Leather Art, Businesses, Restoration Span Regions

Leather is featured across art, fashion and traditional craft in these reports. At Moraine Valley Community College, Samuel Schwindt’s exhibition showcases brightly colored leather sculptures shaped through wrapping, stitching and molding, with some works incorporating neon and alternative materials. Pittsburgh maker Nikole Evans draws on her family’s hands-on traditions to create bags, chains and kink harnesses through her business, Oh! Henry Leathers. Coach is giving cult-classic handbags a heritage treatment with its popular leather finish, while Bakersfield shop Buster’s Polish & Shine cleans, conditions and restores boots, jackets, handbags and furniture to help extend their life.