The Art Market at Cheat Fest 2025
The Art Market is a semi-circle of quality arts and crafts booths with prime access to the main Festival area. Curated artists fill these booths with offerings of all sorts! In the past we have enjoyed pottery, glassworks, jewelry, prints, paintings, and so much more.
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Lily Barrat- Knots by Lily
My name is Lily Barratt. I crochet tops, bags, plushies, can coozies, and much more. I enjoy playing with colors that may not typically be put together to create fun wearable art.
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Matthew Benson, The Artisan’s Menagerie
I use a variety of techniques, both historic and modern, To create elegant and unique jewelry and accessories using silver, gold, glass enamels, precious and semi-precious stones and various inlays. My work is designed to be elegant and unique to match any style. Hand made with dedication and care.
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Sarah Cartron, Sarah’s Soap.A.Saurus
Sarah’s Soap•A•Saurus originated as a soapery in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 2012, and has quickly expanded their line to include natural body products. Now located in Aurora, West Virginia we produce bar soap, shampoo, hair conditioner, shaving cream, body lotion and cologne. Each bar is hand-crafted with locally sourced organic ingredients from West Virginia to ensure the purest quality of soaps. What is great about Soap·A·Saurus is that our ingredients are simple, and you know what they are and all of our products are palm oil free. We strive to create natural, home-made, hypoallergenic soaps for the community at an affordable price. Soap·A·Saurus also strives to package all products with eco friendly and recyclable materials to help reduce our carbon footprint. Our solid natural body products are long lasting, travel friendly, self preserving and are free of synthetic preservatives. Most of our bars weigh around 4.5 oz but because they are hand cut, the weight may vary between 4 and 5 oz.
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Sandra Frank, Blackwater Alcoves
Felted wool creations are inspired by the colors and textures in the misty wetland forest and bogs around my home. Wool bowls are great for the home as catch-alls for jewelry, office supplies, or educational toys. Rainbow stacking and nesting bowls are valuable for learning colors, sizes and coordination as well as useful for sorting and storing. Panhandlers let you keep your hand cool when your iron skillet is hot! 100% wool mason jar and can sleeves can help keep the contents cold, hot, act as a coaster and make the jar look beautiful.
All my felted creations are hand crocheted from 100% wool and then fulled, blocked, and trimmed. I have been creating with wool since childhood. I learned to crochet at a very young age from my mother and grandmother. I have used crocheting as a way to produce, relax, meditate, and create for as long as I can remember. I began felting in a quest for non-toxic, educational toys made from natural materials. I learned how great the medium is for creating items that are both beautiful and useful. I have always loved color and have explored how things capture and reflect light through both creative and scientific endeavors.
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Frank Gebhard, Allegheny Aperture Media
Frank takes photographs of wildlife and landscapes throughout the Appalachian Mountains with the goal of educating people about the region’s extraordinary biodiversity
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Lisa Giuliani, Lock House Studios
All of my work is hand built and thrown ceramic art. I also hand build jewelry. All of my work is handmade in Morgantown, WV. it is dishwasher, microwave and oven safe.
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Kimberly Griffiths, RVA Petal Party
I’m from the Blue Ridge Mountains of SW Virginia and love nature: hiking, white water rafting, foraging, you name it! I moved to Richmond, VA and continued my love for nature but in an urban setting. During the COVID-19 shutdown I got a horticulture degree and fell in love with flowers, especially the art of flower pressing! I discovered resin crafting to preserve them, and combined my love of jewelry to create truly unique, one of a kind pieces.
Natalie Henson
I am an artist specializing in creating botanical cyanotype sunprints on upcycled, thrifted clothing and paper, transforming natural textures into sustainable art. I also craft unique resin earrings featuring fruit, flowers, and fungi, celebrating the beauty of nature in wearable form. My work combines a love for foraging, eco-consciousness, and creativity to bring the magic of the outdoors into everyday life.
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Sarah Hoblitzell, Mountain Creek Glass
As a stained glass artist from Masontown, West Virginia, Sarah Hoblitzell (she/her) blends traditional Tiffany-style techniques with modern themes, drawing inspiration from nature, local culture, and history. Her work is a fusion of past and present, capturing the beauty of her surroundings through vibrant colors and classic craftsmanship. Each piece she creates is designed to evoke wonder and connection, inviting viewers to experience the world in a new light.
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Moment Johnson, Sacred Totems
I moved to WV in 2016 and slowly began focusing more on creating pendants opposed to sculptures. Then in 2021, I found my love for stone intarsia, assembling little pieces of different types of stones together into a design or pattern. My new passion is creating small to large nature scenes out of an array of mult- colored, beautiful, natural stone. I derive my inspiration from the natural world around me and the natural beauty within the stones.
Ben Kolb, Nativibes
For as long as I can remember, I have retreated to sketching, carving and painting to express myself in a natural way. I am a passionate, versatile, nature craving folk-impressionist. Connection with the natural Appalachian atmosphere fuels my art and I believe the positive energy that I draw from my surroundings stays with the pieces I create and is passed on to the new owner, which is something I call “Nativibes.”I use different mediums to produce my work, watercolor, acrylic, coffee, oil, coal, etc. The Hollered Ground series uses paint made from West Virginia coal and is hand ground and mulled by me at the Nativibes Studio & Art Gallery in Mannington WV. The subjects are all Appalachian themed, focusing on local WV critters, landscape and people that give this culture its distinct mountain flair. The coal is found in the streams and hollers one may wander in the heart of West Virginia. My inspiration and subject matter has always been the beauty that surround me during my travels, the mountains, streams and lakes that are part of my blood come out in every piece that I create. I put my heart and feelings on canvas and hang it up for everyone to see, feel or share. It is my hope that when each of my clients take a piece of my work home, they get to experience the joy that created it.
