Folk Art

Folk art created along this part of the Appalachian Plateau is unique and beautifully distinct from other regions stretched throughout this grand old mountain chain.

So just what is it that puts the “folk” in “folk art?”

Folk artists generally use ordinary materials around them to create a work that shares their view of the world around them. Every day objects, such as rock, wood, fiber, and nowadays trash (in this modern world, it’s in no short supply!) are used to produce works of beauty and wonder. 

When the artisan places his or her touch on the materials of their craft, the transformation is like magic! 

A rock becomes a rabbit. A piece of log is transformed into a bear cub. Birch, cherry and mulberry sticks and branches are transformed into beautiful bowls and baskets.

Cast –away items become treasures fit for display in the most upscale of decors.

When you take home a piece of folk art, you are purchasing more than an object.

A little of the artist’s heart and soul are included with each. Each piece is created in his or her style, or signature, if you will, that identifies the work as theirs and no one else’s.

We invite you to visit the shops, forges and studios of our local artisans.

Please call or email ahead before visiting, and allow plenty of time for looking, learning and falling in love with something you won’t be able to live without!

 

Creektown Forge

Bill Matlack               

Old Station Road

New Millport, PA 16861                               

www.creektown.net  

willyjlaine@pennswoods.net

 Hand turned wood products, iron work, blacksmithing

 

Becky Dugan             

705 Sam Graham Road

Clearfield, PA 16830

814-765-5640 

beckyteacher02@yahoo.com 

Fiber art

 

Country Pasthymes  

185 Amos Rd.

Clearfield, PA  16830

814-765-5992

We specialize in primitive frames and samplers. We also redo furniture to give it the distressed primitive look.

 

Woodland Woodturning

Doc Hanawalt            

2986 Egypt Road

Woodland, PA 16881

814-857-7113