ARMENIAN HAND-KNOTTED CARPETS: George Aposhian Jr., Diane Moffat & Julia Moffat – Demonstrating Artists

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy B

George Aposhian learned to weave rugs from his father and from his grandparents who immigrated to Salt Lake City in the early 1900s. In turn, he has taught his daughter, Diane Moffat, the traditional techniques for stringing a vertical loom and weaving rugs with intricate traditional designs. Now Diane is teaching her granddaughter, Julia.

BELARUS WOODCARVING: Nikolay Motro – Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy H

Nikolay Motro was born and raised in Belarus, a former Soviet Republic, where he learned to carve wood from a neighbor. He carves faces and figures in both two and three dimensions, as well as elaborately carved spoons and picture frames. His work is precise and graceful.

BOBBIN LACE: Elizabeth Peterson – Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy G

In the 19th century, women made bobbin lace to generate income. Today, lace enthusiasts like Elizabeth Peterson of the Beehive Lacers, enjoy bobbin lacing for its artistry and technical challenges.

BRAIDED WOOL RUGS: Barbara Jones – Demonstrating Artist

Friday & Saturday, Canopy A

Using pre-washed strips of wool, Barbara Jones braids rugs in the pioneer tradition. She learned from her neighbor, Kate, the daughter of a pioneer polygamist. Her rugs illustrate her talent at color selection as well as fine technical abilities.

CENTRAL AMERICAN FOLK JEWELRY: Zulma Arevalo – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy H

Zulma Arevalo is from Costa Rica, where, as a child, her brother taught her to make bracelets and anklets known as pulseras out of recycled thread. This folk craft is popular throughout Central and South America. Since coming to Utah, Zulma has enjoyed making pulseras using colorful cotton thread.

CUSTOM BOOTS: Don Walker – Crafts for Sale

Friday & Saturday, Canopy B

After studying with eastern Utah's custom boot maker Randy Merrill, the original designer of the Merrill hiking boot, Don Walker opened his own custom boot making and repair shop in central Utah's Sanpete County. Today he makes custom hiking boots, cowboy packers, shoes and orthotic devices. His favorite job is to make cowboy-style dress boots, of fine leather, with plenty of fancy stitching.

EUROPEAN DECORATIVE PAINTING: Hella & Myron Pope – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Canopy G & Sunday, Canopy A

Hella Pope learned decorative painting as a child in Germany then expanded her skill at several European schools specializing in that art form. Her husband, Myron, uses his woodworking skills to craft objects for her to decorate. Today her repertoire includes designs gathered in her world travels.

EUROPEAN-STYLE DECORATED EGGS: Ingrid Hersman – Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy F

Since her childhood in Germany, Ingrid Hersman has carried on her family's tradition of decorating eggs. She has studied and acquired skills in a variety of the techniques and styles found throughout the European continent including the batik-dye method, commonly recognized as Ukrainian eggs.

EUROPEAN RELIEF CARVING: Joseph Gruber - Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Saturday & Sunday Canopy D

Joseph Gruber, who came to the US in 1989, was born in Tomsk, in the former Soviet Union. He lived most of his life in the Ukraine where he first learned to carve. Fascinated with the different versions of folktales that are prevalent in Eastern and Western Europe, he uses his woodworking skills to depict folktales through relief carvings.

GLOBAL ARTISANS: Artists from Utah's Refugee Communities - Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy A

Global Artisans is the Arts and Craft Division of the Utah Refugee Pathways to Self Sufficiency, a program of Salt Lake County and the Utah Refugee Coalition. The program aids local Refugees by providing the necessary equipment and exposure to work towards self-sufficiency by selling their hand-crafted gifts. Nepali Back Strap weaving, Somali basketry, Karen weaving and Bhutanese card weaving are among the traditional arts they perpetuate.

HAWAIIAN LEIS & CRAFTS: The Ohumukini Family & Halau Hula 'O Keola – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy E
Master artist Maurice 'Keola' Ohumukini has taught the ancient arts of Hawaii in Utah for many years sharing them through performances and demonstrations. Using fresh flowers, vines and the kukui nut, members of Keola's family and hula school braid, twine and string these materials
together to create leis that symbolize Hawaiian beauty and hospitality.

IRANIAN CERAMIC FLOWERS: Ferial Rasekhi, Zinat Taheri & Noosha Dixon - Crafts for Sale

Friday & Sunday, Canopy C

As a young woman, Iranian-born Ferial Rasekhi learned the traditional art of sculpting miniature flowers, petals, leaves and buds to make jewelry and other small items. Today she creates earrings, pendants, and head crowns for bridal veils. She has also taught this art form to others in Salt Lake's Iranian community and it has become an activity that helps keep community ties strong.

JAPANESE BONSAI: Ken Yamane – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Saturday, Canopy F

As a teenager, Ken Yamane watched his father tend bonsai plants at home. When he spent time in Japan in the Air Force and was given a bonsai plant to tend, Ken developed a strong interest in this art form. He studied with a recognized bonsai master, has displayed his work at various festivals in Utah and is considered to be Utah's foremost Japanese bonsai artist.

JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY: Masami Hayashi & Seiji Hayashi – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy C

Japanese calligraphy incorporates the literal meaning of a symbol with an artist's personal interpretation of that word or concept. Masami began seriously studying calligraphy in 1979 and in 2004 received the highest rank of Dojin from Bokusei-kai of Tokyo. Today he continues to study a modern style known as Creative Calligraphy. His grandson, Seiji, who recently attained the 5th degree rank Go-dan from Nihon-Shuji of Kyoto, is following in his footsteps.

JAPANESE ORIGAMI: Judith Iwamoto – Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Canopy F

Judy Iwamoto, a native of Salt Lake City, has always been fascinated by origami. She taught herself the craft, and then worked with master artist Ine Takenaka. Today Judy is one of Utah's most accomplished and enthusiastic proponents of origami. She shares this art form with others at festivals and in classrooms.

JAPANESE ORIGAMI JEWELRY: Kumiko Morse – Crafts for Sale

Saturday & Sunday, Canopy G

Kumiko Morse grew up in Hiroshima, Japan and, like all Japanese kids, learned to make origami in pre- school. She first came to Utah in high school through an exchange program and later married and made her home here. Kumiko has always enjoyed making origami and a few years ago she began crafting jewelry based on traditional origami forms as a way of sharing her Japanese culture with others.

KAREN WEAVING FROM BURMA: Karen Women's Organization - Demonstrating Artists

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy D

The Karenni people are from the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, a nation formerly known as Burma. Among the Karen refugees who now call Utah home are many traditional weavers whose families kept this art form alive for thirty years while living in Thai refugee camps. The Karen use a back strap loom, a portable technology used to produce domestic textiles.

LOOMED RAG RUGS: Ava Losee & Celia Harris – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy E

Weaving on the rug loom is a daily activity for Celia Harris and her mother, Ava Losee. Using fabric from the local thrift store, they weave for friends and family, recycling old clothing into beautiful rag rugs.

MAORI INSPIRED POTTERY: Ed Napia – Crafts for Sale

Saturday, Canopy B

Erw "Ed" Napia was born into the Ngapuhi Iwi Tribe of New Zealand. While a student at the University of Utah, he became interested in hand-built ceramics. His art ultimately evolved into a unique style that expresses his heritage through intricate Maori patterns and symbolism.

MEXICAN DAY OF THE DEAD ART: Marla Lepe & Una Mano Amiga– Crafts for Sale

Saturday & Sunday, Canopy C

Marla Lepe, an artist of exceptional skill, specializes in Mexican Day of the Dead art, a passion she shares with her mother, Rocio Mejia. Her art celebrates the belief that the souls of the dead return each year to "eat, drink and be merry" with their living friends and family and she enjoys sharing this traditional affirmation of life with her Utah neighbors.

MEXICAN PAPER FLOWERS: Frances Rogers, Amanda Ontiveros & Kristina Martinez – Demonstrating Artists

Saturday & Sunday, Canopy E

Frances Rogers, her daughter Amanda and her granddaughter Kristina, all make Mexican-style paper flowers, an art they learned from Frances' aunt. Along with other Mexican paper crafts, candy-filled papier-mâché piñatas, confetti-filled cascarones, and design-filled banners called banderole, their beautiful creations enliven local parties and fiestas.

MEXICAN REPUJADO: Jose Galicia – Demonstrating Artist

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy B

Repujado is an ancient metal embossing technique that transforms a thin sheet of metal into a three-dimensional object by giving it volume and relief. Repujado has an important place in the art history of Mexico. Jose Galicia, a master of this art form, focuses much of his work on accurately reproducing ancient writings and symbols from the Mayan and Egyptian cultures.

NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK: Harold "Weaseltail" Garcia – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy D

Though Harold Garcia is one of Utah's most prolific bead workers, he is also knowledgeable and skilled at many Native American art traditions including rug weaving, hide tanning, quillwork and basketry. His art reflects his Navajo, Pueblo and Northern Ute heritage and features a wide range of styles, patterns and forms that are both historic and contemporary.

NATIVE AMERICAN SILVERSMITHING: Winston Mason – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy A

Master silversmith Winston Mason is of Hidatsa/Mandan descent, from Fort Berthold, North Dakota. He was introduced to silversmithing by the late renowned Hopi artist, Charles Loloma, while attending the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He custom designs and crafts fine traditional jewelry. His one-of-a-kind silver pieces feature several varieties of turquoise, agate, lapis lazuli, shell and other gemstones that are extracted from rough quarried stone.

NAVAJO BASKETWEAVING: Anderson Black & JoGina Washburn – Demonstrating Artists

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy F

Anderson Black, a talented Navajo basket weaver, is the son of nationally recognized basket weaver, teacher and innovator, Mary Holiday Black. He grew up in a home where basket making was the central household activity and traveling to desert streams to gather sumac and spending hours preparing and dyeing sumac was as much a part of daily life as eating and sleeping. Anderson's wife, JoGina Washburn, also grew up around basket making and shares his love of this art form.

