



A resident glass-blowing expert can lead you through a 20- to 30-minute class to make your own ornament, paperweight, bowl or other glassware. There are also artist demonstrations, hands-on classes and gallery exhibitions. The gallery offers more than 20,000 products, including jewelry, cutting boards and woodwork, pottery, works in metal, high-end sculpture and lots more. The circular building showcases works from artisans representing all 55 counties in West Virginia. The eye-catching, peaked, red-roof building located up the hill from the service station at Exit 45 is an oasis of art, gourmet food and serene calm, as well as a great road-trip pit stop. If you’re traveling West Virginia’s stretch of Interstate 77 and don’t check out Tamarack Marketplace in Beckley, you’re missing one of the state’s great just-off-the-road finds.
