Daniel Brinkerhoff – Daniel is known for his unique furniture and low-tech community oriented inventions. His humorous and original objects are created from the junk yard or natural world or both.
Katharine Brown and Alice Kennedy – Katharine uses media of all sorts to create her greeting cards. Usually her inspiration is the great outdoors, and specifically, her garden. As Alice travels, she collects nature’s shells, rocks, and sea glass, which she works into her jewelry. Her pieces combine color, style, and form to create a unique statement for the wearer
Michael Brown – Michael’s favorite medium is acrylic, although he has worked in oil and watercolor. Michael also does chalk-talk drawings and teaches art to upper level elementary and high school students.
Jolene Burger and Jennifer Whitmore – Jolene and Jennifer are best friends who share a passion for jewelry. They use seed beads, precious stones, wooden beads, and shells they have personally collected from beaches in Florida and Mexico.
Ellen Cooper-Festa – Ellen is a clinical psychologist, who makes artistic gemstone jewelry and accoutrements. Tweak up your life with her necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and anklets.
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MaryAnn Corey- MaryAnn is co-founder and CEO of The Portable Playhouse Inc., a non-profit organization now located in Forest City. Her organization provides a unique art therapy program for hospitalized children and women. MaryAnn is an artisan of handcrafted jewelry and enjoys many art mediums.
Dan Cox- Dan moved to Wayne County with his parents in 1986. He opened Aura Tie-Dye in 1994 after high school with his brother Michael; Dan attended Joe Kubert School of Cartooning & Graphic Design.
Since 2002 he has been the sole proprietor of Aura Tie-Dye.
His clients include Ritchie Havens, The Bronx Zoo, Savoy Brown, Many New York City designers and Honesdale Roots & Rhythm.
He specializes in custom tie-dye designs, which he retails & wholesales nationwide.
www.auratie-dye.com
Marie-Therese David – Marie is known for her delicate decorative birdhouses, her unique handcrafted pillows, and her beautiful oil paintings.
Eric Fausnacht – Eric’s acrylic and oil paintings explore the realms of texture, color, and strength in the portraiture of domestic fowl as well as landscapes.
Patrick Fennel – Patrick returned to Honesdale, PA, after residing for many years in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, where he still exhibits. Patrick’s artworks in acrylic are “memories of times gone b
Lenni Gritz - Lenni is a talented artist whose ceramic works have an exquisite sense of form and function.
Roger Hill – Roger’s pensive landscapes impart a sense of tranquility and are rich in color and symbolic imagery. Artist, organic farmer and musician, Roger earned his BFA from Miami University in Ohio.
Jeff Hiller and George Knickerbocker - Growing up on a dairy farm and surrounded by the beauty of Wayne County, Jeff developed an early love of photography. Beginning with a Kodak Brownie, he now shoots with a Nikon D 80, enjoying the range of capability and versatility. His photographs capture the beauty of nature and a sense of home surrounded by family and friends.
George, a hunter for many years, now heads for the great outdoors with his Canon. Some of his favorite subjects are birds of prey, bobcats, foxes, flowers, and trees. The next daily adventure directs his spirit.
Karin Johnson and Debbie Pulst – Taking Turns artists Karin and Debbie both began woodturning in 2004. Karin has been doing some sort of art most of her life and studied photography and ceramics in high school and college. Debbie is an elementary school art teacher in the Wallenpaupack District and works in various areas of the visual arts.
Dennis Keller – Dennis has a varied collection of jewelry for the discriminating buyer, complete with very colorful variegated beads. His collection includes necklaces and bracelets.
Mark Malak – Mark has been painting and drawing for most of his life. He has always had a love for nature and the outdoors, and a lot of his work depicts this interest. Several years ago, he started to work in photography.
Hana Marritz - is a working artist and high school art teacher in the South Bronx. She has worked in stone, oil painting, photography and now concentrates on water colors. She specializes in landscapes, animals, and horses in an impressionistic style. She is also an award winning author-photographer of seven children’s books about nature
Tiffany Nebzydoski – Tiffany has been creating art since she was 5-years-old. Recently, she received her BFA from Marywood University. Tiffany works with many types of media, including photography, acrylic and oil painting, watercolor, pen & ink, charcoal, and pastel.
Tina Marie Rey – Tina is a quilt artist, but dabbles in such other forms as acrylics and oil paints. She also dyes fabrics and paints fabrics. Tina has had fun doing altered books, and offers some supplies for sale.
Donie Schmidt – Donie has worked in acrylics, oils, and watercolors, although pastels have become her passion. Her favorite subjects to paint are animals. She also does beautiful oil paintings on feathers. Donie’s works have been collected internationally from Alaska, Holland, and St Lucia.
Raymond Wallace – Raymond’s artwork poignantly shows the positive influences musicians have had on our lives. His talent reflects his broad experience in painting, illustrating, photography, and video production.
The Writers’ Corner includes
Clara Gillow Clark,
Nancy Dymond, Lindsay
Barrett George,
Sandy Goldin,
Christine San Jose and
Tom Kane.
Clara was born on a dairy farm in northeastern Pennsylvania and showed an
interest in reading and the arts at an early age. She published her first
novel,
Annie’s Choice in 1993. Clark draws on her family history to
explore the life choices available to young women of past generations.
Nancy has been a participating poet in the
Short Readings program
sponsored by the Wayne County Arts Alliance. She also explores poetry
through the monthly poetry workshops and special events of the Upper
Delaware Writers Collective. Her poetry has been published and has
received prizes. Lindsay, who has both a BFA and MFA, writes and
illustrates books for children about nature and animals. In 1990 she won
the Carolyn Field Award, the top prize of the Pennsylvania Library
Association. Specific books have been honored as outstanding by the
National Science Teachers Association and the American Booksellers
Association. Sandy wrote her first mystery while living in the San
Francisco Bay area. Originally from New York, she “returned” to the Upper
Delaware region in 2002, where she completed two more in the series.
Currently, she is working on her fourth book, which is set, this time, in
a very small town on a very beautiful river on the border of Pennsylvania
and New York. Tom, a reporter for
The River Reporter newspaper, is the
author of a murder mystery novel, T
he Mark of Gnosis, which is set in a Trappist Monastery in Wyoming. Currently he is putting the finishing
touches on a memoir. Christine, employed by
Highlights for Children in
Honesdale for quite some years, is both teacher and writer. Her
publications for Boyds Mills Press include retellings of well-known fairy
tales, and a poetry anthology is in press. Currently she is working on a
young adult trilogy.
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