memory, or a feeling at a specific point in time. Translating subjects in that moment into imagery allows me to carry moments in a way that my working memory holds. Imagery is drawn from experiences, places, people, flora, and fauna in Appalachia. Part of creating is also have the privilege of connecting with others. People connect their personal journey, emotions, and memories with the work through a differing perspective.”
Interested in a print you see? Email Liz at [email protected]
Questionable Press
Price Range: $5-$35
Questionable Press is artist and printer Sarah Brown and a few tons of vintage printing equipment. Sarah hand carves images, pairs them with vintage hand-set type, and letterpress prints them. With this process she makes sculptural kits, cards, and limited edition prints.
SPECIALTY FOOD
Nana's Kitchen
West Virginia
Price Range: $2-$4
Handmade by Connie Fisher.
Sour Dough rolls, pepperoni rolls, and Amish Friendship Breads in cinnamon, apple with pecans, Tuttle, brownie, cheesecake with blueberries and many more.
She also makes orange dreamsicle, raspberry swirl, peanut butter, & chocolate fudge. And don’t forget about the Texas Sheet Cakes, cookies, pumpkin rolls, and yeast breads!
Sassy Gals Gourmet Treats
West Virginia
Price Range: $5-$10
Ginger Harmon makes handmade treats which are packaged by hand. She uses West Virginia moonshine and bourbon to make her Blackberry and Apple Pie roasted pecans. She also makes dip mixes and slush mixes are handmade in at a time.
The Leavitt Farm
West Virginia
Price Range: $4-$8
Shari Leavitt makes a variety of pickles, relishes, jellies, butters, moonshine BBQ sauce and moonshine salsas.
TEXTILES
Spencer Cole
Winfield, West Virginia
Price Range: $4-$8
WOODWORK
Black Locust Woodshop
Charleston, West Virginia
Price Range: $2-$1000
Black Locust Woodshop is a custom woodworking shop in downtown Charleston, WV, featuring the work of Casi Pourfarhadi and Daniel Riffle. They make custom furniture, wood gifts, WV themed items, kitchen and practically anything from wood (and sometimes metal)!
Their brick & mortar shop also features local artists.
Cartwright's Creations
Grafton, West Virginia
Price Range: $3-$100
“I have collected historic and/or sentimental woods from around our state and currently have over 400 different sources of wood representing 50 of the 55 WV counties. Examples might be from buildings at WVU and other colleges and universities, covered bridges around the state, old school buildings, or trees of significance.
Most of my creations are pens but I also make letter openers, seam rippers, bottle openers, wine stoppers and other turned items using these woods. I also enjoy using wood that would be important to the customer such as a piece of Grandpa’s barn.”
Heirloom Footstools
Buckhannon, West Virginia
Price Range:$245 – $285
Heirloom Footstools are designed to provide comfort and style to your home.
Each footstool is made from WV hardwoods – Black Walnut, Cherry or White Oak – and topped with an attractive and durable upholstered top. Delivery possible if located within reasonable distance of Heirloom Footstool shop in Buckhannon WV.
“With a footstool nearby, you’ll find yourself putting your feet up and settling in to read a good book, catch up on your favorite media or close your eyes and take a nap. Who knew that an Heirloom Footstool could become your path to relaxation? Enjoy.”
Pattern of Integrity
West Virginia
Price Range: $10-$300
Amber Smith custom designs handcrafted wooden wall art ranging in various sizes and colors.
Products include West Virginia state cutouts, quilt pattern squares, starburst rounds, arrows, Mountain art, geometrical designs and more.
Tweeddale Dream Realm
West Virginia
Price Range: $7-$3000
“I make furniture and art using wood as the primary medium. My work is whimsical and colorful with most pieces being an interpretation of the natural world.”– Artist Nathan Tweeddale
Z&Z Woodcrafters
West Virginia
Price Range: $15-$1000
Artist Stephen Talkington creates wooden items made from local lumber using traditional techniques. Handmade goods include cutting boards, serving trays, butcher blocks, clocks, jewelry boxes, keepsake boxes, and furniture.