Earth Star Glass She has studied progressive glass techniques with some of the finest glass professionals in the country. She creates custom designs for the home or business as well as unique pieces of glass art for select galleries. Karen’s diverse creative glass palette includes pieced, painted, kiln carved, etched, fused, laminated, sandblasted, gilded, silk screened, cast, slumped and draped glass. Any of these techniques can be freely combined to satisfy the design intent and create of unique works of art and beauty.

Heaven and Earth Pottery My extensive background in Oil Painting and Watercolor has influenced my decisions about the application of the glazes that I use. Just as you can find art in nature, you can find many designs made by my unique glazes. I use the surfaces of each vessel as a canvas on which I create an abstract expression of my thoughts, ideas, and visions about life." - Sandra Heaven

Worthy Vessels Kitty has been making simple but beautiful pottery since 1979. Much of her pottery is inscribed with scripture as a testimony to her enthusiastic love of God and his word. She works in her country studio in Frog Hollow near Lexington, Alabama. Each original piece of her work is designed and handmade, so there will be some variations in shape, color and size. Her work is high-fired and oven, dishwasher and microwave safe.

Miracle Pottery Oven safe, microwave safe and smartly practical, Miracle Pottery is durable enough for everyday use and unique enough to be your one-of-a-kind “Miracle.” Nestled against the foothills of Mentone in Valley Head, Alabama, Miracle Pottery & Art Gallery uses inspiration and creativity in designing, crafting, and glazing some of the most beautiful and time tested pottery and art you’ll ever own—unique enough to be heirlooms for generations. These are not molded creations; Each is vastly different from the next.

Pfeiffer Fine Arts Pfeiffer Fire Arts and Fiber, Inc. is a small pottery in Oak Grove, Alabama, consisting of two people: Dan and Laurel. All of their pottery is hand made, high-fired in a natural fuel kiln, and composed of either stoneware or on rare occasions porcelain. They have developed our own set of glazes, and will continue to experiment and add new glazes. While glaze development is a time consuming task they learn a great deal from it and feel it gives their pottery a distinctive look. It also gives them great flexibility in creating just the glaze we like.

Red Oak Pottery studio and gallery is located in the wooded hills of Middle Tennessee. The influence of nature is reflected in both the color and design of our decorative and functional forms. Red Oak Pottery presents one of a kind ceramic stoneware individually made by hand one at a time by both artists.

Stuck in the Mud Stuck in the Mud is my attempt to make pottery after no longer being an engineer. I went from one thing that I knew well, aerospace engineering, to one that I am learning to know, pottery. It continues to be an interesting journey.

Patches and Stitches Patches and Stitches is a needlework and quilt shop that has been catering to the needs of its customers for over 30 years.

Trade Fair Marketplace A non-profit gift shop run by a group of people who want to make a difference in the lives of the artisans whose products they sell. All of the products that are sold in this shop are purchased from suppliers who adhere to business practices known as “fair trade” in the world of commerce. Examples of the kind of merchandise we are selling can be seen on the Ten Thousand Village and A Greater Gift sites.

Jeanne deFrance, a native of New Orleans, studied ceramic art at Nichols State University in Thibodaux Louisiana under Dennis Sipioski and Jean Donegan. Mr. deFrance relocated to Huntsville in 2007. A serious potter of 10 years, Jeanne has now begun pottery creation in earnest here in Huntsville.
Jeanne's preferred work is that of small whell thrown pieces that call out to be picked-up, handled and utilized regularly.