Local Artisans Exhibit at Seminary Hill’s Holiday Pop-Up Market

Join us for holiday shopping at The Tasting Room on Saturday, December 6, when local artisans will sell their unique creations.

Carole Shiber: Holiday Placemats

Carole first sold her hand-painted table linen collections to ABC Home, Barneys, Henri Bendel, Macy's, and Williams-Sonoma in the 90s. Since then, she has created nationally bestselling collections of placemats, ceramic dinnerware, glassware, bath products, and stationery.

Holiday wreaths. Photo by Evadne Giannini.

Evadne Giannini: Holiday Wreaths

Every wreath tells a story of nature's beauty and sustainability. Evadne celebrates the season with wreaths made from the garden's last gifts: hydrangeas, native plants, and evergreen branches.

Ron Sauder: Hand-Poured Beeswax Candles

Ron keeps small hives of local bees. They stay through the New York winters: bees that live and die here, not the colonies trucked across the country for pollination. Their survival depends on what they store and how gently they’re tended. Ron takes only the excess wax, leaving the honey they need to make it through the cold. Each candle he pours reflects that balance between care and restraint: a light shaped by the rhythm of a local hive, by bees that work the same fields, orchards, and wildflowers that define the region.

Preserved Wildflowers. Photo by Pat.

Pat: Preserved Wildflowers

After years of painting bright ceramics at MacKenzie-Childs in Aurora, Pat found herself drawn back to the quieter patterns of the natural world. Retired from painting, she now collects wildflowers from the gullies and lake roads, pressing and sealing them in UV resin. Each pin or pendant holds the rhythm she once painted by hand, the repetition of petals instead of checks and stripes, the palette of meadow and sky instead of glaze and gold. Her work is a homage to both the discipline of craft and the spontaneity of nature.  

Metamorphic Sculptures. Photo by James Mintum.

James Mintum: Metamorphic Sculptures

James carves metamorphic stones gathered from rivers and lakes across New York’s Catskills and Finger Lakes. Each rock—over a billion years old—formed deep within the Earth and was shaped again by ice and water. He works entirely by hand, hollowing and polishing until the stone reveals its structure and color. His bowls, sinks, and birdbaths are collaborations with time itself—objects that expose the endurance and quiet beauty of ancient geology, inviting the landscape’s deep past into daily use.