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1st 4 days of the League of N.H. Craftsmen’s Fair at Mount Sunapee Resort

By naomilin on May 2, 2016 in

When:

August 6, 2016 @ 10:00 am – August 9, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

2016-08-06T10:00:00-04:00

2016-08-09T17:00:00-04:00

Where:

Mount Sunapee Resort
Newbury
NH
USA

Cost:

$12.00, seniors and veterans $10, children 12 and under Free

Contact:

League of N.H. Craftsmen - Kate Sussman

603-224-3375

This is the 83rd annual Craftsmen’s Fair! It is the oldest craft fair in the nation. It is… gulp… my 33rd year of having a booth at the Fair. For 32 years I was there for the full 9 days and this year is a big change for me. I will be there for just the first four days! I am putting that in bold so that you are sure to come between Saturday August 6th and Tuesday August 9th if you want to catch me there in my booth. I decided that it is time for a change and to have more of my summer for adventures with my husband and friends.

I will have pieces in the exhibit “Living with Craft” and for the first time I will have a sculpture in “The Sculpture Garden”!

It is an amazing event with over 300 booths, special exhibits, demonstrations, tours, live music, food and more! Hope to see you there…

DSCN6587 Naomi in her booth at Sunapee

Open Studios – Brattleboro-West Arts ARTstravaganza!

Colored Clay Workshop

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EVENTS

Artist Statement

I grew up with my mother's loom in our family's living room. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. The pairings of work in this show exemplify the influences of my mother's work on me and have served as an opportunity to both grow creatively and to honor my mother and her life's work.

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 - 2010) emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1930s. She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and was a student of both Josef and Anni Albers. Inspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus school tradition, she worked as a textile designer for the New York fashion industry followed by a career as a weaver, fiber collage artist and as a weaving and art history teacher on the college level.

I grew up hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College, its avant-garde, experimental environment and brilliant, unique personalities. As well, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood and took my first pottery class with a friend of my mother's. I responded to the immediacy of clay more than what appeared to be the tedium of threading warps on a loom.

While working on a degree in ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry, I discovered the Japanese technique, Nerikomi, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. I have also come to realize that my method of working with clay - the sense of movement, abstract graphic quality, nature-themed imagery and vivid color - echoes my mother's textiles. In designing work for this show, I was first more drawn to my mother's fiber collage work than her weavings, as a closer match for my own techniques and sensibilities. I later saw that the way I carve into the layers in two directions appear as woven fabric.

It was both fascinating and challenging to interpret a two-dimensional medium within a three-dimensional realm; to not just reproduce my mother's ideas and imagery but to draw inspiration and design the pieces as my own. My hope is that my ceramics, while paying homage to my mother, stand on their own just as her fiber works do.