NAVAJO POTTERY: Jachelle Yazzie – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy H

Native Utahn, Jachelle Yazzie, comes from a family of talented Navajo potters. Her parents, William Yazzie and Cynthia Lansing, are both well-known for their hand-carved and hand-painted artwork. Jachelle has won many accolades for her art including several blue ribbons at the Arizona State Art Museum. All of her work is etched, freehand, adding her own unique twist on traditional Navajo art.

PERUVIAN RETABLOS: Jeronimo Lozano – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy F

Retablos represent a very old form of three-dimensional art that combines sculpture and painting to create mythical or historical scenes. Nationally recognized, Jeronimo Lozano creates his retablos by individually sculpting figures from flour and plaster, combining them to depict religious, cultural or historical scenes from his Peruvian past and to tell stories of his life in Utah.

PUEBLO POTTERY: Katherine & Darrell Poleviyaoma - Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy G

The Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest are famous for their exquisite pottery. Katherine Poleviyaoma harvests clay from her Pueblo home, uses centuries-old techniques to build and decorate traditional pottery and also crafts green ware featuring traditional designs. Her husband, and her son, Darrell Jr., share a passion for this art form with her.

SCOTTISH TARTAN WEAVING: Anne Carroll Gilmour – Crafts for Sale

Sunday, Canopy B

A Scottish tartan is one of the most difficult patterns to weave and Utah is home to one of America's finest tartan weavers, Anne Carroll Gilmour. Anne learned Scottish weaving from master weaver Norman Kennedy after her family moved from Nova Scotia to the U.S. Her passion for this culturally and historically rich art form is shared by her best student, her daughter, Lindsay Anne Carroll.

SOMALI BANTU BASKETS: Somali Bantu Women's Group – Demonstrating Artists

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy H

Among Utah's African refugee population are the Bantu, a group that lived in slavery in Somalia for decades. Somali women are known for their skill at weaving reeds and other special grasses into domestic items such as mats, baskets and hats. The local Somali Bantu Women's Organization helps the ladies continue these arts and teach them to their children.

SOUTH SUDANESE CRAFTS: Dominic Raimondo & Loudo Village South Sudan School Project – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy D

Utah's South Sudanese refugee population includes both families and young men orphaned during decades of civil war. Many of the orphans, known as the Lost Boys, make clay toys, especially cattle, as a way to remember the cattle culture that is their heritage. Others continue to craft colorful traditional beadwork such as belts, necklaces, rings and earrings. Under the leadership of Dominic Raimondo, some of the money the community raises by selling their arts is being used to help build a traditional school in Dominic's home village of Loudo.

THAI ART OF CARVING: Amronrat Antczak – Demonstrating Artist

Sunday, Canopy B

Amronrat was born in Bangkok, Thailand and moved to Utah in 1996. When she was fifteen, she entered an art school that specialized in the ancient art of traditional Thai painting. Years later she applied many of the same skills to master the art of carving fruits and vegetables into flowers and other decorative designs. Amronrat uses some of these decorative skills at her nearby restaurant, Thai Lotus.

TIBETAN KNOTTED RUGS: Sok-Choekore Family – Demonstrating Artists

Saturday & Sunday, Canopy G

Carpet making has always been an important Tibetan art form. Karma Sok- Choekore learned to weave pile carpets in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal after his family fled from Tibet in 1959. He immigrated to Utah in 1992 and was later joined by his wife Sonam, also a weaver, and their four sons. They have taught their boys to make carpets to help them maintain ties to a homeland they haven't experienced.

TONGAN CRAFTS: Tonga Uaisele & Latu Uaisele – Crafts for Sale

Friday & Saturday, Canopy E

Tonga began working with wood over forty years ago when he carved two toy pistols for his sons. His work evolved into replicas of sea life and representations of deities. Recognized among local Tongans as a master carver, Tonga was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Tongan United Methodist Church in West Valley, dedicated in a ceremony attended by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga. His wife, Latu, enjoys making necklaces in the traditional island style.

TURKISH TEXTILES: Zeynep Kariparduc, Jyotika Oguz & Sumeyra Sahin – Demonstrating Artists

Saturday & Sunday, Canopy C

In Turkey it is customary for women, from the time they are first married, to begin making a dowry of textiles for their daughters' wedding while simultaneously teaching their daughters to crochet. Both Hulya Kablan and Zepnep Kariparduc learned to crochet as children and are masters at Turkish dantel.

WOODCARVING: Ray Kartchner – Crafts for Sale

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Canopy A

Ray Kartchner took a class in woodcarving and fell in love with its soothing qualities and its power to take one's mind to a different place. Ray often carves animals, elaborate walking canes topped with figures and decorative designs and spoons with intricately carved Celtic-knot motifs.