2025 Bazaar Artists and Vendors

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Below are our Artists and Vendors for our 2025 Fine Art Sale & Holiday Bazaar!

New This Year:

Returning for Another Great Year:

Amelia M Falk of Amelia’s by Design Studio is a working artist with a master’s in visual art and over twenty years of educating others in art. “My jewelry explores the process of making work with the hydraulic press, using impression dies from the art nouveau period, rescued from collections destined for the smelting pot, rotting in shut-down factories in Europe and the USA. I find the idea of using these rescued pieces as a wonderful nod to the idea of recycling, which is an idea I currently employ by using recycled metal in my work as well as “recycling nature” by casting fallen twigs and other bits. The concept of creating new modern jewelry with historical images, recycled metal, semi-precious stones with little waste is my way of creating responsibly as an artist.”

Becky Edmonds creates hand-crafted treasures, unique holiday décor and fabric accessories.

Deb Flook at Birch and Blooms is an enamelist. She explains: I love the vibrant colors of glass enamel on copper, steel or silver. I make earrings, bracelets, and pendants. Some of my pieces I raku (ancient Japanese technique). I also paint some pieces before firing with MasonStains. I love my craft!

Brickyard Farms LLC’s Val & Kim have attended the Fine Arts Sale for over a decade, promoting kindness, cleanliness and self-care. 

Their soaps are handcrafted in small batches with natural colorings, fragrance and essential oils. In addition to bar soaps, pump foam hand soap and refills, they also offer lip balms, face/hand cream and cookbooks.

Cheeky Chic-y Studio is husband and wife team Jeff and Theresa Heaton of Lawrence, Michigan.  Jeff is a retired Ohio art educator and Theresa is a fiber artist with a quilting background. 
Together they operate Cheeky Chic-y Studio, creating fiber-based upcycled art in their home.  Jeff enjoys teaching classes and workshops at the Box Factory for the Arts and the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph.  They display and sell their work in local galleries, shops, art fairs and exhibits throughout Michigan.

Confections with Convictions is Kalamazoo’s only shop making hand-crafted truffles and other confections exclusively from Fair Trade, organic chocolate. Chocolatier Dale Anderson’s original recipes contain fresh local fruits, herbs, honey and maple syrup. Vegan and gluten-free options are always available. Their mission is to provide employment opportunities for people with felony records and other barriers to employment, and to produce delicious artisanal chocolates.

Crunchy Honey Crafts’s Laura learned to crochet at age six from her grandmother and has been making things with a hook and yarn ever since. She loves making cute chonky things (and bags and blankets and so many more things) and hopes to one day make a dent in her yarn stash.

Deb Norland creates unique fused glass pieces for home and yard. Fused glass differs from stained glass, as the pieces are cut and fused together and shaped in a kiln, rather than soldered.

Donna Vogtmann’s wildcrafting, tending bees, chickens, gardens, horses and family come together to create the themes for her current body of work. She creates nature- and garden-inspired woodburnings on birch panels, pigmented with oil stains.

Fiber artist Ellen Wilson knits and felts 100% wool from Michigan sheep, undyed and all natural. Pieces are transformed through very hot water and agitation. The process creates thicker, denser results that are super soft and warm! Her “Hot Head Hats” guarantee no cold heads, and her new lavender felted soap is a soft and dreamy way to be clean.

Grannywoobie Mittens’s Jean Walker explains, ever since receiving a pair of mittens more than 10 years ago, she has been producing her own take on mittens made from old sweaters. Upcycled and truly unique, these creative creations warm hands (and hearts!).

Haley Terpstra of @Herbal Meadows Botanicals LLC is an avid gardener, forager, herbalist, and beekeeper. Her focus is on all natural products infused with wildcrafted and organic herbs. Many of her products include plants that she has harvested right here in West Michigan. Sharing the journey of natural care is a passion of Haley’s and she invites you to join in the process.

Impressions by Kris & Marty features creative, diverse range of jewelry and wood products by husband and wife team, Kris and Marty Green. The unique and often local materials they use in their jewelry and keyrings – Petosky stone, fossils, salmon skin, and even recycled bicycle parts – give their designs a distinctive, sustainable flair and a blend of local culture and spirituality into their work. Whether it’s a charcuterie or cutting boards showcasing Marty’s woodworking skills and attention to detail, or a garden stake with crystal, ceramic or fun glass beads, the thoughtful, classic-but-contemporary creations make great gifts for jewelry lovers or those looking for unique home goods.

Jan Hunt lives on 120 acres in Delton, MI. In her studio, she crafts fused glass creations which bring a touch of elegance to the great outdoors as well as your home. She also eco-prints natural fiber scarves using a process which imprints color and shape drawn from the leaves found on her farm.

