Artists & Makers
We have a great team at Art Collective with a variety of mediums in which we work.
Below you'll find the artists and makers and learn a little bit about them and their backgrounds.

Chelsea *Sparks* Weiss,
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MagpieMobiles & ChelseaSparks

Many people know me as Chelsea Sparks, which actually is my business name. I came up with the name because I like the sparks that fly when creativity strikes!! My "real" name is Chelsea Weiss. I opened the doors to Art Collective on Jan 9th, 2019 after a successful Pop Up Shop in November & December of 2018. I created a unique boutique in historic Downtown Frederick that offers one-of-a-kind handmade goods,  original artwork and mixed media workshops with the most fabulous of artists. You can read about them on this page below.

I am proud to have Bette Brody, my Artner & Manager at my side in this endeavor. Bette joined me in January of 2020 to help me run Art Collective.

My path has been a winding one. My schooling was in Graphic & Interior Design. I’ve dabbIed in Event Design & Planning. I now call myself a mixed media artist. My favorite creations are my steam-punk inspired mobiles. Over the last 11 years, I’ve been trying out many different techniques and areas of art & making. I like to make things that have many layers and some aspect of sparkle or shine to them. While I love a crisp and new aesthetic in art styles, in my own work I prefer things that are weathered, look as though they have lived a life already and tell a story.

Chelsea has been an Art Collective Artist since...well she created it.

Bette A. Brody, artner & manager
Bette's Creations®
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Bette is a self-taught mixed media artist specializing in handcrafted journals/books, paper design, mixed media, & unique jewelry. Retired from the corporate world, she is now a full-time artist.

Bette’s passion is creating in all aspects of her life; finding the beauty in everyday surroundings. Bette is a woman who finds meaning and purpose by expressing herself through art. 
She is open to many different art forms which has given her a broad perspective on the arts allowing her to mix different art forms together. This can be seen in many of her works.

Bette has a special fondness for all things rusty & vintage and often incorporate these into her art. Combining found objects/antiques, paper, and metal in her artwork gives it a unique appeal. Bette paints, collages, metal smiths, weaves and felts. She loves learning new ways to create art.
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Find her at www.bettescreations.com or www.instagram.com/bettescreations/
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Bette has been an Art Collective Artist since November 2018.

CL Porter

Secondhand Lioness

CL Porter is an active real estate broker for forty-four years with a passion for art in many forms for as long as she can remember. Following in Grandma Moses footsteps, at 77 years of age she is a multi media artist, currently working in fabric art.  She is inspired by color, texture and the challenge and possibility of incorporating thrifted, upcycled and found items into her art. She is also inspired by the creativity of the wonderful community of artists her daughter, Chelsea has introduced into her life. 

Losing her son to cancer in 2018, she made memory hearts for his Celebration of Life and continues to make hearts as a way to heal her own. She is currently making textile art in the form of Boho Jellyfish pins, cuff bracelets and fabric amulets using upcycled fabric, yarn, bits and bobs and beads.

CL has been with Art Collective since the beginning, January 2019.​

Sarah Norris
PiHole Designs
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By day, I look for patterns in data as a biostatistician. By night, weekend, and the occasional day off, I make patterns with plant-based epoxy resin, stone, and metal. My jewelry is bold in shape and color and reflects my love of mid-century geometric designs. I‘ve studied metalsmithing at the Delaplaine Arts Center and participated in Artomatic @ Frederick in 2016.

A portion of all my sales are donated to Heartly House (http://www.heartlyhouse.org/) which provides comprehensive services for victims and survivors of domestic violence, rape/sexual assault and child abuse. 

You can find Sarah online at pihole.etsy.com and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/piholedesigns/

Sarah has been an Art Collective Artist since November 2018.

Deana Greenberg
Six Gable Originals

​Deana has been sewing since the age of 6, when Santa brought her a weird little machine that sewed with a glue cartridge. Motivated mainly by a need for pockets, she started making clothes (on a real machine with thread) in a sewing class in high school.

​The years of raising three small kids sent sewing mostly to the back burner. Deana started making Nom Nom Monster bags when her kids were in elementary school, selling mostly in her Etsy shop and to other kids at the school. She started selling at the Monster of a Show in Baltimore in 2011, fulling committing to the Monster Artist lifestyle.

Nom Nom Monster bags are still her primary occupation, but Deana is branching into upcycled fashion, hoping to tread a bit more lightly on the planet while making clothes that are fun, funky, and functional (POCKETS!)
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Online shop: www.sixgables.com     FB: Six Gables Originals      Instagram: DeanaSews

Deana has been an Art Collective Artist since November 2018.

Donna Quesada
Wildflowers Studio
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Donna Quesada is a local landscape and ceramic artist who is a Maryland native. She has lived and worked in Frederick over the last 25 years, and received her arts education from the local talented art community. Her work is inspired by the regional wildlife, culture, and landscape through the changing seasons. It is featured in her watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings and in the past 8 years she has included printmaking and the ceramic arts.
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She finds that her exploration of different art forms has expanded her artistic vision. Currently, She lives in Mt. Airy Maryland and is a resident artist at The Griffin Arts Center in Frederick and at Gallery East in Adamstown. See more of Donna's work here.

Donna has been an Art Collective Artist since May 2019.

