Rusty angels are named after the materials she uses to create them. She presses clay into an old doll's face that she uses as a mold for the angels, she said. Then she folds galvanized roofing metal and baking tins to shape the angels.
"The material shows me what it wants to be," she said.
She uses a variety of items to create her wares, but one of her favorites is an empty detergent bottle, she said. "The colors are extraordinary."
Using a heat gun, fasteners, glue and the detergent containers, Creshkoff makes fish and birds, she said. "What we do is almost a metaphor for human potential."
A number of different things come out in her work, she said. Her tin-can robots appear cheerful, her masks made from aged wood appear to be African, and the angels have a religious quality about them.
Creshkoff will have figures made from cans, rusty angels, masks and figures in the show, ranging in price from $30 to $150.
Another member of Trashy Women, Jo Pinder, has been doodling since she was a toddler, she said. As a youngster, he sat under a big apple tree with her mother with markers and paper and drew pictures. At age 24, she started taking formal art classes.
Today, she creates collage and brush ink art works and works as the head decorator for Eldreth Pottery, a shop in Oxford, Pa.
Her collage pieces are made using a cigar box, wire, glass, papers, crayons and crayon papers, she said. To create the collages she melts bee's wax and digs local clay, which she puts on rice paper in a thin wash to create a loose design. Then she uses ink to enhance the design.
However, when she sits down to work on her art, she never knows what she wants to create, she said.
"I have lots of ideas," said Pinder, 56, of Colora. "But I never have a plan."
Pinder gets her inspiration, as well as a love of folk art and home arts, from her ancestors, including Betsy Ross - the woman who made the first American flag. Betsy Ross is her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, said Pinder, who has a pair of Betsy Ross' scissors that have been handed down for generations by her family.
However, Pinder's artwork is mostly papier mache and ink paintings on glass. To create one of her ink paintings, she uses ink, a window, a photo from a wedding etiquette book and a piece of an old wedding dress.
She will include several collages in the exhibit. They range in price from $20 to $550.
