Rural Marketplace

Books

Catherine Basten
Childrens Books about Minnesota's forests.  Titles include "Come and Walk with Me" and "Tiny Wings".

Painted Pony Inc.
Painted Pony, Inc. is a newly-formed, for-profit subsidiary of the WRDF, a non-profit community development financial institution serving the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. WRDF promotes economic development on the reservation by providing loans and business development services to entrepreneurs, including its 10-week SAGE (Strengthening and Growing Entrepreneurs) business planning course.  In its first project, Painted Pony, Inc. has partnered with the Wyoming Department of Education to develop traditional Native American stories for children. The first book, "YUSE, The Bully and the Bear," a Shoshone tribal story by John Washakie, is now being distributed to elementary schools throughout Wyoming. John Washakie is the great-grandson of Chief Washakie. Illustrated with full color pictures by Wyoming artist, Jon Cox, these classic stories bring to life the rich Native American story-telling tradition that will entertain readers now and for generations to come. Each story is produced in book form, as well as a CD. The CDs are oral recordings of the stories in the original Shoshone and Arapaho languages.

Baskets

PJ Pines
Unique Pine Needle Baskets by Pearl & Jim Kistler from Bovey, Minnesota.

Music

David Mallet
Western Maine Singer-song writer, born in Sebec, ME.

Paintings

Cabin in the Woods Art Gallery
Adirondack Mountain Wilderness Paintings by Elizabeth Mangle

Photography

Scott Perry
Western Maine regional panoramic photography.

Pottery

Minnesota Clay Factory
Slab stoneware clay pottery which contains impressions using foliage from the woods.  The pine sprigs, oak and maple leafs, grape vines and ferns imprints are then hand painted, then glazed and high fired twice.  The resulting vases, platters, bowls, and many other pieces of pottery are fully functional and extremely life like.  The natural beauty of the outdoors if forever captured in each piece.

Textiles

Crossroads Quilters
Crossroads Quilters is a group of women, most of them African Americans, who display and sell their one-of-a-kind hand-made quilts through Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Together they are celebrating the traditional quilting heritage of their community while creating educational and economic opportunities for its citizens.

Tapetes de Lana 
A non-profit organization designed to promote cottage industry and rural lifestyles, while preserving Northern New Mexico's rich culture and heritage. Our talented weavers produce a variety of beautiful textiles.

Wood

Ripple River Wood Turning
Woodworker Bob Carls creates functional and decorative lathe-turned and carved vessels, bowls and containers  from some of the world's most beautiful woods, including many found in our own "backyard."

Mary Stubbs Wood Turning
Paper Marbling on Wood.

Pinewod Forge
Maker of Fine Scandinavian Woodcarving Knives & source of selected woodcarving supplies.

Creative & Inpirational Experiences

Giving Ground Herbal Retreats
Herbal Retreats in the Superior National Forest just north of Duluth, Minn. with certified herbalist instructor, Pam Thompson.  Single day or weekend workshops offer workshops in wild-crafting (wild-gathering) plants to make medicines to take home and Apothecary.  Facilities include cottage accomodations, herbal library, wild herb trails, canoe or snowshoe, and traditional Finnish sauna.  Gift certificates offered for any season. 

Artist Consortiums & Galleries

Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository
Traditional handcrafted Native Art, masks, games, and tools from the Alutiiq Culture in Kodiak Alaska.

Arkansas Women's Business Development Center
Directory of Pine Bluff, Arkansas women owned businesses.

Maine WoodNet
Western Maine cooperative of 60 woodworkers, several are the first FSC (green certified) woodworkers in the country.

Ohio Appalachian Artist Directory
A searchable listing of artists that live and work in or near Ohio’s Appalachian region managed by the Ohio Arts Council.

Rawhide Gifts & Galleries
RawhideStudios offers designs in western artwork and gifts by artist Madeleine Jacobs.  Products include graphite pencil drawings, unique western style gifts,  personalized coffeemugs, photo mats, Kid's and Cowboys notecard collection, Native American beadwork, T-shirt transfers, western clocks and boot jacks, ornaments, ceramics and much more.

Southwest Mississippi Artisans
A consortium of artists that creat art from nature-based materials.

The Gathering Place and Navajo Co-op Store
The Gathering Place is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing family literacy, health awareness and economic development programs to the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation.  Navajo Co-op sells southwest art crafted by Native Americans as a way to promote local artists and provide income to our health and literacy programs. The Co-op sells a wide variety of jewelry, pottery, rugs, and kachinas purchased from local Native American artists. We take special pride in our fancy Navajo Fancy Bears which have become regular prize winners in the Gallup Indian Ceremonial.

The Maine Highlands Guild
Western Maine artisans cooperative