Lindsay Elizabeth
​Anderson
Lindsay Elizabeth Art
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​Born and raised in Frederick, MD, I specialize in watercolor and acrylic art to vibrantly style your home. I pursued the dream of becoming an artist and connecting with others through creativity when I became a middle school art teacher ten years ago. My career started in the classroom and quickly evolved into becoming a working artist and educator. I wouldn’t change either profession for the world and can’t imagine one without the other. I enjoy sharing art processes, techniques, and styles with others as much as I love creating the work itself. 
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My work continues to evolve with every collection. I am constantly redefining my creative process and experimenting with unique representations of my favorite subject matter. My sometimes unrealistic color combinations inspired by trending color palettes and detailed dancing lines are characteristic of my style. Every mark, every layer, and every “oops” is intentional. Be sure to look close. 
I sincerely enjoy getting to know my collectors, so please reach out! You can find me on Instagram @LindsayElizabethArt and Lindsay Elizabeth Art.

Lindsay has been an Art Collective Artist since June 2019.

Anita Crawford
Matilda Mae Candle Company
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A public relations and marketing professional by day, I started pouring candles as a fun hobby in early 2017 as a way to use the beautiful, mismatched glassware I found in antique stores and it quickly grew into something bigger. Matilda Mae Candle Company – named after my grandmother – was born! Pulling from the same story-telling concepts used in PR, I thoughtfully combine the nostalgia of the glass with memory-invoking scents to provide a one-of-a-kind experience, unique to each customer. The part I love – and the reason I keep pouring – is watching the customers connect with the candle. Just like old songs, scents carry us back and connect us to our soul. I count it a privilege to be able to watch a customer take that journey when they smell a Matilda Mae candle.

Anita has been an Art Collective Artist since December 2019.​

Megan Harclerode
Terrains Art
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Northern Virginia based artist, Megan Harclerode, has been honing her skills in multi-media resin art since 2018. She is a trained pastry chef, she but longed to make beautiful designs that lasted longer than a dinner party!
Inspired by her love of nature, Megan is drawn to the vast variety of colors and textures in the flora and fauna surrounding us every day. She collects and presses all the plants used in her pieces and preserves them in resin.
Just as no two plants are alike, each piece of jewelry Megan creates is unique to her collection and made with solid sterling silver. 

​Terrains website

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Megan has been an Art Collective Artist since January 2020.

Lisa Scarbath
Pieceful Designs Mosaics

Lisa is a mixed media mosaic artist from Ellicott City.  She enjoys creating art pieces with whimsical patterns using stained glass, tiles, broken dishes and found objects.   Lisa brings new life to furniture, making them functional works of art.  At Art Collective she specializes in making steam-punk and sparkly blue crabs and other sea creatures. 
 
Working for years as an attorney and professor, she is thrilled to now be focused on creating art and finding joy piece by piece! Lisa’s work can also be found in stores in Sykesville, Cambridge and Ocean City, MD.

You can find her online at PiecefulDesignsMosaics and on Facebook and Instagram.

Lisa has been an Art Collective Artist since January 2020.

Sharon Mesa
En Masse Luxe : small luxuries

Sharon Mesa says she is “almost a Frederick resident”, after working 19 years in her floral boutique in Frederick Maryland. Now retired, she is free to explore beyond flowers, but still enjoys passing on tips and information for working with botanical materials. Innovation in design has been her hallmark and she is still involved in creating in teaching.

During her floral career Mesa was awarded the first national BizBash Award For event design in 2014, contributed to the last two additions of the international floral art publication and plans to continue designing and teaching in the future.

Sharon under her brand En Masse Luxe joined Art Collective in September of this year. She brings her beaded & wrapped goods, including jewelry and bookmarks as a welcome addition to the store’s unique collection of artful goods.

Doug Guthier
TurtleDown      Making Custom Wands since 2017.

It started as a fun project to do on a lathe.  Although woodworking has been my one true hobby since a high school shop class, I hadn't had a good reason to go back to the lathe.  When my daughter wanted a Harry Potter birthday party, making a wand for each of the guests was a perfect excuse.  I started turning and never turned back.

As I made more wands, I continued to experiment with more turning techniques. I expanded the types of woods that I used, from the common woods like Cherry and Maple, to the more exotic like Colobolo and African Mahogany. I also started to introduce other elements into the wands like acrylic and resin, and added detail work like carving, painting, and wood burning.
Over the next year or so, I continued to create wands....without really having a use for them. While small they were starting to pile up.

Then the scourge of Covid 19 struck, and I had a lot more time at home to work on my wands. All of the sudden I was inundated with wands. It was time to do something with them. I started an Etsy site during the shutdown period, but the market for wands is....crowded to say the least.  While they say the wand chooses the wizard, I find most wizards like to choose their wands in person, weighing it in their hands.

TurtleDown wands have been at Art Collective since October 2020.

Pat Lang
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I work primarily in oil paint in a realistic style.   I most often create the painting in mind, going over the layout, perspective, colors, values, and other aspects of the composition days before I actually start the painting.

I normally “draw” the images in the painting with oil paint, and then block in the basic colors and shapes while defining the darks and lights.   This method creates a grisaille. A grisaille could actually serve as a completed painting without glazing over with color. When the block in is dry, I begin the painting, working from the background to the front.

Recently I have enjoyed working on smaller gallery wrapped paintings of various subjects.  While they still are still complete paintings, they provide a break from larger, sometimes more intense, paintings.

While I have done commissioned paintings, I prefer to paint what I am inspired to paint, and for me, there seems to be no end to what can become a painting.  Inspiration is everywhere.

Pat Lang's art has been at Art Collective since March 2021.

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