Artisans

Made in Greer is fortunate to have some of the best and most talented artisans from all over Arizona’s White Mountains. The Made In Greer business model has created a win-win situation for both our artisans and Made In Greer. We charge our artisans a nominal monthly fee and do not claim a percentage of their revenues at the point of sale. That arrangement gives us the ability to provide our artisans with significant advertising and merchandising resource that most other consignment retailers do not. That resource includes all of the following and more:

• Representation on the Made In Greer web site, including product photos, artisan biographies and links to each artisan’s web sites, email addresses, phone contacts, Facebook, YouTube, Google and other social media links.
• Representation on the Made In Greer Google Business page, including artisan and product photographs, as well as posts.
• Representation on the Made In Greer Bing Places For Business page.
• Advertising flyers for artisan classes and a classroom in which to present.
• Calendar listings for classes, Meet The Artist and special events on both the Made In Greer events calendar and the White Mountain regional calendar.
• Representation on the monthly Constant Contact customer emails.
• Participation with Made In Greer at events like the ASU Steak Fry, the Tillman Run, After Hours At Made In Greer, our Christmas shopping event, the Time Square Plaza live radio broadcast, Pinetop-Lakeside Days, the Pinetop-Lakeside Artisans Fall Festival and Harvest Festival and the White Mountains Balloon Festival.
• Artisan demo tables in the store at which our artisans can interface with customers while they demonstrate their products.
• Representation in the Explore: 202 Things To Do In Northeast Arizona publication.

We’re very proud of the quality of the products and services that our artisans provide. We are constantly evaluating both our current and prospective artisans. If you are interested in joining us, then please give us a call or an email or simply drop by the store during regular business hours. Get your money’s worth!

Cheryl Ford

Cheryl is the creator of “Divine Beadworks.” She has enjoyed expressing herself artistically since she was a small child growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. In her pre-college years, Cheryl received several awards and recognition for her paintings and drawings. As an art education major at Michigan State University, she was able to experiment in other media including clay, print making and jewelry.

Cheryl’s Divine Beadworks jewelry creations can be found on-line at Divine Beadworks. Cheryl has also recently created watercolor greeting cards and gift tags and all of her locally made items can be found on our web site and at Made in Greer. You can also read about Cheryl’s background in an article that was written by Barbara Bruce for the November 30, 2018 issue of the White Mountain Independent:  Cheryl Ford WMI Article

Article link courtesy of the White Mountain Independent.

Victoria Frazior

Victoria Frazior has been very involved in art and poetry from an early age. She’s a very accomplished artist who has won multiple awards for her work, including the Purchase Award from the 2018 NPC Student Art Show shown here. Her works include paintings, ceramics, jewelry and poetry. Her paintings and ceramics are on display at Made In Greer and her comprehensive works may be seen at her web site at Painters Portal

Kathy Hamilton

Kathy is a retired nurse who continues her medical involvement through church and volunteer work. She is also an accomplished seamstress and her products displayed at Made In Greer include cloth trees, placemats, baskets, napkins, wine holders, hats, pumpkins, purses, runners, wine bottle holders and more.

Hal Hamilton

Hal has lived in Arizona for over 40 years and has focused on digital photography and digital art since retiring in 2008. His images reflect his love for the nature and landscape of the uniquely beautiful Southwest. Hal’s digital art techniques include transforming certain photographs with appropriate brush techniques and carefully modifying the digital images for consistent texture, color balance and strong composition. Because he also likes the depth and textures of heavy oil paintings, he prints these images on canvas and hand-textures the prints to achieve the additional dimension seen in oil or acrylic originals. He also produces metal print photography.

Steve Fell

Photo and bio coming soon

Tess Durfee

Bio coming soon.

Barbara Peacock

Photo and bio coming soon.

Linda Lewis

Photo and bio coming soon.

Boots

Photo and bio coming soon.

Jutta Lunario

Photo and bio coming soon.

Debra Hanna

Photo and bio coming soon.

Sharon Chanley

Photo and bio coming soon.

Dennis Kimberlin

Photo and bio coming soon.

Ielah Pratt

Photo and bio coming soon.

Alix Alejandro

Alix is a thrift-store surfer, cat and dog lover, bird lady, desert gardener, retired kindergarten teacher and mother of three. After thirty years teaching, she now has enough time to pursue her longtime passion for sewing and seamstressing with second-hand materials.

An old pair of jeans is a treasure. So is a wool pant suit, or a beautiful cashmere sweater with a hole. Most people put a wool sweater in the washer by mistake; Alix does it by habit: it felts the fibers and gives the wool a second life as a purse, pouch, or pillow. It’s best not to come over dressed in your favorite wool sweater. (Watch out if she compliments your attire.)

See Alix’s one of a kind pillows (they each have a name) at Made In Greer and see Alix’s Web Site at: Loyal Bird

Margo Sulger

What I have a passion for is to take old and broken items that most people would throw in the trash and repurpose them into beautiful and useful again.

Many of Margo’s repurposed and collectible items can be viewed on our product pages. Her collectibles include metal airplane models from the “Wings Of Texaco” series and car models from the “Racing Champions” series, as well as John Deere tractors and farm implements. Many are in their original boxes. She also has several framed original Gordon Snidow prints, featuring cowboys, that were created for Coors Brewing. Her repurposed items include many antique pieces that have been made into beautiful wall or display creations.

Char Serna

In 1979, I moved to Lakeside, AZ. We opened a trading post with art and craft supplies. In our many years of business, we made many friends in the Native American Community. I was inspired to paint the Navajo and Apache women and children, paying attention to every detail, to do honor to them and their culture. Capturing the spirit of the Southwest, I use all the fun colors I see, to set the mood or personality of the subject matter.

Jill and Richard Meyer

Jill Meyer was raised in Illinois and moved to Arizona in 1987. She started her career in property management in 1995 and opened a business in short-term corporate housing and interior design. Richard Meyer was raised in Seattle and graduated from Washington State and the University of Washington with a degree in dentistry. Richard opened his dental practice in Tucson after practicing dentistry in the Air Force and successfully ran his practice for thirty two years. Jill and Richard moved to the White Mountains in 2005. They have two kids and two grand kids in Tucson.