Barbara Thompson’s Sweet Grass Baskets

Barbara Thompson’s Sweet Grass Baskets

Barbara Thompson’s Sweet Grass Baskets Useful Tools and Works of Art Barbara Thompson “My interest in baskets was sparked while traveling in Charleston, SC, strolling through the City Market and encountering women sitting and making sweet grass baskets....
Verna Edmonds’ Christmas Angel Collection

Verna Edmonds’ Christmas Angel Collection

Verna Edmonds’ Christmas Angel Collection Angels, Angels Watching Over Us Verna Edmonds “Over the years, in my mother’s travels on six of the seven Continents, she started collecting African American Angels for my sister and my Christmas Trees. Some of the...
Allie Kochert’s Fossil Collection

Allie Kochert’s Fossil Collection

Allie Kochert’s Fossil Collection Collecting Fossils Allie Kochert “Collecting fossils isn’t usually a hobby that a middle-aged soccer mom gets into, but maybe I’m not your average soccer mom. Yet the ancient imprints wedded onto sandstone was exactly what...

Kevyn Knox’s Pez Collection

Kevyn Knox’s Pez Collection Kevyn Knox’s Pez Collection Kevyn Knox “I was asked how I got started as a Pez Collector. It was my lovely wife who got the Pez ball rolling. When I first met Amy, in our whirlwind four-week courtship before getting hitched, she...
Peggy Huffman’s Sacred Artifacts

Peggy Huffman’s Sacred Artifacts

Peggy Huffman’s Sacred Artifacts Where the Sacred is Inhabited Peggy Huffman   Through her collection of sacred artifacts from different cultures and traditions, Peggy Huffman reflects on the many ways objects serve as Celtic “thin spaces” or thresholds...