The Kalamazoo Calendar Project is a collective of twelve Kalamazoo-based artists who create a screen-printed monthly calendar. The project is in its twenty-first year! Over the past two decades artists have come and gone from the group but the objective is always the same: a calendar with twelve months of thoughtful, creative, screen-printed original art.

Kalamazoo Candle Company values quality, sustainability, and community. Using 100% soy wax, our team uses natural ingredients whenever possible. All fragrances are phthalate-free and are designed to fill and complement a room rather than overpower it. Our small-town values and dedication to craft continue to guide us as we expand our natural ingredient inspired offerings. Visit our stores to experience creating your own unique candle, soaps, and more!

Karla & Bob Dentler retired from teaching and started making copper yard art full time. They import the glass from Poland and Romania and cut the copper sheets from patterns we have created. Bob welds copper tubing onto some pieces and braises others to create the ‘colors’ on the copper.  Some items, like our frogs, are hand painted.

 Llama Luna and Felix Ruiz hail from stunning Peguche, Equador, where he practices textile arts in the long tradition of his mountain village home. Pictured here are Felix’s mother and aunt Miriam, who also help create beautiful blankets, ponchos and other wearables Felix will be showcasing.

Billie Gunderson is the owner and maker of Lucy-in-the-Sky Quilts and Fabrics. She has been quilting for 50 years, since taking her first class in quilting at the YWCA as a young mother. Billie specializes in clear color fabrics, designing them into brilliantly colorful garments, quilts and accessories.

Madison Memering shares her detailed nature paintings out of the deep love she has for Michigan outdoors. She often shines focus on subjects that tend to be underappreciated such as funga, flora, & lepidoptera. Her dream is that her tribute artworks spark inspiration & conservation for these magnificent earth beings.

Meg Tang Jewelry creates simple, delicate jewelry.  She personally designs and fabricates each piece of jewelry by hand using sustainably recycled silver and gold with gemstones and found objects. She is inspired by travel, nature, and her heritage. These aspects along with her dedication to creating ultra light-weight jewelry makes her style completely unique.

Melody Allen works in both pastels and mixed-media. She loves working with pastels because of their vibrant colors, their versatility and their immediacy. Her subjects include birds, landscapes and still lifes. To create her mixed-media pieces, she incorporates her images of songbirds, along with hand-painted, decorative and textured papers. Melody has exhibited her work in many group and solo shows, including national competitions. She is a member of Signature Artists and The Great Lakes Pastel Society.

Moffett Mugs & More’s Becki Moffett-Moore is a ceramics artist (who loves to fish!) working primarily with slabs, molds, pinch and coil building. Her mugs are high fire stoneware that are microwave and dishwasher safe. Some of the other objects she makes utilizing different types of clay are tiles, small planters, and bowls.  No two pieces are exactly the same. Each is a unique, functional piece of art.

Sara Johnson of @moondrop’s art is deeply inspired by nature, color and vibration. Sara is a didgeridoo artist, and sculptor of life-like critters. She works with alcohol ink for vibrant colors, and Apoxie-sculpt and acrylics for realistic, nature inspired creations.

Charlotte Ojediran of Ms. Charlotte’s Aprons and Cards brings her creative designs to handmade aprons that are both functional and delightful. She also crafts unique greeting cards that are sure to spread joy.

Smallcombe Studio offers designs inspired by the natural world, created using sterling silver, gold filled, and niobium. Sisters Abby and Anna are continuing their dad’s work of designing and creating beautiful, timeless, affordable jewelry that is made to last.

Sue Caulfield creates whimsical and functional art, focusing on bright colors, seasonal themes, and practical uses for fabrics in daily living. Key to Sue’s work is creating images and objects that connect with people, whether through laughter or deeper meaning.

Things of Steel’s Michelle and Katherine found the merging and collaboration of their talents and creativity truly brought a new inspiration to their work which produces a unique story and sensuality in their art. Their work is both whimsical and sophisticated. Their art has won numerous awards and has been highlighted both in magazines and in a TV documentary on welding and in a coffee table book about tables called, aptly, “Tables.” Michelle and Katherine do all of their own welding and bending – an art form generally thought to be mastered mostly by men. They have been able to combine the strength of the steel with the femininity and spirituality of their own creativity, to build their beautiful and ever-evolving art.

Witt’s Maple Syrup is a family-owned farm in Gaylord, MI, where the Witt family has practiced sustainable and organic practices for decades. They bring great love and care for the process of collecting sap from their maple trees (255 acres and 6,000+ taps!) and treating the land with respect.