Val Weston

Val is a photographer and digital artist based in Silver City, New Mexico. She creates text graphic designs that bring humor to our lives and uses modern digital tools to reinterpret her original photography. Her photographic conversions often evoke watercolor or oil painting styles as well as vibrant, grungy, selective-color composites and abstracts. 

Erin Rae

Eraeon Designs offers up-cycled and original designs in clothing, accessories and home decor. Focusing in textile collage inspired by nature, outer-space and psychedelia, Eraeon creates unique wearable art pieces rich in texture, shape and color that are instantly recognizable. 

Sally Tilton

Sally Tilton prefers play over work.  She plays at creating small affordable crafts and art works. She is a mixed media artist.

Collage, Paper Mache, and Neurographic Drawings

Kit West

Primarily a poet, I aim to combine poetry and art to express the moment of connection with nature, myself, my people and the divine. 

These pieces are about rebirth and renewal.  Raven Angel 1 (on the right) is about the female in the animal or the animal in the female and won first place in its category at the GCAG Creatures of the Gila 2022 exhibit.  Raven Angel 2 depicts the dark giving birth to the light, the raven giving birth to flowers and butterflies and bees. 

Paula Manning-Lewis

Paula lives to be creative. Whether she’s painting on canvas, vinyl records, recycling beat-up guitars, painting large scale murals or teaching paint parties. Art is her purpose; spreading love, joy and peace is her goal. Art isn’t only something she does, it is a spiritual expression from the deepest part of her soul. She is constantly aware of her intuition and enjoys trying out new forms of creative expression.

Joshanna Bush and Randi Halperin-Olson

Wild Whacky Whimsical Older Women

Making Copper and JOY!

Jeannine Weiner

Gila Art & Jewelry brings a combination of artistic note cards and prints, hand made wire wrapped stones, beaded bracelets, earrings and more. All with a southwest flare that is inspired by natures creativity here in the Gila Wilderness. 

Mar Heifner

 I strive to create art from commonly discarded materials, in my quest to help reduce waste. It’s an exciting challenge to make something beautiful (and oftentimes functional) from what most would consider “trash.”

Mariah Walker

COLOR, COLOR, COLOR!!! I am best known for the explosion of color and expressive animal faces that I incorporate into my original mixed media pieces.  This year, I've taken a detour and have been experimenting with new materials and letting my creativity go free. To see more: (1) Look What the Wind Blew In | Facebook 

Marcia Tinker

The Tinker's Daughter featuring -

Unique Fashions . Jewelry . Artifacts

Reimagined . Recycled . Repurposed

Elizabeth Ford

Originally from Arkansas, I have been making and selling jewelry for many years. However, recently watercolor painting has become my passion, especially scenes of New Mexico's historical sites. I sell prints of various sizes and am honored to reside here now and to keep discovering what inspires me. 

Incredible Paintings and Crocheted Creations!

Lisa Crowder

I have called myself a Crazed Creator. I focus primarily on fiber arts and anything I can make with natural materials I find in the Gila Wilderness. Naturally dyed yarns, amigurumi (crocheted toys), jewelry, organic art, wind chimes, fairy houses... 

Deborah and Arnold

New Benchways makes garden and indoor decorative benches from recycled chairs and headboards.  It's a family affair with Arnold doing all the sanding and reconstruction and Deborah doing the painting and decorating.   We hand finish and paint each bench as one of a kind.

I'm a textile/fiber artist with an environmental conscience currently working with upcycled clothing.  I have a new line for this spring and summer I have labeled Avant-garde soft grunge.  My techniques include deconstruction, rusting and boro stitching among others. 

Jocelin and DeWayne

Kneeling Nun Soapworks is owned and operated by Jocelin & DeWayne Ross.  Jocelin is a disabled Veteran and New Mexico native, born in Carlsbad, NM.  Jocelin served 23 years in the US Air Force. DeWayne is a US Army combat Veteran and native born in Artesia, NM.