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Darci Macur, Drawn In Stone
The beauty of combining stone and wood was introduced to me early, as I grew up watching my parents build a log cabin with a hand cut slate floor on the banks of the Cheat River. This is also when I discovered the fun of bringing home pockets full of cool rocks (see Mom – I did too have something I wanted to do with them. It just took me 30 years to figure it out.) and an apparently insatiable desire to figure out how to make whatever I’m doing harder. I first started experimenting with creating art out of stone over 10 years ago and it’s grown and evolved as I realized that I love working with wood almost as much as stone. The latest evolution, adding resin into my process, started as a supply-shortage necessity that turned into a fun challenge of exploring the ability to add depth to my pieces and expand my color palette of rocks.
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Eddie Maier, Eddie Spaghetti Art
WOODCUT PRINTMAKING consists of carving an image onto a piece of wood, inking the surface then printing onto handmade paper. I also create my frames using reclaimed barn and drift wood.
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Danielle Martin, Icelandic Ponies
Danielle Martin is a FOC board member as well as a forest pathologist, Wildland fire fighter, seamstress, watercolor artist and white water enthusiast.
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Mark Moody, Monongahela Media
Monongahela Media is a small media and marketing company based in Tucker County. West Virginia. Named after the Monongahela National Forest, owner and founder, Mark Moody, has a deep passion for the outdoors and uses this as continuous inspiration for Mon Media’s work.
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Katie Mullins, Rockables
I am a self taught artist who specializes in bead embroidered jewelry. She uses delicate seed beads to create bohemian style designs in earrings, necklaces, bracelets and hair pieces. Other components you will find in her work include feathers, gemstones, hammered copper and dried flowers. Katie is based in the Monongahela Forest, where she draws her inspiration from sustainable micro-farming practices. She has three children and a passion for immersing them and her customers in what the West Virginia mountains have to teach us– beauty and stewardship.
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Susan Ramey, Ridgetop Pottery
Established in Kingwood, WV, Susan uses exclusively high-fired porcelain. Her wheel-thrown pottery is inspired by the mountains and rivers of Appalachia that she calls home, and is both functional and decorative.
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Mindy Rockwell, Muddy Mindy
As a potter, Mindi explores the malleable and transformative qualities of clay. Working with this versatile medium, she shapes and molds it into beautiful and functional pieces of art. Her passion for ceramics is a testament to her dedication and the depth of her creativity.
Mindi’s artistic approach is self-taught, allowing her to fearlessly explore various techniques and mediums. This independent pursuit of knowledge and skill has enabled her to develop her own unique style and express her artistic vision without limitations.
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Monique Rowe, Acquired Taste
I am a self-taught pyrography artist from Morgantown, WV . I’ve been wood burning for 8 years now and have been selling my products for 4 years. I buy my wood in bulk and hand design each piece one by one. I create plaques , magnets , kitchen items , hats , jewelry and more .
Mary Jo Schick, Kula Tie Dye
I began producing Tye Dye over 30 years ago. I started selling at Grateful Dead shows. When they started to clamp down on vending at Dead Shows, I switched over to Art Shows; generally in WV, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was my Day Job from about 1987-2008. I came to WVU to study either Horticulture or Clothing and Textiles. Got a BS in Horticulture, but made my living in Clothing and Textiles. My experience with dying, sewing and inventory management led to a job in Theatrical Wardrobe at WVU during the winters when I wasn’t doing outdoor art shows. Working in theatre really taught me how to take my show on the road.
I create assorted colors and patterns of vibrantly dyed adult’s and children’s clothing including: T-Shirts, Leggings, Socks, Long Sleeves, Tank Tops, Hats, Baby Onesies and T’s; also Kid’s T-shirts, Long Sleeves and Tanks. All Guaranteed to Wash and Wear beautifully. I have been producing Tye Dye for over 30 years. It was my Day Job from about 1987-2008.
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Jessie Tymoczko, Homestead Luminary
A longtime fascination with light and shadow led to the creation of Homestead Luminary. Jessie leans heavily on art nouveau influences in her creations, but is also inspired be the natural world and elements of art throughout history.
Homestead Luminary combines drawings and classic imagery to create wooden luminaries, lamps, lanterns, and shadow casting light boxes. Designs are cut and etched on a laser engraver and hand assembled with vellum light diffusing paper. An LEW candle or corded light is included with each piece.
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Elizabeth Urse, Burnt Cabin Press
As a printmaker, Liz creates intricate, layered works on paper, carving and reducing a single block to build depth, shadow, and texture. This same attention to process extends into her textile work, where she repurposes denim and other reclaimed materials, applying hand-carved block-printed patterns that bring new life to forgotten fabrics. Through this blend of traditional and sustainable practices, she intertwines the beauty of nature with the texture of memory, creating pieces that hold history and transformation.
Chrissy Zeltner, Chrissy Zeltner Photography
As a Preston county resident who loves to kayak, hike and bike around gorgeous West Virginia, I love to capture images of the amazing things I see and share them with others.
