Percha Creek Traders
Featuring Unique Arts, Books, Crafts and Collectables
On the "New Mexico Fiber Arts Trail".....
575-895-5116
300 Main Street, Hillsboro, NM
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Get your copy of
The 2011 Xmas in the Foothills limited edition archival print by Julie Shufelt
Julie Shufelt
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SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE for 2011
SALUTE TO SUMMER- May 28th
Harvest Festival - Labor Day September 3th
"Day of the Dead" - October 22nd
Christmas in the Foothills - December 3th
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ARTISTS
Jane Dobrott has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. She has sold her paintings and watercolors in Scottsdale AZ, and whimsical wire sculptures in Santa Fe. She also creates unique cowboy hats for guys and gals under the name "Buffalo Belles Millinery". Her newest creations are her wire sculptures; she had a "one woman show" of her newest wire sculptures of chickens, dogs cats, horses and more in the Spring of 2009. She and her husband, a wildlife biologist, have worked on ranches for over 30 years and currently manage Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch.
Kathy Lovell creates a whimsical menagerie under the name "Kathy's Kritters" , including lizards, turtles, galloping horses, horny toads, happy hens, camels, wooley buffalos and more --all made from clay and fired with a beautiful variety of colorful glazes. She also crafts Raku and glazed pottery, hand painted gourd bowls, canteens and tray tables. And woven shawls and much more.
Melody Sears is an award-winning artist who paints scenes of Hillsboro and the Southwest in pastels and oils. A member of the Pastel Society of New Mexico and Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, her work focuses on the more intimate landscape, where "light makes the statement, colors add magic, and composition clinches the fullness of the experience of a particular place and a particular time where I have been." See more at her website.
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Gene and Diane Washburn of "Sleeping Indian Creative Designs" create handmade tables, coat racks, picture frames and many other items using native woods found in this region. His woodworking is both rustic and elegant -- always celebrating woods' natural beauty.
Matilde Holzwarth's photography presents an artist's view of the magic of New Mexico and the wonders of nature. She has pursued photography for fun and in her career of Neuroscience research and teaching . Since coming to The Land of Enchantment her interest in fine art photography has been energized. She has participated in several Santa Fe Workshops under the tutelage of Jay Maisel and Norman Mauskopf; this has expanded her photographic skills and helped develop her photographic eye. Her fine Archival Prints are created with the finest archival paper and pigment based inks. See more of her photographs at her website.
Kathy Reed of "Tenderfoot Art", is from the Hillsboro area and makes spectacular art quilts, cutting boards, tile designs and more. The color and imaginative design of her artwork starts with an inspiration from the world around her...recently especially horses and flowers. Her designs are unique, intricate, imaginative and oh so colorful.
Bob Shipley , formerly of Kingston NM, crafts unique cutting and cheese boards, coasters, letter openers, cheese knives and butter spreaders from local sycamore, juniper, mesquite and walnut wood. They are beautiful, useful and reasonably priced. Also: Hand finished Yucca stalk walking sticks
"Shoofly"
Nolan Winkler - Contemporary monotypes and fine art prints
Ellie Nordgren of Hillsboro offers beautiful handmade beeswax candles of unique designs, soaps, honey and beautifully packaged chiles.
Bill
Lindenau- Handmade sterling silver jewelry 
Arlene Lynch - Beautiful stained glass
Becky
Manschreck - Original oil, watercolor and acrylic
paintings and prints 
Mark and Marilyn Nero - The Cranberry Press unique antique letter press greeting cards and exquisite Viennese Pendant Bone China
Grace M. Garcia Dobson - Hand painted iconography; prints and cards
Diana Vineyard - Small oil paintings of southwest scenes, birds and still lifes
Jane
Turner -potter
,water colorist and beaded jewelry 
Paul Rose- photographs and notecards of historical and western scenes in and around Hillsboro.
Hopper Shannon - Hand forged ironwork
Patricia
Woodruff of Aldo's Attic-
fine prints of Richard Sloan's paintings of the raptors of the southwest.
Bill Rakocy - Fine oil paintings of local scenes
Reba Wilson - Hand beaded jewelry of silver and semi-precious stones
Lyn
and Richard Orono-
Oil paintings of southwestern scenes and gorgeous original silver and
bead jewelry 
Donna Cadena- Fine art photography
by Harley Shaw and Mara Weisenburger
Jan Haley "Free Flow; The Gila River in New Mexico"
Liz Hayes Poetry: "Lessons" and "T'was Only Love"
Harley Shaw "Soul Among Lions; the Cougar as Peaceful Adversary", "Stalking the Big Bird: A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists and Bureaucrats" "Cougar Management Guidelines" and "Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro; J.Stokely Ligon and NM's First Breeding Bird Survey" (by H G Shaw and Mara E. Weisenberger)
Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt "Raised on Good Pasture" and "The Point of My Pencil"
Terry Skelton "Murder on Bill Road"
Catherine Wanek "The New Strawbale Home" and "The Art of Natural Building" and "The Hybrid House: Designing with Sun, Wind. Water and Earth"
Garland Bills - (and Neddy Vigil )"The Spanish Language of NM and Southern Colorado; A Linguistic Atlas"
Jim Altosa -"A Healers Notebook"
Val Hildreth-Werker-"Cave Conservation and Restoration"
Bill Rakocy -Several books on the Art and History of the Southwest
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Harley Shaw................................................
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NATURAL PRODUCTS
Desert Goddess Soap
All Natural SuperSalve Company all natural products: healing salves, cosmetics, lipbalms, creams and lotions
ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES
A large collection of depression glass, porcelain, milk glass, vintage jewelry, pottery, furniture and lots more.
Useful Links : Hillsboro, Sierra County, Sierra County Arts Council, Deming Arts Council, Silver City Arts Council,
NM Fiber Arts Trail , New Mexico Arts, Cuna Cueva Gallery , Melody Sears , Aldo's Attic, Shoofly Art, Holzwarth Fine Art Photography.
Hillsboro Attractions:
Restaurants: Barbershop Cafe (575-895-5283), Hillsboro General Store (575-895-5306), Lynn's Kitchen
Lodging: Black Range Lodge Bed and Breakfast (575-895-5652), Enchanted Villa Bed and Breakfast (575-895-5686), Barbershop Plaza Motel (575-895-5283 ), Historic Hillsboro House
Other: Cuna Cueva Gallery, Sue's Antiques, Ten Thousand Villages, Rock Store, Barbara Massengill's Studio, and other galleries. Black Range Museum..
Site last modifed 11/13/2011