Forestheart Studio

Specialties

Forestheart carries supplies that are hard to find: traditional rug hooking, dyeing, beadwork, glass beadmaking, weaving, spinning, felting, watercolor, and whatever else Mary gets into. We have –and share– extensive how-​to and problem solving knowledge and experience. Guidance and encouragement for your projects, custom instruction and serendipitous connections are the norm. Art and craft resources and expertise that you won’t find at chain stores.

History

Established in 1980.

Has been in Wodosboro MD location for 20+ years in a 1912 blacksmith shop. Currently part time in Morgan County WV.

Meet the Business Owner

Mary K.

Business Owner

Self employed since 1980. Lifelong teacher, multi mused artist, continually adding skills, refining, hybridizing. Contributor of three sketchbooks archived at the Brooklyn Art Library. Member of the Ice House Artist Co-​op, Berkeley Springs WV.

Multi mused, yet not a dabbler, Mary is a highly rated presenter, receiving in 2013 an award for excellence in art education. Her interests & studies are wide, but viewed as all related; she combines and hybridizes among them freely from a perspective of how things work rather than a formulaic «do this, get this» approach.

Example: Mary created a group of pieces commissioned by the University of Maryland Pain Management Clinic in Baltimore in 1989 which combined felted components and layers with triaxial weaving (that got onto her radar by way of basketry and Haley’s Comet). Her current triaxial weaving work involves algorithmic patterns worked in narrow silk ribbon strips, hand dyed.

Labyrinths, corn mazes, and dimensional paper pieces– next?