Beaded Jewelry

Meredith Laskow has participated as a jewelry vendor at Claremont Folk Festival almost every year since 1982. She's a full-time craft artist who sells at festivals, galleries, and 7 of her own websites. Two of those are http://www.meredithbead.com and http://www.meredithbead.etsy.com.

Meredith is also the Poet Laureate of Placentia Library District since 2003. Her Twitter updates are in haiku.

Handcrafted Dolls/Wood Items/Bags

Tin Art, Silk florals, Water Fountains

Wire & Bead Jewelry, coiled wire, bent wire

International Folk Art

Handcrafted, one-of-a-kind artisan jewelry

Alaina D’Ambrosia-Donner began creating hand-beaded jewelry for festival sales, friends, and family nearly 20 years ago. She took a hiatus for a few years while she was a full-time teacher, but began creating new, inspired, and exciting pieces after becoming a mother.

Alaina enjoys discovering unique pendants, exciting stone colors, and interesting silver findings almost as much as she enjoys putting these elements together in fun, funky, and fancy combinations.

http://www.screamingpeacockjewelry.com

Shop online at: http://ScreamingPeace.etsy.com

Natural Soy candles, bath & body products

www.fiammanaturals.com

Mountain Dulcimers & banjomers, personal recordings & wood crafts

Doug Thomson has been playing the Mountain Dulcimer and Banjo for 34 years. He has taught Dulcimer and Banjo for The Folk Music Center and the City of Claremont, CA.

Doug now teaches Dulcimer, Banjo, and Banjo-mer from his home in Rancho Cucamonga. He has also taught Dulcimer and Banjo styles for the Dulcimer at the Sourthern California Dulcimer Heritage Festival, the California Traditional Music Festival and The Huck Finn Jubilee. He was the Director of the Claremont Spring Folk Festival for 25 years.

Doug has performed at the California Traditional Music Festival, Los Angeles County Fair, the Julian Bluegrass Festival, and Mountain Music Day in Oak Glen, California.

Doug is the inventor of the Banjo-Dulcimer, called the Banjo-Mer, which he has been building for 25 years. The Banjo-Mer is played coast to coast in the USA and also in Israel and Canada! It has opened up a new, great banjo sound for dulcimer players to enjoy.

www.banjomer.com

Clay sculpture

JoAnne Campanella is a local Sculpture Artist from La Verne, Ca. She has enjoyed working with clay since she was first introduced to it in Jr. High School, and went on to studying sculpture at Citrus College in Glendora, Ca. for 2 years.

JoAnne has also attended many sculpting workshops studying under talented local artists such as Betty Davenport Ford, Cheryl Cooper and Leanne Turner. She currently teaches beginning and intermediate ceramics at The Armstrong Center in Ontario, Ca.

Her Sculptural work consists mostly of abstract flower sculptures, Pomegranates of various size and design and hand built functional and non-functional ware using clay as a medium.

JoAnne currently displays her work at many local art shows and galleries including, The Sam Maloof annual art show in Upland Ca., The DA Gallery in Pomona Ca., The Glendora Art Walk in Glendora Ca., Farmers Market in Claremont Ca. The Two Sisters Art Show in Claremont Ca. as well as various local Garden Shows.

Ceramics

It is the mission of the American Museum of Ceramic Art to educate by presenting, collecting and preserving significant ceramic achievements of the world's cultures from ancient times to the present and through aesthetic and technical study to develop a deeper understanding of cultural values and traditions.

About the Museum

As an organization of vision, devoted to the arts, we believe that visual art experiences communicated through professional artists, workshops or gallery exhibitions, promote cross-cultural understanding and provide new perspectives and insights which enrich our lives.

Exhibitions and programming at the American Museum of Ceramic Art will embrace a wide number of topics - all relating to clay. Within this broadly diverse community, it is our goal to increase the aesthetic appreciation of clay as an art form and to assist our audience in unraveling the creative thinking behind the making of ceramic objects. At the same time, AMOCA aims to provide confirmed clay enthusiasts with encouragement, camaraderie and exhibition opportunity.

Used as a teaching tool, pottery is one of the most enduring indicators of culture. We can open the doors of the past through exhibitions of archeological finds; we can trace ceramic advances by studying the construction, glazing and firing practices developed throughout history, and we can find clues to the social expression of certain time periods through the study of ceramic shapes, forms and styles of decoration. Varied exhibitions may display pottery from different countries, focus on the work of an individual clay artist, illustrate specific skills or emphasize current high-tech processes. Useful vessels, tile collections and sculptural works, from wide-spread eras and regions, will all be part of our repertoire.

History

Founded in 2001 and opened in September, 2004, AMOCA is one of the few museums in the United States devoted exclusively to ceramic art and historic innovations in ceramic technology. It is located in an area abounding with ceramic history and internationally recognized clay artists from the Arts and Crafts Movement, the 60's Clay Revolution and the current Studio Pottery Era. Geographically, the building is located in an urban downtown district where art is an important element of the continuing and successful community revitalization program. The home community consists of a rich ethnic mix and a large academic constituency with approximately fifteen institutions of higher learning within an eight-mile radius.

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