You don't have to wait until the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts to buy earrings, paintings or handmade clothing from your favorite local artists.

Wearable Art is the Gallery Shop's featured exhibit, showcasing made-to-wear art from many different mediums.

Located at 824 Pike St. in Lemont, the Gallery Shop sells original art and craft work from Central Pennsylvanian artists.

"It's pretty amazing to me the quality of Centre County work," said assistant manager Cazia Bradley. "We have 47 featured artists, and 90 percent of them are from Centre County."

Diane Maurer, an expert paper artist, specializes in hand-marbled papers and is featured in Wearable Art. You might recognize her marbling work from Arts Fest or on Godiva chocolate bars, Lenox China and books for HarperCollins Publishing.

"My work in the exhibit consists of double-marbled silk scarves, butterfly and art deco design earrings and collage pins featuring landscape designs," she said.

Maurer creates her work in a process called marbling, which is a contact print medium.

"The scarves are created by ... floating colors on a mixture of carrageenan moss and water and manipulating the colors with a stylus to form designs," she said. "Then the silk is carefully laid on the floating colors to pick up the image. No two designs are ever the same."

Maurer said that along with her work, the exhibit consists of work done by Gallery Shop weavers, felters, quilters, marbling and batik artists producing hats, scarves, jackets, shawls, purses and jewelry.

The exhibit is located in a small atrium near the facility's entrance, and the rest of the space is given to the other artists.

Pernille Boving is a fiber artist featured in the Gallery Shop's regular exhibit. She creates felt Celtic vessels made from sheep wool and felt.

"To make felt, I take sheep fibers and manipulate them with water and soap," Boving said. "It's a very simple process and is very old -- people have been making felt for thousands of years."

Boving has been a member at the Gallery Shop since October. Boving said that artists pay membership fees to have their work in the Gallery Shop. Despite the fee, all sales go to the artist if the piece is under $75.

"When an item is over $75, the shop gets 15 percent of the purchase," she said.

Many of the items in the shop have student-friendly prices. For example, Maurer's paper-marble earrings run $9 and there are many ceramic pieces for $5.

"There are a lot of really nice things in here with such a great variety," Boving said. "You're buying a piece of creativity that reflects the way people think around here."