Marketplace

Tennessee Arts Marketplace

The festival’s marketplace provides the opportunity to purchase quality handcrafted items made exclusively in Tennessee. It features the juried work of the state’s finest artisans who are creating handmade objects in both traditional and contemporary styles.

To apply to be a vendor, please fill out the application.

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Welcome our 2011 marketplace vendors:

Alchemy of Sol

Smyrna, TN

All natural traditionally handcrafted artisan soaps and candles. All products contain no synthetic materials and are vegetarian and biodegradable. www.alchemyofsol.com

Art Wire Music

Murfreesboro, TN

Handmade wire and metal forms and functional objects made from recycled copper and steel wire as well as found objects. www.etsy.com/shop/artwiremusic

Daniel Strawser, Jr. and Barbara Strawser – Tramp Art Carver and Folk Painter
Murfreesboro, TN
Pennsylvania German folk artists Daniel Strawser, Jr. and Barbara Strawser carry on a multi-generational family tradition, creating a variety of hand-carved figures, tramp art boxes, frames and folk paintings.
www.strawserart.com

Emily Allison

Primm Springs, TN

Contemporary folk art using mixed media 2D and 3D collage with recycled materials including tin and metal.

The Fiddle House

Nashville, TN

Handmade stringed instruments, including the work of Tennessee luthiers Brian Christianson, Geoff Roehm and Dan Knowles who you can meet in the festival’s Tennessee Folklife Demonstration Area.

www.thefiddlehouse.com

Gaskill's Hop Shop

Murfreesboro, TN

Creating new and rideable art from the old and unused. Speed, history and counterculture mixed with functionality in the form of rideable bicycles that have come out of the shop sporting parts from old Chevys, vacuum cleaners, meat grinders, and various other objects.

gaskill-art.blogspot.com

Gruhn Guitars

Nashville, TN
A full display of Martin Guitars and accessories available for purchase or just to try out. See Martin’s new and classic models including new ukuleles of all sizes.

www.gruhn.com

www.martinguitar.com

The Honeybee Farm and Pantry

Summertown, TN
Homegrown honey, jams and jellies as well as honey by-product and goat’s milk bath and body products. A “Pick Tennesee” product.

www.thehoneybeefarmandpantry.com

Jamie Durham

Hermitage, TN

Sterling and fine silver jewelry accented with gemstones, semi-precious stones and pearls.

John Baird – Metal Sculptor
Kittrell, TN
This vigorous, octogenarian self-taught sculptor welds scrap metal into delightful, humorous sculptures – creating animals, people, and machines reflecting his unique personal vision.
www.artscenterofcc.com/Spring-fed/im-believen/braid.html

The Lost Boys Foundation

Nashville, TN

Traditional decorative clay animals and ornaments the sales of which will directly benefit the Lost Boys of Nashville’s mission to unify and enhance the lives of Lost Boys of Sudan.
www.thelostboysfoundation.org

Nashville Restrung

White Bluff, TN

Jewelry items created from recycled strings of musical instruments including guitars, mandolins, bass, violin, and banjo. Vintage beads and findings are also incorporated.

www.nashvillerestrung.net

Observation Full and Felt

Nashville, TN

Digital and medium format film photographs some matted and framed using vintage and up-cycled frames.

R&R Condiments

Lebanon, TN

Handmade barbeque sauces, rubs, and dip mixes. A “Pick Tennesee” product.

www.olsouthonline.com

Roger Smith – Peach Seed Carver
Culleoka, TN
With just a pocketknife, retired meter-reader Smith carves intricate, expressive figures that are now in the White House Christmas tree ornament collection and several museums.
www.tnhomeandfarm.com/peach-seed-carver

Somewhere Place Else Farms

Rockvale, TN

Old-fashioned canned goods made from farm grown all-natural fruits and vegetables.

www.somewhereplaceelse.com

Susan Moody Jewelry

Mt. Juliet, TN

Jewelry created with silver and enamel, finely ground glass fused to the surface of copper or silver.

Tennessee Folklore Society / Arts Center of Cannon County / Spring Fed Records

Knoxville, TN

Books and recordings related to the history and culture from the Tennessee Folklore Society. Important historical recordings and reissues of traditional music preserved and produced by the Arts Center of Cannon County’s Spring Fed record label. A selection of items created by some of this year’s Tennessee Folklife Area demonstrators.

www.tennesseefolklore.org

& www.artscenterofcc.com

Thistle Farms

Nashville, TN

Natural bath and body products that are as good for the earth as they are for the body. Purchases of Thistle Farms products directly benefit the women of Magdalene, a residential program for women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction.

www.thistlefarms.org

Thornton Metals

Watertown, TN

Hand-wrought precious metal jewelry and decorative objects created using traditional metalsmithing techniques, embellished with hand-cut stones and rich patinas.

Tye Dye Mary

Primm Springs, TN

Brilliant, intricate, hand-dyed natural fiber clothing using a bound-resist technique and fiber-reactive dyes.

www.tyedyemary.com