Sock monkeys and baby-safe dolls

Walt Schmidt is best known as a potter who creates functional stoneware ceramics, but also makes handcrafted wood furniture and forged ironwork at his studio located in the hills near Bloomington. Each piece of pottery is handcrafted of indigenous Indiana stoneware clay, and all wood is local.

Square vase, chair (walnut, hickory and beaver wood), and beverage service

Sue Westhues, also from the Bloomington area, creates art and utilitarian pieces from gourds. Her work has been featured on the Carol Duval Show on the Home Gardening Channel, and has been included in two books on gourd art: Making Gourd Musical Instruments and Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures, by Jim Widess and Ginger Summit (Sterling Publishing). Sue also teaches gourd drum making through the Indiana Gourd Society.

Gourd birds and drum

Sarah Westhues-Owen is a musician, mom, and crafter who lives near Marshall, North Carolina. Her beautiful handmade dolls and toys are one-of-a-kind and completely safe for babies and small children.

Flannel dog, 6 ” doll, and Waldorf-style baby doll

Tansy Troup is a seamstress and quilter who owns A Stitch In Time, an alterations shop in Bloomington. She will be showing her newest creations: vintage-look aprons.

Ruby Troup recently graduated from Herron School of Design with a major in Furniture Design. Her unique furniture pieces are hand-carved or molded organic forms that can stand alone as a piece of art, or used functionally.