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Foundry Artists

Ampersand

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Ampersand brings traditional American roots music to a modern audience with family-friendly programs from colonial America, through the Civil War era, the early blues of the 1920s and 30s, on up to modern folk music. We play guitar, banjo, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, bouzouki, bass, and penny whistle to underscore rich vocal harmonies.

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Kimberly Gadow

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Kimberly, a Delmarva native and nature girl at heart, is a published amateur photographer and writer. She is self-taught and spends her free time nurturing her passion for wildlife and nature through photography, writing and creating her own natural body care.

All photographs are of something in nature. These include fauna, flora, and landscape.

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Melody Prairie

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Melody has been painting for about four years. Her passion for painting began in middle school, but was set aside in high school for career preparation and pursuits. Four years ago, encouraged by church leadership, Melody began painting as an expression of worship during services at Church of the King in Easton. Since then, her passion has developed into a compulsion to paint daily.

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Sharon Pahlman

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I enjoy painting anything to do with rural life, especially Amish landscapes. I also enjoy working in mixed media using color, pattern, and design. My lifelong interest in art was further developed and encouraged through my experiences of teaching in the public school system.

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Sara Grantham

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Sara has had a love of photography for as long as she can remember. While she has no formal training, she started her own photography business over three years ago while she was in college. She also used to take and develop her own pictures during middle and high school before teaching herself how to take photos on her DSLR camera. Sara also loves to create home decor. Her current projects include sola wood flowers.

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Stephen Mead

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Stephen Mead studied drawing, painting, and glassblowing in college. Throughout the beginning of his career, Steve focused on abstract self-portraits that encapsulated the essence of himself without any physical markings or distinguishable portraits within the paintings. When he began showing his work Steve felt immediately vulnerable to the comments on his work which caused him to evaluate himself and “look inward”. “No longer was the art just something from my own mind…it was my own reflection.”
After living and working in Washington D.C. since 2001, Steve and his wife, Jen, moved to Denton a few years ago. Steve currently works with wood and acrylics. His art has been featured at ArtDC Gallery, 20 North Gallery, Willow Street Gallery, various pop up shows, and now, The Foundry.

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Barbara Martin

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I guess you could say I blossomed creatively later in life. That’s not to say that I didn’t dabble. I must have tried every hand craft known to woman in my late teens and early twenties. Sewing, knitting, crocheting, weaving, needlepoint, embroidery, macramé… you name it, I tried it. But as my personal and professional life got busier and fuller, I had less and less time for these pursuits.
Flash forward 30+ years and suddenly time opened up again. First I was introduced to stamping. I’ll never forget that first night after a stamping party. I literally could not sleep as I thought of all the wonderful things I could make. A couple of years later I took my first jewelry class and my life changed. I became addicted to beads and realized that I could never wear all the jewelry that would be generated by my ever-growing bead stash. The only thing that made sense was to start selling jewelry to support my “habit”.
During the five years since then I have learned new skills and been introduced to different media. I have been blessed by the opportunity to learn from several different masters in the jewelry world, including metal textiles expert Arlene Fisch, polymer clay artist Louise Fischer Cozzi, and enamel artist Barbara Lewis. Each has informed my work with new textures, colors, and materials. Much as I try to find my niche I am always pulled in new directions, exploring different media and learning new techniques. My customers say that they are always interested to see what’s new in my world.

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