Featured Businesses

Chef Brando // @chefbrandoexperience

The Chef Brando Experience is private chef and catering business that focuses on providing a consistent upscale experience.

Chef Brandin Harvell has always loved the culinary arts, a talent he learned at the early age of 8 years. While Chef Brandin ultimately went to college for business, he was highly recruited by some of the top culinary institutions in the country and recently decided that he had to pursue what he was naturally gifted at.

LIBERTYTOWN ART STUDIO & GALLERY / @libertytownarts
LibertyTown Arts Workshop is a 13,000-square-foot gallery with over 50 local craftspeople and artists. Here our artists create and show right on site in 27+ active studio spaces. We have potters, woodworkers, welders, blacksmiths, oil painters, pastel artists, watercolorists, and fiber art.
The space was founded in 2002 by famed local potter Dan Finnegan, and changed hands in July 2013. The new husband and wife duo of Dolores and Kenneth Lecky are both artists in their own right (a potter and a photographer).
We also offer CLASSES in:

Pottery ( both Adult and Children's classes…beginners welcome!!!)
  • Oil Painting
  • Oil Pastels
  • Chinese Watercolor
  • Standard Watercolor
  • Knitting
  • Weaving
  • Drawing
  • Jewelery Making
  • Sculpture
  • and much more!
  • In our emporium, we have 20 or more artists sharing work from around the region: exceptional woodwork, stained glass, soaps, candles, print work, shirts, knitwear and pottery. We welcome you all to join us and have fun ❤
  • Learn more at http://libertytownarts.com or contact us at (540) 371-7255

D.D. and Kenneth are the owners of LibertyTown Arts Workshop. They purchased the business in 2013 and are working hard to build the class schedule, revamp the courtyard and add a huge mural to the backside of the building facing William Street.
The two met while attending UVA in 2002 and bonded over their love of art and science…and dogs ( they have three!).
D.D. is a potter and a commercial property manager who brings business and art together whenever she can.
Kenneth is a photographer and software engineer who is using his computer skills to push us into the 21th century! 

Ponshop // @ponshop

PONSHOP is a multifaceted storefront: an art gallery, retail store, and studio.  The vision of the owners, Scarlett and Gabriel Pons, is to provide a place that embodies what they love: art, design, and creative education. 

Their brick-and-mortar business on Caroline Street is now in its twelfth year, and features a variety of work from over twenty local and regional artists. Their storefront studio space features resident artist Rachel Ruddle of Steady Hand Jewelry.

Scarlett and Gabriel are 1997 graduates of Virginia Tech where they received their undergraduate degrees in Architecture.  They worked in the profession in New York City until 2005 when they moved to Fredericksburg and started their family.  Fredericksburg offered an ideal environment for them to flip their careers and pursue their art (Scarlett in ceramics and Gabriel in painting). Since then, they have become leaders in the city’s business and arts community, contributing to the diversity of the downtown’s cultural offerings and using their space as a site for community outreach.
As a mother, a business owner, and first-and-foremost an artist, Scarlett Pons realized 14 years ago that the items we use every day don’t have to be basic. She hand makes pieces in her Stafford County studio that balance form and function to make life beautiful. A student of architecture and a self-taught potter, her pottery is timeless in its blend of the rustic and the contemporary.
 Gabriel’s painting endeavors have expanded to large scale mural work over the years, providing clientele with signature artwork emblematic of the spirit of their business.  His past commercial clients include Vivify Burger Lounge, Foodē, Dragonfly Yoga, KOA Martial Arts, Sweat FXBG, and Ageless Aesthetics.  He has also been actively working with Stafford County and Fredericksburg City Schools, executing community mural projects to enhance their buildings.

PONSHOP is excited to announce the ninth annual Art Attack event scheduled for Saturday, October 1, 2022.  This downtown sidewalk art demo festival is one example of how creativity fosters community. Learn more and register at: artattackproject.com