MEET OUR "CLAM DIGGER" SPONSORS for 2018
What's a "clam digger"? you ask...?
Become a “Clam Digger”
What is a “Clam Digger”? A Clam Digger is a mini sponsor at the North Georgia Highlands Seafood Festival. Only a limited number of vendors can become a “Clam Digger”. Your $30 sponsorship fee has many perks for you and the community.
They include:
• Promotion on a special page on the North Georgia Highlands Seafood Festival website for you and your business.
• A large (approximately 2’ by 5’) banner will be displayed on the fence at the festival grounds with your name, business name, and website.
• Booth signs indicating that you are a “Clam Digger”.
• Ability to accept the special Clam Digger discount coupons for 10% off a single purchase at the festival. The coupons will be passed out to each adult at the gate. These coupons are only good at a Clam Digger booth. You will be reimbursed for the amount discounted on purchases that used the Clam Digger coupon.
• Robin Roberts Promotions, LLC will donate an amount equal to the amount of the money reimbursed to vendors to a local charity. It will be given in the name of North Georgia Highlands Seafood Festival Clam Diggers.
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Clam Diggers play a very important role in the NGHSF!
Their monetary support and unmatched dedication to their craft exemplify our goal to unite our community of diverse cultures and ages through a treasure trove of arts & crafts and a bounty of family-friendly activities!
You're invited to join this feisty group of swashbucklers! Simple click on this button:
VICKIE GIBSON
WOOD MANIA
706.897.1907 VGBSONRN@HOTMAIL.COM
Fractal wood burning, also known as creating Lichtenberg figures is the art of burning lightning or tree like figures into wood using high voltage electricity. The high voltage electricity is generated by a transformer, usually a microwave oven transformer, a neon sign transformer or an oil burner transformer. These machines are very dangerous and potentially deadly if you make a mistake when using them. I do not recommend that anyone do this due to the danger involved
OUR STORY
We own a small farm about a mile outside of Hayesville NC. We have 100+ chickens hatched and raised right here on the farm. Our other animals include 13 goats, a few rabbits, and a turkey. We sell fresh free range eggs everyday as well as chickens and roosters (when available). Our other products include vegetables grown in our garden, Goat milk soaps and lotions, bath bombs, wax melts, wax scoopables for tart burners, beeswax lip balm, and beeswax lotion bars.
Mark Hendry
Mountain Heritage
Handcraft
"I love history & handwork; making things without
machinery, as in times gone by. I like to co-create Art with Nature, honoring
the Creator's work in my own"
LEARN MORE: A 4-day class where students of all levels and ages can
learn how to make brooms from the ground up. From whisks to sweepers, all
manners of brooms will be covered, as well as harvesting and growing techniques
for the materials. Students will not only leave with several brooms, but also
the know-how to continue broom making on their own!
All materials will be
supplied.
John has worked with metal the majority of his life, fabricating everything from trailers, tanks for fire trucks, to BBQ smokers. A friend invited John to a blacksmith meeting and he has been forging ever since.
He prefers making functional items such as, steak turners, tripod and cross bar cookers, trammels, wind chimes, dinner chimes, and candle holders, but does some custom work. John teaches classes anually at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. John demonstrates at many arts and crafts festivals to promote blacksmithing.
As a member of the Alex Bealer Blacksmith Association, John has demonstrated several times at the meetings. In Nov 2012, he demonstrated how to make and use jigs for projects. Many of these jigs are pictured in the gallery on the Alex Bealer website. John participates at the Southern Blacksmith Association Conference in Madison, GA, often working with students in the "Green Coal" classes.
Judy has always loved working with her hands to produce
unique creations. She says,
"Gourds offer a limitless canvas to express my
artistic creativity."
Her current gourd art projects include pyrography,
painting, cut-work, coiling, and basketry on the gourds. Judy's specialty is
coiling with waxed linen thread to create functional and decorative pieces. The
gourd art pieces are often combined with the hand-forged iron bases created by
her husband and son.
Judy has been teaching closed coiling for about 11 years,
often with her daughter, Jody. They have taught classes at The Gourd Gathering
in Cherokee, NC for 10 years. She teaches a Gourd Weaving class at John C. Campbell Folk School and, upon request, she teaches classes in her home and
at group functions. She is always amazed and thrilled by the variations in
the projects and creativity of the students.
Judy's work can be seen in "Weaving on Gourds: by Marianne
Barnes. Several of her tutorials have been published in the Journal of
Tutorials printed each year for The Gourd Gathering.
Judy attended Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida
and has a B.A. degree in Art Education from the University of South Florida.
She is a member of the American Gourd Society.
THERON CLORE: Mountain Photography
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
All Theron's photography is taken in the Tri-State Area of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
