Arts & Crafts Village
Featuring quality art and hand-crafted items from regional artisans.
Find extraordinary gifts for family, friends, co-workers and favorite for the upcoming holidays, and for other special occasions. No matter what you're looking for, you'll find it here ... so bring your shopping and gift lists when you visit the Louie Bluie Festival Arts & Crafts Village.Read the Arts & Crafts Village Guidelines.
Applications closed. Check back for next year’s festival.
Read the Arts & Crafts Village Guidelines
Complete an online application to be an Arts & Crafts Village Vendor
Timeless arts offer a hands-on way to connect with the past.
Traditional American crafts, valued for authenticity and sustainability, are making a powerful comeback. Across the country, communities are reviving pottery, weaving, blacksmithing, and more—skills once fading, now celebrated.
Scroll down to see a few select photos from the 2025 Festival Arts & Crafts Village.
2026 Arts & Crafts Village Participants
Participants with an asterisk (*) will have working demonstration at their booth.
Along with the artisans listed, we will have a number of non-profit organizations represented. Visit our Organizations page for more information.
Candles
Clearcuts Carvings
LR Stoneware*
Starlit Candles
Ceramics
LR Stoneware*
Mike's Wood'N Stuff
Primitive Pottery
Rock Creek Pottery*
Dolls and Children’s Toys
Bow Obsessions
Flower Crafts
Green Tea Quilts
Time For A Bow
Glass Art
Girl in a Cabin
Tennessee Raw Honey Farm
Jewelry Making
Bow Obsessions
Cloverlee
Green Tea Quilts
Just for Me-Mi Jewelry
LR Stoneware*
My Things Gemstone
Praying Manis Creative
Raynedrop Creations
Safe Spaces
Sea Witch Fiber Arts
Leatherworking
Custom Clutch
Metalworking
aTNartisan
Copper Crafter
Just Horsin' Around
Mixed Media
Custom Clutch
Laurie’s Rustic Charm Crafts
Praying Manis Creative
Sculpture on the Circle*
Tennessee Raw Honey Farm
Time For A Bow
Painting and Drawing
Artistic Escape*
Delia Designz Facepainting*
Praying Manis Creative
Paper Crafts
BOOKS with BAE
Mike's Wood'N Stuff
Stoneware
LR Stoneware*
Textiles
Green Tea Quilts
Quilts by Millie
Sea Witch Fiber Arts
Tied & True
Vintage Mama
Woody's Creative Crochet
Upcycling/Recycling
Absher Customs*
Backroad Company Creative Corner
Raynedrop Creations
Woodworking
Cast your Cares
Clearcuts Carvings
Just for Me-Mi Jewelry*
Mike's Wood'N Stuff
Rock Creek Creations
S & D Custom Woodturnings
The FryeDaddys Wood Works
Time For A Bow
Vintage Mama
Woodchuck's Woodpile
Written Word/ Authors
Arcane Commandoes
Fred Cole,
Author*J.T. Dossett, Author
Arts & Crafts Categories
Basket Weaving: all types and all materials
Candles
Ceramics: Encompasses pottery, sculpture, and decorative items made from clay.
Dolls and Children’s Toys: Corn-husk dolls and other handcrafted children's toys
Flower Crafts: bouquet making, pressed flowers, wreaths and more
Glass Art: Includes stained glass, blown glass, and glass bead making.
Jewelry Making: Involves creating adornments using beads, metals, and stones.
Leatherworking: Involves crafting items like bags, belts, and accessories, even saddles and harnesses, pet items
Metalworking: Encompasses blacksmithing, wrought iron and hand forged items, silver work, metal sculpture, and jewelry.
Mixed Media: often assemblages and/or collages of paper, cloth, wood, miscellaneous items (no computer software creations please!)
Painting and Drawing: Covers various mediums like watercolor, acrylic, and pastels.
Paper Crafts: Features origami, scrapbooking, and card making.
Stoneware
Textiles: Includes fabric arts like spinning & weaving, quilting, sewing, and embroidery.
Upcycling/Recycling: Focuses on transforming discarded materials into new, functional art
Woodworking: Features handcrafted furniture, carvings, and wooden toys.
Written Word/ Authors: Appalachian themed written word (prose or poetry) written by the vendor, no reselling of the work of others. No Artificial Intelligence writing, Religious, nor Political writing is permitted.
